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Nokia CEO Stephen Elop: Google is making its open ecosystem ‘more closed’ — Speaking at a press conference to discuss Nokia's Q4 earnings, company CEO Stephen Elop said that Google is trying to close its “open ecosystem.” — Despite name-checking Android, it seems likely that when saying …
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Engadget, Mobile Marketing Watch, SiliconANGLE, Quartz, Neowin, Telegraph and Know Your Cell
| Larry Dignan / ZDNet: |
Microsoft's Q2: Enterprise shines, Surface details scant — Summary: The software giant's enterprise products—System Center, SQL Server and Lync do well. Details about Surface's reception are few and far between. — Microsoft's second quarter results were a mixed bag relative to estimates …
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ReadWrite, CITEworld, CNET, Tech Trader Daily and Pocket-lint
| Alex Wilhelm / The Next Web: |
Microsoft reports middling FQ2 revenue of $21.46B on surprisingly solid Windows performance — Today Microsoft reported its fiscal second quarter 2013 results, including revenue of $21.46 billion, and earnings per share of $0.76. Analysts had expected revenue of $21.6 billion, and earnings per share of $0.75.
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Microsoft Investor Relations, AllThingsD, Engadget, ZDNet, DailyFinance.com, Marketing Land, CNET, Associated Press, BetaNews, VentureBeat, TechCrunch, Forbes, The Verge, Reuters, Neowin, Electronista and Mashable!
Tweets: @pkedrosky, @thestalwart and @parislemon
| Steven J. Crowley / Steven J. Crowley, P.E.: |
Google's “confidential” test might be a super-dense LTE network using Clearwire's spectrum — Google filed an application at the FCC last week seeking permission to conduct testing of an experimental radio system. Portions of the application and accompanying exhibits have been designated confidential …
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CNET, GigaOM, CITEworld, Ars Technica, Softpedia News, Mobile Magazine, FierceWireless, Android and Me and Pocketables
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| Eric Slivka / MacRumors: |
First Video Clip of Ashton Kutcher as Steve Jobs — Following yesterday's news that the independent film JOBS starring Ashton Kutcher as Steve Jobs will open in theaters on April 19, ETonline.com has released the first video clip from the film. The brief clip shows Kutcher as Jobs speaking with Josh Gad in the role of Steve Wozniak.| Pamela McClintock / Hollywood Reporter: |
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| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
AT&T's Q4 2012 Beats Street With $32.6B In Revenue, Misses With EPS Of $0.44, Smartphone Subscriber Base Jumps To 47.1M — AT&T shared its Q4 2012 earnings results today, reporting overall quarterly revenues of $32.6 billion (an increase of 0.2% year over year), and earnings per share of $0.44 …
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| Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web: |
Twitter introduces Vine for iOS, an app for sharing six second looping videos on the service — Twitter has today introduced Vine, an app that allows you to share six second looping videos on the service and in embedded tweets. The app is simple, allowing you to tap the screen to record video and lift your finger to stop.
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| McKay Coppins / BuzzFeed: |
Mark Zuckerberg Will Hold Fundraiser For Chris Christie — The tech mogul and his wife “admire [Christie's] leadership on education reform and other issues and look forward to continuing their important work together on behalf of Newark's schoolchildren,” a spokesperson tells BuzzFeed.
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French court says Twitter must identify racist tweeters — PARIS — A French court ruled Thursday that Twitter, which has steadfastly refused calls to police its millions of users, must hand over data to help identify the authors of racist or anti-Semitic tweets.
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| Bloomberg: |
Lenovo Mulls RIM Deal as a Way to Boost Mobile Business — Lenovo Group Ltd. (992) is assessing potential acquisition targets and strategic alliances, including a deal with BlackBerry maker Research In Motion Ltd. (RIMM), as the second-largest producer of personal computers tries to bolster its mobile-device business.
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| Liz Gannes / AllThingsD: |
Automattic Buys Simperium, Maker of Simplenote — Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com, has bought the small synchronization startup Simperium, which makes a syncing platform for developers and a well-loved synced note-taking app for iOS called Simplenote.
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Simplenote, Simperium Blog, TechCrunch, VentureBeat, PandoDaily, iPhone in Canada Blog, The Verge and MacStories. Tweets: @viticci. Thanks:@pmaiorana
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Amazon Gets Into Voice Recognition, Buys Ivona Software To Compete Against Apple's Siri — Amazon today announced that it is acquiring Ivona Software, a Polish-based specialist in voice technologies that competes with Nuance and is already used in the Kindle Fire for services covering text-to-speech …
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Reuters, Ars Technica, Engadget, Inquirer, ZDNet, GadgeTell, 9to5Google, AllThingsD, PandoDaily, Forbes, GeekWire, The Next Web, VentureBeat, TeleRead and Business Insider
| Rene Ritchie / iMore: |
Imagining a 5-inch iPhone — Never mind rumors of an awkwardly named 4.8-inch “iPhone Math”, the concept of a much larger iPhone has been floating about ever since the realities of early LTE chipsets — and the batteries that came with them — forced Android and Windows-based competitors to break the size barrier.| Tom Simonite / MIT Technology Review: |
A Free Database of the Entire Web May Spawn the Next Google — Common Crawl supplies a database of over five billion Web pages in the hope that it will inspire new research or online services. — Why It Matters — A freely available copy of billions of Web pages could create competition for established giants such as Google.
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Mashable!
| Susan Decker / Bloomberg: |
Samsung Gets Review of Apple Victory in U.S. Trade Fight — Samsung Electronics Co. (005930), the world's largest smartphone producer, persuaded a U.S. trade agency to review a preliminary ruling that more than a dozen models of its mobile phones copied Apple Inc. (AAPL)'s patented features.
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BGR, CNET, FOSS Patents, iDownloadBlog.com and iPhone Hacks
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Why Does Google Still Reward Content Scraping? — How a copied-and-pasted excerpt of a story can still outrank an 8,000-word original. And why publishers aren't the ones to blame. — On Jan. 16, The Verge published a story about the past and current state of the American arcade industry.| Benedict Evans: |
The Apple paradox — Lots to mull over in Apple's results - not least rebuilding my model to reflect the changes in reporting, which is always a joy. — However, these charts illustrate what I think is the paradox in the Apple story: it is so strong that people wonder how much more growth there can be.
| Colleen Taylor / TechCrunch: |
Real-time Ad Bidding Platform AppNexus Raises $75M In Series D Funding — Advertising technology companies are not exactly the most well-known names to the average web user, but they can certainly garner serious attention from those inside the industry — particularly investors.
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AppNexus, The AppNexus Impressionist, PandoDaily and AllThingsD
| Andy Greenberg / Forbes: |
Letter From Forty-Four Digital Rights Groups Demands Skype Detail Its Surveillance Practices — Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer with Skype president Tony Bates at the announcement of Skype's $8.5 billion acquisition. — Skype has long been a stubborn whipping boy for the privacy community … Sponsor Posts
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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 …
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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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