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Amazon goes on the offensive. Mocks Apple and compares Kindle Fire HD to iPad Mini on its homepage. — It has only been a few days since Apple announced its new iPad mini tablet device and Amazon has decided to put a damper on the iPad mini's introduction to the world.
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Tweets: @asymco, @chrispirillo, @jeffblagdon, @gsterling, @rblevin and @dannysullivan
| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
iPad Mini Ship Times Now At Two Weeks For All Wi-Fi Models — Apple's iPad mini shipping times have slipped to a minimum of two weeks across the board, including for Wi-Fi only versions, which were the only ones initially set for an earlier, November 2 delivery.
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Microsoft Surface Teardown — We got our hands on Microsoft's new Surface, and to its credit, it lasted a good twenty minutes before we decided to tear it open. EditStep 1 — Microsoft Surface Teardown Is that the display assembly from a PC laptop? Nope, it's the new Microsoft Surface …
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| Kellex / Droid Life: |
32GB Nexus 7 Goes on Display at Office Depot for $249, 16GB Drops to $199 — Not that we weren't fully expecting this to happen, but in case you needed one last ounce of proof that the 32GB Nexus 7 was arriving for $249 and the 16GB version was dropping to $199, we have it for you.| Sam Byford / The Verge: |
Microsoft releases Windows Phone 8 syncing app for Windows 8 and RT — With less than 24 hours to go until Microsoft takes the covers off Windows Phone 8 once and for all, the company has released a companion app in the Windows Store that'll work in tandem with the new devices.| Ben Worthen / Wall Street Journal: |
Windows 8 Success Hinges on $10 Component — The success of Microsoft Corp.'s new operating system may hinge...on hinges. — Hardware companies are grappling with the fact that the Windows 8 software has a touch-oriented user interface. That means not simply adding touch screens …
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Advertisers Refine Mobile Pitches for Phones and Tablets — SAN FRANCISCO — Say you are in a strange city and need a hotel for the night. You pull out your phone, search for hotels on Google and see a nearby one listed at the top of the rankings, with a little phone icon that says, “Call.”| Nathan Ingraham / The Verge: |
Nokia Lumia 822 officially announced for Verizon Wireless, priced at $99.99 on contract — Verizon and Nokia just announced that the Lumia 822 will be coming to Verizon Wireless, though unfortunately there aren't any pricing or release date details available yet.
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The Next Web, WMPoweruser, BetaNews, CNET, LiveSide.net, Business Insider, Nokia, TechCrunch, Engadget, HotHardware.com News, Reuters, All About Windows Phone, GadgeTell, Neowin and SlashGear. Tweets: @selop
| Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
Amazon sues former Amazon Web Services sales chief over his new job at Google — Amazon.com has filed suit against Daniel Powers, the former vice president in charge of global sales for Amazon Web Services — alleging that his new job as Google's director of cloud platform sales violates … | Jeremy Wagstaff / Reuters: |
Analysis: E-readers grapple with a future on the shelf — (Reuters) - Amidst our growing love affair with the tablet, spare a thought for its increasingly shelfbound sibling: the e-reader. — Take Taiwan's E Ink Holdings Inc, which makes most of the monochrome displays for devices …
Tweets: @hemiv8
| Joe Mullin / Ars Technica: |
How a Supreme Court ruling may stop you from reselling just about anything — On Monday, the US Supreme Court will hear arguments in a case that pits a major textbook publisher against Supap Kirtsaeng, a student-entrepreneur who built a small business importing and selling textbooks.
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Forbes, Electronic Frontier Foundation and 1001 Noisy Cameras
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| David Goldman / CNNMoney.com: |
Top U.S. supercomputer guns for fastest in world — NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — A new kind of global arms race is unfolding — and this one is measured in petaflops. — Titan, the U.S. Department of Energy's top open science computer, is going live on Monday with an upgrade that will likely …
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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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