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iPhone 5 won't support simultaneous voice and data on Verizon or Sprint — Apple's new iPhone 5 features support for LTE networks across the world, but it won't be able to offer simultaneous voice and data on all of them. The Verge has confirmed with Verizon Wireless that the iPhone 5 … | Roberto Baldwin / Wired: |
Apple Confirms iPhone 5 Pre-Orders Start at 12:01 a.m. Sept. 14 — Get that credit card ready for a late-night purchase. Apple has confirmed to Wired via e-mail that it will begin accepting online pre-orders of the iPhone 5 during the wee hours of the morning beginning at 12:01 a.m. PDT on Sept. 14.| Brian X. Chen / NYT Bits: |
Why the iPhone 5 on Verizon and Sprint Won't Juggle Calls and Data — A lot has changed in Apple's new iPhone. But with the Verizon Wireless and Sprint versions of the iPhone 5, there's something that will remain the same from the old model: The phone still won't be able to place a call …
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Apple's Magic Is In The Turn, Not The Prestige — The opening dialogue of Christopher Nolan's 2006 film, The Prestige: … This is what was on my mind following today's Apple event. It's essentially the story of the iPhone. — Apple took something ordinary, a phone …
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Google adds another cool tool to Search: The Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon — Forget using Google's more powerful search operators, the best ones are the most fun ones. We've seen ‘tilt’ and ‘do a barrel roll’, but over the past day or so, the company has added another cool new search operator: Bacon number.| Dan Frommer / SplatF: |
Why Does Apple Announce iPhone Pricing And Availability But Other Phone Makers Don't? — One of the nice things Apple does when announcing a new product — which its competitors only sometimes do, especially in the phone industry — is tell you how much it will cost and when it will go on sale.
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Nintendo Wii U release date is November 18th in US, starting at $299.99, November 30th in Europe — Nintendo's Wii U will launch November 18th in North America starting at $299.99, the company announced today during a New York City press conference. — The console will launch in two varieties …
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Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak on Samsung patent verdict: 'I hate it and I don't agree with it' — Late last month in a California court, Samsung was ordered to pay Apple over $1 billion as part of a patent lawsuit in which an American jury concluded the Korean company copied the American company …
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Apple's new iCloud.com officially launches with updated Mail, Find My iPhone, Reminders and Notes apps — Apple has today launched the new official version of iCloud.com — its web portal for cloud services — to all users, reports 9to5Mac. The site features versions of its Mail …
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Helium-filled WD drives promise huge boost in capacity — Density of helium is one-seventh that of air, thus reducing hard drive platter drag. — HGST's five-platter Ultrastar 7K4000 4TB hard drive.For more than 50 years, hard disk drives have run on air. That's about to change.
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Isis mobile payment service hits snag, delays trial run — Isis was supposed to have turned on the mobile payment systems in two cities by the end of summer. — Google Wallet getting tested out in a store in Manhattan. Isis won't be coming here soon. — Isis won't be launching its mobile payment trials at the end of summer.| Michael Kan / Computerworld: |
Google threat blamed as Acer cancels China smartphone launch — PC maker Acer has allegedly canceled the launch of a new smartphone using a Chinese-developed mobile operating system because Google threatened to cancel the company's license to use the Android OS.
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After 17 Years, eBay Debuts A New, Sleeker Logo — Following in the footsteps of Microsoft, eBay is debuting a new logo today. The colors of the logo are the same, but the font is a bit more modern and sleek, and the word “eBay” is cleanly aligned in a straight line.
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook For iOS App's Review Average Climbs From 1.5 Stars To 4 Stars In Three Weeks Since Relaunch — Facebook will still push HTML5 innovation, but stripping it out to speed up the Facebook for iOS app has been very successful. Half of its iOS users updated their apps in just four days …
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Google Glass and the Future of Technology — New gadgets — I mean whole new gadget categories — don't come along very often. The iPhone was one recent example. You could argue that the iPad was another. But if there's anything at all as different and bold on the horizon, surely it's Google Glass.| Harrison Weber / The Next Web: |
Google and Khan Academy launch contest to bring new forms of education to YouTube — Google has just announced that it is teaming up with Khan Academy for a new competition to find the next generation of “educational YouTube stars.” This news comes as interest in new forms …
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Friendster Founder Jonathan Abrams Launches Nuzzel: A Fast, Simple, Social News Reader — Jonathan Abrams, whose resume as a founder or co-founder includes the Founders Den startup workspace, event service Socializr, social bookmarking service HotLinks, and Friendster (I don't need to explain that last one …
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Facebook Throws a Coming-Out Party for Its Ad Exchange — Mark Zuckerberg says Facebook is going to make a lot of money from mobile ads. In the meantime, the company is trying to figure out how to make more money from the Web ads it already sells. — Here's one way: Take the small … Sponsor Posts
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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).
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 …
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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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.
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:
Getting the most out of business analytics — One of the most prevalent uses of Hadoop architecture by enterprises is to create business intelligence and analytics tools that can be leveraged to identify areas …
Getting the most out of business analytics — One of the most prevalent uses of Hadoop architecture by enterprises is to create business intelligence and analytics tools that can be leveraged to identify areas …
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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