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Do Our Gadgets Really Threaten Planes? — The ban on electronic devices rests on anecdotes, not on hard evidence—because there isn't any — WAS ALEC BALDWIN RIGHT? When the actor tussled with American Airlines personnel last December over his desire to continue playing a game … | Nick Bilton / NYT Bits: |
Teaching the F.A.A. That Dogs Don't Buckle Up — If you've ever flown Virgin America, you will have seen the cartoonlike safety video that plays before the flight takes off. — In one scene, about a minute into the video, a man is shown sitting next to a large bull as he fumbles with his seat belt.
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Yes, Spotify Is Headed to the Web. No, Spotify Isn't Cutting Its Prices. — Waiting to use Spotify on the Web? Hang on a few weeks. — Waiting to pay $8 a month for Spotify's premium service? Don't hold your breath. — Yes, as TechCrunch reported yesterday, the streaming music company … | 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.| 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.
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The Royal Nokia Screw-Up That Shouldn't Have Been — Anyone who cares about fostering a dynamic, competitive tech industry should be rooting for Nokia. Even if you're not as gaga for Windows Phone as I am—I think it's the best-designed mobile OS on the market—you've got to concede …
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Pulse2 Technology …, Wall Street Journal and eWeek
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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:| Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web: |
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As Heroku Boss Flees to Olive Farm, Where's the Platform Cloud Going? — Sometimes, people call it “platform-as-a-service.” But more often than not, they just point to Heroku, the San Francisco company that pioneered this oh-so-hard-to-explain technology.
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This letter from PayPal's President might just make you believe in the company again — It began in May with a frustrated customer, Andy McMillan, discovering his PayPal had been locked. Nothing new. Frustrating, but usually remediable with a phone call or a couple of emails.
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CNET, Gizmodo, AllThingsD, Storify, VentureBeat, The Loop and PandoDaily. Tweets: @davidmarcus
| Chris Velazco / TechCrunch: |
Meet The Disrupt SF 2012 Hackathon Winners: Livebolt Takes Grand Prize, Auctopus And HeatData Are Runners Up — The night has been a long one for our intrepid crew of hackers, and all their arduous, caffeine-fueled work has led to this moment. A stunning 147 teams have taken the stage …
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FCC backpedals from Internet tax — The Federal Communications Commission is rapidly backpedalling from a proposal to tax broadband Internet service after a public outcry over the issue. — Democrats and Republicans at the agency are now blaming each other for pushing the idea in the first place.
| Mark Suster / Both Sides of the Table: |
The Truth About Convertible Debt at Startups and The Hidden Terms You Didn't Understand — This article initially appeared on TechCrunch - with a minor update highlighted in red below. — Ah. We're back to discussing convertible debt again. This time by the efforts of Adeo Ressi … Sponsor Posts
Channel 9:
Defrag Tools: WPT - Command Line — Andrew Richards, Chad Beeder, and Larry Larsen continue walking you through the Windows Performance Toolkit (WPT).
Defrag Tools: WPT - Command Line — Andrew Richards, Chad Beeder, and Larry Larsen continue walking you through the Windows Performance Toolkit (WPT).
Cloud Foundry:
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 …
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 …
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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