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Apple to drop patent claims against new Samsung phone — (Reuters) - Apple Inc has agreed to withdraw patent claims against a new Samsung phone with a high-end display after Samsung said it was not offering to sell the product in the crucial U.S. market. — Apple disclosed the agreement …
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| Zachary M. Seward / Quartz: |
How a bogus claim about Instagram losing users made Facebook's stock drop nearly 3% — Facebook's stock dropped 2.9% in its first minutes of trading this morning. Investors were likely responding to a report in the New York Post that Instagram, the photo-sharing that Facebook acquired this year …
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| Michael M. Grynbaum / City Room: |
Crime Is Up and Bloomberg Blames iPhone Thieves — Hold onto your iPhones! — Crime in New York City inched up this year, and Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg on Friday fingered the culprit: too many iPhones and iPads were being swiped. — A rise in thefts of shiny Apple products accounted …
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| Lulu Yilun Chen / Bloomberg: |
China Passes Law Requiring People Identify Themselves Online — China passed rules today requiring people to identify themselves when signing up for Internet and phone services, as the Communist Party tightens control over the world's largest population of web users.
| John Paczkowski / AllThingsD: |
Fujitsu Not Pleased With Windows 8 Demand, Either — Add Fujitsu to the list of Microsoft partners bemoaning soft interest in Windows 8. — Speaking to reporters in Tokyo on Friday, Fujitsu President Masami Yamamoto said initial consumer demand for Windows 8 has been “weak,” …
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GitHub Has Big Dreams for Open-Source Software, and More — Software is not merely about automating every aspect of our lives anymore. Some of its makers want to change the way we all interact, spreading their supposed egalitarian excellence. — Whether this is liberation …
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Pearson buys $89.5m Nook stake to secure book distribution — Talk about vertical integration. Pearson is taking a five percent stake in newly-reconfigured ebook device and retail brand Nook Media in order to gain favourable distribution for its education books.| Eric Slivka / MacRumors: |
Apple's Supply Chain to Work Through Chinese New Year Holiday Amid ‘Insatiable Appetite’ for iPad Mini in China — Brightwire summarizes a report [Google translation] from Taiwanese news site United Daily News claiming that Apple's supply chain partners will continue working through …
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How Anybody Can Secretly Save Your Snapchat Videos Forever — The videos you send through Snapchat and Poke are supposed to disappear in 10 seconds or less. Except a security flaw makes it easy to save them forever — without the sender ever knowing. — Via: yourprops.com
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TechCrunch, CNNMoney.com, CNET, Examiner, iPhone Hacks, GigaOM, digitaltrends.com, VentureBeat, Los Angeles Times, TechSpot, Betabeat, Mashable!, PC Magazine, MobileBurn.com, Marketing Land, Business Insider, SlashGear, ValueWalk, Ubergizmo, BBC, The Verge, Gizmodo and Guardian. Tweets: @mattbuchanan
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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Frog Design's Hartmut Esslinger Reveals Early Apple Designs in New Book [Mac Blog] — Designboom (via The Verge) today got a hold of some photographs of early Apple computer designs from Hartmut Esslinger's new book, Design Forward. — Esslinger founded Frog Design, the company …
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designboom, CNET and The Atlantic Online
| Colleen Taylor / TechCrunch: |
Lyft Staffing Up In Seattle And Los Angeles As It Looks To Expand Its Ride-Sharing Service Beyond SF — Lyft, the local on-demand ride-sharing service operated by the startup Zimride, is apparently not letting recent regulatory hurdles cramp its style. — Lyft, which launched …
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VentureBeat and The Next Web
| Gabe Rivera / Techmeme News: |
Which headline terms trended in 2012 on Techmeme? — “Help! I'm trending!” — Forget all those other tacky end-of-year lists, and sit back and enjoy Techmeme's latest awesome end-of-year lists. Yep, it's finally time to dive into the terms that trended up or down the most in Techmeme headlines this year.
Tweets: @dannysullivan, @zseward, @gaberivera and @kfury
| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
Senate votes to let the NSA keep spying on you without a warrant until 2017 — The US Senate has voted to approve the FAA Sunsets Extension Act of 2012, which will authorize warrantless surveillance of Americans for counter-terrorism purposes for another five years.| Megan Geuss / Ars Technica: |
McAfee Labs predicts the decline of Anonymous — Computer security firm McAfee Labs released its annual Threat Predictions report today, taking a look at what we'll see (and hope not to see) on 2013's deck of malware and viruses. Interestingly, McAfee's analysis predicts a decline in Anonymous' attacks …
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| John Koetsier / VentureBeat: |
For every 100 web pageviews on an iPad, a Kindle gets 5, a Galaxy gets 3, and a Surface gets 0.22 — Non-iPad web traffic is growing, but it's still a tiny fraction of what Apple's iconic tablet pulls in. — Advertising and analytics company Chitika released its December 2012 tablet market update … | Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Amazon Makes It Easier To Host Static Web Pages On S3 — S3 is Amazon's cloud storage service for developers, but you can also use it to host static web pages on the cheap. Amazon introduced this feature about a year ago and today, it is making it even easier to run basic sites on S3 … Sponsor Posts
Channel 9:
Inside NuGet for C++ — NuGet support for C++ projects in Visual Studio has arrived in NuGet 2.5! It's been around for about a month now so we figured we'd go talk to one of the developers who helped make it happen, Garrett Serack.
Inside NuGet for C++ — NuGet support for C++ projects in Visual Studio has arrived in NuGet 2.5! It's been around for about a month now so we figured we'd go talk to one of the developers who helped make it happen, Garrett Serack.
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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