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| Mollie Vandor / Twitter Blog: |
Your Twitter archive — It's no secret: You make Twitter what it is. And if you tweet, you may have found yourself wanting to go back in time and explore your past Tweets. Maybe you wanted to recall your reaction to the 2008 election, reminisce on what you said to your partner on your 10th anniversary … | Peter Kafka / AllThingsD: |
Facebook Stops Its Long-Awaited Ad Network Before It Starts (For Now) — Looks like we'll have to wait a bit longer to see Facebook's much-anticipated ad network. — The social giant is putting the brakes on a test it launched earlier this year that let it place its own ads on other developer's mobile apps.| Jonathan Rochelle / Google Enterprise Blog: |
Quickoffice + Google Apps = better document conversion and an iPad app — Posted by Jonathan Rochelle, Director of Product Management, Google Drive — Since the Quickoffice team joined Google a few months ago, we've been working to make it easier for you to work with your legacy Microsoft Office files …
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The Verge, TechCrunch, 9to5Mac, CNET, Engadget, The Next Web, Redmond Pie and iPhone Hacks
| Anton Troianovski / Wall Street Journal: |
U.S. Expands Child Online Privacy Law to Cover Apps, Social Networks — The Federal Trade Commission on Wednesday updated its decade-old rules governing children's online privacy to reflect the growth of social networks and smartphone apps, but backed away from earlier proposals … | Jennifer Martinez / Hillicon Valley: |
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Dropbox Acquires Snapjoy And Puts Photos Into Its Focus — Less than one week after Dropbox aqui-hired Audiogalaxy to beef up its cloud music ambitions, today comes news of another acquisition, this time focused on another form of media, photos: the cloud-storage giant is buying Snapjoy …
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Snapjoy Blog, CNET, VentureBeat, VatorNews, GigaOM, ZDNet, The Next Web, PetaPixel, Electronista, SocialTimes and Softpedia News. Thanks:@chrisvelazco
| Lev Grossman / TIME: |
TIME Person of the Year Runner-Up: Tim Cook, the Technologist — He inherited the most valuable company in the world from one of the greatest innovators in history. In 2012 he made Apple his own. Runner-Up: Tim Cook, the Technologist | TIME.com.
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Los Angeles Times, Computerworld, MacRumors, Business Insider, iDownloadBlog.com, iPhone Hacks, PC Magazine, Macgasm and Fortune
Tweets: @owenthomas and @tim
| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
Kodak Agrees To Sell Digital Imaging Patent Portfolio For $525M To Consortium Of 12 Licensees, Including Apple, Google, Facebook — Kodak has agreed to sell its digital imaging portfolio to a consortium of 12 licensees for $525 million, organized by patent-holding company Intellectual Ventures … | Beth Jinks / Bloomberg: |
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Stockwatch, Reuters, 9to5Mac and InvestorPlace
| Tricia Duryee / AllThingsD: |
eBay to Stop Advertising Inside Mobile Apps: “It's Not Worth It.” — EBay is ecstatic about mobile, just not about mobile advertising. — Devin Wenig, eBay's president of global marketplaces, said in an interview that next year the company will stop running mobile ads inside of its applications.
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| Anil Dash: |
Rebuilding the Web We Lost — We have the obligation to never speak of our concerns without suggesting our solutions. I've been truly gratified to watch the response to The Web We Lost over the last few days; It's become one of the most popular things I've ever written and has inspired great responses.
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| Derek Powazek: |
I'm Not The Product, But I Play One On The Internet — “If you're not paying for the product, you are the product.” — I don't know who said it first, but the line has achieved a kind of supernatural resonance online. And for good reason - it describes a kind of modern internet company that provides a free service.
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GigaOM, The Verge, Om Malik, SheGeeks.net, Mobile Marketing Watch, Ed Bott, digitaltrends.com, FierceMobileContent News, TPM IdeaLab, T3 News, Daily Dot, TechWeekEurope UK, BetaNews and Coolsmartphone. Tweets: @zeldman
| Stilgherrian / Crikey: |
| Harrison Weber / The Next Web: |
Verizon's Redbox Instant launches in private beta: Unlimited streaming, 4 DVD credits a month — Redbox Instant by Verizon, a joint venture between Redbox and Verizon Communications, is now gradually rolling out to users in private beta after being teased earlier this month.
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PC Magazine, MacRumors, 9to5Google, GeekWire, Ars Technica, GigaOM, TechCrunch, SlashGear, Ubergizmo, 9to5Mac, Gizmodo, Gear Live and iDownloadBlog.com. Tweets: @redboxinstant
| Andrew Nusca / ZDNet: |
IBM to acquire StoredIQ in big data play — Summary: IBM announced that it will acquire Austin, Texas-based information management firm StoredIQ in a push for more big data capability. — Andrew Nusca — IBM announced this morning that it will acquire StoredIQ, a privately-held information …
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PR Newswire, The Register and AllThingsD
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Evernote Supersizes Its iOS Food App: Adds iPad Support; Punchfork Recipes And Foursquare Restaurant Search; And Upgraded Meal Archives — About a year ago, Evernote branched out from its core mission of being the place to record your life by launching apps tailored to specific purposes …
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Evernote Blogcast, VentureBeat, digitaltrends.com, The Next Web, GigaOM, MacStories, TUAW, Lifehacker and Mashable!
| Brian McClendon / The Official Google Blog: |
Count down to Christmas Eve with Google Santa Tracker — While millions of people eagerly await Christmas Day, Santa and his elves are keeping busy at the North Pole. They're preparing presents, tuning up the sleigh, feeding the reindeer and, of course, checking the list (twice!) … | Paul McDougall / InformationWeek: |
Dell, HP Windows 8 ‘Atom’ Tablets Delayed Until 2013 — Dell Latitude 10 among Windows 8 systems not yet available, as tablet makers struggle with drivers for energy-efficient Intel Clover Trail chip. — Dell and other vendors have pushed back until January the launch of Windows 8 tablets that use a new …
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Neowin, bizjournals, Softpedia News and SlashGear
| Brittany Darwell / Inside Facebook: |
Facebook begins testing ‘Collections’ posts again with more retailers — Facebook today began the second phase of testing a new “Collections” feature that lets pages post about their products and lets users save items they want, a spokesperson tells us. — Collections posts are similar … | Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
After 3 Million Downloads, CloudOn 3.0 Now Brings Microsoft Office To iPhone, iPad Mini & Nexus 7 — CloudOn, the popular free productivity service that brings Microsoft Office to mobile devices, just launched version 3.0 of its mobile app. With this launch, CloudOn is bringing its service to the iPhone, iPad Mini and Nexus 7.
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Engadget, Gizmodo, BetaKit, VentureBeat, CNET, MobileSyrup.com, iPhone Hacks, Neowin, Redmond Pie, The Next Web, Engadget, Inside Mobile Apps and PandoDaily
| Alistair Barr / Reuters: |
Owner of OpenTV slaps Netflix with patent lawsuit — (Reuters) - The owner of interactive television pioneer OpenTV sued Netflix Inc on Wednesday, alleging the company infringed on patents that cover technology underpinning the fast-growing Internet video sector.| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Nokia Lumia 920 WP8 update rolling out with camera, Bluetooth, and battery improvements — Nokia's latest Windows Phone 8 updates are starting to roll out to its Lumia 920 and Lumia 820 devices today. After HTC's 8X started receiving an OS update earlier this month, Nokia is now pushing the same to its own devices.
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Nokia Conversations, Tech Trader Daily, BGR, CNET, My Nokia Blog and WMPoweruser
| Bryan Bishop / The Verge: |
Another Apple patent rejected by US Patent Office, but its fate is far from certain — The United States Patent and Trademark Office has rejected several Apple patents in recent months, and today it added one more to the list — but that doesn't mean the patent is no longer valid.| Jay Greene / CNET: |
Former Windows boss lands teaching gig at Harvard — Steven Sinofsky, who ran the Windows division for six years but left after sparring with some Microsoft executives, tweeted that he will return to Harvard Business School to teach this spring. — Steven Sinofsky, who recently left Microsoft …
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TechCrunch, GeekWire, The Next Web, Business Insider, VentureBeat, Mashable!, LiveSide.net, Seattle Times, The Verge, Neowin, WinBeta and SlashGear. Tweets: @stevesi
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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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