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Retina iPad Mini later, new Nexus 7 sooner — DisplaySearch — Small tablets are moving to very-high-resolution displays, like larger 10-inch class tablets have done in the last year or so. — An iPad Mini with an upgraded display could appear later in the third quarter or fourth quarter …
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Federal Judge Finds National Security Letters Unconstitutional, Bans Them — Ultra-secret national security letters that come with a gag order on the recipient are an unconstitutional impingement on free speech, a federal judge ruled Friday. — U.S. District Judge Susan Illston ordered … | TechCrunch: |
Mailbox Cost Dropbox Around $100 Million — Disrupt alumnus Dropbox made the second in a series of super-savvy, super-early stage acquisitions today, picking up hyped-up email management app Mailbox in an acquisition that we're calling “DropMail.” — We had been hearing that Mailbox was raising money …
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Apple sued by THX for allegedly misusing patented speaker tech in iPhone, iPad and iMac — THX, the sound innovation company founded by George Lucas, filed suit against Apple in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California on Thursday, claiming that various models of the iPhone …
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Facebook Brings Down The Hammer Again: Cuts Off MessageMe's Access To Its Social Graph — MessageMe, an app that launched last week and raced up the charts to the #2 spot in social networking in the U.S., is confronting Facebook's touchiness around access to its social graph.| Slate: |
The Google Graveyard — It's hard to lose a loved one, especially if that loved one is a Google service. That's why we're opening the gates of the Google Graveyard, a virtual space for grieving. Buried in these hallowed grounds are some of Google's ill-fated services.
Tweets: @carnage4life
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Matthew Keys' legal defense in face of hacking indictment: He was an undercover journalist — When Reuters now-suspended deputy social media editor Matthew Keys was indicted over allegedly helping members of Anonymous deface the LA Times, using credentials that he provided, it was a surprise.| Dan Primack / Fortune: |
ZipCar CEO resigns, hours after Avis acquisition — ZipCar CEO resigns, just hours after company is acquired. — FORTUNE — Well, that didn't take long. — Avis Budget Group (CAR) announced after market close yesterday that it had completed its $500 million acquisition of car-sharing company ZipCar …
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Uber black towncar drivers strike in San Francisco over compensation terms and treatment — A number of Uber drivers of their ‘Black Car’ service are striking this afternoon in the SOMA neighborhood of San Francisco. Those drivers participating have parked in front of Uber's headquarters.
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Security blogger Brian Krebs suffers simultaneous cyber attack, police raid — Brian Krebs, an influential cyber security blogger previously with The Washington Post who now runs his own blog Krebs on Security, suffered a simultaneous denial of service (DDoS) attack on his website …
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Krebs on Security, PC World, Softpedia News, CNET and The State of Security
Tweets: @briankrebs and @briankrebs
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Google Acquires Web Application Server Talaria To Enhance Its Cloud Platform — Talaria, a company that was building a “new, dynamic web application server with a JIT-based runtime at its heart,” just announced that it has been acquired by Google. The Talaria team will become part of the Google Cloud Platform team.
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Facebook Names Mike Schroepfer CTO — Facebook named Mike Schroepfer as the company's chief technical officer on Friday, rounding out the company's C-Suite of executives and elevating him from his former position of VP of engineering at the social giant. — “Mike Schroepfer's new designation …
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TechCrunch, CNET, GeekWire, Wired, Inside Facebook, Business Insider, The Next Web, ZDNet, VentureBeat, GigaOM, AllFacebook and WebProNews. Tweets: @mikeisaac
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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:
DevOps: Improved Productivity, Higher Value — Those of us who have been aligned with DevOps for some time already know that the greater agility and closer collaboration it enables deliver real business value for our organizations.
DevOps: Improved Productivity, Higher Value — Those of us who have been aligned with DevOps for some time already know that the greater agility and closer collaboration it enables deliver real business value for our organizations.
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Get Started with Hadoop on Hortonworks Data Platform 1.1 for Windows — We are excited to release the Hortonworks Data Platform 1.1 for Windows as a Generally Available product.
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Skype in the browser — Whether you like the Skype app or not, until now, you've had no choice but to download something to make voice and video calls — either an app like Skype, or a Flash plugin (yikes) for your browser.
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