http://techcrunch.com – If you live in Provo, Utah: Congratulations, you just joined the fairly exclusive club of geeks who don’t have to whine about Google Fiber not coming to your city. Google, along with Mayor John Curtis, have just announced that Provo will be the third city to hop on Google’s crazy-fast fiber-optic network. Google Fiber is the company’s effort to slowly-but-surely build a nationwid (IT news)
Email this pagehttp://techcrunch.com – “FBX was my baby that I staked everything on. We shipped it fast, scaled it up, and now the baby talks and can walk to school, but I don’t feel I need to babysit it,” says Antonio Garcia-Martinez, product director of Facebook’s ad exchange who announced he’s leaving the company today. (IT news)
Email this pagehttp://forums.androidcentral.com – Is the Beats Audio setting universal ? In other words does the program being enabled make the sound enhanced (on the speaker and headphones) on all Audio programs? I plan on using BOTH the HTC(preinstalled on Phone) Music player, AND Google Play Music programs. It make's a difference. (HowTos)
Email this pagehttp://techcrunch.com – The U.S. Senate dropped an 844-page immigration bill on America’s shoulders today [PDF]. For decades, the tech industry has been begging for more immigrant engineers, researchers and investors. Here are five essential changes proposed in the United State Senate’s draft of comprehensive immigration reform. 1. (IT news)
Email this pagehttp://techcrunch.com – Online display advertising has been a murky business — who is actually viewing all those ads, and do those ads make a difference to them? (IT news)
Email this pagehttp://techcrunch.com – Chrome will soon warn users when they are about to download software that could try to change how the browser handles extensions. Specifically, this extension to the company’s Safe Browsing system looks for binaries that could allow potentially malicious extensions to be installed in the browser without the user’s knowledge. (IT news)
Email this pagehttp://www.linuxfoundation.org – As an undergraduate engineering student Karen Sandler was used to being the only woman in a class. At the time she didn't want to talk about why there weren't more women in technology, though, believing the attention would only make things worse. That attitude has changed over time, however, as she experienced sexism more directly. (General)
Email this pagehttp://www.linuxandlife.com – Malware on mobile devices grew by 163 percent in 2012, with Android being the platform most targeted, according to a recent report from mobile security provider NQ Mobile. (Distributions)
Email this pagehttp://techcrunch.com – The news about Google Glass just keeps coming today. After announcing that Glass is about to ship and releasing the Glass Mirror API documentation, Google has now also posted the full spec sheet for the Glass hardware. (IT news)
Email this pagehttp://techcrunch.com – Earlier today, Google announced that it is about to ship its first Google Glass units and just in time for them to arrive, Google has now also posted the developer guidelines for its Glass Mirror API. Access to the API itself, it’s worth noting, is still in limited preview and only developers who have access to the Glass hardware will be able to work with the API. (IT news)
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