Wednesday, March 13, 2013

Top Stories of the Day // March 13, 2013

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Today's Top Stories // Mar 13, 2013

Netflix Gets Social In The U.S. Thanks To Facebook Partnership, After Over A Year Of Lobbying And Lawmaking

Netflix today introduced Facebook integration for U.S. users, allowing subscribers who opt in to see what their friends have been watching and what they like... read more

The Great Hotmail, Outlook Outage Of 2013 Continues As Downtime Passes 12 Hours

Shortly after 4:00pm EDT on March 12 some Hotmail users took to Twitter, reporting they couldn't access their mail. Microsoft responded at 5:35pm confirming the... read more

Google I/O 2013 Registration Sells Out In 49 Minutes As Users Report Problems Early On Making Payments

Google opened registration for its annual I/O developer conference today at 7 AM PDT, and just as it did last year, the event sold out pretty quickly. This year... read more

Apple Jumps To Second In Revenue In India's Smartphone Market Says IDC, Thanks To Shifts In Distribution Model

Apple has indeed managed a significant turnaround in India's smartphone market, according to new figures out from IDC today (via CNN). The Apple smartphone... read more

Microsoft Is Currently Experiencing Hotmail, Outlook And SkyDrive Service Disruptions

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Google Scoops Up Neural Networks Startup DNNresearch To Boost Its Voice And Image Search Tech

Well, Google's M&A strategy is nothing if not diverse in focus. In November, it acquired package delivery startup Bufferbox. Last month, Google it made its... read more

Samsung's Galaxy Note 8.0 With 3G Hits The FCC

Though we still haven't gotten a peek of the LTE-capable Galaxy Note 8.0, it would appear that the 3G version is currently making its way through the Federal... read more

Leap Motion's Michael Buckwald Lays Out His Vision For Gesture-Based Computer Interaction

While I was at South by Southwest Interactive, I had a chance to meet with the Leap Motion team and try out their upcoming gesture-based controller. We've been... read more

Box Is Testing Out New Apps That Could See It Go Head To Head With Google Docs

It was less than two years ago that cloud storage startup Box announced a major integration with Google Docs, to let people use the online service from within... read more

VMware Confirms Its Amazon Web Services Competitor, Hybrid Cloud Services, To Be Led By Bill Fathers From Savvis

VMware today announced Hybrid Cloud Services, a new business unit that puts it in closer competition with Amazon Web Services for enterprises' cloud service... read more

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