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Signs of Changes Taking Hold in Electronics Factories in China — CHENGDU, China — One day last summer, Pu Xiaolan was halfway through a shift inspecting iPad cases when she received a beige wooden chair with white stripes and a high, sturdy back. — At first, Ms. Pu wondered if someone had made a mistake.| Carl Franzen / TPM IdeaLab: |
Netflix ‘Social Features’ Coming In 2013, Once President Signs Bill — Netflix will introduce “social features” for U.S. users in 2013, the company told TPM Wednesday, following a bill passed by Congress just before the holiday break that removes previous restrictions that prevented companies from sharing customer video rental history.| Ryan Tate / Wired: |
Become a Crime-Fighting Superhero in Your Spare Time — Chris Goodroe doesn't do Facebook, and he doesn't do Twitter. Online socializing isn't his thing. But after watching his neighbors use the internet to bust a pair of burglars earlier this year, the Oakland attorney decided … | Peter Kafka / AllThingsD: |
Hulu's Employee Owners Are Just Employees Again, Which Means Some May Be Ex-Employees Soon — Hulu's employees used to be owners, too. But those days are over, so they're going to have be happy with a paycheck and some bonuses. — That's the upshot of a new long-term incentive plan I'm told the video site is prepping.| Damon Poeter / PC Magazine: |
Report: Few Using Smart TVs to Full Capacity — Smart TVs sound great in theory, but few people are actually getting the most out of their Internet-connected television sets, according to a new report from the NPD Group. — “The Internet-connected HDTV screen has so far failed to break beyond …
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NPD Group, SocialTimes and The Verge
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Why we love to hate Myspace — A year and a half after leaving News Corp, the site reinvents itself — again — Myspace is gradually inviting users to “new Myspace,” the first big refresh in the post-News Corp era, and already the claws have come out. We took a tour of the new site …
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Feds Requiring ‘Black Boxes’ in All Motor Vehicles — Federal regulators are proposing that new automobiles sold in the United States after September 2014 come equipped with black boxes, so-called “event data recorders” that chronicle everything from how fast a vehicle was traveling, the number of passengers and even a car's location.
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SlashGear, Ubergizmo and VentureBeat
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Amazon's Server Snafu Rattles Netflix, Other Customers — Amazon.com Inc.'s latest technical glitch—interrupting service for Netflix Inc. and others—is causing some companies to rethink their reliance on the Seattle-based company for the bulk of their Web-computing needs.
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New York Times and Reuters
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Apple reportedly moving Mac mini production to US with Foxconn — Digitimes has shed more light on CEO Tim Cook's early December announcement that a Mac line's production will move to the United States in 2013 courtesy of a $100 million investment. According to the hit-and-miss publication this evening …
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DigiTimes, TechCrunch, Business Insider, MacRumors, The Verge, iPhone Hacks, MacNN, AppleInsider, MacDailyNews and CNET
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Gracenote's Ad Replacement System That Personalizes TV Commercials Will Start Trials In 2013 — Most TV commercials are poorly targeted and show things you'd never buy. But not for long. Gracenote's new ad replacement system combines viewing habits with personal info to show you more relevant commercials.
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Pocket-lint, SlashGear, VentureBeat and The Verge
| Pui-Wing Tam / Wall Street Journal: |
Venture Capital to Suppress Its Appetite for Risk in 2013 — Internet entrepreneurs have had the upper hand over venture capitalists in recent years but that balance of power is now showing some signs of shifting, a trend that could accelerate in 2013. — Spurring the change …
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Venture Capital Dispatch
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Box's Gameplan For 2013: A Third-Party App Economy; Expanding Security And More — As you talk to Aaron Levie, the co-founder of fast growing cloud storage company Box, it's hard not to notice his incredible energy when he talks about enterprise storage possibilities.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:
Get Started with Hadoop on Hortonworks Data Platform 1.1 for Windows — We are excited to release the Hortonworks Data Platform 1.1 for Windows as a Generally Available product.
Get Started with Hadoop on Hortonworks Data Platform 1.1 for Windows — We are excited to release the Hortonworks Data Platform 1.1 for Windows as a Generally Available product.
Unison's blog:
Skype in the browser — Whether you like the Skype app or not, until now, you've had no choice but to download something to make voice and video calls — either an app like Skype, or a Flash plugin (yikes) for your browser.
Skype in the browser — Whether you like the Skype app or not, until now, you've had no choice but to download something to make voice and video calls — either an app like Skype, or a Flash plugin (yikes) for your browser.Who's Hiring In Tech?
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