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Exclusive: super-early iPhone prototype had 5″x7″ screen, serial port — What did the iPhone look like before it looked like an iPhone? — That's one big iPhone — This iPhone prototype was a lot closer to the size of an iPad than an iPhone at 5"×7" and nearly 2" thick.| Kunal / Sammy Hub: |
Pictures of GT-I9502 leaked, could this be the Galaxy S IV? — A Chinese forum has published plethora of pictures of GT-I9502. Images reveal a lot of things on the hardware front and most importantly, the design. Interestingly, the forum poster claims it to be a dual-SIM version of the Galaxy S IV for China Unicom.| Brad Molen / Engadget: |
BlackBerry Z10 coming to AT&T March 22nd for $199.99, pre-orders open tomorrow — The BlackBerry Z10 has already been available in various parts of the world — and will soon be delivered to T-Mobile business customers in the US — but most consumers within the 50 states are still exercising a bit of patience.| Eric Slivka / MacRumors: |
Tweaked Apple TV Contains Die-Shrunk A5 Chip, Not A5X — Back in late January, an update to the Apple TV software revealed a new “AppleTV3,2”, with FCC documents for the device showing up the following day. By digging into the software files for this new device, it was discovered … | Nate Anderson / Ars Technica: |
Meet the men who spy on women through their webcams — “See! That s**t keeps popping up on my f**king computer!” says a blond woman as she leans back on a couch, bottle-feeding a baby on her lap. — The woman is visible from thousands of miles away on a hacker's computer.| Greg Bensinger / Wall Street Journal: |
Amazon's Quest for Web Names Draws Foes — Large and small companies are vying for control of an array of new Internet domain names, but Amazon.com Inc.'s plans are coming under particular scrutiny. — Two publishing industry groups, the Authors Guild and the Association of American Publishers … | David Benoit / Deal Journal: |
Carl Icahn Signs ‘Confidentiality Agreement’ To Look at Dell — Carl Icahn has reached a pact with Dell Inc. that allows him to look at the company's books. — The activist investor's firm has signed a “confidentiality agreement” with the computer maker, he revealed today without providing many more details.| Steve Lohr / New York Times: |
Computer Algorithms Rely Increasingly on Human Helpers — Trading stocks, targeting ads, steering political campaigns, arranging dates, besting people on “Jeopardy” and even choosing bra sizes: computer algorithms are doing all this work and more. — But increasingly, behind the curtain … | Kenneth Rapoza / Forbes: |
Apple Closer To Solution Regarding Brazilian iPhone Trademark Dispute — Apple is closer to solving its trademark dispute with Brazilian telecommunications service firm IGB Eletronica. IGB owns the brand Gradiente, which in March 2000 asked the Brazilian Industrial Property Institute … | Tim Peterson / Adweek: |
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Insight: On Facebook, app makers face a treacherous path — (Reuters) - Last spring, the future for Viddy, a video-sharing Facebook app, seemed as sunny as southern California's skies. — Based a block away from Venice Beach, the 30-person startup impressed prospective investors … | Catherine Shu / TechCrunch: |
Samsung Tops China's Smartphone Market For The First Time As Sales Triple, Says Strategy Analytics — Samsung Electronics topped China's smartphone market for the first time in 2012, according to data from Strategy Analytics (reported by Yonhap News Agency).
Inside NuGet for C++ — NuGet support for C++ projects in Visual Studio has arrived in NuGet 2.5! It's been around for about a month now so we figured we'd go talk to one of the developers who helped make it happen, Garrett Serack.
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 …
Hadoop, Hadoop, Hurrah! HDP for Windows is Now GA! — Today we are very excited to announce that Hortonworks Data Platform for Windows (HDP for Windows) is now generally available and ready to support the most demanding production workloads.
“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).This is a Techmeme archive page. It shows how the site appeared at 12:10 PM ET, March 11, 2013.
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