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| Seth Weintraub / 9to5Google: |
HUD Google Glasses are real and they are coming soon — We detailed the first information about the Google [x] Glasses project in December. … Since then, we have learned much more regarding Google's glasses... Our tipster has now seen a prototype and said it looks something like Oakley Thumps (below).| Andrew Ross Sorkin / DealBook: |
Those Millions on Facebook? Some May Not Actually Visit — On the first page of Facebook's prospectus for its sale of stock to the public, it pegs the number of its “monthly active users” at a whopping 845 million people. The social networking site arrives at an even more astounding number … | Eric Eldon / TechCrunch: |
Those Millions On Facebook? They Actually Visit, And It's Not A Huge Deal Anyway. — Traffic numbers provided by companies should always be questioned — I mean, of course each company is going to try to present the data in a way that makes them look as good as possible.
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| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Wolfram Alpha Pro democratizes data analysis: an in-depth look at the $4.99 a month service — On Wednesday, February 8th, Wolfram Alpha will be adding a new, “Pro” option to its already existing services. Priced at a very reasonable $4.99 a month ($2.99 for students) …
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| Jeff Barr / Amazon Web Services Blog: |
Amazon S3 Price Reduction — As you can tell from my recent post on Amazon S3 Growth for 2011, our customers are uploading new objects to Amazon S3 at an incredible rate. We continue to innovate on your behalf to drive down storage costs and pass along the resultant savings to you at every possible opportunity.
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Computerworld, GigaOM, ZDNet, All Things Distributed, SiliconFilter, eWeek, GeekWire and The Next Web
| Kasper Jade / AppleInsider: |
Halliburton to ditch BlackBerrys in corporate transition to Apple's iOS platform — Exclusive: In yet another blow to troubled Research in Motion, one of the world's largest energy service corporations — Halliburton — plans to phase out thousands of employee BlackBerrys in favor of advancing … | Josh Ong / AppleInsider: |
Apple intern's thesis leaks secret project to port Mac OS X to ARM processors — An academic paper written by a former Apple intern who now serves as a Core OS engineer at the company has revealed that it was working on a secret experiment to port Mac OS X Snow Leopard to the ARM architecture.
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| Vlad Savov / The Verge: |
BlackBerry App World stats: six million daily downloads, higher profitability than Android — Alec Saunders, RIM's VP for Developer Relations, used the BlackBerry DevCon Europe stage today to “bust a few myths” about the state of the BlackBerry app ecosystem.
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| John Gruber / Daring Fireball: |
New High-DPI UI Resources in 10.7.3 — Have you noticed that Safari's hovering-over-a-link pointing-finger cursor looks a little different in Mac OS X 10.7.3? It's not just that the finger is at a slightly different angle — it's a new UI resource that scales gracefully to larger sizes.
| Nathan Hurst / Gadget Lab: |
Best Buy Explains Its Leaked Apple HDTV Survey — The current Apple TV is a set-top box, so pundits are using the term iTV to denote a speculated Apple-branded HDTV. Photo: Jon Snyder/Wired.com — News and rumors suggest an Apple-branded HDTV is somewhere on the horizon, but it's hard to differentiate hard evidence from hype.
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| Chris Ziegler / The Verge: |
| Arnold Kim / MacRumors: |
Rogers and BCE Already Have the Apple iTV in Their Labs, Controlled with Voice and Hand Gestures — The Globe and Mail reports that Apple is actively seeking launch partnerships with Canada's Rogers Communications and BCE Inc. to offer their upcoming Apple TV.
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The Next Web, ITProPortal and iClarified
| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Yelp Ads Are Not A Rip-Off, You Pay To Seal The Deal — Yelp built its ad business by attracting users that know what they want, just not who to buy it from — exactly when ads are most effective. That's why I find today's VentureBeat piece by Rocky Agrawal titled “Yelp advertising … | Rocky Agrawal / VentureBeat: |
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| The Official Google Blog: |
What's your X? Amplifying technology moonshots — Last week, we ran an experiment. We hosted a gathering, called “Solve for X,” for experienced entrepreneurs, innovators and scientists from around the world. The event focused on proposing and discussing technological solutions to some of the world's greatest problems.| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
Vice President of iPhone and iPod Engineering David Tupman left Apple at the end of last year — Last year Apple saw the loss of many executives ranging from its OS X chief, iAd chief, and Global Security chief, and 2012 has started off with another leave: the departure Vice President David Tupman.
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| Steven Musil / CNET: |
Hackers wanted $50,000 to keep Symantec source code private — Symantec told a hacker group that it would pay $50,000 to keep the source code for some of the company's flagship security products off the Internet, the company confirmed to CNET this evening. — An e-mail exchange revealing …
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| Jeff Atwood / Coding Horror: |
Farewell Stack Exchange — I am no longer a part of Stack Exchange. — I still have much literal and figurative stock in the success of Stack Exchange, of course, but as of March 1st I will no longer be part of the day to day operations of the company, or the Stack Exchange sites, in any way.
| Matt Buchanan / Gizmodo: |
Designing Windows 8 or: How to Redesign a Religion — There are lot of hard jobs at Microsoft. Like the guy who collects Steve Ballmer's dry cleaning. But Sam Moreau just might have the hardest gig in Redmond. Or at least the most harrowing. Over the past five years … | Greg Sandoval / CNET: |
Redbox pays $100 million for NCR's Blockbuster Express — Redbox announced today that it has acquired the assets NCR's entertainment business for $100 million. — NCR is a company that specializes in retail kiosks and it began operating more than 10,000 Blockbluster Express DVD kiosks … | Aaron Souppouris / The Verge: |
Intel SSD 520 review roundup: too expensive — The first reviews of the Intel SSD 520 were published today, giving us a good idea of whether or not Intel's latest solid-state drive deserves to find its way into your next laptop, HTPC or gaming rig. — PC Perspective, Tech Report, AnandTech …
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Electronista, The Tech Report, PC Perspective, VR-Zone, The SSD Review, StorageReview.com, AnandTech, 9to5Mac, CNET, Engadget and Macworld
| T.C. Sottek / The Verge: |
SOPA and PIPA prompt Reddit, Mozilla, and 73 others to ask Congress to halt work on intellectual property laws — A coalition of 75 groups including Reddit, Mozilla, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Public Knowledge, Open Congress, and Human Rights Watch, have sent an open letter …
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Public Knowledge, The Huffington Post, TechCrunch, VentureBeat and Electronista
| Esther Dyson / TechPresident: |
Commentary: Is the Open Web Doomed? Open Your Eyes and Relax — We asked veteran technology writer and investor Esther Dyson, a longtime friend of Personal Democracy, for her thoughts on a current controversy: is the open web dying? —The Editors — I'm wading into an argument that I think may be overblown.
| Drew Olanoff / The Next Web: |
Google+ launches a developer page for its yet-to-exist developer ecosystem — One of the things that I'm not too fond of when it comes to the launch of Google+ thus far is the lack of a proper API for developers to create cool tools and uses for Google's social network.
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VentureBeat, Google+ Platform Blog, ReadWriteWeb and WebProNews
| Jack Purcher / Patently Apple: |
Apple's Macroscalar Architecture: Will it Take iOS to the Next Level? — The general consensus in the market today is that Apple's upcoming A6 quad core processor is to bring more performance to the 2012 iPad and iPhone. It's said that it will also preserve battery life due to a shift from a 40-nanometer to a 28-nanometer process.
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Softpedia News, MacRumors, RazorianFly, Electronista and O'Grady's PowerPage
| Tom Kaneshige / PC World: |
IPad 3: Predictions and Challenges From iFixit — Kyle Wiens of iFixit, a Web site that provides free repair manuals and advice forums, has been a reliable prognosticator of everything Apple. With the next iPad expected to come out in March, Wiens recently gazed into his crystal ball.
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