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Confirmed: OnLive's assets sold to another company — This report was filed on the scene, from OnLive headquarters in Palo Alto, Calif. — In the face of a myriad of rumors and conflicting reports this morning, the pioneering cloud gaming service OnLive confirmed today that its assets have been sold to a new, still unnamed company.| Michael McWhertor / The Verge: |
OnLive reportedly hit with mass layoffs, possibly filing for bankruptcy (updated) — 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.| Susan Decker / Bloomberg: |
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Hey, Twitter — shouldn't it be about the users? — As expected, Twitter on Thursday released new restrictions on how third-party apps and services can make use of the network — including caps on how much data they can access and strict requirements for how tweets must be displayed.| 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.| Ina Fried / AllThingsD: |
Apple: Samsung Didn't Live Up to Its Standards Obligations — Lawyers for Apple tackled the last major part of their case on Friday, arguing that Samsung didn't live up to its obligations with regard to its standards-related patents. — Samsung is alleging that Apple infringed on two kinds of patents … | Ina Fried / AllThingsD: |
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Motorola Launches “Unlock My Device” Site - Bootloader Freedom Has Come At Last (Update) — Double check your calendars - is it April 1st? It's not? Then there's been a massive rip in the space time continuum as Motorola has officially published the new “Unlock My Device” page.| 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 … | Mat Honan / Wired: |
How I Resurrected My Digital Life After an Epic Hacking — The team at DriveSavers who recovered data from a wiped MacBook Air laptop. From the left, John Christopher, Phillip Reynolds, Ron Powell, Angel Ortiz, and Joseph Novoa. Not pictured: Phil Baca. — When my data died, it was the cloud that killed it.| Chris Ziegler / The Verge: |
AT&T only allowing FaceTime over cellular on Mobile Share plans, no extra charge — AT&T has cleared the air this afternoon on its policies for FaceTime over cellular, saying that a Mobile Share plan will be required to use it — but it won't incur an extra charge apart from normal data usage.| Brad Molen / Engadget: |
Motorola schedules press event for September 5th, dubs it the 'day's main event' — September 5th is going to be a pretty busy day, by the looks of it. While we'll likely get to see a few Windows Phone 8 devices in Nokia's Lumia lineup in the morning, Motorola has scheduled a Save the Date for the afternoon.| Los Angeles Times: |
Is Mark Zuckerberg in over his hoodie as Facebook CEO? — Facebook's stock price slide has raised doubts about Mark Zuckerberg's role as CEO. Some say he should hand the reins to a more seasoned executive. — Restless investors blame Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg for several missteps … | Pamela Parker / Marketing Land: |
Google Changes Smallest, But All-Pervasive, Element Of Brand Identity - The Favicon — It's such a small thing — only 16 pixels by 16 pixels — but, when folks are browsing along day-to-day, the favicon is how they find the browser tab that has Google.com open, or the favorite link to Google.| Alistair Barr / Reuters: |
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Oracle, Google file list of paid journalists — A federal judge last week wrote that he was “concerned” Oracle and Google had paid journalists and bloggers to comment on their highly-publicized intellectual property trial and ordered them to provide a list of names. The responses are now in.| Ian King / Bloomberg: |
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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 …
Windows 8 Tips — Tips and tricks for Windows 8 users.
Want to Contribute to Cloud Foundry? Come on in! — Cloud Foundry is an Open Platform-as-a-Service, and an Open Source project. It has attracted phenomenal interest from the community - including partners …
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.
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.
“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).This is a Techmeme archive page. It shows how the site appeared at 1:40 AM ET, August 18, 2012.
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