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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 … | Emil Protalinski / The Next Web: |
Apple hides Samsung apology on its UK site so it can't be seen without scrolling — Apple today posted its second Samsung apology to its UK website, complying with requests by the UK Court of Appeal to say its original apology was inaccurate and link to a new statement.| 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.| Stacey Higginbotham / GigaOM: |
How the internet economy works: Guns, butter and bandwidth — Most people know certain things about the Internet. They know that cables run under the sea, that wires come into your homes, and that modems carry the digital signals to your devices. — But they've probably never heard … | Jeff Bercovici / Forbes: |
Why Time Magazine Used Instagram To Cover Hurricane Sandy — If there was still any debate about whether serious photojournalism can take place in the context of camera phones and cutesy retro filters, it's over now. — To document the effects of Hurricane Sandy on the northeast … | Dan Nosowitz / Popular Science: |
Meet The Climate Change Denier Who Became The Voice Of Hurricane Sandy On Wikipedia — Ken Mampel, an unemployed, 56-year-old Floridian, is in large part the creator of the massive Hurricane Sandy Wikipedia page. He's also the reason that, for nearly a week, the page had no mention of climate change.| Jason Del Rey / AdAge: |
State Farm Sponsors Gawker's Backup Tumblr, But Nick Denton Laments Lost Week of Comments — Gawker Was One of Many Sites Shut Down During Hurricane Sandy — As Hurricane Sandy whipped New York into devastation on Monday, Gawker Media was one of the media companies that saw its websites shut down by a flooded data center.| 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:| 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.| Marguerite Reardon / CNET: |
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New Jersey Allows Voting By Email And Fax For Hurricane Victims — Wow. Registered voters in New Jersey displaced by Hurricane Sandy will be permitted to vote by fax or email in the upcoming election. New Jersey, along with about a dozen other states, already permit overseas and military voters … | 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 … | 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.
Defrag Tools: WPT - Command Line — Andrew Richards, Chad Beeder, and Larry Larsen continue walking you through the Windows Performance Toolkit (WPT).
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 …
Love, Magic, & APIs — I will confess, I am old enough to remember my GeoCities page. Don't hate. It was amazing, it was... this transformative moment in which I took real, actual information, and transformed it into something visible and memorable.
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.
“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).This is a Techmeme archive page. It shows how the site appeared at 11:35 AM ET, November 4, 2012.
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