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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.
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iMore.com, CNET, TechCrunch, Network World, ExtremeTech, Forbes, TUAW, iDownloadBlog.com, PadGadget, iPhone Hacks, iLounge, iHackintosh, TechSpot, MacNN, Neowin, Mashable!, 9to5Mac, BGR and The Verge
| Liz Gannes / AllThingsD: |
LinkedIn to Buy Pulse Newsreader for More than $50M — LinkedIn will buy San Francisco-based newsreader appmaker Pulse, according to sources familiar with the negotiations. — The price of the acquisition is in the tens of millions, they said — between $50 million to $100 million.| Ina Fried / AllThingsD: |
Sprint Will Have an All-Touch BlackBerry This Year, but It's Not the Z10 — Sprint may have chosen to take a pass on the first all-touch BlackBerry 10 device, but it isn't planning to sit out that part of the market. — The No. 3 U.S. carrier plans to launch an all-touch BlackBerry-10-powered device …
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The Verge, TechCrunch, CNET, BGR, Gizmodo, n4bb.com, IntoMobile, Pocketnow and Pocket-lint
| Brad Molen / Engadget: |
| David Barboza / New York Times: |
In Wake of Cyberattacks, China Seeks New Rules — SHANGHAI — China has issued a new call for international “rules and cooperation” on Internet espionage issues, while insisting that accusations of Chinese government involvement in recent hacking attacks were part of an international smear campaign.
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Xinhua News Agency and PC World
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| Emil Protalinski / The Next Web: |
Google updates design of Gmail's web and offline apps for Android, BlackBerry, iOS, and Kindle Fire users — Google on Monday announced an update to its Gmail mobile Web app and Gmail Offline. The company says the new release is available to Android, BlackBerry, iOS, and Kindle Fire users …
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Google+, The Verge, PC Magazine, VatorNews, TechCrunch, VentureBeat, Google Operating System, ZDNet, TUAW, MacRumors, Engadget, 9to5Mac, MobileSyrup.com and IntoMobile
| Hugo Miller / Bloomberg: |
BlackBerry Shares Jump as Lenovo CEO Mentions Possible Deal — BlackBerry shares jumped the most in more than a month after Lenovo Group Ltd. (992)'s chief executive officer was quoted in a French financial newspaper as saying his company may eventually consider buying the smartphone maker.
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CNET, VentureBeat, Tech Trader Daily, BGR, LAPTOP Magazine, Pocket-lint, ValueWalk and PhoneArena. Tweets: @inafried
| Arik Hesseldahl / AllThingsD: |
U.K.'s Serious Fraud Office Is Investigating HP's Autonomy Allegations — Hewlett-Packard just filed its regular form 10Q or quarterly report with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, and it contains some news. — In the filing HP discloses that it has been told by the Serious Fraud Office …
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| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Microsoft enabling Flash by default in Internet Explorer 10 starting March 12th — Microsoft has just announced that it will permit Flash content to run by default in both Windows RT and Windows 8 beginning tomorrow, March 12th. Until now, compatibility in Internet Explorer 10 has been limited …
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| The Security Ledger: |
Many Watering Holes, Targets In Hacks That Netted Facebook, Twitter and Apple — The attacks that compromised computer systems at Facebook, Twitter, Apple Corp. and Microsoft were part of a wide-ranging operation that relied on many “watering hole” web sites that attracted employees … | Leena Rao / TechCrunch: |
Omniture Co-Founder's Business Intelligence SaaS Company Domo Raises $60M From GGV Capital, Jeff Bezos, Greylock And Others — Domo, the SaaS business intelligence startup launched by Omniture founder Josh James, has raised $60 million in new funding, we've learned exclusively.
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AllThingsD, MarketWatch and Salt Lake Tribune
| Martha Mendoza / Associated Press: |
As Tech Wealth Explodes, Silicon Valley Poverty Spikes — SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — On a morning the stock market was sailing to a record high and a chilly storm was blowing into Silicon Valley, Wendy Carle stuck her head out of the tent she calls home to find city workers duct taping …
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| Drew Olanoff / TechCrunch: |
Bit.ly CEO Peter Stern Steps Down From The URL Shortening And Analytics Company — Today, Bit.ly has announced that its CEO, Peter Stern, has stepped down as CEO in a statement on their blog. The reason is that Stern is pursuing other interests, although other details aren't known at this time.
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bitly blog, Betabeat, GigaOM, The Next Web and VentureBeat
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Unicorn Apocalypse Is Real And It Sucks — Unicorn Apocalypse, the mobile game Samsung promoted in its TV ads that began airing at the beginning of the year, isn't fictional after all - it's a real, playable game live now in the Google Play app store. Generally speaking, the Samsung ads …
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The Verge, Droid Life, Business Insider, MobileBurn.com and SlashGear
| 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 …
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counternotions, The Atlantic Online and NYT Bits
| Tim Peterson / Adweek: |
YouTube Co-founder Prepping Possible Rival — YouTube has had its share of competition over the years. Companies like Vimeo and DailyMotion (plus copyright lawsuits and crushing overhead costs) led Chad Hurley and the video-sharing site's co-founders to sell YouTube to Google.
| 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.
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Engadget, CNET, CNET, BGR, Electronista, AndroidTapp, The Full Signal, Maati, GigaOM, Gotta Be Mobile, PC Magazine, digitaltrends.com, Geek.com, VentureBeat, Ars Technica, TechSpot, T3 News, Business Insider, LAPTOP Magazine, DailyTech, ValueWalk, MobileSyrup.com, Wall Street Journal, Tech Shout!, PhoneArena and Neowin
| Andy Greenberg / Forbes: |
3D-Printable Gun Project Announces Plans For A For-Profit Search Engine Startup — For the last six months, Cody Wilson and his non-profit group Defense Distributed have worked towards a controversial goal: To make as many firearm components as possible into 3D-printable, downloadable files.
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VentureBeat, WebProNews and The Verge
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
“Zero TV” Households Now At 5 Million, Says Nielsen, Up From 3 Million In 2007, But Still Just 5% Of Market — Nielsen today released new data that examines trends in the “Zero TV household” - a definition which refers to those who no longer watch traditional television offered by cable … | 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.
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Salon, Boing Boing, Kotaku and Good Morning Silicon Valley
| Gerry Shih / Reuters: |
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 …
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Forbes and Business Insider
| Alex Wilhelm / The Next Web: |
Salesforce to raise $1 billion in convertible debt offering to help fuel acquisitions — Today CRM giant Salesforce announced that it intends to raise $1 billion, with the potential for $150 million more, in long-term convertible debt. — The sum is large compared to the company's current cash position.
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PR Newswire, ZDNet, VentureBeat, AllThingsD and Tech Trader Daily
| Ian King / Bloomberg: |
Fujifilm Touch Screen Poised to Aid Microsoft Vs. Apple — Fujifilm Holdings Corp. (4901), a company better known for cameras and film, could help Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) and the personal-computer industry fight back against Apple Inc. (AAPL) — Fujifilm is using its experience with silver …
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PetaPixel, Softpedia News and The Verge
| Sean Ludwig / VentureBeat: |
Microsoft really wants students to use Office 365, offers 6 months free & 20GB SkyDrive storage — Microsoft has launched a new campaign to hook students on Office 365 University by offering up six months of the service and an extra 20GB of SkyDrive cloud storage for free.Sponsor Posts
Channel 9:
Defrag Tools: WPT - Command Line — Andrew Richards, Chad Beeder, and Larry Larsen continue walking you through the Windows Performance Toolkit (WPT).
Defrag Tools: WPT - Command Line — Andrew Richards, Chad Beeder, and Larry Larsen continue walking you through the Windows Performance Toolkit (WPT).
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:
Love, Magic, & APIs — I will confess, I am old enough to remember my GeoCities page. Don't hate. It was amazing, it was... this transformative moment in which I took real, actual information, and transformed it into something visible and memorable.
Love, Magic, & APIs — I will confess, I am old enough to remember my GeoCities page. Don't hate. It was amazing, it was... this transformative moment in which I took real, actual information, and transformed it into something visible and memorable.
Hortonworks » Blog:
Getting the most out of business analytics — One of the most prevalent uses of Hadoop architecture by enterprises is to create business intelligence and analytics tools that can be leveraged to identify areas …
Getting the most out of business analytics — One of the most prevalent uses of Hadoop architecture by enterprises is to create business intelligence and analytics tools that can be leveraged to identify areas …
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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