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Apple remembers Steve Jobs on anniversary of his passing — A message from Tim Cook, Apple's CEO Steve's passing one year ago today was a sad and difficult time for all of us. I hope that today everyone will reflect on his extraordinary life and the many ways he made the world a better place.
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| Robert Scoble / BBC: |
Viewpoint: Steve Jobs is missed by Silicon Valley — Steve Jobs died on 5 October 2011 after a long battle with pancreatic cancer — Steve Jobs is still missed. — You hear it on stages, like when Marc Benioff, chief executive and co-founder of Salesforce, urged 90,000 attendees …
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The ghost of Jobs: Apple's challenge to decide “what would Steve do?” — Counter-clockwise from the left, Steve Jobs, Jonathan Ive, Tim Cook, a Foxconn worker, the iPhone 5. — Aurich Lawson — In August 2011, Apple underwent a major corporate change as CEO Steve Jobs stepped …
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EXCLUSIVE: More details on LG's forthcoming Nexus — More details are starting to appear about the forthcoming LG Nexus device! Some of which are, well, rather shocking. — Although it's still not known whether it will be the ONLY Nexus to get a release, various sources are starting to fill us in on the specs.
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| Daniel Eran Dilger / AppleInsider: |
Apple's new iOS 6 Maps support automatic offline use for a wide area — Vector maps in iOS 6 are so efficient that Apple can cache a very large surrounding area for offline browsing and GPS navigation under Airplane Mode or when traveling outside of data coverage. — Going offline with vector maps
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Motorola wins German patent case against Microsoft — (Reuters) - Mobile phone maker Motorola achieved a rare victory against software giant Microsoft in a patent case before a German court on Friday, the latest in a wave of patent lawsuits by technology firms fighting over market share.| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Words With Friends co-creators leave Zynga — Well, this isn't going to help Zynga's stock price. — Paul and David Bettner, the creators of Zynga's enormously successful Words With Friends game and its subsequent Zynga With Friends titles, are leaving Zynga.| Tiernan Ray / Tech Trader Daily: |
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Blockbuster Hits Rewind on Plan to Come Back as a Netflix Rival — Billionaire Charlie Ergen is giving up on his plan to turn the once-mighty Blockbuster LLC video- store chain into a Netflix (NFLX) Inc. competitor and gadget retailer. — When Ergen's Dish Network Corp. (DISH) …
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| Peter Kafka / AllThingsD: |
Why the Ad Tech Guys Are Going Nuts About Facebook Exchange, and Why That Matters — This summer, Facebook launched its own ad exchange. If you're in the ad tech world, that's a really big deal. — And the rest of you have probably never heard of it. That's in part because Facebook itself hasn't said much about it.| Miyoung Kim / Reuters: |
Samsung posts $7.3 billion third-qurter profit, this quarter will be tougher — (Reuters) - Samsung Electronics reported a record quarterly profit of $7.3 billion, nearly double last year's figure, as strong sales of high-end TVs and Galaxy smartphones more than offset reduced orders for chips … | Mike Isaac / AllThingsD: |
High-Profile Facebook Comms VP Joe Lockhart Departs — Joe Lockhart, Vice President of global communications at Facebook, has left the company, AllThingsD has learned. — His departure comes nearly 15 months after he first joined the company in July of last year, where he worked alongside of Marne Levine …
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| Josh Ong / The Next Web: |
Sony pauses Xperia Tablet S sales due to water resistance defect [Update] — A waterproofing defect has caused Sony to halt sales of its Xperia Tablet S, Reuters reported on Friday, citing local news outlet Jiji (translation). The issue compromises the water resistant properties of the device … | David Meyer / GigaOM: |
Pigeon power: French startups force government into retreat over equity tax — When François Hollande won the French presidency in May, the country's startup community was quick to strike a note of caution. Hollande had campaigned on high taxes for the rich, and he indeed went …
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China's Huawei Considers an IPO — Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei Technologies Co. has reached out to investment banks for advice on issuing stock to the public, people familiar with the outreach said, as the company considers ways to make itself more transparent and improve its odds …
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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 …
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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.
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“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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