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Reeder Goes Free On The iPad & Mac Until Google Reader Shuts Down
— Reeder has long been our favorite newsreading app on the iPhone and iPad, but with Google Reader set to be discontinued on June 30th, the future of Reeder has been up in the air. Google Reader is the engine that drives Reeder …
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Tim Cook's Interview On NBC Rock Center With Brian Williams
— NBC Rock Center just aired its exclusive interview with Brian Williams and Apple CEO Tim Cook. In his first real TV interview, Cook was candid about his CEO role at Apple, the failure of iOS 6's Maps, the future of the Apple TV, and more.
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Apple's Messages Beta Program For OS X Lion Ends December 14th
— Apple has just sent out the following Email to OS X Lion users, alerting them that the Messages Beta program for OS X Lion will end on December 14th. Messages for Mac, originally launched as a beta application before the release …
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Tim Cook: Microsoft Surface Is Confusing Like A “Car That Flies And Floats”
— Apple CEO TIm Cook briefly touched on Microsoft's new Surface tablet during his company's earnings call today. When asked about the Surface, Cook admitted that he hasn't played with it yet, but it looks like “a compromised, confusing product.”
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Tweetie Maker Working On New iOS Game, Will Be Released Soon In The App Store
— Loren Brichter is about to release a mysterious iOS game. — You may not know Loren Brichter by name, but you know what he has made. After leaving Apple, Brichter originally became famous for Tweetie, an innovative Twitter client for the iPhone.
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Steve Jobs Vowed To Patent Everything Apple Invented After Being Stung By $100m iPod Fine [Report]
— Apple's overactive approach to defending its patents may sometimes make it look like one of the industry's biggest bullies, but you may be surprised to hear that the Cupertino used to patent hardly anything.
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Pandora Shares Down 18% After Apple Reportedly Working On Own Rival Service
— Ouch. Not that it's much of a surprise, but a little over twelve hours after The Wall Street Journal reported that Apple was going to create its own Pandora rival, prices of Pandora shares have tanked by over 18%.
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Bug In New Instagram Photo Map Exposes Your Private Photos To Android Users
— Yesterday, Instagram launched version 3.0 of their iOS and Android app. Along with some new UI improvements, the coolest thing about the update is the new Photo Maps feature which allows users …
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Skype For Windows 8 Is Way Ahead Of iPad Version Design-Wise
— Look! Skype managed to make a non-hideous version of its app. — Say what you like about Windows 8, but Microsoft seems to have knocked developers into line when it comes to interface design.
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Everything You Need To Know About The Apple vs Samsung Trial [Day 6]
— On the sixth day of the Samsung-Apple trial, deeply granular elements of each company's products continue to be mined for infringement claims. Testimony from industry experts focused on innovations present in scrolling …
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 …
Love, Magic, & APIs — I will confess, I am old enough to remember my GeoCities page. Don't hate. It was amazing, it was... this transformative moment in which I took real, actual information, and transformed it into something visible and memorable.
Getting the most out of business analytics — One of the most prevalent uses of Hadoop architecture by enterprises is to create business intelligence and analytics tools that can be leveraged to identify areas …
“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).