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Samsung takes a page from Apple's Passbook with new Wallet app — Samsung took the wraps off of its new Samsung Wallet app during a developer conference at Mobile World Congress on Wednesday. The Wallet app is designed to let users store things such as event tickets, boarding passes … | Dennis K. Berman / Wall Street Journal: |
Is Twitter Really Worth $10 Billion? — I spent the last week trying to write a column that proved Twitter wasn't worth $10 billion. Then the facts intervened. — Stubbornly, they arranged themselves into a most unexpected conclusion, one that seems almost blasphemy to type … | Kara Swisher / AllThingsD: |
Exclusive: PayPal Co-Founder Levchin Launches New Payments Startup, Affirm — High-profile Silicon Valley entrepreneur Max Levchin is launching a new mobile payments startup today called Affirm. — It's the first project emerging from Levchin's San Francisco tech incubator Hard, Valuable … | Christopher Soghoian / ACLU: |
New Document Sheds Light on Government's Ability to Search iPhones — Cell phone searches are a common law enforcement tool, but up until now, the public has largely been in the dark regarding how much sensitive information the government can get with this invasive surveillance technique.| Walter S. Mossberg / AllThingsD: |
Pebble Smart Watch Tells When Phone Calls, Emails Arrive — Do you ever find yourself frantically trying to fish your phone out of a pocket or purse to find out whether that beep or buzz from the device is an important call, text or email — or just something you can ignore?| Erica Ogg / GigaOM: |
Passbook mobile ticketing expanding to 13 MLB ballparks this season — For the 2013 baseball season, Major League Baseball is more than tripling the number of stadiums that will accept mobile tickets via Apple's Passbook app. This year there will be 13 stadiums that will enable paperless … | Billy Steele / Engadget: |
Adobe outs Photoshop Touch for phones, ready to outfit pockets for $4.99 — Jealous about your mates' ability to edit photos and whatnot via their mid-sized slates? Well, Adobe has just announced a solution that's ready to equip your handset of choice. That's right, the pro design software … | Wall Street Journal: |
In India, iPhone Lags Far Behind — By DHANYA ANN THOPPILin Bangalore, India,AMOL SHARMA in New Delhi And JESSICA E. LESSIN in San Francisco — Apple Inc. is overhauling its iPhone operations in the crucial Indian market, attempting to chip away at Samsung Electronics Co.'s dominance … | Ryan Tate / Wired: |
This Amazing 3-D Desktop Was Born at Microsoft — LONG BEACH, California - The history of computer revolutions will show a logical progression from the Mac to the iPad to something like this SpaceTop 3-D desktop, if computer genius Jinha Lee has anything to say about it.| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft launches updated Office 365 for business users — Summary: Microsoft is launching the services piece of its ‘new Office’ for businesses on February 27. Here's what new and existing users can expect, as of today. — In late January 2013, Microsoft launched its consumer-focused version … | Marco Arment / Marco.org: |
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New App Turns Your iPhone Into a Mobile Urine Lab — LONG BEACH, California - For entrepreneur Myshkin Ingawale the logic was unassailable. Everybody pees. And everyone has a cellphone. “There has to be something going on there,” Ingawale told a chuckling crowd at the TED conference.| Geoffrey A. Fowler / Wall Street Journal: |
Boss Talk: What RSA Learned From Its Security Breach — There's a lot of hyperbole in the war against hackers. Art Coviello, the 59-year-old executive chairman of EMC Corp.'s RSA security division, is in a position to size up the real threat. — RSA makes the login security systems used by 95 of the Fortune 100 companies.| James McQuivey / AllThingsD: |
Why Silicon Valley Is the Next Detroit — All good things must come to an end, including Motown and many a once-noble region or hamlet. So I have history on my side when I lob the following grenade: Silicon Valley will take its turn someday, falling from the heights it has attained.| Matt Brian / The Next Web: |
Amazon warns iOS users to skip latest app update after reports of deleted books — Amazon has warned users of its Kindle app for iOS to refrain from updating to the latest version after acknowledging that a “known issue” with its latest submission to the App Store.| Brandon Bailey / Mercury News: |
Yahoo responds to outcry, says work-from-home ban is not an ‘industry view’ — SUNNYVALE — Appearing to acknowledge the uproar over its recent move to order telecommuting workers back to the office, Yahoo (YHOO) issued a brief statement Tuesday to assert that it wasn't offering a broad judgment on the practice of working from home.| Wisdoms of Pearl: |
Tweens + Instagram = Tweenstagram !!! — While hanging with my 12 year old cousin the other day, I unknowingly entered into the world of Tweenstagram, a vastly different space than the Instagram I have grown to know and love (and refresh too often). And what a FASCINATING world it is!| Ernesto / TorrentFreak: |
“Six Strikes” Anti-Piracy Scheme Starts, With Mystery Punishments — The MPAA and RIAA, helped by five major Internet providers in the United States, will start to warn BitTorrent pirates this week. The parties launched the Center for Copyright Information (CCI) and agreed on a system through … | Alex Wilhelm / The Next Web: |
Apple joins Intel, Facebook, Microsoft, others in support of gay marriage — Today, as reported by Bloomberg, Apple has joined the cadre of technology companies publicly in favor of the legalization of gay marriage in the United States. — At stake here is a Supreme Court case … | Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols / ZDNet: |
Torvalds strongly objects to Windows 8 secure boot keys in the Linux kernel — Summary: Linux founder Linus Torvalds makes no bones about it. He thinks inserting signed binaries into the Linux kernel is “moronic”. — It started innocently enough. Red Hat software engineer David Howells … | Danny Sullivan / Marketing Land: |
Is The Google+ “Spam-Free” Sign-In Really That Different From Facebook? — Google is promising that its new Google+ Sign-In is a way to avoid all that “social spam” that unnamed other services (cough, Facebook) “spray” into your social timeline. Hey, I know Facebook can get aggressive.| Tim Maly / Wired: |
Freescale's Insanely Tiny ARM Chip Will Put the Internet of Things Inside Your Body — Freescale's Kinetis KL02 MCU is very small. Photo courtesy: Freescale. — Chipmaker Freescale Semiconductor has created the world's smallest ARM-powered chip, designed to push the world of connected devices into surprising places.| Vinod Khosla / TechCrunch: |
“Venture Assistance”: A Philosophical View Of What Boards Should And Should Not Do — Editor's note: Legendary investor Vinod Khosla is the founder of Khosla Ventures. You can follow him on Twitter @vkhosla. — Most VCs pitch their venture firms as value added to a company's entrepreneurial founders.| Adam Satariano / Bloomberg: |
Apple CEO to Face Investors Seeking More of Cash Hoard — CalPERS' Simpson on Apple, Einhorn, Preferred Stock — As Apple Inc. Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook takes the stage at this year's shareholder meeting, he may not get the reception he received in 2012, when investors lauded the company's performance and rising shares.| Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch: |
Pinterest For Products Wanelo Raises At North Of $100M — You wouldn't think that a Pinterest where you can buy stuff would be one of the hottest Series A deals of the quarter, but it was. — Wanelo, a site that allows you to bookmark items that you like and, this is crucial …
Windows Store Weekly — This week we take a look at: Star Trek App, Box, Fling Theory, StumbleUpon, and wordBrush.
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 …
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 …
Get Started with Hadoop on Hortonworks Data Platform 1.1 for Windows — We are excited to release the Hortonworks Data Platform 1.1 for Windows as a Generally Available product.
Skype in the browser — Whether you like the Skype app or not, until now, you've had no choice but to download something to make voice and video calls — either an app like Skype, or a Flash plugin (yikes) for your browser.This is a Techmeme archive page. It shows how the site appeared at 10:10 AM ET, February 27, 2013.
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