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Apple-Google Maps Talks Crashed Over Voice-Guided Directions — Google Chairman Eric Schmidt says Apple should have continued to use Google's mapping application in iOS 6 instead of swapping it out for its poorly received home-brewed replacement, and given the sour reception Apple's Maps app has been given, he may have been right.| David Pogue / New York Times: |
Apple's Maps Tilt in Strange Directions — Last week, I used Apple's new Maps app on my iPhone to guide me to a speaking engagement. — The GPS navigation screen was clean, bold and distraction-free. The voice instructions spoke the actual street names. The prompts gave me just the right amount of time to prepare for each turn.| John Gruber / Daring Fireball: |
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Street View coming to Google Maps mobile web app in two weeks — I just read through David Pogue's freshly published article on the Mapgate situation and noticed a couple interesting revelations. The New York Times technology columnist says that in two weeks, you'll be able to get Street View … | MG Siegler / massive greatness: |
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Tracking growth: the iTunes app store vs Google Play — There are now more than 675,000 apps available in Google Play, a noteworthy figure not for the number of apps, but because it means Android is now within striking distance of overtaking iOS as the mobile operating system with the most apps.| Jamie Rosenberg / Official Android Blog: |
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Your YouTube original videos now available in Google Takeout — Your Takeout menu is growing. Today's entrée: YouTube videos. — Previously, you've been able to download individual transcoded videos from your YouTube Video Manager. But starting today, you also have a more efficient … | Emil Protalinski / The Next Web: |
Google to remove exporting of old Microsoft Office formats from Google Apps on October 1 — Google today announced a huge change for Google Apps, including its Business, Education, and Government editions. As of October 1, users will no longer have the ability to download documents … | Romain Dillet / TechCrunch: |
To Unlock A Full Price AT&T iPhone 5, Just Restore It In iTunes — If you have bought an AT&T iPhone 5 without a contract over the past few days, chances are that you want to unlock it to use it on another carrier. The traditional process involves filling out an online form on AT&T's website … | Anna Heim / The Next Web: |
Google's President of Brazil Operations arrested for failing to remove YouTube videos — Google's President of Brazil Operations Fabio Coelho was arrested today in São Paulo, the Brazilian website G1 reports, quoting a press release from the country's Federal Police.| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
Survey: iOS 6 Leads To Decrease In Device Satisfaction Among iPhone Users — Apple's iOS 6 doesn't appear to be doing the company any favors when it comes to user satisfaction, according to a new poll conducted by mobile customer research firm On Device. The survey of just under 16,000 iPhone owners … | Philip Dorling / Sydney Morning Herald: |
US calls Assange ‘enemy of state’ — THE US military has designated Julian Assange and WikiLeaks as enemies of the United States - the same legal category as the al-Qaeda terrorist network and the Taliban insurgency. — Declassified US Air Force counter-intelligence documents … | Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Operation Unlike Is A Go: Page Fan Counts Are Dropping Because Facebook Is Deleting Fake Accounts — Some Facebook business Pages lost tens of thousands of fans today, but they shouldn't fret. Facebook has confirmed with me that it's currently purging fake accounts and Page Likes … | Miyoung Kim / Reuters: |
Getting in tune; Samsung to shop for software — (Reuters) - Samsung Electronics, which has vaulted the value chain on the strength of its hardware, will go out and buy mobile content providers, a senior executive told Reuters, to compete with Apple, Google and Amazon.com in a global digital music market worth nearly $9 billion.| Kim Zetter / Wired: |
Maker of Smart-Grid Control Software Hacked — The maker of an industrial control system designed to be used with so-called smart grid networks disclosed to customers last week that hackers had breached its network and accessed project files related to a control system used in portions of the electrical grid.| Richard Lawler / Engadget: |
Netflix iOS and Android apps have a remote control easter egg for PS3 owners — Now that the revamped Netflix interface has hit phones and tablets for both Apple and Android powered hardware, the service has quietly enabled something else: second screen remote control.| Claire Cain Miller / NYT Bits: |
Amazon Starts a Shopping Site for the Environmental Crowd — Amazon.com is going after the environmental crowd with a new site called vine.com for buying green products. — Vine is part of Quidsi, the company that Amazon bought in 2010 that also runs sites like Diapers.com (baby stuff), Wag.com (pets) and YoYo.com (toys).| Jonathan Stempel / Reuters: |
Amazon seeks to throw out Apple “app store” advertising claim — (Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc has asked a federal judge to throw out Apple Inc's false advertising claim in a lawsuit challenging the online retailer's use of the “app store” name. — The claim is part of a March 2011 trademark lawsuit … | Grant Gross / Network World: |
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Samsung Sees Stronger Start for Note 2, Unfazed by iPhone — Samsung Electronics Co. (005930) expects sales of its new Galaxy Note 2 smartphone to get off to a stronger start than its predecessor even after Apple Inc. (AAPL) sold a record number of the latest iPhone in its debut weekend.| Wall Street Journal: |
Looking for the ‘Next Big Thing’? Ranking the Top 50 Start-Ups — This Year's List Shows a Focus on Business Tech as Health Care and Energy Fade — Venture capitalists are still investing in flashy Internet start-ups, but the “Next Big Thing” is more likely to be a maker of humdrum Internet plumbing for businesses.| David Pakman / Disruption: |
Not All Traffic Is Created Equal — To build the online media giants of tomorrow, companies need models where the costs of both content and distribution are near zero. Google, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest and countless others employ this model. These models allow scale to emerge at very low-cost.| Mike Isaac / AllThingsD: |
Nest Takes Honeywell Patents Back to the Drawing Board — While the Apple versus Samsung patent trial got most of our attention this summer, another intellectual property suit stirred silently in the background: Nest versus Honeywell International, the designer thermostat outfit against the aerospace/consumer tech giant.| Aaron Souppouris / The Verge: |
Xbox Music pricing and features revealed through Windows 8 and leaked Xbox interface — Microsoft cherry-picks the best cloud music features for Xbox Music — Microsoft has revealed its Xbox Music service pricing through the Windows 8 Music app, at the same time as pushing … | Colleen Taylor / TechCrunch: |
Andreessen Horowitz Hires Former D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty To Be Its Newest Special Advisor — Andreessen Horowitz is announcing this afternoon that Adrian Fenty, the 41-year-old political star best for his work as the Mayor of Washington, D.C. from 2007 to 2011, will be joining the venture capital firm in the role of “special advisor.”| Greg Bensinger / Wall Street Journal: |
Netflix CEO Keeps Focus on Expansion, Price — Netflix Inc. Chief Executive Reed Hastings is trying to prove that his streaming-video company isn't in a state of arrested development. — Last year, Netflix lost subscribers and investor confidence with a debacle over a sharp subscription … | Danny Brogan / Pocket-lint: |
O2 and HTC to sell phone without a charger, in deliberate ploy to be more green — O2 and HTC will begin selling a new, as yet unannounced, phone before the end of the year without a charger in the box as part of a pilot scheme to reduce the number of “wasted” chargers in circulation.| Darren Murph / Engadget: |
Apple's A6 CPU actually clocked at around 1.3GHz, per new Geekbench report — As the initial wave of iPhone 5 reviews hit, it looked as if Apple's dual-core A6 processor was sporting a clock speed of around 1GHz. We saw reports (and confirmed with our own handset) ranging between 1.00 and 1.02GHz …
This Week on Channel 9 — Mark DeFalco and Dan Fernandez discuss the week's top developer news.
Want to Contribute to Cloud Foundry? Come on in! — Cloud Foundry is an Open Platform-as-a-Service, and an Open Source project. It has attracted phenomenal interest from the community - including partners …
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.
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.
“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).This is a Techmeme archive page. It shows how the site appeared at 11:50 PM ET, September 26, 2012.
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