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Nokia and RIM enter into new patent license agreement — RIM payments to Nokia settle all legal actions between the companies — Espoo, Finland - Nokia has entered into a new patent license agreement with Research In Motion. The agreement will result in settlement of all existing patent …
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| Kevin Systrom / Instagram: |
Updated Terms of Service Based on Your Feedback — Earlier this week, we introduced a set of updates to our privacy policy and terms of service to help our users better understand our service. In the days since, it became clear that we failed to fulfill what I consider …
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xkcd.com, Hillicon Valley, PC Magazine, CNN, Betabeat, BBC, Forbes, digitaltrends.com, NYT Bits, Motherboard, FierceMobileContent News, InvestorPlace, everythingiCafe, SlashGear, App Advice, CNET, Marketing Pilgrim, nbcnews.com, GigaOM, App Advice, Gizmodo, TechWeekEurope UK, memeburn, iDownloadBlog.com, Imaging Resource News Page, iPhone, Mashable!, Softpedia News, Silicon Republic, Bloomberg, The Verge, NYT Bits, ZDNet, PetaPixel, TechCrunch, Boing Boing, Reuters, ABCNEWS, iPhone Savior, Engadget, Business Insider, Los Angeles Times and AllFacebook
Tweets: @davepell, @reckless and @antderosa
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| Bloomberg: |
HTC Said to Plan Windows Tablets to Challenge Apple-Led Market — HTC Corp. (2498) plans to make tablets based on the Windows operating system, giving Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) another ally in its challenge to Apple Inc. (AAPL) and Google Inc. (GOOG) in the $63.2 billion market, people familiar with the matter said.| Christina Bonnington / Wired: |
Apple's Passbook Is a Surprise Success for Developers — Apple's Passbook feature of iOS 6 has become a surprise hit for developers. — Passbook is virtual file folder for all those bits of paper you accumulate in your wallet: tickets, boarding passes, coupons and so forth.
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Computerworld, MacDailyNews, TUAW, MacNN, Street Fight, MacRumors, Edible Apple and Tnooz. Tweets: @panzer. Thanks:@strngwys
| Manuela D'Alessandro / Reuters: |
Google executives acquitted in Milan autism video case — (Reuters) - An Italy appeals court acquitted three Google executives of charges of having violated the privacy of an Italian boy with autism by letting a video of him being bullied be posted on the site in 2006.
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| eMarketer: |
As Tablets Surge, Ereaders Struggle — Despite strong demand for smart connected devices, consumers may be passing over ereaders — The connected device market continues to see substantial growth worldwide. The International Data Corporation (IDC) reported that in Q3 …
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| Sven Grundberg / Wall Street Journal: |
Spotify Rival Deezer Eyes U.S. — Online music streaming company Deezer stepped up pressure on its peers on Thursday with the launch of a free streaming service in more than 150 countries and said it is looking for a partner to enter the U.S. market. — The Paris-based company …
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CNET, The Verge, Engadget, The Next Web and hypebot
| Peter Kafka / AllThingsD: |
TV Everywhere, for Real, for Now: NimbleTV Starts a New York Trial Run — “TV Everywhere” is supposed to let you watch whatever you want, wherever you want to watch it, on any device you want - as long as you pay for TV. — But the cable guys have been working at this for more than 3 years, and they still can't really deliver.
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| Eli Dourado / Ars Technica: |
Behind closed doors at the UN's attempted “takeover of the Internet” — Eli Dourado is a research fellow with the Technology Policy Program at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, a co-founder of WCITLeaks, and a member of the US delegation to the WCIT. The views expressed here are his own.
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Hulu's Fork in the Road — As Amazon.com Inc. and Netflix Inc. battle it out for dominance in online video, owners of the much smaller Hulu LLC, Hollywood's own online video service, are under pressure to decide which direction to go. — Jason Kilar, chief executive of Hulu …
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CNET, Business Insider, The Content Strategist, VentureBeat and socalTECH.com. Tweets: @pkafka. See also Mediagazer
| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google Launches New Experimental Search Features For Tracking Your Online Purchases, Reservations & Events From Gmail — Google has long been running a number of experimental Search and Gmail field trials anybody can sign up for and today it's launching a few nifty new search features …
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PC World, LAPTOP Magazine, VentureBeat, Google+, The Verge, Softpedia News, Ubergizmo and Mashable!
| Ian Austen / New York Times: |
A Million Users Desert BlackBerry, and Revenue Falls 48% — OTTAWA — Research in Motion said on Thursday that it lost a million BlackBerry owners worldwide during the company's last financial quarter, the first such decline in the device's history. — It reported other bad news as well … | Will Connors / Wall Street Journal: |
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| Jacqui Cheng / Ars Technica: |
iOS 6.0.2 suspected of draining batteries — The iOS 6.0.2 update released earlier this week may have cured some people's Wi-Fi woes, but others now claim it's reducing their battery life too. First reported by TidBITS' Adam Engst and supported by a number of posters in Apple's Support Communities …
| Phil Muncaster / The Register: |
Apple shifts iTunes to HTTPS, sidesteps China's censors — Great Firewall foiled ... for now — Apple has adopted HTTPS for searches and downloads on the version of iTunes used in China. The move comes at a time when China's government prepares to step up regulation of online app stores and continues its crackdown on VPNs.
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CNET and GreatFire.org
| John Koetsier / VentureBeat: |
Apple kills a Kickstarter project: Portable power project POP refunding $139,170 to backers — Edison Junior, the technology and design lab behind the POP portable power station, is returning the full $139,170 in funding it received from Kickstarter backers to develop the device.
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SiliconANGLE, The Register, Wired, Business Insider, GigaOM, The Verge, Gizmodo, IntoMobile, Wired, everythingiCafe, Softpedia News, TUAW, Pocket-lint, iDownloadBlog.com, CNET, Electronista, Macgasm, Forbes, ZDNet and MacRumors
| Reuters: |
Steve Jobs superyacht impounded over unpaid Starck designer bill — (Reuters) - A superyacht built for Apple Inc's late co-founder Steve Jobs has been impounded in Amsterdam because of a dispute over an unpaid bill to designer Philippe Starck, a lawyer said on Friday.
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Apple Reaches Highest-Ever U.S. Smartphone Sales Share At 53.3%; Android Consolidates In Europe — Apple's shares, as you may have seen, have been sliding in the market on the back of strong competition from Android device makers. Today, some new figures on recent smartphone sales …
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| Nielsen Wire: |
Nielsen Tops of 2012: Digital — Smartphone owners became the majority of mobile phone users for the first time this year, growing from 49 percent of mobile subscribers in Q1 2012, to 56 percent by Q3 2012. Mobile app usage also continued to grow. Among the top 10 mobile apps …
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Electronista, nbcnews.com and PC Magazine
| John Gruber / Daring Fireball: |
A Big Misunderstanding — Cliff Edwards's 2001 “Sorry, Steve: Here's Why Apple Stores Won't Work” piece for Businessweek is deservingly notorious in the annals of claim chowder, but there are a few things about it worth keeping in mind even today. There's more to it than just a few guys …
| Jon Russell / The Next Web: |
Instagram for iOS gets new Mayfair filter and returns ability to share photos from any album — Instagram may have been under a lot of pressure of late but the Facebook-owned photo service has updated its iOS app with a new filter — Mayfair — and the return of the option to share photos from any album … | Eliza Kern / GigaOM: |
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TechCrunch and The Verge
| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook Tries Letting You Pay To Guarantee Message Delivery, Changes Messaging Privacy Settings — Sometimes you need to message a non-friend, and today Facebook starts testing if it can make a little money and cut spam by asking you to pay to ensure the recipient sees that message.
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Featured Startup on Windows Phone - Digital Geek — You know how you are at the beach sometimes, listening to your portable listening device, jamming to some music and you realize, “Actually, at this moment …
Featured Startup on Windows Phone - Digital Geek — You know how you are at the beach sometimes, listening to your portable listening device, jamming to some music and you realize, “Actually, at this moment …
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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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