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| Joseph Volpe / Engadget: |
Samsung Galaxy Note 8.0 official: 1.6GHz Exynos 4 Quad, 1280 x 800 display, HSPA+ 21, Android Jelly Bean 4.1.2 — We knew another Note was coming. After all, Samsung Mobile head JK Shin confirmed the news back in January. But here at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, the tablet's finally been made official.
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Gizmodo, BetaNews, iMore, The Huffington Post, Macgasm, IntoMobile, Computerworld, TmoNews, iPhone in Canada Blog, Mashable!, AllThingsD, Sammy Hub and Pocketnow
Tweets: @tim_chr and @dannysullivan
| Dan Seifert / The Verge: |
Samsung Galaxy Note 8.0 hands-on preview — Last year at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Samsung took the wraps off of the Galaxy Note 10.1, its first proper tablet with S Pen support. We weren't terribly fond of the Note 10.1 when we eventually reviewed it, but Samsung is back this year with the Galaxy Note 8.0.| Brian X. Chen / NYT Bits: |
Samsung's New 8-Inch Tablet Takes on the iPad Mini — Samsung Electronics is taking yet another swipe at its longtime partner, Apple. The South Korean manufacturer on Saturday introduced a new 8-inch tablet, intended to compete directly with Apple's 7.9-inch iPad Mini.
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| Kara Swisher / AllThingsD: |
“Physically Together”: Here's the Internal Yahoo No-Work-From-Home Memo for Remote Workers and Maybe More — Courtesy of a plethora of very irked Yahoo employees, here is the internal memo sent to the company about a new rule rolled out today by CEO Marissa Mayer, which requires that Yahoo employees …
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Learning by Shipping, Business Insider, Examiner, VatorNews, VentureBeat, CNET, Gawker, The Huffington Post, Business Insider, AllThingsD and SocialTimes
Tweets: @hunterwalk, @panzer, @qthrul, @danprimack and @mattrosoff
| Megan Geuss / Ars Technica: |
Firefox 22 will block third-party cookies — Jonathan Mayer, a researcher at Stanford, has contributed a patch for Firefox that will block third-party cookies from installing on the user's browser. The patch is set to be incorporated into Firefox 22. For some sense of timing on the project, Firefox 19 was released on Tuesday.
| AllThingsD: |
What to Expect When You Are Expecting a Lot of News Out of Barcelona — Mobile World Congress doesn't really get going until the weekend. — But here at AllThingsD, we want you to have a pretty good idea what to expect even before things kick off in Barcelona.
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Engadget, TechCrunch, CNET, Ars Technica, MobileSyrup.com, LAPTOP Magazine, VentureBeat, The Verge, The Next Web, Neowin, SiliconANGLE, IntoMobile and CNET
| Jeremiah Rice / Android Police: |
Falcon Pro Hits 100K User Token Limit - Another Twitter Client Bites The Dust — In case you hadn't heard, back in August of last year Twitter changed the rules for their API, limiting developers to 100,000 individual user tokens for outside apps (or 200% of then-totals, if the app already had more than 100,000 users).
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The Verge, SlashGear, Ausdroid, GadgeTell and Droid Life
Tweets: @falcon_android, @tapbot_paul, @panzer and @falcon_android
| Donna Tam / CNET: |
Hacker says security flaw let him access any Facebook profile — The social network recently fixed a bug discovered by a developer who demonstrated how the loophole let him take over other people's accounts. — A security hacker recently found a flaw in a Facebook system that allowed developers … | Zain Shauk / Houston Chronicle: |
Malware on oil rig computers raises security fears — Malicious software unintentionally downloaded by offshore oil workers has incapacitated computer networks on some rigs and platforms, exposing gaps in security that could pose serious risks to people and the environment, cybersecurity professionals told the Houston Chronicle.
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The Next Web and Gizmodo
| Carl Franzen / The Verge: |
Wikipedia to deliver articles via text messages in coming months — Wikipedia has been working on new ways to bring its 25 million articles to more users in developing markets, where smartphones and internet connectivity are still sporadic. The latest plan is let users request specific articles … | Jodi Kantor / New York Times: |
Sheryl Sandberg, ‘Lean In’ Author, Hopes to Spur Movement — Before Sheryl Sandberg, the chief operating officer of Facebook, started to write “Lean In,” her book-slash-manifesto on women in the workplace, she reread Betty Friedan's “The Feminine Mystique.”| Kevin Roose / New York Magazine: |
| Chris Stokel-Walker / BuzzFeed: |
How “Golden Eagle Snatches Kid” Ruled The Internet — It's one depressingly typical minute of the 6.2 million uploaded to YouTube every day: In a Montreal park, nothing much is happening. The camera pans around a clear blue sky, tracing the arc of a golden eagle as it twists and turns through the air.
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| John Ribeiro / Computerworld: |
Microsoft's Azure service hit by expired SSL certificate — The company also reported service problems with Xbox Music and Video Store services — Microsoft's Azure cloud platform faced a worldwide outage in its storage services from Friday afternoon because of an expired SSL (secure sockets layer) certificate.
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The Register, Forbes, PC World, Forbes, threatpost, Neowin, The Register, Softpedia News, The Diversity Blog, ZDNet, The Verge, ReadWrite, Wired, GigaOM, Los Angeles Times and MSDN Blogs
Tweets: @halowaypoint, @windowsazure, @majornelson and @office365
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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.
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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.
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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).
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