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Apple Releases OS X Mountain Lion Developer Preview with Over 100 New Features — Apple® today released a developer preview of OS X® Mountain Lion, the ninth major release of the world's most advanced operating system, which brings popular apps and features from iPad® to the Mac® …
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Hands on with Apple's new OS X: Mountain Lion — Summer 2012 release continues to bring iOS features “back to the Mac” — Apple updates its iOS mobile operating system once a year. But why should the iPhone and iPad have all the fun? On Thursday Apple announced that it will release …
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| Steven Frank / Panic Blog: |
About Gatekeeper — Today's Mountain Lion announcement introduces an important new security feature, called Gatekeeper, in addition to the “sandboxing” feature that premiered in Lion. I'd like to talk a little bit about it, and why it's important to all Mac users. — Malware is out of control.
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| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
Apple officially renames Mac OS X to OS X, drops the ‘Mac’ — Apple's making a big deal out of Mountain Lion today, but there's an equally big change quietly afoot: the “Mac” in “Mac OS X” is no more. Instead, Apple's desktop operating system is now simply called OS X. We confirmed …
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Google Drive in the wild? Screenshot and possible logo — Google appears to be getting closer to the launch of its online storage service: A GeekWire reader says Google Drive has been enabled in his Google Account — as shown in the screenshot above, which has been redacted for the sake of his privacy.| Rhoda Alexander / iSuppli®: |
Apple's Toughest Competition in the Fourth-Quarter Tablet Market Was...Apple — Although soaring sales of Amazon's Kindle Fire and other low-priced tablets trimmed Apple Inc.'s media tablet market share in the fourth-quarter, it was Apple's own newly introduced iPhone 4S that proved … | Caterina Fake / Caterina.net: |
Pinwheel! In Private Beta — I'm happy we're about to start inviting people into the thing we've been working on!! It's called Pinwheel, and it's a way to find and leave notes all around the world. — We're opening it up in private beta on the web and mobile web. An iOS version is coming next.
| Monica Chen / DigiTimes: |
Google may launch Android 5.0 in 2Q12, say Taiwan makers — Viewing that the adoption of Android 4. has fallen short of original expectations and Microsoft will launch Windows 8 in the third quarter of 2012, Google is likely to launch Android 5. (Jelly Bean) in the second quarter and appeal … | Dan Rowinski / ReadWriteWeb: |
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Apple wins German injunction against most of Motorola's slide-to-unlock implementations — I just returned from the Munich I Regional Court, where Presiding Judge Dr. Peter Guntz publicly announced a decision in Apple's favor: most of Motorola Mobility's products were found to infringe …
| Nielsen Wire: |
American Families See Tablets as Playmate, Teacher and Babysitter — The rise of gadgets is ushering in a new generation of kids who are growing up digital. According to a Nielsen survey of adults with children under 12 in tablet-owning households, in Q4 2011 seven out of every 10 children … | John Paczkowski / AllThingsD: |
Take a Look at Some of Apple's Evidence in Proview iPad Dispute — You've seen the text of the Chinese court decision that sided with Apple in its dispute with Proview Technology over rights to the iPad trademark in China. Now, here's some of the supporting documentation.
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| Horace Dediu / asymco: |
Apple sold more iOS devices in 2011 than all the Macs sold it in 28 years — Tim Cook on the 55 million iPads sold to date: … via Transcript: Apple CEO Tim Cook at Goldman Sachs - Apple 2.0 - Fortune Tech. — That gave me an idea. Here is a plot of each major computing product Apple sold throughout …
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| Ernesto / TorrentFreak: |
Music Industry Mulls Suing Google Over “Pirate” Search Results — It's no secret that the entertainment industries believe search engines are not delivering enough when it comes to protecting copyright works. — Two months ago the RIAA and IFPI accused Google of massively profiting …
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| Jay Yarow / Business Insider: |
Groupon Is Testing A New $30 Per Year VIP Service — Groupon is offering a new “VIP” service that costs $30 a year. — A reader forwarded us the email below, and we've confirmed that it's real with Groupon. — What do you get for $30 a year? Early access to deals, and ability to buy old deals …
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| Monica Chen / DigiTimes: |
Intel to postpone mass shipments of Ivy Bridge processors — Intel recently notified its partners about plans to postpone mass shipments of its upcoming Ivy Bridge processors. Despite that the company will still announce the new products and ship a small volume of the processors in early April …
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| Eric Pryne / Seattle Times: |
Amazon to buy Denny Triangle property; plans 3 big office towers — In one of Seattle's biggest real-estate deals in years, Amazon.com has agreed to buy three blocks from Clise Properties and plans to build a 1 million-square-foot office tower on each. — In one of Seattle's biggest real-estate deals …
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| Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
Microsoft launches msnNOW, tracking trends using data from Facebook, Twitter, Bing — Microsoft's MSN is launching a new site called msnNOW, serving up the latest buzzworthy stories using technology that analyzes Twitter, Facebook, Bing and BreakingNews.com to identify trending topics by the minute.| Peter Kafka / AllThingsD: |
More Free Web TV Disappears: Some March Madness Games Will Go Behind Paywall — If you've gotten used to the idea that you can watch March Madness on the Web, for free, without breaking the law, you may be in for a surprise next month. — Some of the college basketball tourney's games …
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| Ben Popper / VentureBeat: |
Memory grand master Ed Cooke gets $1M to teach his tricks at new startup, Memrise — There is nothing extraordinary about Ed Cooke's brain. Sure he can memorize a 1000 digit number in less than an hour, but so can you, he believes. — “It's not like I was born with special cognitive abilities.
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| Vishay Nihalani / Inside AdSense: |
Mobile becomes a core component of AdSense — We launched AdSense for mobile content before the smartphone revolution when everyone had a flip phone. Our goal was to help pioneering publishers monetize their mobile content. Since then, we've seen mobile technology advance and an increasing number …
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| Cotton Delo / AdAge: |
Twitter Opens Up Self-Serve Ad Platform to 10,000 Small Businesses — American Express Cardmembers and Merchants Are Eligible to Register for Platform Starting Tonight — Twitter is rolling out the self-serve ad platform it's been testing to 10,000 small and midsize businesses next month through …
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| Mark Hachman / PC Magazine: |
Feds Propose Ban on In-Car Dialing, Texting, Surfing — The Department of Transportation has proposed guidelines that would block all in-vehicle communications by a driver, including texting, dialing, Internet browsing, and even entering a GPS address by hand.
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| Lizette Chapman / Venture Capital Dispatch: |
Lady Gaga, Then The World: Top Investors Join Social Media Site Backplane — The architects behind Lady Gaga's social media campaign have raised around $4.5 million to scale The Backplane and accelerate its goal to become the world's home page. … The infusion was not entirely needed …
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| Deborah Gage / Venture Capital Dispatch: |
Rackspace Buys Up SharePoint911 To Gird For Cloud Fight — Rackspace US has acquired SharePoint911, one of the leading consultants on Microsoft SharePoint, and will add SharePoint hosting and consulting services to its cloud, VentureWire has learned.
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| StreetInsider.com: |
Yelp (YELP) Sees IPO Price of $12-$14/Share, to List on NYSE — In an amended S-1 filing with the SEC after the close Thursday, Yelp (NYSE: YELP) disclosed it expects to price 7.15 million shares of common stock for its initial public offering at $12-$14 per share.
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| Peter Kafka / AllThingsD: |
Twitter + Robots = Instant Stories, No Humans Required — Hey, how's Newt Gingrich doing on Twitter? — You could try answering this question yourself by combing through Twitter and looking at what Newt says there, and what people are saying about Newt there. But that would take time and effort.| Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: |
With Clik, Your Smartphone Can Control Screens Everywhere — You've probably heard of Kik Messenger, a phone messaging app with the backing of Union Sqaure Ventures and RRE. It turns out Kik was just the beginning of the company's plans — today it's launching Clik, which is even more impressive.
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