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| Josh Lowensohn / CNET: |
Settlement reached in iPhone 4 antennagate suit — A settlement has been reached in a class action lawsuit targeting the antenna in Apple's iPhone 4. Original buyers are entitled to $15 or a new bumper case from Apple. — An iPhone 4 being tested inside one of Apple's anechoic chambers …
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| Ashley Lutz / Bloomberg: |
Retailers Shut Facebook Storefonts Amid Apathy — Last April, Gamestop Corp. (GME) opened a store on Facebook to generate sales among the 3.5 million-plus customers who'd declared themselves “fans” of the video game retailer. Six months later, the store was quietly shuttered. — Gamestop has company.
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| Federico Viticci / MacStories: |
VLC 2.0 Released: What's New, And An Interview With VideoLAN Developers — Back in February 2010, I wrote a post for MacStories about Lunettes, a codename of a new interface for VideoLAN's popular media player VLC. Back then, I used to spend a good portion of my days fiddling with media players …
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| Eric Slivka / MacRumors: |
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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Digital Trends, PC World, Pulse2 Technology …, Apple Bitch, Phones Review, Forbes, App Advice, Hardware 2.0 Blog, MacGazette, Softpedia News, PC Magazine, PadGadget, Examiner, TUAW, TechCrunch, AppleInsider, Gotta Be Mobile, Redmond Pie, MobileSyrup.com, The Verge, Geek.com, VentureBeat, Mashable!, The Next Web, iDownloadBlog.com, iPhone, iPad in Canada Blog, Engadget, WebProNews, Gizmodo, everythingiCafe, 9to5Mac, Electronista and Slashdot. Thanks:@wildcowboy
| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
Apple grants ABC access to its Chinese supply chain, report to air February 21st — The most mainstream technology company-related controversy within the past few weeks is most likely the issue of Chinese supplier-working conditions. In January, the New York Times published a lengthy …
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| Stephen Shankland / CNET: |
Faster Chromebooks to leapfrog today's slowpokes — Even for those who buy into cloud computing, the first-generation Chromebook can be painfully pokey. But next-gen models should appeal to more people. — Sundar Pichai, SVP of Chrome — Because I've got cloud-computing religion …
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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 … | Susan Decker / Bloomberg: |
Apple Files Competition Claim Against Motorola Mobility — Feb. 17 (Bloomberg) — Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc. said Apple Inc. filed a complaint with the European Union's competition authority accusing the company of violating a pledge to license industry-standard patents on fair terms.
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| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Coming March 22: Angry Birds Space — It seems that planet Earth isn't big enough for Angry Birds anymore. The cute cartoon characters are headed into the void with the upcoming Angry Birds Space game from Rovio. — Angry Birds has been the major success story of mobile games …
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Geek Beat Technology News, Pulse2 Technology …, MacStories, IntoMobile, Softpedia News, PC World, Joystiq, Engadget, BGR, The Verge, CNNMoney.com, WebProNews, VG247, Gotta Be Mobile, Kotaku, TechCrunch and AllThingsD. Thanks:@deantak
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Groupon On A Buying Spree: Buys Mobile Payment Specialist Kima Labs — Another acquisition for Groupon, and a sign of how the e-commerce company is getting more focused on mobile as a route to future growth: it has picked up Kima Labs, which makes mobile barcode reading app Barcode Hero and mobile payment app TapBuy.| Jenna Wortham / Bits: |
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| Geoffrey A. Fowler / Wall Street Journal: |
New Charges Against Megaupload — A Virginia grand jury filed additional criminal charges on Thursday against Megaupload, the online file sharing site that U.S. authorities shut down in January and charged with copyright theft. — The new indictment, filed in the Eastern District of Virginia …
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| Felix Salmon: |
Aleynikov goes free — Count me in, with Choire Sicha, as being very happy that Sergey Aleynikov is once again a free man. To cut a long story short, Aleynikov used to work in high-frequency trading for Goldman Sachs, earning $400,000 a year. He then got offered a job in Chicago, earning three times that amount.
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