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Google Glasses Face Serious Hurdles, Augmented-Reality Experts Say — When Google officially unveiled Project Glass — the company's bid to develop Terminator-style augmented-reality glasses — we saw a provocative glimpse of the future. The video Google released yesterday showed us the point …
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| John Pavlus / Technology Review: |
An Expert's View on Google's Goggles — Mark Changizi, a neurobiologist and the author of The Vision Revolution, discusses Google's augmented-reality glasses. — Project Glass, the latest sci-fi concept to come out of Google's X Lab, has gotten a lot of attention online in the past 24 hours thanks …
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| Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch: |
Next Generation Of E-Ink Kindle To Sport New Front-Lit Screen — Living in Seattle, you tend to find yourself in the company of tech people all the time. With Microsoft, Amazon, Adobe, Google, and a dozen other major companies established in the area, it's never a surprise when you find …
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| Preston Gralla / Computerworld: |
Microsoft subsidizes developers up to $600,000 per Windows Phone app — How desperate is Microsoft to get developers to write apps for Windows Phone? The company is willing to subsidize them up to $600,000 per app. — With an estimated 70,000 apps available for Windows Phone …
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| Brian X. Chen / Bits: |
Why Is AT&T Releasing Nokia's Big Phone on Easter? — AT&T has said that the release of the Nokia Lumia 900 will be its biggest product introduction ever. But the phone is coming out on Easter Sunday, when some AT&T stores won't even be open. — Melissa Havel, a spokeswoman representing Microsoft … | Jordan Golson / MacRumors: |
AT&T Will Unlock Off-Contract iPhones Starting Sunday, April 8 — AT&T has announced it will begin unlocking customers' iPhones once their 2-year contracts have expired. The move will free up the currently-locked devices to use a micro-SIM from any carrier offering a network compatible with the device.
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| Dave McClure / 500 Startups: |
Scaling Venture Capital? We suck. We can do better. — I'm kind of embarrassed to call myself a Venture Capitalist. — In fact, most of us who call ourselves VCs should be too. — Why? Because MOST of us are hypocrites, and have NO idea what we're doing.| Roger Cheng / CNET: |
More HTC handsets with Beats headphones? Probably not — The Rezound will likely be the last HTC phone for a while to come bundled with Beats headphones. — (Credit: Josh Miller/CNET) — Don't expect HTC to pack Beats headphones or earbuds with the Evo 4G LTE — or any of its smartphones for the time being.
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| Gerry Shih / Reuters: |
Ex-Intel employee pleads guilty to theft charges — (Reuters) - A former Intel Corp employee who allegedly stole from the chipmaker documents worth hundreds of millions of dollars pleaded guilty on Friday to five counts of wire fraud. — Federal prosecutors in Boston had alleged that Biswamohan Pani …
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| Arik Hesseldahl / AllThingsD: |
What's This? A Mac Virus? No, Actually It's a Weakness in Java. — When a computer incident happens on Apple's Mac OS X, it's a headline-making event. When it happens on Windows, it's just another day. — That remains the reality, even after a bunch of media reports on how a vulnerability …
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Macworld, Bits, The Firewall and Ars Technica
| Jeff Barr / Amazon Web Services Blog: |
Amazon S3 - 905 Billion Objects and 650,000 Requests/Second — At the end of the first quarter of 2012, there were 905 billion objects in Amazon S3. We routinely handle 650,000 requests per second for those objects with occasional peaks substantially above that number. Here is the latest chart:| Farzad Mashhood / Austin American-Statesman: |
Travis County considers terms for Apple to receive up to $7.4 million in incentives — For Apple Inc. to receive up to $7.4 million in incentives from Travis County, the technology giant must promise to hire a percentage of “economically disadvantaged” local residents, county officials said Tuesday.
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Digital Media Wire, iDownloadBlog.com, Techie Buzz, AppleInsider, MacNN and Computerworld
| Janko Roettgers / GigaOM: |
Rdio is working on Pandora-like radio functionality — Nomen est omen for Rdio, the music subscription service founded by the inventors of Skype: Rdio is going to bring a Pandora-like radio functionality to its service, I was told by Rdio VP of Product Malthe Sigurdsson.
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