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| Tom Bramwell / Eurogamer.net: |
Sony tells Eurogamer: PlayStation 4 will not block used games — Shuhei Yoshida confirms it. Plus: source tells EG patent wasn't PS4-related. — Sony Worldwide Studios boss Shuhei Yoshida has told Eurogamer that PlayStation 4 will not block the use of second-hand games … | Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web: |
Sony announces PlayStation 4 with 8-core x86 processor, 8GB GDDR5 memory and DualShock 4 controller — Today at a gaming event in New York City, Sony announced the PlayStation 4. Sony's Andy House says that it is the ‘most powerful platform ever’. — “The living room is no longer …
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Tweets: @charlesarthur and @aegies
| Sam Byford / The Verge: |
Sony fails to show PlayStation 4 console at PlayStation 4 event — Sony just took the wrappers off the PlayStation 4 at a blowout event — but something was missing. Bizarrely, the company elected not to show any glimpse of the console hardware itself, instead focusing on internal details and a showreel of upcoming games.
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Kotaku, ParisLemon, The Next Web, Engadget, Gizmodo, Electronista, MacRumors, Guardian, NEWS.com.au, The Next Web, LaptopMemo, blogs.news.com.au and techeblog.com
Tweets: @majornelson, @veronica, @ihnatko, @zpower, @zpower, @anandshimpi, @panzer, @tapbot_paul, @sal19, @jesusdiaz and @larrymagid
| James McQuivey / Forrester Blogs: |
Sony Bets On The Past, Forfeits the Future — Thursday night Sony hosted what was reported to be a crowd of more than a thousand people at a rare, Applesque new-product demo. There it debuted the next generation Playstation, officially dubbed the PS4. The event lasted two hours and featured …
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| Claire Cain Miller / New York Times: |
Google Looks to Make Its Computer Glasses Stylish — People wearing Google's glasses are transported to a strange new world in which the Internet is always in their line of sight. But for people looking at the people wearing those glasses, the view is even stranger — someone wearing a computer processor … | Amir Efrati / Wall Street Journal: |
Google Developing Touchscreen Devices Using Chrome Operating System — Google Inc. has developed the first touchscreen laptops powered by its Chrome operating system to be sold later this year, according to people familiar with the matter, as the Internet giant tries to go toe-to-toe with Microsoft Corp.'s Windows operating system.
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Gizmodo, CNET, Engadget, PhoneArena, The Verge, The Next Web, Pocket-lint and 9to5Google
| Kara Swisher / AllThingsD: |
Exclusive: Pinterest Completes $200 Million Funding at $2.5 Billion Valuation — Pinterest, the popular social scrapbooking site, has completed a massive $200 million funding, which values the company at $2.5 billion, according to sources close to the situation.| April Underwood / Twitter Advertising: |
Announcing the Twitter Ads API — Since we launched Promoted Tweets in April 2010, marketers have come to Twitter to reach new audiences and engage with more than 200 million active Twitter users on the web, on mobile devices, and on tablets. As interest in Twitter has grown …
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TechCrunch, Salesforce Blog, HootSuite, MediaNama, Forbes, AdAge, The Technology Chronicles, AdExchanger, Mashable!, Marketing Pilgrim, VatorNews, San Francisco Chronicle, Betabeat, WebProNews, AllTwitter, ITworld.com, Computerworld, SocialTimes, Wall Street Journal, VentureBeat, The Verge, GigaOM and CNET. See also Mediagazer
| Ginny Marvin / Search Engine Land: |
Google Shopping Tops Amazon Product Ads: 32.7% More Cost Effective — A new report from CPC Strategy looks at how Google Shopping fared against its rival, Amazon Product Ads, after making the switch to a commercial model in Q3 last year. The analysis finds its performance changed significantly compared …
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CPC Strategy and Search Engine Watch
| Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
FCC orders 2M people to power down cell phone signal boosters — Wireless signal boosters improve cellular connections to service provider networks. — FCC — The Federal Communications Commission today enacted a set of rules governing the sale and deployment of wireless signal boosters …
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Hillicon Valley, Engadget, FCC and The Register
| Edward Wyatt / New York Times: |
| Emil Protalinski / The Next Web: |
Google ports Chrome OS app launcher to the Chrome browser Dev channel on Windows; Mac and Linux coming soon — Google on Wednesday announced a significant bridging of the gap between Chrome and Chrome OS: the app launcher, a little window that features all your apps in one place.
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Chromium Blog, The Verge, ZDNet, Softpedia News, Engadget, Techdows and Pocket-lint
| Digits: |
Saverin on the Future of Facebook — At the Wall Street Journal's Unleashing Innovation Conference in Singapore Facebook co- founder Eduardo Saverin talks with Executive Editor Almar Latour about what might lie ahead for the popular social network, and whether Facebook should buy LinkedIn.
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ZDNet and Wall Street Journal
| Brandon Butler / Network World: |
Microsoft Azure overtakes Amazon's cloud in performance test — Azure's cloud is faster at uploading and downloading files to the cloud, Amazon still more scalable, storage provider Nasuni finds — h(f)){c=a.createElement('script'); c.type='text/javascript';c.src= 'http …
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CIOL, The Schwartz Cloud Report, Virtualization Review, PR Newswire and WhatIs:
| Ben Sisario / New York Times: |
Billboard Makes YouTube Part of Hot 100 Formula — What makes a song a hit? In the “Gangnam Style” age the answer often has as much to do with its popularity on YouTube as any other factor. — This week the Billboard Hot 100, the magazine's 55-year-old singles chart …
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Pocket-lint and Mashable!
| Stephen Shankland / CNET: |
Backblaze shares third-gen storage server design — Want to launch your own high-capacity networked storage infrastructure? Backblaze just shared its new 180-terabyte Storage Pod design. — Backblaze, a startup offering online backup service, has released the designs for its newest Storage Pod …
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Backblaze Blog, GigaOM, TUAW, Geek.com, Electronista and PandoDaily
| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Firefox Enables WebRTC, H.264 And MP3 Support By Default In Its Nightly Release Channel — WebRTC, the plugin-free real-time video, audio and text chat protocol most browser vendors now support, is now activated by default in the latest bleeding edge Firefox Nightly release.
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Mozilla Hacks, Future Releases, Web 2.0 Asia Blog, CNET, Techdows, TechSpot, Softpedia News and Geek.com
| Jen-Hsun Huang / NVIDIA: |
NVIDIA To Build A New Home, 20 Years After Our Founding — Twenty years ago this month, we founded NVIDIA. Our vision that computer graphics would revolutionize computing has propelled us into becoming one of the leading technology companies in the world.
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Inquirer, Wired, The Verge, TG Daily, The Technology Chronicles, PC Magazine, Droid Life, Gizmodo, PhoneArena, iDownloadBlog.com and ReadWrite. Thanks:@nvidia
| Darren Murph / Engadget: |
Qualcomm formally details lower-end Snapdragon 400 and 200 processors — We knew way back at CES that Qualcomm had a few lower-end chips up its sleeve, but now it's official: the Snapdragon 400 and 200 have been formally detailed in a company blog post thrown up today.
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qualcomm.com, Inquirer, Digit - Tech News, Android Authority, IntoMobile, PhoneArena and TechSpot
| Jon Fingas / Engadget: |
| Kurt Wagner / Fortune: |
Art Levinson, Apple's chairman, talks life after Steve Jobs — Steve Jobs' close friend and colleague Art Levinson describes what life at Apple has been like over the last 16 months. — FORTUNE — “Weird.” — That was the one-word answer given by Apple (AAPL) chairman Arthur D. Levinson …
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Ars Technica, Patently Apple, CNET, TechSpot, Macgasm, MacNN, iDownloadBlog.com, Gotta Be Mobile and MacRumors
| Nate Anderson / Ars Technica: |
How Anonymous accidentally helped expose two Chinese hackers — How did security firm Mandiant put names to two previously unknown Chinese hackers who, it says, steal American corporate secrets for the Chinese government? With a little inadvertent help from Anonymous.Sponsor Posts
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Windows 8 Tips — Tips and tricks for Windows 8 users.
Windows 8 Tips — Tips and tricks for Windows 8 users.
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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