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| Daniel Graf / The Official Google Blog: |
Google Maps is now available for iPhone — People around the world have been asking for Google Maps on iPhone. Starting today, we're pleased to announce that Google Maps is here—rolling out across the world in the Apple App Store. It's designed from the ground up to combine the comprehensiveness …
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Daring Fireball, digitaltrends.com, ProgrammableWeb, Inside Mobile Apps, SachaGreif.com, Gizmodo, Open IT Strategies, blog.chron.com, GeekWire, CNET, SiliconANGLE, BetaNews, ABCNEWS, Skift, Apple Bitch, GadgeTell, SocialTimes, TPM IdeaLab, The Tech Report, Fortune, ZDNet, Global Nerdy, Guardian, Pocket-lint, WebProNews, FierceMobileContent News and TheStreet.com
| David Pogue / New York Times: |
Google Maps App for iPhone Goes in the Right Direction - Review — It was one of the biggest tech headlines of the year: in September, Apple dropped its contract with Google, which had always supplied the data for the iPhone's Maps app. For various strategic reasons, Apple preferred to write a new app … | Alexis C. Madrigal / The Atlantic Online: |
| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
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PandoDaily, The Register, Bloomberg Tech Blog, 9to5Mac, VatorNews, BGR, Ars Technica, CNET and Digits
| Anil Dash: |
The Web We Lost — The tech industry and its press have treated the rise of billion-scale social networks and ubiquitous smartphone apps as an unadulterated win for regular people, a triumph of usability and empowerment. They seldom talk about what we've lost along the way in this transition …
| Jessica Leber / MIT Technology Review: |
Meet Young Sohn, the Man Charged with Revamping Samsung's Technology Strategy from Silicon Valley — Samsung chief strategy officer Young Sohn explains why he still uses Apple devices at home—and what his company needs to do to stay ahead. — Why It Matters
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The Verge, AppleInsider, BGR, CNET, Gotta Be Mobile, iMore.com, InvestorPlace, iClarified, PadGadget, iPhone Hacks, Engadget and SlashGear. Thanks:@jessleber
| Jordan Crook / TechCrunch: |
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| Jennifer Martinez / The Hill: |
US says it won't ratify UN telecom treaty over Internet resolution — The United States said Thursday that it will not ratify a United Nations telecommunications treaty after raising concerns that it would disrupt the current governance structure of the Internet and open the door for online censorship.
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BBC, Ars Technica, ZDNet, Computerworld, The Next Web, AllThingsD, Techdirt, CNET, Washington Post and Reuters
| Violet Blue / CNET: |
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook Speeds Up Android App By Ditching HTML5 And Rebuilding It Natively Just Like The iOS Version — Facebook's HTML5 app nightmare is over. Later today it's releasing Facebook for Android 2., which replaces the hybrid native/webview code with an all-native infrastructure to answer years … | Cornelius Rahn / Bloomberg: |
Sprint Seeks to Buy Rest of Clearwire for About $2.1 Billion — Sprint Nextel Corp. (S) proposed to acquire shares in wireless partner Clearwire Corp. it doesn't already own in a deal that the third-largest U.S. carrier says would cost about $2.1 billion. — Sprint, which owns … | Stacey Higginbotham / GigaOM: |
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| Allen Huang / Google Mobile Ads Blog: |
Combating accidental clicks in mobile ads — Ads on smartphones are effective, but many of us have at some point clicked on an ad by accident, which ultimately is a bad experience for the user, the publisher, and the advertiser who pays for clicks that may not be valuable.| Ellis Hamburger / The Verge: |
Mailbox for iPhone: a next-generation email app inspired by Sparrow and Clear — Cloud to-do list company Orchestra today announced Mailbox, an email client for the iPhone it's been building for the last year. I've been testing Mailbox for the last few weeks and it's nothing short of spectactular.
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TechCrunch, MacRumors, iPhone Hacks, parislemon, creativebits™, Business Insider, 9to5Mac, SocialTimes, iDownloadBlog.com, iClarified and everythingiCafe. Tweets: @qthrul
| Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web: |
Apple rolls out new, far more detailed, status page for general Services, Stores and iCloud systems — Apple has today launched a new status page for its iCloud, store and general services that provides far more detail about status and uptimes of its various cloud and backend components.
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TechCrunch, GigaOM, CNET, MacRumors, Engadget, 9to5Mac, iPhone Hacks and MacStories. Thanks:@bradmccarty
| Jean-Baptiste Su / Forbes: |
Dell Quits Smartphone Business Globally, Drops Android — Dell is definitely pulling the plug on the smartphone business, globally. A tough decision, leaving a market that is expected to reach $150.3 billion in 2014, according to MarketsandMarkets. However, Jeff Clarke …
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ComputerworldUK.com, Pocketables, LAPTOP Magazine, TechSpot and IntoMobile
| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
Apple releases iTunes 11.0.1, adds duplicate item finding, includes iCloud, AirPlay fixes — Approximately two weeks following the launch of the revamped iTunes 11 application, Apple has released iTunes 11.0.1 via the Mac App Store Software Update tab to users. … The update is generally a bug fix release.
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MacRumors, The Next Web, Engadget and CNET
| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
Amazon Puts Instant Video On iPhone And iPod Touch, Cloud Player Music On Roku And Samsung Smart TVs — Amazon has announced a number of new platform expansions for its streaming media services today, including Cloud Player apps for Samsung Smart TVs and Roku set top boxes …
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Amazon.com, The Verge, MacRumors, Amazon.com, CNET, Amazon.com, Gizmodo, TUAW, SlashGear, Engadget, Gotta Be Mobile, SocialTimes, iPhone Hacks, GeekWire, BGR and VentureBeat
| Eric Eldon / TechCrunch: |
Silicon Valley Entrepreneur Legend Max Levchin Joins Yahoo Board, Intuit's Smith And Weather Channels's Kenny Leave — Max Levchin has been many things in his long run in Silicon Valley — PayPal cofounder, Slide founder, angel investor, etc. etc. — but now he's trying on something more traditional.
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Yahoo! Inc., DealBook, CNET, Digital Media Wire, Forbes, DailyFinance.com, GigaOM, VentureBeat, AllThingsD and Reuters. Tweets: @marissamayer. Thanks:@anwoodgate
| Bill Callahan / Bloomberg: |
Apple, LG Electronics Defeat Alcatel-Lucent Patent Claims — Apple Inc. (AAPL) and LG Electronics Inc. (066570) didn't infringe an Alcatel-Lucent SA (ALU) unit's patents for electronic devices including phones and computers, a jury said. — The verdict today came after a trial that began Nov. 27 …
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| Kim Yoo-chul / The Korea Times: |
Samsung to reduce investment in LCD — Samsung Electronics is moving to reduce investment in its liquid crystal display (LCD) unit as the firm has shifted the focus of its screen business to organic light-emitting diode (OLED) and plastic-based flexible displays.
| Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web: |
US court rules Apple's iPhone infringes on three patents held by Sony and Nokia owned MobileMedia — A US court has ruled that Apple's iPhone infringes on three patents held by MobileMeda, a company many consider to be a ‘classic patent troll’. The report, via a Bloomberg tweet, has yet to be fleshed out with details.
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Bloomberg, The Verge, LAPTOP Magazine, Ars Technica, Computerworld, Wired, iDownloadBlog.com, InfoWorld, Gizmodo, AppleInsider, SlashGear and CNET
| Ernesto / TorrentFreak: |
Google Starts Reporting False DMCA Takedown Requests — Ever since Google started publishing a transparency report for the DMCA requests it receives, the number of notices being sent have shot through the roof. — During the past month copyright holders asked Google to remove 12,045,130 webpages from its search.
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Search Engine Land, WebProNews and Softpedia News
| Eric Slivka / MacRumors: |
Apple Quickly Updates Malware Definitions to Detect New SMS Scam Trojan — Earlier this week, Russian security firm Dr. Web published a blog post announcing the discovery of a new OS X trojan horse known as “Trojan.SMSSend.3666”. The malware masquerades as an installer for various software titles …
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The Verge, MacNN and The Next Web
| Jeff John Roberts / paidContent: |
Did Google pay Belgian newspapers a $6M copyright fee? Sure looks like it — Europeans have been trying for years to force Google to prop up the continent's' struggling news publishers. A new deal in Belgium suggests they have finally succeeded. — In a blog post on Wednesday … | Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: |
Airbnb Aims To Get More Social With Acquisition Of Q&A Startup Localmind — Airbnb is announcing that it has acquired Localmind, a startup that allows users to post questions about specific locations, which are then answered in real time by local experts. — Airbnb has acquired the company's three-person team and its technology.
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The Airbnb Blog, VentureBeat and GigaOM
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Nokia Says Class Action Lawsuit Over Windows Phone Is Now Dismissed, No Compensation Paid — Nokia may be struggling to reach a critical mass of users to adopt its Windows Phone-based smartphones instead of Android or iPhone devices, but today it got a little light relief in its bigger battle …
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Nokia, The Next Web, WMPoweruser and Neowin
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
PayPal Launches Prepaid “PayPal My Cash Card,” Allowing Cash-Preferred Customers To Shop Online — PayPal announced today the launch of its first fully branded cash loading card, called the PayPal My Cash Card, which will allow users to load up their PayPal accounts using cash instead of bank transfers.| Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web: |
Apple Best of 2012 rates iTunes, iBooks and App Store, names ‘Action Movie FX’, ‘Paper’ leading apps — Apple has launched its Best of 2012 section for the year, listing the top apps, iBooks, movies, music and TV Shows for the year. The section is an annual event that features …
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Digits, Engadget, VentureBeat, TUAW, Business Insider, Mashable! and iPhone Hacks
| Martin Bryant / The Next Web: |
Last.fm Radio to be killed off in most countries next month, going paid-for in the US, UK and Germany — Reflecting the general consensus that it's currently too expensive to run online radio services, Last.fm has announced that it is withdrawing Radio in almost all countries …
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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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