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| Zack Whittaker / CNET: |
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 …
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Examiner, Engadget, Apple, The Next Web, GadgeTell, SlashGear, ZDNet, Gizmodo.com Updates, Forbes, iDownloadBlog.com, PhoneArena and Geekosystem
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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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Con Edison of New York, AllThingsD and Slashdot
| Aaron Souppouris / The Verge: |
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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Ars Technica, VentureBeat, Mashable!, TeleRead, CNET, ZDNet, Business Wire and HotHardware.com News
| Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch: |
Foursquare Looks Into An 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.| 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 … | Nick Bilton / NYT Bits: |
Twitter to Add Photo Filters to Compete With Instagram — Twitter is finally learning a lesson from Facebook: If you can't buy it, build it. — In the coming months, Twitter plans to update its mobile applications to introduce filters for photos that will allow people to share altered images …
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VatorNews, digitaltrends.com, Mashable!, Softpedia News, Neowin, TechCrunch, Gizmodo UK, CNET, SlashGear, PetaPixel, iDownloadBlog.com, Business Insider, VentureBeat, The Next Web, GigaOM, ReadWrite, The Verge, The Next Web and 1001 Noisy Cameras
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See also Mediagazer| 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
| 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 gauging or simply an effort to balance supply and demand.
| 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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Google Nexus 4 and Nexus 10 Performance Preview — Earlier this week Google announced two new flagship Nexus devices: the Nexus 4 smartphone and the Nexus 10 tablet. We received review samples of both earlier this week, and while we're hard at work at full reviews of the devices we couldn't help …
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ExtremeTech, Engadget and The Verge
| Brittany Darwell / Inside Facebook: |
Facebook tests ‘Pages Feed’ so fans can see all updates in separate stream — Some Facebook users are seeing a separate “Pages Feed” where they can view all the updates from pages they Like in a single stream. — This seems to be another move by Facebook to help users see more posts from pages they're interested in.
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SlashGear, nbcnews.com, PandoDaily, The Next Web, WebProNews, Betabeat and AllFacebook
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Rackspace Blog:
How ImgPage Uploads 25 MB Photos to Cloud Files Using the Mailgun API — The team over at Mailgun just posted a Python tutorial written by Mailgun customer Paul Finn about how to use Python and the Mailgun API to upload large images to Cloud Files.
How ImgPage Uploads 25 MB Photos to Cloud Files Using the Mailgun API — The team over at Mailgun just posted a Python tutorial written by Mailgun customer Paul Finn about how to use Python and the Mailgun API to upload large images to Cloud Files.
Hortonworks » Blog:
Week in Review: SQL IN Hadoop and Hive, Beyond Batch with YARN, NFS access to HDFS and HBase MTTR — Or as it's more commonly being called: Week-ish in Review. Let's recap on the latest - there's some juicy technology goodness here.
Week in Review: SQL IN Hadoop and Hive, Beyond Batch with YARN, NFS access to HDFS and HBase MTTR — Or as it's more commonly being called: Week-ish in Review. Let's recap on the latest - there's some juicy technology goodness here.
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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