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Apple Sells Three Million iPads in Three Days — Wi-Fi Only Models of New iPad mini & Fourth Generation iPad Double Previous First Weekend Sales — Apple® today announced it has sold three million iPads in just three days since the launch of its new iPad® mini and fourth generation iPad …
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| Zak Islam / Tom's Hardware Guide: |
For The First Time Ever, iPhone Owner Loyalty Declines — Loyalty of iPhone owners in both the United States and Europe experiences first ever decline. — For the first time since the iPhone's inception, the percentage of the smartphone's owners who say they will definitely or probably buy another Apple handset has declined.
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| Arik Hesseldahl / AllThingsD: |
Two More Teardowns Look Inside Microsoft Surface and Amazon Kindle Fire HD — You have to credit the folks over at research firm IHS, because, apparently, they've pulling a little bit of overtime. Along with the teardown of Apple's iPad mini, the results of which they sent to AllThingsD yesterday … | Marco Arment / Marco.org: |
| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
Apple to bring movie ticket purchasing to Siri with upcoming iOS 6.1 update — Apple's upcoming release of iOS 6.1 will include a new feature for Siri: the ability to get movie tickets. The feature, according to developers who are beta testing the new iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch operating system, works via Fandango.| Jon Fingas / Engadget: |
Microsoft posts Build 2012 session videos for eager Windows 8, Windows Phone 8 coders — Not every developer had the luxury of putting a flight to Redmond on the corporate tab so that they could attend Microsoft's Build 2012 conference in person. Much to their delight, they won't have to.
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Inquirer, LiveSide.net, Neowin, VentureBeat, Gizmodo.com Updates, Softpedia News and WMPoweruser
| Robin Wauters / The Next Web: |
4G for the win: European Commission forces member states to open extra spectrum by June 2014 — The European Commission (EC) today announced that it has decided to add another 120 MHz to the radio spectrum portfolio for 4G technologies - such as LTE - around the paid terrestrial 2 GHz band.
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| Ben Kersey / The Verge: |
Google and Microsoft rumored to be eyeing up UK white space for ubiquitous mobile broadband — Both Google and Microsoft have expressed an “extreme interest” in currently unused white space spectrum in the UK, according to The Telegraph. A senior government source speaking to the publication …
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| Dan Seifert / The Verge: |
Interactive map traces all potential outcomes of Tuesday's presidential election — The New York Times has put together an interactive map that illustrates all of the possible outcomes of the upcoming US presidential election set to happen this Tuesday. The map lets viewers trace all 512 paths …
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San Francisco Chronicle and FlowingData
| Ian Steadman / Wired.co.uk: |
The Russian underground economy has democratised cybercrime — If you want to buy a botnet, it'll cost you somewhere in the region of $700 (£433). If you just want to hire someone else's for an hour, though, it can cost as little as $2 (£1.20) — that's long enough to take down …
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SiliconANGLE and Gizmodo UK
| Frédéric Filloux / Monday Note: |
The press, Google, its algorithm, their scale — In their fight against Google, traditional media firmly believe the search engine needs them to refine (and monetize) its algorithm. Let's explore the facts. — The European press got itself in a bitter battle against Google.| Casey Johnston / Ars Technica: |
Is Facebook “broken on purpose” to sell promoted posts? — The Dangerous Minds blog uses this image for its anti-Facebook campaign. — Dangerous Minds and Dimitri Drujchin — In recent months, some Facebook page owners have noticed that their accounts are driving much less traffic to their websites than they used to.Sponsor Posts
Channel 9:
Location and Mapping for Windows Phone 8 — In this week's Inside Windows Phone we talk about Location and Mapping in Windows Phone 8.
Location and Mapping for Windows Phone 8 — In this week's Inside Windows Phone we talk about Location and Mapping in Windows Phone 8.
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:
99.999 Is Not Enough: An OpenCloud Approach to Delivering Application Uptime and Performance — Executive Summary — The pressure to keep vital applications online and performing well is extreme.
99.999 Is Not Enough: An OpenCloud Approach to Delivering Application Uptime and Performance — Executive Summary — The pressure to keep vital applications online and performing well is extreme.
Hortonworks » Blog:
Circumventing big data hurdles with Apache Hadoop and Hortonworks — Circumventing big data hurdles with Apache Hadoop and Hortonworks — Big data analytics have gained in popularity over the last few years …
Circumventing big data hurdles with Apache Hadoop and Hortonworks — Circumventing big data hurdles with Apache Hadoop and Hortonworks — Big data analytics have gained in popularity over the last few years … Who's Hiring In Tech?
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