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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.| 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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| 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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TechCrunch, The Verge, 9to5Mac, CNET, Engadget, Peter O'Kelly's Reality Check, The Next Web, Redmond Pie, iPhone Hacks and MacNN
| 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, Forbes, PetaPixel, Electronista and SocialTimes. 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, Fortune and Macgasm
Tweets: @owenthomas and @tim
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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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The Verge, InformationWeek and bizjournals
| 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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The Verge, Engadget, Wired, Associated Press, BGR, The Register, TUAW, MacRumors, iDownloadBlog.com, Forbes and everythingiCafe. See also Mediagazer
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| 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.
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CNET, Wall Street Journal, GigaOM, AppleInsider, Slate, MacRumors, VentureBeat, Ars Technica, BGR, ZDNet and OSDir.com. Tweets: @panzer
| Dan Seifert / The Verge: |
Google sells Motorola Home to Arris for $2.35 billion in cash and stock — Google announced today that it has sold the Motorola Home business that it acquired earlier this year to the Arris Group for a sum of $2.35 billion in cash and stock.
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ARRIS, CNET, AllThingsD, GigaOM, The Next Web, Reuters, TechCrunch, 9to5Google, Engadget, Tech Trader Daily, Reuters and Android Police
| 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.
| 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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BGR, bizjournals, Softpedia News, SlashGear and Neowin
| 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, 9to5Google, MacRumors, Ars Technica, GeekWire, GigaOM, TechCrunch, SlashGear and Ubergizmo. Tweets: @redboxinstant
| 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!) … | 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, VentureBeat, Gizmodo, MobileSyrup.com, CNET, BetaKit, The Next Web, Neowin, iPhone Hacks, Redmond Pie, Engadget, Inside Mobile Apps and PandoDaily
| 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, digitaltrends.com, VentureBeat, The Next Web, GigaOM, MacStories and TUAW
| 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
| 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
| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Boost Mobile to start throttling users that exceed data cap on January 20th — Prepaid carrier Boost Mobile, owned by Sprint, will soon begin enforcing data throttling for customers that exceed 2.5 gigabytes of usage each month. Despite advertising their monthly, pay-as-you-go rates as …
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DSLreports, GigaOM, FierceWireless and IntoMobile
| 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 … | Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web: |
Mark Cuban and Minecraft Creator Notch give $500k to EFF for software patent reform — Minecraft creator Markus Persson, aka Notch, and entrepreneur and Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban have donated $500,000 to the EFF for software patent reform. — The announcement, made on the EFF's site … Sponsor Posts
Channel 9:
Defrag Tools: WPT - Command Line — Andrew Richards, Chad Beeder, and Larry Larsen continue walking you through the Windows Performance Toolkit (WPT).
Defrag Tools: WPT - Command Line — Andrew Richards, Chad Beeder, and Larry Larsen continue walking you through the Windows Performance Toolkit (WPT).
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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