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iPad Mini Teardown — Trick-or-Treat! While making our yearly October 31st rounds, we came across something interesting: a brand new iPad Mini! All hopped up on sugar, we eagerly tore into Apple's first small tablet. Smaller than an iPad, larger than an iPod, and able to leap tall buildings … | Jordan Kahn / 9to5Mac: |
| Jeremy Hodges / Bloomberg: |
Apple Leaves U.K. Judge at ‘Loss’ Over Samsung Web Posts — Apple Inc. (AAPL) was criticized by U.K. judges in a patent lawsuit with Samsung Electronics Co. (005930) for posting a notice on its website that was “untrue” and “incorrect.” — The U.K. Court of Appeal in London ordered Apple …
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| John Paczkowski / AllThingsD: |
Behind Silicon Valley's Un-Retirement: Why Bob Mansfield Is Back at Apple — Bob Mansfield, Apple's former senior vice president of Hardware Engineering, is now back at the company after what may be one of Silicon Valley's briefest retirements. — The longtime company exec returned fully …
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Business Insider, 9to5Mac, MacRumors, Reuters, iPhone Hacks and MacNN
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Apple Shake-Up Could End Real-World Images — Whether they realize it or not, all of those who swipe a finger down from the top of the iPhone's screen to check for notifications are bearing witness to a big sore point within Apple. — There, behind a list of text messages …
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| Jordan Crook / TechCrunch: |
Uber Reinstates Surge Pricing In NYC: Drivers Will Take Home The Entire Fare, No Fee To Uber — Uber has just sent out an update via email regarding the pricing options in New York after Hurricane Sandy. Surge Pricing is back. — Yesterday, the company implemented Surge Pricing …
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| Anton Troianovski / Wall Street Journal: |
A Look inside Verizon's Flooded Communications Hub — Eleven years after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, Verizon Communications Inc. is once again scrambling to repair severe damage to a key switching facility inside its historic headquarters building in lower Manhattan.| David Carr / Media Decoder: |
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See also Mediagazer| Ken Yeung / The Next Web: |
Path finally launches its long-awaited iPad app, brings tablet-friendly features to its 3 million users — Finally, Path, the personal social network, has come to the iPad. A day before the release of Apple's new iPad mini tablet, the company is releasing its long-awaited and highly-demanded app for the tablet.
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| Nathan Ingraham / The Verge: |
Boxee TV now available for $99, includes three months of free ‘No Limits’ cloud-based DVR — Boxee already revealed many of the details behind its all-new Boxee TV, but we were still waiting for an official launch. That wait is now over — through the holiday season, the new cloud DVR …
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| Janko Roettgers / GigaOM: |
| Matt Hickey / The Daily: |
Facebook seeks to offer alternative to Craigslist, utilizing user networks — Facebook seeks to offer alternative to Craigslist, utilizing user networks — Facebook is testing a new service that might make Craigslist a thing of the past. — Two sources within Facebook …
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VatorNews, VentureBeat, WebProNews, CNET, Forbes, Gizmodo UK, Soshable, Techie Buzz, Gizmodo.com Updates, Business Insider, AllFacebook and digitaltrends.com. Tweets: @joshconstine. Thanks:@daily
| Josh Ong / The Next Web: |
Kim Dotcom announces Me.ga, the new domain for the upcoming Megaupload reboot — Kim Dotcom has unveiled the new Me.ga domain for his upcoming download service, which will launch next January on the anniversary of the controversial police raid on his mansion. … Currently, Me.ga redirects to Kim.com/mega/.
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VentureBeat, SiliconANGLE, Ars Technica, Business Insider, CNET, BGR, TorrentFreak, digitaltrends.com, The Register, TechEye, Softpedia News, Mashable!, BBC, WatchingTV Online, Electronista, Neowin, WebProNews, Gizmodo UK, SlashGear, GadgeTell, ZDNet, Stuff.co.nz and Guardian. Tweets: @kimdotcom
| Matt Brian / The Next Web: |
AT&T launches its photo and video backup app Locker on iOS — US operator AT&T believes it can muscle in on the emergent photo and video sharing space, today launching its new Locker iOS app, allows users to quickly and securely host and share their images on Facebook, Twitter, MySpace and email.
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| David Talbot / MIT Technology Review: |
Efficiency Breakthrough Promises Smartphones that Use Half the Power — A startup says it's cracked a decades-old efficiency problem dogging wireless communications. — Why It Matters — Thanks to inefficient power amplifiers, smartphones have short battery lives and cellular base stations waste much of the energy they consume.
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| Leena Rao / TechCrunch: |
At 9 Million Users Strong, Fab Raises More Money And Is Just Getting Warmed Up — In February 2011, Jason Goldberg and Bradford Shane Shellhammer were faced with one of the most painful experiences an entrepreneur must deal with: to decide whether to shut down their business, Fabulis …
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| Martyn Williams / Network World: |
Stolen cellphone databases switched on in US — U.S. cellphone carriers took a major step on Wednesday toward curbing the rising number of smartphone thefts with the introduction of databases that will block stolen phones from being used on domestic networks.
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| Daniel Rubino / wpcentral: |
Microsoft releases 3.0 of Windows Phone sync app for OSX — Microsoft has never been shy about supporting Apple users with their software and that is especially true with Windows Phone 8. For instance, Microsoft announced that importing iTunes DRM-free music will be much easier on PC now, not requiring a conversion/import process.
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| Steve Dent / Engadget: |
Samsung's Galaxy S III mini packs bags for November 8th UK arrival — Samsung just revealed that the half-pint Galaxy S III mini that debuted in Germany will arrive in the UK on November 8th. The 4-inch, WVGA super-amoled, dual-core 1GHz, 1GB RAM smartphone will arrive toting Android 4.1 Jelly Bean …
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Guardian, Telegraph, Electronista, ZDNet, Softpedia News, The Register, Inquirer and Phones Review
| Om Malik / GigaOM: |
Summly wants to make news summaries cool — Remember Nick D'Aloisio, the Internet wunderkind I met last year in Berlin? Well, he is back with Summly, an iOS (iPhone + iPod Touch) mobile app that takes full news pages and offers them as short and succinct summaries for on-the-go consumption.
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Tech Europe, The Verge, The Next Web, Guardian and CNET
| Jung-Ah Lee / Digits: |
Samsung Says Tablets to be New Growth Engine — After a slow start in ramping up its tablet business Samsung Electronics Co. , the biggest smartphone maker by shipments, has signaled it will aggressively push out new models to expand in the market. — Samsung is targeting to … | Alex Chitu / Google Operating System: |
Share Google Drive Files to Google+ — Google Drive added a new feature that lets you share files to Google+, just like you can share them to Facebook and Twitter. Click the “share” button or right-click a file and select “share” twice, then click the Google+ icon.| Matt Brian / The Next Web: |
Microsoft and NTT DoCoMo sign collaborative agreement to push LTE Windows 8 tablets to businesses in Japan — Continuing to build partnerships following the launch of its new Windows 8 operating system, Microsoft's Japanese arm announced today that it has agreed a “cooperative business relationship” …
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NTT DOCOMO Global HOME and Tech in Asia
| Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
Microsoft founders Allen, Gates reconnect after year-long rift — Paul Allen's memoir, Idea Man, is out in paperback this week, and the Microsoft co-founder has penned an epilogue updating readers on some of the book's major storylines — including the status of his friendship with Bill Gates.
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| Steve Dent / Engadget: |
Sony cuts Q2 2012 losses to $198 million, bumps revenue to $20.6 billion thanks to mobile — After losing a whopping $5.7 billion last year and $312 million last quarter, Sony's recent austerity measures seem to be paying off — the company lost only $198 million in Q2.
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| Joe Mullin / Ars Technica: |
In App Store vs. Appstore court clash, Apple runs into a skeptical judge — OAKLAND, California—Apple is a litigious company, most famously for its multi-billion dollar patent crusade against Samsung. The Cupertino company has a more quixotic legal battle going on against its competitors … Sponsor Posts
Channel 9:
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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