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Microsoft to launch Xbox original TV shows in June, has six series in pipeline — Microsoft Goes Hollywood in Amazon-Like Programming Push — Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) is going Hollywood with a cast including comedians Sarah Silverman and Seth Green, aspiring World Cup players and eerily human robots.| Liz Gannes / Re/code: |
The Six Juiciest Documents From the Apple-Samsung Trial This Week — Internal Apple document provided by Samsung — You'd think a corporate patent infringement battle would be boring — and you'd usually be right, even during the high-profile Round Two of Samsung versus Apple.
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Internal slides show why Apple needs a big iPhone: no growth for 4-inch phones costing $300+ — Why Apple has to make a bigger-screen iPhone 6, in its own confidential internal wording — There has been no shortage of rumors that the iPhone 6 will have a big screen ranging from 4.7-inches to over 5 inches.| Wall Street Journal: |
Yahoo, like Netflix and Amazon, looks to produce full half-hour TV comedies — Yahoo Makes New Push Into Video Production — Internet Company Hunts for Original Web-Series Programming — Yahoo Inc. is raising its ambitions in online video, with plans to acquire the kind of original programming …
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Microsoft's open sourcing of .Net: The back story — Summary: Microsoft's decision to open source more of its .Net platform didn't happen overnight, or even in the past few weeks. It was a move years in the making. — Microsoft's move to open source key chunks of its .Net platform …
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One big reason we lack Internet competition: Starting an ISP is really hard — Creating an ISP? You'll need millions of dollars, patience, and lots of lawyers. — There are probably many reasons that US households have so few choices for Internet service, but not least among them is the fact … | Megan Rose Dickey / Business Insider: |
How Techmeme Became The Must-Read News Site For Everyone In The Multibillion-Dollar Tech Industry — Over the past 10 years, the technology industry has evolved from photo-sharing websites like Flickr to photo-sharing apps like Instagram. — And, we suppose, there's been a few other changes along the way.
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Anti-tech protesters visit Kevin Rose's SF home, distribute leaflets calling him a “parasite” — My house was protested today by anti-tech folks, they had a large banner saying “Kevin Rose Parasite”, handed these to my neighbors:
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| Ashley Feinberg / Gizmodo: |
From Sexting to Sacraments: How Mobile Apps Are Taking on Religion — At this point, our entire lives could be boiled down into a series of apps. Schedules, diets, friends, family, play—it's all there in a set of brightly colored, easy-to-digest icons that have come to define the way we see ourselves.| Bloomberg: |
HTC Posts Second Loss in Three Quarters Ahead of M8 Smartphone — HTC Corp. (2498) posted its second loss in three quarters after sales at the Taiwanese maker of smartphones slowed ahead of the release of a new version of its mainstay One device. — First-quarter loss was NT$1.88 billion …
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| Larry Dignan / ZDNet: |
Teradata launches QueryGrid, one workflow for big, little data — Summary: The effort behind QueryGrid is part of Teradata's ongoing move to bridge the divide between data warehouses, the core of the company's business, with big data, which is likely to take analytic workloads.
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| Anand Lal Shimpi / AnandTech: |
Qualcomm's Snapdragon 808/810: 20nm High-End 64-bit SoCs with LTE Category 6/7 Support in 2015 — Today Qualcomm is rounding out its 64-bit family with the Snapdragon 808 and 810. Like the previous 64-bit announcements (Snapdragon 410, 610 and 615), the 808 and 810 leverage ARM's own CPU IP …
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