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| Seth Sternberg / Google+ Developers Blog: |
Introducing Google+ Sign-In: simple and secure, minus the social spam — Today we're adding a new feature to the Google+ platform: application sign-in. Whether you're building an app for Android, iOS or the web, users can now sign in to your app with Google, and bring along their Google+ info for an upgraded experience.
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Pocket-lint, Marketing Land, The Next Web, MobileSyrup.com, ongoing by Tim Bray, ReadWrite, TechSpot, TechCrunch, Google Plus Daily, ITworld.com, gHacks Technology News, Reuters, Marketing Pilgrim, ProgrammableWeb, The Next Web, BetaNews, Business Insider, iClarified, CNET, AndroidGuys, Business Insider, GigaOM, Droid Life, GeekSugar, bizjournals, Inside Mobile Apps, SocialTimes, android-developers.blogspot.ca, PC Magazine, Lifehacker, Datamation.com and The Register
Tweets: @qthrul, @williamtm and @louisgray
| 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.
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Examiner, digitaltrends.com and Washington Post
| 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 …
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CNET, Reuters, Mobile Marketing Watch, bizjournals, Engadget and GigaOM
| 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 …
Tweets: @zseward, @alexia, @conwaytwitee, @sg, @justinwolfers, @dannysullivan, @eldon, @reformedbroker, @alex and @rsarver
| 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 …
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PHOTOSHOP.COM BLOG, iMore.com, TechCrunch, MacRumors, The Full Signal, PhoneArena, Gearburn, Phones Review, The Verge, Gizmodo, 9to5Mac, The Next Web, Adobe, iPhone Hacks and CNET
| Wall Street Journal: |
Apple Tries to Crack India Market — 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 …
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memeburn, Edible Apple and MacRumors
| 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.
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The Verge, ExtremeTech and Computerworld
| 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.
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Forbes, iDownloadBlog.com, Ars Technica, textually.org, Gotta Be Mobile, iPhone in Canada Blog, The Full Signal and Gizmodo. Tweets: @csoghoian
| Ina Fried / AllThingsD: |
Google's Rubin: No Need for Retail Stores — Despite reports that Google has been eyeing real estate for physical stores, Android chief Andy Rubin says the company really doesn't need its own retail effort. — A few years ago, consumers needed to touch and feel devices …
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The Verge, Business Insider, TechWeekEurope UK, BGR, Softpedia News, VentureBeat, TechSpot, bizjournals, Geekosystem, Gotta Be Mobile, IntoMobile, PC Magazine, TechCrunch, PhoneArena, Ubergizmo, Android and Me, Mobile Marketing Watch, Neowin, Macgasm, CNET, 9to5Google, Pocketnow, WebProNews, Engadget, memeburn, The Verge and Investor's Business Daily. Tweets: @gsterling
| 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 …
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Geekosystem and BBC
| 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!| 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.| Marco Arment / Marco.org: |
Why don't MacBooks come with cellular networking? — I've shared John Gruber's theory on this for a while: … It's been long enough since cellular modems in PC laptops became commonplace, and the MacBook line is diverse enough, that the omission of cellular options looks like a deliberate choice …
| 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 … | Brendan McGarry / Bloomberg: |
Pentagon Will Open Networks to Apple, Google Devices in 2014 — The U.S. Defense Department said today it plans to open its networks by next February to about 100,000 mobile phones and tablet computers from companies such as Apple Inc. (AAPL) and Google Inc. (GOOG)| 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.
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Business Wire, AllThingsD, CNET and VentureBeat
| Dan Seifert / The Verge: |
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 …
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The Next Web and Engadget
| 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 … | 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 … | 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.| 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.
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| Ernesto / TorrentFreak: |
U.S. ‘Pirate’ Streaming Site Operator Gets Amnesty — February 2011 U.S. authorities seized several domains belonging to major sports streaming sites. — One of the affected domains was Channelsurfing.net, a website where links to external sports streams were listed.
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CNET and Ars Technica
| Emil Protalinski / The Next Web: |
NPD: Illegal P2P music sharing declined 17% in 2012 as Internet users turn to free, legal streaming services — The number of consumers using peer-to-peer (P2P) services to download music declined 17 percent between 2011 and 2012. As a result, the volume of illegally downloaded music files …
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NPD Group, Forbes, Softpedia News, CNET, Music Ally, VentureBeat, Wired, GeekWire, WebProNews, CNET and SlashGear. See also Mediagazer
| Tomio Geron / Forbes: |
Peter Thiel Backs Thinkful For Personalized Online Education — Online education startup Thinkful has raised $1 million in seed financing from Peter Thiel's FF Angel, RRE Ventures and Quotidian Ventures. — Founded in 2012, Thinkful is designed to provide personalized online learning for people.Sponsor Posts
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Windows 8 Tips — Tips and tricks for Windows 8 users.
Windows 8 Tips — Tips and tricks for Windows 8 users.
Cloud Foundry:
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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