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Windows 8 Review — Microsoft is giving Windows its most radical overhaul since 1995 and even its most devoted users won't recognize the venerable computer operating system in this new incarnation, called Windows 8, when it appears Oct. 26. — [ See post to watch video ]
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Gotta Be Mobile, I4U News, Microsoft News and PC World
| Bonnie Cha / AllThingsD: |
How Much Tablet Does $500 Get You? Microsoft Surface vs. iPad vs. Galaxy Note 10.1. — Today, Microsoft finally revealed pricing for its upcoming Surface tablet, with the 32 gigabyte model of the Windows RT slate set to go for $499 ($599 with touch keyboard) and the 64GB model priced at $699 with the keyboard cover.
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| Brooke Crothers / CNET: |
$499 Microsoft Surface preorders slip to three weeks — The least expensive Surface tablet has raked in enough preorders to push shipments back a few weeks. — Are we seeing the first signs of keen consumer interest in Microsoft Surface? — Answer: at this stage — the first day of preorders …
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BGR, Business Insider, Neowin, Computerworld and ITworld.com
| Anand Lal Shimpi / AnandTech: |
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BGR, The Verge, Engadget, DisplayBlog, Neowin, Wired, iPhone Alley, Microsoft and Techland
| Josh Lowensohn / CNET: |
Apple snaps up celebrity-backed Web app firm Particle — Apple has bought a San Francisco-based HTML5 Web and Web app design firm backed by Justin Timberlake. — Call it an “acqui-hire.” — Apple has snapped up Particle, a San Francisco-based creative consulting company that specializes … | Ken / Popehat: |
A Few Words On Reddit, Gawker, and Anonymity — Perhaps you've heard of neither Gawker nor Reddit. That would make you (a) isolated from internet culture and (b) quite arguably lucky. — But if you've heard of either of them, then you've probably heard about the internet-drama swirling around them in the last week.
| Adrian Chen / Gawker: |
Reddit CEO Speaks Out On Violentacrez In Leaked Memo: ‘We Stand for Free Speech’ — Reddit has been rocked by our expose of its most powerful creep, Texas programmer Michael Brutsch aka Violentacrez. Brutsch has been defending himself on Reddit, and is even going to be interviewed by CNN.| Dhanya Skariachan / Reuters: |
Best Buy to price its own Android tablet at $239-$259 -source — (Reuters) - Best Buy Co Inc is planning to price its own Android tablet “Insignia Flex” at $239 to $259, a source familiar with the matter told Reuters on Tuesday. — The tablet will compete with Apple's iPad and Amazon's Kindle.| Steven Musil / CNET: |
| Liz Gannes / AllThingsD: |
Larry Page Speaks (Yes, He Speaks!) on Regulation and Other Topics (Video) — Larry Page is back from his vocal cord recovery hiatus, and answered questions on Tuesday at the company's Zeitgeist Americas partner and customer conference in Arizona. — Page, whose rested voice seemed much improved …
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| Amir Efrati / Wall Street Journal: |
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| Marcus Wohlsen / Wired: |
Retail: Amazon's Next Big Business Is Selling You — Facebook knows who your friends are. Google knows what you're interested in finding on the internet. Amazon knows what you've bought, and has a pretty good idea of what you might want to buy next. — If you were an advertiser, which company's data sounds most valuable to you?| Sam Byford / The Verge: |
HTC J Butterfly preview: a stunning 5-inch 1080p phone for Japan (video) — 440ppi Super LCD 3 sets the new standard in smartphone displays — The rumors were true: HTC has been working on a new flagship phone with a 5-inch 1080p display, and we got to see it in Tokyo today.| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Motorola calls stock Android ‘the right thing,’ but bows to Verizon customization — Despite being owned by Google, Motorola still has to answer to Verizon — One of the biggest questions surrounding the “New Motorola” after the Google acquisition is a simple one: if it's owned by Google …
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Engadget, blog.chron.com, Android News, Rumours … and PhoneArena
| Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land: |
Google Launches Disavow Links Tool — Google has launched a new and widely anticipated “disavow links” tool. The tool was announced by the head of Google's web spam team Matt Cutts, when speaking during a keynote at the Pubcon conference today. — The tool is live and can be found here.| Ernesto / TorrentFreak: |
Pirate Bay Moves to The Cloud, Becomes Raid-Proof — The Pirate Bay is loved by millions of file-sharers but is also a thorn in the side of the entertainment industries. — The latter group continues to push authorities to take action against the site. The Pirate Bay was raided back in 2006 … | Graham Spencer / MacStories: |
Mapping The Entertainment Ecosystems of Apple, Microsoft, Google & Amazon — The choice of what phone or tablet to buy is one that often involves many considerations, chief amongst those is the physical device and the operating system that it runs. But I think there is a third fundamental consideration …
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App Advice
| Jordan Golson / MacRumors: |
Size of the Average iOS App Increased 16% in Six Months — According to a study by ABI Research, the average size of an iOS app increased by 16% from March to September 2012; iOS games have grown even faster, jumping 42% over that same time period. — The increase is thought to be partly …
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AllThingsD, ABI Research, Softpedia News, MacNN, Gizmodo UK, CNET, iDownloadBlog.com, Inside Mobile Apps and MacStories
| Jeff Benjamin / iDownloadBlog.com: |
Email from Phil Schiller explains lack of ambient light sensor in 5th gen iPod touch — Yesterday we emphasized the lack of an ambient light sensor in the 5th generation iPod touch after initially highlighting the omission in our iPod touch 5th gen review. — Now a reader claims …
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IntoMobile, iPhone, Ubergizmo, Pocketables, Gizmodo, Ars Technica, MacRumors, Mashable!, App Advice, TUAW, everythingiCafe, iLounge and CNET. Thanks:@jeffbenjam
| Jack Purcher / Patently Apple: |
Apple Wins Patents for Camera & NFC Alternative Technologies — The US Patent and Trademark Office officially published a series of thirty-two newly granted patents for Apple Inc. today. In our final granted patent report of the day we focus on Apple's new NFC Alternative technology …
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CNET and iDownloadBlog.com
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Mobile Milestone: The Number Of Smartphones In Use Passed 1 Billion In Q3, Says Strategy Analytics — We are just getting into reporting season, where some (but not all) handset makers tell us how many handsets they've sold in the last three months, but Strategy Analytics has taken a punt …
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The Next Web, Bloomberg and ZDNet
| Justin Lafferty / AllFacebook: |
STUDY: Pinterest Tops Facebook In Shopping Engagement — As Facebook enters the e-commerce game, a new study shows that it still has work to do to catch up with Pinterest. According to statistics from Bizrate Insights, 69 percent of online consumers who visit Pinterest have found …
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Bizrate Insights and Marketing Pilgrim
| Tricia Duryee / AllThingsD: |
Zynga Says Former Employee Admits to Taking Confidential Files — A judge has granted Zynga's request to move forward in a lawsuit it filed against a former employee, who is believed to have stolen confidential documents before joining a rival social games maker.
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The Verge, VentureBeat, TechCrunch, Gamasutra and GamesIndustry International
| Ryan Gavin / The Windows Blog: |
IE Comes to the Living Room with Xbox — Today the Xbox team announced an update to the Xbox 360 dashboard that marks the beginning of some exciting stuff on the biggest screen in the house. Internet Explorer has come to Xbox 360. — Starting today Internet Explorer will begin being rolled …
| James Day / Metro: |
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos calls for governments to end patent wars — So-called patent wars have raged in the smartphone and tablet era, with Apple and Samsung most consistently at loggerheads over their products. — The tech giants have had mixed results in the courtroom, however … | Kevin Fitchard / GigaOM: |
Gigabit Squared plans fiber broadband for Chicago's south side — We now know the identity of at least one of the six cities benefiting from Gigabit Squared's ambitious plan to bring to gigabit broadband connectivity to college towns across the US. Chicago isn't exactly a college town, but it is home of the University of Chicago.| John Cook / GeekWire: |
Charts: VC deals rise in Q3, but investment totals shrink — U.S. venture capital totals show an upsurge in deals, but a dip in investing. — Venture capitalists are investing in more seed-stage startups, leading to a flurry of deal activity not seen since the dot-com boom era.
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The Next Web, GigaOM and Xconomy
| Eugene Kaspersky / Nota Bene: |
Kaspersky Lab Developing Its Own Operating System? We Confirm the Rumors, and End the Speculation! — Hi all! — Today I'd like to talk about the future. About a not-so-glamorous future of mass cyber-attacks on things like nuclear power stations, energy supply and transportation control facilities … Sponsor Posts
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Windows Store Weekly — This week we take a look at: Star Trek App, Box, Fling Theory, StumbleUpon, and wordBrush.
Windows Store Weekly — This week we take a look at: Star Trek App, Box, Fling Theory, StumbleUpon, and wordBrush.
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 …
Rackspace Blog:
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:
Mobile Telco Dials In and Harnesses Big Data with Hadoop — Smartphones have transformed our daily lives. A key indicator of this trend is our increased spend on data plans versus voice.
Mobile Telco Dials In and Harnesses Big Data with Hadoop — Smartphones have transformed our daily lives. A key indicator of this trend is our increased spend on data plans versus voice.
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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