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Google Glass' awkward interactions parodied on ‘Saturday Night Live’ — Google Glass and its new approach to a constantly-connected lifestyle has already been the butt of a number of jokes, including Tumblr blogs devoted to showing how ridiculous the device can be.
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| Kara Swisher / Vanity Fair: |
Mark Zuckerberg and Kevin Systrom on What Really Happened When Facebook Bought Instagram — The sale of Instagram to Facebook for a cool billion in the spring of 2012 was the ultimate Silicon Valley fairy tale: 18 months from launch to offer. But, for co-founder and C.E.O. Kevin Systrom …
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| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
In 2013, the keys to Android are still held by the carriers — This year's flagships, the HTC One and Samsung Galaxy S4, are locked down — Just under two years ago, HTC's CEO responded to public pressure by making an equally public promise: “We will no longer be locking the bootloaders on our devices.”| Steven Musil / CNET: |
YouTube reportedly near launch of paid channel subscriptions — Video-sharing site could launch a paid content platform for some of its specialist video channels as early as this week, according to The Financial Times. — YouTube reportedly could launch its paid subscription service … | Dan Kaminsky / Wired: |
Let's Cut Through the Bitcoin Hype: A Hacker-Entrepreneur's Take — Bitcoin. Everybody's talking about it. What's true, and what's hype? Perhaps the only thing that's clear about Bitcoin is that it's not going away anytime soon. Who am I to say? I'm not an economist; I'm a hacker … | Dana Wollman / Engadget: |
HP redesigns its ProBook laptops for small businesses, prices start at $499 — Last fall, HP took a small step toward refreshing its ProBook business notebooks when it started offering some of them with AMD Trinity chips. Eight months later, it's time for a real makeover …
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| Brad Chacos / PC World: |
Amazon accidentally leaks world's first small-screen Windows 8 tablet — The first-ever small-screen Windows tablet made a brief appearance on Amazon.com today, before quickly being yanked from the online retailer's e-shelves. — While Acer was busy showing off a smattering …
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| Ken Yeung / The Next Web: |
LinkedIn is 10 years old today: Here's the story of how it changed the way we work — Today marks a historic moment for one of Silicon Valley's biggest and well-known companies. It has been a decade since LinkedIn was founded as a business-related social network and now it has grown … | Megan Geuss / Ars Technica: |
Tor Books says cutting DRM out of its e-books hasn't hurt business — Early this week, Tor Books, a subsidiary of Tom Doherty Associates and the world's leading publisher of science fiction, gave an update on how its decision to do away with Digital Rights Management (DRM) schemes has impacted the company.
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Techdirt, The Verge, Kindle Review, Good E-Reader, WebProNews and if:book
| Jim Edwards / Business Insider: |
How eBay Worked With The FBI To Put Its Top Affiliate Marketers In Prison — The knock at the door came at 7:03 a.m. — Shawn Hogan, the CEO of a successful online marketing company called Digital Point Solutions, was sitting on his sofa. He didn't immediately answer the door.
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AdExchanger, TechSpot, The Verge and Marketing Land
| Hannah Seligson / New York Times: |
Enstitute, an Alternative to College for a Digital Elite — JASMINE GAO, who is 19, just wasn't the classroom type. So instead of languishing in college, she dropped out after her freshman year. — Ms. Gao decided that she didn't want to continue studying at Baruch College, part of the City University of New York.
Tweets: @jessicalessin and @enstitute
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Debian 7.0 Wheezy released — After many months of constant development, the Debian project is proud to present its new stable version 7.0 (code name Wheezy). — This new version of Debian includes various interesting features such as multiarch support, several specific tools to deploy private clouds …
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