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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 … | Derek Powazek: |
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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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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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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.| Jonathan Rochelle / Google Enterprise Blog: |
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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 … | 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 … | 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.| 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!) … | 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 … | 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.| 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.| 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 … | 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 … | Meghan Kelly / VentureBeat: |
Twitter gives the boot to popular Anonymous account, but it comes back to life — One of Anonymous' most active Twitter handles, YourAnonNews, was temporarily suspended by Twitter today, sending the Twittersphere into an uproar. — Anonymous is a loose group of “hacktivists,” … | 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 … | 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.| Robin Wauters / The Next Web: |
Digia releases a new version (5.0) of the good old cross-platform application framework Qt — Ever since Nokia handed off open-source, multi-platform application framework Qt to Finnish software and services firm Digia, a lot of people have been waiting for the final updated version (v 5.0).
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Website traffic analytics: How to read your data and take action — Traffic is up. Sessions look healthy. The dashboard is full of green arrows and yet — conversions are flat, revenue targets are slipping, and the leads coming through aren't closing.
Protecting your Cloud Applications Data — Backing up Office 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox & Salesforce data is critical to preventing data loss or corruption, complying with laws and avoiding critical downtime in case of a disaster.
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