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Apple's mea culpa: U.K. site posts apology, new statement — After testing a British court's patience with a not so apologetic public statement, the iPhone and iPad maker is finally eating humble pie. — Apple has reissued and updated its Samsung “apology” statement on its British Web site … | Wall Street Journal: |
Outages Expose Wireless Carriers' Backup Plans — Three days after superstorm Sandy made landfall, people in some of America's most densely populated neighborhoods remained without wireless service, highlighting new risks as more people drop landline phones.
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Metropolis, TechNewsDaily.com, Tech Daily Dose, Forbes and Washington Post
| Marguerite Reardon / CNET: |
With lights back on, cell service returns for many Sandy victims — Wireless phone service is quickly being restored to millions of customers after commercial power companies restore electricity to thousands of customers in hard hit areas after Superstorm Sandy.
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| Emil Protalinski / The Next Web: |
Microsoft's security team is killing it: Not one product on Kaspersky's top 10 vulnerabilities list — Security firm Kaspersky has released its latest IT Threat Evolution report. There were some interesting findings in the report, as always, but the most interesting thing that stuck out was all the way at the bottom:
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| Arik Hesseldahl / AllThingsD: |
Teardown Shows Apple iPad Mini Costs at Least $188 to Build — Apple's latest addition to the iPad family of tablets, the iPad mini, hit store shelves yesterday. Among the many standing in lines around the world to buy the devices were people who took them home to drop them and dunk them in water.| T.C. Sottek / The Verge: |
Election 2012: where do Obama, Romney, Johnson, and Stein stand on tech issues? — Voting on cyber war, space, drone armies, and internet freedom — Popular tech got a moment in the spotlight in the townhall debate between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney, when moderator Cindy Crowley sneaked Apple into an economic policy question.
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Barnes & Noble cutting Nook Color and Tablet prices to $139 and $159 — Less than three months have passed since the Nook Color and Nook Tablet saw a price drop, but Barnes & Noble is cutting the prices of its e-reader tablets again. The Nook Color will now cost just $139 …
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Business Wire, ZDNet, PC Magazine, Mashable!, TeleRead, CNET, HotHardware.com News, Ars Technica and VentureBeat
| Matt Brian / The Next Web: |
Samsung's Galaxy S III tops 30 million sales, adding 10 million in less than two months — Samsung predicted that its Galaxy S III flagship would pass 30 million sales by the end of 2012, and with November and December still largely ahead of it, the Korean manufacturer has reached that milestone … | Hunter Walk / Elapsed Time: |
Uber NYC & the Surge: Right, Wrong, Lessons Learned — While my hometown of NYC recovers from the aftermath of #Sandy, there's been a different verbal maelstrom out West - the question of whether Uber NYC's surge pricing is gouging or simply an effort to balance supply and demand.
| Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch: |
Foursquare Looks Into A Fourth Round At An Over $700M Valuation, Investors Skeptical — Foursquare has been taking VC meetings recently, looking into raising a Series D round of funding of between $50 million and $100 million according to multiple sources. In previous rounds … | Timothy B. Lee / Ars Technica: |
Uber says Chicago is trying to drive its sedans out of the city — The battle between the city of Chicago and Uber, a startup seeking to disrupt the taxi and limo industries, heated up this week. Uber has already faced unwanted attention because its pricing model for taxis conflicted with Chicago regulations.
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Uber Blog, SocialTimes, VentureBeat and TechCrunch
| Richard Stallman / Wired: |
Let's Limit the Effect of Software Patents, Since We Can't Eliminate Them — Patents threaten every software developer, and the patent wars we have long feared have broken out. Software developers and software users - which in our society, is most people - need software to be free of patents.
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Defrag Tools: WPT - Command Line — Andrew Richards, Chad Beeder, and Larry Larsen continue walking you through the Windows Performance Toolkit (WPT).
Defrag Tools: WPT - Command Line — Andrew Richards, Chad Beeder, and Larry Larsen continue walking you through the Windows Performance Toolkit (WPT).
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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