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Apple, Mac computers hit by hackers who targeted Facebook — (Reuters) - Apple Inc was recently attacked by hackers who infected the Macintosh computers of some employees, the company said on Tuesday in an unprecedented disclosure that described the widest known cyber attacks against Apple-made computers to date.
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Tweets: @briankrebs, @reuterstech and @reuterstech
| Ina Fried / AllThingsD: |
Apple Says It, Too, Attacked By Hackers — Apple said Tuesday that a small number of its employees' computers were hacked through a vulnerability in the Java browser plug-in but said none of its internal data was compromised. — “Apple has identified malware which infected a limited number … | New York Times: |
Chinese Army Unit Is Seen as Tied to Hacking Against U.S. — On the outskirts of Shanghai, in a run-down neighborhood dominated by a 12-story white office tower, sits a People's Liberation Army base for China's growing corps of cyberwarriors. — The building off Datong Road …
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Digital Dao, TechCrunch, Computerworld, AppleInsider, BBC, Tech in Asia, Help Net Security, M-unition, Wired, The Register, Xinhua News Agency, Reuters, ReadWrite, AllThingsD, Tea Leaf Nation, Washington Post, Forbes, CNNMoney.com, NBC Bay Area, CNET, Business Insider, The Atlantic Wire, Inquirer, Reuters, Lastest ITProPortal news, Boing Boing, PC Magazine, NetworkWorld.com …, Associated Press, The Verge, Hillicon Valley, Softpedia News, SlashGear and SiliconANGLE
| Wall Street Journal: |
China Lashes Back at Hacking Claims — BEIJING—China fought back against a U.S. computer-security firm's accusations that a Chinese military group stole large amounts of data from U.S. companies. — The U.S. firm, Mandiant Corp., said in a 74-page report released Monday on its website …
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Forbes and NetworkWorld.com …
| Joseph Volpe / Engadget: |
HTC One unveiled: 4.7-inch 1080p display, 1.7GHz quad-core Snapdragon 600, UltraPixel camera, Android 4.1.2 with Sense 5 — Despite the abundant fanfare and critical acclaim, HTC's One X just couldn't quite mark the spot in 2012. No wonder, then, that the company's lopped off that extraneous letter …
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Tech.pinions, SlashGear, HTC, The Verge, ReadWrite, VentureBeat, TechCrunch, AllThingsD, Ars Technica, SlashGear, SiliconANGLE, TechCrunch, Inquirer, TechCrunch, LAPTOP Magazine, Gizmodo, dailywireless.org, GigaOM, Daring Fireball, TechnoBuffalo, Ars Technica, Engadget, GadgeTell, ZDNet, Pocketables, ABCNEWS, HTC Blog, SlashGear and Bright Side Of News*
| Brian Klug / AnandTech: |
Hands on and Impressions from the HTC One - Formerly M7 — HTC is in an interesting position as a result of this last product cycle. While the previous HTC One series' industrial design and performance was top notch, other OEMs still managed to eclipse the One series in terms of market adoption and consumer perception.
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The Next Web, Engadget, The Verge, Engadget and FierceWireless
| Sharif Sakr / Engadget: |
Ubuntu for tablets revealed with split screen multi-tasking, preview for Nexus slates coming this week — Here it is: the fourth and final piece of the Ubuntu puzzle. We've seen the OS on smartphones, on TVs and of course on desktops, but the tablet version has spent a little longer in its dressing room.| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
Ubuntu phones won't ship till 2014, might be locked down by carriers — Earlier this month, The Wall Street Journal reported that smartphones running Ubuntu Linux would ship in October of this year. Ubuntu boss Mark Shuttleworth says that's a mistake. Today, the Canonical founder clarified …
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Jeep's Official Twitter Account Hijacked (Just Like Burger King's) — “Sold To Cadillac.” By the same crew who did the Burger King hack yesterday. — The same people who pulled off a hour-long hijacking of Burger King's account yesterday have struck again, this time taking over Jeep's official Twitter feed.
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The Next Web, CNET, VentureBeat, Gizmodo, The Verge, Betabeat and GadgeTell
Tweets: @cadillac, @panzer, @danprimack, @mikeisaac and @digiphile
| Sam Biddle / Gizmodo: |
| Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica: |
Apple fixes Exchange (but not passcode unlock) bug with iOS 6.1.2 — iOS 6.1.2 brings a microscopic but important list of changes. — Apple has released the promised iOS 6.1.2 update today to fix the Exchange bugs that have been plaguing users since the release of iOS 6.1.
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MacRumors, The Next Web, ZDNet, BGR, CNET, 9to5Mac, iPhone Hacks, Neowin, MacStories and TUAW. Tweets: @stevekovach
| Joseph Stromberg / Surprising Science: |
Any Two Pages on the Web Are Connected By 19 Clicks or Less — The Opte Project creates visualizations of the 14 billion pages that make up the network of the web. Image via Opte Project — No one knows for sure how many individual pages are on the web, but right now, it's estimated that there are more than 14 billion.| Jon Russell / The Next Web: |
Amazon introduces lnstant Video links to the IMDb iOS app — Amazon has made it easy for users of the IMDb iOS app to go from reading about a film to watching it, after it added Amazon Instant Video links to the app for the movie database that it bought in 2008.
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VentureBeat and MacRumors
| Chris O'Brien / Los Angeles Times: |
Samsung embarking on an aggressive expansion in Silicon Valley — South Korean tech giant Samsung's move to broaden its footprint in Silicon Valley signals an escalation of its rivalry with Apple. — A rendering shows Samsung's new campus for its semiconductor division in San Jose.| Connie Loizos / PE Hub Blog: |
Sequoia Makes It Official, Filing for “Scout Seed” Fund — Sequoia Capital, whose “stealthy” scouting program first came to light last spring, looks to be formalizing the program by registering its first U.S. Scout Seed Fund with the SEC this morning. — The filing doesn't provide …
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TechCrunch, VentureBeat and PandoDaily
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NVIDIA Announces Tegra 4i, Formerly Project Grey, With Integrated LTE and Phoenix Reference Design — It has been a while since we've heard anything about Project Grey, the first NVIDIA SoC with an integrated digital baseband, and the result of NVIDIA's acquisition of soft-modem manufacturer Icera.
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NVIDIA Newsroom, Computerworld, Examiner, CNET, NVIDIA, Android Authority, GigaOM, Pocket-lint, Gizmodo and Electronista
| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
Nvidia GeForce GTX Titan arrives: the world's most powerful gaming GPU costs $999 — The Titan — the world's fastest supercomputer — has 18,688 Nvidia GK110 GPUs inside. Each and every one is more powerful than the graphics accelerator in most any gaming PC you'll find.
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AnandTech, PC Magazine, IGN and Tom's Hardware Guide
| Amir Efrati / Wall Street Journal: |
Google Works on Launching Retail Stores — U.S. Outlets Would Likely Sell Internet Giant's Branded Devices, but Plans Remain Unclear; Studying Apple's Playbook — Google Inc. has been developing plans to launch retail stores in the U.S., said people familiar with the matter …
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Computerworld, The Verge, CNNMoney.com and Businessweek
| Associated Press: |
Google stock price reaches $800 for first time — SAN FRANCISCO — Google's (GOOG) stock price topped $800 for the first time Monday amid renewed confidence in the company's ability to reap steadily higher profits from its dominance of Internet search and prominence in the increasingly important mobile device market.| Jordan Golson / MacRumors: |
Apple TV Launches in India Following iTunes Store Launch — Apple has begun selling the Apple TV set-top box in India following the December launch of the iTunes Store for music and movies. BGR reports that the Apple TV is now available in India for Rs 8,295 including taxes, roughly equivalent to $153 US.
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Thinkdigit, BGR India, 9to5Mac, BGR India and AppleInsider
| Alex Wilhelm / The Next Web: |
Microsoft's enterprise communications tool Lync promises Skype integration, mobile apps for all platforms — Today at the first eponymous conference for its Lync product, Microsoft announced that it will link the enterprise-focused communications service with Skype, the consumer-friendly VoIP and video calling tool.
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TechNet Blogs, CITEworld, Business Insider, TechCrunch, GeekWire, ReadWrite, The Verge and Neowin
| C. Custer / Tech in Asia: |
A Shocking Expose of China's Black PR Industry Implicates Government Officials, is Quickly Deleted from the Web — Almost everyone knows about the public relations industry, but fewer people know about what in China is referred to as Black PR, the underground internet industry that has evolved with the spread of web 2.0 through China.Sponsor Posts
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Featured Startup on Windows Phone - Digital Geek — You know how you are at the beach sometimes, listening to your portable listening device, jamming to some music and you realize, “Actually, at this moment …
Featured Startup on Windows Phone - Digital Geek — You know how you are at the beach sometimes, listening to your portable listening device, jamming to some music and you realize, “Actually, at this moment …
Cloud Foundry:
Want to Contribute to Cloud Foundry? Come on in! — Cloud Foundry is an Open Platform-as-a-Service, and an Open Source project. It has attracted phenomenal interest from the community - including partners …
Want to Contribute to Cloud Foundry? Come on in! — Cloud Foundry is an Open Platform-as-a-Service, and an Open Source project. It has attracted phenomenal interest from the community - including partners …
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.
Hortonworks » Blog:
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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