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EXCLUSIVE: The real source of Apple device IDs leaked by Anonymous last week — BlueToad.com's CEO, Paul DeHart talks with NBC's Kerry Sanders about a security breach at the company. — NBC's Kerry Sanders — A small Florida publishing company says the million-record database …
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GoDaddy Outage Takes Down Millions Of Sites, Anonymous Member Claims Responsibility — According to many customers, sites hosted by major web host and domain registrar GoDaddy are down. According to the official GoDaddy Twitter account the company is aware of the issue and is working to resolve it.
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| Robert McMillan / Wired: |
Data Centers: Amid Outage, GoDaddy Moves DNS to Competitor VeriSign — Following a day-long Domain Name Service server outage, web hosting provider GoDaddy is letting its competitor, VeriSign, host its DNS servers. — On Monday afternoon — about four hours after it was knocked offline …
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Reid Hoffman: LinkedIn Got Better When Twitter Shut Us Off, Move Was “Partial Bulls**t” — LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman discussed the removal of Twitter's feeds from its product, even though it was not their decision. — Hoffman says at TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco that its product … | Kim-Mai Cutler / TechCrunch: |
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| Tricia Duryee / AllThingsD: |
Zynga Marketing Chief Jeff Karp Is the Latest to Exit — Jeff Karp, Zynga's chief marketing and revenue officer, is resigning from the social games company. — Karp is the latest in a string of executives who have left the company in what is becoming a widespread restructuring.
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| Jason Schreier / Kotaku: |
Valve Is Bringing Steam To Your TV Today. Watch Out, Consoles. — Today, Valve will launch the beta of Big Picture mode, a version of Steam designed for your television. That's right. The de facto central hub of PC gaming is now designed to run while you're lounging in your living room—and with a controller, no less.
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| Mark Suster / Both Sides of the Table: |
The Misstep of Quora and The Importance of Trust Amongst Your Community — You know the old saying about trust ... “It takes years to build and seconds to destroy.” — And once destroyed it is very difficult if not impossible to repair. You need to be the guardian of your own reputation.| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Instagram is coming to Windows Phone, spotted in Nokia video — Instagram, a popular photo sharing app for iOS and Android, is heading to Microsoft's Windows Phone operating system. We're hearing from sources familiar with Microsoft's Windows Phone plans that an Instagram app will be made available … | Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web: |
HP introduces new Apple iMac — Hewlett Packard has a long and rich history of innovation in Silicon Valley. As one of the first major computer companies to set down roots there, it has ties with nearly every maker to come after it, even Apple. Founder Steve Jobs famously contacted Bill Hewlett directly …
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Apple's Krall Leads Samsung Win in Jobs' Global Smartphone War — If Apple Inc. (AAPL)'s patent litigation is the “thermonuclear war” over smartphone technology and design that co-founder Steve Jobs pledged to his biographer, Noreen Krall is its field marshal.| Ernesto / TorrentFreak: |
Google Adds Pirate Bay Domains to Censorship List — There are certain words Google doesn't want you to see without explicitly searching for them. — Type in ‘peni...’ or ‘vagin...’ and the search giant leaves out the most obvious suggestions. This, despite the fact that these dictionary words …
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| Cade Metz / Wired: |
Mystery Google Device Appears in Small-Town Iowa — Photos of the mystery computing device appeared on the web in late February. Taken with a smartphone, they were a bit washed out and a little blurry in places, but you could easily read the name printed on the long, thin piece of hardware.| Sudeep Reddy / Real Time Economics: |
IPhone 5 Sales Could Offer Big Boost to GDP — The iPhone 5, which Apple Inc. plans to release this week, could get credit for something Congress, the White House and Federal Reserve have struggled to do: boost the U.S. economy in a measurable way. — Sales of the new iPhone could add between … | Eric Slivka / MacRumors: |
Production of 13-Inch Retina MacBook Pro and Updated iMacs Reportedly Ramping Up — Late last month, NPD DisplaySearch analyst Richard Shim reported that suppliers had begun production on 2560x1600 display panels destined for a 13-inch Retina MacBook Pro. The machine has been rumored to be launching in October.| Zack Whittaker / ZDNet: |
HP revises restructuring figures; now cutting 29,000 jobs — Summary: Computer maker HP will cut 29,000 jobs — an increase on its first estimate — as the firm continues to cut back on costs as it falls down the PC building market share rankings. — Zack Whittaker
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Nielsen: Majority Of Mobile U.S. Teens Now Own Smartphones — Nielsen announced in May that more than half of U.S. mobile owners now owned smartphones, and today that metric has grown again, going from 50.4% to 55.5%. But the more interesting figure in the firm's release of July 2012 data …
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| Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent: |
That was fast: Amazon is already discounting settling publishers' ebooks — Just four days after a federal judge approved the Department of Justice's settlement with HarperCollins, Hachette and Simon & Schuster for allegedly colluding with Apple to fix ebook prices, Amazon has already begun discounting HarperCollins ebooks.| Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: |
Dave Morin Says China Is Path's Second Biggest Country — Path CEO Dave Morin offered some updates on the company's growth while on-stage today at TechCrunch Disrupt. Version 2.0 of the journaling/personal networking app launched back in November, and Morin said the momentum from that launch has continued in recent months.
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| Michael Carney / PandoDaily: |
Y-Combinator Alum 42Floors Announces $5 Million Series A...Sorta — Y-Combinator Winter 2012 Alumni 42Floors set out to “hack commercial real estate...because searching for office space really, really sucks.” — Earlier today, the company posted a job listing to Y-Combinator news network … Thanks:@jasonfreedman
| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
Following controversies, Apple retail chief John Browett rallies troops ahead of ‘brilliant stuff’ in Q1 — Browett at an Apple Store opening (IFO Apple Store on Flickr) — John Browett, Apple's new Senior Vice President of Retail, has been the source of controversy in the Apple retail space as of late.
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| Farhad Manjoo / Slate: |
iPhone design: Documents from the Samsung trial reveal more than ever about Apple's secretive design process — New documents reveal how Apple really invented the iPhone. — Like many of Apple's inventions, the iPhone began not with a vision, but with a problem.
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