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Hey, Apple: Mapping Takes More Work than You Think — Apple's apology suggests it may underestimate how much effort is needed to build a great map app. — In response to scathing criticism over its new Maps app for mobile devices, Apple CEO Tim Cook last week apologized and admitted that the company …
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InfoWorld, Guardian, Macgasm, the Econsultancy blog, BGR, iPhone, Forbes, Electricpig.co.uk and App Advice
| Farhad Manjoo / PandoDaily: |
Mapgate Is Over. Apple Won. Customers Won. Google, Not So Much. — In a single succinct, sincere, and brilliant note, Tim Cook has put Apple's Maps fiasco to bed. It was a beautiful thing. He offered a clear assessment of the problem ("we fell short"), and took full responsibility for it.
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9to5Mac, Business Insider, MacRumors, O'Reilly Radar, Guardian, Forbes, Real Dan Lyons, Marketing Pilgrim and Memex 1.1
| John Paczkowski / AllThingsD: |
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BGR, iDownloadBlog.com, Softpedia News and PhoneArena
| Alexei Oreskovic / Reuters: |
Facebook's new pitch to brand advertisers: forget about clicks — (Reuters) - Facebook Inc, stung by doubts that advertising on the social network delivers enough bang for the buck, is preparing to unveil data to counter its critics and show that “clicks,” the current metric of choice, tell only half the story.
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| Joshua Topolsky / The Verge: |
Kindle Paperwhite review — Amazon's fastest, most feature-packed e-reader hits a crowded market with a few new moves under its belt — I was looking forward to the review of the Kindle Paperwhite for one simple reason: I would finally have an excuse to read more.
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CNN, Inquirer, San Francisco Chronicle, Amazon.com, USA Today, Wired, WebProNews, The Register, Engadget and Techland
| Julie Bort / Business Insider: |
Larry Ellison Just Took On Amazon With A New Cloud Service — Larry Ellison just announced that Oracle was launching a brand new cloud computing service. — Oracle will now be offering “infrastructure as a service” as the industry calls it, or “hardware as a service” as Ellison dubbed it tonight.
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SiliconANGLE, Tech Trader Daily, The Register, GigaOM, Amazon Web Services Blog, TechWeekEurope UK, GeekWire, SecurityWeek, NYT Bits, Bloomberg, The Register, ZDNet and ZDNet. Tweets: @levie
| Quentin Hardy / NYT Bits: |
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| Tim Mak / Politico: |
White House confirms cyberattack — The White House confirmed but sought to downplay a report by a conservative website on Sunday that it had been the victim of a cyberattack, volunteering to POLITICO that no harm had been done. — The Washington Free Beacon reported that Chinese hackers … | Seth Weintraub / 9to5Mac: |
Verizon iPhone 5 update eliminates carrier data usage while connected to a Wifi Network — An update is going to Verizon iPhone 5 owners this evening that resolves an issue where, under certain circumstances, the iPhone 5 may use Verizon cellular data while connected to a Wi-Fi network.
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LAPTOP Magazine, CNET, VentureBeat, PC Magazine, Ars Technica, MacRumors, Gizmodo, Apple, TechCrunch, The Verge, Network World, BGR, MOTHERBOARD, CNNMoney.com, iDownloadBlog.com, CNET, iClarified, everythingiCafe, Edible Apple, Ubergizmo, AppleInsider, nbcnews.com, The Loop, MacNN, Pocketnow, Macgasm, iPhone, AppleTell, Gotta Be Mobile, App Advice, iDownloadBlog.com and MacRumors
| Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web: |
Ex-Apple CEO John Sculley tells the story of ARM and Newton at the start of Apple as a mobile giant — One of Apple's first forays into the arena that we think of today as ‘mobile’ computing was the Newton MessagePad. As a pocketable, hand-sized device that was meant to be a a personal organizer …
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| Brian Womack / Bloomberg: |
Google Passes Microsoft's Market Value as PC Loses to Web — Google Inc. (GOOG) has surpassed Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) to become the world's second-largest technology company, in another sign of the expanding ability of the Internet to facilitate computing tasks once completed on desktop machines.
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Business Insider, Seattle Times and 9to5Google
| Dana Wollman / Engadget: |
HP announces the ElitePad 900, a business-friendly Windows 8 tablet arriving in January — Remember those hazy days of summer when HP ran an ad during the Olympics, slipped in a a shot of an unannounced tablet and thought we wouldn't notice? (P'shaw!) Well, you can finally lay your speculation … | Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
New, touch-optimized MSN portal to showcase Windows 8, IE 10 this fall — Summary: Microsoft will launch a revamped MSN portal on October 26, the day Windows 8 and Windows RT PCs and tablets go on sale. Here's what to expect. — Microsoft plans to make a touch-optimized version …
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AllThingsD, Digits, The Verge, TechCrunch, Reuters and Neowin
| Claire Cain Miller / NYT Bits: |
Square Acquires a New York Design Firm — Tech companies, in a high-stakes competition for engineers, are also chasing another highly prized kind of employee: designers. — Square, the popular mobile payments company, has proved just how important designers are by making a surprising acquisition.| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
AT&T announces Sony Xperia TL with 4.6-inch 720p display, 13-megapixel camera, Android 4.0 — We had a feeling that AT&T would be one of Sony's carrier partners for the new flagship Xperia T, and now it's official. AT&T today announced that it plans to carry the high-end Xperia …
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Ars Technica, BGR, LAPTOP Magazine, 9to5Google, CNET, TechCrunch, Engadget, AT&T, WebProNews, PhoneArena, Know Your Cell and IntoMobile
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Iran unblocks access to Gmail — TEHRAN — Iran on Monday removed online blocks on Gmail but a government Internet filtering committee official said other, additional censorship was being prepared against YouTube, according to reports. — Internet users in Iran found themselves able …
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The Register, Ars Technica, PC Magazine, Associated Press, SiliconANGLE, CNET, Inquirer, Softpedia News, Geekosystem, The Next Web, ZDNet, SlashGear and Neowin
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Yandex Gives Google A One-Two Punch In Russia: A New Browser And App Store For The Local Search Giant — Yandex today is doubling down in its ongoing battle to make sure that Google doesn't eat away its market share in Russia, with the launch of two products that aim directly …
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SiliconANGLE, Marketing Land, The Next Web, The Next Web, Softpedia News, GigaOM and ZDNet
| Nicholas Carlson / Business Insider: |
Marissa Mayer Had A Baby Boy! — Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer had a baby boy last night, her husband Zachary Bogue just tweeted. — “Baby boy Bogue born last night. Mom (@marissamayer) and baby are doing great—we couldn't be more excited!” — Mayer joined Yahoo two months ago.
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The Technology Chronicles, VentureBeat, Forbes, CNNMoney.com, AllThingsD, Mercury News and Mashable!. Tweets: @zackbogue
| Keith Andrew / Pocket Gamer.biz: |
Is Apple clamping down on third-party app promotion services? — Guidelines point to promo app update block — Product: — Manufacturer: — Media attention may have been focused on the launches of iPhone 5 and iOS6 - including the subsequent ‘MapGate’ and ‘ScuffGate’ backlashes …
| Dana Wollman / Engadget: |
FreedomPop's pay-as-you-go data service launches in beta, offering 500MB of free WiMAX per month — It was almost a year ago that we first heard about FreedomPop, a startup built on the manifesto that every American (yes, you) should have access to free wireless broadband.| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft takes the wraps off TypeScript, a superset of JavaScript — Summary: Microsoft is launching a preview of a new programming language known as TypeScript, which aims to make JavaScript development scale beyond the client. — As of today, we now know more about the formerly secret …
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TechCrunch, MSDN Blogs, MSDN Blogs, Channel 9 and Tim Anderson's ITWriting
| Robin Wauters / The Next Web: |
Netflix brings the “Just for Kids” user interface to the iPad, Android tablet support forthcoming — Video streaming giant Netflix today announced that it is bringing its “Just for Kids” viewing experience to the two latest versions of the iPad, with support for the original iPad and Android tablets coming ‘later this year’.| Topher Kessler / CNET: |
Glitch keeps iCloud storage at 25GB until 2050 — Instead of a downgrade to 5GB of storage, Apple has pushed users' renewal dates 38 years in the future. — An apparent glitch in the iCloud account system has resulted in some accounts showing extended storage space with renewal dates years in the future.
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The Verge, Ars Technica, IntoMobile, Gizmodo, Phones Review, Pocketnow, iPodNN, TUAW, Macgasm and iPhone in Canada Blog
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Inside NuGet for C++ — NuGet support for C++ projects in Visual Studio has arrived in NuGet 2.5! It's been around for about a month now so we figured we'd go talk to one of the developers who helped make it happen, Garrett Serack.
Inside NuGet for C++ — NuGet support for C++ projects in Visual Studio has arrived in NuGet 2.5! It's been around for about a month now so we figured we'd go talk to one of the developers who helped make it happen, Garrett Serack.
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 …
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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:
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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