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New Photos of 13-Inch Retina MacBook Pro Show Battery Layout, Ports, and More — Earlier this week, we pointed to a forum thread [Google translation] at Chinese site WeiPhone.com sharing a pair of photos of what was said to be the display assembly from Apple's upcoming 13-inch Retina MacBook Pro.| 9to5Mac: |
Estimated prices on 13-inch Retina MacBook Pros: Starts around U$1,699 — Alongside the new mini/iPads, Mac Minis, and iMacs, Apple will reveal a 13-inch MacBook Pro with Retina Display on Oct. 23. We have now received pricing information on the base model and the “best” model.| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
New full-sized iPad with improved internals, Lightning connector to be announced next week at current prices — . — Apple will announce a refreshed version of its full-sized, 9.7-inch Retina display iPad at its media event October 23rd, according to our sources.
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook Officially Begins Shutting Down “Questions” Product, May Refocus On Search — It was no Quora. Today Facebook finally confirmed it is retiring Questions, which originally launched in July 2010. The Questions Dashboard and option to share a poll to the news feed are being removed.
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| Kim-Mai Cutler / TechCrunch: |
Waze Is The Only App To Gain Meaningful Marketshare After Apple Maps Fail, Onavo Finds — The poor reception for Apple's new maps app temporarily boosted usage for other map applications. But it didn't actually increase longer-term marketshare for any of them — except for one.| Amir Efrati / Wall Street Journal: |
Google Weighs Mobile-Patent Antitrust Settlement — Google Inc. is weighing whether to settle a potential claim by U.S. authorities that it violated antitrust law in the way it handles mobile-device patents, according to a person familiar with the matter. — At issue, according …
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| Matt Richtel / New York Times: |
In Silicon Valley, Perks Now Begin at Home — SAN FRANCISCO — Phil Libin, chief executive of Evernote, turned to his wife last year and asked if she had suggestions for how the software company might improve the lives of its employees and their families. His wife, who also works at Evernote, didn't miss a beat: housecleaning.| Sean Ludwig / VentureBeat: |
Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff: Windows 8 is ‘the end of Windows’ — NEW YORK CITY — Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff, always game for a little tech trash talk, said that Microsoft's Windows 8 operating system would be “the end of Windows” and that “Windows is irrelevant.”
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Neowin, The Register, CITEworld, Business Insider, Associated Press and blogs.salesforce.com. Thanks:@seanludwig
| John Walker / Rock, Paper, Shotgun: |
Money Troubles: What Happens When Kickstarters Fail? — Since Kickstarting games became a thing, everyone has soothsayed the possibility of how it could go wrong. There are two significant ways, really. A high profile game comes out, and is a big pile of doo-doo. Or a high profile game never comes out at all.| Alex Williams / TechCrunch: |
Jeff Bezos: The Smart People Change Their Minds — Amazon.com Founder and CEO Jeff Bezos stopped by the 37signals office yesterday and offered some wise thoughts about strategy. His views are especially refreshing in a time when people who change their views often get portrayed as weak and lacking confidence.| Amol Sharma / Wall Street Journal: |
India, A New Facebook Testing Ground — BANGALORE—India is becoming a critical testing ground for Facebook as it strives to cash in on growth in emerging markets and better target mobile-phone users—two increasingly pressing goals for the social-networking firm.
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| Emil Protalinski / The Next Web: |
GitHub hit by DDoS attack second day in a row — GitHub is having one hell of a week, with four outages in five weekdays. The social coding site is currently being hit by a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack, the second one in two days. The site's engineers are working on fixing the issue … | Jessica E. Lessin / Wall Street Journal: |
Thiel in Talks to Invest in Airbnb at $2.5B Valuation — Online room rental service Airbnb Inc. is in discussions with venture capitalist Peter Thiel about a roughly $150 million investment that would value the company at around $2.5 billion, according to people familiar with the matter.
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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 …
Rackspace Blog:
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.
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.
Hortonworks » Blog:
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.
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.
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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