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iPhone 5: Customers in the Big Apple camp out 8 days early — By Sunday there were 7 in the queue — each of them for commercial purposes — FORTUNE — In the popular imagination — and in Samsung TV ads — the people willing to wait in line for days to buy the newest Apple (AAPL) … | AppleInsider: |
First Apple iPhone 5 orders now shipping from China — Customers who were among the first to preorder the iPhone 5 from Apple have begun seeing updates that their orders are shipping from China. — While some iPhone 5 orders are now shipping, the packages are still not scheduled …
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Techie Buzz, 9to5Mac, The Next Web and PhoneArena
| Arnold Kim / MacRumors: |
iPhone 5 Benchmarks Appear in Geekbench Showing a Dual Core, 1GHz A6 CPU — John Poole of PrimateLabs let us know that the first iPhone 5 benchmark has hit Geekbench. — The results show an iPhone5,2 device running iOS 6 with a Dual-Core 1.02GHz ARMv7 processor and 1GB of RAM.| Chris Dixon: |
Facebook's embedded option — The best way to think of Facebook's stock is as the sum of two businesses: the existing display ad businesses, and a probability-weighted option on a new line of business. This is how Wall Street views it. For example, here is a section of a recent Goldman Sachs analyst report on Facebook:
| Nicholas Carlson / Business Insider: |
Marissa Mayer Just Gave Every Yahoo Employee An iPhone 5 — New Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer just sent an email to all of Yahoo's full time and part time employees in the US, promising them a new Apple, Samsung, Nokia, or HTC smartphone. — “People are happy,” says a source at the company.| Ellis Hamburger / The Verge: |
Shazam hits 250 million users, now lets you tag TV shows on any channel — Music-tagging app Shazam today announced that it's expanding its functionality to let you tag any TV show on any channel in order to find out what music is playing, who's acting on screen, and more.
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CNET, GigaOM, Gizmodo, Shazam, Windows Phone, Lost Remote, TechCrunch and WatchingTV Online
| Nick Bilton / NYT Bits: |
Disruptions: Let Silicon Valley Eat ... Ramen Noodles? — You don't have to spend much time in Silicon Valley to start hearing that the people don't care about money. People here are just trying to make the world a better place. Entrepreneurs and venture capitalists eat ramen noodles for dinner and drive old, clunky Hondas to work.
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Johnnie Manzari and eWeek. Tweets: @tristanwalker, @eghosao, @pkedrosky, @karaswisher, @timoreilly, @wadhwa, @msuster and @dangillmor
| John Jannarone / Wall Street Journal: |
Winklevoss Twins of Facebook Fame Return to Invest in SumZero — The Winklevoss twins lost the biggest social-network showdown ever when their rival, Mark Zuckerberg, walked away with Facebook. Now they are trying again—with a social network for professional investors.
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CNET, New York Magazine, The Atlantic Wire and Reuters
Tweets: @dkberman, @scottmaustin, @winklevosscap and @nickbilton
| Janet I. Tu / The Seattle Times: |
Ballmer trumpets Microsoft's ‘epic year’ — Q and A: Microsoft Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer discusses new products and services, the state of the company and its future. — This fall, Microsoft is embarking on one of its biggest series of launches ever, with new versions or updates … | Enigmax / TorrentFreak: |
Top BitTorrent Countries In The World, Top Torrent Towns In The UK — The Digital Music Index is a report produced by Musicmetric, a data and analytics company that maps the trends and preferences of music fans around the world. The data collated and crunched is then supplied to the music industry …
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Daily Mail, Inquirer and Music Ally
| John Herrman / BuzzFeed: |
Twitter To Remove Third-Party Image Services From Its Apps — Last month's Twitter policy changes not-so-subtly suggested that third-party clients are not long for this world. Next to be put on notice: the image sites. — Twitter will soon remove support for third-party image hosts …
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Gizmodo
| Ellyne Phneah / ZDNet: |
Samsung to unveil Galaxy S4 in Feb 2013 — Summary: New handset expected to sport 5-inch screen, and will see some “external changes” but retain its rectangle shape with rounded corners concept; to be unveiled at Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona next year. — Ellyne Phneah
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Engadget, The Korea Times, Android Authority, I4U News, Pocketnow, Tech in Asia, SamMobile and The Next Web
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Windows Store Weekly — This week we take a look at: Star Trek App, Box, Fling Theory, StumbleUpon, and wordBrush.
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 …
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:
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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