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Disruptions: As User Interaction on Facebook Drops, Sharing Comes at a Cost — Updated — Something is puzzling on Facebook. — Early last year, soon after Facebook instituted a feature that let people subscribe to others' feeds without being friends, I quickly amassed a healthy “subscriber” list of about 25,000 people.
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Inquirer, Future Visions, SocialTimes, memeburn, Music Ally, Neowin, Nick O'Neill and Echo Blog
Tweets: @dannysullivan, @erickschonfeld, @pkafka, @joshconstine, @hunterwalk, @alexiskold, @om and @pkafka
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Apple's Planned ‘IWatch’ Could Be More Profitable Than TV — While Tim Cook has dropped hints that Apple Inc. (AAPL) is hard at work on a television to drive the next era of growth, the company's wristwatch-style device, still in development, may prove more profitable.
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CNET, Business Insider, BGR, 9to5Mac, TechCrunch, AppleInsider, Fortune, Neowin, T3 News, iPhone Hacks, App Advice, iPhone and Softpedia News
| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
Apple's watch will run iOS and arrive later this year, say sources — Jony Ive wants a spot on your wrist — More details are emerging about Apple's forthcoming watch, which is targeted for release this year, according to aBloomberg report this morning and corroborated by our sources.| Michael Arrington / TechCrunch: |
There Was That Whole Internet Thing, Too — Anyone wanting to see the whole “history is written by the victors” thing in process should read Tim Wu and John Gruber battle it out over exactly why Apple has kicked the crap out of everyone else since the late 90s.
Tweets: @howardlindzon, @mathewi, @davewiner, @arrington, @peterrojas and @karaswisher
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ParisLemon, MacDailyNews, PalmAddict and Patently Apple
Tweets: @rstephens, @erickschonfeld, @viticci, @cdixon, @digiphile, @dujkan and @panzer
| Robin Wauters / The Next Web: |
Blurred Navision: Microsoft may owe Denmark more than $1b in unpaid taxes — American software juggernaut Microsoft may owe Denmark's treasury department several billions of Danish kroner in unpaid taxes, according to a report from DR, the country's national broadcasting corporation.
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TechEye, Gizmodo, Geek.com and Softpedia News
| Quentin Hardy / New York Times: |
I.T. Managers Struggle to Contain Corporate Data in the Mobile Age — SAN FRANCISCO — As is the case with many busy people, Delyn Simons's life has become an open phone app of commingled corporate and personal information. — “I've got Dropbox, Box, YouSendIt, Teambox, Google Drive,” …
Tweets: @qhardy and @nicoleperlroth
| Russ Buettner / New York Times: |
Former Dot-com Millionaire Guilty of Selling Drugs — At the height of dot-com mania 13 years ago, Jennifer Sultan and a few colleagues sold their small technology company for $70 million in stock and cash. She and her boyfriend rented a large house in the Hamptons for the summer and bought a spacious loft near Union Square.
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Business Insider, Daily Mail, Associated Press and Gothamist
| Wayne Williams / BetaNews: |
Xbox Live premieres its first movie — In tough economic times, raising the money and getting a movie made without any major stars in it can be more than a little challenging for independent film makers. Getting it distributed is even harder. — So instead of trying to get their movie into cinemas …
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BBC, Engadget, The Verge, Inquirer, The Next Web, Business Insider, National Updates, Pocket-lint and Neowin. See also Mediagazer
| Quinn Norton / The Atlantic Online: |
Life Inside the Aaron Swartz Investigation — A reluctant witness's account of a Federal prosecution. If you haven't been following the case, start with the editor's note for context. — Once your life is inside a federal investigation, there is no space outside of it.| Greg Bensinger / Wall Street Journal: |
The Evolving Economics of the App — Music search application SoundHound is a bargain on Microsoft Corp.'s Windows Phone store: It is free. — But for iPhone users, one version of SoundHound costs $6.99. And on Google Inc. Android devices, a version of the mobile app costs $5.99.
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Wall Street Journal
| Kristian Vatto / AnandTech: |
Seagate to Discontinue 7200rpm 2.5" Drives Later This Year — Earlier today X-bit Labs reported that Seagate will stop the production of their 7200RPM 2.5" drives by the end of this year and I just got a confirmation from Seagate that this is really the case.
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ZDNet, X-bit labs, Gearburn, Web 2.0 Asia Blog, Forbes, PC Perspective and HotHardware
| Christopher S. Stewart / Wall Street Journal: |
As Pirates Run Rampant, TV Studios Dial Up Pursuit — By the glow of six flat screens inside a windowless room in a California office tower, three content cops from NBCUniversal watch as pirated versions of the cable-TV drama “Suits” begin popping up on the Internet within minutes of the show's closing credits.Sponsor Posts
Channel 9:
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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