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| Peter Kafka / AllThingsD: |
HTC, Apple Settle Patent Fight — So here's the end of one smartphone patent fight: Apple and HTC have signed a peace treaty, and will withdraw all lawsuits against each other. The deal comes with a 10-year-license agreement. — Here's the press release, we'll have more in a bit:
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| T.C. Sottek / The Verge: |
Apple and HTC settle all patent litigation with 10 year license agreement — Apple and HTC have settled their patent dispute, with all current lawsuits dismissed, according to an HTC press release.
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| Agence France Presse: |
Apple pays Swiss rail $21mn over clock dispute: report — GENEVA — US tech giant Apple has dished out 20 million Swiss francs ($21 million, 17 million euros) to compensate Swiss national rail operator SBB for using its famous clock without permission, a Swiss daily reported Saturday.
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Examiner, 9to5Mac, AppleInsider, AllThingsD, CNET, iPhone Hacks, iDownloadBlog.com and iClarified
| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
Killer fail: how Romney's broken Orca app cost him thousands of votes — An attempt to harness big data turns into a nightmare of crashes and confusion — A few days before the presidential election, Mitt Romney's campaign announced what it hoped would be its secret weapon at the polls.
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| Natalie Jennings / Washington Post: |
Romney digital director: Orca wasn't a loss — The digital director for the Romney campaign responded to criticism in the blogosphere of the campaign's Election-Day “Orca” vote monitoring platform, saying the program had issues but for the most part performed its mission.
| Sean Gallagher / Ars Technica: |
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| John Gruber / Daring Fireball: |
Seriously, Apple Is Doomed — Dan Crow, another former Apple employee from the 1990s, also says Apple has shown itself to be doomed without Steve Jobs, in a piece for The Guardian headlined “We've Passed Peak Apple”: … On the contrary, for better or for worse, iOS 6 Maps is exactly …
| Megan Garber / The Atlantic Online: |
David Petraeus Was Brought Down by ... Gmail — The CIA director's path to resignation began with some email messages. — Reuters/Joshua Roberts — While David Petraeus was serving as a four-star general in the U.S. Army, he began exchanging emails with the woman who would eventually write his biography.
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| Christopher Mims / Quartz: |
How much would you pay to never see an online ad again? — The little white box that companies who charge for content rather than advertising against it should probably give away for free. AdTrap — Imagine a $120 box that sits between your cable modem (the box that brings the internet into your house) …
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| Declan McCullagh / CNET: |
Apple loses bid to nix patent troll's ‘screen rotation’ suit — Court rules that patent lawsuit against Apple can go to a jury. At issue: whether the iPhone's screen rotation and call rejection features violate patents originally held by Sony and Nokia. — You might think it's obvious …
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| Chris Velazco / TechCrunch: |
RIM Plans To Woo Would-Be BlackBerry 10 Game Developers With Money And Hardware — As work on BlackBerry 10 continues behind closed doors, Waterloo-based RIM is gearing up to make yet another attempt to woo would-be BlackBerry 10 developers to its cause. — This time though the company …
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| Alex Wilhelm / The Next Web: |
Shellacked: Groupon fell 30% today in regular trading as investors unloaded the firm following its weak Q3 — Yesterday after the bell, Groupon reported its quarterly earnings. The company, losing a mere $3 million during the quarter, had earnings per share of $0.00, and revenue of $568.6 million.
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| Matt Brian / The Next Web: |
HootSuite privacy fail sees hundreds of emails sent to users, complete with other people's details [updated] — There appears to be something wrong with the internal systems over at social management company HootSuite, after it started sending out email reminders to users warning … Sponsor Posts
Microsoft BizSpark:
Featured Startup - FormVerse — If there was one tool not made for effective work, it would have to be email. If you take silos of information, and a chronological effect, where old or new is piled on top of each other …
Featured Startup - FormVerse — If there was one tool not made for effective work, it would have to be email. If you take silos of information, and a chronological effect, where old or new is piled on top of each other …
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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