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Revealed: Everything that Google will unveil at its Android event on October 29 — Diverting some of the attention away from Apple's ‘iPad mini’ unveiling on October 23 and Microsoft's Windows Phone 8 event on October 29, Google is to unveil a number new devices and software improvements … | Jay Greene / CNET: |
Steven Sinofsky: Microsoft's controversial Mr. Windows 8 — The software giant asked the exec to deliver a new, quality operating system and do it on time. This week, we'll find out if his sharp elbows and turf fighting were worth it. — Two years ago, Microsoft Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie … | Matt Buchanan / BuzzFeed: |
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Ancestry.com Agrees to $1.6 Billion Takeover — Genealogy website Ancestry.com Inc. has agreed to be acquired by an investor group led by European private-equity firm Permira for about $1.6 billion, or $32 a share, according to people familiar with the deal.| Liz Gannes / AllThingsD: |
The Secret Behind Pinterest's Growth Was Marketing, Not Engineering, Says CEO Ben Silbermann — Pinterest, which CEO Ben Silbermann describes as a tool that helps people find inspiration, is now the third-largest source of referral traffic on the Internet. — But growth wasn't easy for the company … | Reuters: |
Analysis: Yahoo CEO's comeback plan homes in on technology, not media — (Reuters) - Marissa Mayer, who earned a reputation for decisive action and intensity during her 13-year stint at Google Inc, has spent her first months as Yahoo Inc CEO quietly moving the Internet pioneer back to its roots in technology.| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Android apps used by millions vulnerable to password, e-mail theft — By exploiting inadequate SSL protections in an anti-virus app, researchers were able to force it to download a malicious virus signature. — Fahl et al. — Android applications downloaded by as many as 185 million users … | Jean-Louis Gassée / Monday Note: |
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Amazon ebooks: publishers pay 20% VAT — Luxembourg-based company profits from European tax anomaly, itself paying only 3% VAT on digital books sold to UK readers — Amazon is forcing British publishers to cover the cost of a 20% VAT charge on ebook sales - even though the true VAT cost … | Danny Sullivan / Marketing Land: |
Dark Google: One Year Since Search Terms Went “Not Provided” — A year ago, Google began going dark. Dark in terms of no longer sharing with publishers, in some cases, how people searched for and found those publishers through Google's search engine. The “single digit” … | Nick Bilton / NYT Bits: |
GoPro Camera Records Sky Divers and Surfers — There have been two major milestones in narcissistic photography in the last century. The first was the invention of the self-timer, which Kodak began selling during World War I. The second came a few years ago, as teenagers stood … | Ryo Takano / AJW by The Asahi Shimbun: |
Tokyo court rejects Samsung's request for iPhone injunction — Asahi Asia Antenna - — Samsung Electronics Co. has suffered a setback in its worldwide legal battle with Apple Inc. over alleged patent violations after a Tokyo court rejected its request for injunction to stop iPhone sales in Japan.| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Motorola Solutions shows off its hands-free mobile computer — Motorola Solutions is showing off today a gee-whiz mobile computer that you can attach to your head and operate with voice commands. — The HC1 headset computer looks bulky and cumbersome now, but it's just a demonstration …
Windows 8 Tips — Tips and tricks for Windows 8 users.
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 9:30 AM ET, October 22, 2012.
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