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| Mat Honan / Wired: |
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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Marketing Land, Gigaom, USA Today, ITworld.com, Mercury News, Tech Times, ReadWrite, Forbes, ZDNet, Mashable and The Next Web
Tweets: @29man, @christianhern, @mat, @stevesi, @carnage4life, @digiphile, @mattlynley and @mikeisaac
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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Flight, TechnoBuffalo, MobileSyrup.com, Mashable, CNET, New York Times, VatorNews, Re/code, VentureBeat, SlashGear, TechCrunch, Forbes, WebProNews and Seeking Alpha
Tweets: @mikeisaac, @joshconstine and @fabric
| Yoree Koh / Wall Street Journal: |
Behind Twitter's Move to Become a Mobile-Services Shop — Twitter is looking to have its Google moment, the time when the tech giant began pushing to become more than just an Internet search engine. — For Twitter, this means staking a claim on the mobile universe as smartphones …
Tweets: @rsarver, @rzkeller, @ethankurz, @sacca, @bewickwren, @thirdweil, @daiwaka and @scottmaustin
| 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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TechCrunch, PC World, ReadWrite, The Twitter Blog, Macworld, Phandroid, Ubergizmo, TechSpot, Washington Post, VentureBeat, Electronista, Guardian, Marketing Land, CrackBerry.com, Business Insider and Engadget. Tweets: @usabilitycounts
| Ben Thompson / stratechery: |
Google dominates search advertising but will likely be eclipsed in native ad category — Peak Google — Despite the hype about disruption, the truth is most tech giants, particularly platform providers, are not so much displaced as they are eclipsed. IBM, for example …
Tweets: @mdudas, @fmanjoo, @joshelman, @binarybits, @mikiszikszai, @theory, @cookie and @pkafka
| 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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New York Times, Gmail Blog, TechCrunch, Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Re/code, Daring Fireball, The Verge, Wired, The Technology Chronicles, The Next Web, ITworld.com, Washington Post, Gizmodo, Digital Trends, Mashable, TIME, Geek.com, The Daily Dot, Pocket-lint, Cult of Mac, TUAW, Gigaom, Ars Technica, Google Operating System, PC Magazine, TechSpot, Greenbot, App Advice, iDownloadBlog.com, CNET, Quartz, Electronista, Laughing Squid, TechnoBuffalo, VentureBeat, Phandroid, ZDNet, Marketing Land, Lifehacker, Pocketnow, WebProNews, Android Central, 9to5Mac, The Next Web, Droid Life, GSMArena Blog, Business Insider, Engadget, Gizmodo, Medium, Patently Apple, BetaNews, Seeking Alpha, EdSurge and VentureBeat
Tweets: @backlon and @harrymccracken
| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
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iPad Air 2 Teardown — Step 1 — iPad Air 2 Teardown Just add air? That would be too easy. Apple has packaged all kinds of revised hardware into its thinnest tablet yet: Fully laminated, 9.7" IPS Multi-Touch LCD with a 2,048 x 1,536 resolution at 264 ppi and antireflective coating A8X 64-bit CPU … | Marcus Wohlsen / Wired: |
Mark Zuckerberg gives 30-minute public interview in Chinese at Tsinghua University — Mark Zuckerberg Speaks Mandarin, Blows Everyone's Mind — Think you're too busy to learn another language? Well, you're not the CEO of a $205 billion company, and apparently, even this rather demanding …
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Facebook, VentureBeat, USA Today, The Next Web, New York Times, Quartz, PC Magazine, BuzzFeed, Silicon Valley Business …, Foreign Policy, Business Insider, Chinatopix, Mashable and TIME
Tweets: @fmanjoo, @fmanjoo, @mattzeitlin and @jamesfallows
| Dana Wollman / Engadget: |
iMac with Retina display review: A best-in-class screen makes it worth the high price — When Apple held one of its big keynotes last week, it was easy to think of it as “iPad day.” Sure enough, the company announced some upgraded tablets, but it was a desktop, of all things, that stole the show.| 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, Polygon, Wall Street Journal, Tech Times, PCMag Australia Feed, Associated Press, Network World, Poynter, Washington Post, The Verge, Joystiq and Business Insider
Tweets: @sarahkendzior and @pewinternet
| Jonathan Vanian / Gigaom: |
Illumio, exiting stealth, aims to secure both your data center and the cloud — Illumio acts like access management for computing workloads; users can run Illumio to ensure that the right workloads get transmitted to the appropriate servers, whether they are on the cloud or on bare metal.
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Wired, Tom Simonite, Financial Times, InformationWeek, eWeek and SiliconANGLE. Tweets: @stevesi
| Farhad Manjoo / New York Times: |
Apple Strengthens Pull of Its Orbit With Each Device — Late in 2012, when Tim Cook was relatively fresh on the job as Apple's chief executive, he made a sudden and potentially risky shuffle in the firm's executive ranks. He fired Scott Forstall, who had been in charge of Apple's mobile operating system … | Juan Carlos Perez / PC World: |
Windows 10 to get two-factor authentication built-in — Microsoft is continuing its crusade to get CIOs interested in Windows 10, touting new security features that include two-factor authentication built directly into the OS. — The effort to bake two-factor authentication into Windows 10 … | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Fitness Tracker Moov Raises $3 Million For Its Wearable A.I. Coach — The crowdfunded fitness tracker Moov, built by former Apple engineer and HALO game designer Nikola Hu, Microsoft Research vets Meng Li (now Moov CEO) and Tony Yuan, has raised $3 million in new funding in a Series A round led by Banyan Capital.
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PE Hub Blog, Crowdfund Insider, VatorNews, Business Insider and VentureBeat
| AppleInsider: |
Apple to drop SSL 3.0 support for push notifications on Oct. 29 due to POODLE vulnerability — In response to a recently discovered vulnerability with SSL version 3.0, Apple on Wednesday announced through its developer website that it will be removing support for the protocol on its Apple Push Notification server.
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Apple Developer, CNET, PC World, MacNN, FairerPlatform and 9to5Mac
| Sam Sabri / Windows Phone Central: |
Free Xbox Music streaming on Windows 8.1 and web will be discontinued in December — The free Xbox Music streaming you've been enjoying on Windows 8.1 and on the web will be discontinued on December 1st, 2014. This doesn't impact you if you're using the Xbox Music Pass …
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VentureBeat, The Verge, CNET and Engadget
| Brian R. Fitzgerald / Wall Street Journal: |
Yahoo: Tumblr to Make Over $100 Million in Revenue Next Year — Tumblr is expected to generate more than $100 million in revenue in 2015 thanks to a growing user base and a successful introduction of sponsored advertising, Yahoo Chief Executive Marissa Mayer said Tuesday.| John Cook / GeekWire: |
Redfin buys walkability rating site Walk Score, its first aquisition, to give users more neighborhood information — Redfin buys Walk Score, marking first acquisition in company history — Seattle-based Redfin just stumbled on a deal in its backyard that was simply too good to pass up.
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Walk Score Blog, Redfin Real Estate Blog, Seattle Bubble, themiddlemarket.com and Inman News. Thanks:@taylor_soper
| 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, Ubergizmo, PC Magazine, BetaNews, Windows Phone Central, PC World, Engadget, High-Def Digest, The Next Web, The Verge, SuperSite for Windows, ZDNet, VentureBeat, The Fire Hose and Eurogamer.net
Tweets: @brekelj and @kinectwindows
| 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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Hugo Barra, PC World, Wired, The Register, Engadget, Geek.com, Tech in Asia and Technology Personalized
| 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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News Center, eWeek, InfoWorld, GeekWire, WinBeta, The Register, The New Stack, bizjournals, VentureBeat and WindowsITPro
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