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| Dan Moren / Macworld: |
Review: Refined iOS 6 highlighted by stunning Maps overhaul — Every iOS release has its marquee feature, and with iOS 6 it's unquestionably Maps. The app has gotten a in-depth makeover, perhaps the most thorough ever to be applied to one of iOS's built-in applications.
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VentureBeat, iMore.com, Search Engine Land, SocialTimes, MacStories, VoIP & Gadgets Blog, Ars Technica, TechCrunch, BGR, MacStories, LAPTOP Magazine, Pogue's Posts, GigaOM, TUAW, Ars Technica and ReadWriteWeb. Tweets: @mathewi
| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
How To Undo Facebook Hiding Your Email Address Before Your Friends Use iOS 6 Contact Sync — Millions of people are downloading iOS 6 right now, and many will use the Facebook contact sync feature to pull in photos and current phone numbers of friends. But rather than your real email address … | Anil Dash: |
Who benefits from iOS6's crappy maps? — The classic criticism that thoughtless Apple haters use against the company is that it makes products that are pretty but dumb. Usually those criticisms are by people who don't understand the value of a comprehensible user experience … | Jordan Golson / MacRumors: |
Passbook Enabled-Apps Start Arriving on App Store — Passbook enabled apps have begun making their way to the App Store, with major corporations like Major League Baseball, Ticketmaster, Fandango and Lufthansa offering event and flight tickets via Passbook, and Walgreens offering access to its rewards program via the service.
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App Shopper, The Next Web, TechCrunch, iPhone, VentureBeat, The Technology Chronicles, BGR, Mashable!, 9to5Mac and AppleInsider
| Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land: |
As Google Maps Disappears In iOS 6, Google Remains Cagey About Releasing Its Own App — The latest version of Apple's operating system for iPhones and iPads, iOS 6, is now out. As people upgrade, the Maps application previously powered by Google is now being replaced by Apple's own homegrown one.
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Mashable!, Marketing Land, TechSpot, PadGadget, Josh Centers, AppleTell and Daring Fireball
| Kevin Smith / Business Insider: |
| Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web: |
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the understatement, ReadWriteWeb, Computerworld, SlashGear and MacStories
| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Dell's Windows 8 three-way product intro: 10-inch business Ultrabook, all-in-one desktop, and a new tablet — Dell is unveiling its fall line-up of business-class computers, including a 10-inch Ultrabook laptop, a 23-inch all-in-one desktop, and a 10-inch Intel-based tablet computer.
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content.dell.com, TechSpot, Liliputing, eWeek, Computerworld, The Verge, HotHardware.com News and Neowin
| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft's Surface challenge: Proving it's a premium product worth a premium price — Summary: I think there's a market for premium, differentiated PC/tablet hybrids that aren't trying to compete primarily on price. I'm hoping Microsoft's Surface proves this category exists.
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SiliconANGLE, The Next Web, Tech Jungle and digitaltrends.com
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Nokia slams HTC's Windows Phone 8 announcement, calls it a ‘tactical re-branding’ — HTC has just unveiled two new Windows Phone 8 devices today, making them the signature phones for Microsoft. We asked Nokia about today's announcements and the company's head of marketing, Chris Weber … | Anand Lal Shimpi / AnandTech: |
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HTC Blog, Windows Phone Blog, Ars Technica, Curious Rat and Daring Fireball
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
| David Talbot / San Francisco magazine: |
How Much Tech Can One City Take? — Shaken by the latest digital gold rush, San Francisco struggles for its soul. — Last year, when Mayor Ed Lee heard that Twitter was planning to move its headquarters out of San Francisco and down to the peninsula, he quickly consulted with his digital experts …
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VentureBeat. Tweets: @clairecm, @nickbilton, @chrismegerian, @jtemple, @dylan20, @eldon and @gerryshih
| Aaron Greenspan: |
The Lost Chapter — 2003: Cambridge, Massachusetts — In college, my computer's filing system was relatively straightforward: I had a folder for each year of school, and within each of those folders there were additional folders for each course I was taking.
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TechCrunch, Business Insider and Business Insider
Tweets: @gallagherbilly, @ashleymayer, @ivygate, @codinghorror and @nickbilton
| Ryan Naraine / ZDNet: |
Mobile Pwn2Own: iPhone 4S hacked by Dutch team — Summary: How long would it take a determined attacker to hack into Apple's iPhone 4S from scratch? A Dutch research team uses the Pwn2Own contest to provide the answer. — Ryan Naraine — AMSTERDAM — How long would it take a determined attacker …
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PC Magazine, BGR, iDownloadBlog.com, Macgasm, eWeek, The Next Web, iClarified, MacNN, Ars Technica and 9to5Mac
| Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica: |
iCloud for Windows 2.0: An improvement, but not much has changed — iCloud gets a lot of attention in reviews of iOS and OS X, and with good reason—it's one of Apple's biggest services, and with every new version of its desktop and mobile operating systems, iCloud expands to store just a bit more of your stuff.| Carey Kolaja / AllThingsD: |
The iPhone 5 Doesn't Have NFC — So What? — With last Wednesday's Apple iPhone 5 unveiling, and the recent Nokia Lumia launch, mobile is on top of the media agenda. But as the screen size and connector stories die down, the question of “when will my mobile phone become my wallet?” rises up once again.
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Apple Outsider
| Alex Wilhelm / The Next Web: |
Microsoft issues a rebootless ‘Fix’ to the Internet Explorer security weakness — Yesterday we brought you the news that Microsoft was preparing a one-click solution for Internet Explorer, protecting users from a security flaw that was discovered. — The company adamantly states that few users …
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Microsoft Support, The Verge, TechNet Blogs, PC World, Krebs on Security, CNET and eWeek
| Stephen C. Webster / The Raw Story: |
New Philippines law bans ‘cybersex’ — The president of the Philippines signed a cyber crime bill into law on Tuesday that, much to the chagrin of Internet freedom activists, outlaws “cybersex,” bans “unsolicited commercial communications” online and imposes criminal penalties on people convicted of libel.
| Terrence O'Brien / Engadget: |
MakerBot unveils Replicator 2, 2X and launches retail store, we go eyes-on — The Replicator may have just been pushed off this writer's Christmas list. (Note to self: send updated letter to Santa.) But, this isn't a loss for MakerBot Industries, because it's being replaced by the Replicator 2 …
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Wired, VentureBeat, TechCrunch, Gizmodo, CNET, The Verge and VentureBeat
| Gregory Ferenstein / TechCrunch: |
California And 11 Other States Now Allow Online Voter Registration — Silicon Valley, residents of California, and citizens in 11 other states can now register to vote online. California, the newest state to ease the inconvenience of voter registration, launched their online portal today.
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PolitiCal, CNET, San Francisco Chronicle, Ars Technica, The Verge and The Huffington Post
| Robin Wauters / The Next Web: |
Here's what the new gaming experience on Amazon's Kindle Fire tablets will look like — Two weeks ago, Amazon introduced its latest tablet, the Kindle Fire HD, which comes in two screen sizes, 7 inches and 8.9 inches. The new Kindle Fire tablets will offer players a revamped gaming experience …
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| Matthew Moskovciak / CNET: |
Roku Streaming Stick coming in October for $99, Roku 2 boxes get Vudu app, plus mobile app adds AirPlay-esque streaming — Roku's Streaming Stick will be out in time for the holidays, but it only works with a handful of TVs. — Roku's Streaming Stick was one of the most interesting home theater products … | Colleen Taylor / TechCrunch: |
Sources: Zynga Chief Security Officer Nils Puhlmann Has Resigned From Company — We're hearing that Nils Puhlmann, the cloud security expert who has worked as Zynga's Chief Security Officer since 2009, resigned from the company yesterday, according to several sources familiar with the matter.
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Macgasm, The Verge, AllThingsD, VentureBeat and GamesIndustry International
| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
With a veteran startup team, Scopely raises $8.5M for social mobile games — If you're going to start a new game company at this late hour — even a mobile game company — you'd better do it with a veteran team. That's the approach that Scopely, which is announcing an $8.5 million seed funding round today, has taken.
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AllThingsD, VatorNews, TechCrunch and PandoDaily
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Coming To A Car Near You: Linux Goes Automotive, Signs Up Harman, Intel, Toyota, Samsung's Tizen, More — If, one day, we really are all going to be carted around in driverless cars from the likes of Google and others, then we may as well have some apps on board to keep us occupied.
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Market Wire, SiliconANGLE and OStatic blogs
| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
HP marches out an army of Windows 8 consumer and business PCs — Hewlett-Packard is introducing a dozen new computers and accessories today that represent the core of its line-up for Microsoft's Windows 8 operating system coming on Oct. 26. — This new pack of computers isn't even HP's whole line-up.
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CNET, Engadget, The Verge, The Technology Chronicles, BGR, LAPTOP Magazine, LAPTOP Magazine, Engadget, Engadget and SlashGear
| Ina Fried / AllThingsD: |
Major League Baseball Hopes iPhone Tickets Will Be a Hit — While riding to San Francisco's AT&T Park on Thursday, an alert popped up on my phone letting me know that the Giants game was nearby, even though I was still on the train nearing the ballpark. — As I neared the gate …
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The Next Web and PhoneArena
| T.C. Sottek / The Verge: |
True to form, Samsung mocks iPhone 5 buyers in latest commercial — We caught Samsung preparing its latest salvo against Apple last week, and now the company's next big attack ad is finally here. Staying true to the theme of its earlier commercials, Samsung's new ad mocks those waiting early …
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The Tech Block, eWeek, Computerworld, IntoMobile, The Next Web, BGR, Business Insider, 9to5Mac, WebProNews and VentureBeat
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Windows Store Weekly — This week we take a look at: Star Trek App, Box, Fling Theory, StumbleUpon, and wordBrush.
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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 …
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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