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“Frost” Attack Unlocks Android Phones' Data By Chilling Their Memory In A Freezer — A wrapped-up Samsung Galaxy Nexus in a freezer, as a researcher measures its temperature. — If you lose possession of an Android phone, your PIN or pattern unlock might not be enough to protect the sensitive data stored on it.| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
Apple airs new ‘Alive’ and ‘Together’ iPad TV ads to showcase reading, gaming, various App Store apps — Tonight, Apple has aired two new television commercials for both the full-sized iPad and iPad mini. The new ad showcases reading with iBooks, collaborative gaming, and several apps from the App Store.
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Thanks:@llsethj| Sam Byford / The Verge: |
LG's 5.5-inch 1080p Optimus G Pro is coming to North America (hands-on) — After weeks of teasing, LG has finally given its 5.5-inch Optimus G Pro a full unveiling in South Korea today. The model for LG's home country gains half an inch of screen size and a 1.7GHz Snapdragon 600 processor …
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| Jean-Louis Gassée / Monday Note: |
The Next Apple TV: iWatch — Rumors don't actual Apple products make, see the perennial Apple TV — and the latest iWatch rumors. This is an opportunity to step back, look at Apple's one and only love -personal computers — and use this thought to sift through rumors.| ChinaFile: |
Who Supplies Apple? (It's Not Just China): An Interactive Map — Last month, Apple Inc. released its updated list of suppliers (PDF). This report says it includes “the major manufacturing locations of suppliers who provide raw materials and components or perform final assembly on Apple.”
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| Kevin Fitchard / GigaOM: |
The newest overhyped mobile industry buzzword: LTE-Advanced — Admittedly, mobile technology evolves at a very fast pace. But somewhere along the way we seem to have skipped an entire generation of networks. — This week Broadcom unveiled its first LTE chipset for mobile devices … | David Streitfeld / New York Times: |
Tech Industry Sets Its Sights on Gambling — SAN FRANCISCO — Look out Las Vegas, here comes FarmVille. — Silicon Valley is betting that online gambling is its next billion-dollar business, with developers across the industry turning casual games into occasions for adults to wager.| Catherine Shu / TechCrunch: |
China's 360Buy Raises $700M Ahead Of Potential IPO, Wants To Become Stronger Alibaba Rival — 360Buy, the quick-delivery shopping site once described as the Chinese mashup of Amazon and Fresh Direct, announced $700 million USD in funding on Friday. While this gives the company …
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| Myriam Joire / Engadget: |
PSA: Sprint LTE is now live in San Francisco — Imagine our surprise when, upon firing up Sprint's Galaxy Tab 2 10.1 earlier today for some routine app updates, we saw the 4G logo light up (!) for the first time ever. Yes, ladies and gentlemen, it appears that sometime in the past few days …
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| Phil Goldstein / FierceWireless: |
Samsung launches Rex handset line for emerging markets, challenging Nokia — Samsung Electronics is launching a new handset line called Rex that is aimed at emerging markets. The move could be the beginning of a battle between Samsung and Nokia's (NYSE:NOK) touchscreen Asha line …
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| Adam Lashinsky / Fortune: |
Transcript: The keys to Andreessen Horowitz's success — Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz talk to Fortune's Adam Lashinsky about their investing philosophies, role models and business model. — FORTUNE — When partners at the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz are late to a meeting … Thanks:@waqasaday
| Craig Kanalley / The Huffington Post: |
Pinterest May Be Bigger Than You Think, Competing To Be The 2nd Most Popular Social Network — Facebook is the dominant social network in the United States these days, in terms of users, but there's a battle underway for the number two slot, a new study has found.
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Rackspace Blog:
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.
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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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