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Video Shows Completely Redesigned Headphones for iPhone 5 — Vietnamese site Tinhte.vn has posted a video of what it claims to be redesigned headphones for the new iPhone which is expected in September. — Update: Video was replaced. This one has no audio.
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| Choe Sang-Hun / New York Times: |
South Korea Reassesses Its Great Imitator — SEOUL, South Korea — When a jury in San Jose, Calif., ordered Samsung Electronics to pay $1.05 billion in damages for violating Apple's patents for the iPhone and iPad, it did more than decide who had infringed upon whose intellectual property.| Mikey Campbell / AppleInsider: |
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| Martin Bryant / The Next Web: |
The first dedicated App.net client for iOS hits the App Store — The milestones in the quickly developing story of App.net keep coming. Today has seen the first dedicated client for iOS hit Apple's App Store. — AppNet Rhino is a collaboration between two Croatian companies - Planet 1107 …
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App.net's Baby Steps: 250,000 Posts, 17,500 Users — App.net, the pay-based Twitter alternative that just opened a few weeks ago, has hit its first couple activity milestones. — Founder Dalton Caldwell posted today that the service has surpassed 250,000 posts, and he estimates that about half …
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| Brad McCarty / The Next Web: |
Here's how Samsung flew bloggers halfway around the world, then threatened to leave them there — Let's pretend that you're a blogger. You're given the chance to review new, hot hardware from a major company. All that's required is that you participate in some tasks, but these tasks would fit into your coverage so you agree.| AFP: |
Russia Unveils Secure “Almost Android” Tablet To Keep Data Away From Google — It seems that Russia's defense ministry has little faith in Google's operating systems: it has just unveiled its own encrypted version that has the remarkably familiar feel of an Android.
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| Jamie Doward / Guardian: |
How online reviews are crucial to a restaurant's takings — US economists find that when a restaurant rating improved by just half a star it was very much more likely to be full at peak dining times — It is something every restaurateur and hotel owner knows: good reviews boost takings while terrible ones can close you down.
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Pirate Bay Founder Arrested in Cambodia — Pirate Bay founder Gottfrid Svartholm was arrested by Cambodian police on Thursday in Phnom Penh, the city that he made his home several years ago. — According to local sources he was arrested in an apartment above the Cadillac Bar on the riverfront …
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What the ebook settlement means for publishers, Apple and you — The states unveiled a deal this week that, if approved, would see consumers collect a refund of $0.25 to $1.32 for each ebook they bought from big publishers. It's splashy news, but the reality is more complicated.| Somini Sengupta / New York Times: |
Twitter's Chief Lawyer as Defender of Free Speech — SAN FRANCISCO — Alexander Macgillivray, Twitter's chief lawyer, says that fighting for free speech is more than a good idea. He thinks it is a competitive advantage for his company. — That conviction explains why he spends … | Amar Toor / The Verge: |
Updated services agreement allows Microsoft to integrate content across cloud properties — Microsoft this week updated its services agreement with subtle, yet potentially significant changes to its policy on privacy and dispute settlement. The company notified users of the changes … | Mike Masnick / Techdirt: |
Oops: After Seizing & Censoring Rojadirecta For 18 Months, Feds Give Up & Drop Case — Looks like we've got something of a repeat of the Dajaz1 insanity, in which the US government seized and censored a website for over a year before giving up and handing the domain back — though this time it's with Rojadirecta.
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| Henry Blodget / Business Insider: |
It's Becoming Clear That No One Actually Read Facebook's IPO Prospectus Or Mark Zuckerberg's Letter To Shareholders — As Facebook's stock continues to collapse, the volume of whining is increasing. — Four months ago, you will recall, Facebook was viewed as “the next Google.”
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Windows Store Weekly — This week we take a look at: Star Trek App, Box, Fling Theory, StumbleUpon, and wordBrush.
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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 …
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DevOps: Improved Productivity, Higher Value — Those of us who have been aligned with DevOps for some time already know that the greater agility and closer collaboration it enables deliver real business value for our organizations.
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Get Started with Hadoop on Hortonworks Data Platform 1.1 for Windows — We are excited to release the Hortonworks Data Platform 1.1 for Windows as a Generally Available product.
Get Started with Hadoop on Hortonworks Data Platform 1.1 for Windows — We are excited to release the Hortonworks Data Platform 1.1 for Windows as a Generally Available product.
Unison's blog:
Skype in the browser — Whether you like the Skype app or not, until now, you've had no choice but to download something to make voice and video calls — either an app like Skype, or a Flash plugin (yikes) for your browser.
Skype in the browser — Whether you like the Skype app or not, until now, you've had no choice but to download something to make voice and video calls — either an app like Skype, or a Flash plugin (yikes) for your browser.Who's Hiring In Tech?
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