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Microsoft Announces Leadership Changes to Drive Next Wave of Products — Steven Sinofsky to leave the company; Windows executives Julie Larson-Green and Tami Reller take expanded roles. — Microsoft Corp. today announced that Windows and Windows Live President Steven Sinofsky will be leaving …
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Tweets: @stevesi, @levie, @codinghorror, @gaberivera, @nexttechblog, @glennf, @mattrosoff, @anildash, @iamjaygreene, @eldon and @stevekovach
| Ina Fried / AllThingsD: |
Breaking: Windows Head Steven Sinofsky to Leave Microsoft — Windows unit president Steven Sinofsky is leaving the company, effective immediately, AllThingsD has confirmed. — The move comes less than a month after Sinofsky presided over the launch of Windows 8 and Microsoft's Surface tablet-products seen …
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Tweets: @valleyhack, @parislemon, @maryjofoley, @jessicalessin, @ashleymayer, @alex, @findingnewo and @markgurman
| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
Steve Ballmer's letter to team on Sinofsky departure — We've just learned that Windows chief Steven Sinofsky has left Microsoft, less than a month after the Windows 8 and Microsoft Surface launch. Here's what CEO Steve Ballmer had to say about the executive departure …
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| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Who is Julie Larson-Green? Meet the new head of Windows — Summary: Microsoft announced on November 12 that Windows President Steven Sinofsky is leaving, effective immediately. Meet the new head of Windows engineering, Julie Larson-Green. — I don't know the back story here … | Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Inside Microsoft, a clash of personalities led to Sinofsky's departure: sources — As with Scott Forstall at Apple, Sinofsky clashed with core teams and executives — The abrupt departure of Windows and Windows Live President Steven Sinofsky this evening has surprised …
Tweets: @mikeisaac
| Jeff Wise / Gizmodo: |
Exclusive: John McAfee Wanted for Murder (Updated) — Antivirus pioneer John McAfee is on the run from murder charges, Belize police say. According to Marco Vidal, head of the national police force's Gang Suppression Unit, McAfee is a prime suspect in the murder of American expatriate Gregory Faull …
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Tweets: @joeljohnson, @marshallk and @valleyhack
| Joshua Davis / Wired: |
Murder Suspect John McAfee: I'm Innocent — As Belizean police combed the property of expat antivirus pioneer John McAfee Sunday afternoon, McAfee was closer than they could have known. He'd seen them coming, and says he hid — burying himself in the sand with a cardboard box over his head so he could breathe.| Sara Forden / Bloomberg: |
Google Said to Face Ultimatum From FTC in Antitrust Talks — Google Inc. (GOOG) is being pressed by U.S. Federal Trade Commission Chairman Jonathan Leibowitz to make an offer to settle the agency's antitrust investigation in the next few days or face a formal complaint, two people familiar with the situation said.| Kim Zetter / Wired: |
Email Location Data Led FBI to Uncover Top Spy's Affair — U.S. Army Gen. David H. Petraeus, commander of U.S. Central Command, presides over a re-enlistment and awards ceremony while visiting Soldiers of Task Force Mountain Warrior. Photo: U.S. Army Spc. Albert L. Kelley, 300th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment| Matt Thompson / The Mozilla Blog: |
Introducing Popcorn Maker — Brett Gaylor launching Popcorn Maker at the Mozilla Festival this morning — Today at the Mozilla Festival, we're extremely proud to launch the 1.0 version of Popcorn Maker, a free web app that makes video pop with interactivity, context and the magic of the web.
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| Jessica E. Lessin / Wall Street Journal: |
Apple Gives In to Employee Perks — CEO Tim Cook Pushes Employee-Friendly Benefits Long Shunned by Steve Jobs — When it comes to keeping employees happy, Apple Inc. appears to be taking some inspiration from Google Inc. — Earlier this year, Apple told some employees about a new initiative called …
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| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft to deliver SharePoint apps for Windows 8, Windows Phone, iOS starting in early 2013 — Summary: Microsoft is readying two new companion apps for SharePoint that will work on Windows 8, Windows Phone and iOS devices starting early next year. — Microsoft is working …
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| Jason Ankeny / Fierce Mobile Content: |
SMS traffic and revenues decline for the first time ever in U.S., Chetan Sharma says — U.S. mobile operators raked in third quarter 2012 data revenues of $19.9 billion, up 3 percent quarter-over-quarter and 17 percent year-over-year—despite suffering their first-ever decline …
| Emil Protalinski / The Next Web: |
Opera users click on the most ads, followed by Safari Mobile, Internet Explorer, and Android — Which browser brings in the most ad clicks, disregarding its market share? If you guessed Internet Explorer, as it doesn't have a decent ad blocker and users of the browser often don't install add-ons or extensions, you'd be wrong.
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| Horace Dediu / asymco: |
On not being boring: A dramatic reading of Apple's share price — Apple's renaissance began with the iPod. This was not evident right away however. The product was unveiled on October 23, 2001 at a time when Apple's share price had just fallen 70% from year-earlier levels.
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| Peter Kafka / AllThingsD: |
Changing Channels: YouTube Will Pull the Plug on at Least 60 Percent of Its Programming Deals — YouTube has helped fund about 160 “channels” as part of a new strategy to make the video site more TV-like. — And just like the TV world, YouTube isn't going to renew all of last season's programs.
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BGR, TechCrunch and Mashable!
| Kara Swisher / AllThingsD: |
Along With New Homepage, Yahoo Also Set to Launch a “Gmail-Like” Email Reboot to Slow Gmail Gains — According to sources close to the company, Yahoo is prepping to launch a major overhaul of Yahoo Mail — which sources said has a cleaner, “more Gmail-like” look.
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| Vlad Savov / The Verge: |
Samsung reportedly raising iPhone and iPad processor prices by a fifth — Samsung has made no secret of the fact that it provides a number of the key components inside Apple's flagship iPhone and iPad devices, even while actively competing against them with its own Galaxy line of Android competitors.
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| Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web: |
Twitter snags former Google Deputy General Counsel Nicole Wong for legal team — Twitter has scored a nice get for its legal team with the addition of former Google VP and Deputy General Counsel Nicole Wong. Wong joins the team as legal director today, which already sports several ex-Googlers of its own … | Jessica Roy / Betabeat: |
Look Out, New York: Randi Zuckerberg Is Casting for a New Techcentric Bravo Show Set in the Big Apple — With 634,000 viewers tuning in for last week's premiere of Start-Ups: Silicon Valley, newly-minted Bravo TV producer Randi Zuckerberg already has her sights set on New York.| Donny H. / Inside BlackBerry: |
BlackBerry 10 Launch Event to be held on January 30th, 2013 — One of my favorite things about working as a community and blog manager for BlackBerry ® is getting to talk to you and provide updates on our products. Each day on our social channels fans, followers and readers ask, when will BlackBerry ® 10 launch?
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| Neil Hughes / AppleInsider: |
HTC settlement may pay Apple $8 per phone, act as blueprint for Samsung & Motorola — Apple's out-of-court settlement with rival smartphone maker HTC is expected to give Apple a net licensing fee of as much as $8 per phone, and may also serve as a blueprint for future deals with Samsung and Motorola.
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| Donna Tam / CNET: |
Facebook insiders could sell 773 million shares Wednesday — The largest set of employee stock shares since the company's IPO can be sold this week as another stock “lockup” expiration date passes. — The largest set of Facebook stock shares available since May, when the company went public …
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| Steve Dent / Engadget: |
NEC outs cloud computing facial recognition service for merchants — NEC has launched a $880 per month service in Japan that lets merchants profile customers using just a PC and video camera. The system uses facial recognition powered by the company's cloud computing service to estimate …
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DigInfo TV, nbcnews.com and Gizmodo
| CNET: |
France says Amazon owes $252 million in back taxes — Tax claim just the latest flare-up between U.S. tech companies operating overseas. — The French government says that Amazon owes it $252 million in back taxes. The sum includes interest and penalties.
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| Drew Olanoff / TechCrunch: |
CoTweet Founders Reunite, Raise Seed Round For Their New Company “Seesaw” — An interesting team is getting back together for something new, and it's worth noting. The founders of CoTweet, a company which was acquired by ExactTarget, is joining forces for a new startup called Seesaw.Sponsor Posts
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This Week on Channel 9 — Mark DeFalco and Dan Fernandez discuss the week's top developer news.
This Week on Channel 9 — Mark DeFalco and Dan Fernandez discuss the week's top developer news.
Cloud Foundry:
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 …
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 …
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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