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Source: Apple Aggressively Recruiting Ex-Google Maps Staff To Build Out iOS Maps — Apple is going after people with experience working on Google Maps to develop its own product, according to a source with connections on both teams. Using recruiters, Apple is pursuing a strategy … | Jean-Louis Gassée / Monday Note: |
Apple Maps: Damned If You Do, Googled If You Don't — While still a teenager, my youngest daughter was determined to take on the role of used car salesperson when we sold our old Chevy Tahoe. Her approach was impeccable: Before letting the prospective buyer so much as touch the car …
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How Ridiculous Is It That Apple Maps Redirect To Google Maps On The Web? — Yes, Apple Maps redirect to Google Maps on desktop, Android and any non-iOS 6 phones when you share your location. Womp. Obviously this is happening because there's no hub for Apple Maps on the web, but still … | James Glanz / New York Times: |
Data Centers Waste Vast Amounts of Energy, Belying Industry Image — SANTA CLARA, Calif. — Jeff Rothschild's machines at Facebook had a problem he knew he had to solve immediately. They were about to melt. — The company had been packing a 40-by-60-foot rental space here with racks …
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CNET, Data Center Knowledge, The Verge, Neatorama, New York Times, Gizmodo, VentureBeat, PC World and rc3.org
Tweets: @qthrul, @cdixon, @karaswisher, @bobmcmillan, @nytjim and @jayrosen_nyu
| Dan Woods / Forbes: |
Why the New York Times Story “Power, Pollution, and the Internet” is a Sloppy Failure — In its story published today, “Power, Pollution, and the Internet”, The New York Times failed in its mission to accurately explain the important issue of improving efficient use of power in data centers … | Mark Suster / Both Sides of the Table: |
Is Going for Rapid Growth Always Good? Aren't Startups So Much More? — I think I've read Paul Graham's post on “Startup = Growth” three or four times now. And of course on Twitter I've seen the Tweets, ReTweets and superlatives on what a great post it is.| Paul Graham: |
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A VC and Howard Lindzon. Tweets: @dhh, @dhh, @professorvc, @mattrosoff, @robgo, @bill_gross, @eghosao and @cdixon
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Iran readies domestic Internet system, blocks Google — (Reuters) - Iran plans to switch its citizens onto a domestic Internet network in what officials say is a bid to improve cyber security but which many Iranians fear is the latest way to control their access to the web.
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Guardian, CNET, Engadget, The Verge, TechCrunch, AllThingsD, Guardian, nbcnews.com, Neowin, nbcnews.com and Slashdot
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My Product Feedback — Mobile Mobile Mobile Mobile Mobile Mobile Mobile Mobile Mobile Mobile Mobile Mobile Mobile Mobile Mobile Mobile Mobile Mobile Mobile Mobile Mobile Mobile Mobile Mobile Mobile Mobile Mobile Mobile Mobile Mobile Mobile Mobile Mobile Mobile Mobile Mobile Mobile Mobile …
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| Kara Swisher / AllThingsD: |
What Will Marissa Do: Yahoo CEO Zeroes in on Search, While Her Ad Team Eyes Tech Upgrade Options — It's been nice to see all the euphoria at Yahoo about free food and Apple iPhones kicking it up a notch. — But, purple people, guess what? Them's just your basic table stakes in Silicon Valley …
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| Mark Shuttleworth: |
Amazon search results in the Dash — It makes perfect sense to integrate Amazon search results in the Dash, because the Home Lens of the Dash should let you find *anything* anywhere. Over time, we'll make the Dash smarter and smarter, so you can just ask for whatever you want, and it will Just Work.
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Launchpad Bugs, ZDNet, OMG!, Slashdot, OMG! and Benjamin Kerensa
| Mike Melanson / ReadWriteWeb: |
Craigslist, 3taps & The Court Battle For The Soul Of Public Data — Who owns the kind of information collected by Craigslist? The classifieds site has staked its claim in a series of lawsuits against apartment listings mapper PadMapper and Craigslist data scraper 3taps.| Jennifer Martinez / Hillicon Valley: |
Lawmakers introduce Pandora-backed music royalty legislation — A trio of lawmakers on Friday introduced legislation aimed at lowering the royalty fees paid by Internet radio stations so they become level with the rates paid by other digital radio services.
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PR Newswire, TechCrunch, The Hill and The Next Web
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Defrag Tools: WPT - Command Line — Andrew Richards, Chad Beeder, and Larry Larsen continue walking you through the Windows Performance Toolkit (WPT).
Defrag Tools: WPT - Command Line — Andrew Richards, Chad Beeder, and Larry Larsen continue walking you through the Windows Performance Toolkit (WPT).
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:
Love, Magic, & APIs — I will confess, I am old enough to remember my GeoCities page. Don't hate. It was amazing, it was... this transformative moment in which I took real, actual information, and transformed it into something visible and memorable.
Love, Magic, & APIs — I will confess, I am old enough to remember my GeoCities page. Don't hate. It was amazing, it was... this transformative moment in which I took real, actual information, and transformed it into something visible and memorable.
Hortonworks » Blog:
Hadoop, Hadoop, Hurrah! HDP for Windows is Now GA! — Today we are very excited to announce that Hortonworks Data Platform for Windows (HDP for Windows) is now generally available and ready to support the most demanding production workloads.
Hadoop, Hadoop, Hurrah! HDP for Windows is Now GA! — Today we are very excited to announce that Hortonworks Data Platform for Windows (HDP for Windows) is now generally available and ready to support the most demanding production workloads.
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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