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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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Tweets: @valleyhack, @joannastern, @reckless, @mattcutts, @nexttechblog, @panzer and @panzer
| 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.| Liz Gannes / AllThingsD: |
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| Mikey Campbell / AppleInsider: |
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 …
| 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 … | Jon Russell / The Next Web: |
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| 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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| Mathew Ingram / paidContent: |
The massive advertising shift that Twitter is trying to capitalize on with its API — Much has been written about the disruption taking place in the media industry as a result of the web and the atomization of content, but less has been said about how the advertising business … | Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
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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iMore.com, BGR, Ars Technica, Apple Bitch, MacRumors, Pocketnow, iDownloadBlog.com and PhoneArena
| AllThingsD: |
Native Instagram App Is Not Coming to BlackBerry 10 — BlackBerry CEO Thorsten Heins says the company has a clear shot at turning BlackBerry 10 into the “No. 3 mobile ecosystem in the world,” but to do that, the company needs a critical mass of native apps, particularly big-name ones.
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The Verge, WMPoweruser and Pocket-lint
| 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.| Reuters: |
NBC says NBC.com site is now safe to visit — (Reuters) - U.S. media company NBC Universal said late on Thursday that its NBC.com website was safe to visit following a security scare prompted by reports that it was infected with malicious software designed for banking fraud and cyber espionage.
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Tweets: @cryptoron and @cryptoron
| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
HP Beats Expectations With Revenue of $28.36B, $1.2B Earnings And EPS Of $0.82 For Q1 2013 — HP just released its Q1 2013 earnings report and for once, the company beat analyst expectations: revenue was once again down 6% to $28.4 billion, but still higher than most analysts expected.
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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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VentureBeat, IntoMobile and Gotta Be Mobile
| 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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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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Bloomberg, CNET, Fortune and AllFacebook
| Peter Kafka / AllThingsD: |
Albumatic Is a Photo-Sharing App With Vine Credentials, and You Might Use It — A new photo-sharing app? In 2013? Really? — Yup, really. And if your memory goes back more than a few months, this will one will have multiple echoes from the past: Not only is Albumatic a new photo-sharing app …
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The Verge, BuzzFeed, TechCrunch, PandoDaily, iDownloadBlog.com and Business Insider
| 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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VideoNuze Analysis, Forbes, The Verge, AppNewser and GigaOM
| Susan Decker / Bloomberg: |
Microsoft Joins Oracle to Defend Software Patents Against Google — The top lawyers for Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) and Oracle Corp. (ORCL), saying software patents are important drivers of U.S. innovation and economic growth, pressed Congress today to reject calls to limit that legal protection.
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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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Fortune, PandoDaily, TechCrunch, Business Insider and Forbes
| John Paczkowski / AllThingsD: |
Greenlight's Einhorn Explains His Apple Proposal — Greenlight Capital founder David Einhorn said his proposed capital allocation strategy for Apple is a “a win-win for everyone,” and in a Thursday afternoon presentation to investors entitled “iPrefs, Unlocking Value,” the longtime Apple bull explained why.
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AppleInsider, USA Today, Fortune, CNET, Associated Press, Tech Trader Daily, DealBook and AllThingsD
| 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.
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RIAA, The Verge, BGR, TorrentFreak, Techdirt, Media Decoder, TechSpot, Electronista, Engadget, SiliconANGLE and Ars Technica. See also Mediagazer
| 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, WebProNews, TechCrunch, The Full Signal and Gotta Be Mobile
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Inside NuGet for C++ — NuGet support for C++ projects in Visual Studio has arrived in NuGet 2.5! It's been around for about a month now so we figured we'd go talk to one of the developers who helped make it happen, Garrett Serack.
Inside NuGet for C++ — NuGet support for C++ projects in Visual Studio has arrived in NuGet 2.5! It's been around for about a month now so we figured we'd go talk to one of the developers who helped make it happen, Garrett Serack.
Cloud Foundry:
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.
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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