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Explaining Windows 8 PC Sales Over the Holidays — It's time to stop denying that Windows 8 is off to a slow start — At some point, the cheerleaders—and yes, amazingly, they're out there—are going to have to face reality: Windows 8 is selling slowly. More slowly than Windows 7 at launch … | Wall Street Journal: |
Behind Google's Antitrust Escape — After early hopes for a sweeping antitrust case against Google Inc., it became clear to the Federal Trade Commission last fall that no such lawsuit was in the offing. — A clinching moment came in November when FTC staff, who had exhaustively investigated … | Alex Wilhelm / The Next Web: |
Shenanigans: Google Maps redirect issue on Windows Phones is a matter of competition, not compatibility — Sources close to Microsoft in contact with TNW have cast doubt on Google's telling of the Windows Phone 8 and Google Maps controversy. A thorough look shows that the situation …
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Thanks:@thekenyeung| Mark Milian / Bloomberg Tech Blog: |
Hollywood Hires Anti-Piracy Pro — Photograph by Jonathan Leibson/WireImage — MPAA CEO Chris Dodd announced the hiring of Diane Strahan to run the organization's operations. — The Motion Picture Association of America, Hollywood's trade group, is touting today's hiring …
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Welcome to CES: A Trade Show, Not a Tastemaker — This week, most of the developed world will stagger halfheartedly back to the office, attempting to work after two weeks of twinkling lights, post-nog hangovers, and watching bad TV sprawled across couches inside the houses we grew up in.| Jolie O'Dell / VentureBeat: |
Cult app Cheddar up for sale, solo hacker explains why — Cheddar, a cult classic among hackers and Mac die-hards, is up for sale. — The elegant app is a simple task manager, but it really took off because of creator (and former Hipstamatic and Scribd engineer) Sam Soffes' code.
Tweets: @soffes
| Caroline Winter / Business Week: |
Bitcoin: Making Online Gambling Legal in the U.S.? — Michael Hajduk had sunk one year and about $20,000 into developing his online poker site, Infiniti Poker, when the U.S. online gambling market imploded. On April 15, 2011, a day now known in the industry as Black Friday …
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Ars Technica and The Verge
| Tim-o-tato / Droid Life: |
Google Play Adds “Free for Print Subscribers” Option for Play Magazines — For people who actually read magazines on their tablets, this news is huge. Recently, Google has enabled the ability for paper magazine subscribers to transfer their subscriptions to the cloud and read their content right …
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Engadget, The Verge, Android Community, Android Police, Liliputing, Pocketnow and AndroidOS.in
| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook Mobile User Counts Revealed: 192M Android, 147M iPhone, 48M iPad, 56M Messenger — Facebook keeps user counts for its mobile apps hidden, but analyst Benedict Evans found a way to uncover them and they provide critical insight into the direction and performance of Facebook's mobile efforts.| John Koetsier / VentureBeat: |
Google Play will hit a million apps in June (probably sooner than the iOS app store) — I think we're well past the time when number of apps is the defining factor of a mobile ecosystem, at least if you're Apple or Google. Perhaps not so much if you're Windows Phone or RIM.
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Computerworld, sociable.co and PhoneArena
| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
OS X Mountain Lion Now Accounts For A Majority Share Of Mac Web Traffic, Growing Nearly Twice As Fast As Lion — OS X Mountain Lion, or version 10.8 as it's known according to Apple's numbering system, accounted for 32 percent of all web traffic measured by Net Applications, a firm that charts OS share and other web metrics.
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Softpedia News, MacNN, Macgasm, AppleInsider, MacRumors and ITworld.com
| Peter Kafka / AllThingsD: |
Let Jason Kilar Take a Bow — Hulu CEO Jason Kilar is headed out the door, as is CTO Rich Tom. Other employees at the video site are going soon, as well. — None of that is surprising, and if you're trying to figure out what that means for Hulu, you're asking the wrong question.
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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Mobile Telco Dials In and Harnesses Big Data with Hadoop — Smartphones have transformed our daily lives. A key indicator of this trend is our increased spend on data plans versus voice.
Mobile Telco Dials In and Harnesses Big Data with Hadoop — Smartphones have transformed our daily lives. A key indicator of this trend is our increased spend on data plans versus voice.
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“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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