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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 …
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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 …
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| 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 …
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| 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.| 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 …
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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 …
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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| 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 … | 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.”
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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: |
| 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.| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Kickfolio Brings iOS Applications To The Browser — Kickfolio, a 500 Startups-backed company bringing iOS app testing to the browser, is today opening up its service to all developers. Similar in some respects to recent Facebook acquisition Pieceable or the Android-focused AppSurfer … 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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