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Apple releases iOS 6.1 with more LTE carrier support, Fandango movie ticket purchasing via Siri, iTunes Match individual song downloading — Apple has released iOS 6.1 to iPad, iPhone, iPod touch, and Apple TV users. This public release follows five beta seeds to developers.
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| Jordan Kahn / 9to5Mac: |
Apple TV updated with Bluetooth keyboard support, Up Next, enhanced iTunes in the Cloud — After releasing iOS 6.1 with support for more LTE carriers, Siri movie-ticket purchasing, and more, Apple also released an update to Apple TV that brings Bluetooth keyboard support (as previously discovered) … | Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web: |
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| David Drummond / The Official Google Blog: |
Google's approach to government requests for user data — Today, January 28, is Data Privacy Day, when the world recognizes the importance of preserving your online privacy and security. — If it's like most other days, Google—like many companies that provide online services to users …
| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
Apple ready to release additional iPad model; likely 128GB version (Updated: Pricing) — 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.
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Acer Sees Success in Chrome; Windows Fails to Drive Sales — Acer Inc. (2353), the Taiwanese computer maker that's suffered two consecutive annual losses, posted strong sales of notebooks using Google Inc. (GOOG)'s Chrome platform after the release of Microsoft Corp. (MSFT)'s Windows 8 failed to ignite the market.
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| Jeremy Horwitz / iLounge: |
New Details On Apple's Budget iPhone 5 — Backstage Categories: — Rumors of a budget “ready for China” iPhone have been circulating for some time, but apart from a possible price point ("low") and assumptions about its components ("plastic," “low-end"), no concrete details as to its look or feel have leaked out.| Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch: |
Marc Andreessen On The Future Of Enterprise — In doing research for a post on “The Enterprise Cool Kids” at the tail end of last year, I interviewed Silicon Valley veteran Marc Andreessen about where he thought the enterprise was headed. — While excerpts of that interview made it into the post … | Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch: |
| Shen Jingting / China Daily: |
Ban on games consoles may be lifted, suggests Culture Ministry source — Chinese authorities are reviewing a decade-long ban on game consoles and considering the possibility of opening up the country's video game hardware market, a government source told China Daily.
| Nathan Ingraham / The Verge: |
HP's first Chromebook revealed in leaked spec sheet — HP is preparing to launch its first entry into the Chromebook marketplace, if a PDF found on its site can be believed. According to this listing, HP's currently-unannounced Pavilion Chromebook will feature a 1.1GHz Celeron processor …
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| Alyson Shontell / Business Insider: |
Nick Denton Is Resurrecting Valleywag — Valleywag, a Silicon Valley gossip blog Gawker killed off in 2009, is making a comeback. — Nick Denton, Gawker's CEO and founder, says he'll be bringing the site back to life, and he's currently hunting for an editor or two to run it.
Tweets: @pkafka, @mattbuchanan, @stevekovach and @megan
| Nathan Ingraham / The Verge: |
Hardcore porn briefly climbs to the top of Vine's 'Editor's Picks,' Twitter blames it on ‘human error’ — The launch of Twitter's video-sharing service Vine has brought with it another look at pornography on Apple's tightly-controlled iOS platform, and that scrutiny may be about to increase …
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In Asia's trend-setting cities, iPhone fatigue sets in — (Reuters) - Apple Inc's iconic iPhone is losing some of its luster among Asia's well-heeled consumers in Singapore and Hong Kong, a victim of changing mobile habits and its own runaway success. — Driven by a combination of iPhone fatigue …
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| Julianne Pepitone / CNNMoney.com: |
Yahoo earnings: Mayer still has much to prove — Former Googler Marissa Mayer shocked the world last summer by taking the CEO spot at Yahoo, a brand marred by tumultuous CEO tenures and waning relevance. — Since then, Yahoo's stock has been on a tear and analysts are pinning their hopes … | Matt Buchanan / BuzzFeed: |
Instagram Isn't An Indie Anymore — What it means that it's now a Facebook subsidiary. — The question, inevitably, whenever someone sells out is how money and fame and fortune is going to change them, whether it's a band or an artist or a social network.| Sara Webb / Reuters: |
WhatsApp violates privacy laws over phone numbers: report — (Reuters) - WhatsApp, one of the most popular apps in the world, contravenes international privacy laws because it forces users to provide access to their entire address book, Canadian and Dutch data protection authorities said.
| Aaron Souppouris / The Verge: |
Samsung being investigated for ‘coverup’ in overnight fatality at semiconductor plant — Korean news sources are reporting that Samsung “covered up” gas leaks that led to the death of a worker at its Semiconductor plant in Hwaseong, Korea. The incident began last night at around 11pm local time …
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| Liz Gannes / AllThingsD: |
ChaCha, Still Grinding Away at This Online Q&A Thing, Raises Another $14M — Giving people answers instead of links is the new hotness in search. To its credit, Q&A site ChaCha has been trying to do just that for six years now, and it's getting one last push of venture capital.
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| Josh Ong / The Next Web: |
Lenovo responds to RIM acquisition reports, claims comments were taken out of context — After a Bloomberg report quoted Lenovo's CFO Wong Waiming as saying that it was interested in acquiring Research In Motion, the Chinese PC maker has issued a statement downplaying the significance of the quote.
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Computerworld, Digits, SiliconANGLE, PC Magazine, TechCrunch, Forbes, Engadget and ZDNet. Thanks:@jonrussell
| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft to launch the new Office commercially on January 29 — Summary: Finally, an official confirmation. Microsoft is launching the new Office, a k a Office 2013, on January 29. — It's finally official. Microsoft is launching the new Office, a k a Office 2013, on January 29.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.
Hortonworks » Blog:
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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