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J.J. Abrams wants 'Star Wars' sequel to tell 'personal, intimate, and emotional' story
www.theverge.com
Now that Lucasfilm has confirmed J.J. Abrams as the director of Star Wars Episode VII, fans everywhere are wondering what direction the Star Trek director will take the beloved sci-fi franchise. Star Wars Blog has collected some of Abrams' comments from the past six years, reminding us of the...
Hooker hunger and other delish data turned up by Facebook Graph searches
news.cnet.com
A brilliant but disconcerting Tumblr blog captures the embarrassing side effects of a Facebook search engine that finds odd factoids hidden in plain sight. [Read more]...
Python v. Python: Software foundation fights for trademark in EU
arstechnica.com
The Python programming language has been around for more than two decades, but today it is fighting for its name in Europe. The Python Software Foundation's chairman yesterday said the Python trademark is "at risk in Europe" because a cloud server and storage company that also uses the name Python...
Infographic: There's a career for everyone at Microsoft
www.geekwire.com
From the Surface to social to SkyDrive, there’s a little something for everyone at Microsoft. That’s at least according this neat infographic post that shows everything going on at Microsoft and how its products/services intertwine with each other. It appeared on the “Next at Microsoft” blog that’s edited by Steve Clayton, who...
AT&T Expands FaceTime Over Cellular Access to More Customers
www.macrumors.com
AT&T announced today that it is planning to allow any customer "with an LTE device" on a "tiered data plan" to use iOS 6's FaceTime over Cellular feature. Previously, only customers with a Mobile Share plan could use the feature. In practice, the change only affects iPhone 5 customers with...
HTC is getting its money's worth out of patent and trademark agreement with Apple, new One comes with iPhone 5-like accents
9to5mac.com
Apple and HTC reached a global settlement last fall, regarding multiple patent infringement lawsuits, and agreed to a 10-year licensing deal with a dismissal of all lawsuits, and now it seems HTC is getting its money’s worth with the new One sporting iPhone 5-like accents. The HTC One notably features an...
HTC is getting its money's worth out of patent and trademark agreement with Apple, new One comes with iPhone 5-like accents
Firefox 18 delivers a jolt of speed to Web apps and games
www.pcworld.com
We've known for some time now that Firefox 18 would bring some significant speed improvements to Mozilla's popular browser, and the final version--released today--made good on that promise officially. In fact, a new JavaScript compiler in the software is delivering performance improvements of up to 25 percent on Web...
Original Adobe Photoshop source code now available for free
www.theverge.com
Now in its 13th version, Adobe Photoshop has become an indispensable tool with 23 years of features and cruft baked into it — but the source code for the application's original 1990 version is now available as a free download. The Computer Science Museum is offering the source code...
The Cake Copyright Is A Lie; Safeway Just Doesn't Want To Be Mocked
www.techdirt.com
A few folks have sent in this story on the blog of the wonderful (and super popular) site Cake Wrecks, which (as the name suggests) highlights hilariously bad cake designs, supposedly done by "professionals." Not surprisingly, the site is well known among those who wield cake decorating bags. However, some...
Google Earth's tour guide feature swells to the tune of 100K new attractions
www.engadget.com
Hate flying? Google Earth could keep you visiting attractions anyway for the next, oh, rest of your life or so, thanks to 100,000-plus new tours it just added across sites and cities in over 200 countries. That's on top of the 11,000 tours that came with its recent launches...
Foursquare Spreads Out A Bit: Now Lets You Mention Friends On Facebook Who Don't Use The Service
techcrunch.com
With the recent Foursquare changes, its becoming very clear that the service is trying to spread its wings into the mainstream population. It’s about discovery and exploration now, not just check-ins. Today, Foursquare wanted to let everyone know that you can check-in with a friend, even if they’re not using...
Retargeting Is Just Phase One
battellemedia.com
The post Retargeting Is Just Phase One appeared first on John Battelle's Search Blog.Toward the end of the year, annual predictions come out (I’ve been guilty of this for nearly ten years now). I was perusing these from Triggit founder Zach Coelius, and his ninth one hit me right between...
Facebook wants to end user voting on policy changes
www.pcworld.com
Facebook is proposing to trash its policy that allows members to vote on changes it makes to its data use policy. While promising to value user feedback, Facebook Vice President for Communications, Public Policy and Marketing Elliot Schrage declared in a company blog that the "voting mechanism, which is...
Gadgetwise Blog: Q&A: Putting the iPad on the Big Screen
gadgetwise.blogs.nytimes.com
With the iPad's video-mirroring feature and some extra hardware, iBooks files, apps, games, photos and videos can be displayed on a television screen....
Amazon uses homepage to call out Apple, iPad mini
www.electronista.com
Amazon is taking the fight to Apple, using the front page of its popular site as to call out Apple's new iPad mini as overpriced for the features it delivers compared to Amazon's Kindle Fire HD. Visitors to Amazon's front page will now see a quote from a tech blog...
Uber Reverts Back to Surge Pricing After One Day
betabeat.com
(Photo: Uber Blog) Amid cries of price gouging, the San Francisco-based car service app Uber that allows users to hail a black car from their phone decided yesterday to postpone “surge pricing” in the wake of Hurricane Sandy. With most subway lines suspended or running on limited service, transportation around...
Microsoft left 'surprised' by Google's Exchange ActiveSync announcement
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Google announced last week that it plans to drop Exchange ActiveSync support for new devices on personal Gmail accounts from January 30th. While Microsoft has remained quiet on the issue affecting Windows 8, Windows RT, and Windows Phone Gmail setup, the software maker has now responded to Google's announcement...
Now offering more than 15k products, Fab teases that it's pivoting to 'a new model'
thenextweb.com
In a curious blog post, Fab founder and CEO Jason Goldberg detailed that his company plans to pivot “towards a new model that [it is] not yet ready to reveal publicly.” Back in early 2011, Fab shuttered Fabulis, its gay social networking service, to pivot into a design flash sale site. That transition...
Apple delaying some international LTE iPad mini deliveries until December
bgr.com
Apple’s (AAPL) iPad mini appears to be selling quite well, even with an “inferior” non-Retina display and two-year old guts. While the Wi-Fi model has been out since November 2nd and U.S. customers just started getting their LTE models last week, those living abroad are seeing shipping times for preordered LTE iPad minis slip...
New iMacs Still Expected to Ship in November-December
www.macrumors.com
Last week, a report from french site MacBidouille claimed that Apple may not be shipping their new iMac until early 2013, despite Apple's official promises that the new iMac models would ship before year's end. 9to5Mac now reassures us that Apple's original plans are still intact for the iMac. The...
WITN: A big debate on why The Daily failed and how lean a media company can get
pandodaily.com
This week’s WITN features another debate about how you build a media company in this day and age, but it’s slightly less contentious than last week’s fight (which most commenters seem to agree that I totally won). This week, Paul and I talk about the death of Rupert Murdoch’s...
Google Posts New Images Of Superstorm Devastation
searchengineland.com
Both Google Maps Mania and the Google Earth Blog are reporting that Google has started to post-Sandysatellite imagery showing the destruction in New Jersey, Delaware, and Maryland. Specifically, via the Google Crisis Map, you can select these areas for post-Sandy Imagery: Beach Haven to Cape May,... Please visit Search Engine...
Here's A Taste Of What Publishers Will Do If First Sale Rights For Foreign Goods Disappear
www.techdirt.com
As Techdirt reported a few months back, the Supreme Court Justices seem rightly concerned about the "parade of horribles" -- things that would happen if the decision in the Wiley v. Kirtsaeng copyright case over whether or not you have the right to resell a foreign-made product you bought were...
Record-breaking Christmas week: 50M iOS and Android devices activated, 1.76B apps downloaded
venturebeat.com
After a record-breaking 17.4 million iOS and Android devices were activated on Christmas Day, the following week saw record-breaking activity as well: over 50 million iOS and Android-powered smartphones and tablets, and a staggering 1.76 billion mobile app downloads. “The last week of 2012 was the largest week for both...
JustMigrate Launches To Move Posterous Blogs To Tumblr Just As Posterous Announces Imminent End
techcrunch.com
Just in time for Posterous’ closure on April 30th, a service has launched to bring Posterous blogs over to rival service, Tumblr. JustMigrate was announced the same day that Posterous unceremoniously called it quits via its blog. The service requires you to punch in your posterous URL, authorize it with...
Instagram lays framework for monetization, sharing info with Facebook in ToS update
www.engadget.com
Facebook and Instagram will be able to get a bit cozier under that new shared roof beginning early next year. On January 16th, the photo sharing site's new Terms of Service will go into effect, enabling the network to share information, content and usage stats with "businesses that are...
Twitter reveals new back-end photo storage system
gigaom.com
In light of the photo wars going on among social media companies of late, a Twitter engineer wrote in a blog post Tuesday explaining that the company has built it’s own back-end storage solution for photos, replacing previous partner Photobucket which had housed the photos. In a lengthy blog post explaining...
DC City Council passes law legitimizing Uber car service
arstechnica.com
Uber, the smartphone-based car service that has been shaking up taxicab and limosine markets around the country, scored a big victory on Tuesday as the DC City Council passed legislation that officially recognizes "digital dispatch" car services. The new law comes just months after Uber rallied to defeat legislation...
Head of US Patent and Trademark Office to step down in January
www.theverge.com
In an unexpected move, David Kappos will step down as Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office in January, after serving for four years. The news leaked earlier today on the PatentlyO blog, but a USPTO spokesperson has since confirmed the news to Bloomberg. A former IBM...
This interactive guide will help you understand your blog's typography
thenextweb.com
Typography is finally emerging as a key element of Web design with the rise of Web fonts, but now many designers are finding themselves a bit overwhelmed with all of these new choices. Sticking with defaults, like Helvetica, Georgia and Arial, is no longer necessary in most cases, but embracing...
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