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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Nokia Lumia 928 to launch on Verizon in April with aluminum body and Xenon flash — Microsoft is gearing up to market Nokia's upcoming Verizon flagship heavily. Sources familiar with Nokia's plans have revealed to The Verge that the company plans to launch its Lumia 928 handset in April on Verizon.
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BGR, CNET, Gizmodo, Pocketnow, Phones Review, WP7forum.ru, Softpedia News, MobileSyrup.com, Neowin and WMPoweruser
| Tao Tao / Oh, How Pinteresting!: |
Introducing Pinterest Web Analytics — Bloggers, businesses, and organizations often ask us, “what are people pinning from my websites?” These website owners help create the content on Pinterest and we wanted to help them understand which pieces of content people find most interesting.
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CNET, VentureBeat, Reuters, TechCrunch, AdAge, Mashable!, The Next Web, WebProNews, AllThingsD, ZDNet, memeburn, Search Engine Journal and Marketing Pilgrim
| Paul Sloan / CNET: |
Spotify: Growing like mad, yet so far to go — The digital music service has added another 1 million subscribers since December, bringing its global total of paying customers to 6 million. — AUSTIN, Texas — It's not a bluegrass jam on the legendary Austin City Limits stage … | Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
Google reveals Glass apps: New York Times, Evernote, Gmail, and Path — Developer advocate Timothy Jordan highlights the ways your favorite services might integrate with Google Glass — We're watching Google's Project Glass developer panel live at SXSW Interactive, and the company's showing off … | Emil Protalinski / The Next Web: |
Google confirms Project Glass will support prescriptions ‘later this year,’ but not in its Explorer Edition — A prescription version of Google Glass is coming in 2013. Google's project Glass is a pair of glasses at the end of the day, so it follows that you'll be able to order a pair personalized to your prescription preferences.
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Google+, Engadget, CNET, 9to5Google, TechCrunch, The Verge, Business Insider, Gizmodo, Softpedia News and SlashGear
| Matt Brian / The Verge: |
Google Now confirmed for Chrome OS and Windows, beta browser reveals — Google Now integration may soon become available in Google's Windows browser and Chrome OS platform in the near future, after engineers added a new reference to the feature in the latest Chromium release.| Rene Ritchie / iMore.com: |
The “iPhone 5S” problem — Apple may or may not release a product called the “iPhone 5S” this year. The presumption, however, fueled by Apple having previously released the 2009 iPhone 3GS-as-in-speed, and the 2011 iPhone 4S-as-in-Siri, is that 2013 will see another S-style update.
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CNET, BGR, Tech Trader Daily, Mercury News, MacRumors, InvestorPlace, Forbes, Android Central and Softpedia News. Tweets: @markgurman
| Russell Brandom / The Verge: |
Automatic's iPhone app makes your dumb car feel a little smarter — Automatic handles everything from fuel efficiency to to crash response — Cars have been equipped with onboard computers for decades now, but as they get smarter, they remain stubbornly closed off.| David Jolly / New York Times: |
France Refers Skype to Prosecutors — PARIS - French regulators said Tuesday they have asked prosecutors to investigate Microsoft's Skype unit over its failure to register as a telecommunications operator in accordance with local law, raising the question of just what constitutes a phone company …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
A look at Microsoft's top-secret Surface prototypes — From concept to reality: how Redmond's iPad competitor came to be — Microsoft made a bold bet to build its own hardware, competing directly with Apple's iPad, but it was never an easy task to create something new and unique.| Casey Newton / CNET: |
Google reaches $7 million settlement with states over Street View case — The settlement with 37 states bans unauthorized data collection and requires Google to train employees on privacy issues. — The long-running Google Street View privacy case was settled today, as the company reached …
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TechCrunch, The Verge and AllThingsD
| 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.| Peter Kafka / AllThingsD: |
| Timothy B. Lee / Ars Technica: |
Major glitch in Bitcoin network sparks sell-off; price temporarily falls 23% — A technical glitch in the core Bitcoin software forced developers to call for a temporary halt to Bitcoin transactions, sparking a sharp sell-off. The currency's value briefly fell 23 percent to $37 before regaining much of its value later in the evening.
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VentureBeat, Web Host Industry Review, Quartz and The Verge
| Peter Kafka / AllThingsD: |
iPhone Video Usage Doubles Android, Says Ooyala — From the “Android is from Mars, Apple is from Venus” files, another reminder that the kind of phone you have influences what you do with that phone. — Or maybe it's a reminder that people buy different kinds of phones because they want to do different things with them.| Alexei Oreskovic / Reuters: |
Yahoo's Mayer gets internal flak for more rigorous hiring — (Reuters) - Yahoo Inc Chief Executive Marissa Mayer was asked at an all-staff meeting several weeks ago whether her rigorous hiring practices had caused the company to miss out on top engineering talent in Silicon Valley's hyper-competitive job market.
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| Alex Williams / TechCrunch: |
AWS Just Made It A Whole Lot Easier For Anyone To Create A Virtual Private Cloud Showing Again How Enterprise Tech Is Obsolete — Amazon Web Services will now offer the option for everyone to have their own virtual private cloud (VPC), another sign of the company's intent to push into the enterprise market.
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Amazon Web Services Blog, InfoWorld, Computerworld, ZDNet and The Register
| Christina Farr / VentureBeat: |
Evolv pulls in $15M to prevent the ‘wrong person ending up in the wrong job’ — Imagine using data to pinpoint the most high-performing employees and keep them satisfied? — A startup called Evolv is building technology to make that possible, and it has raised $15 million in a fourth funding roundl led by Vantage Point Capital.
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Netflix Launches Speed Index To Highlight The Best ISPs For Streaming — For the last few months now, Netflix regularly published a list of the fastest ISPs for streaming video. Today, the company launched a dedicated site for this data, the Netflix ISP Speed Index.| Declan McCullagh / CNET: |
Meet the ‘Corporate Enemies of the Internet’ for 2013 — Paris-based Reporters Without Borders names five companies as “digital mercenaries” that have decided to sell their surveillance technology to authoritarian regimes. — Vietnam has been named one of the enemies of the Internet for its extensive government surveillance.| Terril Yue Jones / Reuters: |
China says willing to discuss cyber security with the U.S. — (Reuters) - China offered on Tuesday to talk with the United States about cyber security amid an escalating war of words between the two sides on computer hacking, but suspicion is as deep in Beijing as it is in Washington about the accusations and counter-accusations.| Kim Zetter / Wired: |
Retailer Sues Visa Over $13 Million ‘Fine’ for Being Hacked — A sports apparel retailer is fighting back against the arbitrary multi-million-dollar penalties that credit card companies impose on banks and merchants for data breaches by filing a first-of-its-kind $13 million lawsuit against Visa.
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ZDNet and Softpedia News
| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook Announces Mobile DevCons In NYC, London, Seoul, But They're More Meetups Than Newsy f8s — Facebook hasn't had a major, announcement-filled developer conference since September 2011′s f8, and won't for the forseeable future. The Mobile DevCons it just announced won't have a ton of news …
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Facebook Developer Blog, AllFacebook, ZDNet and The Next Web
| Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web: |
Security firm: iOS Provisioning Profiles could be vector for Apple's first big malware wave — Up to this point, iOS users have been relatively safe from malware on their devices. Apple SVP Phil Schiller recently felt good enough about it to tweet a link to a recent report that put most of the onus of mobile malware on Android.| Noel Randewich / Reuters: |
Apple's iPads to fall behind Android tablets this year: IDC — (Reuters) - Shipments of Apple Inc's iPads will fall behind the growing variety of tablets running Google Inc's Android platform for the first time this year as smaller-sized devices catch on with more consumers, research firm International Data Corp (IDC) said on Tuesday.| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
Chinese Version Of Samsung Galaxy S IV Apparently Captured In Hands-On Video — After yesterday's photos posted to a Chinese forum of a device claimed to be the Samsung Galaxy S IV, a video of what looks like the same device has landed on YouTube — again purporting to be the sequel to Samsung's flagship Galaxy S III.
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BGR, ZDNet, Digits, ReadWrite, Engadget, The Verge, VentureBeat, PC Magazine, Gizmodo, GigaOM, CNET, Business Insider, IntoMobile, CNET, Pocket-lint, PhoneArena, BetaNews, Inquirer, digitaltrends.com, Techie Buzz, Neowin, Softpedia News, Sammy Hub, Mashable!, SlashGear, Ubergizmo, 9to5Google, The Verge and MobileSyrup.com. Tweets: @samsungmobileus
| Sharif Sakr / Engadget: |
AMD Richland chips will arrive in notebooks next month, promise better graphics, battery life and a few extras — Yearly product cycles? AMD doesn't need that long, thank you. It's planning to release a fresh batch of low-power APUs just 11 months after Trinity.
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ZDNet, PC World, Computerworld, VentureBeat, Inquirer, ValueWalk, ExtremeTech and Tom's Hardware Guide
| Ina Fried / AllThingsD: |
Crittercism Nabs $12 Million in Funding to Expand Beyond Tracking Mobile App Bugs — Crittercism, a San Francisco-based company that helps mobile app developers track their performance, has raised a further $12 million from its existing investors. — The company's technology lets mobile app creators …
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TechCrunch, VatorNews, The Next Web, PC Magazine and VentureBeat
| J.J. Colao / Forbes: |
Silicon Valley Is The New Hollywood: Ignore The Hype And Keep Working — To begin his talk at the Startup Village at South By Southwest, Steve Blank played a clip from Bravo's reality show “Start-Ups: Silicon Valley.” Ben and Hermione Way, two aspiring entrepreneurs who haven't built … Sponsor Posts
Channel 9:
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.
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.
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:
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.
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.
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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