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Twitter Aims to Release Photo Filters in Time for the Holidays — Forget Lo-Fi and Toaster. There may be a sepia-toned little bird under the tree this Christmas. — Twitter is making a big push to release a series of photo filters to be used inside the official Twitter app before the end of the year … | Harrison Weber / The Next Web: |
Twitter's photo filters may already be live, as employees test them in new iOS and Android apps — Following Instagram's decision to stop letting users view photos on Twitter, rumors that Twitter is to launch its own photo filters are looking more solid by the day.| Seth Weintraub / 9to5Mac: |
Apple's upcoming iOS update to unlock full Bluetooth keyboard control for Apple TV — As we first discovered in the iOS software code a year ago, Apple is finally ready to implement Bluetooth in its Apple TV products. The latest Apple TV beta not only has a new Bluetooth menu … | Jason Schreier / Kotaku: |
Gabe Newell: Living Room PCs Will Compete With Next-Gen Consoles — Steam's Big Picture mode was just the first step: according to Valve boss Gabe Newell, you'll be able to buy a living-room-friendly PC package next year. — Speaking to me during a brief interview on the red carpet at the VGAs last night … | Stephen Shankland / CNET: |
Android's Google Now services headed for Chrome, too — The all-purpose alert system isn't just for Android. Google is building its Google Now alert system into Chrome as well, taking advantage of its notifications system. — It looks like Chrome users, not just Android users … | Timothy B. Lee / Ars Technica: |
Authoritarian regimes push for larger ITU role in DNS system — China, Russia, and Saudi Arabia want expanded ITU authority online. — Mr Mohamed Al Ghanim, Director General, Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (TRA), UAE, speaking in meeting at Day 5, WCIT 2012 — itupictures| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft's battle for consumers: it's time to drop the Windows name — In a mobile world, the brand is the biggest crutch — The Windows brand has served Microsoft well for over 25 years, but with increased competition from mobile operating systems and web services, it's time for the software maker to rethink its approach.| Melanie Lee / Reuters: |
China's mini Apple takes slice of smartphone pie — (Reuters) - China's Xiaomi Technology is a fairy tale for nerdy entrepreneurs. — Less than three years after its founding, the smartphone maker is valued at $4 billion and evokes Apple-like adoration from its fans … | Quentin Hardy / NYT Bits: |
Why Apple Got a ‘Made in U.S.A.’ Bug — Apple's decision to make some of its computers in the United States may be a positive for American jobs. It is certainly a marker of where much of the global computer industry has gone. — Today, rising energy prices and a global market for computers … | Janet Reitman / Rolling Stone: |
The Rise and Fall of Jeremy Hammond: Enemy of the State — As a devastating series of cyberattacks struck the heart of the national-security establishment, the Feds set out to destroy the legendary hacker and radical anarchist by any means necessary — On a cold day in mid-December 2011 … | Ethan Anderson / AllThingsD: |
What Proposition 30 Means for California's Entrepreneurs — Nothing terrifies investors or entrepreneurs as much as the concept of expropriation. When governments decide to expropriate legally obtained assets, entrepreneurs who worked tirelessly to build businesses and investors … | Connie Loizos / PE Hub Blog: |
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You for Sale: Company Envisions ‘Vaults’ for Personal Data — “YOU are walking around naked on the Internet and you need some clothes,” says Michael Fertik. “I am going to sell you some.” — Naked? Not exactly, but close. — Mr. Fertik, 34, is the chief executive of Reputation.com … | Jessica Roy / Betabeat: |
Silicon Valley Finally Gets the TV Treatment It Deserves, From the Dude Who Wrote ‘Beavis and Butt-head’ — If the sunny, overblown drama of Bravo's Start-Ups: Silicon Valley has left you aching for a bleaker take on Valley culture, then we have some wonderful news for you.| Jason Grieves / The Windows Blog: |
The secrets of the Windows Phone 8 keyboard — From the day Windows Phone 7 made its debut, we've gotten lots of kudos for its on-screen keyboard and intelligent suggestions and corrections. Engadget called it “one of the best and most accurate virtual keyboards we've used on any platform.”
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 …
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 …
DevOps: Improved Productivity, Higher Value — Those of us who have been aligned with DevOps for some time already know that the greater agility and closer collaboration it enables deliver real business value for our organizations.
Get Started with Hadoop on Hortonworks Data Platform 1.1 for Windows — We are excited to release the Hortonworks Data Platform 1.1 for Windows as a Generally Available product.
Skype in the browser — Whether you like the Skype app or not, until now, you've had no choice but to download something to make voice and video calls — either an app like Skype, or a Flash plugin (yikes) for your browser.This is a Techmeme archive page. It shows how the site appeared at 7:50 AM ET, December 9, 2012.
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