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| Clare Jim / Reuters: |
Google to sell second-gen Nexus 7 tablet from July: sources — (Reuters) - Google Inc will launch a new version of its Nexus 7 tablet powered by Qualcomm Inc's Snapdragon processor around July, two sources told Reuters, as the software giant pushes deeper into the cut-price mobile hardware market.
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| Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica: |
New Nexus 7 reportedly gets Qualcomm chip, better screen, and lower price — Sources expect it in July, could be introduced at Google I/O in May. — Google and Asus' Nexus 7 tablet won us over quickly upon its release last year with its size, quality, and price, and while Google gave …
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| John Gruber / Daring Fireball: |
The Latest Apple Scuttlebutt — Smart thread on Branch. Two nuggets from yours truly: — What I've heard: iOS 7 is running behind, and engineers have been pulled from OS X 10.9 to work on it. (Let me know if you've heard this song before.) — Regarding Jony Ive and iOS …
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| Jason Costa / Twitter Developers: |
Mobile app deep-linking and new Cards — Twitter Cards are being used by more than 10,000 developers, mobile apps and websites to richly represent content on Twitter, including article summaries, user-posted photos, videos, songs, and more. Today, through those Cards …
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| Brendan Eich / The Mozilla Blog: |
Mozilla and Samsung Collaborate on Next Generation Web Browser Engine — Mozilla's mission is about advancing the Web as a platform for all. At Mozilla Research, we're supporting this mission by experimenting with what's next when it comes to the core technology powering the Web browser.
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| Lance Whitney / CNET: |
Safari jumps to 61 percent of mobile browser share — Apple's mobile browser saw a 6 percent leap in Web traffic last month, according to stats out today from Web tracker Net Applications. — Safari has won back some of the recent ground it lost to rival mobile browsers.
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| Bryan Bishop / The Verge: |
Google changes how it measures Android version adoption, sees uptick in Jelly Bean devices — Google routinely gives monthly numbers breaking out the adoption of various versions of Android, but the company has now changed the way it calculates those numbers — providing a distinctly different portrait … | Felix Salmon / Medium: |
The Bitcoin Bubble and the Future of Currency — A few days ago, the value of all the bitcoins in the world blew past $1 billion for the first time ever. That's an impressive achievement, for a purely virtual currency backed by no central bank or other authority.| Maria Bustillos / Elements: |
| David Greelish / TIME: |
An Interview with Computing Pioneer Alan Kay — Born in 1940, computer scientist Alan Curtis Kay is one of a handful of visionaries most responsible for the concepts which have propelled personal computing forward over the past thirty years — and surely the most quotable one.| Ki Mae Heussner / GigaOM: |
‘Linux of online learning’ gets stronger: edX and Stanford team up to build open source platform — In its mission to become the “Linux of online learning,” edX just got a powerful new partner. On Wednesday, the Harvard and MIT-backed non-profit is set to announce that it's teaming …
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| Max Slater-Robins / Neowin: |
Meet Gabriel Weinberg, the man taking on Google and Bing — In 1998, two college friends decided to build a method of analysing every website on the Internet to find the most relevant information when a user put in a small amount of text. Their names were Sergey Brin and Larry Page, and they had just founded Google.| Paul Lilly / Maximum PC: |
Seagate Now Shipping World's First 4TB Hard Drive with 1TB Platters — You could store over a million songs on Seagate's 4TB hard drive. — A representative for Seagate dropped us a note today to let us know the company is now shipping what it claims is the industry's first and only 4TB hard drive …
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| Alex Wilhelm / The Next Web: |
With expanding revenue and aggressive losses, SaaS firm Marketo files for a $75 million IPO — Today Marketo, a company that vends marketing automation tools to those engaged in advertising campaigns, today filed its S-1 form with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
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| Emil Protalinski / The Next Web: |
Following iPad release, Google rolls out free Android and iPhone versions of Quickoffice for Apps customers — Google on Wednesday announced the release of Quickoffice for Android and iPhone, available gratis for all its Apps for Business customers. If you fit the bill …
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| Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land: |
Yes, Google Says It's Having Problems Listing iTunes Preview Pages — Yes, it is harder to find pages to iTunes apps in Google. But no, the company says, it's not part of some nefarious plot. Rather, Google's having technical problems gathering iTunes Preview pages, an issue it's working to solve.
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| Jason Cipriani / CNET: |
Preview BlackBerry 10 on your iPhone, Android device — Get a brief preview of BlackBerry 10 using just your iPhone or Android browser. — There's been a lot of talk and attention regarding BlackBerry and its launch of BlackBerry 10. If all the hype has piqued your interest …
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| Ernesto / TorrentFreak: |
Verizon Asked to Share “Six Strikes” Alerts for BitTorrent Lawsuit — After years of negotiating and planning the “six strikes” copyright alert system finally went live in February. — While it's not as draconian as similar systems in France and New Zealand, one of the concerns …
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| Nick Arnott / Double Encore: |
What Apple's ‘Limit Ad Tracking’ Feature Actually Means to Users — Back in 2011, with the release of iOS 5, Apple deprecated the use of UDIDs by developers. A few months later they started rejecting apps that used a device's UDID without getting the user's permission.
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| Zack Whittaker / ZDNet: |
Cisco to buy Ubiquisys for $310M in femtocell tech boost — Summary: The networking giant is to snap up its fourth acquisition of the year with U.K.-based femtocell maker Ubiquisys, a maker of 3G and LTE small-cell technologies. — Zack Whittaker — Cisco this morning announced … | Leena Rao / TechCrunch: |
Readying For An IPO, Enterprise SaaS Integration Platform Mulesoft Raises $37M From NEA, Salesforce And Others — MuleSoft, an integration platform for connecting SaaS and enterprise applications in the cloud and on-premise, has raised $37 million led by NEA, with Salesforce.com …
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The Next Web, GigaOM, VentureBeat, AllThingsD, PandoDaily and MuleSoft
| BBC: |
Mobile phone celebrates 40th anniversary — The first mobile phone call was made 40 years ago today, on 3 April 1973. — Martin Cooper, a senior engineer at Motorola, called a rival colleague at another telecoms company and announced he was speaking from “a ‘real’ cellular telephone”.
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| Bloomberg: |
Verizon Denies Report That It's Considering a Bid for Vodafone — Verizon Communications Inc. (VZ) denied that it's considering a bid for Vodafone Group Plc (VOD), disputing a report that said it was discussing a plan with AT&T Inc. to make a joint offer for the U.K. carrier.
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| Rainey Reitman / Electronic Frontier Foundation: |
New California “Right to Know” Act Would Let Consumers Find Out Who Has Their Personal Data — And Get a Copy of It — Let's face it: most of us have no idea how companies are gathering and sharing our personal data. Colossal data brokers are sucking up personal facts about Americans from sources they refuse to disclose.
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