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| Kevin Krolicki / Reuters: |
Google says Maps not waiting in wings for iPhone 5 — (Reuters) - Google Inc has made no move to provide Google Maps for the iPhone 5 after Apple Inc dropped the application in favor of a home-grown but controversial alternative, Google's Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt said.| Teo Chian Wei / Bloomberg: |
Google's Schmidt Says Up to Apple to Decide on Maps App — Google Inc. (GOOG) Chairman Eric Schmidt said it would be up to Apple Inc. (AAPL) to approve the company's map application for Apple's operating system after the iPhone maker's own app was criticized by reviewers.
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CNET, Search Engine Land, 9to5Mac, TechEye, MacRumors, MobileSyrup.com, Gizmodo, The Next Web, ITProPortal and Mashable!
| Spandas Lui / ZDNet: |
Woz: Apple Maps disappointing, but flaws ‘not that severe’ — Summary: Apple co-founder downplayed problems with the new Apple Maps application, which replaced Google Maps on iPhones that have iOS 6. — Spandas Lui — Reviews of Apple's Maps have been mixed at best …
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CNET, Gizmodo, MacNN, iPhone Hacks, Edible Apple and Business Insider
| Anthony Drendel: |
iOS Maps and China — It seems like people really hate the new Maps in iOS 6. Now, I'm not disputing that Maps does give a lot of strange results to a lot of people all around the world, but for a large, large number of people, iOS 6 Maps has been a huge improvement over Google Maps.| Emil Protalinski / The Next Web: |
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| Raymond M. Soneira / DisplayMate: |
iPhone 5 Galaxy S III Display Technology Shoot-Out — The iPhone 5 has been the most anticipated mobile device of 2012 together with its cousin the iPad Mini, which we expect to be seeing shortly. Apple has made displays their most prominent marketing feature because it determines the quality … | Bloomberg: |
Apple Use of Thin Display Seen Driving IPhone 5 Supply Shortfall — Apple Inc. (AAPL)'s decision to create a smartphone that boasts a thinner, lighter touch screen contributed to the component shortfall that caused demand to outstrip supply of the iPhone on its debut weekend.
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| AllThingsD: |
Exclusive: Twitter Eyeing Media Bigs, Including Hollywood Mogul Peter Chernin, for Board Seats — Twitter is now interviewing a series of well-known media players for its board, as the San Francisco online social communications service seeks to increase its ties to the entertainment industry … | Negar Salek / The Australian Financial Review: |
Wozniak likes NBN so much, he's applying for citizenship — Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak has listed the rollout of a national broadband network as one of the reasons he wants to become an Australian. Mr Wozniak told The Australian Financial Review in Sydney that he had spoken …
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TechEye, Gizmodo Australia, ZDNet, Business Insider and Pulse2 Technology …
Tweets: @qthrul, @roger_f, @sortius and @fakeniklas
| Harrison Weber / The Next Web: |
Myspace teases a completely rethought service, and believe it or not, it looks beautiful — Myspace has just revealed a video of what appears the be the future of the once wildly popular social network, now that Justin Timberlake and others have steered it in a new direction.
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Inquirer, Mashable!, CNET, 9.blog, The Register, WebProNews, Pulse2 Technology …, Engadget, ReadWriteWeb, Salon, Talking Points Memo, The Atlantic Wire, Gizmodo, hypebot, TechCrunch and VentureBeat
Tweets: @tim and @jtimberlake
| Nathan Ingraham / The Verge: |
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| John Herrman / BuzzFeed: |
Twitter Cofounder Suggests A Replacement For The Follower Count — “The dream metric is how many people saw your tweet,” says Ev Williams. Twitter's own Klout? — Via: @jonsteinberg — Twitter cofounder Ev Williams — who remains on the company's board — hinted Monday that follower counts … | Colleen Taylor / TechCrunch: |
Facebook Confirms No Private Messages Appearing On Timeline. They're Old Wall Posts. — Updated. Some Facebook users were alarmed this morning when it appeared that private messages written in 2009 and earlier were showing up on viewable Timelines as messages “Posted by friends.”
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Inquirer, ZDNet, Reuters, Network World, Gizmodo, PandoDaily, BuzzFeed, BBC, Guardian, Betabeat, VentureBeat, Macgasm, The Next Web, Washington Post, Mercury News, Mashable!, AllFacebook, Forbes, Business Insider, The Verge, The Next Web, Digital Spy, Betabeat, TheJournal.ie and Gawker
Tweets: @kevinmarks, @jwherrman and @samfbiddle
| Matt Brian / The Next Web: |
Possible flaw in Samsung's TouchWiz UI leaves smartphones open to data-wiping, SIM locks and more — A bug in the way Samsung's TouchWiz UI interacts with USSD codes on Android smartphones may allow an attacker to perform a factory reset on susceptible devices, simply by embedding a link on a website or sending an SMS.| Tricia Duryee / AllThingsD: |
eBay's Mobile Momentum: 100M App Downloads, 100M Items Listed — EBay is not the only e-commerce company seeing a significant shift to mobile, but it may be the only publicly held company that talks about it. Today, it has even more to say, and since the subject is big numbers, it threw in a nifty infographic (see below).
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| Shara Tibken / CNET: |
Apple to meet Swiss railway over clock-design flap — report — An Agence France-Presse wire report notes that the Swiss railway SBB, which has accused Apple of ripping off a decades-old clock design used in its stations, doesn't intend to ‘upset’ Apple by asking for money.
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digitaltrends.com, AppleInsider, SlashGear, iPhone in Canada Blog and 9to5Mac
| Declan McCullagh / CNET: |
Samsung raises jury misconduct in bid for new Apple trial — Samsung lists cases in which juror misconduct — introducing outside material to deliberations — led to a new trial. That's after jury foreman revealed he discussed his patents with other jurors.
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BGR, Digital Spy, Computerworld, The Register, Android Authority, Groklaw and Mercury News
| Bryan Gardiner / Wired: |
Glass Works: How Corning Created the Ultrathin, Ultrastrong Material of the Future — Don Stookey knew he had botched the experiment. One day in 1952, the Corning Glass Works chemist placed a sample of photosensitive glass inside a furnace and set the temperature to 600 degrees Celsius.
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| Dana Wollman / Engadget: |
Adobe announces Photoshop and Premiere Elements 11 with new filters, more beginner-friendly UI — Earlier this year Adobe announced Photoshop CS6 with a new user interface, and now Elements, its line of beginner-level products, are getting a facelift too. The company just introduced Photoshop …
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Inquirer, ZDNet, Macworld, 9to5Mac, Pocket-lint and Softpedia News
| Zusha Elinson / The Bay Citizen: |
Google car zooms toward legal status — Mountain View company uses its clout to win legislative support for self-driving vehicles — When veteran legislative staffer Howard Posner began working on a bill that would allow driverless, computer-controlled cars to roam California's highways …
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SiliconBeat, Marketing Land, TechCrunch and BuzzFeed
| Alex Wilhelm / The Next Web: |
The W3C has accepted and published Microsoft's ‘Pointer Events’ submission — Today Microsoft announced that the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has “accepted and published” its ‘Pointer Events’ specification. — No, this isn't the sexiest of news, but even if it won't get your blood pumping …
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W3C, MSDN Blogs and Neowin
| Freedom House: |
New Report: Governments Grow Increasingly Repressive Online, Activists Fight Back — Brutal attacks against bloggers, politically motivated surveillance, proactive manipulation of web content, and restrictive laws regulating speech online are among the diverse threats to internet freedom emerging …
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| Sarah Clark / NFC World: |
Microsoft demos Windows Phone 8 mobile wallet — John Skovron, group program manager for Windows Phone 8, showed off the capabilities of the software giant's new NFC-enabled wallet at the NFC World Congress last week and explained how the technology could help Microsoft gain mobile phone market share.
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The Register, Neowin, The Next Web and WMPoweruser
| Grant McCool / Reuters: |
Former Intel exec avoids prison in insider-trading scandal after testifying against friend — NEW YORK — A former Intel (INTC) executive, whose trial testimony helped convict hedge fund titan Raj Rajaratnam, avoided prison time on Monday for his role in the biggest insider-trading prosecution of a generation.
| Peter Svensson / Associated Press: |
Verizon says iPhone 5 won't be ‘relocked’ — NEW YORK (AP) — Verizon Wireless said Monday that it won't prevent its version of the iPhone 5 from being used on AT&T's network. The Verizon version of the iPhone 5, which went on sale Friday, came with an unexpected feature …
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TUAW, GadgeTell, MacRumors, VentureBeat, Know Your Cell, CNET, BGR, Examiner, Macgasm, Pocketables, iDownloadBlog.com, Gotta Be Mobile, 9to5Mac, iPhone Hacks, Cydia Blog, Pulse2 Technology …, Engadget, Daring Fireball, TechCrunch, Duncan Davidson, App Advice and The Verge. Tweets: @dannysullivan
| Neil McAllister / The Register: |
Oracle woos open sourcers with free Java web framework — ADF Essentials gives away the basics — Battling against an increasingly crowded field of Java web development frameworks, Oracle - ordinarily never one to turn away a buck - has decided to bite the bullet and offer a version …
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How ImgPage Uploads 25 MB Photos to Cloud Files Using the Mailgun API — The team over at Mailgun just posted a Python tutorial written by Mailgun customer Paul Finn about how to use Python and the Mailgun API to upload large images to Cloud Files.
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Week in Review: SQL IN Hadoop and Hive, Beyond Batch with YARN, NFS access to HDFS and HBase MTTR — Or as it's more commonly being called: Week-ish in Review. Let's recap on the latest - there's some juicy technology goodness here.
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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).
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