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Some iPhone users are seeing battery drain and overheating issues after upgrading to iOS 6.1 (Updated) — We have started seeing an increase in iPhone issues related to battery life and overheating. All of them seem to be related to users upgrading their devices to iOS 6.1.| Justine Sharrock / BuzzFeed: |
How Facebook, A Pixar Artist, And Charles Darwin Are Reinventing The Emoticon — What comes after the smiley? Facebook is trying to find out. — Facebook wants an awful lot from its emoticons: They should be able to convey complex emotions, for example, like contemplation, admiration … | Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: |
Security Firm Bit9 Hacked, Used to Spread Malware — Bit9, a company that provides software and network security services to the U.S. government and at least 30 Fortune 100 firms, has suffered an electronic compromise that cuts to the core of its business: helping clients distinguish known … | Alexei Oreskovic / Reuters: |
Google's Schmidt to sell roughly 42 percent of stake — (Reuters) - Google Inc Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt is selling roughly 42 percent of his stake in the Internet search company over the coming year, Google announced on Friday. — Schmidt will sell 3.2 million shares of Class … | Clay Shirky / The Awl: |
Your Massively Open Offline College Is Broken — I wrote a thing last fall about massive open online courses (MOOCs, in the parlance), and the challenge that free or cheap online classes pose to business as usual in higher ed. In that piece, I compared the people running colleges today … | CBS San Francisco: |
San Jose Official Backs Plan For New $82M Google Airport — Mineta San Jose International Airport (City of San Jose) — SAN JOSE (CBS SF) - San Jose should accept an offer by a major airport operator to build an $82 million private airport for executives of Google Inc. at Mineta San Jose International Airport, a city official said.| Billy Gallagher / TechCrunch: |
Snapchat Raises $13.5M Series A Led By Benchmark, Now Sees 60M Snaps Sent Per Day — Snapchat, the impermanent messaging app that won “Fastest Rising Startup” at the 2012 Crunchies, has finalized a $13.5 million Series A round led by Benchmark's Mitch Lasky.| Kevin Bostic / AppleInsider: |
Home Depot abandoning BlackBerry platform in favor of Apple's iPhone and iOS — EXCLUSIVE: Home improvement retailer Home Depot plans to replace thousands of BlackBerry smartphones issued to its managerial and corporate staffers with versions of Apple's iPhone 4S, AppleInsider has learned.| David Meyer / GigaOM: |
Not so fast: Budget cut wipes out €7bn European broadband fund — The European Union has just agreed on its budget for the years 2014-2020, and it's the first time that budget has actually been cut. Unfortunately for European broadband projects that were counting on money from a €7 billion … | Ron / WinBeta: |
128GB Surface Pro already sold out at MicrosoftStore.com, hours into its launch — The Surface Pro, powered by Windows 8 Pro, was oficially launched online at MicrosoftStore.com, as well as BestBuy and Staples, and within a few hours, the 128GB model of the Surface Pro is already sold out at Microsoft's online store.| Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch: |
The Valley Needs A Valleywag — Or Something — Here's an unpopular opinion, especially on TechCrunch: The Valley needs a new Valleywag. — On any given day, beneath the hype cycle of startups threatening to launch, then getting their VCs to blog/tweet about their launch threats …
Inside NuGet for C++ — NuGet support for C++ projects in Visual Studio has arrived in NuGet 2.5! It's been around for about a month now so we figured we'd go talk to one of the developers who helped make it happen, Garrett Serack.
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 …
An Army Is Forming To Battle Patent Trolls — For the past several months, we've exposed the flaws in the patent system and how they're being exploited by opportunistic patent trolls looking to extort a quick buck …
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.
“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).This is a Techmeme archive page. It shows how the site appeared at 11:25 AM ET, February 9, 2013.
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