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Brett Ratner to Bring ‘Farmville’ Game to Television
… Director Brett Ratner will produce a half-hour animated television series based on Zynga's hugely popular social media game, “Farmville.” — Working with Canadian television production company Six Eleven Media, Ratner will serve …
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Ashton Kutcher's Steve Jobs Film Due in April
… The new film, “jOBS,” starring Ashton Kutcher as the late Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, will be released in April, Open Road Films and Five Star Feature films announced Thursday. — The release will come after “jOBS” premieres …
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What We Learned About Steve Jobs on ‘60 Minutes’
… Walter Isaacson, the author of the new authorized biography “Steve Jobs,” talked to Steve Kroft of “60 Minutes” about his book. — In the interview, Isaacson discussed how Jobs dealt with the pancreatic cancer that took his life …
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Steve Jobs Knew The End Was Near Weeks Ago, Says Coming Biography
— Steve Jobs knew that he was dying weeks before the end, according to a coming biography. — Walter Isaacson's book “Steve Jobs” is due out Nov. 21 from Simon & Schuster. Jobs died Wednesday at the age of 56.
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Google Employee No. 59 on Google+, Privacy and Why He Left
… Douglas Edwards joined Google in 1999 as employee No. 59, and lived through some of its early developmental steps, including the creation of the Google Doodle and Gmail. Something of an outsider in a culture dominated by engineers …
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Charlie Sheen Signs His First Twitter Sponsor: Internships.com
… Charlie Sheen scored his first Twitter sponsor on Monday: the online internship site Internships.com. — The “Two and a Half Men” star has signed a deal to post an endorsed message for Internships.com as part of efforts …
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Controversial ‘Duke Nukem Forever’ Will Finally Be Released
… “Duke Nukem Forever,” a video game synonymous with never being released, is finally being released. — The first person shooter about a space marine with a penchant for off-color humor who battles aliens with increasingly destructive weapons …
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Windows 8 Tips — Tips and tricks for Windows 8 users.
Want to Contribute to Cloud Foundry? Come on in! — Cloud Foundry is an Open Platform-as-a-Service, and an Open Source project. It has attracted phenomenal interest from the community - including partners …
How ImgPage Uploads 25 MB Photos to Cloud Files Using the Mailgun API — The team over at Mailgun just posted a Python tutorial written by Mailgun customer Paul Finn about how to use Python and the Mailgun API to upload large images to Cloud Files.
Week in Review: SQL IN Hadoop and Hive, Beyond Batch with YARN, NFS access to HDFS and HBase MTTR — Or as it's more commonly being called: Week-ish in Review. Let's recap on the latest - there's some juicy technology goodness here.
“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).