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February 23, 2013, 12:40 AM
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| Matt Thomlinson / Microsoft Security Response Center: |
Recent Cyberattacks — As reported by Facebook and Apple, Microsoft can confirm that we also recently experienced a similar security intrusion. — Consistent with our security response practices, we chose not to make a statement during the initial information gathering process.
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See also Mediagazer| Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web: |
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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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See also Mediagazer| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
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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 … | 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.| 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 …
| Arik Hesseldahl / AllThingsD: |
Apple Pulls Controversial Proxy Proposal After Court Ruling — Apple has withdrawn from its proxy statement a controversial proposal it had intended to place before shareholders that had drawn the ire, and a lawsuit, from hedge fund manager David Einhorn of Greenlight Capital.
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| Tim Carmody / The Verge: |
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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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| Casey Lynch / IGN: |
IGN Layoffs and Saying Goodbye to 1UP and GameSpy — Good times, bad times. — Alas, today we had to say goodbye to friends and co-workers, as well as begin the process of bidding a fond farewell to both 1UP and GameSpy. Why? Given the state of the market and the economy …
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| 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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TechCrunch, Gotta Be Mobile, CNET, IntoMobile, MobileSyrup.com, Android and Me, BGR, VentureBeat, The Register, ZDNet and PhoneArena
| Emily Price / Mashable!: |
Study Shows iPhone 300% More Reliable Than Samsung Smartphones — A new report from product Q & A site FixYa found that the iPhone was more reliable than smartphones made by Motorola, Samsung and Nokia. — The study looked at data from 722,558 problem reports listed on the site …
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MacRumors, CNET and Electronista
| 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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| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
Best Buy offers two-week, $100 discount on all Windows 8 touchscreen PCs — Microsoft's Tami Reller told us that demand for touchscreen Windows 8 computers was outstripping supply, but it seems that Best Buy still isn't selling quite as many as it would like.
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| 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 … | 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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| Cotton Delo / AdAge: |
Facebook to Partner With Acxiom, Epsilon to Match Store Purchases With User Profiles — Can Facebook Ads Drive Offline Buying? — Use a loyalty card for discounts at the drug store? The ads you see on Facebook could start looking familiar. — Facebook is testing out a new kind …
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Windows 8 Tips — Tips and tricks for Windows 8 users.
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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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