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Drinking Establishment (Check). Highly Anticipated Mobile Phone Release (Check). Lost Phone (Check) — Jamin Barton is a soft-spoken musician with a quick laugh and a winning smile who tends bar under the nickname “Sudsy” at the 500 Club in San Francisco's Mission District.
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Examiner, PC Magazine, The Next Web, CNET, Business Insider, Pocketnow, Android News, Rumours …, SlashGear, PhoneArena, Macgasm, UnleashThePhones and Gizmodo
Tweets: @mat, @wired and @mikeelgan
Thanks:@redgirlsays| Bryan Bishop / The Verge: |
Déjà vu: Google employee loses prototype Nexus 4 at San Francisco bar — In 2010 a prototype of Apple's iPhone 4 was left at a San Francisco bar, which led to it leaking across the internet months before its official debut — and it appears the same almost happened with the much-anticipated new Nexus device from LG.| Danny Sullivan / Marketing Land: |
Hurricane Sandy Causes Google To Cancel Its Android Event — Google's big Android event on Monday in New York City was supposed to be the rain on the parade of Microsoft's Windows Phone 8 event happening on the same day in San Francisco. But Google's event is literally being washed out …
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ABCNEWS, BetaNews, Computerworld, TechCrunch, Business Insider, Examiner, The Verge, Neowin, The Next Web, Gizmodo, 9to5Google, AllThingsD, parislemon, IntoMobile, Mashable!, Techie Buzz, Phones Review, Engadget, CNET, AndroidOS.in, BGR, Wired, PetaPixel, SlashGear, GSMArena Blog, Gotta Be Mobile, MobileSyrup.com and Android Central
| Marco Arment / Marco.org: |
An alternate universe — On the way to the Apple Store today to buy AppleCare+ for my wife's new iPhone 5, we passed the new Microsoft Store, coincidentally in the middle of their Surface with Windows RT launch. (That is actually the product's name. “Surface with Windows RT”.)
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CNET, mosspuppet.tv, Brent Ozar, CNET, John Moltz, LAPTOP Magazine, Joel Housman, Chicago Sun Times, GeekWire and Forbes
Tweets: @felixsalmon, @manan, @dannysullivan and @viticci
| Tricia Duryee / AllThingsD: |
Amazon Says Kindle Withstood iPad Mini Assault — With a starting price tag of $329, Apple's new iPad mini may indeed be too expensive to attract budget-conscious consumers. — In response to a question about how Kindle sales were faring following Apple's iPad mini announcement on Tuesday …
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9to5Mac, The Verge, Business Insider and Gizmodo
| Federico Viticci / MacStories: |
Evernote Teases Major 5.0 Redesign of Mac App — “Remember Everything” platform Evernote has today announced the next version of their Mac client: Evernote 5. With an extensive preview on Evernote's website, the company has revealed some of the features and design choices behind the complete redesign of the desktop app.
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Evernote Blogcast, Softpedia News, AppleInsider, SlashGear, TUAW and 9to5Mac
| Andy Greenberg / Forbes: |
Facebook Investigating How Bulgarian Man Bought 1.1 Million Users' Email Addresses For Five Dollars — Bulgarian blogger and digital rights activist Bogomil Shopov — Updated with a more recent comment from Facebook below. — It's no secret that Facebook treats your personal data as a commodity.| Alyson Shontell / Business Insider: |
THE SILICON ALLEY 100: The Coolest People In New York Tech This Year — In the past few years, New York City has become a tech hotspot. And while it hasn't had any LinkedIn or Facebook-size exits, it has produced a few IPOs and near-billion-dollar acquisitions.| Tina Amini / Kotaku: |
Apple's Game Center Seems to be Malfunctioning Today. Blame Letterpress? — Game Center is really acting up today. — iOS players have been taking to Twitter to voice concerns about Game Center breaking when attempting to play games, specifically Letterpress. — Letterpress is a fairly new word game for iOS devices.| 9to5Mac: |
iPad minis with LTE start arriving on Black Friday (Nov. 23) for standard, Nov. 21 for expedited — It appears those who ordered the LTE iPad minis late last night in the U.S. will start receiving theirs about Nov. 23, according to what we heard from a number of early buyers.
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I4U News, iPhone in Canada Blog, CNET, iLounge, LAPTOP Magazine, MacRumors and TechCrunch. Tweets: @marcoarment
| Claire Cain Miller / NYT Bits: |
Google Is Testing Same-Day Delivery for Shoppers — Google is now in the same-day delivery business. In San Francisco, some people affiliated with Google can buy a product, using their phones or computers, and have it delivered to their homes in a matter of hours, using a new service operated by Google.
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GigaOM, CNET, Business Insider, Engadget, The Verge, The Next Web, 9to5Google and SeekingAlpha.com
| Alex Williams / TechCrunch: |
Amazon Web Services Outage Caused By Memory Leak And Failure In Monitoring Alarm — A memory leak and a failed monitoring system caused the Amazon Web Services outage on Monday that took out Reddit and other major services. — According to a post Friday night, AWS explained that the problem arose …
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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.
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.
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:
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.
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.
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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