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Security Notice: Service-wide Password Reset — Evernote's Operations & Security team has discovered and blocked suspicious activity on the Evernote network that appears to have been a coordinated attempt to access secure areas of the Evernote Service. As a precaution to protect your data …
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Tweets: @bill_gross, @percival, @1password and @edbott
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Evernote Saw First Signs Of Hacking On Feb. 28: Emails, Passwords And Usernames Accessed But Not Your Data Or Payment Details — Evernote is requiring its nearly 50 million users to reset their passwords after the popular personal note-taking app became the latest high-profile victim of wide-scale hacking attempts.
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Naked Security, Reuters and Ars Technica
| Louis Goddard / The Verge: |
Evernote resets all passwords after user information stolen in security breach — Popular note-taking service Evernote has reset all user passwords after information including usernames, email addresses, and encrypted passwords was stolen in a security breach.
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Pocket-lint, Geekosystem, Examiner, Marco.org, VatorNews, BetaNews, SlashGear, The Next Web, Gizmodo, Avinashtech, InformationWeek and canada.com. Tweets: @caseynewton
| Colleen Taylor / TechCrunch: |
Marc Andreessen And Ben Horowitz ‘Decode’ Groupon CEO Andrew Mason's Farewell Memo — On Rap Genius — When Andreessen Horowitz invested a whopping $15 million into Rap Genius this past fall, they were keen to point out that the platform can be used for decoding more than song lyrics …
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Business Insider and Rap Genius
| Ben Popper / The Verge: |
Goodbye Groupon: Andrew Mason's dance with the devil — An aspiring entrepreneur partners with an experienced operator with a checkered past — In the wake of Andrew Mason's firing as CEO of Groupon, there's been a lot of negativity towards the young entrepreneur.
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| Elizabeth Spiers / Fast Company: |
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| Romain Dillet / TechCrunch: |
CloudFlare Was Down Due To Edge Routers Crashing, Taking Down 785,000 Websites Including 4chan, Wikileaks, Metallica.com — Security and caching service CloudFlare was down for close to an hour due to an issue with its edge routers. It's now all back up and running.
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CloudFlare blog and GigaOM
| Steve Mann / IEEE Spectrum: |
My “Augmediated” Life — What I've learned from 35 years of wearing computerized eyewear — Back in 2004, I was awakened early one morning by a loud clatter. I ran outside, only to discover that a car had smashed into the corner of my house. As I went to speak with the driver …
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Gizmodo and The Register
| John Gruber / Daring Fireball: |
Open and Shut — Tim Wu, writing for The New Yorker “News Desk”, has done us all a grand favor by penning a sort of grand unified theory on how the “open beats closed” axiom can be true in the face of Apple's decade-long success: “Does a Company Like Apple Need a Genius Like Steve Jobs?”
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MacDailyNews, PalmAddict and Patently Apple
Tweets: @digiphile, @rstephens, @cdixon, @dujkan, @panzer and @viticci
| Ellis Hamburger / The Verge: |
The age of the brag is over: why Facebook might be losing teens — One week ago, Facebook Director of Product Blake Ross announced that he'd leave the company in a goodbye letter he posted on his profile page. Ross wrote: — “I'm leaving because a Forbes writer asked his son's best friend Todd … | Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
Jolla Wants To Build A Foursquare Phone, A Facebook Phone — Whatever It Takes To Wake Smartphones From Their Android Slumber — Finnish startup Jolla is open for business. That's the message CEO Marc Dillon was putting out, loud and clear, during two on-stage appearances at the Mobile World Congress tradeshow in Barcelona last week.
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Engadget
| Terrence O'Brien / Engadget: |
Firefox OS is repeating the mistakes of others and hoping for a different outcome — I feel bad for Mozilla, I really do. Competitors and the march of time are closing in quicker than it can raise its defenses. Her crown jewel, Firefox, is feeling the squeeze as Chrome encroaches … | Emil Protalinski / The Next Web: |
Google tests data compression proxy feature to speed up Chrome for Android, like Opera Turbo and Amazon Silk — Google's Chrome for Android team is experimenting with a new data compression proxy feature to speed up browsing similar to the methods used by Opera Turbo and Amazon Silk.
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google+, PhoneArena, Liliputing, Google Operating System, gHacks and Google Plus Daily
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Windows Store Weekly — This week we take a look at: Star Trek App, Box, Fling Theory, StumbleUpon, and wordBrush.
Windows Store Weekly — This week we take a look at: Star Trek App, Box, Fling Theory, StumbleUpon, and wordBrush.
Cloud Foundry:
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 …
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 …
Rackspace Blog:
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 …
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 …
Hortonworks » Blog:
Mobile Telco Dials In and Harnesses Big Data with Hadoop — Smartphones have transformed our daily lives. A key indicator of this trend is our increased spend on data plans versus voice.
Mobile Telco Dials In and Harnesses Big Data with Hadoop — Smartphones have transformed our daily lives. A key indicator of this trend is our increased spend on data plans versus voice.
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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