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| Mat Honan / Wired: |
Kill the Password: Why a String of Characters Can't Protect Us Anymore — You have a secret that can ruin your life. — It's not a well-kept secret, either. Just a simple string of characters—maybe six of them if you're careless, 16 if you're cautious—that can reveal everything about you.
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JFK worker busted in $1.9M iPad mini heist — He could star in “Dumbfellas.” — An airport worker has been accused of being the less-than-master-mind behind the theft of $1.9 million in iPad minis from JFK Airport, court papers revealed yesterday. — Federal agents were able …
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PC Magazine, AllThingsD, Examiner, CNET, PhoneArena, 9to5Mac, Gothamist and iClarified
| Cyrus Farivar / Ars Technica: |
Apple's stock price falls to lowest point in six months — While short-term challenges remain, analysts are bullish on Apple's long-term. — On Friday Apple's stock price closed at $527.68 per share, the lowest it's been in six months. Since September, the company has lost about 25 percent … | Reuters: |
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AllThingsD, Crazy Joys, The Dividend Daily, Wall St. Cheat Sheet, YCharts, TodaysiPhone.com, SiliconValley.com, Macworld Australia, The Slant, WPTV Newschannel 5, Northern Voices Online, InvestorPlace, Cult of Mac, Los Angeles Times, Yahoo! Finance, AppleInsider and TheStreet.com. Tweets: @johnwilander
| Peter Bright / Ars Technica: |
Microsoft begs Web devs not to make WebKit the new IE6 — Internet Explorer 10 is a fast browser with good standards compliance, and the version of Internet Explorer 10 included with Windows Phone 8 is no exception, as it's almost identical to its desktop sibling.
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| Harry McCracken / TIME: |
It's Too Early to Judge Early Windows 8 Sales — Three weeks after Windows 8′s launch, Windows guru/newshound Paul Thurrott says that one of his Microsoft sources has confided that the new software isn't meeting the company's sales expectations. Thurrott gives several explanations, including: Windows 8.
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| Brendan Sinclair / GamesIndustry International: |
Xbox Live Turns 10: Reflecting On An Online Revolution — We chat with members of the original Xbox team and Bungie in this special look back at the origins of a service that forever changed console gaming — Ten years ago today, Microsoft officially launched Xbox Live.| iFixit: |
Nexus 4 Teardown — The Nexus 4 landed in our inbox just in time for a Friday teardown-a-rama. Questions that linger in our minds: Is it good as a phone? No idea. We dived right into the Nexus 4for science! Will it blend? We'll let Tom answer that one. How repairable is it?
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PC Magazine, Mobile Magazine, Phones Review, IntoMobile, 9to5Google and Engadget
| Muhammad Lila / ABCNEWS: |
Oops! Taliban Reveal Identities of Their Mailing List Members — Somewhere out there, Mullah Omar must be shaking his head. — In a Dilbert-esque faux pax, a Taliban spokesperson sent out a routine email last week with one notable difference.He publicly CC'd the names of everyone on his mailing list.| Wall Street Journal: |
Nintendo's Wii U Puts Hardware Strategy to the Test — Like its famous videogame character Super Mario in his latest game, Nintendo Co. is trying to outrun its enemies. — The company, coming off of its first annual loss in more than three decades, will start selling the Wii U in U.S. stores Sunday …
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AllThingsD, Los Angeles Times, Ars Technica, Washington Post, BGR, PC World and Digits. Thanks:@mattlynley
| Dante D'Orazio / The Verge: |
Into the vault: the operation to rescue Manhattan's drowned internet — Hurricane Sandy's storm surge flooded Verizon's downtown office, rendering miles of copper wiring useless — At Broad Street, near the tip of Lower Manhattan, the situation is far from normal.| Seth Weintraub / 9to5Google: |
Google-Dish wireless service is a go, plans for 2013 launch being hatched — Regarding the Google-Dish tie up that was reported last night, we just got word that this is really happening. While the details haven't been finalized, Google is already deep into development on plans to roll …
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Examiner, PhoneArena, The Inquisitr, Pocketnow, Droid Life, BGR and 9to5Mac
| John Paczkowski / AllThingsD: |
Apple and Google Talk Arbitration in Smartphone Spat — Apple and Google haven't yet buried their respective hatchets over the patent litigation between them, but evidently they are willing to put them aside for a moment in the hopes of negotiating a broader peace.
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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 …
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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