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Wednesday 9 October 2013

Has putting up a paywall at The Guardian become a moral imperative rather than a choice?

by Kevin C. Tofel
Oct 9 2013, 6:45am PDT
Flickr for iOS just got a little more useful for those that like simplicity: The app gained automatic uploads in a software update on Wednesday. With the new feature, full resolution photos are sent to a user’s Flickr account in the cloud, negating the need to […]
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by Laura Hazard Owen
Oct 9 2013, 6:34am PDT
The Financial Times now has 100,000 more digital subscribers than print subscribers, and starting next year it will make changes in the way it publishes its print edition.
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by Alex Colon
Oct 9 2013, 6:15am PDT
Motorola is said to be working on a 6.3-inch Xplay “phablet,” as well as a follow up to the Droid Ultra
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by Lauren Hockenson
Oct 9 2013, 6:09am PDT
The popularity of Grand Theft Auto V earned it not just one Guinness World Record, but seven.
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by Alex Hawkinson, SmartThings
Oct 9 2013, 6:00am PDT
Ahead of our Mobilize event Oct. 16 and 17, we asked experts how 50 billion connected devices and 6 billion people change their industries. In this essay SmartThings' Alex Hawkinson details the programmable home of the future.
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by Stacey Higginbotham
Oct 9 2013, 6:00am PDT
So far this year GE has made $290 million in revenue from its industrial internet products. The two-year effort gets new partners Wednesday, and we learn how it plans to stay open and still build a barrier to entry.
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by GigaOM
Oct 9 2013, 5:55am PDT
What are bare-metal clouds and how do they work? And what are the trends shaping this market today and what will it look like in three to five years? Watch this GigaOM Research on-demand analyst webinar for answers to these questions and more.
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by David Meyer
Oct 9 2013, 3:29am PDT
Version 1.1 of Mozilla's web-centric smartphone platform adds major features such as push notifications and browser downloads. But will this be enough to see signed-up manufacturers such as Huawei and LG actually produce Firefox OS phones?
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by Kevin Fitchard
Oct 8 2013, 5:24pm PDT
Ford is testing two new autonomous driving technologies. One will let a car park itself even if the driver is outside the vehicle. The other will assume control over the car at highway speeds to avoid collisions.
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by Mathew Ingram
Oct 8 2013, 3:54pm PDT
Josh Marshall of the political blog network Talking Points Memo says that he has pulled his site's feeds from both Google Currents and Flipboard because he says he sees these services as "scams against publishers"
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by Jenn Marston
Oct 8 2013, 2:00pm PDT
Weigh in with your thoughts about Twitter's now-public IPO filing.
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by Derrick Harris
Oct 8 2013, 11:10am PDT
A new open source tool called RAW makes it remarkably easy to visualize any data that you can copy and paste from a table. Football on my mind, I chose to look at the performance of NFL quarterbacks so far this season.
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by Kevin C. Tofel
Oct 8 2013, 8:41am PDT
Once a touch-friendly version of Office for Windows appears — a project that’s in the works — look for Office to land on Apple’s iPad, Steve Ballmer said on Tuesday. That would take the place of the current iPhone-specific version and Office on the web. It’s […]
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by Jeff John Roberts
Oct 8 2013, 8:05am PDT
In August, Apple persuaded President Obama to veto a trade agency’s order that barred it from importing certain iPhones that had been found to infringe Samsung’s patents. The Korean company then called for the same favor, asking the White House to stop an import ban set […]
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by Stacey Higginbotham
Oct 8 2013, 7:56am PDT
Using Amazon's Spot Instances well requires a mix of business and technology strategy that has fundamentally makes assessing your computing portfolio a lot like creating a balanced financial portfolio. Here's how to make it work.
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by Kevin C. Tofel
Oct 8 2013, 6:12am PDT
Google and HP introduced the new Chromebook 11, HP's first Chrome OS device that runs on an ARM processor from Samsung. For $279, the device offers wide viewing angles, 100 GB of Drive storage and a 60-day trial of Google Play Music All Access.
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by Katie Fehrenbacher
Oct 8 2013, 6:00am PDT
From the startup that reimagined the thermostat, comes a reinvented . . . smoke detector. And of course design, smart sensors, innovative UI and wireless connections are behind the new Nest device.
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by Kevin C. Tofel
Oct 8 2013, 4:27am PDT
After bringing Google Talk and Messages into Hangouts, SMS and MMS may be the next functions to follow. Leaked images suggest Hangouts will gain these features, leaving only Google Voice outside the Hangouts fold.... for now.
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by Barb Darrow
Oct 7 2013, 6:10pm PDT
A Federal judge ruled in favor of Amazon Web Services in its bid to hold onto the CIA cloud contract it won over IBM. The award made early this year was contested by IBM, which bid a lower amount, and the Government Accountability Office deemed that […]
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by Mathew Ingram
Oct 7 2013, 3:41pm PDT
The Guardian newspaper in Britain is one of the most prominent papers without a paywall, and some media-industry observers argue that it should erect one soon or potentially lose its ability to create great journalism.
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