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Snapchat, a Growing App, Lets You See It, Then You Don't — LOS ANGELES — The ephemeral now has value, at least for users of cellphones. — More than 60 million photos or messages are sent each day through an app called Snapchat and then, after they are viewed for a few seconds, the missives vanish.| Billy Gallagher / TechCrunch: |
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128GB Surface Pro already sold out at MicrosoftStore.com, BestBuy, and Staples, 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 … | Ed Bott / ZDNet: |
Microsoft officially (and confusingly) discloses Surface Pro storage figures — Summary: Microsoft's Surface Pro, which the company officially calls “a powerful PC in tablet form,” went on sale today. On its website, Microsoft has officially disclosed how much data storage space you can expect to get from each model.| 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 … | Ed Burnette / ZDNet: |
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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 … | 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 … | Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Former Apple Human Interface Developer Speculates on Future ‘iWatch’ — Former Apple employee and human interface developer Bruze Tognazzini published a blog post earlier this week listing his thoughts on the iWatch, a potential Apple product that made headlines late in 2012. — The Pebble Smartwatch| 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 … | Associated Press: |
Egypt court orders YouTube blocked for a month in case related to anti-Islam film — CAIRO — A Cairo court on Saturday ordered the government to block access to the video-sharing website YouTube for 30 days for carrying an anti-Islam film that caused deadly riots across the world.| 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.
Windows Store Weekly — This week we take a look at: Star Trek App, Box, Fling Theory, StumbleUpon, and wordBrush.
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 …
DevOps: Improved Productivity, Higher Value — Those of us who have been aligned with DevOps for some time already know that the greater agility and closer collaboration it enables deliver real business value for our organizations.
Get Started with Hadoop on Hortonworks Data Platform 1.1 for Windows — We are excited to release the Hortonworks Data Platform 1.1 for Windows as a Generally Available product.
Skype in the browser — Whether you like the Skype app or not, until now, you've had no choice but to download something to make voice and video calls — either an app like Skype, or a Flash plugin (yikes) for your browser.This is a Techmeme archive page. It shows how the site appeared at 2:15 PM ET, February 9, 2013.
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