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U.S. Senator Charles Schumer, Google CIO To Unveil Free WiFi In NYC's Chelsea Neighborhood — Google has slowly been building up its service provider cred, with an ambitious fiber project in Kansas City and free WiFi initiatives through a partnership with Boingo.
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CNET, Business Insider, ZDNet, The Verge, Betabeat, Bloomberg, Betabeat, Mashable!, WebProNews and Softpedia News
| Janko Roettgers / GigaOM: |
Exclusive: A first look at Netflix's test of personalized profiles — Netflix recently started to test personalized profiles with a limited subset of its subscribers, allowing them to create a separate profile for each member of their family. The company has talked about eventually doing …
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PC World and VentureBeat
| Jason Clampet / Skift: |
Airbnb's growing pains mirrored in New York City, where half its listings are illegal rentals — Apartment rental site Airbnb's revolutionary simplicity has made it easy for tens of thousands of people to both list and discover lodging options in private residences and book them easily, quickly, and safely.
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SocialTimes and GOOD.is
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Tablet PC Market Forecast to Surpass Notebooks in 2013, NPD DisplaySearch Reports — Tablet PC shipments are expected to reach more than 240 million units worldwide in 2013, easily exceeding the 207 million notebook PCs that are projected to ship, according to NPD DisplaySearch Quarterly Mobile PC Shipment and Forecast Report.
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CNET, Internet2Go, ZDNet, The Register, Quartz and The Next Web
| Matt Brian / The Next Web: |
AT&T sold a record 10m smartphones in Q4 2012, helped by best-ever sales of Android and Apple devices — US operator AT&T announced today a new for sales of smartphones by the company, after it saw sales top the 10 million unit market for the first time in its history in the fourth quarter of 2012 …
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Business Wire, Reuters, Business Insider, VentureBeat, CNET, ReadWrite, BGR, 9to5Google, The Verge, ZDNet, MacRumors, Bloomberg, Mashable!, everythingiCafe and PhoneArena
| Om Malik / GigaOM: |
The new guard: Look at who is buying technology companies now — A few days ago, I pointed out the inevitability of the Internet and how it was going to play an increasing role in the companies that have traditionally not been classified as technology companies.| Joanna Stern / ABCNEWS: |
Sony Goes Big Into 4K: OLED Ultra HD, 4K Video Service and Consumer Camcorder — Image: Sony. — LAS VEGAS — You're not surprised, are you? Sony took the stage this evening at its press conference at CES 2013 to unveil a whole array of electronics, including, yes, a 4K TV.
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Inquirer, Digits, Gizmodo, ABCNEWS, Electronista, Mashable!, Engadget, Engadget and PhoneArena
| Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
“The telephone network is obsolete”: Get ready for the all-IP telco — Two months ago, AT&T petitioned the Federal Communications Commission to plan for the retirement of traditional phone networks and transition to what AT&T sees as an inevitability: the all-IP telco.| Matt Buchanan / BuzzFeed: |
Why We're Not At The Biggest Tech Show In The World — Because it's not the most important event in technology anymore. The two trends that killed CES. For a long time, the Consumer Electronics Show, which began in 1967, was the Super Bowl of new technology.
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Galaxy phones power Samsung to record $8.3 billion profit — (Reuters) - Samsung Electronics, the world leader in mobiles and memory chips, said it likely earned a quarterly profit of $8.3 billion, as it sold close to 500 handsets a minute and as demand picked up for the flat screens it makes …
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TechEye, Business Insider, VentureBeat, TechCrunch, Bloomberg, DailyTech, Pocketnow, GeekWire, The Verge and Reuters
| David Zax / Fast Company: |
This 15-Year-Old Built An App To Help His High School Debate Team. It Could Do Much More Than That — Tanay Tandon, high school sophomore, put out a Flipboard-like app last week called Clipped. What's it like to be a teen prodigy hacker juggling the demands of high school?
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| Ellis Hamburger / The Verge: |
Consumers pay the hidden costs for the ‘free’ app ecosystem — Can mobile developers find a way to make paid apps work at scale? — Time is money, and apps don't last forever. You're never going to get back the hours you spent Oinking that hip record shop in Williamsburg or Stamping the bars with the best absinthe martinis.| John Shiffman / Reuters: |
Chinese man pleads guilty in $100 million stolen software sting — (Reuters) - In a case U.S. officials say is the first of its kind, a Chinese businessman pleaded guilty Monday to selling stolen American software used in defense, space technology and engineering - programs prosecutors …
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Hillicon Valley, Inquirer, Gizmodo, The Verge, Bloomberg and The Register
| Alex Wilhelm / The Next Web: |
Intel: 4th generation Ultrabooks will require touch and will retail for $599 by end of 2013 — Today at its CES event, Intel made the claim that by the end of 2013, the market will enjoy the presence of $599, touch-enabled Ultrabook laptops. The company also stated that the devices will be required to support touch input.
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| B.L. Ochman / AdAge: |
There Are 181,000 Social Media ‘Gurus,’ ‘Ninjas,’ ‘Masters,’ and ‘Mavens’ on Twitter — A Growth Industry: That's Up From Just 16,000 In 2009 — As a public service, I like to periodically check in on the number of self-proclaimed social media “gurus,” “ninjas,” “masters” and “mavens” on Twitter.
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Mashable!, Marketing Pilgrim, AllTwitter, The Verge and PandoDaily
| Don Clark / Digits: |
Microsoft's Ballmer Makes Cameo at Qualcomm Opening Keynote — A symbolic changing of the guard at the Consumer Electronics Show featured a surprise appearance by the old guard-Microsoft's Steve Ballmer, who helped Qualcomm CEO Paul Jacobs kick off his first-ever opening keynote at the show.
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| Matt Brian / The Next Web: |
Apple CEO Tim Cook meets high-level officials, US ambassador on visit to China — While Google chairman Eric Schmidt is enjoying a much-criticised visit to North Korea, Apple is coordinating an Asia visit of its own, after its CEO Tim Cook met with China's Minister of Industry and Information Technology …
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Bloomberg, CNET, Macgasm, Computerworld, AllThingsD, Engadget, MacRumors, The Verge, 9to5Mac, AppleInsider, Digits, MacNN, iDownloadBlog.com, iClarified, App Advice, Tech in Asia and MacDailyNews. Tweets: @jimsciuttochina
| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Cisco introduces ‘videoscape unity’ to manage the future of video everywhere — Cisco is the world's networking giant, and today it showed what it is doing to make sure that it can provide the plumbing for the explosion of video on live TV, paid services, and the wide-open Internet.
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| Robin Wauters / The Next Web: |
Mo' money, fewer funds: 182 U.S. VC firms raised $20.6 billion in 2012, most since 2008 — According to a new report from Thomson Reuters and the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA), U.S. venture capital firms raised $20.6 billion from 182 funds during full year 2012.
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PE Hub Blog, A VC and PE Hub Blog
| Michael Stroh / The Windows Blog: |
Verizon, Sprint to offer new Windows Phone 8 models — There were two big Windows Phone-related announcements today at the Consumer Electronic Show (CES) in Las Vegas. — First, Samsung said that the ATIV Odyssey will go on sale at Verizon Wireless in the “coming weeks.”
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Sprint Newsroom, Verizon Wireless, SiliconANGLE, SuperSite for Windows, GadgeTell, CNET, Phones Review, FierceMobileContent News, The Verge, Ars Technica, Engadget, ZDNet, FierceWireless, Pocketables, Digits, Sammy Hub, All About Windows Phone, Pocketnow, Know Your Cell, nbcnews.com, WinBeta, The Next Web and The Verge
| Michael Carney / PandoDaily: |
Game discovery platform Chartboost is on fire, scores Sequoia in $19 million Series B — There are two principal challenges facing mobile game developers today. The first is app discovery. Amid an increasing sea of choices, it's never been more difficult to gain user mind share and crucial mobile device home screen real estate.
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The Next Web, AllThingsD, TechCrunch, VentureBeat and Inside Mobile Apps
| Michael McWhertor / Polygon: |
Valve and Xi3's ‘Steam Box’ codenamed Piston, early specs detailed at CES — The “Steam Box” modular computer announced by hardware maker Xi3 and Valve at CES is codenamed “Piston” and is modeled after the PC maker's X7A line of pint-sized computers, Xi3 reps tell Polygon.| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
As Demand For Tablets, Smartphones And Connected Screens Soars, Pure Play Devices Under Threat, Says Accenture — Attention dumbphones, point-and-shoot cameras and music players: sorry to tell you this, but it looks like your days may be numbered. According to a new survey out from Accenture …
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VentureBeat and ZDNet
| Andrew Webster / The Verge: |
Amazon Prime comes to Canada with free two-day shipping, but no Instant Video — Amazon Prime is finally available in Canada. For $79 a year, plus taxes, Canadians will receive free two-day shipping on eligible items destined for “most cities” in the country, with no minimum purchase.
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Times Colonist, Amazon.com, TechCrunch, VentureBeat, The Next Web, Engadget, WebProNews and Mashable!
| Paul Bond / Hollywood Reporter: |
Nancy Tellem: Why Microsoft's Looking for TV Hits on XBox Live (Q&A) — The entertainment and digital media president on why she left CBS, how she'd handle Angus T. Jones and why she's not into violent entertainment: “I don't like blood.” — Nancy Tellem, who had been a consultant … | Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
GM Announces New App Framework, SDK, And Store For In-Vehicle Apps — Ford today introduced its new AppLink API that allows mobile apps to talk to its cars. Not to be outdone, General Motors just introduced its own API and SDK for its new in-vehicle app platform. the big difference …
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Telematics News, Engadget, media.ford.com and The Verge
| Alex Williams / TechCrunch: |
GitHub Introduces Contributions, A New Way To Display On Profile Pages What Developers Are Doing — GitHub continues to build out its unique social network with Contributions, a new addition to profile pages that displays the projects developers created and what they are contributing to … | Thomas Gryta / Digits: |
Verizon Says Buying Out Wireless Venture ‘Feasible’ — Verizon Communications Inc. Chief Executive Lowell McAdam believes the company could pull off the acquisition of its wireless joint venture with Vodafone Group PLC. — In an interview Monday ahead of the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas …
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Guardian, Reuters, FierceWireless, StreetInsider.com, Bloomberg and Wall St. Cheat Sheet
| Sharif Sakr / Engadget: |
Qualcomm outs Snapdragon 800 and 600: up to 2.3GHz quad-core, 4K video, due by mid 2013 — Having pushed the Snapdragon S4 into an outrageous number of devices last year, it seemed inevitable that Qualcomm would come to CES 2013 with an even more fiery Snapdragon S5.Sponsor Posts
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Defrag Tools: WPT - Command Line — Andrew Richards, Chad Beeder, and Larry Larsen continue walking you through the Windows Performance Toolkit (WPT).
Defrag Tools: WPT - Command Line — Andrew Richards, Chad Beeder, and Larry Larsen continue walking you through the Windows Performance Toolkit (WPT).
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:
Love, Magic, & APIs — I will confess, I am old enough to remember my GeoCities page. Don't hate. It was amazing, it was... this transformative moment in which I took real, actual information, and transformed it into something visible and memorable.
Love, Magic, & APIs — I will confess, I am old enough to remember my GeoCities page. Don't hate. It was amazing, it was... this transformative moment in which I took real, actual information, and transformed it into something visible and memorable.
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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