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Amazon Rumored To Be Working On A $99 7-Inch Kindle Fire HD — How low will Amazon's tablets go? We're now hearing that a $99 Kindle Fire 7″ tablet is in production, and will be shipping this year. At a price that low, the Kindle Fire would be able to more easily compete at the tail end … | Business Insider: |
Amazon On The $99 Kindle Fire HD Tablet: 'It's Not Happening' — So much for all that! — Amazon is not doing a $99 Kindle Fire HD tablet, a company spokesperson tells us: “It's not happening—we are already at the lowest price points possible for that hardware.”
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TechHive, digitaltrends.com, GeekWire, Ars Technica, 9to5Mac, 9to5Google, Softpedia News and iDownloadBlog.com. Tweets: @stevekovach
| Jessica Wohl / Reuters: |
Walmart adds iPhone scan-and-checkout feature to 12 more markets — (Reuters) - Wal-Mart Stores Inc said it is tripling the number of U.S. stores in a pilot program that lets shoppers scan items with their iPhones and pay at self-checkout counters. — Walmart's “Scan & Go” … | Colleen Taylor / TechCrunch: |
Pinterest Acquires Livestar, The Mobile Recommendation Startup Founded By Fritz Lanman — Pinterest said today it's acquired Livestar, the mobile recommendations app founded by noted Microsoft alum (and Square and Pinterest investor) Fritz Lanman. — Pinterest tells TechCrunch …
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CNET, The Verge and VentureBeat
| 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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Bloomberg, Business Insider, 9to5Mac, iMore, iPhone Hacks, iDownloadBlog.com and Fortune
| 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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Mobile Opportunity, Business Insider, iDownloadBlog.com, iPhone in Canada Blog, MacRumors, Forbes, CNET, Manton Reece, Business Insider, AppleInsider and Bloomberg
Tweets: @pkafka, @stevenlevy and @gassee
| Katherine Kuan / The Official Google Blog: |
Google Keep—Save what's on your mind — Every day we all see, hear or think of things we need to remember. Usually we grab a pad of sticky-notes, scribble a reminder and put it on the desk, the fridge or the relevant page of a magazine. Unfortunately, if you're like me you probably often discover …
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TechCrunch, Gizmodo, CNET, The Next Web, Engadget, Marketing Land, Android Police and Pocket-lint
| Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
Microsoft pokes at Samsung Galaxy S3 in high-profile Windows Phone ad — Microsoft is getting more aggressive in its attempt to drum up attention for Windows Phone. — The company announced today that it's planning to air the “Windows Phone Challenge” ad above starting this week during …
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TechHive, Pocket-lint, VentureBeat, Examiner, Gotta Be Mobile, CNET, The Verge, MobileSyrup.com and ValueWalk
| BBC: |
South Korea network attack ‘a computer virus’ — Staff at broadcaster YTN were faced with error messages on computer screens — Disruption that paralysed the computer networks of broadcasters and banks in South Korea appears to have been caused by a virus, an official close to the investigation has told the BBC.| 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?
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SplatF and SiliconANGLE. Tweets: @piercedavid, @stevekovach and @dujkan. Thanks:@sidharthdassani
| Robin Wauters / The Next Web: |
After getting booted from the Google Play store, Adblock Plus releases new Android app with automatic updates — Google recently started removing several ad-blocking applications from its mobile app marketplace, Google Play, claiming that they violate part (section 4.4) of its Developer Distribution Agreement.| Austin Carr / Fast Company: |
Starbucks's Shoddy Square Rollout Baffles Baristas, Confuses Customers — The Starbucks clerk was at a loss. I had just ordered a mocha Frappuccino and asked to pay with Square, a service that allows customers to purchase goods at the coffeehouse chain via their smartphone. “What?| Larry Dignan / ZDNet: |
Oracle's Q3 falls short, revenue misses mark; Hardware systems tank again — Summary: Oracle's fiscal third quarter misses on many fronts as revenue comes in way short of expectations. Hardware systems sales continue to fall. — Oracle's third quarter earnings had a big buildup …
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AllThingsD, Business Insider, Tech Trader Daily, TechCrunch and Yahoo! Finance
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Xbox ‘Durango’ leak claims console is ‘always connected,’ games must be installed to hard disk — Last month we heard rumors of an anti-used game system for Microsoft's next-generation ‘Durango’ Xbox console, but an additional leak this week appears to reinforce those claims.
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vgleaks.com, Ars Technica, Ars Technica, CNET, VentureBeat, DSLreports, WebProNews, ExtremeTech, WinBeta, TG Daily, VG247, Gearburn, Softpedia News, SlashGear, Gizmodo, Ubergizmo, Gotta Be Mobile, TechSpot, Neowin, Geek.com, Forbes, Redmond Pie and T3 News
| JP Mangalindan / Fortune: |
Klout launches business portal, is gunning for brands — The social scoring startup is making a play for business users with new enterprise features that begin rolling out today. — FORTUNE — Klout, the analytics startup that aims to measure users' influence across their social networks, is going after businesses.
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The Official Klout Blog, Marketing Land, ZDNet, GigaOM, AllThingsD and Mashable!. Thanks:@jpmanga
| Emil Protalinski / The Next Web: |
Yahoo acquires personalized recommendation startup Jybe, started by five former Yahoo employees — Yahoo on Wednesday announced it has acquired personalized recommendation company Jybe, which aimed to help people find new interests based on what's trending in their social circles.
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The Yahoo! Yodel, VatorNews, Search Engine Land, PC Magazine, Associated Press, CNET, ZDNet, GigaOM, AllThingsD, SiliconBeat, TechCrunch, VentureBeat, WebProNews and ValueWalk. Tweets: @marissamayer
| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
DRM Software Development Company Intertrust Files Lawsuit Against Apple for Patent Infringement — The Wall Street Journal reports that patent holding company Intertrust Technologies Corp. has filed suit against Apple, accusing the Cupertino-based company of infringing on 15 …
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Intertrust, Wall Street Journal, CNET, AllThingsD, AppleInsider, Forbes, The Next Web, GigaOM, Ars Technica, Reuters and iDownloadBlog.com
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H-P Board Faces Critical Vote — Autonomy Founder Calls for Evidence of Allegations Made Against U.K. Software Firm's Former Management — Hewlett-Packard Co. may see an unusual amount of fireworks at its annual shareholder meeting on Wednesday, with several board members facing opposition to their re-election.
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AllThingsD, AutonomyAccounts.org, NYT Bits, bizjournals, ZDNet, Guardian, Bloomberg and The Register. Tweets: @qthrul
| 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 … | 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.| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
Inside Oculus: a tour of virtual reality's would-be savior — A small California-based team is burning the midnight oil to put goggles on your head — On the fourth floor of a fourteen-story California skyscraper, a stone's throw from UC Irvine, a tiny startup named Oculus is trying to bring the idea of virtual reality back to life.
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Engadget and Laughing Squid
| Don Reisinger / CNET: |
Samsung lock screen flaw found; company working on fix — The flaw requires several steps to work, but would let someone run and interact with any app or widget, and access the settings menu. — A security researcher has revealed a method for accessing applications running on a locked Samsung handset.| Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web: |
New iPhone lock screen bypass bug found on iOS 6.1.3, but appears to only affect older devices — Another iPhone lock screen bypass bug has been discovered and this one affects the latest version of iOS: 6.1.3. This version was just released and contained a fix for vulnerabilities …
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iPhone in Canada Blog, VentureBeat, MacRumors, App Advice, iHackintosh and Omio
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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.
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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 …
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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 …
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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.
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“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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