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Internet, phone services back online for much of Syria — (CNN) — Internet and cell phone coverage were restored Saturday to most Syrian provinces, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, two days after a blackout shut down virtually all Internet service in the country.
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Could It Happen In Your Country? — How hard is it to disconnect a country from the Internet, really? — That's the number one question we've received about our analysis of the Egyptian and Syrian Internet blackouts, and it's a reasonable question. If the Internet is so famously resilient … | Amy Chozick / New York Times: |
Syria Rebels Find Skype Useful, but Dangers Lurk — In a demonstration of their growing sophistication and organization, Syrian rebels responded to a nationwide shutdown of the Internet by turning to satellite technology to coordinate within the country and to communicate with outside activists.| Brad Molen / Engadget: |
HTC confirms the Windows Phone 8S will not be coming to the US — The HTC Windows Phone 8S was announced as a lower-end alternative to its bigger brother, the flagship Windows Phone 8X, but the company has remained relatively quiet about it since. While we're still awaiting official details … | Damaster / LiveSide.net: |
Exclusive: Microsoft bringing cloud music player to SkyDrive.com — Rumors about Microsoft bringing a cloud music playing to SkyDrive had been floating around for a long time. Back in May 2011 when Microsoft first announced Windows Phone 7.5 “Mango”, we reported on some indications that …
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| Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch: |
R.I.P. Frothy Times, A Return To Normalcy — Whatever it is, it is palpable. A sort of buzz in the Valley that all is not well, and a slight nervousness among entrepreneurs, investors and startup employees as they flit about their day-to-day. We may not be in the middle … | John Callaham / Neowin: |
Microsoft launches web-based Windows 8 app creator — Before now, if a person wanted to make an app for Windows 8 or Windows Phone 8, the usual way is to program and create the app with a PC and associated development tools. Today, Microsoft announced that its research division has come …
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| Ken Yeung / The Next Web: |
Instagram's Mike Krieger on apps: are you getting the design right or do you have the right design? — App and mobile design has come a long way in the past few years, with many popular services shifting their focus more towards to improving the way their apps look.
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Business Insider, TechCrunch and GigaOM
| Ryan Tate / Wired: |
Zynga Stock Dives as Facebook Keeps Backing Away — Zynga shares are down 7 percent after the social-games maker and Facebook announced they are all but ending their special relationship. Facebook can develop its own games if it chooses to do so, and Zynga can now host its games …
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SlashGear and Business Insider
| Brittany Darwell / Inside Facebook: |
FB shares close at $28, highest since July — Facebook shares closed today at $28, up more than 16 percent this week and hitting a new high not seen since July. — Shares have been on the rise now that major lockup periods have passed and a number of analysts have improved their ratings for the stock.| Jennifer Martinez / Hillicon Valley: |
White House draft cyber order adds changes to mollify tech industry — The White House has incorporated changes into its draft cybersecurity executive order that attempts to smooth over concerns raised by the high tech industry. — The latest set of edits come after White House officials …
| Matt Hartley / Financial Post: |
Google snaps up Waterloo startup BufferBox — BufferBox Inc. is moving on up to Google Inc. Quite literally. — That's because home base for the team behind the Waterloo, Ont.-based startup — which includes founders Mike McCauley, Aditya Bali and Jay Shah — is currently the VeloCity Garage inside …
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Tweets: @googleventures, @warrenhogarth, @loyalelectron and @dannysullivan
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| Liz Gannes / AllThingsD: |
Cinemagram Raises $8.5M Led by Menlo Ventures — Have you heard that VCs are taking more of a wait-and-see approach to investing in fast-growing mobile apps so they don't find themselves plunging into a Draw Something or a Viddy just in time for the downslope? — Well, not all of them.Sponsor Posts
Channel 9:
Windows 8 Tips — Tips and tricks for Windows 8 users.
Windows 8 Tips — Tips and tricks for Windows 8 users.
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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