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Confirmed: iPad 3 Has a 2048x1536 Retina Display — Over the past couple of months, several photos of displays claimed to be for the iPad 3 have surfaced from various sources. Such parts leaks are typical with the device's expected debut early next month.
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| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
Apple grants ABC access to its Chinese supply chain, report to air February 21st — Perhaps the most mainstream technology-company-related controversy within past few weeks has been in regards to Chinese supplier working conditions. In January, the New York Times published a lengthy …
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| Peter Burrows / Bloomberg: |
Foxconn Auditor Finds ‘Tons of Issues’ — Feb. 17 (Bloomberg) — The Fair Labor Association, a watchdog monitoring working conditions at makers of Apple Inc. products, has uncovered “tons of issues” that need to be addressed at a Foxconn Technology Group plant in Shenzhen, China, FLA Chief Executive Officer Auret van Heerden said.| Clare Jim / Reuters: |
iPad maker Foxconn lifts China workers pay again — (Reuters) - Foxconn Technology Group, the top maker of Apple Inc's iPhones and iPads whose factories are under scrutiny over labor practices, has raised wages of its Chinese workers by 16-25 percent from this month, the third rise since 2010.
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| Sam Moreau / The Windows Blog: |
Redesigning the Windows Logo — We have said that Windows 8 is a complete reimagination of the Windows operating system. Nothing has been left unexplored, including the Windows logo, to evaluate how it held up to modern PC sensibilities. The Windows logo is a strong and widely recognized mark …
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| Jonathan Mayer / Web Policy: |
Safari Trackers — Apple's Safari web browser is configured to block third-party cookies by default. We identified four advertising companies that unexpectedly place trackable cookies in Safari. Google and Vibrant Media intentionally circumvent Safari's privacy feature.
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| Greg Sandoval / CNET: |
Microsoft mulls plan for new music service (exclusive) — The software maker has discussed with some of the major record companies about creating a music service to serve Xbox as well as an upcoming Windows-based phone. — Microsoft is in talks with some of the major record companies … | Jonathan S. Geller / BGR: |
iOS 5.1 GM hands-on: Japanese Siri support, new lock screen confirmed — We've got a hold of what is said to be Apple's iOS 5.1 GM, the version that will be released to the public on or around March 9th, and we can now confirm an earlier report detailing two new changes.| Chris Rawson / TUAW: |
Mountain Lion drops support for several older Mac models (Updated) — Every new version of OS X comes with harsh news for owners of older Macs: “Your Mac is too old. You're stuck with your current OS. Forever.” For Mac OS X Leopard in 2007, anyone who owned a Mac with a processor slower than 867 MHz was stuck with Tiger.| Arnold Kim / MacRumors: |
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| Arnold Kim / MacRumors: |
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| Florian Mueller / FOSS Patents: |
ITC dismisses HTC's first complaint against Apple: final ruling consistent with initial determination — After Apple brought its first ITC complaint (and an unrelated federal lawsuit) against HTC in March 2010, HTC fired back in May 2010 with an ITC complaint of its own.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Study: Windows Web Browsing Market Share Drops 10% Over Past 6 Months — Following up on its earlier report on iOS browser market share, ad network Chitika today released new results from a study which analyzed the impact mobile computing has had on traditional web browsing trends.
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| John Letzing / Wall Street Journal: |
Google's Schmidt to Sell Stock Worth $1.5 Billion — Google Inc. Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt is selling stock currently worth about $1.45 billion as part of a trading plan that would cut his ownership stake in the Internet giant to about 2.1% from 2.8%.
| Mike Masnick / Techdirt: |
US Returns JotForm.com Domain; Still Refuses To Say What Happened — There's been a lot of interest in the story of the Secret Service completely shutting down JotForm.com through a request to GoDaddy. It appears that the suspension is now ending, though it hasn't fully propagated.
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Congress to Sell Public Airwaves to Pay Benefits — WASHINGTON — The need for revenue to partly cover the extension of the payroll tax cut and long-term unemployment benefits has pushed Congress to embrace a generational shift in the country's media landscape: the auction of public airwaves … | Audrey Watters / Hack Education: |
iPads in Auburn, Maine's Kindergartens: A First Look at Their Effect on Learning — By now, it might not even be newsworthy when a school district announces it's buying a bunch of iPads for students. But last spring, when the Maine's Auburn School District announced that it was implementing …
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The Loop, WebProNews, The Next Web, MacDailyNews and 9to5Mac
| Alexis Madrigal / The Atlantic Online: |
Why Pinterest Is Playing Dumb About Making Money — Despite the company's protests to the contrary, Pinterest already knows how to make money, and may already have a model that would work for users, retailers, and itself. — Over the past few weeks, we've seen Pinterest rise out of the pack …
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| Robin Wauters / The Next Web: |
Scoop: Facebook wins legal battle against Power.com over spam, unauthorized access — We've received word that Facebook has emerged victorious in court after a long legal tussle with Power Ventures, the VC-backed company behind now-defunct (and up for sale) social networking hub Power.com.
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