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The HTC First: How Facebook's New Phone Ruins FairSearch's Competition Complaint Over Android
— Anti-Google lobbying group FairSearch lobbed an antitrust grenade at Google's Android operating system yesterday, complaining to the European Union that it violates competition laws.
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Facebook Home review: are people more important than apps?
— Facebook invades Android with a new lockscreen and a new chat experience — On April 12th, the much-vaunted Facebook Phone will arrive — but it's not a phone at all. Facebook Home, as its called, is a couple of pieces …
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HTC First review: Don't call it the Facebook phone
— Last week at Facebook headquarters, CEO and founder Mark Zuckerberg officially announced Facebook Home, a small suite of applications that users can install on their Android devices to essentially “Facebook-ize” their phones.
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Facebook's ‘Phone’ Is Another Triumph of Mediocrity
— Maybe you were hoping for something radically new and different from a Facebook phone. If so, Zuck just broke your heart. But so what. Facebook never does anything new. New doesn't matter in the blue.
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HTC First can revert to stock Android in lieu of Facebook Home (update)
— It looks like HTC's new “Facebook Phone,” the First, runs stock Android. Phandroid reports that the unadorned OS is lurking just beneath the surface, accessible either by resetting the default launcher or by disabling …
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The Facebook phone is not as dumb as I thought it was going to be.
— Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg speaks during an event at the company's headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif., Thursday, April 4, 2013. — People have been waiting for the Facebook Phone for years. Not real people, mind you, just technology reporters.
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Facebook Phone Leak Points To Budget HTC Device, Homescreen App For All Androids
— Facebook's new “Home” on Android will debut on a mediocre HTC handset codenamed “Myst” but will be available on standard Android phones, according to an autopsy of a leaked developer build of the Facebook “phone” software scored by Android Police.
Defrag Tools: WPT - Command Line — Andrew Richards, Chad Beeder, and Larry Larsen continue walking you through the Windows Performance Toolkit (WPT).
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 …
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 …
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.
“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).