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HTC Sense 4 review
www.engadget.com
Over the last year, HTC has established a reputation for fragmenting its proprietary Sense UI even within the same version of Android. Why, Gingerbread alone is the foundation for at least three different iterations (2.1, 3.0 and 3.5) of the firmware. The bump to Ice Cream Sandwich is no...
Friday: A Personal Assistant That Remembers What You’ve Done
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In the spirit of connecting your phone’s activity to the cloud, a trend that has inspired one of this week’s more interesting launches, Phonedeck, there now comes another application that wants to automatically track your activity in order to provide a history of your communications, additional analysis, and even a...
Lumia 900 review
www.theverge.com
It occurred to me that the Lumia 900 review would be one of the more important critiques of a product that I write this year. For those of you who don't know the backstory here, the new LTE-equipped, AT&T-bound smartphone represents what could be the beginning of a new...
Collected Videos of Late Apple Co-Founder Steve Jobs at D, Now Free on iTunes
allthingsd.com
There’s lots of video of the late Steve Jobs, primarily from his famous introductions of Apple products over the years, and from his oft-quoted Stanford commencement address. But by far the largest trove of video of the legendary innovator candidly answering unrehearsed questions and explaining his views on technology and...
Follow one designer as he strips branded objects to their most basic form
thenextweb.com
Today, brands envelop our lives more than ever before. Every shirt, pen, book, lamp, car, plane, etc. has been branded. There’s no way to possibly avoid the logo types, color schemes, symbols or slogans anymore. This is why a project by branding, design, and communications strategist Andrew Miller caught my attention. Brand...
Former IT salesman: 'In part I blame the American mindset that took hold' | Joris Luyendijk
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Joris talks to an expert in banking systems about the competitive spirit – and the time when he thought he was doing good• This monologue is part of a series in which people across the financial sector speak about their working lives"We need to talk about the huge risks banks...
Konka Falcon 3G hands-on
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It wouldn't be MWC without us spotting a phone manufacturer that's blatantly channeling the design spirit of another. You may remember Konka's appearances at trade shows past, but this year its new (but not completely finished) Falcon device was on the showfloor in Froyo and Gingerbread forms. Both white...
Breaking: Yahoo Sues Facebook for Patent Infringement
allthingsd.com
More to come, but here it is. Said Yahoo: “Yahoo! has invested substantial resources in research and development through the years, which has resulted in numerous patented inventions of technology that other companies have licensed. These technologies are the foundation of our business that engages over 700 million monthly unique...
Five ways to build prospect trust in one meeting
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This post is sponsored by Citrix GoToMeeting. As always, VentureBeat is adamant about maintaining editorial objectivity. It’s happened to everyone who sells for a living: You meet with a prospective client to show them the goods. Then you meet with them again. And again. But they still won’t pull...
Remember the app developing 6th grader from #TEDx? See what he’s up to now
thenextweb.com
Last November, we posted an amazing TED Talk given by an app developing, entrepreneurial 6th grader named Thomas Suarez. Suarez, who’s not even old enough to have a Facebook account, has been fascinated by computers and technology since before kindergarten. He’s established his own company, CarrotCorp, has made two iOS apps that...
Yahoo sues Facebook after failing to privately resolve patent infringement complaint
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Internet giant Yahoo has sued Facebook for infringing on some of its internet technology patents, reports Kara Swisher at All Things D. There are few details as of yet, but Swisher posts this statement from Yahoo about the suit, which involves 10 or more patents. Yahoo! has invested substantial resources...
Encyclopaedia Britannica wiped out by Wikipedia, selling final print edition
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Encyclopaedia Britannica, mortally wounded by the web and Wikipedia, will be discounting production of its print edition in favor of a strictly digital strategy, the company announced Tuesday. “It’s a rite of passage in this new era,” Encyclopaedia Britannica Inc president Jorge Cauz told the New York Times. First...
500px’s Terms Of Service Are Kind Of Awesome
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Your access to and use of the Site may be interrupted from time to time as a result of equipment malfunction, updating, maintenance or repair of the Site or any other reason within or outside the control of the company. The company reserves the right to suspend or discontinue the...
Google I/O: input/output game promotes its dev conference, wastes your coffee break
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Google's latest time-sink is apparently inspired by "the spirit of innovation" shown at its annual I/O developer conference -- while not-to-subtly promoting it at the same time. The HTML5 game offers a blank canvas for you to clog up experiment with sliders, swingers and flippers, with the largely unimportant...
Tales from the Trenches: GitHub
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When it comes building a distributed company, some bosses do it to demonstrate the usefulness or their product, many to get the best talent and some simply because they want to live somewhere they can surf. But for online hosting company GitHub, the best reason to go virtual is more...
The Mozilla Marketplace is officially open for HTML5 app submissions
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Just as we heard last week, the Mozilla Marketplace is now open for developers to submit their HTML5 apps. In a blog post today, Mozilla expanded on where it expects the Marketplace to go, noting that for starters, the platform will focus on "mobile apps" that will run in...
Google commissions 6 developers to hack on its Hangouts API for 2 weeks
thenextweb.com
After releasing an update to its Hangouts API, the Google+ team is quite eager to see what developers are planning to do with it. They’re so eager, in fact, that they are actually commissioning 6 developers, “from agencies like The Barbarian Group to independent developers like Eyebeam alum Aaron Meyers teamed up with OKFocus” to experiment with the...
Office 15 intro clip promises cloud-based, anti-Google platform
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As it turns out, Microsoft has more than a Metro-inspired interface refresh planned for its Office product. No, Microsoft appears to have plans to blend its Office suite’s online, and offline versions into one, creating a single platform for all places, and all times. It’s as anti-Google Docs as I...
Nokia’s tablet plans make it plain that Apple rules the market
thenextweb.com
By now you must have heard the news that Nokia is reportedly set to build a Windows 8 tablet. Not that this is a surprise, it isn’t, but a single fact from that recent rumor caught our eye: production numbers. Just in case you’ve been sleeping, the device is supposed...
Post-SOPA surprise: Common ground for tech, big media
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For some of the parties that clashed on on the controversial antipiracy legislation, a spirit of cooperation may be setting in. But is it too fragile to last? [Read more]...
AT&T fails to reach terms with workers union
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AT&T was unable to reach a settlement with the Communications Workers of America by the April 7th deadline to extend Four Core Wireline contracts. More than 40,000 employees will continue to work under the terms of the expired contract, however, as negotiations between the two parties continue. “The ongoing...
Android made Java-free thanks to 'XobotOS' project, but what are the legal implications?
www.theverge.com
Software firm Xamarin has ported the Java code inside Android (over a million lines of it) to C#, creating an entirely freestanding operating system that it calls "XobotOS." C# — which began as a Microsoft project over a decade ago and now dominates non-native programming throughout much of the...
House Oversight Committee taps WordPress for new site to promote transparency
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Darrell Issa, Chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, and one of the wealthiest members of Congress, has just announced a new website on Twitter: Oversight.House.Gov. The site is well worth exploring, from both technological, and governmental perspectives. From the technical angle, it’s a WordPress site, something that Issa is...
Wayne Rooney scores a Twitter own goal
www.telegraph.co.uk
Wayne Rooney's 'Twitter advert' goes against the whole spirit of the platform and has understandably angered his fans, even in his finest hour, writes Emma Barnett....
Apple to host free events at two NYC stores for Tribeca Film Festival
9to5mac.com
Apple just announced that its Apple Stores at West 14th Street and SoHo in Manhattan are participating in the 2012 Tribeca Film Festival. “To celebrate the spirit of independent filmmaking, we’re hosting free events and workshops from April 20 through April 28. And everyone’s invited to attend,” explained Apple on...
The best commenters on Comment is free: full rundown | Open thread
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OK, this is one pointless, unscientific list that doesn't actually exist – unlike the 'Twitter 100' – but let us know your top fiveHere on Comment is free we're always up for a brief flick through a "top 100" list. So of course the Independent's Twitter 100, topped by Sir...
Paper for iPad shows us what the Microsoft Courier could have been [video]
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In late 2009, a tablet concept in development at Microsoft set tech blogs aflutter. The device was code-named “Courier,” and it consisted of two connected touchscreens that folded open like a book. The slate was seen as a fantastic product that could serve as a digital notebook on top...
Cisco CloudVerse opens a new world of cloud computing possibilities
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This sponsored post is brought to you by Cisco. As always, VentureBeat is adamant about maintaining editorial objectivity. For businesses that wish to embrace cloud technology in order to simplify their operations, provide a forum for project collaboration, and operate on a secure platform, the Cisco CloudVerse aims to...
Congress Plays See-No-Evil, Pretend-There's-No-Evil, Let-The-Evil-Continue With NSA Domestic Spying
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We're still completely perplexed at how anyone in Congress could recognize that the NSA has refused to tell Congress how often it's violated the privacy of Americans without a warrant under the FISA Amendments Act (FAA) -- and then still vote to renew it. What kind of "oversight" is that?...
Lego-like church perfect for Brick Testament
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Can anything rouse the spirit more than a 65-foot-tall church built of Lego-esque bricks? [Read more]...
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