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| 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?| Horace Dediu / asymco: |
Minding the store — Apple's Retail head was recently replaced. The hire seems to have been a mistake dealt with quite swiftly. It is tempting to think that the firing of a manager is due to a failure in their performance, measurable in quarterly reported metrics. But this is not often the case.| Jean-Louis Gassée / Monday Note: |
Minding The (Apple)Store — As I've written many times in the past, I'm part of the vast chorus that praises the Apple Store. And not just for the uncluttered product displays, the no-pressure sales people (who aren't on commission), or the Genius Bar that provides expert help, but for the impressive architecture.
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| Michael Learmonth / AdAge: |
YouTube Preps Big New Round of Content Investments — Some Partners Will Get Another Check; Others May Quietly Go Away — Nearly a year after YouTube sprinkled $100 million across the online video ecosystem to create more than a hundred new “channels,” it's doubling down.
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CNET, The Verge, paidContent, AllThingsD, memeburn, The Next Web and SlashGear
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Thanks:@learmonth. See also Mediagazer| Daniel Rubino / wpcentral.com: |
Skype Preview for Windows Phone 8 is now available! Hands on video. — Oh what a weekend it has been. With the launch of Windows Phone 8 on AT&T and Verizon and T-Mobile expected in the next week, it has been quite exciting but now it is coming to full steam with the release of Skype for Windows Phone 8.| John Callaham / Neowin: |
Steve Ballmer: first Surface sales are “modest”; hypes Windows 8 Pro version — When Microsoft started taking pre-orders of its new Windows RT-based Surface tablet in late October, it appeared that sales of the device were pretty high, thanks to high back order numbers.
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LAPTOP Magazine, Gizmodo, The Register, TechCrunch, CNET, Electronista, SlashGear, ZDNet and Pocketnow
| Tony Romm / Politico: |
Obama 2.0 will revitalize tech agenda — The reelection of President Barack Obama along with another politically divided Congress means the tech policy battles from the past few years are going to intensify, even if a few of the faces fighting are about to change.
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| Scott Thomas Bruce / The Diplomat: |
The Information Age:N. Korean Style — The “Hermit Kingdom” has slowly embraced cell phones and cyberspace - on its own terms. Those expecting that technology will lead to a “Pyongyang Spring” will be disappointed. — During the floods and famine of the 1990s, the North Korea regime … | Jon Russell / The Next Web: |
With Kim Dotcom's Me.ga plans scuppered, soon-to-relaunch Mega goes online at Mega.co.nz — After his dreams of a Me.ga domain were shot down by Gabon's government, Kim Dotcom's soon-to-relaunch Mega service has finally found its place online after the German confirmed that the Mega holding site …
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CNET, Business Insider, Gizmodo, Inquirer, Softpedia News, gHacks Technology News, ITProPortal and Mashable!. Tweets: @kimdotcom
| Tom Bergin / Reuters: |
Starbucks, Amazon and Google to face UK lawmakers over tax — (Reuters) - UK lawmakers will quiz executives of Starbucks (SBUX.O), Google (GOOG.O) and Amazon (AMZN.O) on Monday about how they have managed to pay only small amounts of tax in Britain while racking up billions of dollars worth of sales here.
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Guardian, Hillicon Valley and The Verge
| Matt Brian / The Next Web: |
Ofcom sets UK 4G auction plans: Submissions by December 11, bidding in January and rollout in May/June 2013 — UK communications regulator Ofcom today announced the final plans for the roll out of 4G networks and services in the UK, setting the processes which operators will need to follow during the auction.
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ZDNet, Engadget, BBC, The Register, Inquirer, Ofcom, SlashGear, Telegraph, MobileBurn.com, Advanced Television and TechCrunch
| Janet I. Tu / The Seattle Times: |
Microsoft, Motorola set to square off in court over patent payments — Microsoft and Motorola will be battling it out in a federal courtroom in Seattle starting Tuesday. The trial is being closely watched for its ramifications on the larger patent — and market — battles being fought between huge tech companies.
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| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
Why Apple and HTC settled their patent litigation — Sometimes it's easier to just pay the money — Apple and HTC just announced a surprise settlement to their ongoing patent litigation, which spanned multiple lawsuits in courts around the world. The deal will see both companies drop …
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BGR, memeburn, Reuters, Guardian, Examiner, Geekosystem, WMPoweruser, Engadget and TECHGEEK.com.au. Tweets: @llsethj
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Inside NuGet for C++ — NuGet support for C++ projects in Visual Studio has arrived in NuGet 2.5! It's been around for about a month now so we figured we'd go talk to one of the developers who helped make it happen, Garrett Serack.
Inside NuGet for C++ — NuGet support for C++ projects in Visual Studio has arrived in NuGet 2.5! It's been around for about a month now so we figured we'd go talk to one of the developers who helped make it happen, Garrett Serack.
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 …
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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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