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Amazon Kindle HD Will Allow Users To Opt-Out Of “Special Offers” For $15 — If you've been put off by the (arguably obtrusive) Special Offers on the Kindle Fire HD, Amazon has just announced that they will allow users to pay $15 to opt-out of the ads for the life of the device. — An Amazon spokesperson wrote:
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Spotify Will Launch A Browser-Based Version — If you're wondering why the Spotify desktop software has hardly been updated in a year, it's because the company is preparing to launch a completely overhauled browser-based version of its streaming music service, multiple sources confirm.
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digitaltrends.com, CNET, The Verge, VentureBeat, Gizmodo, PC World and Cult of Mac
| Nick Wingfield / New York Times: |
Valve, a Video Game Maker With Few Rules — THIS is no Xbox 360 or PlayStation 3. — Every way I look, the scene shifts, the battle unfolds. I have a crazy contraption strapped to my head: a boxy set of goggles that looks like a 22nd-century version of a View-Master. It immerses me in a virtual world.| Lisa Jucca / Reuters: |
EU says Microsoft pledged to meet antitrust requests on browsers — (Reuters) - Software giant Microsoft is ready to introduce measures that would address the European Union's antitrust concerns about users' ability to chose between different browsers, European Commissioner Joaquin Almunia said on Saturday.| Geeta Dayal / Wired: |
The Algorithmic Copyright Cops: Streaming Video's Robotic Overlords — As live streaming video surges in popularity, so are copyright “bots” — automated systems that match content against a database of reference files of copyrighted material. These systems can block streaming video in real time …
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io9, Boing Boing and Electronic Frontier Foundation
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PayPal's New President Faces the Music: “If We Suck ... We Now Face It” — PayPal President David Marcus responded to mounting criticism from customers by promising that things are changing at the online payments company. — “There's a massive culture change happening at PayPal right now,” Marcus said.
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HTC Patents Challenged by Apple Probably Valid, Judge Say — Apple Inc. (AAPL) may face a difficult task invalidating two HTC Corp. (2498) patents for data transmission in wireless devices, a U.S. trade judge said at a trial that could lead to import bans on the newest iPad and next version of the iPhone.
| Élyse Betters / 9to5Mac: |
New images of Apple's Campus 2 building show amazing detail [Gallery] — A reliable source provided us with the official Apple Campus 2 blueprints yesterday, and these are just a few of the confidential images, which illustrate the mammoth building currently in development.
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SiliconBeat, CNET, AppleInsider, VentureBeat, iDownloadBlog.com and Gizmodo
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Anti-Piracy Outfits Think Megaupload, Demonoid & BTjunkie Are Still Alive — During the past few years the world's largest entertainment companies have regularly complained that Google isn't doing enough to reduce accessibility of infringing content via its search service.
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Softpedia News, Gizmodo, Techdirt and Lucas Gonze's blog
| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Exclusive photos: We put Nokia's controversial Lumia 920 PureView camera to the test — After faking a video and images to promote the PureView camera, Nokia goes into full-on damage control mode. — This week, Nokia grandly unveiled its latest Windows Phone 8 flagship, the Lumia 920.
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SlashGear, AllThingsD, PandoDaily, 1001 Noisy Cameras, PetaPixel, Softpedia News, WMPoweruser, My Nokia Blog and NYT Bits. Tweets: @benedictevans
| Kim Zetter / Wired: |
Sleuths Trace New Zero-Day Attacks to Hackers Who Hit Google — It's been more than two years since Google broke corporate protocol by revealing that it had been the victim of a persistent and sophisticated hack, traced to intruders in China that the company all but said were working for the government.| Michael Arrington / Uncrunched: |
Turning The Drama Down On Y Combinator V. Google Ventures — I have a few thoughts on this Y Combinator/Google Ventures mess. — Background: — The original post is at Business Insider and includes a leaked email from Y Combinator founder Paul Graham. The email:
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Windows Store Weekly — This week we take a look at: Star Trek App, Box, Fling Theory, StumbleUpon, and wordBrush.
Cloud Foundry:
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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:
An Army Is Forming To Battle Patent Trolls — For the past several months, we've exposed the flaws in the patent system and how they're being exploited by opportunistic patent trolls looking to extort a quick buck …
An Army Is Forming To Battle Patent Trolls — For the past several months, we've exposed the flaws in the patent system and how they're being exploited by opportunistic patent trolls looking to extort a quick buck …
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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.
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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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