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How Hurricane Sandy Slapped the Sarcasm Out of Twitter — Twitter is often a caldron of sarcasm, much of it funny, little of it useful. But as a social medium based on short-burst communication, Twitter can change during large events — users talk about “watching” the spectacle unfold across their screens.
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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.| Marguerite Reardon / CNET: |
| Jordan Kahn / 9to5Mac: |
Phil Schiller clarifies iPad mini has stereo speakers following Amazon's Kindle comparison — When Apple's Senior Vice President of Marketing Phil Schiller unveiled the iPad mini on stage earlier this month, he didn't discuss the speaker on the new device. There were rumors …
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| Barb Darrow / GigaOM: |
Now that Halo 4 will run on Windows Azure, what's next? — Microsoft knows how to make big, sweeping pronouncements. And there were a lot of those flowing out of the company's Build Conference in Redmond, Wash. this week. — In a blog posted Wednesday, the day of his Build keynote.
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| Brittany Darwell / Inside Facebook: |
Facebook tests Timeline layout with single column of posts — Facebook is testing a new format for user Timelines, which puts all posts in a single column on the left and any activity modules in a narrower column on the right. — This layout addresses one of the common complaints about the new profile … | New York Times: |
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 … | Peter Kafka / AllThingsD: |
Marissa Mayer Makes a Media Deal — The Marissa Mayer messaging is that Yahoo's new CEO is about product, not media. But that doesn't mean she's shutting down everything her predecessor Ross Levinsohn was working on. — Example: Yahoo has struck a deal with Wenner Media … | 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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Apple: Motorola's essential wireless patents are at best worth $1 per iPhone — Five days ahead of a FRAND contract trial in the Western District of Wisconsin, Apple has formally declared to the court its willingness to pay Motorola Mobility for a license to its standard-essential wireless patents …
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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.
| 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 … | Cyrus Farivar / Ars Technica: |
Finland: Plan for universal 100Mbps service by 2015 on track — Finns are hoping that universal high-speed Internet access will be even more awesome than a full rainbow. — Alex Brown — Back in 2009, Finland announced what might be the world's most ambitious national broadband plan … | 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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Foursquare's Dennis Crowley Talks About Hurricane Sandy's Impact on NYC Start-Ups (Video) — While stranded in Hurricane Sandy-soaked Manhattan this week, I got a chance to chat with Foursquare co-founder and CEO Dennis Crowley about the impact of the epic storm on his social check-in company and other start-ups in New York City.| Phil Coakley / The Official Google Blog: |
AMBER Alerts for missing children now in Google Search and Maps — Today we are launching AMBER Alerts coordinated by National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) in the Google Public Alerts platform. Public Alerts are designed to bring you emergency alerts when and where they're relevant …
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| 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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| 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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Rosetta Stone Agrees to Drop Google Trademark Suit — Rosetta Stone Inc. (RST), a maker of language-learning software, agreed to drop a lawsuit it brought against Google Inc. (GOOG) for selling its trademarks to other companies for search-engine advertising.
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RIM: More than 50 carriers testing BlackBerry 10 now — The company reiterated that it was on track for the launch of its BlackBerry 10 phones in the first quarter. — Research in Motion said today that more than 50 carriers are testing its BlackBerry 10 platform, a critical step to getting … | Derrick Harris / GigaOM: |
Google explains how more data means better speech recognition — A new research paper out of Google describes in some detail the data science behind the the company's speech recognition applications, such as voice search and adding captions or tags to YouTube videos.
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Twilio Signs First Big International Cloud Telephony Licensing Deal With Japan's #2 Telecom KDDI — Breaking into Japan can be tough for foreign companies since its culture favors credibility and certainty. So Twilio has just struck an exclusive alliance with Japan's well-respected KDDI telecom …
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| Jack Purcher / Patently Apple: |
Apple's FaceTime & Messages Dragged into Patent Infringement Lawsuit — A Texas based Company by the name of Intercarrier Communications (ICC) has filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Apple. The Company claims that Apple's Messages and FaceTime applications found in iOS and OS X infringe …
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