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Facebook launches free calling for all iPhone users in the US — In early January, Facebook began testing free calling over Wi-Fi and cellular data for all Messenger for iPhone users in Canada, and said that a US launch could be coming soon. Apparently, the test went well — a new free calling button has appeared in the app.
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TechCrunch, The Verge, BuzzFeed, Business Insider, MacRumors, Engadget, The Next Web, 9to5Mac, GigaOM, AllThingsD, Gizmodo, WebProNews, iDownloadBlog.com and iPhone Hacks. Tweets: @tcarmody
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Facebook Is No Longer Flat: On Graph Search — The post Facebook Is No Longer Flat: On Graph Search appeared first on John Battelle's Search Blog. — A sample Graph Search result for the query “friends photos before 1999.” — By now the news is sweeping across the blogosophere … | Peter Kafka / AllThingsD: |
Wall Street to Yelp: Facebook Search Should Scare You — We won't know what yesterday's Facebook search announcement means for a long time. Could take years, really. — But the market made it up its mind very quickly yesterday, and you can see it illustrated quite nicely below … | Liz Gannes / AllThingsD: |
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AT&T Expands FaceTime Over Cellular Support to All Tiered Data Plans — AT&T has again expanded access to the FaceTime Over Cellular feature to customers on all tiered data plans with a compatible FaceTime device. Previously, only users with an LTE device — the iPad 3 and 4 … | Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: |
New Java Exploit Fetches $5,000 Per Buyer — Less than 24 hours after Oracle patched a dangerous security hole in its Java software that was being used to seize control over Windows PCs, miscreants in the Underweb were already selling an exploit for a different and apparently still-unpatched zero … | evleaks / Unwired View: |
HTC M7: first image of the 2013 flagship — Thanks to a trusted source with access to an early version of its firmware, we've finally been given a first look at the HTC M7, a flagship device meant to reverse the fortunes of the slumping Taiwanese manufacturer.| Leena Rao / TechCrunch: |
Thanks To Growth In Mobile And Marketplaces, eBay's Q4 Revenue Up 18 Percent To $4B, Net Income Up 22 Percent — eBay's Q4 and full-year 2012 earnings hit this afternoon, with revenue for the fourth quarter ended December 31, 2012, increasing 18 percent to $4 billion, compared to the same period of 2011.
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Apple's 2013 Product Roadmap Predictions: Multiple iPhones, Retina iPad Mini, All-Retina MacBook Pros — KGI Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, who has a very good track record in predicting Apple's product plans, has issued a new research report outlining his expectations for Apple's 2013 product launches.| Sara Webb / Reuters: |
Samsung Galaxy tablets do not infringe Apple design: Dutch court — (Reuters) - A Dutch court, citing previous decisions in British courts, has ruled that some Samsung Electronics Galaxy tablets do not infringe an Apple design. — Wednesday's ruling by a district court in The Hague concerned …
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AMD alleges former managers copied 100,000 confidential files before joining Nvidia — Summary: AMD believes that a former vice-president and three managers handed trade secrets to Nvidia, after they jumped ship to join a rival hardware-making firm. — Zack Whittaker| Emil Protalinski / The Next Web: |
Verizon finds US developer outsourced his job to China so he could surf Reddit and watch cat videos — No, this is not the Onion, it's not April Fools, and I'm not making this up. All of this comes straight from Verizon, or more specifically, a case study from 2012 outlined by its security team.| Robert Graham / Errata Security: |
I conceal my identity the same way Aaron was indicted for — According to his indictment, Aaron Swartz was charged with wirefraud for concealing/changing his “true identity”. It sent chills down my back, because I do everything on that list (and more). — To understand what I do …
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Microsoft teases Surface Pro as 90-day deadline nears — Manger of Surface line says tablet arriving ‘in the coming weeks’ — Microsoft teased the Surface Pro today, hinting that the company will soon announce an on-sale date for its second tablet. — “On my way to the factory to check …
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Apple Lets Buyers on China Web Pay in 2-Year Installments — Apple Inc. (AAPL) began allowing users of its Chinese website to pay in installments as the company looks for ways to make iPhones and MacBook laptops more affordable in the world's largest computer and mobile-phone market.
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TechCrunch, Engadget, 9to5Mac, Financial Times, CNET, Tech Trader Daily and TUAW
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StumbleUpon Lays Off 30% Of Staff As It Restructures Company Into A Profitable State — StumbleUpon today laid off 30 percent of its staff, the company has confirmed to TechCrunch. The move, which brings Stumbleupon's employee count from 110 to 75, is part of a larger restructuring plan … | Donald Melanson / Engadget: |
Nexus 7 now available to order with T-Mobile SIM, carrier expands Nexus 4 retail availability — There's some good news today for T-Mobile customers looking to add a few more Nexus devices to their lives. The carrier announced today that the Nexus 7 tablet is now available to order …
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CNET, 9to5Google, The Verge, Droid Life and Android Central
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No, Google did not run over a donkey in Botswana — Here's a story you don't see every day. Google on Wednesday has gone on record to deny reports that one of its Google Maps Street View cars killed a donkey in the Kweneng region of Botswana. Seriously, we're not kidding …
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Leap Motion Teams Up With Best Buy As Exclusive Retail Launch Partner, Pre-Orders Start In February — Leap Motion, makers of the innovative Leap Motion controller for PCs, today announced that at launch, it will sell its device exclusively through Best Buy's physical and online stores in the U.S. …
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PandoDaily, Leap Motion, Engadget, Computerworld, The Verge, Technabob, VatorNews, SlashGear and VentureBeat
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Apple Needs to Adapt to Emerging-Market Growth, Sculley Says — Ex-Apple CEO: Apple Must Adapt to Emerging-Markets — Apple Inc. (AAPL) needs to overhaul its supply chain to meet demand for cheaper smartphones in emerging markets, former Chief Executive Officer John Sculley said.
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PC Magazine, Fortune, AppleInsider, Softpedia News, The Loop, ZDNet and Computerworld
| Dara Kerr / CNET: |
Apple, Amazon ordered to try settlement in ‘app store’ suit — Even though Apple's ongoing case against Amazon over its use of the term “app store” is scheduled to go to trial, the judge wants the companies to work to settle beforehand. — A judge has ordered Apple and Amazon to meet … | Sean Portnoy / ZDNet: |
Samsung Chromebox gets updated with Intel Core i5 Sandy Bridge CPU — Summary: The mini-desktop PC, which runs the Google Chrome OS, shows up online in a new configuration that doesn't include an under-powered processor for once. — Sean Portnoy — Google has tried to convince potential buyers …
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Engadget, Android Authority, Electronista and TweakTown News
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Nikkei: Nintendo to launch unified console and handheld division by February 16th (update: confirmed) — Nintendo plans to merge its handheld and console gaming units into one division to create next generation hardware “that will turn heads,” according to Nikkei.| Jessica Roy / Betabeat: |
Soho TechLabs Shuts Down Social Travel Site CasaHop — Back in April 2012, the HuffPo cabal-backed Soho TechLabs launched a social travel site called CasaHop that allowed users to “connect with people worldwide to trade homes for vacations and more.” Now, Soho TechLab's CEO Paul Berry told Betabeat …
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Intel And Facebook Team To Open Source Data-Center Designs, Open Compute Project Grows With 12 New Members — Facebook announced today at the Open Compute Summit that it is open-sourcing more of its data center designs for storing pictures, high availability and power consumption in data centers.Sponsor Posts
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Inside NuGet for C++ — NuGet support for C++ projects in Visual Studio has arrived in NuGet 2.5! It's been around for about a month now so we figured we'd go talk to one of the developers who helped make it happen, Garrett Serack.
Inside NuGet for C++ — NuGet support for C++ projects in Visual Studio has arrived in NuGet 2.5! It's been around for about a month now so we figured we'd go talk to one of the developers who helped make it happen, Garrett Serack.
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 …
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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 …
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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