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Google Objects to Acer Smartphone — Google Inc. said late Friday that it objected to Taiwanese PC maker Acer Inc.'s development of a smartphone that is powered by a rival mobile operating system, the launch of which was delayed this week. — Acer postponed the launch of the phone …
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Computerworld, The Verge, Android News, Rumours …, Web 2.0 Asia Blog and China Real Time Report. Tweets: @parislemon
| Jon Russell / The Next Web: |
Google just dropped an Android-shaped bomb in China [Updated] — Google has dropped an Android-shaped bomb on China's mobile market, after comments from the company potentially affected some of the country's most powerful Internet firms and their strategy of modifying its Android operating system to develop platforms of their own.| Danny Sullivan / Marketing Land: |
What Is The One True Android & How “Open” Is It? — Ironically on iPhone 5 day, Google finds itself about to be embroiled in a fresh debate over how much it controls “open” Android as well as what Android actually is. It's well past time for “Android” to mean the mobile operating system …
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Official Android Blog and Gizmodo
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Apple on iPhone 5 Demand: “We've Been Completely Blown Away” — Late-sleeping early adopters may be unhappy to hear that preorder inventory of Apple's new iPhone 5 has been depleted, but Apple's pretty happy with the level of demand it's seeing. “Preorders for iPhone 5 have been incredible …
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| Daniel Rubino / wpcentral: |
Windows Phone 8 has officially gone gold (RTM) — Tonight we can confirm via two known sources that Windows Phone 8 has RTM'd. For those of you unfamiliar with the term, RTM stands for Release to Manufacturing (aka “going gold") and is one of the final steps in getting the software to market.
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ZDNet, LiveSino, WMPoweruser, Softpedia News, Engadget, LiveSide.net, The Verge, Neowin and Pocketnow
| Florian Mueller / FOSS Patents: |
Preliminary ruling by ITC judge clears Apple of infringement of four Samsung patents — Administrative Law Judge E. James Gildea just issued his preliminary ruling on Samsung's ITC complaint against Apple. At this stage of the investigation, four Samsung patents, including a couple of allegedly standard-essential ones, are at issue.
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Ars Technica, The Next Web, SlashGear, TodaysiPhone.com, AllThingsD, BBC, Phones Review and Engadget
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| Gerry Shih / Reuters: |
Google rejects White House request to pull Mohammad film clip — (Reuters) - Google Inc rejected a request by the White House on Friday to reconsider its decision to keep online a controversial YouTube movie clip that has ignited anti-American protests in the Middle East.| Mike Masnick / Techdirt: |
LEAKED! Here's The White House's Draft Cybersecurity Executive Order — Earlier this week, we wrote about how the White House was working on an executive order to act as a “stand in” for cybersecurity legislation that has so far failed to pass Congress (CISPA passed in the House …
| Drew Olanoff / TechCrunch: |
Google Apps Says Goodbye To Internet Explorer 8, Pulls Support For the Browser — Today, the Google Apps team announced that it will no longer support Internet Explorer 8 (and lower). Thank goodness. This will affect everyone using Google Apps: businesses, educational and government institutions.
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Google Apps update alerts, CNET, ZDNet and The Next Web
| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
Apple's timid new iPod nano sidesteps a smartwatch revolution — By all accounts, Apple's new iPhone 5 is a fine product, a line drive down the middle. It will easily sell millions and likely even break some records — the massive iPhone ecosystem alone will guarantee that.
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Cult of Mac, Mashable! and Daring Fireball
| Jonathan S. Geller / BGR: |
AT&T to launch Nokia Lumia 920 and Samsung Galaxy Note II on October 21st — BGR has confirmed with a trusted source that AT&T's (T) upcoming flagship smartphones for the holidays — besides that flagship smartphone, of course — will be launching on October 21st.| Mike Thompson / Inside Social Games: |
Zynga responds to The Ville copyright lawsuit, accuses EA of violating anti-trust laws — Update: EA has released a statement. “This is a subterfuge aimed at diverting attention from Zynga's persistent plagiarism of other artists and studios. Zynga would be better served trying to hold onto …
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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:
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 …
Hortonworks » Blog:
Mobile Telco Dials In and Harnesses Big Data with Hadoop — Smartphones have transformed our daily lives. A key indicator of this trend is our increased spend on data plans versus voice.
Mobile Telco Dials In and Harnesses Big Data with Hadoop — Smartphones have transformed our daily lives. A key indicator of this trend is our increased spend on data plans versus voice.
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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