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- 10 May 2013
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News: Twitter buys Ubalo to speed up its back-end
Twitter has acquired Ubalo, a company that provides various services aimed at speeding up the coding process, the social network announced Thursday.
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News: Akamai: HK recorded fastest peak connection speed
Hong Kong continues to the number one when it comes to the average peak Internet connection speed in Q4 2012, according to Akamai's State of the Internet Report.
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News: RIAA expands gold and platinum record awards to streamed music
In another sign that music listening is expanding beyond the limits of CDs and digital purchases, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) announced on Thursday that it would recognize music and music videos streamed from on-demand services as part of its Gold & Platinum award program. These services include Mog, Muve Music, Rdio, Rhapsody, Slacker, Spotify, and Xbox Music, as well as video streaming services such as MTV.com, Vevo, Yahoo Music, and YouTube. This is the first time that the program has recognized tracks in a non-sales format.
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News: YouTube launches pilot program for subscription-based paid channels
In a move that will surprise precisely no one who's been paying attention to the state of streaming media, YouTube announced a pilot program Thursday that will herald a new age of subscription-based paid channels on the Google-owned video site.
- 09 May 2013
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News: YouTube rolls out paid subscription channels
Not everything on YouTube is free any more. The video-sharing website will now charge users a monthly fee to view certain content offered through subscription channels, the Google-owned site announced Thursday.
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News: New Google timelapse project shows how Earth has changed over 28 years
The times, they are a-changin'--but a new Google timelapse project shows just how much the world's geography is a-changin' too, based on nearly 30 years of satellite imagery.
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News: Facebook Home attracts close to 1 million downloads
Facebook has attracted "just about" 1 million downloads of its Home application in its first month of availability.
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News: Facebook Home attracts close to 1 million downloads
Facebook has attracted "just about" 1 million downloads of its Home application in its first month of availability.
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News: 4 key ways to a successful portfolio from Behance's Scott Belsky
At the Max conference in Los Angeles, Behance's co-founder gave advice and discussed the future of the portfolio site under Adobe's ownership.
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News: Slideshow: 10 great technologies to secretly install on Mom's PC
She's your mom. She's risen to every challenge, not the least of which was raising you to be the fine, upstanding PC enthusiast you are today.
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News: Facebook may be driving deal for Waze mobile app
Facebook reportedly is in talks to buy a popular Israeli-based crowd-sourced mapping and traffic app.
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News: 5 insanely niche social networks to combat Facebook fatigue
If social networks were ice cream flavors, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter would be hopelessly vanilla.
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News: Pioneer to crowdsource car navigation, add augmented reality
Pioneer will soon launch a new car navigation system in Japan that uses dashboard cameras to scan the road ahead for approaching street signs and other cars, and will share images of road conditions with other vehicles.
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News: California may outlaw 3-D printed guns
Proposed legislation in California aims to ban guns made using 3-D printing, after an organization Defense Distributed fired a handgun made with the technology, and said it would distribute its drawings online.
- 08 May 2013
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News: Facebook to Microsoft: Dump fake Facebook apps from Windows Phone Store
Facebook has asked Microsoft to remove 41 unofficial and clone 'Facebook' apps from the Windows Phone store as the social network prepares to introduce its official app for the platform.
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News: Google may roll out overhauled Maps at Google I/O
Google Maps is reportedly getting an overhaul that may be shown off at the annual Google I/O conference next week.
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News: Internet back up in Syria after 20-hour outage
Syria suffered another Internet and mobile communications outage that lasted for about 20 hours. Service was restored earlier today.
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News: Manage multiple social media accounts with your Mac
Keeping up with just one social media account is tough enough. But if you personally hang out on even one or two more services, or are in charge of socializing with your business's customers online, juggling it all starts to feel a lot more like work, and not the fun kind. Here are a few tools and tricks--some for power users, others for business cases, and even a slightly nerdier option--that can help take the drudgery out of managing social media.
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News: Consumer service lawsuit looms for Google in Germany
A lawsuit against Google's customer service practices in Germany is looming after the company declined to sign a document promising German consumer organizations to start answering customer emails individually.
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News: Welcome sign for hijackers on 24-7 for 30% of social networkers
Survey also finds nearly half of netizens need nudge to change passwords
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