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Vehicle rental giant Avis acquires car sharing company Zipcar for $500 million — Happy New Year, and welcome to the ongoing rise of the sharing economy. — Vehicle rental services company Avis Budget Group (Avis) today announced that it has agreed to acquire car sharing network Zipcar …
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Intel's Push Into Web TV Hits Delays — Intel Corp.'s effort to develop an Internet-based TV service and associated hardware is taking longer than expected, people familiar with the company's plans say, in part due to delays in reaching content agreements with media companies.
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Inside Intel's TV service: No CES announcement, but plenty of juicy details — Both Forbes and TechCrunch reported this past weekend that Intel may announce its much-rumored TV service at CES next week. I've been told by a knowledgeable source that this is inaccurate … | Matt Brian / The Next Web: |
Developers begin seeing new Apple iPhone hardware and iOS 7 in usage logs — Currently under development, traces of Apple's new iPhone and iOS software have begun surfacing in app usage logs. Developers have contacted The Next Web to share references to a new iPhone identifier …
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CNET, The Register, Reuters, Marketing Pilgrim, Gotta Be Mobile, Mashable!, VentureBeat, ValueWalk, Neowin, 9to5Mac, T3 News, The Verge, Gizmodo, SlashGear, iMore, TechCrunch, Pocket-lint, PhoneArena, everythingiCafe, Business Insider, Macgasm, MacRumors, iPhone in Canada Blog, App Advice, iPhone Hacks, Redmond Pie, iDownloadBlog.com, Softpedia News and iClarified. Tweets: @markgurman
| Marcus Wohlsen / Wired: |
Tech's Hot New Market: The Poor — Douglas Merrill's sister-in-law Vicki needed new snow tires. Without them, the single mother of three, who was going to school while also working full-time, couldn't get to work. She'd lose her job. — But Vicki was in a bind.| Joe Schneider / Bloomberg: |
Samsung Loses Bid to Seal Sales Data in Apple Dispute — Samsung Electronics Co. (005930) lost a bid to keep sales data of some of its products sealed in a U.S. patent dispute with Apple Inc. — U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh in San Jose yesterday denied Samsung's request to keep …
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| Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web: |
New services bypass Apple DRM to allow pirated iOS app installs without jailbreaking on iPhone, iPad — Late last year, the closure of the uber-popular Installous marked the end of a promiscuous era in iOS app piracy. Now, several new services are on the rise that are filling the gap …
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Gizmodo, PhoneArena, Guardian and iClarified
Tweets: @pdparticle and @tapbot_paul
Thanks:@martinsfp. See also Mediagazer| Elise Ackerman / IEEE Spectrum: |
Google Glass Features and Apps Still in Flux — Babak Parviz, head of the Google Glass project, hints at what to expect next … IEEE Spectrum: What is Google trying to accomplish with Google Glass? — Babak Parviz: We wanted to have a device that would do two things that we think would be useful for a lot of people.
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Engadget, digitaltrends.com, CNET, The Verge, Digit - Tech News, PhoneArena, 9to5Google, BGR and IEEE Spectrum. Tweets: @jowyang
| Emil Protalinski / The Next Web: |
Windows gains market share after six months of decline: Windows 8 grabs 1.64%, Windows 7 passes 45% — Last month, we reported how Windows XP had finally fallen below 40 percent market share. At the time, Windows 8 managed to grab 1 percent of the pie, and in December Microsoft's newest OS progressed but did not double up.
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InfoWorld, Softpedia News, Windows 8 Beta and Neowin
| Seth Weintraub / 9to5Mac: |
Apple airs unfortunately-timed ‘Do Not Disturb’ ad with Venus and Serena Williams [video] — You can't make this up. — As many iPhone owners wake up New Years Day and realize their Do Not Disturb is stuck on, they might also catch a glimpse of Apple's new iPhone 5 commercial.
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Business Insider, TUAW, CNET, iDownloadBlog.com, PhoneArena, Examiner, MacRumors, Macgasm, iPhone Hacks and App Advice
| Arnold Kim / MacRumors: |
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Facebook Analysts Stick to Script — Facebook Inc. has gotten a thumbs-down from investors since its initial public offering. But securities analysts who work at the investment banks that did the deal have never wavered in their enthusiasm. — Since the social-networking company went public in May …
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AllThingsD, Business Insider, Betabeat, MarketBeat and Digits
| Josh Ong / The Next Web: |
New Google Asia servers expected to bring 30% speed boost when they go live later this year — Google is on track to turn on new servers in Taiwan and Singapore later this year that could bring speed boosts of up to 30 percent across its services, The Economic Times reports.
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Times of India, 9to5Google, Digit - Tech News, BGR India and ZDNet
| Devorah Lauter / Telegraph: |
Apple's Paris store hit by New Year's Eve raid — The Apple shop in Paris's Opera district was robbed by armed, masked men on New Year's Eve, under the noses of riot police patrolling the nearby Champs Elysées. — The Apple store in Paris — Reports claimed the thieves … 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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