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Google says Maps redirect on Windows Phone was a product decision, and will be removed — Today, a Google spokesperson provided The Next Web with a statement indicating that the company intends to remove the redirect that it has in place for Windows Phone users who attempt to access the Google Maps product …
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Business Insider, The Verge, SlashGear, The Verge, MobileSyrup.com, CNET, Engadget, WMPoweruser, Gizmodo, ZDNet, WMPoweruser, The Next Web, Neowin, LiveSide.net, 9to5Google, LAPTOP Magazine, TechCrunch, WinBeta, PhoneArena, My Nokia Blog, Pocketnow, Gizmodo, TECHGEEK.com.au, Techblitz, InfoWorld and Los Angeles Times
Tweets: @gartenberg, @gartenberg, @robpegoraro, @adman_nz, @matthiasshap, @dannysullivan and @fxshaw
| Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land: |
The Strange Explanation Of Why Windows Phone Users Lost Access To Google Maps — On Friday, Windows Phone users supposedly found themselves unable to access Google Maps. But Google said it made no sudden change on its end to cause this. What happened? It seems likely many people simple noticed … | Paul Thurrott / SuperSite for Windows: |
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 …
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PC World, Business Insider, CNET, NPD Group, Newsome.Org, The Verge, parislemon, VentureBeat, LAPTOP Magazine, The Next Web, Neowin and The Verge
Tweets: @ihnatko, @marxculture and @olebegemann
| MG Siegler / TechCrunch: |
The Fifth Horseman: Samsung — We all know the “four horsemen” of tech: Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google. These are the companies that pretty much everyone agrees will shape the foreseeable future of the tech sector. In some circles, that list makes waves for who is not included: Microsoft.
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The Loop, Ars Technica and Edible Apple
Tweets: @valaafshar, @efeng, @lessien, @carnage4life and @joshconstine
| Dana Wollman / Engadget: |
Vizio debuts its first Windows 8 tablet, an 11.6-inch slate with a 1080p display, AMD processor — After breaking into the PC market last year, it was only a matter of time before Vizio released its first Windows 8 tablet. The company just announced the Vizio Tablet PC …
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ZDNet, VentureBeat, LAPTOP Magazine, The Verge, Neowin, Inquirer and Digits
| Richard Lai / Engadget: |
Lenovo to split into Lenovo Business Group and Think Business Group, effective in April — Lenovo's done pretty well since its acquisition of IBM's personal computer business in 2005, but in an internal e-mail earlier today, CEO Yang Yuanqing admitted that despite some attempt …
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LAPTOP Magazine, The Verge and Pocket-lint
| Agence France Presse: |
Iran designing software for controlled social media access — TEHRAN — Iran is designing “intelligent software” that would give citizens restricted and controlled access to banned social networking sites, local media on Sunday quoted police chief Esmaeil Ahmadi Moghadam as saying.
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The Next Web, The Verge, Gizmodo and Associated Press
| David Beren / TmoNews: |
T-Mobile's Unlimited Data Plan Coming Soon To Monthly4G — Some good news for Monthly4G customers as your opportunity to take advantage of T-Mobile's Unlimited 4G data plan finally arrives on January 9th. T-Mobile's Unlimited Nationwide 4G Data plan is “Perfect for video chat …
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PC World, SlashGear, Mobile & Apps, The Verge, Engadget and Android Police
| Geoffrey A. Fowler / Wall Street Journal: |
Life and Death Online: Who Controls a Digital Legacy? — Alison Atkins died on July 27 at age 16. Online, her family is losing its hold on her memory. Three days after the Toronto teen lost a long battle with a colon disease, her sister Jaclyn Atkins had a technician crack Alison's password-protected MacBook Pro.| Kara Swisher / AllThingsD: |
Yahoo's De Castro Begins Reorg of Ad Sales Unit — As I had previously reported, Yahoo's key business unit — its advertising sales force — is now getting details of a reorganization by its new leader, COO Henrique De Castro. — In making the changes, just weeks ahead of Yahoo's annual sales conference … | Ken Yeung / The Next Web: |
Unreasonable at Sea to set sail on 100-day accelerator cruise with 11 startups and Desmond Tutu — A first of its kind type of accelerator is preparing to hoist anchor and set off on a unbelievable journey. Unreasonable at Sea, the startup accelerator taking place entirely on a boat …
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PandoDaily and digitaltrends.com
| Iljitsch van Beijnum / Ars Technica: |
IPv6 takes one step forward, IPv4 two steps back in 2012 — IPv6 rollout is still inefficient with problems ahead, but there is slow progress. … “Hi, I'd like to sign up for Internet service at my new apartment.” — “That's great! We have the highest speeds at the best prices, you won't be disappointed.Sponsor Posts
Channel 9:
Windows 8 Tips — Tips and tricks for Windows 8 users.
Windows 8 Tips — Tips and tricks for Windows 8 users.
Cloud Foundry:
Want to Contribute to Cloud Foundry? Come on in! — Cloud Foundry is an Open Platform-as-a-Service, and an Open Source project. It has attracted phenomenal interest from the community - including partners …
Want to Contribute to Cloud Foundry? Come on in! — Cloud Foundry is an Open Platform-as-a-Service, and an Open Source project. It has attracted phenomenal interest from the community - including partners …
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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