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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 … | Gabe Rivera / Techmeme News: |
Techmeme's biggest (i.e. tallest) stories of 2012 — Now that we've examined the year's trending terms, our final retrospectacular tour of 2012 examines the stories themselves. On Techmeme, the biggest stories usually become the tallest stories as different angles of reporting and analysis pile up … | Charles Arthur / Guardian: |
Sayonara, netbooks: Asus (and the rest) won't make any more in 2013 — A five-year lifespan turned out to be all that netbooks got. Acer and Asus are stopping manufacture from 1 January 2013 - ending what once looked like the future of computing — Sayonara, netbooks.| Ryan Block / NYT Bits: |
Why I'm Quitting Instagram — The flap over Instagram's changing its terms of service has not died down even weeks after its announcement and subsequent partial reversal. People are still arguing whether Instagram's photographers will stay loyal to the service.
Tweets: @jamesallworth, @ryan, @mjasay, @buzzbishop, @timoreilly and @theromit
| Harrison Weber / The Next Web: |
Reddit's impressive 2012 stats: 37 billion page views, 400 million uniques and 30 million posts — Reddit has announced that in 2012 it served an impressive 37 billion page views and 400 million unique visitors. Additionally, the company has shared that it saw 30 million posts …
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CNET, reddit, PandoDaily and TweakTown News
| Michael Arrington / TechCrunch: |
I'm Bored. What's Next? — It's just about 2013 and I gotta say, I'm a little bored. — At least, the blogger in me is. As an investor things are just peachy. All this panic about overpriced consumer startups has led to a nice softening of the market (periodic reports of Blubbles are great for that).
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Tweets: @eoghanmccabe, @alexismadrigal and @loyalelectron
| Danielle Kucera / Bloomberg: |
Amazon Apologizes for Christmas Eve Outage Affecting Netflix — Amazon.com Inc. (AMZN) apologized for a Dec. 24 disruption in its cloud-computing services that hindered Netflix Inc. (NFLX) customers from watching movies, and said it is taking steps to prevent a recurrence.| Associated Press: |
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, Hillicon Valley and VentureBeat
| Robin Wauters / The Next Web: |
RunKeeper aims to keep its 14 million users running with new app UI and improved photo sharing — The end of the calendar year appears to be a good time for mobile health and fitness startups to launch and update smartphone apps to assist people with making good on their New Year's resolutions.
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RunKeeper, TechCrunch, Apple Bitch, iClarified, SlashGear, everythingiCafe, GigaOM and TUAW
| Bijan Sabet: |
Can a social graph last more than 10 years? — Hunter Walk wrote an excellent post the other day about whether one social graph can rule them all or not. Hunter is in the latter camp. And it's clear by our investments at Spark and my social mobile/web activity that I agree with him …
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| Emil Protalinski / The Next Web: |
Microsoft releases temporary fix for vulnerability in IE6, IE7, and IE8; security patch coming soon — Microsoft on Monday released a temporary one-click “Fix it” tool for old versions of Internet Explorer. Running it will prevent the recently-discovered vulnerability in IE6, IE7 …
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Microsoft Support, TechNet Blogs, CNET, Computerworld, Neowin, Los Angeles Times, digitaltrends.com, The Hacker News, Naked Security, ExtremeTech, SecurityWeek, VentureBeat, TechNet Blogs, Security Intelligence, Ars Technica, ZDNet, Lifehacker, CNET, gHacks Technology News, The H Security, Softpedia News and WinBeta
| 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 … | Justin Rubio / The Verge: |
Instagram rings in the new year with desktop-optimized NYE photo stream — As the world rolls into 2013, Instagram is showcasing celebrations from around the globe with the help of a New Years Eve photo stream that can be viewed from mobile devices and desktop browsers.
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Instagram, digitaltrends.com, CNET, The Next Web, VentureBeat, PC Magazine, Ubergizmo and Mashable!
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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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