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Apple has a porn problem, and it's about to get worse — Adult content in Vine and Twitter apps raise questions only Cupertino can answer — On Sunday, a number of news outlets ran stories covering the rise of easily-accessible pornography on the new video sharing app Vine, causing a firestorm of debate online.
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| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Nokia announces Music+ premium subscription service for $3.99 per month — Nokia today announced Nokia Music+, a premium upgrade to its free Mix Radio service that's being offered for $3.99 monthly in the United States and €3.99 internationally. Buying into Music+ gets customers benefits … | Richard Ingham / Agence France-Presse: |
British scientists use man-made DNA speck to store 739kB of digital data — Scientists in Britain have announced a breakthrough in the quest to turn DNA into a revolutionary form of data storage that could fit the world's entire three billion terabytes of stored data into the palm of your hand.
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Apple's Town Hall meeting: Tim Cook talks Android, China, earnings, retail, more — Last year, 2012, was Tim Cook's first full year at the helm, and the first full year without Steve Jobs. It was a year filled with new products and advancements, but it was also a year of controversy … | Martin Bryant / The Next Web: |
Samsung plans to make Music Hub available for non-Samsung devices, pitting it against Google and Amazon — Samsung has big plans for its cloud-based Music Hub offering. In addition to rolling it out across the company's own range of connected devices, the intention is to then expand … | Joe Mullin / Ars Technica: |
How Newegg crushed the “shopping cart” patent and saved online retail — Anyone who visited Soverain Software's website could be forgiven for believing it's a real company. There are separate pages for “products,” “services,” and “solutions.” There's the “About Us” page.| Jean-Louis Gassée / Monday Note: |
Dell Buyout: Microsoft's Generosity — To perform painful surgery on its business model, Dell needs to take the company private. Seeing challenges in raising the needed $22B, Microsoft “generously” proposes to contribute a few billions. Is this helping or killing the deal?
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Apple ready to release additional iPad model; likely 128GB version — We've gotten word from sources that Apple is preparing to release (in some fashion) a single, additional iPad model. This would be a new SKU for the current fourth-generation iPad with Retina display line.| Peter Finn / Washington Post: |
FBI is increasing pressure on suspects in Stuxnet inquiry — Federal investigators looking into disclosures of classified information about a cyberoperation that targeted Iran's nuclear program have increased pressure on current and former senior government officials suspected of involvement …
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Twitter Is Finally Preparing To Release Its Advertising API In Q1, Say Sources — People have speculated that 2013 will be the year that Twitter will reach $1 billion in advertising revenues. That strategy could get a boost very soon with the entry of mass-market advertising … | Matt Smith / Reuters: |
Twitter launches advertising services in Middle East — Twitter Inc launched advertising services in the Middle East and North Africa on Sunday as the social media firm seeks to exploit a tripling of its regional subscriber base following its widespread use during the Arab Spring protests.
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| John Markoff / New York Times: |
Robot Makers Spread Global Gospel of Automation — CHICAGO — The robot equipment industry has one word for the alarmist articles and television news programs that predict a robot is about to steal your job: Fiddlesticks! — Well, that wasn't actually the word used this week …
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Featured Startup - FormVerse — If there was one tool not made for effective work, it would have to be email. If you take silos of information, and a chronological effect, where old or new is piled on top of each other …
Featured Startup - FormVerse — If there was one tool not made for effective work, it would have to be email. If you take silos of information, and a chronological effect, where old or new is piled on top of each other …
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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