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Microsoft's Q2: Enterprise shines, Surface details scant
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Microsoft's Q2: Enterprise shines, Surface details scant: Larry Dignan for ZDNet: Microsoft's second quarter results were a mixed bag relative to estimates as its enterprise products fared well, but details about Surface units, hidden within the Windows division, were largely missing in action. The second quarter was all about Windows...
"In The Studio," OATV's Renee DiResta Reflects On Her Transition From Trading To Investing
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Editor’s Note: Semil Shah is a contributor to TechCrunch. You can follow him on Twitter at @semil. “In the Studio” opens up February by hosting a former Wall Street derivatives trader turned early-stage venture investor in San Francisco. Renee DiResta, an Associate with O’Reilly AlphaTech Ventures (OATV), is relatively new...
Avaya lays out roadmap for unified software management
www.computerworld.com
As Avaya continues its transition from a hardware company into a communications and collaboration software provider, it is going through some growing pains, including a shakeup of executives and uncertainty around a potential initial public offering that's been rumored for months....
Bomberman gets unofficial web-based version, crams in up to 1,000 online players
www.engadget.com
This is about to ruin any hopes you had of a productive day. Bombermine, an unofficial version of SNES throwback, Super Bomberman, is a web-based gift that lets you face-off against up to 1,000 players in a single game. Borrowing the same scoresheet setup of a first-person shooter, you'll...
30 Sunrises Over Seattle: A beautiful look at our city
www.geekwire.com
This is pretty awesome. The one-man graphics company Digital.Meals created a video of 30 sunrises in Seattle over 30 days, picking iconic locations such as Gas Works and Kerry parks, as well as more ordinary streetscapes. I’ve watched the video a few times now, and I’m reminded each time...
Cloud service OnLive Sold to New Ownership
www.pcworld.com
The company will continue to operate its OnLive Game and Desktop services during the transition....
HP's webOS CTO Sam Greenblatt is out, no word on replacement
www.theverge.com
As reported on webOS Nation, Sam Greenblatt — CTO of the webOS program inside HP — has transitioned out of that role, though it appears that he won't be leaving HP altogether. HP's released a brief statement on the matter: Sam Greenblatt is moving from webOS to a new...
Film preservation and the impermanence of the digital medium
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Starting with a colorful anecdote about a cache of early silent films discovered beneath a Canadian hockey rink, David Bordwell and Kristin Thompson look at the evolution of film preservation, and how the modern transition to digital formats could harm our ability to take care of the industry's works...
Adobe CC pricing: $19.99/month for CS6 customers, $29.99/m for older customers, $49.99/after first year or new customers
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Adobe announced its new Creative Cloud pricing this afternoon and it is pretty much the same as it is currently. One big difference: Current Adobe customers get significant discounts and noting the big feature updates, this seems like a pretty good way to get current customers into the transition. 40.714513...
Adobe CC pricing: $19.99/month for CS6 customers, $29.99/m for older customers, $49.99/after first year or new customers
Microsoft to release 'Switch to Windows Phone' app for Android
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Microsoft is working with a third-party developer to release a new app for Android users designed to make it easier to transition to Windows Phone. The app, dubbed ‘Switch to Windows Phone,’ uses technology from app search engine Quixey to identify and suggest Windows Phone apps that replicate or at...
This NYC Boutique Owner Says Square Is Just As Good As It Sounds
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Jack Dorsey's mobile-payments startup Square has been growing like crazy. Since June, payments processed are up 50 percent.It's an attractive option for small business owners because it takes a 2.75% cut on most transactions, which it splits with the banks, versus a higher fee owners pay out to use traditional...
Verizon CFO says shared data plans coming mid-year
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We've already from Verizon's CEO Lowell McAdam that the carrier was planning to offer shared data plans. And leaks have indicated that the carrier is already prepping its backend system for the change. Now CFO Fran Shammo has narrowed down the time frame a bit for us, telling a group...
Your Google Drive isn't ready? Just wait a day or maybe two
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When we reported Tuesday that Google Drive is here, and you can install it "right now," some of our readers were understandably frustrated that they couldn't, in fact, install it right away. Some people who signed up were greeted with messages saying that their Google Drive wasn't "ready" yet,...
FCC again balks on telephone network shutdown
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The remaining wireline carriers want to speed up the transition to native IP networks, an investment that has the added bonus of ending the digital divide once and for all. So why won't the FCC let them do it? [Read more]...
Now offering more than 15k products, Fab teases that it's pivoting to 'a new model'
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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...
Does Barry Diller Know Something About The Future Of Newsweek That Tina Brown Doesn't Know?
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Yesterday, many news outlets reported that Newsweek owner Barry Diller had said or implied that Newsweek might kill its print edition this fall and go all digital. This news, not surprisingly, apparently sent the Newsweek newsroom into a panic. And it prompted Newsweek's legendary editor, Tina Brown, to take time...
What Lies Beyond The Check-In: Foursquare To Launch Big New Redesign Next Week
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If you’re following Foursquare on Twitter, you’ve probably noticed that the check-in champions have been teasing the release of the “all new Foursquare” app for the last few days, dropping hints that it was coming soon to app stores near you. Continuing to use the hashtag #allnew4sq, Foursquare last night...
Google shutters One Pass, its paid content platform
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Google has closed down One Pass, the paid content platform that it rolled out in February 2011 and revamped in February 2012. On the Google Blog, the company writes: One Pass, our payment platform for online news publishers, has been shut down. We are working with existing partners to make...
Voice over LTE could slash smartphone battery life in half
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Wireless providers in the United States see voice over LTE, more commonly known as VoLTE, as the future of mobile phone calls. The transition to the new technology may not be well received by consumers, however. According to a new report from Spirent Communications, VoLTE can reduce a smartphone’s talk-time battery life...
Twitter Settles With PeopleBrowsr, Gives The Company Firehose Access Until The End Of The Year
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The saga of PeopleBrowsr vs. Twitter appears to have come to a close, AllThingsD reports. Last November, PeopleBrowsr took Twitter to court after the company had informed them that they’d be losing access to its full firehose of data. This was a move happening with nearly all third-party developers, but...
BMW and Thermaltake's Level 10 M gaming mouse is real, costs $100
www.engadget.com
Thermaltake and BMW DesignworksUSA's Level 10 M gaming mouse has made the transition from concept to reality. Unlike its teasing appearance in January, the unit now has some real-world specifications, including five programmable keys and a Z-key that'll change your gaming profile on the fly. The optical unit's DPI...
A5 Chip in Tweaked Apple TV Still Manufactured by Samsung
www.macrumors.com
Earlier this week, we opened up the newly tweaked Apple TV to find a remarkably small A5 chip inside rather than an A5X as had been suspected from the device's software posted by Apple over a month ago. Since that time, we've been talking with chip experts at Chipworks and...
Sprint plans $10 monthly charge for iDEN push-to-talk subs in the new year
www.engadget.com
For Nextel push-to-talk subs, the writing's been on the wall for some time now, what with that legacy service destined to sunset on June 30th, 2013. But for those unwilling to heed Sprint's many early warnings and make the switch to its CDMA-based Direct Connect plan before this coming...
Ellen Pao's Lawyer: Kleiner Perkins Firing Was Retaliation
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Ellen Pao, the Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers venture capitalist who is suing the firm for gender discrimination, will now add termination for the purposes of retaliation to her claims, said her lawyer on Wednesday. On Tuesday, Pao disclosed on Quora that she had been asked to leave Kleiner Perkins....
AT&T shutting off 2G networks by January 2017
www.electronista.com
AT&T will be shutting down its 2G bands by the start of 2017, according to a mention in a recent SEC filing picked up by the Wall Street Journal. The carrier gave New Year's Day, 2017 as a deadline to discontinue its 2G service to customers, which allows nearly four...
Sony backpedals on Android 4.1 upgrade statement, is now 'actively investigating' all Xperia updates
www.engadget.com
Let's chalk this one up to something being lost in corporate translation. After a UK company rep issued a statement just days ago confirming the lack of an Android 4.1 upgrade path for certain 2011 Xperia handsets, Sony's delicately backtracking and claiming that public info was made "in error."...
Sony backpedals on Android 4.1 upgrade statement, is now 'actively investigating' all Xperia updates
Foursquare redesigns web listing pages for its 50M site visitors after Explore usage doubles in 2 months
thenextweb.com
Foursquare has been undergoing a transition over the past year from something of a check-in game to a full-fledged ‘decision service’ along the lines of Yelp. That transition has been accomplished by taking the massive amount of data from its 3.5B check-ins and offering up that value to people ‘searching...
Foursquare redesigns web listing pages for its 50M site visitors after Explore usage doubles in 2 months
New Apple TV shows second die shrink of A5 chip, now 28nm
www.electronista.com
Appleís recent update of the Apple TV has resulted revealed a second die-shrink for its A5 processor, reports Macrumors. A new version of the Apple TV (A1469) was acknowledged by Apple, which said the new model continues with the same functionality as the previous edition, but that it does include...
Changes at the top for Federated Media: Deanna Brown is out, Battelle is back in
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Big news at Federated Media today, founder John Battelle is stepping back in as CEO after many years of not running the company day to day. Deanna Brown will be stepping down. The company offered the usual boiler plate statement on the move: How great everything is, that Battelle is...
This interactive guide will help you understand your blog's typography
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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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