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| Joshua Topolsky / The Verge: |
I used Google Glass: the future, with monthly updates — Up close and personal with Google's visionary new computer — The frosted-glass doors on the 11th floor of Google's NYC headquarters part and a woman steps forward to greet me. This is an otherwise normal specimen of humanity.
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| Ryan Mac / Forbes: |
No One Is More Excited For Google Glass Than Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg — There is perhaps no one more excited for Google Glass than Facebook cofounder Mark Zuckerberg. — On Wednesday at the University of California, San Francisco's Mission Bay medical campus, the Facebook CEO met …
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| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
Google Glass Targeting End Of 2013 Consumer Release, With Price Tag Under $1,500 — Google seems to be looking to bring its ambitious Google Glass wearable computer to market much faster than many likely anticipated, according to the Verge. Google told the site that it hopes to have a …
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| New York Post: |
NYPD forms dedicated team to catch thieves who steal iPhones and iPads — iTheft busters — The theft of Apple devices is so rampant in New York that a team of cops has been assigned to work with the tech giant to get the stolen gadgets back, The Post has learned.
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| Paul Goldberger / Vanity Fair: |
Exclusive Preview: Google's New Built-from-Scratch Googleplex … Plans for the new “Googleplex” headquarters. — Google occupies some of the most famous offices in the world—think cafés everywhere you look, treadmills with laptops attached to them, pool tables and bowling alleys …
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| Nick Summers / The Next Web: |
Google buildings in Silicon Valley affected by toxic substances left behind by computer chip makers — Two buildings owned by Google in Silicon Valley are being exposed to toxic vapors at the moment, according to a news report published today by CBS. — TCE, also known as trichloroethylene vapors …
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| Kara Swisher / AllThingsD: |
Yahoo CEO Mayer Now Requiring Remote Employees to Not Be (Remote) — According to numerous sources, Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer has instituted a HR plan today to require Yahoo employees who work remotely to relocate to company facilities. The move will apparently impact several hundred employees …
| Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web: |
Google I/O registration begins March 13th at 7am PST, requires Google+ and Google Wallet accounts — Google has announced the registration dates for this year's I/O conference, which will be held on May 15-17, 2013 at Moscone Center West in San Francisco. Registration for the conference will open on March 13th at 7AM PST.
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| Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch: |
Director Of Product Blake Ross Is Leaving Facebook — Facebook Director of Product Blake Ross is leaving the company, he announced in a Facebook post yesterday afternoon. — For those of you who weren't reading TechCrunch in 2007, Firefox co-founder Ross and Joe Hewitt came to Facebook through …
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| Mikkel Svane / Zendesk.com: |
We've been hacked — We feel that it's important our customers receive an update from us on a recent security situation. We have an investigation underway and do not have the answer to every question. — We've become aware that a hacker accessed our system this week.
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| Jordan Kahn / 9to5Mac: |
Judge grants Greenlight's motion to red light Apple shareholder vote … According to a report from Reuters, following a request from Greenlight Capital, a judge has blocked Apple from going through with a shareholder proposal that would require a shareholder vote before issuing preferred stock.
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| Tim Carmody / The Verge: |
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook Admits Critical Bugs Caused Page Reach To Be Misreported For Months — While trying to speed up its iOS and Android apps, Facebook accidentally stripped out too much data about news feed posts by Pages. This caused Page Insights to be misreported, leading admins to believe …
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| Ritsuko Ando / Reuters: |
Nokia to fight rivals with cheaper models-sources — (Reuters) - Nokia is shifting the focus of its turnaround strategy to regaining domination of cheaper handsets after a stuttering campaign to catch up with Apple and Samsung in high-end smartphones. — Company sources said it would … | Neil Hughes / AppleInsider: |
Morgan Stanley expects 6% dividend, cheaper ‘iPhone mini’ after meeting with Apple CFO — Morgan Stanley analyst Katy Huberty recently met with Apple Chief Financial Officer Peter Oppenheimer, and came away with the impression that Apple will likely increase cash return to shareholders …
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Business Insider, MacRumors, 9to5Mac, TechCrunch, Fortune, BGR, Business Insider, GigaOM, Apple Bitch, App Advice and Electronista
| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Microsoft likely to reveal Xbox 360 successor at April event — Sony may have gotten the jump on Microsoft in announcing its next-generation console, but odds are the public will introduced to the Xbox 360's successor well ahead of this year's E3. Computer and Video Games is today reporting … | Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
Facebook for iOS updated with easier sharing and commenting, free calling within app — Facebook has updated its official iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch application with a number of enhancements. Notably, version 5.5 of the app includes a new button design that makes Liking, commenting, and sharing stories easier.
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| John Timmer / Ars Technica: |
Obama Administration backs open access to all federal research — Today, John Holdren, the head of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, announced that the administration is adopting a policy that would see nearly all of the science papers produced through federal funding …
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| Romain Dillet / TechCrunch: |
Orange Acquired Dailymotion For $168 Million By Buying Out Remaining 51% Stake [Update: Orange Confirms] — Back in January 2011, Orange acquired 49 percent of Dailymotion for $78 million (€59 million), and declared that they wanted to buy out the remaining 51 percent.
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| Galen M. Gruman / InfoWorld: |
Hands-on with the Ubuntu Touch Linux smartphone — The early and surprisingly nice version bodes well for Canonical's Linux smartphone — but you may not want to install it yourself Ubuntu Touch's home screen Developers got their first hands-on peek yesterday of Canonical's Ubuntu Touch OS for mobile phones …
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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.
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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 …
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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 …
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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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