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Expand your experience: New Twitter for iPad — Today you can download the new Twitter for iPad. We've rebuilt the app from the ground up to make it fast, beautiful and easy to use. Twitter for iPad brings you closer to what's happening all over the world, and makes it easy to keep … | Sachin Agarwal / Twitter Blog: |
Because you have more to show — Starting today you can make your presence on Twitter more meaningful with new Twitter profiles. Upload an all-new header photo on mobile apps for iPad, iPhone and Android or twitter.com, and the same image will appear whenever anyone views your profile on the web or these apps.| Jaikumar Ramanathan / Twitter Blog: |
Picture what's happening in iPhone and Android updates — Today you can download a new version of Twitter for iPhone and Twitter for Android. Upgrade now! — Here are a few of the new features available in these updates: — New profiles now feature header photos so you can express who you are more meaningfully on Twitter.| Matt Brian / The Next Web: |
Twitter now forces you to use its own image service in its mobile apps — We knew it was coming, but with the release of its new iOS apps earlier today, Twitter has confirmed that it has dropped the option allowing users to select a third-party image upload service, forcing them instead to use its own service powered by Photobucket.| Wilson Rothman / Digital Life: |
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Facebook Beta Launches New Mobile Ad Network Using Your Data To Target You With Banner Ads In Other Apps — Facebook today begins testing its own mobile ad network. Advertisers can pay to target you with ads for app stores or websites based on your Facebook data that appear while you're on other apps and mobile sites.| Michael Zhang / PetaPixel: |
Apple's Jonathan Ive to Design a Single Uber-Limited Edition Leica M — Do you love the design of Apple products? Do you have infinitely deep pockets? If you said yes to both questions, then I have some good news for you. — At Leica's special event last night, after the new Leica M was announced … | iFixit: |
Apple EarPods Teardown — After three years of research and development, Apple has released the newest version of their popular headphones, now dubbed “EarPods.” Join us as we crack these pods open and take a look at what three years of R & D can accomplish. Love all of these gadget teardowns?| Reuters: |
German government urges public to stop using Internet Explorer — (Reuters) - The German government urged the public on Tuesday to temporarily stop using Microsoft Corp's Internet Explorer following discovery of yet-to-be repaired bug in the web browser that the software maker said makes PCs vulnerable to attack by hackers.| Simon Sharwood / The Register: |
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Yahoo To Give Shareholders $3.65 Billion, Mayer Explains Why In Leaked Memo — Yahoo has closed a deal to sell a portion of its stake in Chinese Internet company Alibaba, netting $4.3 billion for the company. — In a memo to employees, Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer says she will return $3.65 billion of that money to shareholders.| John Paczkowski / AllThingsD: |
As Expected, Alibaba Closes $7.6 Billion Yahoo Deal — Yahoo has closed the multibillion-dollar sale of half its assets in China's Alibaba Group. — Alibaba said Tuesday that it has completed the initial repurchase of shares from Yahoo and restructured its relationship with the Silicon Valley company … | Stacey Higginbotham / GigaOM: |
AT&T will be slapped with net neutrality complaint over FaceTime blocking — Free Press, Public Knowledge, and the New America Foundation's Open Technology Institute have informed AT&T that they intend to file a complaint with the Federal Communications Commission against the wireless carrier for violating network neutrality rules.| Nick Wingfield / NYT Bits: |
With Hollywood Hire, Microsoft Bolsters Entertainment Efforts — Microsoft has hired Nancy Tellem, a former top CBS television executive, to oversee the production of original video content to be delivered to the company's Xbox video game console, according to people with knowledge of the move … | Mike Beasley / 9to5Mac: |
iOS 6 App Store tweaked to promote a one-tap installation of free Apple apps — It looks like Apple is putting the final touches on the redesigned App Store for iOS 6 ahead of the next-generation operating system's public launch later this week. As of this evening, a new page greets … | Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web: |
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Motorola announces RAZR i with Intel processor — Today in London, Motorola is announcing the first fruits of its multi-year, multi-device partnership with Intel — a revamped Droid RAZR M called the RAZR i. While the two phones look almost identical externally, the most important characteristic … | Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
New departure from Zynga: Omgpop's chief revenue officer (exclusive) — Joining the exodus of executives who have left Zynga recently, Wilson Kriegel, the former chief revenue officer of Omgpop, has left the company, GamesBeat has learned. — Kriegel was part of the company that Zynga bought earlier … | Aoife White / Bloomberg: |
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Is the iPhone good enough? — We don't want to make a new phone. We want to make a much better phone. - Jony Ive, video at iPhone 5 launch event Disruption theory has taught us that the greatest danger facing a company is making a product better than it needs to be.| Seth Weintraub / 9to5Mac: |
Apple's next huge data center will be in Hong Kong, groundbreaking Q1 2013 — We've received word that Apple is building another enormous data center—this time in Hong Kong SAR, China. — Apple recently finalized a location in the New Territories region of Hong Kong near the Shenzhen China border for the data center.| David Kravets / Wired: |
Feds Charge Activist with 13 Felonies for Rogue Downloading of Academic Articles — Federal prosectors added nine new felony counts against well-known coder and activist Aaron Swartz, who was charged last year for allegedly breaching hacking laws by downloading millions of academic articles … | Kevin Burke: |
Virgin Mobile fails web security 101, leaves six million subscriber accounts wide open — tl;dr Anyone who knows your Virgin Mobile USA phone number can: — see who you've been calling and texting, — change the handset associated with your number, — change your address, your email address, or your password,| Chris Jaffe / The Official Netflix Blog: |
New Netflix Experience on iPhone — More and more of you are using Netflix on mobile devices every day. Already millions of Netflix members use their smartphones to instantly watch movies and TV shows anywhere, anytime. — We are always working to improve the experience so Netflix members discover more great titles and watch more.| Bill Rigby / Reuters: |
Microsoft slows dividend growth — (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp raised its dividend by 15 percent on Tuesday, marking a slowdown in the growth in payouts to investors after a year marked by a downturn in computer sales and a large write-off for a failed acquisition.
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Don't Do. Just Tell. With Zoho MCP for Bigin. — Dear small business owners,This one's a little different.We're not here to walk you through a checklist of features. We're here to tell you about something …
Protecting your Cloud Applications Data — Backing up Office 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox & Salesforce data is critical to preventing data loss or corruption, complying with laws and avoiding critical downtime in case of a disaster.
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