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Christmas Eve AWS outage stings Netflix but not Amazon Prime — Updated: Oh to be a fly on the wall for the conversations that must be going on between Netflix and Amazon engineers this holiday season. — If you're not a Netflix subscriber, you may not yet know that issues … | Rebecca Greenfield / The Atlantic Wire: |
The Great Netflix Christmas Outage Is Thankfully Over — The great Netflix outage of Christmas 2012 is thankfully over, according to a tweet from the company. The service went down last night, during arguably one of the worst possible times ever, when many people stuck at home with their families … | Eric Eldon / TechCrunch: |
Aviary's Developer Of Peacock Takes Popular Photo Manipulation Tool Independent, Calls It Nodewerk — Aviary isn't done with the news this year. In a nod to power users, it's sending its advanced flash suite off as an independent product. The suite's original developer, Mario Klingemann … | Jack Purcher / Patently Apple: |
Apple Wins Strategically Important Micro SIM Patent — In April of this year we first reported on Apple's patent application for a Micro SIM connector. The timing of Apple's new micro SIM connector patent couldn't have been more perfect in light of the battle between Nokia and Apple …
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Seven Questions for Google Enterprise Chief Amit Singh — It's been a big year for many things related to the Enterprise business at Google. For one thing, it launched both Google Drive and its cloud computing platform. — Then there's Google Apps, the suite of Web-based office applications …
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New York Times, Business Insider, WinBeta, Neowin, TechEye and ResearchBuzz
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All the World's a Game, and Business Is a Player — Congratulations. Reading the first paragraph of this article has earned you a badge. — If this made-up award makes you feel good about yourself, then you are on your way to understanding gamification, a business trend — some would say fad …
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Little Sign of a Predicted E-Book Price War — Right about now, just as millions of e-readers and tablets are being slipped under Christmas trees, there was supposed to be a ferocious price war over e-books. — Last spring, the Justice Department sued five major publishers and Apple on e-book price-fixing charges.| Liz Gannes / AllThingsD: |
Exclusive: Hailo Raising $30M at $140M Valuation for Epic NYC E-Taxi Throwdown With Uber — Hailo, the European taxi-hailing app, is raising a large round of funding as it prepares to do battle in the U.S. market, specifically in New York City. — The London-based company is poised to close …
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Revealed: NSA targeting domestic computer systems in secret test — National Security Agency's Perfect Citizen program hunts for vulnerabilities in “large-scale” utilities, including power grid and gas pipeline controllers, newly released documents show. — Newly released files show … | Andrew Martonik / Android Central: |
Original Droid RAZR and RAZR MAXX receiving Jelly Bean OTA update — It's a Christmas Eve miracle! Seemingly out of nowhere, the original Droid RAZR and RAZR MAXX are pulling down an OTA update to Android 4.1.2 Jelly Bean. Several different users in our forums are reporting that their handsets are …
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IntoMobile, The Droid Guy, Examiner, PhoneArena, CNET and The Verge
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Argentina Ranks First in Worldwide Desktop Social Networking Engagement at Nearly 10 Hours per Visitor Each Month — Analysis of Social Networking in Latin America Shows LinkedIn Grabbing #2 Position with35 Million Monthly Visitors — Santiago, Chile, December 20, 2012 - comScore (NASDAQ …
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The Next Web
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PayPal Bans BitTorrent Friendly Hosting Provider PRQ — While most webhosts go about their day to day business without most people knowing they even exist, Sweden's PRQ has a habit of making international headlines a few times every year. — The ISP, created in 2004 by Gottfrid Svartholm … Sponsor Posts
Channel 9:
Announcing TypeScript 0.9: Generics and More — Anders Hejlsberg, Steve Lucco, and Luke Hoban join us for a conversation about TypeScript 0.9. TypeScript now has generics! (and more)
Announcing TypeScript 0.9: Generics and More — Anders Hejlsberg, Steve Lucco, and Luke Hoban join us for a conversation about TypeScript 0.9. TypeScript now has generics! (and more)
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:
99.999 Is Not Enough: An OpenCloud Approach to Delivering Application Uptime and Performance — Executive Summary — The pressure to keep vital applications online and performing well is extreme.
99.999 Is Not Enough: An OpenCloud Approach to Delivering Application Uptime and Performance — Executive Summary — The pressure to keep vital applications online and performing well is extreme.
Hortonworks » Blog:
University makes major investment in big data development — As news of the benefits provided by big data platforms such as Apache Hadoop spreads, more organizations are investing in the burgeoning technology.
University makes major investment in big data development — As news of the benefits provided by big data platforms such as Apache Hadoop spreads, more organizations are investing in the burgeoning technology.Who's Hiring In Tech?
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