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The real reason we're upset about Sparrow's acquisition — When the news hit that Sparrow has been acquired by Google, you could almost hear the collective sigh from those who use and love this wonderful iOS and Mac OS X email client. Many people (myself included) took to Twitter to voice …
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| Panos Tsimpoglou / IM.Everydaypanos: |
Shh.. Sparrow for Windows was just a few weeks away. — First of all, this is NOT a whining post. I just want to share some thoughts. — Almost a year ago I emailed Dom telling him I would love to do Sparrow for Windows. Begged really. He replied positively and a few days later … | Harry McCracken / Techland: |
Why Google or Facebook Buying Your Favorite Startup Means It's Probably Toast — When I learned this morning, via Twitter, that the small company behind Mac/iOS e-mail app Sparrow was being bought by Google, I almost didn't need to read the startup's announcement to know the upshot.
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| John Paczkowski / AllThingsD: |
Google Says Some Apple Inventions Are So Great They Ought to Be Shared — Patent wars, Apple CEO Tim Cook once said, are “a pain in the ass.” Few more so than the one the company is waging against Google's new Motorola Mobility division and the new argument the defendants are making around standards-essential patents (SEPs).
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| Anna Heim / The Next Web: |
Audio brand Beats buys back 25% of its own shares from HTC — Audio equipment brand Beats is buying back 25% of its shares from HTC, the smartphone manufacturer announced today. As you may know, the brand is best known for its “Beats by Dr. Dre” headphones.
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| Robert McMillan / Wired: |
Darpa Funds Hack Machine You'd Never Notice — PwnieExpress' all-new Power Pwn. All Images: PwnieExpress — If you saw this bad boy under your desk, would you say anything? — It may look like a surge protector, but it's really a remote access machine that corporations can use to test security and log into branch offices.
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| Lucas Atkins / N4BB: |
Siri-like Voice Commands on BlackBerry 10 Dev Alpha (Video) — Yesterday, Research In Motion released an OS update to the BlackBerry 10 Dev Alpha. While some were struggling with problems getting the new update installed, others were lucky enough to begin playing with the update and finding out all of the new features.
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The Verge, VentureBeat, MobileSyrup.com, PhoneArena, Engadget, Geek.com and TechnoBuffalo
| Colleen Taylor / TechCrunch: |
Instagram For The Web Coming Soon? Online ‘View Profile’ Link Spotted In The Wild — Instagram became a billion dollar company with a service that existed entirely within the realm of mobile apps. But it's looking like the social photo-sharing juggernaut may be about to unveil its own bridge to the web, too.
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| Stephany Nunneley / VG247: |
Uniloc files patent infringement suit against Mojang — Uniloc has filed a patent infringement suit against Mojang, in which the firm claims the Android version of Mindcraft (sic) uses claim 107 of patent #6,857,067 without its expressed permission. — The patent description is for a …
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Boing Boing, Joystiq, Kotaku, Geekosystem and Level Save
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| Todd Shields / Bloomberg: |
White House Advisers Tell Obama To Share Airwaves For Broadband — Federal agencies should share airwaves with commercial users to ease a shortage of frequencies and help meet surging demand from wireless smartphones and other mobile devices, a White House advisory panel said.
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Ars Technica, Hillicon Valley and GigaOM
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Microsoft fixes ‘big boobs’ coding gaffe — Microsoft is gearing up for the release of Windows 8 that will run on desktops, tablets and phones — Microsoft has swiftly fixed an embarrassing gaffe which saw a chunk of code labelled “big boobs”. — The hexadecimal string 0xB16B00B5 …
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| John Markoff / New York Times: |
Stanford and Venter Institute Simulate an Entire Organism With Software — STANFORD, Calif. — Scientists at Stanford University and the J. Craig Venter Institute have developed the first software simulation of an entire organism, a humble single-cell bacterium that lives in the human genital and respiratory tracts.
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