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Angry Birds Maker Releasing Third-Party Games Via ‘Rovio Stars’
— The Angry Birds franchise has been a major hit for Rovio, but now the Finnish game maker is branching out and will boost its game lineup with selections from third-party developers. — The effort, dubbed Rovio Stars …
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Amazon Launches Cloud Drive Photos App for iOS
— Heads up, snap-happy iPhone users. If you take a lot of photos on your phone, and they're starting to take up too much space, then Amazon has a solution for you. — The Web giant this week launched its Cloud Drive Photos app for iOS devices.
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Motorola Plans Stock Android Phones, Sized ‘Just Right’
— Motorola might be building my dream phone. Jim Wicks, Motorola's design chief, said the company's first round of products designed after Google's purchase of the company will follow a philosophy of “better is better” rather than …
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Bing Delivers Five Times as Many Malicious Websites as Google
— Searches on Bing returned five times more links to malicious websites than Google searches, according to an 18-month study from German independent testing lab AV-Test. Though search engines have worked to suppress malicious results …
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Samsung: Galaxy S4's Improvements Will Come to Galaxy S3
— The Samsung Galaxy S4 is officially upon us. The Korean phone giant took the wraps off its new 5-inch smartphone at a high-profile event in New York City tonight, and will release the Galaxy S4 in the second quarter on all four major U.S. carriers.
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BlackBerry, Windows Phone Still Lack Popular Apps
— BlackBerry 10 and Windows Phone 8 are still struggling to match the most popular apps on the dominant Android and iOS platforms, which could continue to slow sales of the smaller mobile platforms. — After looking at a list of 102 popular apps …
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Apple Maps Leads the Way in Navigation
— On Monday I had a meeting at Apple with podcaster Leo LaPorte, TWiT CEO Lisa Kentzell, and marketing guy Glenn Rubenstein. We were in three separate cars, each with a different navigation system, and we had several places to stop …
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Intel Tackles Big Data With Release of Apache Hadoop Platform
— Intel on Tuesday made a big play to provide organizations with an open-source, hardware-accelerated, and secure foundation for big data analysis with the announcement of the global availability of Intel Distribution for Apache Hadoop software.
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Report: Few Using Smart TVs to Full Capacity
— Smart TVs sound great in theory, but few people are actually getting the most out of their Internet-connected television sets, according to a new report from the NPD Group. — “The Internet-connected HDTV screen has so far failed to break beyond …
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December Returns to Android People App With 4.2.1 Update
— Google today confirmed that it is now rolling out a fix for an Android glitch that accidentally removed the month of December from the People app. — The problem affected those who upgraded to version 4.2 of Android Jelly Bean.
Announcing TypeScript 0.9: Generics and More — Anders Hejlsberg, Steve Lucco, and Luke Hoban join us for a conversation about TypeScript 0.9. TypeScript now has generics! (and more)
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 …
99.999 Is Not Enough: An OpenCloud Approach to Delivering Application Uptime and Performance — Executive Summary — The pressure to keep vital applications online and performing well is extreme.
University makes major investment in big data development — As news of the benefits provided by big data platforms such as Apache Hadoop spreads, more organizations are investing in the burgeoning technology.