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Google Maps announces a 400 year advantage over Apple Maps — I had a call from Marc Prioleau of Prioleau Advisors this morning and speaking with him prompted me to look into the uproar over Apple's problems with its new mapping application. So, this column is Marc's fault.
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CNET, Josh Centers, 9to5Mac, AppleInsider, iDownloadBlog.com and counternotions. Thanks:@akovacs
| Jay Yarow / Business Insider: |
TomTom: Don't Blame Apple Maps Problems On Us! — When Apple launched the original iPhone, one of the biggest complaints about the phone was that it was awful for making phone calls. — Apple did not bear the brunt of this criticism, though. It was its cellular partner AT&T who was …
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Macgasm, Wall Street Journal, PhoneArena, Reuters, Techland and I4U News
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The iPhone 5 Performance Preview — This morning we finally got our hands on Apple's iPhone 5. While we are eager to get started on battery life testing, that'll happen late tonight after a full day's worth of use and a recharge cycle. Meanwhile, we went straight to work on performance testing.
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iPhone 5 Benchmarked: The Fastest Smartphone in the Land — The iPhone 5 looks to be the fastest smartphone we've ever tested at PCMag.com. — With its mysterious, Apple-designed A6 processor, the iPhone 5 is unique in the world of smartphones. Most high-end phones nowadays run … | Anand Lal Shimpi / AnandTech: |
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Apple seeks U.S. Samsung sales ban, $707 million more in damages — (Reuters) - Apple Inc has asked for a court order for a permanent U.S. sales ban on Samsung Electronics products alleged to have violated its patents along with additional damages of $707 million on top of the billion-dollar verdict won by the iPhone maker last month.
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Twitter CEO says curation tools for newsrooms are coming — “So, how does it feel to be the voice of the press in the 21 century?,” Emily Bell asked Twitter CEO Dick Costolo during a keynote interview Friday at the Online News Association Conference in San Francisco. — “I don't view that as my job, of course,” he said.
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| Paul Graham: |
Startup = Growth — A startup is a company designed to grow fast. Being newly founded does not in itself make a company a startup. Nor is it necessary for a startup to work on technology, or take venture funding, or have some sort of “exit.” The only essential thing is growth.
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A VC and Howard Lindzon. Tweets: @dhh, @dhh, @professorvc, @eghosao, @mattrosoff, @robgo, @bill_gross and @cdixon
| Sarah Silbert / Engadget: |
AmEx, Starbucks announce plans for Passbook integration: both live by end of the month — When it launched with iOS 6 this Wednesday, Apple's Passbook mobile-ticketing feature boasted a handful of high-profile partners — including Fandango, Live Nation, Lufthansa and Ticketmaster … | Seth Weintraub / 9to5Mac: |
The first three iPhone 5 (and one EarPod) ads hit: Thumbs, Physics, Cheese and Ears — It sounds like the first iPhone 5 ads are narrated by Jeff Daniels of Dumb and Dumber and Newsroom fame. — Thumbs shows how the 4-inch screen is tailored to the windshield-wiper motion of your thumb.
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CNET, Observatory, MacStories, Business Insider, Fortune, AppleInsider, Softpedia News, Gizmodo, iMore.com, The Verge, TechCrunch, Mashable! and MacRumors
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Mozilla announces Firefox Health Report, will phone home with data to improve the browser — Mozilla today announced Firefox Health Report (FHR), a new feature that sends data back to the company in order to help them “build a more excellent browser.” In addition to improving … | Kara Swisher / AllThingsD: |
Fortune's “Most Powerful Women” Features Techies: IBM's Rometty Tops List, but Yahoo's Mayer Grabs Cover — Fortune magazine put out its “50 Most Powerful Women in Business” list today, which was topped by IBM CEO Ginni Rometty. — The nod to the leader of the longtime tech giant was followed … | Daniel Rubino / wpcentral: |
Lenovo ThinkPad Tablet 2 with Windows 8 to be priced at $799 with keyboard — Last night we popped by PepCom, a little tech event that happens every few months here in New York City. We were curious if Samsung would be there with their ATIV lineup (answer: no) and we were hoping to maybe spot some interesting tidbits for you folks.
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CNET, Liliputing, Engadget, CNET, Neowin, Ars Technica, The Verge and Windows 8 Beta
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Featured Startup - FormVerse — If there was one tool not made for effective work, it would have to be email. If you take silos of information, and a chronological effect, where old or new is piled on top of each other …
Featured Startup - FormVerse — If there was one tool not made for effective work, it would have to be email. If you take silos of information, and a chronological effect, where old or new is piled on top of each other …
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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