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Apple's Schiller defends iPad mini's price tag — (Reuters) - Apple marketing wizard Phil Schiller defended the $329 price of the new iPad mini tablet, saying consumers will be willing to pay for quality not found in less expensive devices from rivals like Google and Amazon.
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| Quentin Fottrell / MarketWatch: |
iPad resales surge over 700% … Two major resale sites reported eye-popping surges in business in the run-up to the iPad Mini launch. Some 140,000 devices were put up for sale on Gazelle.com Tuesday - a 700% spike from the day before, says Anthony Scarsella, chief gadget officer at the site.
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| Jordan Kahn / 9to5Mac: |
Apple confirms that 12W adapter will charge iPads quicker than older 10W adapters — The morning of Apple's iPad mini event earlier this week we told you there was a handful of new accessories coming including four new Lightning adapters and a 12W USB power adapter.
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Apple Store now has Lightning to HDMI and VGA adapters at $49 a pop, souped-up iPad charger — We noticed during the iPhone 5 launch that Apple had a big caveat with its Lightning to 30-pin adapter: no video or iPod out support. Now that the new iPads are here with that same connector …
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Zynga Reports Third Quarter Revenue Of $317M, Shares Pop 12.7% In After-Hours — Zynga said it saw third quarter revenue of $317 million, which was slightly above the lower range of $300 million to $305 million the company said it would see earlier this month. Bookings came in at $256 million, up 11 percent year-over-year.
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How a Google Headhunter's E-Mail Unraveled a Massive Net Security Hole — It was a strange e-mail, coming from a job recruiter at Google, asking Zachary Harris if he was interested in a position as a site-reliability engineer. — “You obviously have a passion for Linux and programming,” the e-mail from the Google recruiter read.| Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web: |
Apple wins preliminary ruling from U.S. ITC that Samsung violates 4 design and touch patents — Apple has won a preliminary ruling against Samsung in an ITC case that had begun last year, reports Bloomberg. The ruling states that Samsung has violated four Apple patents related to iPhone design … | Reuters: |
Dutch court says Samsung does not infringe Apple patent — (Reuters) - A Dutch court ruled on Wednesday that Samsung Electronics does not infringe an Apple patent by using certain multi-touch techniques on some Galaxy smartphones and tablet computers. — “With these products Samsung does …
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| Mathew Honan / Wired: |
Microsoft Dives Deep to Surface a Hit — Nobody asked me about my Surface. I tried flashing it all over the place. But despite my best efforts, no one seemed curious. — At Victrola Coffee Roasters in Seattle, I sat in the front window, with a hot pink Touch Cover attached, intentionally conspicuous.| Knowlton Thomas / Techvibes.com: |
Salesforce Laying Off Radian6 and Buddy Media Employees and Execs — We learned this morning that Salesforce was “decimating” Radian6's marketing and social community departments. According to a source familiar with the matter, people from the vice-president level down are facing layoffs …
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| Alex Wilhelm / The Next Web: |
Facebook's final Instagram purchase price: $715 million in cash and stock — Today Facebook detailed the final Instagram purchase information in its 10-Q. The company stated that the final purchase of Instagram will sit in its accounting as $521 million. — That figure was arrived … | Josh Ong / The Next Web: |
HP outs pricing on full Windows 8 PC lineup — A huge wave of Windows 8 PCs is coming, and HP is hoping to ride it to victory. Early on Wednesday, the company announced pricing and availability for its complete Windows 8 PC portfolio, which includes a broad range of notebooks …
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| Ellis Hamburger / The Verge: |
‘Letterpress’ for iOS: Tweetie creator emerges from year of silence with addictive word game — The inventor of ‘pull-to-refresh’ and Twitter for iPad takes a stab at gaming — Almost one year ago Loren Brichter left Twitter, largely leaving the public eye “to figure out what's next.”
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| Chris Ziegler / The Verge: |
Samsung Series 3 Chromebook review — With ARM, has Google's cloud-based laptop finally found its soulmate? — People laugh when I pull the old Samsung Series 5 Chromebook out of my bag. I almost feel the need to apologize for it when I turn it on: “Here's a $450 laptop that just browses the web.| Jason Cohen / A Smart Bear: |
The rise of the “successful” unsustainable company — It's appalling what passes for “successful entrepreneurship” in the press or the Valley, but it's not their fault. — Witness, for example, this terrific Fast Company article on Bill Nguyen, serial entrepreneur who's seventh startup …
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| Emil Protalinski / The Next Web: |
News.me shuts down iOS apps to focus on Digg, blames new Twitter requirements — News.me, the social news service built on top of Twitter (and Facebook), today announced it is killing its curation apps for iPhone and iPad. The company is blaming Twitter for the move and says it wants to focus on its Digg efforts instead.| Gavin Clarke / The Register: |
Microsoft has no plans for a second Windows 7 Service Pack — You don't like it? Hey - had you thought of Windows 8? — Exclusive Waiting for a second Windows 7 Service Pack? Keep waiting - it doesn't sound like Microsoft will be releasing one. — Sources close to Microsoft's …
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Square Takes Its First International Step: Payment Service Now Live In Canada — Square has taken its first step outside of the U.S. for its mobile payment service: it is now live in Canada. The company said today that its mobile card reader/processor is now available nationwide …
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Square, BetaKit, Fast Company, CNET, MobileSyrup.com, FierceMobileContent News, Profectio, Mashable!, Engadget, MobileBurn.com, GigaOM, The Verge, The Next Web and Betabeat. Tweets: @squarecanada
| Nicole Perlroth / New York Times: |
Cyberattack on Saudi Oil Firm Disquiets U.S. — The hackers picked the one day of the year they knew they could inflict the most damage on the world's most valuable company, Saudi Aramco. — On Aug. 15, more than 55,000 Saudi Aramco employees stayed home from work to prepare …
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Yelp Pays $50M To Acquire Its Big European Rival, Qype, To Beef Up Its Recommendations And Listings Business — This just in: online recommendations and listings site Yelp is stepping up its international push and buying its biggest rival in Europe, Qype. It will pay €18.6 million … | Kim-Mai Cutler / TechCrunch: |
Japan's GREE Acquires Game Developer Pokelabo For $173M — Bolstering its arsenal of first-party games for the Japanese market, GREE acquired developer Pokelabo for $173 million in an all-cash deal. Asia-focused venture capital firm DCM gets a win with this acquisition as it had a little over 20 percent of the company.Sponsor Posts
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This Week on Channel 9 — Mark DeFalco and Dan Fernandez discuss the week's top developer news.
This Week on Channel 9 — Mark DeFalco and Dan Fernandez discuss the week's top developer news.
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:
Love, Magic, & APIs — I will confess, I am old enough to remember my GeoCities page. Don't hate. It was amazing, it was... this transformative moment in which I took real, actual information, and transformed it into something visible and memorable.
Love, Magic, & APIs — I will confess, I am old enough to remember my GeoCities page. Don't hate. It was amazing, it was... this transformative moment in which I took real, actual information, and transformed it into something visible and memorable.
Hortonworks » Blog:
Hive 0.11, Stinger and SQL-Compatibility — The release of Hive 0.11 is exciting and represents a big step forward to delivery of Project Stinger and SQL-IN-Hadoop. There is still some work to be done however.
Hive 0.11, Stinger and SQL-Compatibility — The release of Hive 0.11 is exciting and represents a big step forward to delivery of Project Stinger and SQL-IN-Hadoop. There is still some work to be done however.
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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