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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Game Over: Zynga Shuts Down PetVille And 10 Other Titles To Cut Costs — Executing the cost-reduction plan CEO Mark Pincus announced in November, Zynga has shut down, pulled from the app stores, or stopped accepting new players to 11 games, with some turning off today.
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Digits, VentureBeat, PC Magazine, CNNMoney.com, Geek.com, GamePolitics blogs, GamesIndustry International, Betabeat, ValueWalk, SlashGear and destructoid
Tweets: @carnage4life, @adamdempsey and @brettwdiamond
Thanks:@ryanlawler| Jon Russell / The Next Web: |
Samsung reportedly set to sell its first Tizen-based smartphone in 2013 — The world will finally see the fruits of Tizen, the open sourced mobile operating system that has support from Samsung, DoCoMo, Vodafone and others, in 2013, according to a report from Japan's Daily Yomiuri …
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Daily Yomiuri Online, PC Magazine, Gizmodo, AllThingsD, Engadget, BGR, LAPTOP Magazine, Electronista, CNET, TechCrunch, SlashGear, PhoneArena and Pocket-lint
| Steve Stecklow / Reuters: |
Exclusive: Huawei partner offered embargoed HP gear to Iran — (Reuters) - A major Iranian partner of Huawei Technologies offered to sell at least 1.3 million euros worth of embargoed Hewlett-Packard computer equipment to Iran's largest mobile-phone operator in late 2010, documents show.
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PC Magazine, CNET, The Register, Gizmodo, SlashGear, ValueWalk, Electronista, Hillicon Valley, AllThingsD, TechCrunch and ZDNet
| Keith Teare / TechCrunch: |
Unnatural Acts And The Rise Of Mobile — Editor's note: Keith Teare is General Partner at his incubator Archimedes Labs and CEO of recently funded just.me. He was a co-founder of TechCrunch. — As all predatory, or formerly predatory, men and women know, if you're at a party and still … | Gregg Keizer / Computerworld: |
Microsoft confirms zero-day bug in IE6, IE7 and IE8 — Second time in two years it's had to deal with late-December vulnerabilities — Microsoft on Saturday confirmed that Internet Explorer (IE) 6, 7 and 8 contain an unpatched bug — or “zero-day” vulnerability — that is being used by attackers to hijack victims' Windows computers.
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Obama Signs FISA Warrantless Wiretapping Program Extension Into Law — WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama has signed into law a five-year extension of the U.S. government's authority to monitor the overseas activity of suspected foreign spies and terrorists.
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Hit & Run, The Verge and Hillicon Valley
| Nick Bilton / NYT Bits: |
Disruptions: The Real Hazards of E-Devices on Planes — A pilot uses the FlySmart with Airbus app on an Apple iPad. The F.A.A. has no proof that electronic devices can harm a plane's avionics, but it still perpetuates such claims. — Over the last year, flying with phones and other devices has become increasingly dangerous.
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Gawker, Guardian, avherald.com, Business Insider, The Verge, Gizmodo and Boing Boing
Tweets: @qthrul and @brianstelter
| Sebastien Page / iDownloadBlog: |
Hackulous shuts down: piracy app Installous is gone — In what seems like a small victory against app piracy, the Hackulous team announced today on its site that it is shutting down, bringing down its most popular apps in the process: Installous and AppSync.
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TorrentFreak, PandoDaily, MacRumors, AppleInsider, The Verge, DailyTech, Gizmodo, MacNN, SlashGear, Geek.com, everythingiCafe, Macgasm, App Advice, MobileBurn.com, Techie Buzz and TechCrunch. Tweets: @idannyocean
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft offers up free month of Xbox Live following Cloud Saved Games outage — Microsoft says it will provide affected users with an automatic one-month extension to the company's Xbox Live gold service following an outage related to a Cloud Saved Games feature.| Steve Lohr / New York Times: |
Sure, Big Data Is Great. But So Is Intuition — IT was the bold title of a conference this month at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and of a widely read article in The Harvard Business Review last October: “Big Data: The Management Revolution.”
Tweets: @howardlindzon, @edwardtufte and @rafat
| Hunter Walk / Elapsed Time: |
Trying to be the one true social graph is like trying to hold water in your fist — Facebook needed to buy Instagram because it was creating a mobile-first photo-centric social network. Snapchat is interesting to Facebook because it's creating a mobile-first ephemeral content social network.
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Bijan Sabet, TechCrunch, Business Insider and Medium
Tweets: @davemcclure, @elizakern and @joshconstine
| Arik Hesseldahl / AllThingsD: |
The Pressure Is on HP to Stand and Deliver in 2013 — Today marks the end of what has been without a doubt the worst year in Hewlett-Packard's corporate history. You could argue that 2011, marked by the brief period that Léo Apotheker was CEO, was worse in many ways … Sponsor Posts
Microsoft BizSpark:
Featured Startup - FormVerse — If there was one tool not made for effective work, it would have to be email. If you take silos of information, and a chronological effect, where old or new is piled on top of each other …
Featured Startup - FormVerse — If there was one tool not made for effective work, it would have to be email. If you take silos of information, and a chronological effect, where old or new is piled on top of each other …
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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