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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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Google's Foray Into Hardware Will Be A Total Disaster — Here's Why — It's finally clear: Google is getting into the hardware business. — Last week, word came out that it was testing some sort of mysterious entertainment device in employees' homes. — Today the Wall Street Journal reported …
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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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| Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web: |
Apple is rushing to finalize apps for onstage iPad 3 demos and commercials — Now that the beans have been, mostly, spilled with regards to the early March announcement of the iPad 3, more information is coming forward about Apple's preparations for the event.
| Seth Weintraub / 9to5Mac: |
What DON'T we know about the next iPad (besides its name)? — The next iPad will have the name “iPad 3,” according to the consensus of rumors, and it features a faster processor/GPU while remaining the same size as the current iPad 2. Its unveiling is in a month and will be available (in Wi-Fi certainly) almost immediately after.
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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.
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| Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch: |
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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FBI: Steve Jobs had 2.65 GPA, avoided the gym, wasn't a communist — Steve Jobs shows off a Next computer in Redwood City, Calif., on April 4, 1991. (Ben Margot / Associated Press) — We detailed the major tidbits from Steve Jobs' just-disclosed FBI files in an earlier post.
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Kickstarter crosses threshold as two projects hit $1 million in donations — The crowdsourced funding site Kickstarter has been doing remarkably well recently, giving thousands of entrepreneurs the opportunity to bring their projects to life. It also just hit a major milestone …
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| Evelyn M. Rusli / DealBook: |
DST Global's Deal With Facebook — For some investors, Facebook shares came with extra restrictions. — Mark Zuckerberg, who extracted voting rights from shareholders to retain control of the social networking company he started, also set the terms for when at least one major investor could sell stock … | 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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| Sascha Segan / PC Magazine: |
Moto Exec on Android Upgrade Delays: It's The Hardware — Don't blame manufacturers' software customizations for holding up mobile phone upgrades to the new version of Google's mobile operating system, Android 4.0 “Ice Cream Sandwich” (ICS), a top executive at Motorola said Wednesday.| Florian Mueller / FOSS Patents: |
Winning streak ends: Motorola Mobility fails to win 3G/UMTS-based injunction against Apple in Germany — Apple's Mannheim jinx has been broken: this morning, Judge Andreas Voss of the Mannheim Regional Court announced that a Motorola Mobility lawsuit over a patent declared essential …
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| Peter Kafka / AllThingsD: |
Spotify Dollars Boost Warner Music, but Not as Much as iTunes — Music sales may have bounced back last year after a very, very long slide. But we won't really know for some time. Meantime, a short-term marker: Warner Music says revenue didn't increase last quarter.
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Download a Copy of The Pirate Bay, It's Only 90 MB — Last month The Pirate Bay announced that it will stop hosting torrents in the very near future. — This change is expected to go into effect before the end of the month. From then on, Pirate Bay users can only download files through magnet links.| Kara Swisher / AllThingsD: |
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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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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| 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.| Sarah Lacy / PandoDaily: |
Greg Kumparak Is Joining PandoDaily! — We're thrilled to announce our next big hire: Greg Kumparak — former Mobile Editor at TechCrunch — is joining PandoDaily. — Greg will be joining the Pando team as our editor in charge of incubators and accelerators.
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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.| Frederic Lardinois / SiliconFilter: |
Coming Soon to Chrome: Faster 3D Graphics for Slower Computers — Chrome 17 just launched yesterday, but today, the development team announced the next beta of Chrome. This new beta includes improved support for hardware-accelerated 2D graphics using Canvas, as well as the promise … | Tricia Duryee / AllThingsD: |
Zynga Inks Deal With Hasbro to Bring FarmVille Into the Real World — Zynga has partnered with Hasbro to develop a wide range of toy and gaming experiences based on Zynga's most popular Facebook games and characters. — In other words, we could see a board game of FarmVille …
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