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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: |
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Riot breaks out at Foxconn's Taiyuan plant, reportedly over guards beating up a worker — News just came in that workers at Foxconn's Taiyuan plant have started a riot in the wee hours in China, and that police forces are on site to control the crowd. While the motive isn't clear … | New York Times: |
Foxconn Factory in Taiyuan, China, Is Closed After Worker Riot — Foxconn Technology, a major supplier to some of the world's electronics giants, including Apple, said on Monday that it had closed one of its large Chinese plants early Monday after police were called in to break up a fight among factory employees.
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What Will Marissa Do?: Mayer to Reveal Strategy to Troops This Week — On Friday, I began a series about the various and sundry things new Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer was up to at the Silicon Valley Internet giant. — First up was a look at how she is zeroing in on improving its troubled search efforts …
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New Zealand Prime Minister orders enquiry into “unlawful” spying of Kim Dotcom — The Kim Dotcom saga continues to unfold in New Zealand after the country's prime minister ordered a full enquiry into claims that the Government Communications Security Bureau (GCSB) unlawfully spied on the Megaupload founder.
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Facebook Mobile Payments Via Carrier Billing (And Bango) Now Live In U.S., UK And Germany — Another step ahead for Facebook's strategy to make more money out of its mobile business: the company is now accepting mobile payments for its mobile web service via carrier billing in the U.S. …
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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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The Internet? We Built That — Who created the Internet and why should we care? These questions, so often raised during the Bush-Gore election in 2000, have found their way back into the political debate this season — starting with one of the most cited texts of the preconvention campaign …
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| 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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Frustrated with poor mobile sales, publishers blame ad agencies — Publishers are seeing mobile audiences growing fast - but revenue is yet to catch up, and it's the ad industry taking the blame. — Mobile makes up a fifth of reader traffic for 87 percent of publishers …
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Kicked to the Curb: Kickstarter's Hidden Wasteheap of Killed Projects — A blunt message greets visitors to Vinted Good's Kickstarter page. Image: screen shot. — On Friday, Sept. 14, the team at Vinted Goods was riding high. Their Kickstarter project for a line of vintage-style leather bags … | Matt Brian / The Next Web: |
Samsung begins Galaxy S III Android Jelly Bean rollout, starting in Poland — Having teased its release over the past few weeks, Samsung has begun rolling out official Android 4.1 (Jelly Bean) updates via its KIES software and over-the-air, with Polish device owners becoming the first users …
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Intel Confirms Medfield x86 Chips Don't Support LTE Yet — But Says It Won't Be Long Coming — Intel's second bite at the smartphone market has been more akin to a gentle nibbling around the edges. At the end of last year the chipmaker teased a smartphone reference design running its Medfield x86 Atom SoC.
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Location and Mapping for Windows Phone 8 — In this week's Inside Windows Phone we talk about Location and Mapping in Windows Phone 8.
Location and Mapping for Windows Phone 8 — In this week's Inside Windows Phone we talk about Location and Mapping in Windows Phone 8.
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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 …
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99.999 Is Not Enough: An OpenCloud Approach to Delivering Application Uptime and Performance — Executive Summary — The pressure to keep vital applications online and performing well is extreme.
99.999 Is Not Enough: An OpenCloud Approach to Delivering Application Uptime and Performance — Executive Summary — The pressure to keep vital applications online and performing well is extreme.
Hortonworks » Blog:
Circumventing big data hurdles with Apache Hadoop and Hortonworks — Big data analytics have gained in popularity over the last few years, yet many operations continue to struggle with their implementation.
Circumventing big data hurdles with Apache Hadoop and Hortonworks — Big data analytics have gained in popularity over the last few years, yet many operations continue to struggle with their implementation.Who's Hiring In Tech?
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