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December 19, 2012, 12:10 PM
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Thank you, and we're listening — Yesterday we introduced a new version of our Privacy Policy and Terms of Service that will take effect in thirty days. These two documents help communicate as clearly as possible our relationship with the users of Instagram so you understand how your data will be used …
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Tweets: @rahulsood, @docpop, @markmilian, @stevekovach and @nerdtalker
See also Mediagazer| 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.
| Sam Byford / The Verge: |
National Geographic stops posting Instagram photos in response to new terms of service — National Geographic has announced that it will stop posting pictures to Instagram. The move comes after the photo-sharing social network introduced a controversial new terms of service agreement …
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CNET, Business Insider, Mashable!, Gizmodo, The Next Web, App Advice and SocialTimes
| Stilgherrian / Crikey: |
Users snap over Instagram, but should have seen it coming — The online world was abuzz with Instagram's hardline terms of use changes. But users should know what they're getting themselves in for when using social media platforms. — A frantic fart of fear frothed forth over changes …
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Associated Press, digitaltrends.com, TechCrunch, CNET, Reuters, iPhone Savior, Computerworld and Wired. Tweets: @reckless
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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 …
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CNET, VentureBeat, AllThingsD, Gizmodo, The Verge, GigaOM, The Next Web, Marketing Land, Laughing Squid, SlashGear, WebProNews and Mashable!. Tweets: @twitter
| 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 …
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BBC, The Verge, Associated Press, MacRumors, BGR, The Register, Engadget, everythingiCafe, iDownloadBlog.com and Softpedia News
| Beth Jinks / Bloomberg: |
Apple, Google in Group Buying Kodak Patents — A group including Apple Inc. (AAPL), Google Inc. (GOOG) and Research In Motion Ltd. (RIM) agreed to buy patents from bankrupt Eastman Kodak Co. (EKDKQ) for about $525 million, gaining digital-imaging technology to capture and share pictures.
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Stockwatch, Business Insider, 9to5Google, Reuters, InvestorPlace and bizjournals
| Felix Salmon: |
How capitalism breaks the web — I share most if not all of Anil Dash's nostalgia for the web we lost. Once upon a time, in the wake of the dot-com crash, there was a real feeling that the mammals would supplant the dinosaurs, and that the web would increasingly become a real network of individual sites …
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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.
| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
iOS 6 Adoption Grows 29% Over The Weekend As People Finally Update After Google Maps Arrives — Apple Maps was so bad that people refused to upgrade to iOS 6 until they could get Google Maps, says data from massive mobile ad exchange MoPub. The 12,000 apps it supports saw a 29 percent increase … | Ernesto / TorrentFreak: |
Pirate Party Shuts Down Pirate Bay Proxy After Legal Threats — After expensive court action earlier this year, a group of music labels achieved their aim of having The Pirate Bay website blocked by ISPs in the UK. — With the official site inaccessible via direct means, many Pirate Bay users switched over to proxy services.
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The Verge, TechWeekEurope UK and WebProNews
| Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web: |
Apple removes popular AppShopper app from sale as it falls afoul of App Store's new app promotion clause — Today brings a high profile removal from the App Store, as the popular AppShopper app is now missing from the store. The removal, publisher Arnold Kim confirmed to us … | Stephanie Clifford / New York Times: |
Once Proudly Web Only, Shopping Sites Hang Out Real Shingles — Andy Dunn was fierce about the Internet-only model of his apparel company, Bonobos, after helping to found it in 2007. He gave a speech, “The End of Apparel as We Know It,” arguing that stores were a bad economic decision.
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| Graeme Philipson / ITWire.com: |
.com is so 20th century - Welcome to ICANN's great domain name auction — ICANN (the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) has held its lottery draw for 1,930 new sponsored global top level domains (gTLDs). — Successful bidders will be able to use gTLDs like .christmas and .sport …
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TechWeekEurope UK, ZDNet, Domain Name News and BBC
| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
How spyware on rental PCs captured users' most intimate moments — Enlarge / As Brian Byrd played poker using a PC purchased from an Aaron's rent-to-own store, PC Rental Agent surreptitiously captured this screen shot. It is one of hundreds of thousands of images siphoned by the software.
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| Dana Mattioli / Wall Street Journal: |
Web Retailers Scrap for Last-Hour Sales — WALTON, Ky.—Time is money. And in the fierce holiday-season battle between online and offline sales, a single hour can be worth millions of dollars. — GSI Commerce Inc., a unit of eBay Inc. that handles online shipping for 70 brands including Godiva … | Alex Howard / O'Reilly Radar: |
DARPA and Defense Department look to a more open source future — As the United States military marches further into the age of networked warfare, data networks and the mobile platforms to distribute and access them will become even more important. — This fall, the (retired) … | 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.| Steven Musil / CNET: |
Fab nabs ‘seven-figure’ investment from Times of India — With investment from Times Internet, the fast-growing e-commerce site will increase its focus on India. — Fast-growing e-commerce site Fab plans to expand its focus on India after taking a “seven-figure investment” from Times Internet …
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Betashop, VentureBeat, GigaOM, TechCrunch, The Next Web, MediaNama and NextBigWhat
| Sarah Lacy / PandoDaily: |
Finally: AngelList and SecondMarket team up for legal, controlled look-alike to crowdfunding — In perhaps the worst kept secret in venture history, SecondMarket and AngelList have teamed up to allow accredited investors to legally invest purely online on AngelList for the first time.
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| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
RIM's BB10 International Strategy Starts Coming Into Shape: Carriers EE, O2, Vodafone Sign Distribution Deals In The UK — BlackBerry maker RIM has clearly been on the phone to its carrier chums in the UK: EE, O2 and Vodafone have all this morning announced they will be offering BlackBerry 10 devices starting …
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ZDNet, Electronista, The Next Web, The Verge, Engadget, TechRadar.com, SlashGear, Pocket-lint and Mobile News Online
| Sara Forden / Bloomberg: |
Google Antitrust Decision by FTC Delayed Until Next Year — The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) will delay a final decision on how to resolve its 20-month antitrust investigation of Google Inc. (GOOG) until next year, said two people familiar with the situation who asked not to be named because the talks aren't public.
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SiliconANGLE, VentureBeat, New York Times, Betabeat, CNET, Reuters, Mashable!, TechWeekEurope UK, TechCrunch, SlashGear, AllThingsD, ZDNet, 9to5Google, The Verge and Hillicon Valley. Thanks:@lutherlowe
| Dante D'Orazio / The Verge: |
Samsung confirms malware exploit on Galaxy S III and others, ‘to address it as quickly as possible’ — Following news this weekend that an exploit on phones like the Galaxy S III and Galaxy Note II could allow malicious apps access to user data and other inner workings of the devices …
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Android Central, The Next Web, GigaOM, Gizmodo, PandoDaily, ZDNet, Engadget, Pocketnow and MobileSyrup.com
| John Herrman / BuzzFeed: |
No, Let's Talk About Video Game Violence — Gaming's soul is sick. And gamers hate talking about it. — Adam Lanza was a gamer. — This fact has been reported, re-reported, and rehashed to the extent that it's now part of the killer's capsule bio: Young. White. Male. Asperger's.
Tweets: @realdonaldtrump, @lewiep and @jesseltaylor
| Ben Gilbert / Engadget: |
Nintendo TVii app launches on Wii U in US and Canada on December 20 — Nintendo of America announced this morning that its delayed Nintendo TVii service for the Wii U will launch on December 20. Nintendo TVii, first introduced back in September, intends to tie all of your currently balkanized media services …
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Business Wire, CNET, Gizmodo, The Next Web, The Verge, Los Angeles Times, WebProNews, bizjournals, Kotaku, SlashGear and Joystiq
| Nate Anderson / Ars Technica: |
Report: data caps just a “cash cow” for Internet providers — Why do so many Americans now live with Internet data caps—and what are these caps doing to the future of broadband? Those are the questions posed by a new paper from the New America Foundation, which wants to shake up the lethargy …
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NewAmerica.net, Network World, InfoWorld, BGR, The Verge and The Register
| Susan Decker / Bloomberg: |
Apple Wins Ruling in Motorola Mobility Patent Case at ITC — Apple Inc. (AAPL)'s iPhone didn't violate patent rights owned by Google Inc. (GOOG)'s Motorola Mobility for a sensor that prevents accidental hang-ups, a U.S. International Trade Commission judge said today.
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PC Magazine, CNET, TechWeekEurope UK, 9to5Mac, Electronista, Engadget, english.capital.gr and iClarified
| Bryan Bishop / The Verge: |
London ‘crime unit’ to target downloaders as part of UK copyright and patent initiatives — Vince Cable, the United Kingdom's Business Secretary, announced a set of new intellectual property initiatives yesterday aimed at improving the way IP is approved and protected in the UK.Sponsor Posts
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Windows Store Weekly — This week we take a look at: Star Trek App, Box, Fling Theory, StumbleUpon, and wordBrush.
Windows Store Weekly — This week we take a look at: Star Trek App, Box, Fling Theory, StumbleUpon, and wordBrush.
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:
Mobile Telco Dials In and Harnesses Big Data with Hadoop — Smartphones have transformed our daily lives. A key indicator of this trend is our increased spend on data plans versus voice.
Mobile Telco Dials In and Harnesses Big Data with Hadoop — Smartphones have transformed our daily lives. A key indicator of this trend is our increased spend on data plans versus voice.
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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