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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 … | Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
Apple's smaller iPad to likely start at a minimum of $329 in the U.S. — Apple's entry price for its upcoming smaller iPad is between the base model of the new, fifth-generation iPod touch ($299) and the currently shipping WiFi-only 16GB iPad 2 ($399). According to our sources … | 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.| 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.| Matt Buchanan / BuzzFeed: |
Why Microsoft's Tablet Can't Fail — Microsoft's about to release Surface , the most important product it's made since the Xbox. So why is it freaking out right now? Because it can't afford to lose another decade. — After stripping us of our cellphones and anything else that can take pictures … | Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Best Buy prices Lumia 920 at $149 and HTC 8X at $99, both available to pre-order on AT&T — Best Buy has started to accept pre-orders on Nokia's Lumia 920 and HTC's Windows Phone 8X today. We revealed earlier this month that the US retailer would start accepting pre-orders today … | Phil Nickinson / Android Central: |
This is the Verizon HTC DLX — Verizon appears poised to bring HTC's first 5-inch Android smartphone to the U.S. — Ladies and gentlemen, meet the HTC DLX for Verizon. A few rumored details recently emerged about this upcoming (and as yet unannounced Android smartphone, and tonight we're able to bring you the first pictures.| Kamal Ahmed / Telegraph: |
Top Facebook executive Joanna Shields resigns to head up London's Tech City — Joanna Shields, one of Facebook's most senior executives, is to quit the social media giant and join David Cameron's project to create a competitor to California's Silicon Valley in East London.| Jack Purcher / Patently Apple: |
Class Action Filed against Apple for locking iPhones to AT&T Network — Individuals Zach Ward and Thomas Buchar have along with their legal counsel filed a Class Action lawsuit against Apple for locking consumers into the AT&T Network without first obtaining the consumers' contractual consent to have their iPhones locked.| Tricia Duryee / AllThingsD: |
10-Q Watch: eBay Receives $145 Million Check for Rent.com — EBay has disclosed how much it made from the sale of its Rent.com subsidiary after closing the deal months ago. — According to a document filed with the Securities & Exchange Commission on Friday, proceeds from the sale … | Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Zuck's Advice To Startups: Explore Before You Commit, Listen, Build Something Fundamental, Don't Copy — Facebook didn't guess that users wanted to share photos. It learned it, Mark Zuckerberg explained in his talk at Y Combinator Startup School. “We really listened to what our users wanted … | Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
To Turn The Crowd Into Venture Capitalists, FundersClub Raises $6M Seed Round — Biggest In YC History — If you need more proof that FundersClub wants to radically change startup funding by letting non-VCs invest, it just closed a $6 million seed round, the largest ever from a Y Combinator company.
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.
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 …
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 …
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.
“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 5:10 PM ET, October 21, 2012.
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