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The Chromebook Pixel, for what's next — Chromebooks were designed to make computing speedy, simple and secure. For many of you, they have become the perfect, additional (and yes, affordable) computer: ideal for catching up on emails, sharing documents and chatting via Hangouts.
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google Launches $1,299 Chromebook Pixel With 2560×1700 3:2 12.85″ Touchscreen, Core i5 CPU, 1TB Of Google Drive Storage & Optional LTE — After a few weeks of rumors, Google just announced the latest device in its Chromebook lineup: the Chromebook Pixel.
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Apple patent filing points directly to ‘iWatch’ concept with flexible touchscreen display — A patent application discovered by AppleInsider on Thursday reveals Apple is indeed investigating a wearable accessory device that not only boasts a flexible touchscreen display …
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| Josh Aberant / Twitter Blog: |
Introducing DMARC for Twitter.com emails — We send out lots of emails every day to our users letting them know what's happening on Twitter. But there's no shortage of bad actors sending emails that appear to come from a Twitter.com address in order to trick you into giving away key details …
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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 … | Alex Ben Block / Hollywood Reporter: |
Nielsen Agrees to Expand Definition of TV Viewing — After a meeting in New York Tuesday, the ratings company will roll out a system to measure broadband, Xbox and, in time, iPads, with more changes to come. — The Nielsen Co. is expanding its definition of television and will introduce …
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| Emil Protalinski / The Next Web: |
Petition to make unlocking phones legal again passes 100,000 signatures; White House now required to respond — A White House petition to make unlocking cell phones legal again has passed the 100,000 signature mark. Passing the milestone means the US government has to issue an official response.| Rip Empson / TechCrunch: |
Coursera Adds 29 Schools, 90 Courses And 3 New Languages To Its Online Learning Platform — It's almost as if there's an arms race in online education. Which MOOC platform can expand the fastest? Place your bets now. On the heels of edX's announcement that it will be expanding internationally …
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Apple releases iOS 6.1.3 beta 2 to developers with Lock Screen security flaw fix — Apple has released iOS 6.1.3 beta 2 to developers for iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. The first beta was known as iOS 6.1.1 beta 1, but it has been renamed to iOS 6.1.3 due to the recent public releases of iOS bug fix updates.
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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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| Kara Swisher / AllThingsD: |
Ahead of Apple Proxy Fight Explainer, ATD Late-Night Chat With Greenlight's Einhorn — Like me, David Einhorn — the brainy hedge fund star who is currently engaged in a proxy battle with Apple over a corporate governance procedure, related in this case to how to deal with its $137.1 billion cash hoard …
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| Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch: |
Video Discovery Startup Fanhattan Launches A Web Interface With More Than 1 Million Movies And TV Titles — It's not hard to find video on the web. But with dozens of premium content providers out there and millions of videos to choose from, figuring out what's worth watching can be a challenge.
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| Owen Thomas / Business Insider: |
LivingSocial CEO Fires Back And Calls Damning Report ‘Fiction’ — PrivCo, a research firm that tracks private companies, reported yesterday that daily-deals company LivingSocial had taken an “emergency” round of debt from current investors. — Now LivingSocial CEO Tim O'Shaughnessy …
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| Paul Sawers / The Next Web: |
3.5m downloads on, CloudOn takes its Microsoft Office editing suite to Android smartphones — CloudOn, the mobile app for creating, editing and managing Microsoft Office and Adobe documents in the cloud, has today announced the launch of version4.0 of its productivity workspace, which sees it finally rolled out for Android smartphones.
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| 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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| Peter Kafka / AllThingsD: |
Big Music Says Google Isn't Cracking Down on Pirate Sites, After All — Six months ago, in the wake of the SOPA/PIPA debate, Google made a peace offering to the Big Media companies: It said it would try to make pirate sites harder to find in its search results.| Josh Ong / The Next Web: |
Gaming spending on iOS and Android surpassed dedicated gaming handhelds in Q4 2012: Report — Nintendo and Sony once held a lock on the mobile gaming industry, but Google and Apple have cracked that wide open with their respective mobile operating systems. A new joint report from IDC …
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App Annie Blog, BGR, Electronista, TechCrunch, The Full Signal, The Full Signal and Gotta Be Mobile
| 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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| 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 … | Ernesto / TorrentFreak: |
CNET Doesn't Have to Ban BitTorrent Clients, Court Rules — CBS and CNET have scored an important victory in their ongoing copyright infringement case against a coalition of artists. — The musicians, joined by billionaire Alki David, had requested a preliminary injunction to prevent … | John Leyden / The Register: |
Ad-titan Google blocks Adblock Plus in Android security tweak — We're being singled out, claims app maker — The maker of Adblock Plus is upset its users must jump through hoops to get its advert-banishing app working on devices running Android - the mobile OS made by advertising giant Google.
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Featured Startup - FormVerse — If there was one tool not made for effective work, it would have to be email. If you take silos of information, and a chronological effect, where old or new is piled on top of each other …
Featured Startup - FormVerse — If there was one tool not made for effective work, it would have to be email. If you take silos of information, and a chronological effect, where old or new is piled on top of each other …
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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 …
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 …
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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 …
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 …
Hortonworks » Blog:
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.
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.
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“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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