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Exclusive - Japan's Sharp curbs iPad screen output as Apple manages demand shift-sources — (Reuters) - Sharp Corp has nearly halted production of 9.7-inch screens for Apple Inc's iPad, two sources said, as demand shifts to its smaller iPad mini. — Sharp's iPad screen production line …
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| Mike Isaac / AllThingsD: |
After Reports of User Revolt, Instagram Releases Monthly Active User Data for the First Time — After weeks of accusations that Instagram has seen a sharp drop in its user numbers, the photo-sharing service released new data that gives better insight into the actual number of people using the service on a regular basis.
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| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
Apple's iOS Newsstand Now Offers Hearst Magazines Days Before Print And Other Digital Stores — Apple today quietly launched a new feature for Newsstand, whereby publications by partner Hearst (covering their entire catalog) will now be available to subscribers days before they come to print, or other digital editions.
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| Emil Protalinski / The Next Web: |
Fortune's top 100 employers for 2013: Google first, Microsoft #75, Apple and Facebook don't make it — Fortune on Thursday released its list of the 100 Best Companies to Work For in 2013, and some of the results are surprising. While it's not exactly shocking to see Google in first place …
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| Zachary M. Seward / Quartz: |
Ahead of Graph Search launch, Facebook removed the ability to opt out of search results — A month before unveiling a major new search feature, Facebook changed its privacy policy to remove the ability to opt out of search results. — I noted this in my piece yesterday about the privacy implications …
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| Joel Rosenblatt / Bloomberg: |
Apple CEO Cook Gets Deposition Order in Antitrust Case — Tim Cook, Apple Inc. (AAPL)'s chief executive officer, was ordered to give a deposition in a lawsuit claiming the iPhone maker and other technology companies violated antitrust laws by entering into agreements to not recruit each other's employees.
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| Zachary M. Seward / Quartz: |
HBO comedy “Silicon Valley” is a lot better than Bravo reality show “Silicon Valley” — SAN FRANCISCO, California—Last month came word that HBO, Time Warner's premium cable network, had ordered the pilot episode of Silicon Valley, a half-hour comedy skewering the US technology industry.
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| Cade Metz / Wired: |
Facebook Wants New Breed of Flash Memory for Storing Old Pics — With each passing day, more than 350 million digital photos find their way onto Facebook, joining the more than 240 billion that are already there. Jay Parikh is the man who makes sure all those photos can remain online …
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| Yoni Heisler / Network World: |
Tony Fadell on the unique nature of Apple's design process — Often referred to as the godfather of the iPod, former Apple executive and current Nest CEO Tony Fadell played an instrumental part in Apple's resurgence. Indeed, Fadell joined Apple in February 2001 where he got to work designing the original iPod.| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Nielsen: Smartphone Battle Ready To Rage In Brazil, Russia, India — In a research note released today, Nielsen examines the potential for smartphone growth in the BRIC region (Brazil, Russia, India, China), where, in many cases, feature phones still dominate.
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| Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian: |
Google to build £1bn UK HQ in London — Technology giant plans to relocate two offices and move into new 2.4 acre complex by 2016 — Google has completed a £1bn property deal to move its UK headquarters to a brownfield site in London's King's Cross area.
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| Chris Davies / SlashGear: |
Nokia releases 3D case printing files for Lumia 820 — Nokia has released the 3D printing files for its Lumia 820 interchangeable casings, allowing owners to create their own custom shells for the Windows Phone. The free 3D-printing Development Kit (or 3DK, as Nokia is calling it) …
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| Bloomberg: |
Box CEO Levie Targets 2014 IPO After Global Expansion This Year — Box Inc., the Web-storage provider with more than 140,000 business customers, is planning to hold its initial public offering in 2014, Chief Executive Officer Aaron Levie said yesterday in an interview.
| Andrea Shalal-Esa / Reuters: |
Iran strengthened cyber capabilities after Stuxnet: U.S. general — Reuters/Reuters - John Bumgarner, a cyber warfare expert who is chief technology officer of the U.S. Cyber Consequences Unit, a non-profit group that studies the impact of cyber threats, works on his laptop ...more
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| Nathan Ingraham / The Verge: |
Google CEO Larry Page says Facebook is doing ‘a really bad job on their products’ — Google CEO Larry Page doesn't often give interviews, but he usually doesn't pull punches when he does. In a new interview with Wired's Steven Levy, Page opened up on a wide variety of topics, including Facebook's ability to launch new products.
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| Emil Protalinski / The Next Web: |
Kim Dotcom reveals Mega will offer 50GB of free storage, hopes to offer Megaupload data transfer — Kim Dotcom on Thursday used Twitter to reveal some interesting new tidbits in regards to his upcoming Mega service, which will be hosted at the New Zealand-based domain Mega.co.nz.
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| Sean Buckley / Engadget: |
Sony selling NY headquarters for $1.1 billion, will rent space from new owners — Despite losing a little less each quarter since Kazuo Hirai took over as CEO, Sony still appears to be looking for ways to cut the fat. Its latest move? Sell the house. Taking a page from Nokia's book … | Daniel Cooper / Engadget: |
LG's Optimus G Pro revealed in leaked image with 5-inch 1080p display, 3,000mAh battery and LTE — LG's Optimus G won the hearts of our reviewers, while finding the barely-different Nexus 4 is a feat worthy of a mythological hero. A tipster has sent us the above leaked slide …
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| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
Choose Netflix UK For TV Shows, Amazon's LOVEFiLM Instant For Films, Study Suggests — The ongoing war between rival on-demand streaming services as they build out their catalogues to win customers by having the most enticing content means rarely a week goes by without news … | Tom Simonite / MIT Technology Review: |
Apple Looks to Improve Siri's Script — Apple's virtual assistant Siri may have its roots in a Pentagon-funded artificial intelligence research project, but algorithms aren't everything and the Cupertino company is now turning to writers to make Siri smarter.
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9to5Mac, MacRumors, Search Engine Land, PC Magazine, CNET, The Atlantic Online, TUAW, App Advice, iLounge, Softpedia News, SlashGear, iDownloadBlog.com and iPhone Hacks. Thanks:@tsimonite
| Ellen Messmer / Network World: |
‘Rogue clouds’ giving IT staffs nightmares — Inefficient storage methods also seen as raising costs in cloud, survey finds By Ellen Messmer, Network World January 16, 2013 06:06 AM ET Network World - Cloud computing is increasingly being adopted by companies around the world, but IT managers say … Sponsor Posts
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Announcing TypeScript 0.9: Generics and More — Anders Hejlsberg, Steve Lucco, and Luke Hoban join us for a conversation about TypeScript 0.9. TypeScript now has generics! (and more)
Announcing TypeScript 0.9: Generics and More — Anders Hejlsberg, Steve Lucco, and Luke Hoban join us for a conversation about TypeScript 0.9. TypeScript now has generics! (and more)
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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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99.999 Is Not Enough: An OpenCloud Approach to Delivering Application Uptime and Performance — Executive Summary — The pressure to keep vital applications online and performing well is extreme.
99.999 Is Not Enough: An OpenCloud Approach to Delivering Application Uptime and Performance — Executive Summary — The pressure to keep vital applications online and performing well is extreme.
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University makes major investment in big data development — As news of the benefits provided by big data platforms such as Apache Hadoop spreads, more organizations are investing in the burgeoning technology.
University makes major investment in big data development — As news of the benefits provided by big data platforms such as Apache Hadoop spreads, more organizations are investing in the burgeoning technology.Who's Hiring In Tech?
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