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| John Gruber / Daring Fireball: |
Exhibit A in the Case That Newly-Hired Apple VP of Technology Kevin Lynch Is a Bozo, a Bad Hire — He wrote this, just three years ago: … Well, how'd that work out? Those companies and platforms are now either (a) out of business, (b) on the verge of going out of business, or (c) have abandoned Flash Player entirely.
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GamesIndustry International. Tweets: @davewiner, @counternotions, @stshank, @stevenlevy, @spencerchen and @anildash
| Daniel Eran Dilger / AppleInsider: |
Why did Apple hire Adobe CTO Kevin Lynch? — Just hours after word leaked that Apple had poached Adobe's chief technology officer, the Internet is ablaze with the question of what, exactly, the iPhone maker plans to do with Kevin Lynch. — Source: Adobe — No Flash in the pan
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| Wall Street Journal: |
U.S. Probes Microsoft, Partners Over Bribery Claims — Federal regulators are investigating Microsoft Corp.'s relationship with business partners that allegedly bribed foreign government officials in return for software contracts, according to people familiar with the matter.
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CNET, Computerworld, The Register, Engadget, VentureBeat and Hillicon Valley
| John Frank / TechNet Blogs: |
Our Commitment to Compliance — Today, the Wall Street Journal reported that the U.S. government is reviewing allegations that Microsoft business partners in three countries may have engaged in illegal activity, and if they did, whether Microsoft played any role in these alleged incidents.
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Yahoo in Talks to Buy Stake in Video Site Dailymotion — Yahoo Inc. is in talks to buy a controlling stake in France Telecom SA's online-video site Dailymotion, according to people familiar with the talks, in what would be Yahoo Chief Executive Marissa Mayer's first major acquisition since taking over the Internet pioneer last year.
| Greg Sandoval / The Verge: |
Amazon in talks with record labels about subscription music service — Subscription music is all the rage with the big Web music stores — Subscription music services have yet to profit but that hasn't stopped some of the internet's biggest media distributors from jumping into the business.
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GeekWire, CNET and Pocket-lint
| Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: |
ReadWrite Editor-In-Chief Dan Lyons, A.K.A. Fake Steve Jobs, Is Leaving For Hubspot — Dan Lyons, the editor-in-chief at tech blog ReadWrite, is leaving for a position at marketing software company Hubspot. We heard the news from knowledgeable sources, and the part about Lyons' departure …
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| Charles Arthur / Guardian: |
BlackBerry software ruled not safe enough for essential government work — Computer Experts Security Group rejects BB10 software in new Z10 handset, dealing blow to Canadian firm in key market — BlackBerry's new BB10 software has been rejected by the British government as not secure enough …
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| Adrianne Jeffries / The Verge: |
Disconnect: why Andy Rubin and Android called it quits — Rubin created Google's mobile operating system and outgunned the iPhone. So why is he moving on after almost a decade at the helm?Thanks:@sidharthdassani
| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
Twitter gets a patent on... Twitter — Although Twitter famously has a pending patent on the familiar “pull-to-refresh” gesture, the company may have just acquired something more valuable: a patent on the Twitter messaging service itself. The new patent issued today with Twitter founders Jack Dorsey …
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| Agence France Presse: |
S. Korean TV networks, banks report cyber attack — SEOUL — The South Korean military sounded a possible high-level cyber attack alert Wednesday after computer networks crashed at major broadcasters and banks, with initial suspicions focused on North Korea.
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| Tom Vanderbilt / Wired: |
The Nielsen Family Is Dead — From Game of Thrones to the new Arrested Development, television is better than ever. And it's not just a lucky accident. Turns out that networks and advertisers are using all-new metrics to design hit shows. Under these new rules, Twitter feeds are as important … | Lauren Goode / AllThingsD: |
Jawbone Takes Next Step in Fitness-Tracking Race, Launches UP for Android — Four months after its re-launch on iPhone, the Jawbone UP activity tracker is finally coming to Android. — The Jawbone UP wristband and compatible mobile app will now work the with the Samsung Galaxy SII …
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TechCrunch, digitaltrends.com, VentureBeat, CNET, Gearburn, The Next Web, TechHive, ZDNet, Gizmodo and The Verge
| Josh Ong / The Next Web: |
Google's NCAA bracket demonstrates how far it has strayed from its original promise — Once upon a time, Google was the best search engine in the land. It cut through all the other Web portal noise to just give you plain results. Along the way, Google realized that there are actually nice benefits … | Amir Efrati / Wall Street Journal: |
Google to Offer Internet Service in Olathe, Kansas — Google Inc. said Tuesday it would offer high-speed Internet service in the city of Olathe, Kan., a Kansas City suburb with around 125,000 residents. — The plan marks the first expansion of Google Fiber, an Internet and video service …
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| Eric Schmidt / Times of India: |
Which internet will India choose? — We are living in an unparalleled time for technological progress. In 10 years, it will be almost impossible to describe to any child in India what life was like before the internet. — Only about two billion of the world's seven billion people …
| Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent: |
Amazon launches “Send to Kindle” button for web publishers and WordPress blogs — Amazon is now allowing publishers to add “Send to Kindle” buttons to their websites and WordPress blogs, the company announced on the Kindle blog Tuesday. It can be integrated into WordPress blogs as well.
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Kindle Post US, Softpedia News, The Verge and TechCrunch
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft tempts Windows developers with $100 cash for new apps — Microsoft wants Windows 8 and Windows Phone developers to create apps for its platforms, and it's tempting them by offering up hard cash. In a new US marketing effort, Microsoft is offering developers $100 per app … | Jon Fingas / Engadget: |
T-Mobile ‘UnCarrier’ plans possibly leaked, make unlimited talk and text a given (updated) — T-Mobile made much ado at CES of its desire to become the “UnCarrier,” with steps away from subsidies and the usual complexities of smartphones. Thanks to tipsters, we have a better sense of what the provider meant.
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PhoneArena, CNET and The Verge
| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Microsoft confirms ‘high-profile’ employee Xbox Live accounts hacked — The hack used SSNs in a “stringed social engineering” attack involving another company — As more of the story about the simultaneous cyber attack and real-world “Swatting” carried out against security researcher Brian Krebs comes …
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Computerworld, VG247, GamesIndustry International, Daily Dot and Boing Boing
| Frank Konkel / Federal Computer Week: |
Sources: Amazon and CIA ink cloud deal — In a move sure to send ripples through the federal IT community, FCW has learned that the CIA has agreed to a cloud computing contract with electronic commerce giant Amazon, worth up to $600 million over 10 years. — Amazon Web Services will help …
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Business Insider, Ars Technica, TechSpot, Network World, The Register, ValueWalk, CNET, GigaOM and GeekWire
Tweets: @joemoreno, @davewiner and @benkepes
| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Cisco switches to weaker hashing scheme, passwords cracked wide open — Password cracking experts have reversed a secret cryptographic formula recently added to Cisco devices. Ironically, the encryption type 4 algorithm leaves users considerably more susceptible to password cracking …
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| Shara Tibken / CNET: |
Nvidia CEO unveils next two gens of Tegra, dubbed Logan, Parker — Jen-Hsun Huang says the company's mobile chip will show 100-times improvement from the first generation to the fifth. — Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang today talked up the chipmaker's next two generations of mobile chip … | Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
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