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Introducing a new YouTube app for your iPhone and iPod touch — For all you diehard YouTube fans out there who can't get enough YouTube on your mobile, we've got some great news: starting today, you can download the official YouTube app for iPhone and iPod touch from the App Store …
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| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
| Rachel King / ZDNet: |
Salesforce CEO gets candid about Google, Facebook and Yammer — Summary: Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff talks philanthropy, Yammer and Dreamforce '12 hints at TechCrunch Disrupt. — Rachel King — SAN FRANCISCO — Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff sat down for a candid fireside chat …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
GoDaddy Says Our Crash Wasn't Anonymous, It Wasn't A Hack, It Wasn't A DDoS. It Was Internal Network Issues — GoDaddy has confirmed that its DNS problems yesterday, which caused thousands of websites to go down for most of the day, are now over. And while an alleged member … | Antoine Leblond / MSDN Blogs: |
Windows Store now open to all developers in 120 markets … At every major Windows 8 development milestone - Release Preview, Consumer Preview, RTM - we've added markets toward our commitment to a truly global offering. We often hear from those who don't yet have support in their market, and we've said we'll keep expanding.
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LAPTOP Magazine, ZDNet, Engadget, The Next Web, TechCrunch, Seattle Times, msdn.microsoft.com, Neowin and MSDN Blogs
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
As Nokia waits, Microsoft fights to keep Windows Phone 8 on schedule — It's all hands on deck at Microsoft right now: with a variety of high-visibility phone launches from partners scheduled before the end of the year, the company has not yet finished the Windows Phone 8 software, The Verge has learned.
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BGR, The Next Web, Pocketnow, PhoneArena, Inquirer, PC Magazine, The Tech Block, Mashable! and Know Your Mobile
| John Paczkowski / AllThingsD: |
RIM's BlackBerrys Losing Shelf Space, Mindshare Among Carriers — With Apple's next generation iPhone in the offing and new Windows Phone 8 and Android handsets headed to market in the weeks ahead, Research In Motion's forthcoming BlackBerry 10 devices are no longer top of mind … | Austin Carr / Co.Design: |
Will Apple's Tacky Software-Design Philosophy Cause A Revolt? — By now it's almost inevitable given the company's track record: No matter what Apple unveils tomorrow at the Yerba Buena Center (an iPad Mini? iPhone 5?), pundits will herald the company for its innovative thinking and bold hardware design.
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| John Paczkowski / AllThingsD: |
How Many iPhone 5s Can Apple Sell in a Weekend? — On Wednesday morning, Apple will officially unveil its next-generation iPhone, setting the stage for what some observers say will be one of the biggest upgrade cycles in consumer electronics history. — Hyperbole? Maybe.| Nick Summers / The Next Web: |
Google makes 4,000 Boingo Wi-Fi hotspots free across the US in September, excludes iOS and Windows Phone — Boingo is offering consumers free Wi-Fi at more than 4,000 hotspots across America as part of a collaboration with Google Play. However, it looks like iOS, Windows Phone and Blackberry users aren't invited.
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BetaNews, PC Magazine, ReadWriteWeb, Boingo, Gizmodo, TechCrunch, Liliputing, GeekWire, dailywireless.org, The Verge, PadGadget, Softpedia News, SlashGear, Engadget and GigaOM
| Enigmax / TorrentFreak: |
Pirate Bay Co-Founder Lands In Sweden, Immediately Charged By Police — After a stormy and somewhat confusing twelve days, Pirate Bay co-founder Gottfrid Svartholm was finally deported from Cambodia last night. — “We deported him out of the country in accordance with the order from the ministry … | Rachel King / ZDNet: |
Intel wants to redefine mobile personal computing via voice, gesture functionality — Summary: Intel is working to provide “human-like senses” to computing by enabling touch and speech functionality across all devices. — Rachel King — SAN FRANCISCO — As technology becomes more …
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| Jay Yarow / Business Insider: |
GOOGLE: We Didn't Know You Could Patent Round Corners — Google appears to have been blindsided by the fact that Apple won its lawsuit against Samsung. — In an interview with Bloomberg TV, David Lawee, VP of corporate development, says, “We didn't believe rounded corners were patentable.”
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| Ed Bott / ZDNet: |
Microsoft to deliver Flash update to Windows 8 users ‘shortly’ — Summary: Microsoft has reversed course on a decision it announced last week. According to an official statement, Windows 8 users will receive critical security updates for Flash Player “shortly.” But larger questions remain.
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| Spencer E. Ante / Wall Street Journal: |
Hype and Hope: Test Driving Google's New Glasses — Device Puts Data Into Field of Vision but Software Is Balky — Google's glasses are escaping from the laboratory. But they aren't ready for the real world yet. — I had the opportunity to test-drive the eyewwear on Monday …
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Forbes, The Verge and Android and Me
| Eric Paley: |
Founder Collective II — In late 2008, in the midst of the financial crisis, a small band of founders got together and started imagining the fund that we all wished existed when we started our own companies. We felt that there was a gap in the market for a fund that was dedicated …
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| Mat Honan / Wired: |
Cosmo, the Hacker ‘God’ Who Fell to Earth — Cosmo is huge — 6 foot 7 and 220 pounds the last time he was weighed, at a detention facility in Long Beach, California on June 26. And yet he's getting bigger, because Cosmo — also known as Cosmo the God, the social-engineering mastermind … | Robert Mankoff: |
Nipplegate: Why the New Yorker Cartoon Department Is About to Be Banned from Facebook — The New Yorker has a Facebook page for our cartoons, which a lot of you like, or maybe it's just one person with a lot of time on their hands, liking the page over and over again. But in any case, it's a whole lotta like.| Kim-Mai Cutler / TechCrunch: |
Quora Adds Trending Topics (And No, They're Not All Tech-Related) — A year or two ago, it might have been easy to brush aside Quora for being another Valley water cooler with little mainstream crossover potential. But the content on the site has since diversified into other areas like food and entertainment, politics and film.
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The Next Web, The Verge, WebProNews and Quora
| Andrew Hoyle / Crave: |
Samsung Galaxy S3 Jelly Bean update confirmed for October … Samsung has confirmed its flagship phone the Galaxy S3 will receive the update to the latest version of Android, known as Jelly Bean, as soon as October. If you can't wait that long then the 4G version will be available with Jelly Bean as standard.
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BGR, GigaOM, Droid Life, Pocketnow, AndroidGuys and Phones Review
| Randall Stross / Vanity Fair: |
Exclusive: Inside the Startup-Generating Secrets of Y Combinator — Twice a year, close to 200 teams of aspiring tech entrepreneurs, most in their 20s, converge on Mountain View, in Silicon Valley, vying for a spot at Y Combinator, the seven-year-old seed-funding firm-cum-accelerator co-founded by venture investor Paul Graham.
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Apple Said to Lose Cheyer, Co-Creator of Siri Voice Unit — Adam Cheyer, an engineer who helped build the Siri voice-recognition software that was acquired by Apple Inc. (AAPL), is no longer working for the iPhone maker, according to three people familiar with the situation.
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9to5Mac, Business Insider and BGR
| Dagmara Leszkowicz / Reuters: |
A.pl vs. Apple: Polish Grocery Store Finds Itself In Tech Giant's Legal Crosshairs — Apple, fresh from a patent victory against South Korean rival Samsung, has turned its sights on a smaller target - Polish online grocery website A.pl. The Polish patent office said on Tuesday the U.S. maker of the iPad … | Jordan Kahn / 9to5Mac: |
Reuters goes ‘Inside the iPhone Patent Portfolio’ to predict future iPhone technology, litigation — Thomson Reuters is out with new a paper, titled “Inside the iPhone Patent Portfolio,” with the goal of highlighting “patent and litigation activity across Apple's 1,298 mobile patents.”| Greg Sandoval / CNET: |
Appeals court sides with RIAA, Jammie Thomas owes $222,000 — The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit vacates a lower court's decision and rules that Thomas-Rasset, an admitted music pirate, must pay the top four labels $222,000. — The top four record labels have won … | Gregory Ferenstein / TechCrunch: |
Google Launches Open Course Builder — Google launched an open source course building web application for the growing list of K-12 and big-name universities developing online classes. The barebones website is a light-weight way to bring course material online, track student engagement …
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Google Research Blog and Quick Online Tips
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Michael Arrington & Mark Zuckerberg are about to take the stage! Follow along LIVE #TCDisrupt http://tcrn.ch/TGmuVd
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Inside NuGet for C++ — NuGet support for C++ projects in Visual Studio has arrived in NuGet 2.5! It's been around for about a month now so we figured we'd go talk to one of the developers who helped make it happen, Garrett Serack.
Inside NuGet for C++ — NuGet support for C++ projects in Visual Studio has arrived in NuGet 2.5! It's been around for about a month now so we figured we'd go talk to one of the developers who helped make it happen, Garrett Serack.
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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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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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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.
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“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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