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On Election Day 2012, Twitter Kills The Great White Fail Whale — In one pithy, three-word sentence, Twitter creative lead Doug Bowman summed up the microblogging service's election day perfectly. — “RIP Fail Whale.” — Indeed, all throughout November 6th, that cutesy … | Megan Garber / The Atlantic Online: |
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MegaUpload redo is shut down even before debut — The government of Gambon said it plans to suspend the domain name that MegaUpload founder Kim DotCom planned to use to launch a new cloud-storage service. — We won't find the MegaUpload-replacement service anytime soon at Me.ga.| Jake Smith / 9to5Mac: |
Apple loses $368.2 million lawsuit to patent holding company VirnetX in E. Texas court ruling — According to Bloomberg, Apple has lost a lawsuit against VirnetX in a Texas courtroom late this evening and has been ordered to pay $368.2 million in damages. VirnetX sued Apple for infringing … | Bloomberg: |
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Nexus 4 Is a Great Value With Small Improvements — Google's Android operating system is used on hundreds of smartphones and tablets. But the flagship Android devices, the ones the company calls “the best of Google,” are labeled Nexus. They are meant to show the world all that an Android device can be … | Samad Rizvi / The Pixar Times: |
Pixar Names Building After Steve Jobs — Steve Jobs is often associated with Apple, but many often forgot that the visionary played a large role in the creation of Pixar. He financed the work at the studio long before it became profitable, pouring millions of his own money into keeping Pixar afloat … | Mikey Campbell / AppleInsider: |
Apple tech can illuminate ‘invisible’ touch controls, displays — Apple on Tuesday was granted a patent for an invention that creates microperforations in a device so small as be imperceptible to the naked eye, but large enough to allow the passage of light, that can be used in concert … | Sam Byford / The Verge: |
Microsoft's Xbox SmartGlass app now out for iOS — It's been a couple of weeks since the Android app launched, but Xbox-owning iOS users can finally get their first look at SmartGlass in action today. Microsoft has released SmartGlass as an update to its existing Xbox Live app … | Henry Blodget / Business Insider: |
Well, It's Becoming Clear That Steve Jobs Was Flat-Out Wrong — An interesting thing has happened in the days since Apple released its new smaller iPad: — Many Apple devotees have said it will become THE iPad, at least in their own personal use. — Why? — Mainly because of weight and size.| Alex Wilhelm / The Next Web: |
Microsoft will invest $100 million in Rio de Janeiro with new tech center — Microsoft is set to invest around $100 million USD in Rio de Janeiro over the next four years while the opening of its first advanced technology center in Brazil, Agência Estado reports.| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google Makes Its New Search Results Design Without Sidebar Official, Gives Results “More Breathing Room” — Earlier today, we noticed that Google was showing an increasing number of its users a new search results page with more whitespace and without a sidebar.| Mike Isaac / AllThingsD: |
Here's How Bravo's “Silicon Valley” Stars Pitch Start-Up Investors (Slides) — While Americans geared up for Election Day coverage on Monday evening, much of Silicon Valley was glued to a different channel. — It was the premiere of “Start-Ups: Silicon Valley,” the Bravo-produced reality show … | Marguerite Reardon / CNET: |
AT&T to pay feds $700,000 to settle overcharging dispute — The Federal Communications Commission announced Tuesday it has reached a $700,000 settlement with AT&T over claims that the carrier overcharged wireless data customers. — AT&T has agreed to pay $700,000 to the federal government … | Robin Wauters / The Next Web: |
Sprint buys spectrum and 585,000 customers from U.S. Cellular for $480m in cash — Sprint Nextel (Sprint) today announced that it will acquire PCS spectrum and more than half a million customers in parts of Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Missouri and Ohio from U.S. Cellular … | Horace Dediu / asymco: |
The late smartphone adopter paradox — comScore reports that US smartphone penetration has decisively crossed over 50% in August. This should not come as a surprise as the penetration rate has been very linear. — Now that we've crossed this milestone, the thing to watch is the conversion rate … | Jamillah Knowles / The Next Web: |
iZettle launches in the UK with EE for payments via Mastercard, Amex, Visa and Diners Club — iZettle, generally known as Europe's answer to Square, is finally being launched in the UK. The payment system that hooks up a card reader to mobile devices is being pushed as a saviour for British small businesses.| Vlad Dudau / Neowin: |
Gartner: 1.2 billion smart devices will be sold in 2013 — It's no secret that smartphones and tablets are becoming ubiquitous, but the actual numbers might surprise you. The analyst firm Gartner has released a report saying that this year, 821 million smart devices have been sold, including smartphones and tablets.| Janet Aronica / Shareaholic Blog: |
October 2012 Traffic Sources Report: StumbleUpon Share of Traffic Down 53% Since July — Welcome to Shareaholic's monthly traffic sources report, where each month we take a look at the traffic trends for our 200,000 publishers who reach 300 million people each month and take a look at the trends … | George Herd / BBC: |
Broadband ‘2,000 times’ faster aim of Bangor scientists — The Bangor University team hope the high-speed fibre optic technology can be developed using cheap ‘off-the-shelf’ components — Broadband speeds that are 2,000 times faster without a massive hike in costs?| Drew Olanoff / TechCrunch: |
Delicious Announces A New Design With A Focus On Community, Speed And Mobile — Just when you thought that the site Delicious was dead and gone, it's back...again. Since being acquired by AVOS, headed up by YouTube co-founders, the site has had a few revamps.| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Guitar Hero co-creator unveils startup with a plan to mobilize the living room (exclusive interview) — As co-creator of Guitar Hero, Charles Huang shook up the video game world with cool new faux-guitar peripherals that injected new excitement into video games.| Mark Hachman / ReadWrite: |
A Microsoft ‘Xbox Surface’ Tablet Could Bridge PC-Mobile-Console Gaming — Microsoft is reportedly building its own “Xbox Surface” gaming tablet, which could give the company a true mobile gaming strategy. — Microsoft officials declined to comment, but the rumored 7-inch tablet … | Tom Warren / The Verge: |
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Motorola reveals Atrix HD Developer Edition, highlights unlockable bootloader — Digging the idea of picking up an Atrix HD, but bummed about that whole “locked bootloader” situation? Problem solved. Motorola has just introduced the Atrix HD Developer Edition, which offers …
Windows 8 Tips — Tips and tricks for Windows 8 users.
Want to Contribute to Cloud Foundry? Come on in! — Cloud Foundry is an Open Platform-as-a-Service, and an Open Source project. It has attracted phenomenal interest from the community - including partners …
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.
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.
“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 8:45 AM ET, November 7, 2012.
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