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Verizon Vacation Blackout Reveals The New iPhone Will Launch On Friday, September 21 — A trusted Verizon employee has just confirmed to TechCrunch that the carrier is having an all-staff vacation blackout from the dates of Friday, September 21 to September 30. You know what that means, right?| Josh Lowensohn / CNET: |
Apple's closing shot hits at Samsung ‘copycat’ docs — Apple once again hammers away at Samsung for internal documents in its closing argument against the company. — SAN JOSE, Calif. — Apple highlighted its broad collection of Samsung internal documents, and not its millions of dollars spent …
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| Amazon Web Services Blog: |
Amazon Glacier: Archival Storage for One Penny Per GB Per Month — You Need Glacier — I'm going to bet that you (or your organization) spend a lot of time and a lot of money archiving mission-critical data. No matter whether you're currently using disk, optical media or tape-based storage … | Klint Finley / Wired: |
Cloud: Is There a Landmine Hidden in Amazon's Glacier? — On Tuesday, Amazon unveiled a new online storage service known as Glacier. It's called Glacier because it deals in “cold storage” — i.e., the long-term storage of things like medical records or financial documents that you may need to archive for regulatory services.
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| Josh Lowensohn / CNET: |
Inside Intellectual Ventures, the most hated company in tech — Nathan Myhrvold and other executives at the controversial company say critics simply don't understand what they're doing. CNET went behind the scenes to understand what 40,000 patents and an unapologetic plan to make money from them really means.
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
TechCrunch's Picks: The 10 Best Startups From Y Combinator's S12 Demo Day — 75 startups pitched their hearts out today at Y Combinator's 15th Demo Day. We saw surefire small businesses to risky big bets but after collecting opinions from their YCS12 classmates and top VCs, these are TechCrunch's top 10 picks.
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| Reuters: |
Exclusive: Barry Diller's IAC offers $300 million for About.com — (Reuters) - Barry Diller's IAC/Interactivecorp submitted an offer in excess of $300 million to buy the About.com information website from the New York Times Co, according to people with knowledge of the situation.| Chris Ziegler / The Verge: |
T-Mobile adding unlimited data plans with no throttling on September 5th — Among US national carriers, T-Mobile and Sprint have long been the champions of unlimited data even as Verizon and AT&T have clamped down in recent years — but for T-Mobile customers, there's always been a catch …
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| Times of India: |
Twitter may face govt axe in India — Twitter might face legal action if the popular microblogging site does not comply with Indian government's demand to censor objectionable content posted by its users. — Stung by the misinformation campaign that spread like wildfire through SMS …
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| R. Jai Krishna / Wall Street Journal: |
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Windows 8 Pro to be priced at $199 following $69.99 promotional pricing — Microsoft's Windows 8 Pro software will be priced at $199 after a promotional price of $69.99 expires on January 31st 2013, according to one source familiar with Microsoft's plans. The software maker will also offer …
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| Kara Swisher / AllThingsD: |
This Week in MarissYa: iPhones for All, Flickr Love and Management Musical Chairs — Even with all the swirl around the worrisome stock declines at Facebook, Groupon and Zynga, along with happier expected new product launches from Apple and Amazon, don't think things aren't cooking over in the land where Marissa Mayer reigns.
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| Mark Milian / Bloomberg: |
After Getting Funded, Some Kickstarter Projects Stall — Kickstarter began in 2009 as a way for entrepreneurs to raise money to get projects off the ground. Though the company's fundraising platform has been a success, many projects have not. — More than a million backers have given $274 million … | Brad McCarty / The Next Web: |
Mission accomplished: The Oatmeal raises $875,000 to build a museum honoring Nikola Tesla — After successfully booting an IP troll in the financial groin a couple of months ago, Matthew Inman (better known to the Internet as The Oatmeal) has done it again.
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| Tricia Duryee / AllThingsD: |
PopCap Confirms Layoffs as the Billion-Dollar Payoff From EA Becomes Less Likely — EA-owned PopCap, responsible for creating such games as Bejeweled and Plants vs. Zombies, is laying off 50 employees from its Seattle studios and is re-evaluating the need for an office in Dublin.
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| Reyhan Harmanci / BuzzFeed: |
Tech Confessional: The Googler Who Looks At The Worst Of The Internet — Sitting in the sun at a tech company cafeteria, this former Google worker described a year spent immersed in some of the darkest content available on the Internet. His role at the tech company mainly consisted … | Rob Wong / Hulu Blog: |
Launching a New Hulu: A Fresh Look for the Shows You Love — In 1992, the great comedian Phil Hartman threw on his Arkansas sweatshirt and walked into a McDonald's. He was on the set of “Saturday Night Live” and doing his best Bill Clinton impression, continuing the show's grand tradition of Presidential lampoons.| Jonathan Watson / Skype Blogs: |
Updates to Skype for iPhone & Skype for iPad Improves Performance & Adds Photo Sharing — Millions of people use Skype for iPhone or Skype for iPad each month. Today, with updates to both apps, we are introducing a frequently requested feature: Photo Sharing for iOS.| Dante D'Orazio / The Verge: |
Chrome OS gets updated with smaller apps list and option to save directly to Google Drive — Chromebook and Chromebox users (and anyone else using Chrome OS) have an update waiting for them that offers several usability improvements. Before you go check for the update, however …
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google Launches Octane: A New JavaScript Benchmark Based On Popular Apps And Libraries — Google's Chrome team just launched Octane, a new JavaScript benchmark suite that aims to measure real-world performance. Unlike most other benchmarks, which tend to use artificial tests developed … | Lucian Constantin / Computerworld: |
Crisis malware infects VMware virtual machines, researchers say — The Windows version of Crisis also infects Windows Mobile devices and USB drives — The Windows version of Crisis, a piece of malware discovered in July, is capable of infecting VMware virtual machine images …
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| Lance Whitney / CNET: |
MetroPCS unveils budget-friendly 4G plan and new 4G phone — The carrier is rolling out a $55 unlimited 4G LTE plan and a $149 LG Motion 4G phone to sweeten the deal. — MetroPCS may serve up some competition to the major carriers with a new 4G LTE plan for budget-conscious consumers.
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| Kevin Fitchard / GigaOM: |
Google, Boingo bring their free Wi-Fi experiment to mall rats — Google and Boingo are building on their free Wi-Fi project in New York City, launching the advertising-paid access model in eight malls across the country. Though the project is still in its infancy, it represents a growing trend …
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| Julie Bort / Business Insider: |
Google Plans To Kill Its Popular Postini Spam Filtering Service — Google will soon be turning off its popular spam filtering and e-mail archiving product, Postini. It will shift Postini users to Google Apps. — At last count, Google had over 26 million Postini users, many of them at enterprises.
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| Jon Fingas / Engadget: |
Office Web Apps integrate touch support on iPad and Windows 8, brace us for an Office 2013 world — Touch-friendliness is a centerpiece for the upcoming Office 2013, but don't fret if you prefer to live in the world of Office Web Apps ahead of time. As of new preview versions of both OWA and Office 365 … Sponsor Posts
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