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Twitter's new SDK Fabric represents an audacious plan to live inside every app — Twitter's Audacious Plan to Infiltrate All Your Apps — Twitter is releasing a new software development kit today at its developer's conference. It's called Fabric. It does lots of very pretty things …
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Thanks:@mat| Jeff Seibert / The Twitter Blog: |
Twitter introduces Fabric, an SDK for mobile developers — Introducing Fabric — Today at Flight, we announced Fabric, a modular mobile platform that makes it easy for developers to build great apps. — The Fabric platform is made of three modular kits that address some of the most common …
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Tweets: @joshconstine, @fabric and @mikeisaac
| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Twitter's Digits enables users of third-party apps to sign up using just their phone number — Inside Twitter's ambitious plan to kill the password — As he traveled the world last year as part of a user research project, Michael Ducker noticed a problem.
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| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Google aims to reinvent email with Inbox, a marriage of Gmail and Google Now, currently invite-only — Inbox is a total reinvention of email from Google — The new Gmail app from the Gmail team isn't technically just an email app, at least if you ask them.
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Tweets: @backlon and @harrymccracken
| John Gruber / Daring Fireball: |
iPad Air 2 is faster than 2011 MacBook Air, forges ahead of new iPhones on performance — The iPad Air 2 (And a Few Cursory Words Regarding the iPad Mini 3) — The relationship between the iPad and the iPhone, performance-wise, has been hard to predict.
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Tweets: @narenbalaji, @om and @asymco
| Walt Mossberg / Re/code: |
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| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
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TUAW, Tech.pinions, MacRumors, MacDailyNews, TIME, iMore, SlashGear, Mashable, Business Insider, Guardian, bgr.in and TechCrunch. Tweets: @jyarow
| Marton Dunai / Reuters: |
Hungary plans new tax on Internet traffic, public calls for rally — (Reuters) - Hungary plans to impose a new tax on Internet data transfers, a draft 2015 tax bill submitted to parliament late on Tuesday showed, in a move that could hit Internet and telecoms providers and their customers hard.
| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
New Microsoft Garage site invites public to test a wide range of app ideas — Microsoft today launched a new section on its website: The Microsoft Garage is designed to give the public early access to various projects the company is testing right now. The team is kicking off with a total …
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The Fire Hose, ReadWrite, The Verge, CNET, The Next Web, Windows Phone Central, PC World, Gigaom, WMPoweruser, 9to5Google, GeekWire, Gotta Be Mobile and ZDNet. Thanks:@epro
| Molly Wood / New York Times: |
Apple Pay: Seamless in Stores, but Quirky Online — AFTER I used Apple Pay for a day of shopping in stores, a few things became clear: The new payment system is convenient, problem-free and even fun. — The same can't be said for using Apple Pay to shop via apps on my phone or tablet.
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| Kelly Hodgkins / MacRumors: |
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| Maeve Duggan / Pew Internet: |
Pew survey: 40% of US internet users have experienced online harassment, 18% in severe form — Online Harassment — Summary of Findings — Harassment—from garden-variety name calling to more threatening behavior— is a common part of online life that colors the experiences of many web users.
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New York Times, USA Today, CNET, Wall Street Journal, PC Magazine, Tech Times, CIO.com, Associated Press, Poynter, Washington Post, The Verge and Business Insider. Tweets: @pewinternet
| Alex Kipman / The Official Microsoft Blog: |
Microsoft allows Kinect Apps in Windows Store for the first time, launches Kinect SDK 2.0 — Microsoft releases Kinect SDK 2.0 and new adapter kit — Today, we have some exciting news to share about the next chapter for Kinect. Our Windows SDK 2.0 is now available for the Kinect v2 sensors …
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GeekWire, PC World, Ubergizmo, The Next Web, The Verge, VentureBeat, ZDNet, SuperSite for Windows, Eurogamer.net, Windows Phone Central, High-Def Digest and The Fire Hose
Tweets: @kinectwindows and @brekelj
| Andrew Ross Sorkin / New York Times: |
IBM's increasing EPS in recent years only due to buybacks, no real revenue growth since 2008 — The Truth Hidden by IBM's Buybacks — For many years, the International Business Machines Corporation's earnings glided smoothly upward. Every quarter, IBM would report higher earnings per share.
Tweets: @infoarbitrage, @edwardnh, @andrewrsorkin, @froomkin, @rogerlmartin and @nilofer
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Groupon takes on Yelp with Pages: business listings with offers, news, reviews and more — Groupon Goes After Yelp And Google With Millions Of Individual Business Pages — Groupon today took one more step ahead in its bid to be a simple daily deals site, and more of a general go-to place …
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Re/code, Wall Street Journal, The Next Web, Groupon, Inc., GeekWire, Chicago Tribune and WebProNews
| Josh Lowensohn / The Verge: |
Homeboy is a $149 rechargeable low-power Wi-Fi security camera with a three month battery, on sale today — Homeboy is what happens when tiny security cameras hook up with magnets — The new $149 camera sticks to walls to watch your home — After having his home burglarized for a third time … | Chris Kanaracus / PC World: |
EMC buys controlling interest in VCE, its joint venture with Cisco — EMC has confirmed it will purchase the bulk of Cisco's stake in VCE, the companies' joint venture in converged infrastructure products. — News of the deal surfaced late Tuesday. The move means that VCE will become an EMC business …
| Romain Dillet / TechCrunch: |
MicroBlink's PhotoMath app solves math problems scanned in through your phone's camera — MicroBlink Launches PhotoMath To Solve Math Equations With A Phone — Imagine you are a 14-year-old kid again. You need to do this really difficult math exercise for tomorrow, but have no idea how to do it.
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| Paul Sawers / The Next Web: |
Barnes & Noble launches a 10.1-inch version of its Samsung Galaxy Tab 4 Nook tablet for $299.99 — Almost two months to the day since Barnes & Noble launched its Samsung-developed 7-inch Galaxy Tab 4 Nook tablet, a new larger-screen incarnation has now been unveiled.| Jon Russell / TechCrunch: |
Xiaomi Is Moving International Users' Data Out Of China Ahead Of Further Global Expansions — The past year has been an eventful one for Chinese phone-maker Xiaomi. The company's devices are now sold in seven countries in Asia, that's a big step up from Xiaomi's inception …
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| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft and IBM commit to providing their enterprise software to Azure, IBM clouds — Summary: Microsoft and IBM have forged a new alliance bringing more of IBM's enterprise software and services to Azure, and Microsoft's enterprise software to IBM's cloud platforms.
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