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Java creator James Gosling: “Google totally slimed Sun” — Gosling said that Sun was “wronged” by Google, and that Oracle is right to sue Google for the way it used Java code in Android. — Follow @dbfarber — James Gosling speaks at JavaOne conference in San Francisco in May 2007.| Rachel King / CNET: |
Oracle: Google execs ‘knew this day would come’ — SAN FRANCISCO — Oracle made its closing statements during the first segment of the Oracle-Google trial this morning, and it all boils down to this: Google is making excuses for taking the property of Sun Microsystems — and now Oracle — and using it on Android.| Anil Dash: |
Why you can't trust tech press to teach you about the tech industry — If there were one lesson I'd want to impress upon people who are interested in succeeding in the technology industry, it would be, as I've said before, know your s**t. Know the discipline you're in …
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Digg's Tech Team Heads For the Washington Post, and Digg Looks for a Lifeline — Digg isn't done. Yet. — But it's looking pretty close. The Washington Post is in the process of buying/hiring the news aggregators' technology team, but isn't purchasing the business itself …
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The Pirate Bay must be blocked by UK ISPs, court rules — The Pirate Bay is hosted in Sweden, where it has an active supporter base — File-sharing site The Pirate Bay must be blocked by UK internet service providers, the High Court has ruled. — The Swedish website hosts links to download mostly-pirated free music and video.
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Data Engineer in Google Case Is Identified — At the center of the uproar over a Google project that scooped up personal data from potentially millions of unsuspecting people is the company software engineer who wrote the code. — Google has declined to identify the engineer, as has the Federal Communications Commission.| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
B&N 8-K: Microsoft Paying $180M Advance On Nook For Windows 8, $125M For Content, Tech Acquisition — Microsoft really wants to make sure it can compete against Amazon and Apple in the e-books space — and it's putting its money where its mouth is. In addition to the $300 million Microsoft …
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| Nathan Ingraham / The Verge: |
Verizon launches $80 prepaid plan with 1GB of data and unlimited talk / text, plus a prepaid MiFi hotspot — Verizon's looking to put some pressure on the prepaid carriers of the world — the company just announced a new $80 prepaid plan that offers unlimited calling, texting, and 1GB of data.
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| Burt Helm / Inc.com: |
Turntable.fm: Where Did Our Love Go? — The partners behind a one-time “next big thing” go to South by Southwest to win back the adoration of the tech world—and figure out how to make their partnership work. — Last summer, Turntable.fm set techie hearts pounding: Billy Chasen and Seth Goldstein …
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| Tomio Geron / Social Markets: |
Top Startup Incubators And Accelerators: Y Combinator Tops With $7.8 Billion In Value — Incubators have become an increasingly important part of the tech startup scene in recent years. — A number of hot startups have emerged from these programs, encouraging more new entrepreneurs to apply.
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Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg Reveal a New Tool on Facebook that Could Save Lives in Exclusive Interviews with ABC's Robin Roberts and Diane Sawyer — Zuckerberg Interview to Air on “Good Morning America” and Sandberg Interview to Air on “World News with Diane Sawyer” Tuesday, May 1, 2012| Peter Ha / TechCrunch: |
Hands-On With the Jawbone Big Jambox: 2.7 Pounds of Audio Fury, Available May 15 for $299 — Bigger isn't necessarily better but in the case of Jawbone's Jambox, it might actually work out. Typically known for their Bluetooth headsets and the ill-fated-but-not-quite-dead UP band …
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| Jeremy Kirk / Computerworld: |
Skype investigates tool that reveals users' IP addresses — Skype said Tuesday it is investigating a new tool that collects a person's last known IP address, a potential privacy-compromising issue. — Skype said Tuesday it is investigating a new tool that collects a person's last known IP address …
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Confirmed: Schultz and Efrusy to Leave Groupon Board; “Accounting Types” Joining — According to sources close to the situation, Starbucks Chairman and CEO Howard Schultz and Accel Partners' Kevin Efrusy will be stepping down from the board of Groupon. — Schultz's departure will be effective today … | Colleen Taylor / TechCrunch: |
Socialcam Nabs Angel Funding From The A-List: Yuri Milner, Tim Draper, Laurene Powell Jobs, And More — The race to be the “Instagram for video” is hotter than ever, and Socialcam, the app that spun out of video sharing pioneer Justin.tv last year and was part of Y Combinator's winter 2012 class, is hustling hard for the lead.| Mor Naaman / GigaOM: |
Apple squared, (four)squared — I was down in Soho last week, visiting (of course) the new Manhattan REI store. After the shopping spree, I pulled out my iPhone and found a dinner recommendation on Explore: five of my friends had eaten at La Esquina, several of them more than once. Bingo.
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Rumor: Hulu Will Soon Require Viewers To Have A Cable Subscription [Update: It'll Happen, But Not “Soon"] — If you love watching TV shows on Hulu but don't have a cable subscription, things could get a bit more complicated in the near future. According to the New York Post …
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Exclusive: Violin Memory Boosts Latest Funding Round to $80 Million — Last month AllThingsD reported that Violin Memory, the flash memory technology start-up, had raised $50 million in a Series D round at an implied valuation of more than $800 million. — That funding round, I've since learned …
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Google Sued by Pension Fund Over Proposed Stock Split — Google Inc. (GOOG), the world's largest Web-search provider, was sued by a Massachusetts city's pension fund claiming the company's planned stock split would unfairly create nonvoting shares. — The Brockton Retirement Board contends …
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| Paul Miller / The Verge: |
I'm leaving the internet for a year — At midnight tonight I will leave the internet. I'm abandoning one of my “top 5” technological innovations of all time for a little peace and quiet. If I can survive the separation, I'm going to do this for a year. Yeah, I'm serious.
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WebProNews. Tweets: @jsnell, @blam, @zpower, @jyarow, @joannastern, @theromit, @jyarow and @futurepaul
| David Kushner / New Yorker: |
George Hotz, Sony, and the Anonymous Hacker Wars — In the summer of 2007, Apple released the iPhone, in an exclusive partnership with A.T. & T. George Hotz, a seventeen-year-old from Glen Rock, New Jersey, was a T-Mobile subscriber. He wanted an iPhone, but he also wanted to make calls using …
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Computerworld, msnbc.com, Kotaku, iDownloadBlog.com, Betabeat, iPhone in Canada Blog, Redmond Pie, Gizmodo, The Verge and 9to5Mac
| Om Malik / GigaOM: |
Mobile data is growing, but voice & sms slowing — The iPhones, the Androids, the iPads and hot-spots — whatever the device might be, one thing is for sure: the demand for mobile broadband is continuing to grow unabated. Two different reports, one from Akamai and another from Chetan Sharma show …
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