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Draw Something Loses 5M Users a Month After Zynga Purchase — We may be seeing the beginnings of a lesson as to why it's not always the best idea to buy your competition outright. Mobile giant Zynga's game development philosophy has always been, “If you can' beat 'em, buy 'em,” …
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| Kara Swisher / AllThingsD: |
They Shoot Yahoo CEOs, Don't They? But Not Without a Really Smoking Gun and a Much Stronger Board. — Earlier today, Yahoo's persistent thorn, activist shareholder Dan Loeb of Third Point poison-penned another letter to the board of the Silicon Valley Internet company …
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| Ernesto / TorrentFreak: |
BitTorrent Set To Rebrand Itself As Gyre? — A few days ago the latest uTorrent alpha release saw the light. — Among other things, the new version aims to make downloads even faster for users with high bandwidth connections. — But there was something else quite unique about the release.| Joel Rosenblatt / Bloomberg: |
Apple Must Face Lawsuit Over IPhone Data Collection Claims — Apple Inc. must face a lawsuit over claims it collected data from customers' iPhones while they used applications approved by the company, a judge ruled. — U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh in San Jose, California …
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| Kim Zetter / Wired: |
Everyone Has Been Hacked. Now What? — The attackers chose their moment well. — On Apr. 7, 2011, five days before Microsoft patched a critical zero-day vulnerability in Internet Explorer that had been publicly disclosed three months earlier on a security mailing list …
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| Ed Bott / ZDNet: |
If VLC can ship a free DVD player, why can't Microsoft? — Summary: Microsoft's decision to remove support for playing DVD movies in Windows 8 has caused some confusion. If the VLC media player can provide DVD support for free, why can't Microsoft? For starters, Microsoft isn't French.
| Emil Protalinski / ZDNet: |
Apple security blunder exposes Lion login passwords in clear text — Summary: With the latest Lion security update, Mac OS X 10.7.3, Apple has accidentally turned on a debug log file outside of the encrypted area that stores the user's password in clear text.
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| David Brooks / New York Times: |
The Campus Tsunami — Online education is not new. The University of Phoenix started its online degree program in 1989. Four million college students took at least one online class during the fall of 2007. — But, over the past few months, something has changed.
| John Biggs / TechCrunch: |
New Start Up CodeNow.Com Lets You Build And Test Code In Real Time, In Your Browser — Trying new APIs is tricky. You can spend hours setting things up, gaining permissions, and learning syntax before you even get to write one line of code. That's why CodeNow.com is cool.
Tweets: @stevecheney
| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
AT&T HTC One X bootloader denied official unlock solution due to ‘restrictions’ — Yesterday, MoDaCo noticed that the bootloader on the AT&T version of the HTC One X was locked and that HTC's online tool for unlocking it didn't work. We reached out to HTC on the matter … | Steven Troughton-Smith / High Caffeine Content: |
2007's pre-M3 version of Android; the Google Sooner — When Google first showed off Android, they showed it running on a device very similar to Blackberries or Nokia E-class devices of the time. This device was the Google Sooner - an OMAP850 device built by HTC, with no touchscreen or WiFi.| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
YC Price Guide Startup Priceonomics Raises $1.5M Seed From Andreessen Horowitz, SV Angel — How much should you pay for a used iPhone, TV, or bicycle? Spark Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, SV Angel and more think you need to know, so they've invested $1.5 million into Priceonomics, a Y Combinator winter 2012 startup.
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