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Google Developing Home Entertainment System — Google Inc. is developing a home-entertainment system that streams music wirelessly throughout the home and would be marketed under the company's own brand, according to people briefed on the company's plans. — The effort marks a sharp shift …
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Building Windows for the ARM processor architecture — One of the notable aspects of Microsoft Windows has been the flexibility the architecture has shown through shifts in technology and expansion of customer usage over time. What started out as an operating system for one person working solo …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft unveils Office 15 Metro design look and feel — Microsoft revealed the finer details of its Windows 8 ARM edition today, but the company also revealed the look and feel of its next-generation Office experience. The software giant casually revealed beta copies of Word, Excel …
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| John Paczkowski / AllThingsD: |
Apple to Announce iPad 3 First Week in March — Apple's not holding an event in February. But it is holding one in March — to launch its next iPad. — Sources say the company has chosen the first week in March to debut the successor to the iPad 2 and will do so at one of its trademark special events.
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| Amir Efrati / Wall Street Journal: |
Google Near Launch of Cloud Storage Service — Google Inc. is close to launching a cloud-storage service that would rival one of Silicon Valley's hottest start-ups, cloud-storage provider Dropbox Inc., according to people familiar with the matter. — Like Dropbox, Google's storage service …
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End of an Era: Google's Very First Employee, Craig Silverstein — Technically, No. 3 — Leaving — Google's very first employee, Craig Silverstein, is leaving the company to join the high-profile online learning phenom, Khan Academy. — News of the departure first appeared yesterday …
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| Joe Mullin / Wired: |
Texas Jury Strikes Down Patent Troll's Claim to Own the Interactive Web — TYLER, Texas — After threatening web companies for more than a decade, Michael Doyle and his patent-holding company Eola — named after the Irish word for knowledge — may be finished.| Joe Mullin / Wired: |
| Leena Rao / TechCrunch: |
LinkedIn Beats The Street, Q4 Revenue Up 105 Percent To $167.7M — Professional social network LinkedIn just reported stronger than expected fourth quarter 2011 earnings today. Earnings came in at $0.12 per share. Revenue for the fourth quarter was $167.7 million, an increase of 105% compared …
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Report: How Americans are Spending their Media Time... and Money — Americans spend more than 33 hours per week watching video across the screens, according to the latest Nielsen Cross-Platform Report. But how they're consuming content—traditional TV and otherwise—is changing.| Killian Bell / Cult of Mac: |
Leaked iPad 3 Components Reveal New Internals, But No New Design [Exclusive] — Images of leaked iPad 3 components hot off the factory floor have been provided to Cult of Mac. They reveal that the internal components of Apple's third-generation iPad are significantly different to those features …
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Macotakara, 9to5Mac, everythingiCafe, 9to5Mac, Electronista, Gotta Be Mobile, MacRumors, BGR, Mashable!, WebProNews and Ubergizmo. Thanks:@killianbell
| John Cook / Gawker: |
Steve Jobs' FBI File Released — The FBI has released, and posted on its web site, Steve Jobs' 191-page FBI file. Read it here. The file consists of a 1991 background investigation conducted when Jobs was being considered for an appointment to the President's Export Council in the Bush I White House …
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The tone of life on social networking sites — Summary of findings — The overall social and emotional climate of social networking sites (SNS) is a very positive one where adult users get personal rewards and satisfactions at far higher levels than they encounter anti-social people or have ill consequences from their encounters.
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Music Labels' Joint Venture, VEVO, Shows Pirated NFL Game At Sundance — Over the last decade the major music labels — and their trade organization, the Recording Industry Association of America — have established a repeated pattern of attacking consumers in the name of squelching illegal file-sharing.
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AT&T Says Throttling Policy Isn't as Bad as You Think — Last year, AT&T warned smartphone customers with unlimited data plans that it may temporarily reduce their Internet connection speeds if they were in the “top 5 percent” of heaviest data users. Only recently have some customers begun …
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MacRumors, SlashGear, AndroidGuys, iDownloadBlog.com, everythingiCafe, GigaOM and DSLreports. Thanks:@bxchen
| Elliot Telford / Compete Pulse: |
Google Social is Exploding Online! — Now that the dust has settled from the initial launch of Google+ it is time for some analysis of the social network's functionality and popularity. No doubt people are extremely excited with the new release of Google's social platform …
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9to5Google, The New Persuaders and Web Strategy …
| Neil Hughes / AppleInsider: |
Apple now worth more than Google and Microsoft combined — First on AI: Apple's stock soared to new heights on Thursday, pushing the company's market capitalization to $456 billion, a number that is greater than the values of rivals Google and Microsoft combined.
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| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Second Google Wallet security vulnerability confirmed, affects all users — After the news yesterday that it is possible to crack the PIN on the Google Wallet software on rooted Android devices, a second security flaw has been uncovered that affects all users.| Evelyn M. Rusli / New York Times: |
Zuckerberg Takes Control, You Get $100 — Mark Zuckerberg must be one persuasive deal maker. — After eight years, Mr. Zuckerberg, the co-founder and chief executive of Facebook, has an ironclad grip on the social networking giant. He owns 28.4 percent of all class B shares …
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| Don Reisinger / CNET: |
End of an era: Kodak discontinues camera business — Eastman Kodak has shocked the world today, announcing that it has put an end to its camera business. — By the end of June, Kodak expects to phase out its digital cameras, pocket video cameras, and digital picture frames, the company announced today.| Greg Farrell / Business Week: |
Dinner at Rupert's — What happened on the fateful night last May when Rupert Murdoch decided how News Corp. would manage its phone-hacking scandal? — An artist's imagining of the dinner at Murdoch's townhouse based on multiple attendees' accounts — Photo illustration by Justin Metz| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Waze uses the iPhone proximity sensor to launch hands-free traffic reporting for iOS — Silicon Valley start-up Waze is launching a new addition to its iOS application today. The free GPS and turn-by-turn navigation app is designed to crowd source information on traffic jams thanks to reports from fellow drivers.| Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune: |
Chutzpah: Google also wants 2.25% of every iPhone sale — It's not enough that Google borrowed the phone's look and feel to make Android? — From Google's IEEE letter. Source: FOSS Patents. Click to enlarge. — It took a Techmeme news cycle for the import of Google's (GOOG) …
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