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| Mat Honan / Wired: |
Twitter's new SDK Fabric represents an audacious plan to live inside every app — Twitter's Audacious Plan to Infiltrate All Your Apps — Twitter is releasing a new software development kit today at its developer's conference. It's called Fabric. It does lots of very pretty things …
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Thanks:@mat| Jeff Seibert / The Twitter Blog: |
Twitter introduces Fabric, an SDK for mobile developers — Introducing Fabric — Today at Flight, we announced Fabric, a modular mobile platform that makes it easy for developers to build great apps. — The Fabric platform is made of three modular kits that address some of the most common …
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Tweets: @joshconstine, @fabric and @mikeisaac
| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Twitter's Digits enables users of third-party apps to sign up using just their phone number — Inside Twitter's ambitious plan to kill the password — As he traveled the world last year as part of a user research project, Michael Ducker noticed a problem.| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Google aims to reinvent email with Inbox, a marriage of Gmail and Google Now, currently invite-only — Inbox is a total reinvention of email from Google — The new Gmail app from the Gmail team isn't technically just an email app, at least if you ask them.
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| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
Hands On With Google Inbox: Useful Email Triage Tools For A Mobile Workflow — Google's Inbox email app is now available, and we have access to the limited release, which is being distributed via Google's tried-and-true invite system. While many will have to wait to check it out for themselves … | iFixit: |
iPad Air 2 Teardown — Step 1 — iPad Air 2 Teardown Just add air? That would be too easy. Apple has packaged all kinds of revised hardware into its thinnest tablet yet: Fully laminated, 9.7" IPS Multi-Touch LCD with a 2,048 x 1,536 resolution at 264 ppi and antireflective coating A8X 64-bit CPU … | John Gruber / Daring Fireball: |
iPad Air 2 is faster than 2011 MacBook Air, forges ahead of new iPhones on performance — The iPad Air 2 (And a Few Cursory Words Regarding the iPad Mini 3) — The relationship between the iPad and the iPhone, performance-wise, has been hard to predict.
| Maeve Duggan / Pew Internet: |
Pew survey: 40% of US internet users have experienced online harassment, 18% in severe form — Online Harassment — Summary of Findings — Harassment—from garden-variety name calling to more threatening behavior— is a common part of online life that colors the experiences of many web users.
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| Alex Kipman / The Official Microsoft Blog: |
Microsoft allows Kinect Apps in Windows Store for the first time, launches Kinect SDK 2.0 — Microsoft releases Kinect SDK 2.0 and new adapter kit — Today, we have some exciting news to share about the next chapter for Kinect. Our Windows SDK 2.0 is now available for the Kinect v2 sensors …
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Tweets: @kinectwindows and @brekelj
| Marton Dunai / Reuters: |
Hungary plans new tax on Internet traffic, public calls for rally — (Reuters) - Hungary plans to impose a new tax on Internet data transfers, a draft 2015 tax bill submitted to parliament late on Tuesday showed, in a move that could hit Internet and telecoms providers and their customers hard.
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| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
New Microsoft Garage site invites public to test a wide range of app ideas — Microsoft today launched a new section on its website: The Microsoft Garage is designed to give the public early access to various projects the company is testing right now. The team is kicking off with a total … | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Groupon takes on Yelp with Pages: business listings with offers, news, reviews and more — Groupon Goes After Yelp And Google With Millions Of Individual Business Pages — Groupon today took one more step ahead in its bid to be a simple daily deals site, and more of a general go-to place … | John Cook / GeekWire: |
Redfin buys walkability rating site Walk Score, its first aquisition, to give users more neighborhood information — Redfin buys Walk Score, marking first acquisition in company history — Seattle-based Redfin just stumbled on a deal in its backyard that was simply too good to pass up.
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| Roger Cheng / CNET: |
AT&T Q3 profit falls short even as it adds 2M wireless customers — The company's growth was driven largely by connected devices like the connected car, but also a healthy mix of smartphone and tablet growth. — AT&T reported strong customer growth even as its earnings came in just below expectations.
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| Denni Hu / Bloomberg: |
Yelp Q3 beats estimates with $102.5M revenue; shares down 16% on Q4 sales forecast — Yelp Falls as Fourth-Quarter Forecast Miss Estimates — Yelp Inc. (YELP) shares dropped as much as 16 percent in extended trading after the local-reviews company forecast fourth-quarter sales that fell short of analysts' estimates.
| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft and IBM commit to providing their enterprise software to Azure, IBM clouds — Summary: Microsoft and IBM have forged a new alliance bringing more of IBM's enterprise software and services to Azure, and Microsoft's enterprise software to IBM's cloud platforms.
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| Andrew Ross Sorkin / New York Times: |
IBM's increasing EPS in recent years only due to buybacks, no real revenue growth since 2008 — The Truth Hidden by IBM's Buybacks — For many years, the International Business Machines Corporation's earnings glided smoothly upward. Every quarter, IBM would report higher earnings per share.
Tweets: @froomkin
| Joan E. Solsman / CNET: |
Rhapsody revives CEO position after four-year absence, appoints mobile vet David Hose as interim chief — Rhapsody revives CEO position, hires mobile vet as interim chief — The streaming-music forefather, often overshadowed by flashier rivals like Spotify or Apple's Beats Music … Thanks:@benfoxrubin
| Tom Cheredar / VentureBeat: |
Roku raises $25 million amid growing competition from Amazon and Google — Updated at 1:45 p.m. PST with a statement from Roku. — Set-top box company Roku has secured a fresh $25 million round of funding, according to a SEC form D filing released today.| Chris Kanaracus / PC World: |
EMC buys controlling interest in VCE, its joint venture with Cisco — EMC has confirmed it will purchase the bulk of Cisco's stake in VCE, the companies' joint venture in converged infrastructure products. — News of the deal surfaced late Tuesday. The move means that VCE will become an EMC business …
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VCE, eWeek, Network World and ZDNet
| Jon Russell / TechCrunch: |
Xiaomi Is Moving International Users' Data Out Of China Ahead Of Further Global Expansions — The past year has been an eventful one for Chinese phone-maker Xiaomi. The company's devices are now sold in seven countries in Asia, that's a big step up from Xiaomi's inception …
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Engadget, Tech in Asia and Technology Personalized
| Molly Wood / New York Times: |
Apple Pay: Seamless in Stores, but Quirky Online — AFTER I used Apple Pay for a day of shopping in stores, a few things became clear: The new payment system is convenient, problem-free and even fun. — The same can't be said for using Apple Pay to shop via apps on my phone or tablet.
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