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| Coleen Baik / Twitter Blog: |
Twitter photos: Put a filter on it — Every day, millions of people come to Twitter to connect with the things they care about and find out what's happening around the world. As one of the most compelling forms of self-expression, photos have long been an important part of these experiences.
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Twitter Status, CNET, Aviary Blog, Telegraph, AllThingsD, VentureBeat, Robot Tuxedo, TechCrunch, NYT Bits, digitaltrends.com, AllTwitter, SocialTimes, Talking Points Memo, Mashable!, Are You An Android?, Gizmodo, memeburn, The Technology Chronicles, ABCNEWS, iPhone Hacks, ReadWrite, Mashable!, GadgeTell, BuzzFeed, Forbes, PetaPixel, Macgasm, Betabeat, Digits, Know Your Cell, GigaOM, ABCNEWS, PetaPixel, Business Insider, iDownloadBlog.com, SeekingAlpha.com, 9to5Mac, Electronista and Neowin
Tweets: @design, @twittermobile, @biz, @hoppemeg, @agarwal and @mattbuchanan
| Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web: |
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| Charles Arthur / Guardian: |
Apple redraws maps after Australian drivers led astray in the bush — Mildura police issue warning after motorists lose way in scorching temperatures because town misplaced on Apple Maps — Apple has updated its new maps system after police in Mildura, Australia, said a number of people trying …
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| Alex Wilhelm / The Next Web: |
Microsoft balks at Apple's 30% fee, leaving SkyDrive and apps that integrate with it in the lurch on iOS — Microsoft and Apple are currently locked in something of a Cold War over the future of SkyDrive in the iOS App Store. — Sources close to Microsoft have detailed to TNW a difficult …
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook Will Nix Voting, Integrate Instagram Data Despite Vote Ending With 88% Of 668K Votes Opposed — The polls have closed on Facebook's final site governance vote, with 588,803 votes (88 percent) opposed to the changes, and 79,697 of the total 668,500 in support.
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| Matt Buchanan / BuzzFeed: |
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| Matt Smith / Reuters: |
Russia backs down on proposals to regulate the Internet — (Reuters) - A Russia-led coalition on Monday withdrew a proposal to give governments new powers over the Internet, a plan opposed by Western countries in talks on a new global telecom treaty. — Negotiations on the treaty mark … | Andy Greenberg / Forbes: |
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| Eric Slivka / MacRumors: |
Microsoft Leaks References to ‘Office Mobile for iPhone’, ‘Excel for iPad’ and ‘PowerPoint for iPad’ — Building upon a series of reports about Microsoft's apparent efforts to bring its Office productivity suite to iOS, The Verge last month shared a few screenshots and noted that the suite …
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| Jon Russell / The Next Web: |
Motorola to exit South Korea in 2013, as Google restructuring claims another 500+ jobs — Motorola Mobility is to close down almost all of its operations in South Korea next year as its reorganization under the ownership of Google continues. The phone maker will keep 10 percent of its local R&D staff …
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| Chico Harlan / Washington Post: |
| Chris Taylor / Reuters: |
Your Money: The “Apple Tax” - America's costly obsession — (Reuters) - With the “fiscal cliff” looming, taxpayers are wringing their hands about all sorts of things. Income taxes might rise, dividends might get walloped, lifetime gift-tax exemptions might get slashed.
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| Sarah McBride / Reuters: |
US patent lawsuits now dominated by ‘trolls’ -study — For the first time, individuals and companies that do not themselves make anything - commonly known as “patent trolls” - are bringing the majority of U.S. patent lawsuits, according to a study by a California law professor.
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| Kevin Kelleher / Fortune: |
Will Adobe's new cloud strategy pay off? — A risky makeover of the king of shrinkwrapped software is starting to win over skeptics. — FORTUNE — Adobe chief Shantanu Narayan and a dozen of his top executives were sequestered in a tony Carmel Valley spa in California.
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| Helen Knight / MIT: |
Tiny compound semiconductor transistor could challenge silicon's dominance — MIT researchers develop the smallest indium gallium arsenide transistor ever built. — A cross-section transmission electron micrograph of the fabricated transistor. The central inverted V is the gate.
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| Russ Garland / Venture Capital Dispatch: |
Sequoia's Leone: In Venture, Big is the Enemy of Great — “Complete warfare” is how Sequoia Capital's Douglas Leone sees the contest to stay atop of the venture capital heap. — “The venture model is not broken for the partnerships that know what they're doing,” Leone told …
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| Adrianne Jeffries / The Verge: |
Blogging with Medium, the odd new product from Twitter's founders — Can Ev Williams and Biz Stone build a better blog? — Blogging was once heralded as a great equalizer, seizing power from big media gatekeepers and redistributing it to the common internet user.| Harrison Weber / The Next Web: |
Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator finally get Retina support, available now for all CS 6 users — Ahead of its Create NOW event, Adobe has announced that both Photoshop and Illustrator have been updated with Retina (HiDPI) support. This update comes more than three months after Adobe …
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| Jennifer Van Grove / VentureBeat: |
Instagram's next move: a novel new camera for iOS and a fresh filter for all — Embroiled in a photo turf war with Twitter, Instagram's deadly weapon of choice is a revamped iOS application that allows users to snap better, more stylized shots. — The Facebook-owned entity today released …
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Instagram, AllThingsD, BetaNews, The Verge, Softpedia News, Mashable!, BGR, Macgasm, Mercury News, Off On A Tangent, WebProNews, MacRumors, Engadget, iDownloadBlog.com, GigaOM, 9to5Google, digitaltrends.com and Gizmodo. Thanks:@jbruin
| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft's Bing Augmented Reality team readies framework, Windows 8 tablet apps — Summary: Microsoft's Bing Information Platform team is working on an augmented-reality SDK, as well as a number of related apps for Windows 8 tablets and other devices. — The Microsoft Bing team is doing …
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| Noel Randewich / Reuters: |
Intel says on track to launch smaller mobile chips — (Reuters) - Intel presented new manufacturing technology that it said keeps it on track to launch a new generation of chips for smartphones and tablets as it rushes to catch up with Qualcomm and other rivals in the fast-growing mobile market.
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| Matthew Lynley / Digits: |
Jack Dorsey Explains: Why Square Is Getting Into Gift Cards — Mobile-payment service Square has launched a new way to pay for products with its Square Wallet app: gift cards. — Here's how it works: Any Square user can send someone a “gift card” for a store that's personalized via Square's mobile Wallet application.| Sachin Agarwal / Twitter Blog: |
New profiles for everyone — A few months ago, we introduced new Twitter profiles so that you could make your profile beautiful and display your style on your profile page. By uploading a header photo on twitter.com or our mobile apps on iPhone, iPad or Android, you can make your profile more uniquely yours.
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| Dan Seifert / The Verge: |
Google may entertain financing options to help sell Motorola's set-top business, claims Bloomberg — Google has been trying to offload its Motorola Home Business, which it acquired with its $12.5 billion purchase of Motorola Mobility earlier this year, for some time now … Sponsor Posts
Channel 9:
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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