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| Nick Bilton / New York Times: |
“Hatching Twitter” excerpts depict a detached Jack Dorsey who later attempted to recast Twitter's history — All Is Fair in Love and Twitter — Right in the center of South Park, a large, grassy oval near San Francisco's financial district, there is a rinky-dink playground with slides …
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See also Mediagazer| Paul Thurrott / SuperSite for Windows: |
Windows Phone 8.1: 7-10 inch screens, no hardware back button, 77% API unity with Windows RT — Windows Phone 8.1 Rumors Emerge — Yes, we'll get a third Windows Phone 8 update first. Still.... While Windows Phone 8 GDR3 is right around the corner—and, yes, I'll be writing …
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| Peter Kafka / AllThingsD: |
Twitter Gets Its Strongest TV Tie-Up So Far, With an Ambitious Comcast Deal — Twitter has been trying to buddy up with the TV industry for the past few years. Now it has its biggest payoff yet: A far-reaching deal with Comcast that aims to turn the social network into a TV-watching service.
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| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
Facebook prepares major updates to iPhone apps as top engineer returns to Apple — Screenshots of upcoming Facebook Graph Search for iPhone update — Facebook is preparing a pair of major updates for its most popular iPhone applications, according to a source familiar with the apps.
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| Brian X. Chen / New York Times: |
T-Mobile to Make It Cheaper to Make Calls While Abroad — Cellphone plans are a little like languages: they don't always translate well in foreign countries. — Often, travelers have to pay an extra $100 to their provider to get any cell service abroad. Or they must sign up for a short-term plan …
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AllThingsD, LAPTOP Magazine, Engadget, TechCrunch, MacRumors and Electronista
| Daniel P. Howley / LAPTOP Magazine: |
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| Rohan Relan / TouchMarks: |
iPad Mini and iPad 4 top TouchMarks' touchscreen test ranking for most responsive tablets — TouchMarks II: Touchscreen Latencies in Flagship Tablets — In our last TouchMarks report, we looked at the touchscreen latencies of the flagship smartphones from different manufacturers.
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| Emil Protalinski / The Next Web: |
Gartner: PC shipments slip 8.6% to 80.3m units in Q3 2013, the lowest back-to-school quarter since 2008 — The PC market continues to fall spectacularly, seeing the sixth consecutive quarter of declining worldwide shipments as well as the lowest back-to-school quarter since 2008.
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IDC, Gartner, The Verge, Engadget, TechCrunch, PC World, AllThingsD, MacRumors, AppleInsider, BGR, Tech Trader Daily, ZDNet, MacNN and Electronista
| Kevin Michaluk / CrackBerry.com: |
Apparently a lot of that TAT (The Astonishing Tribe) talent left BlackBerry Sweden to start a new company called TOPP... When companies acquire other companies, it's usually for one or more of a few reasons, including: to grow market share (and take out a competitor a long the way), to acquire technology and/or to acquire talent.| Jon Fingas / Engadget: |
Archos GamePad 2 tablet gets official, ships to the US in Q4 for $200 — That was fast — just days after a retailer's leak, Archos has announced the GamePad 2. As hinted earlier, the second-generation gaming tablet is a big improvement over the original.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Flickr iOS 7 app now automatically uploads photos to your 1TB of free storage — Yahoo is updating its iOS 7 Flickr application today to let iPhone users automatically upload photos to the service. The latest version will save photos from an iPhone camera roll straight to Flickr in full resolution.
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| Tiernan Ray / Tech Trader Daily: |
HP: We've Been a Little Late to the Game, Admits Whitman; MSFT, INTC ‘Outright Competitors’ — Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) CEO Meg Whitman took to the podium this morning to address analysts at the annual financial meeting. — HP shares surged 6%, or $1.32, at $22.05, after Whitman remarked that revenue would …
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| Liz Gannes / AllThingsD: |
Here's What a Pinterest Ad Looks Like — Pinterest today started its preannounced test of “promoted pins,” a.k.a. the first-ever revenue-generating product for the company valued at $2.5 billion. — Well, not so fast on the revenue front. Pinterest CEO Ben Silbermann said in September …
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| Emil Protalinski / The Next Web: |
Google brings Mobile Backend Starter, its one-click deployable cloud backend for Android, to iOS — Google today launched Mobile Backend Starter for iOS, simplifying server-side development for app developers on Apple's mobile platform. Mobile Backend Starter is a Google App Engine application …
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| Bruce Schneier / Schneier on Security: |
NSA uses FOXACID system to select and serve exploits to predetermined targets — The NSA's New Risk Analysis — As I recently reported in the Guardian, the NSA has secret servers on the Internet that hack into other computers, codename FOXACID. These servers provide an excellent demonstration …
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| Jennifer Van Grove / CNET: |
Foursquare gives out unsolicited tips on iPhone — A new feature lets some members go about their lives, phone in pocket, and get alerts when the service finds something interesting for them to eat, see, or do nearby. — Foursquare is releasing a new version of its application for iPhone …
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Foursquare Blog, The Verge, MacRumors, PC Magazine, Macgasm, iDownloadBlog.com, GeekWire, App Advice, SlashGear, The Next Web and Engadget
| Greg Kumparak / TechCrunch: |
New Google Maps Regains Support For Multi-Destination Trips, Now Integrates Your Flights And Upcoming Events — The big, still-in-Beta Google Maps overhaul brought a bunch of new shiny stuff, from its new fullscreen interface to drastically improved public transportation integration.
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Google LatLong, The Next Web, PandoDaily, Gizmodo, 9to5Google and WebProNews
| Greg Sterling / Marketing Land: |
IAB: Mobile Revenues $3 Billion In 1H, 15 Percent Of Total — The IAB has just released its Q2 and first half 2013 revenue report. Total digital ad revenue in the US was roughly $20 billion. Search was the largest single category and mobile captured 15 percent of the overall total.
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IAB, Hillicon Valley, IAB, Search Engine Land, Ars Technica, Business Insider, AdExchanger, WebProNews and Forbes
| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
A GitHub For Musicians, GroupMe Founder's ‘Splice’ Aids Collaboration With Song Version Control — Music production can be a nightmare. If you don't save after every change, you can't go back, and it's tough for collaborators to know who tweaked what. Splice wants to redefine the musician workflow.| Caitlin Dewey / The Switch: |
Disney invents touchscreen that lets you feel textures — The company that brought you the first animated feature film and the multiplane camera may be at work on its most game-changing invention yet: Flat touchscreens that let you feel the shape and texture of pictured objects, almost like they were actually there.Sponsor Posts
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