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Sprint bids: Dish's Ergen swings back at Softbank's Son
— The high-stakes bidding war for control of the third-largest U.S. wireless carrier is turning into a heated verbal joust. — In an interview with USA TODAY on Wednesday, Dish Network Chairman Charlie Ergen swung back at Japan's SoftBank …
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FAA to pilots: Turn off personal devices in the cockpit
— It's akin to not texting while driving, airline safety expert and former pilot John Cox says. … WASHINGTON — The Federal Aviation Administration is proposing to prohibit pilots from using personal wireless devices in the cockpit …
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Indoor map technology poses challenges, opportunities
— Digital cartographers view indoor space as an untapped but potentially lucrative field. — STORY HIGHLIGHTS — Start-ups and tech giants pursue varying solutions, but tapping Wi-Fi networks is most popular method
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U.S. consumers hesitant to make switch to Windows 8
— Most Windows users in the U.S. know about Windows 8 but few have immediate plans to upgrade to Microsoft's newest operating system. — Customers get a look at products at Microsoft's pop-up store in Manhattan in October.
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Voice mail in decline with rise of text, loss of patience
— Technology's ceaseless pursuit of efficiency appear to be claiming another victim: voice mail. — With the rise of texting, instant chat and transcription apps, more people are ditching the venerable tool that once revolutionized …
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From Airbnb to TaskRabbit to Zimride, sharing is becoming big business
— The nation is in a sharing mood — and start-ups are capitalizing on it. — Americans with heaps of stuff, skills and time are connecting online with tech-savvy and early adopters eager to share and rent homes …
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Beats Electronics acquires MOG music service
— Beats Electronics, the company best known for its Beats By Dr. Dre headphones, is acquiring the online music service MOG. — The parties did not disclose the terms of the acquisition, the first for the company co-founded by rapper and producer …
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Creative Artists Agency gets into celebrity tech start-ups
— When Matt Kozlov walks through the halls of the super-powerful Hollywood talent agency Creative Artists Agency each morning, he works alongside agents and managers for George Clooney, Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston. His job?
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Apple: iPad preorders sell out, demand ‘off the charts’
— If you are hoping to score a new iPad from Apple, you might have to wait. Apple's website shows March 19 as the earliest ship date for online orders of its popular tablet computer. And there is a limit of two per customer on the number of tablets that can preordered.
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Apple plans environmental audits of China suppliers
— HONG KONG - Apple has told a prominent Chinese environmental activist that it will soon launch independent environmental audits of at least two suppliers' factories in China, the activist said. — The audits come as Apple faces mounting criticism …
Featured Startup on Windows Phone - Digital Geek — You know how you are at the beach sometimes, listening to your portable listening device, jamming to some music and you realize, “Actually, at this moment …
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.
Hive 0.11, Stinger and SQL-Compatibility — The release of Hive 0.11 is exciting and represents a big step forward to delivery of Project Stinger and SQL-IN-Hadoop. There is still some work to be done however.
“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).