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Electronista:
Lenovo teases Pocket Yoga touchscreen netbook — (Updated with new photos) Lenovo this morning confirmed the existence of its mystery netbook by posting teaser images on its photo feed. The system is now called the Pocket Yoga and has both the ultra-wide, VAIO P-like display and leather-bound shell of leaked photos.
comScore:
comScore: Mobile Internet Becoming A Daily Activity For Many — Number of people accessing news and information on their mobile device more than doubles in a year. — comScore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, today reported that the number of people using …
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Timothy Prickett Morgan / The Register:
Cloudera floats commercial Hadoop distro — Open source for the Google wannabe — Face it: You want to launch your own Google and get your hands on some of that (easy?) internet money. Well, now's your chance to take a stab at it. — Today, a startup called Cloudera is launching …
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Ashlee Vance / Bits:
Bottling the Magic Behind Google and Facebook — Cloudera is the quintessential Silicon Valley story. — Three of the top engineers from Google, Yahoo and Facebook have teamed up with an ex-Oracle executive to tackle the problems inherent in quickly analyzing big piles of data.
Wall Street Journal:
Google Dealt Blow by Departure — Armstrong Known for Relationships with Big Advertisers — Tim Armstrong's departure from Google Inc. creates a new challenge for the search company in its ongoing effort to win business from big-brand advertisers. — Mr. Armstrong — a Google senior vice president …
Adam Satariano / Bloomberg:
Sony Pressured to Cut PlayStation Price as Developers Push More Wii Titles — Sony Corp. is under pressure from video-game publishers to cut the price of the PlayStation 3 console or risk seeing more development funds shift to Nintendo Co.'s Wii. — Sony, which has resisted calls for lower prices …
John Boudreau / Mercury News:
Apple to unveil next generation of iPhone software — Apple on Tuesday will give a peek at its latest tech tinkering for the iPhone. — “Get an advance preview of what we're building,” the Cupertino company announced in an e-mail to analysts and reporters last week.
Joe Wilcox / Microsoft Watch:
Operating Systems Don't Matter — Microsoft won't agree with that assertion, nor will Linux or Mac aficionados. I've blogged this topic a couples times past, either here or when I was a JupiterResearch analyst. I got to thinking more about the OS irrelevance topic because of a Friday blog post …
Richard / Electronic Frontier Foundation:
EFF Launches Search Tool for Uncovered Government Documents — San Francisco - In celebration of Sunshine Week, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) today launched a sophisticated search tool that allows the public to closely examine thousands of pages of documents the organization …
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Mr. Hulu Gets a New Gig: Former NBC Digital Boss George Kliavkoff Goes To Hearst — George Kliavkoff, who left his job as NBC Universal's chief digital officer last year, has a new, similar-sounding gig: He's going to work at at Hearst, where he'll run digital operations for entertainment head Scott Sassa.
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Ashlee Vance / New York Times:
Computer Makers Prepare to Stake Bigger Claim in Phones — The computer industry has hit upon its Next Big Thing. It is called a phone. — Emboldened by Apple's success with its iPhone, many PC makers and chip companies are charging into the mobile-phone business, promising new devices …
Chris Foresman / Ars Technica:
Apple holding back on web-based 3D graphics for the desktop — Apple has added 3D position and transform capabilities to WebKit, along with the 2D CSS-based transform abilities added some time ago. However, Apple allows access to these advanced 3D abilities only via Mobile Safari.
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Justin Smith / Inside Facebook:
Facebook Connect Brings New Opportunities for Engaging Interactions and Viral Growth to iPhone Apps — This weekend at SXSW in Austin, Facebook's Dave Morin announced the launch of Facebook Connect for iPhone. Now, iPhone app developers can integrate Facebook Connect natively into their apps …
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Music Ally
Doug Aamoth / CrunchGear:
MSI claims nine hour battery with Wind U110, adds ATI Radeon HD3200 GPU — MSI has made official the U110 “ECO” netbook with a promised battery life of up to nine hours. Specs are pretty similar to the standard Wind line - 1.6GHz CPU, 10-inch 1024×600 display, 160GB hard drive …
Luke Plunkett / Kotaku:
BioShock 2 Has Multiplayer — 99% of games on the market today have multiplayer. Bioshock, however, did not. It was geared towards a singleplayer experience. But the sequel? It'll have multiplayer. — At least, it will according to the latest issue of Game Informer.
Micah L. Sifry / techPresident:
Let Vivek Kundra Do His Job — In December 2007, the then-Chief Technology Officer of Washington, DC, Vivek Kundra, testified before a committee of the city council on “Theft and Fraud Prevention in District Government Agencies.” He focused on steps his office had taken to create “a culture of accountability and innovation.”
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Epicenter
Dave Chase / TechFlash:
Local media need dual business models, not dueling models — Dave Chase: I own and run a hyperlocal news site called SunValleyonline.com. While we've managed to be one of the few pureplay local Internet media ventures to eke out a profit, the financial returns aren't anything to write home about.
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Screenwerk
Rob Bushway / GottaBeMobile.com:
GBM InkShow: Motion Computing J3400 Rugged Slate Tablet PC, Part 1 — Motion Computing just announced their new J3400 Rugged Slate Tablet PC and we've got a two-part InkShow video series, as well as gobs of pictures to bring you. — In Part 1, I give a tour of the J3400 …
Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
AMD, Intel patent squabble intensifies — AMD said Monday that it has been notified by Intel that it is breaching a 2001 patent cross license agreement. — In a regulatory filing, AMD said Intel is alleging that the creation of the GlobalFoundries is a material breach of the patent pact.
Derrick Harris / GigaOM:
Will a Shift to Cloud Computing Create or Cut Jobs? — I don't often look to movies about beer for poignant macroeconomic commentary, but as February ended with an 8.1 percent unemployment rate (and rising), a line from “Strange Brew” struck me as particularly relevant.
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