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| 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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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Kim Dotcom's Mega Opens For Early-Access Users, Reveals Pricing Tiers, Roadmap With Mobile Access, IM, Office-Style Features — Leading up to the launch of Kim Dotcom's latest effort, Mega, today the company opened the site up to its first early-access users.| Ernesto / TorrentFreak: |
Mega Launches: Brilliantly Secure, But Not Anonymous — Mortal souls have to wait another day, but today members of the “press” were given an early look Megaupload's successor, Mega. — TorrentFreak was lucky enough to be one of the early-birds and here we report our findings.
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| Ina Fried / AllThingsD: |
Exclusive: Facebook Cuts Off Access to Voxer Over Competition Concerns — Facebook is facing allegations from a small rival that the service is acting decidedly antisocial. — Mobile communications service Voxer tells AllThingsD that Facebook has cut off access to the company's social graph over competitive concerns.
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| Reuters: |
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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| Stuart Miles / Pocket-lint: |
Opera Ice: New browser for Android and iPhone coming February uses WebKit (video) — EXCLUSIVE: Mobile and tablet versions set for MWC — Opera Software, the company behind the popular browser of the same name, will launch a new smartphone and tablet browser called Opera Ice in February, Pocket-lint can exclusively reveal.| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Facebook's “Dirty Likes” May Mislead Graph Search Initially, But Facebook Has Other Good Signals, Too — Apparently I “like” OfficeMax, Folgers, JCPenney, Kraft and several other big-name brands. At least, according to Facebook I do. Except, it's wrong.
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| Zachary M. Seward / Quartz: |
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| Robert McMillan / Wired: |
Google Declares War on the Password — MOUNTAIN VIEW, California — Want an easier way to log into your Gmail account? How about a quick tap on your computer with the ring on your finger? — This may be closer than you think. Google's security team outlines this sort of ring-finger authentication … | Zach Honig / Engadget: |
Amazon quietly introduces Kindle rentals for US readers, bases prices on duration — Think you can finish a 168-page novel in a month? It might pay to opt for Amazon's new Kindle rental feature, now available on an incredibly limited number of titles. A few options published …
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| Declan McCullagh / CNET: |
After a year in the grave, can SOPA and Protect IP return? — CNET asked the leaders of the congressional committees that write U.S. copyright law, plus the groups that backed the controversial legislation a year ago, to tell us what will happen next. — It was one year ago today … | Liz Gannes / AllThingsD: |
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| Nathan Ingraham / The Verge: |
FCC Chairman calls for gigabit internet in all 50 states by 2015 — Google Fiber is finally bringing gigabit internet speeds to users in Kansas City, but that's not good enough for the FCC. Chairman Julius Genachoski just issued the “Gigabit City Challenge” — he wants to see all 50 states … | Peter Kafka / AllThingsD: |
Google to Wall Street: You've Got Our Q4 Numbers Wrong — Here's one you don't see every day: Google telling Wall Street analysts that their estimates are too high. — Google issued the heads-up this morning, via a blog post on its investor relations page, ahead of Q4 earnings on Tuesday.
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| Lani Rosales / AGBeat: |
Facebook private status updates made public by Storify — Private social media updates made public through Storify — Julie Pippert, Founder and Director of Artful Media Group, known speaker and communications expert shared with AGBeat how she discovered what she believes to be a flaw …
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NYT Bits, Storify Blog and AllFacebook
| Sean Ludwig / VentureBeat: |
Windows 8 Pro upgrade pricing will jump from $40 to $200 on Feb. 1 — Microsoft's Windows 8 operating system is about to become a lot more expensive. An upgrade of Windows 8 Pro will go from costing $40 in a promotional offer to a much more expensive $200 it the beginning of February.
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| David Meyer / GigaOM: |
Why Nokia's 3D-printing move embraces the future — Nokia has just done something pretty unusual: it's invited its users to effectively tailor an element of its smartphone hardware to their individual needs. — As a Friday present for its more enterprising fans, the Finnish firm announced …
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BBC, ZDNet, TechSpot, Wired, ExtremeTech, ValueWalk, NYT Bits, LAPTOP Magazine, The Nokia Blog, Policy Blog, RIA Novosti, DailyTech, TechCrunch, Neowin, BetaNews, textually.org, Softpedia News, The Appside, The Next Web and Datamation.com. Thanks:@superglaze
| Chris Davies / SlashGear: |
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Nokia Conversations, CNET, Wired, IntoMobile, Ars Technica, Redmond Pie, Dezeen, VentureBeat, ITworld.com, Pocket-lint, All About Windows Phone, Gizmodo UK and The Verge. Thanks:@c_davies
| Ernesto / TorrentFreak: |
“Six Strikes” Anti-Piracy Scheme Affects Some Businesses, Public WiFi Forbidden — A week ago TorrentFreak had the honor to reveal the full details of Verizon's implementation of the upcoming “copyright alerts” system. — In short, the Internet provider will notify customers whose accounts …
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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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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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