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| pod2g / pod2g's iOS blog: |
Never trust SMS: iOS text spoofing — I mentioned it on twitter a few days ago, I found a flaw in iOS that I consider to be severe, while it does not involve code execution. I am pretty confident that other security researchers already know about this hole, and I fear some pirates as well.
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| Paul Morris / Redmond Pie: |
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The Verge and iClarified
| Michael Sippey / Twitter Developers blogs: |
Changes coming in Version 1.1 of the Twitter API — At the end of June, I wrote about how we're working to deliver a consistent Twitter experience, and how we would soon introduce stricter guidelines about how the Twitter API is used. I'd like to give you more information about coming changes …
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Tweets: @hunterwalk, @tapbot_paul and @marcoarment
See also Mediagazer| Marco Arment / Marco.org: |
Interpreting some of Twitter's API changes — Twitter has posted some of their upcoming API-policy lockdowns and restrictions in this post from Michael Sippey, euphemistically titled “Changes coming in Version 1.1 of the Twitter API”. — First, from Twitter's Display Guidelines, which will become requirements for all apps:
| Paul Haddad / Tapbots: |
DON'T PANIC — There's been a lot of fear, uncertainty and doubt generated by Twitter's latest announcement. I wanted to let everyone know that the world isn't ending, Tweetbot for Mac is coming out soon, Tweetbot for iOS isn't going anywhere. So sit down, grab a towel and let's go over some of these API changes.
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The Next Web and ReadWriteWeb
| Jon Mitchell / ReadWriteWeb: |
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| Ian King / Bloomberg: |
Lenovo's Says RT Tablets Up To $300 Cheaper Than Win 8 — Lenovo Group Ltd. (992), the world's second-biggest maker of personal computers, said new devices based on Microsoft Corp. (MSFT)'s Windows RT software will cost $200 to $300 less than competing products using Windows 8 software.
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| Matt Hamblen / Computerworld: |
| Dan Primack / Fortune: |
The Facebook distribution dilemma — Facebook is unlocked. So who held, and who sold? — FORTUNE — Approximately 271 million shares of Facebook (FB) stock was “unlocked” yesterday, under a provision that had prevented certain investors from selling shares until 90 days after the company went public.| Seth Fiegerman / Business Insider: |
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Washington Post, VentureBeat, NBC Bay Area, Mashable!, Forbes, Communications … and Telegraph. Tweets: @stevecheney
| Michael McWhertor / The Verge: |
OnLive reportedly hit with mass layoffs, company denies it's closing (update) — Cloud-gaming company OnLive is closing down, according to veteran video game developer Brian Fargo, who says he's received emails for former employees warning of the company's demise.
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Mashable!, TechCrunch, VentureBeat, The Next Web, MacRumors, Engadget, Android Phone Fans, The Technology Chronicles, Joystiq, Gizmodo, Saving Content, 9to5Mac, The Tech Block and CNNMoney.com
Tweets: @brianfargo and @stevestreza
| Chris Ziegler / The Verge: |
Exclusive: HP creates Mobility division to focus on consumer tablets, hires Nokia's ex-MeeGo boss Alberto Torres to run it — We've just been tipped to a memo circulated internally by HP's Todd Bradley — who runs the company's recently-merged Printing and Personal Systems Group … | Robert McMillan / Wired: |
Data Centers: Facebook Will Ice Backup Data in ‘Sub-Zero’ Building — Facebook will house its new breed of storage servers next to this Prineville, Ore. data center. Photo: Pete Erickson/Wired — We now know what Facebook is up to in Sub Zero — the mini data center it's building right beside …
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AllFacebook, The Verge, SiliconANGLE, ZDNet and Betabeat
| Mike Rosenberg / Mercury News: |
Steve Jobs' stolen iPad unwittingly used by local clown after burglary — What would you do if you had Steve Jobs' iPad? Kenny the Clown, who had the late Apple (AAPL) co-founder's tablet all to himself for a few days this month, didn't play any games, surf the net or check for any top-secret corporate documents.
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Wired, Examiner, AllThingsD, digitaltrends.com, TechCrunch, PC Magazine, Forbes, Pulse2 Technology …, CNET, Macgasm, PadGadget, Associated Press, TUAW, SlashGear, Gizmodo, iFans, MacRumors, Business Insider, Tecca, 9to5Mac, WebProNews and IntoMobile. Thanks:@mercbizbreak
| Wall Street Journal: |
Apple's TV Vision: Sharing, Full On-Demand, Icons — TV Device Interface Would Simplify Programming; Company Faces Hurdles With Cable Operators — Apple Inc.'s vision for a new device that can be used as a set-top box includes features designed to simplify accessing and viewing programming … | John Paczkowski / AllThingsD: |
Kodak: Maybe We Won't Sell Our Digital Imaging Patents — Kodak is having second thoughts about selling off its digital imaging patent portfolio. — The struggling photography pioneer, which for the past year has been gearing up to sell off some 1,100 patents as part of its effort to emerge …
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Ars Technica, VentureBeat, 9to5Mac, MobileBurn.com, CNET, Forbes and App Advice
| Euan Rocha / Reuters: |
RIM plans new contact management features on BB10 devices — (Reuters) - Research In Motion plans to provide BlackBerry users with an easy way to tap their contacts' public profiles — including blog posts, tweets, emails and other details — in its latest push to regain ground in the smartphone market.
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| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
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BlackBerry Developer Blog, FierceWireless and N4BB
| Charlie Sorrel / Cult of Mac: |
Skype For Windows 8 Is Way Ahead Of iPad Version Design-Wise — Look! Skype managed to make a non-hideous version of its app. — Say what you like about Windows 8, but Microsoft seems to have knocked developers into line when it comes to interface design.
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Engadget, SlashGear, Neowin, The Verge, VoIP & Gadgets Blog, Softpedia News, The Tech Report, Pocket-lint and Electronista. Tweets: @adamucf
| Jessica Roy / Betabeat: |
I Have 50 Dollars, ‘A Real-Time Social Feed for People Who Have $50,’ Hilariously Satirizes App.net — Much has been written about Valley celeb Dalton Caldwell and his rather notorious new social network, App.net. The Twitter-like site charges $50 to join, in an effort to weed out spammers …
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Web Strategy …, AllTwitter, TechCrunch and SocialTimes
| Leena Rao / TechCrunch: |
Facebook Passed Yahoo To Become The Second Largest Video Site In The U.S. In July — comScore's monthly online video data is in and it looks Facebook passed Yahoo in July to become the second largest video site in the U.S. behind Google/YouTube. According to comScore …
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AdExchanger and DailyFinance.com
| Katherine Rushton / Telegraph: |
Amazon to deliver parcels to UK cornershops — Amazon steps up battle with the high street by delivering parcels to nearly 5,000 corner shops and newsagents around the country. — Amazon is to deliver parcels to nearly 5,000 cornershops and newsagents around the UK
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GeekWire, The Verge and The Next Web
| Matt Brian / The Next Web: |
Google updates Android Voice Search to support 13 additional languages, reaching 100m new users — As the battle over voice continues to unfold, Google has today announced it has updated Voice Search for Android devices to support an additional 13 languages, bringing the total to 42 languages and regional accents in 46 countries.
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IntoMobile, VentureBeat, WebProNews, Search Engine Land, memeburn, PhoneArena, GadgeTell, ZDNet and Engadget
| stevejobsspirit: |
Thoughts on Jack Dorsey, by Steve Jobs — I have no problem with your success. You've earned your success; for the most part. The problem is, you wholesale ripped off my identity. Grand theft. I don't mean that in a small way, I mean that in a big way. You are not just trying to be the next me, you are trying to be me.
Tweets: @ia
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How ImgPage Uploads 25 MB Photos to Cloud Files Using the Mailgun API — The team over at Mailgun just posted a Python tutorial written by Mailgun customer Paul Finn about how to use Python and the Mailgun API to upload large images to Cloud Files.
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Hortonworks » Blog:
Week in Review: SQL IN Hadoop and Hive, Beyond Batch with YARN, NFS access to HDFS and HBase MTTR — Or as it's more commonly being called: Week-ish in Review. Let's recap on the latest - there's some juicy technology goodness here.
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Unison's blog:
“Yammer sucks” — Not to be mean to Yammer, or anything — it's a very good tool for some use cases — but that's what a customer told me recently (and others feel the same way).
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