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New Nokia Lumia Range Delivers Latest PureView Camera Innovation, New Navigation Experiences and Wireless Charging on Windows Phone 8 — Nokia Lumia 920 Captures Best Pictures and Video Ever Seen on a Smartphone — Espoo, Finland and New York, NY - Nokia today announced the Nokia Lumia 920 … | T.C. Sottek / The Verge: |
Nokia's new PureView ad is amazing, too bad it's faked — The new PureView camera might be amazing, but a bizarre easter egg has revealed that the company's advertisements don't give an honest view of its technology. Amid Nokia's flurry of press today — if you haven't heard …
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| Steven Levy / Wired: |
Nokia's Visionary Wants to Out-Design Apple — Marko Ahtisaari, head of Nokia's design studio. Photo: nomadig/Flickr — Marko Ahtisaari spreads out several models of Nokia's new smart phone with the self-assurance of a Tiffany diamond salesman. It is several weeks before the launch …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Nokia: 7M Lumia Devices Sold To Date In 54 Markets — D-Day (that is, device day) for Nokia and Microsoft has kicked off with their press conference in New York. But speaking to analysts in Helsinki beforehand, Nokia revealed a sales number: it said that it sold 7 million devices so far in its Windows Phone Lumia line.
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| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
Motorola announces Droid RAZR HD with 4.7-inch display — Motorola has just announced the Droid RAZR HD, updating its old flagship with a larger 4.7-inch screen, HD display, and Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. The RAZR HD comes with a 2,500mAh battery, a bit under the 3,300mAh RAZR Maxx …
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| Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web: |
Google's Schmidt: 1.3M Android activations a day with 70k of those tablets, 480M devices total — Today at the Motorola event in New York, Google Chairman Eric Schmidt said that there are now 1.3M Android activations a day. 70k of those activations are tablets, which Schmidt acknowledged Google …
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Motorola Mobility Takes Screen Size and Battery Life to the Edge with Three New Smartphone Additions — More screen. More battery life. More compact. More colors. And the best of Google packed inside. Introducing the new RAZR™ M, RAZR™ HD and DROID RAZR™ MAXX™ HD.
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| John Paczkowski / AllThingsD: |
Apple: We Didn't Give FBI Any Device IDs — Apple has finally weighed in on hacker group AntiSec's claims that it has obtained millions of unique device identifiers for Apple devices (UDIDs) from an FBI laptop. The gist of its comment: If the FBI has iPhone and iPad UDIDs, it didn't get them from us.| Jason Costa / Twitter Developers: |
Current status: API v1.1 — @jasoncosta Jason Costa — Today, we're excited to release the next version of the Twitter API, version 1.1. A few weeks ago, we outlined many of the v1.1 changes, and with today's release, we've also updated the Developer Rules of the Road … | Katherine Rushton / Telegraph: |
| Brien Colwell / Quora: |
Introducing Quora for Android — Mobile usage is increasingly important for people who use Quora — accounting today for over 25% of Quora's traffic. We are excited to announce Quora for Android, available today on the Google Play store (https://play.google.com/store/apps/ details?id=com.quora.android& feature=search_result#?t=W25...
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| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
Exclusive: Amazon phone confirmed, could be announced tomorrow — Amazon's updated Kindle Fire and new backlit “Paperwhite” Kindle e-reader have already leaked out ahead of the company's event tomorrow, but there may be one more surprise in store: a mobile phone.
Tweets: @reckless
| Angela Yang / LinkedIn Blog: |
New: Get Notified on LinkedIn — We've been working hard to bring you new ways to access the most relevant professional information and insights to help you be even better at your job, everyday. — Launching today is our new notifications feature, which will keep you notified in real …
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Feds probing alleged theft of Romney's tax returns — Someone claims theft of Romney tax returns, sends packages to Tennessee county GOP and Democratic parties and threatens to release the information publicly unless $1 million is paid. — The U.S. Secret Service is looking into claims …
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| Todd Brix / The Windows Blog: |
Windows Phone 8 SDK Preview opens for applications Sept. 12 — In June we provided an early look at some developer features of Windows Phone 8, promising to share the Software Development Kit (SDK) in late summer. Select partners and developers have already seen early builds of the new SDK …
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| Eric Eldon / TechCrunch: |
After Long Startup Journey, Seesmic Nearing Sale To Social Media Management Service Hootsuite — Seesmic is one of those startups that never quit, it just kept pivoting. And today, it's getting rewarded for all the work — we're hearing it is about to close a sale to Hootsuite.
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| Jeff John Roberts / GigaOM: |
Chinese outfit files for Pinterest, Quora trademarks — A Chinese man has been snapping up dozens of domain names related to popular American start-ups and is seeking to trademark some of the names in the US and China. — Qian Jin of Nanjing, China, has applied to register marks like Foursquare …
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google Drive For iOS Will Soon Get In-App Editing, Ability To See Presentations — Google just mistakenly announced updated versions of its Google Drive apps for iOS and Android that will go live within the next couple of days. Google has since deleted this post, but the updates are scheduled to arrive soon.
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Defrag Tools: WPT - Command Line — Andrew Richards, Chad Beeder, and Larry Larsen continue walking you through the Windows Performance Toolkit (WPT).
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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 …
Rackspace Blog:
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Love, Magic, & APIs — I will confess, I am old enough to remember my GeoCities page. Don't hate. It was amazing, it was... this transformative moment in which I took real, actual information, and transformed it into something visible and memorable.
Hortonworks » Blog:
Hadoop, Hadoop, Hurrah! HDP for Windows is Now GA! — Today we are very excited to announce that Hortonworks Data Platform for Windows (HDP for Windows) is now generally available and ready to support the most demanding production workloads.
Hadoop, Hadoop, Hurrah! HDP for Windows is Now GA! — Today we are very excited to announce that Hortonworks Data Platform for Windows (HDP for Windows) is now generally available and ready to support the most demanding production workloads.
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).
“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).Who's Hiring In Tech?
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