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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, ValueWalk, Betabeat, 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, Engadget, Gizmodo, CNET, BGR, AllThingsD, LAPTOP Magazine, Electronista, TechCrunch, SlashGear, PhoneArena and Pocket-lint
| 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 … | 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 and Hillicon Valley
| 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, The Register, CNET, Gizmodo, SlashGear, ValueWalk, Electronista, AllThingsD, TechCrunch, ZDNet and Hillicon Valley
| 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.
| 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, The Verge, PandoDaily, AppleInsider, MacRumors, MacDailyNews, TUAW, DailyTech, MacNN, Gizmodo, SlashGear, Geek.com, everythingiCafe, Macgasm, App Advice, MobileBurn.com, Techie Buzz and TechCrunch. Tweets: @idannyocean
| 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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DailyTech, Gawker, Guardian, avherald.com, Business Insider, The Verge, Gizmodo and Boing Boing
Tweets: @qthrul and @brianstelter
| 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
| Josh Ong / The Next Web: |
Yahoo completes its planned exit from South Korea — True to its word, Yahoo has pulled out of the South Korean market by the end of 2012, as noted by the Yonhap News Agency. A notice on the company's site provides detailed instructions to users on when exactly all of its services will go dark … | 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.Sponsor Posts
Channel 9:
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:
DevOps: Improved Productivity, Higher Value — Those of us who have been aligned with DevOps for some time already know that the greater agility and closer collaboration it enables deliver real business value for our organizations.
DevOps: Improved Productivity, Higher Value — Those of us who have been aligned with DevOps for some time already know that the greater agility and closer collaboration it enables deliver real business value for our organizations.
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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