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| Chris Jones / The Windows Blog: |
A new modern SkyDrive.com, updated apps, and Outlook.com at 10 million users … Over the past months, we've shared our approach to building versatile personal cloud storage that can scale to a billion people. Today, we're excited to announce the next step towards that vision …
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Ars Technica, BetaNews, PC World, Business Insider, Seattle Times, iPhone, The Next Web, MobileSyrup.com, Android News, Rumours …, TechnoBuffalo, gHacks Technology News, CNET, GeekWire, Lifehacker, TechSpot, Engadget, AllThingsD, Know Your Cell, The Verge, LiveSide.net, Gizmodo, The Verge, TechCrunch, WinBeta, The Tech Block, WinBeta, IntoMobile, memeburn, UnleashthePhones, Liliputing, Pocketables, bink.nu and 9to5Google. Thanks:@omarshahine
| T.C. Sottek / The Verge: |
Flash for Android dies tomorrow, long live the ‘full web experience’ — In November of last year, Adobe made a surprising about-face on its popular Flash plugin, announcing that it would stop development of Flash for mobile devices. Tomorrow, Adobe will disable new installs of Flash on Android … | Brad Sams / Neowin: |
Microsoft Surface RT to cost $199.99? Doubts ensue — Get out a pinch of salt as a new rumor from Engadget is stating that the Microsoft Surface for Windows RT will cost a budget friendly $199.00. The source, of course, is anonymous but the price point, which we hope is true …
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The Register, BetaNews, Los Angeles Times, GeekWire, Wired, Computerworld, Engadget, Pocketnow, Android and Me, Business Insider, SlashGear, Forbes, The Next Web, BGR and CNET. Tweets: @tomwarren
| Mark Allen / Yelp Official Blog: |
Yelp: Extreme Home(page) Makeover — Ladies and gents, today it's with great pride that we are unveiling a complete redesign of our homepage. That's right, our new and improved formula shines a bright light on the real star of Yelp, YOU! — As Andy Grove once said, complacency breeds failure.
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| Evan Williams / medium.com: |
Welcome to Medium — We're rethinking publishing and building a new platform from scratch. This is a preview. Compared to 1999, the Internet has a come a long way. It has gone from theoretically to actually central to how many of us live and work (even outside the Internet industry).
| Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web: |
| Wall Street Journal: |
Verizon Deal on Airwaves Nears Regulatory Approval — WASHINGTON—Federal regulators are preparing to clear Verizon Wireless's $3.9 billion deal to acquire airwaves from several cable companies including Comcast Corp., according to people close to the negotiations, after the companies reached broad agreement …
| Zach Honig / Engadget: |
Pebble team posts UI preview, provides an early look at how you'll interact with the E-Paper Watch — Sadly, Pebble won't be making its way to backers by its original September estimate, but the design team wants you to know that it's hard at work, traveling the world to source components … | Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: |
Bad News For Bieber? Klout Unveils Redesign And A Scoring System That Looks At Real World Influence — Klout, the site that aims to measure your online influence, has made some big changes to its scoring system, and it has a new look to match the new algorithm.
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Betabeat, ZDNet, PandoDaily, PC Magazine, The Official Klout Blog, Techland, Business Insider, AllThingsD, Business Week, Marketing Land, NBC Bay Area, Digits, GigaOM, ABCNEWS, Mashable! and VentureBeat. Tweets: @danprimack
| Josh Halliday / Guardian: |
Surfthechannel owner sentenced to four years over piracy — Anton Vickerman, whose surfthechannel.com had 400,000 users a day, sentenced on two counts of conspiracy to defraud — A 38-year-old Briton who made £35,000 a month through a website that linked to pirated copies of films …
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| Gregory Ferenstein / TechCrunch: |
Khan Academy Launches The Future of Computer Science Education — As educators struggle to motivate more students to take up technology-related majors, breakout online education startup, Khan Academy, has a novel approach. “Computer Science is an intensely creative field,” says Shantanu Sinha …
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| Jon Orwant / Google Public Policy Blog: |
Improving Google Patents with European Patent Office patents and the Prior Art Finder — Cross-posted from the Google Research blog — At Google, we're constantly trying to make important collections of information more useful to the world. Since 2006, we've let people discover, search, and read United States patents online.
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Gametime IP, ZDNet, GigaOM, The Verge, TechCrunch, Patent Law Blog and WebProNews
| Lance Whitney / CNET: |
Steve Jobs' Palo Alto home robbed by clueless thief — The late Apple co-founder's home was burglarized by an alleged thief who didn't even seem to know whose home he was robbing. — The late Steve Jobs — The Palo Alto home of the late Steve Jobs was robbed on July 17 of more than $60,000 … | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Facebook Says It Now Has 235M Monthly Gamers, App Center Hits 150M Monthly Visitors — Facebook's push for more engagement on its platform, to drive advertising and other monetization efforts (and to counterbalance that drooping stock price), is showing some gains, according to updated figures …
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The Verge, VentureBeat, WebProNews, ZDNet, Mobile Marketing Watch, Tip Desk, fiercemobilecontent.com, GamePolitics blogs, GigaOM, VatorNews, GamesIndustry International and CNET. Tweets: @owenthomas. Thanks:@mjburnsy
| Ian King / Bloomberg: |
Toshiba Cancels Windows RT Devices on Delay in Getting Parts — Toshiba Corp. (6502) canceled previously announced plans to sell computer and tablet devices based on Microsoft Corp. (MSFT)'s Windows RT operating system because of a delay in getting components.
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| David Beren / TmoNews: |
Is This T-mobile's First Windows Phone 8 Smartphone? With LTE? — Windows Phone fans, now would be a really great time to pay attention as believe we've discovered T-Mobile's first Windows Phone 8 device — with LTE. That's right, your eyes are not deceiving you as the user agent string indicates …
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Pocket-lint, BGR, CNET, Softpedia News, Neowin, Know Your Cell, Phones Review, Life On My Mobile, TechnoBuffalo, The Verge and Engadget
| Michael Gorman / Engadget: |
Telenav's Scout gives iOS users offline navigation in exchange for ten bucks — We know that iOS 6 will bless iPhone users with some in-house-made mapping, but that hasn't stopped Telenav from bettering its own Scout navigation offering for Apple's favorite handsets.
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CNET, Macgasm, IntoMobile, Ubergizmo, PC Magazine, SlashGear and The Verge
| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Report: 46% Of U.S. Bank Account Holders Will Use Mobile Banking By 2017 — According to a new Forrester Research report, mobile banking will reach 108 million users in the U.S. by 2017. That's about 46% of all U.S. bank account holders. Today, according to Forrester's latest survey … | Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch: |
Uber Hit With Cease And Desist In Boston, Promises To Continue “Full Speed Ahead” — Uber is facing heat from yet another city it operates in, this time receiving a cease and desist letter in Boston. On its blog today, Uber revealed that the letter came from the Division of Standards …
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Techdirt, The Next Web and Uber Blog
| Rachel King / ZDNet: |
Salesforce builds upon Chatter for Communities collaboration platform — Summary: Salesforce.com aims to transform sales, service and marketing with a new social collaboration platform. — Rachel King — Salesforce.com has unveiled a new social enterprise platform designed to connect everyone …
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Forbes, AllThingsD, SocialTimes, InfoWorld, PC World, Business Insider and TechCrunch
| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook Tries Letting Pages Show News Feed Ads To Non-Fans — Facebook seems determined to impress investors, as today it begins testing an aggressive web and mobile news feed ad unit that lets Pages pay to show their posts to people who didn't subscribe to them.Sponsor Posts
Channel 9:
Announcing TypeScript 0.9: Generics and More — Anders Hejlsberg, Steve Lucco, and Luke Hoban join us for a conversation about TypeScript 0.9. TypeScript now has generics! (and more)
Announcing TypeScript 0.9: Generics and More — Anders Hejlsberg, Steve Lucco, and Luke Hoban join us for a conversation about TypeScript 0.9. TypeScript now has generics! (and more)
Cloud Foundry:
Static.com Adds Hadoop Support for Cloud Foundry — In this guest post, Jake Farrell, CTO for Static.com, explains how the major shift in the hosting industry towards platforms for high developer productivity …
Static.com Adds Hadoop Support for Cloud Foundry — In this guest post, Jake Farrell, CTO for Static.com, explains how the major shift in the hosting industry towards platforms for high developer productivity …
Rackspace Blog:
99.999 Is Not Enough: An OpenCloud Approach to Delivering Application Uptime and Performance — Executive Summary — The pressure to keep vital applications online and performing well is extreme.
99.999 Is Not Enough: An OpenCloud Approach to Delivering Application Uptime and Performance — Executive Summary — The pressure to keep vital applications online and performing well is extreme.
Hortonworks » Blog:
University makes major investment in big data development — As news of the benefits provided by big data platforms such as Apache Hadoop spreads, more organizations are investing in the burgeoning technology.
University makes major investment in big data development — As news of the benefits provided by big data platforms such as Apache Hadoop spreads, more organizations are investing in the burgeoning technology.Who's Hiring In Tech?
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