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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.| 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: |
Why Google Made Its Own High-End Laptop, the Chromebook Pixel — Google today unveiled the Chromebook Pixel, a laptop that it designed and built itself. Unlike prior Chromebooks, whose main draw was their value, this one is built to compete with the top end of the market.| 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.| Josh Aberant / Twitter Blog: |
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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 … | Ev Williams / Medium: |
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Venture Capital Returns — This post is for everyone who thinks venture capital is an easy business. I'd like to dispel that notion. — Here are short term and long term returns for the venture capital business over the past ten years compared to the public equity markets in the US.| Mat Honan / Wired: |
Zendesk Security Breach Affects Twitter, Tumblr and Pinterest — Customer service software provider Zendesk announced a security breach that allowed attackers into its system, where they could access data from three customers this week. Wired learned those three clients were Twitter, Pinterest and Tumblr.| 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.| Emil Protalinski / The Next Web: |
Google debuts four-tiered 24/7 support for its cloud platform services, prices start at $0 to $400 per month — Google on Thursday announced it is introducing a four tiered 24/7 support offering for all its cloud storage services. That means the support encompasses App Engine, Compute Engine, Cloud Storage, Cloud SQL, and BigQuery.| 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.| Brad Smith / TechNet Blogs: |
The Patent System: Fix What's Broken, Don't Break What's Working — Earlier today, I participated in an event on Capitol Hill about the U.S. patent system and software patents sponsored by BSAâ"‚The Software Alliance and the National Association of Manufacturers.| 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.| Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web: |
Google Maps SDK for iOS 1.1 gains support for ground overlays, keys now open to all developers — The Google Maps SDK for iOS has received a nice little update today, adding support for ground overlays for maps, gesture controls and geodesic polylines, whatever those are.| 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 … | 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.| 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 … | Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Nikon signs patent deal with Microsoft for Android-based cameras — Summary: Microsoft has convinced another device maker using Android as an embedded OS to pay it patent royalties. — Microsoft has signed patent-protection deals with a number of PC and tablet makers in the past couple of years.| Colleen Taylor / TechCrunch: |
Memolane, The ‘Internet Time Machine,’ Announces Abrupt Shutdown As Team Joins Unnamed Company — Updated. Memolane, the startup that helped users archive and explore social network activity across different platforms, is shutting down. The company announced the closure in a blog post published this afternoon.| 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.
Windows 8 Tips — Tips and tricks for Windows 8 users.
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 …
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.
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.
“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).This is a Techmeme archive page. It shows how the site appeared at 11:35 PM ET, February 21, 2013.
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