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| Urs Holzle / The Official Google Blog: |
A second spring of cleaning — We're living in a new kind of computing environment. Everyone has a device, sometimes multiple devices. It's been a long time since we have had this rate of change—it probably hasn't happened since the birth of personal computing 40 years ago.
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Official Google Reader Blog, GigaOM, The Verge, Mobile Marketing Watch, CNET, Wired, Digits, Google Operating System, VentureBeat, Nick Bradbury, Mashable!, BetaNews, Engadget, Business Insider, The Register, Domain Name Wire, PC Magazine, Techdirt, digitaltrends.com, BuzzFeed, PC World, Gizmodo, LJ INFOdocket, PhoneArena, Google Apps Developer Blog, AllThingsD, 9to5Google, App Advice, Pocket-lint, FeedBlitz, Neowin, Macgasm, SmoothSpan Blog, Danielle Morrill and Laughing Squid
Tweets: @reederapp, @qthrul, @yarongalai, @gaberivera, @pkedrosky, @parislemon, @jasonhirschhorn, @jasonhirschhorn, @andrewchen and @pinboard
| Danny Sullivan / Marketing Land: |
Google To Close Google Reader On July 1 — Google Reader user? Say goodbye. Google has announced the service is closing on July 1. — The news came today in a “Spring Cleaning” blog post from Google, where the company said: … I'm pretty amazed to read this.
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See also Mediagazer| Richard Lawler / Engadget: |
Feedly promises ‘seamless’ transition after Google Reader to its own backend — If you (like many of us at Engadget) are in a state of shock facing the end of Google Reader this summer, there may be an easy replacement. RSS app/service Feedly posts on its blog that it has been anticipating …
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Building Feedly, The Verge, Inside Flipboard, Marketing Land, TechCrunch and Lifehacker
| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
The Google Reader Shutdown Is Yet Another Nail In Feedburner's Coffin — How long until Google shuts down Feedburner? The company just announced that it is shutting down Google Reader on July 1. That's a sad day for all of us who still regularly use it, but its demise was probably inevitable.
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| Larry Page / The Official Google Blog: |
Update from the CEO — Sergey and I first heard about Android back in 2004, when Andy Rubin came to visit us at Google. He believed that aligning standards around an open-source operating system would drive innovation across the mobile industry. Most people thought he was nuts.
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Tweets: @fmanjoo, @fmanjoo and @reneritchie
| JR Raphael / Computerworld: |
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In Rare Move, Apple Goes on the Defensive Against Samsung — Apple Inc. is on the defensive. — In a rare interview a day before Samsung Electronics Co. announces a new flagship smartphone in New York, Apple marketing chief Phil Schiller on Wednesday played down the expected competition … | Casey Newton / CNET: |
Twitter acquires We Are Hunted, readies standalone music app — SCOOP: Twitter is preparing a music discovery app built on technology from a recent acquisition. It could be released by the end of the month. [Read more]| Mike Kruzeniski / Twitter Blog: |
Welcome Twitter for Windows 8 — Today, we are releasing Twitter for Windows 8, a new app that makes it easier than ever to share and discover content on Windows 8 devices. In addition to familiar Twitter features, including the Home, Connect, Discover, and Me tabs, this app introduces …
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| Jeff Huang / Facebook Developer Blog: |
Making Apps a Bigger Part of Timeline — Today, we're announcing an update to timeline to help people express what's important to them. We're introducing better ways for apps to appear on timeline, improved controls for users, and streamlined tools for setting up Open Graph. — A more organized timeline| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Thanks:@joshconstine
| Cameron Johnson / The Official Netflix Blog: |
Introducing Netflix Social — Movies and TV shows are better with friends. — We get suggestions from our friends for new things to watch and we connect with our friends through the shared enjoyment of a great movie or TV show. — Starting today, Netflix members in the U.S. can share … | Ina Fried / AllThingsD: |
Exclusive: HTC One Headed to Verizon, Too — It looks like HTC's One really will be the one flagship for the Taiwanese phone maker. — When HTC announced the phone last month, it said the One would be sold at AT&T, Sprint and T-Mobile. A mention of Verizon was noticeably absent.
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| Kara Swisher / AllThingsD: |
Outbox: Yahoo Mail Head Sharma Leaves Company — According to numerous sources, Vivek Sharma, who is GM of the powerful Mail and Messenger products at Yahoo, has left the company. — It's not clear where Sharma — who has been at the Silicon Valley Internet giant since 2009 and has worked …
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The Next Web and The Next Web
| Janko Roettgers / paidContent: |
Veronica Mars movie hits $2M Kickstarter goal in 10 hours — Veronica Mars fans got one step closer towards seeing bringing their favorite teen detective back on the screen - the big screen, that is: A Kickstarter project to raise funds for a Veronica Mars movie that show creator Rob Thomas launched hit …
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Kickstarter, Inside TV, The Verge, BuzzFeed, digitaltrends.com, TechCrunch, Engadget, CNET, CNNMoney.com, Deadline.com, Guardian, Daily Dot, Lost Remote, A Whole Lotta Nothing, Mashable!, Geek.com, Mashable! and BuzzFeed. Tweets: @cdixon. See also Mediagazer
| Nate Raymond / Reuters: |
Apple CEO Cook must testify in e-books antitrust case: judge — (Reuters) - Apple Inc Chief Executive Tim Cook must sit for a deposition in the U.S. government's lawsuit against the company over alleged price-fixing in the e-book market, a judge ruled on Wednesday.| Mike Isaac / AllThingsD: |
Twitter Firms Up Top Ranks With CTO, Tightens Product and Design Roles — Twitter has appointed Adam Messinger as the company's Chief Technical Officer, according to his Twitter profile, in a move that solidifies Twitter's top C-Suite ranks on the company's slow, steady trudge to going public.
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CNET, TechCrunch and GigaOM
| John Paczkowski / AllThingsD: |
Is Samsung Stringing Microsoft Along on Windows Phone 8? — Is Samsung's interest in Microsoft's Windows Phone 8 on the level, or is it a ploy intended to slow the platform's market penetration? Boutique research house Detwiler Fenton believes it may be the latter, a concerted effort …
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| David Streitfeld / New York Times: |
Google Admits Street View Project Violated Privacy — SAN FRANCISCO — Google on Tuesday acknowledged to state officials that it had violated people's privacy during its Street View mapping project when it casually scooped up passwords, e-mail and other personal information from unsuspecting computer users.
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Forbes, DSLreports, BuzzMachine, DailyTech, SiliconANGLE and Gizmodo
| Bernard Vaughan / Reuters: |
U.S. jury finds Nintendo liable for patent infringement — (Reuters) - A federal jury in New York on Wednesday found that video game company Nintendo Co infringed an inventor's 3-D display technology patent with its handheld 3DS videogame system. — The jury awarded the inventor … | iFixit: |
Pebble Teardown — Welcome to the future of watch evolution. The Pebble E-Paper Watch is the “first watch built for the 21st century.” It can track your bikerides, display your text messages, and even tell the time! We had no choice but to bust the Pebble open and see what made it tick.| Jake Smith / Pocket-lint: |
LG ‘Smart Video’ eye recognition for Optimus G Pro will track eyes to pause and play video — LG is diving into the eye recognition space with a new feature dubbed Smart Video. It will eliminate the need for a users' hands when watching video on the currently South Korea-exclusive Optimus G Pro and will solely track eyes.?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:
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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