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Foxconn, Apple, and the Fair Labor Association Respond to ABC News' Exclusive Report — On Monday, ABC News' Bill Weir exclusively reported on the conditions inside Apple's main Chinese manufacturer — Foxconn. For the first time ever, Apple allowed a journalist onto its production line … | Horace Dediu / asymco: |
How much does it cost to manufacture an iPhone? — An iPhone generates approximately $650 in revenue for Apple. This figure has remained fairly steady over time. Using deduction from overall margins, it's possible to estimate the gross margin on the product to be around 55%.
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Examiner, Mashable!, PC Magazine, 9to5Mac, Business Insider, everythingiCafe, Forbes, VatorNews, GamePolitics blogs, TPM Idea Lab, App Advice, Pulse2 Technology …, MacRumors, Gotta Be Mobile, Fortune, Forbes, VentureBeat, SlashGear, BGR, WebProNews, Electronista, PhoneArena, Tech Trader Daily, Dwight Silverman's TechBlog, TUAW, Phones Review, AllThingsD, Computerworld, iClarified, iPhone in Canada Blog, SplatF, Softpedia News and Mike Daisey. Thanks:@beijingdou
| Elinor Mills / CNET: |
Obama unveils Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights — President promises privacy legislation and says Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, and AOL are committed to working with Do Not Track technology in browsers. — The Obama administration plans to work with Congress to enact legislation …
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Google: Please Don't Kill Video on the Web — Vice President & Deputy General Counsel, Corporate Standards & Antitrust Group, Microsoft — Earlier today, Microsoft filed a formal competition law complaint with the European Commission (EC) against Motorola Mobility.
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Pinterest's uneasy relationship with copyright law: what happens next — Pinterest is unquestionably among today's hottest new startups — the social networking service lets users “pin” images they like on the web to boards they can share with friends and publish to the world at large.
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| David Pogue / New York Times: |
State of the Art: OnLive Desktop Plus Puts Windows 7 on the iPad in Blazing Speed — You're probably paying something like $60 a month for high-speed Internet. I'm paying $5 a month, and my connection is 1,000 times faster. — Your iPad can't play Flash videos on the Web. Mine can.
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| Bob Brewin / Nextgov.com: |
Air Force Special Operations cancels iPad buy — The Air Force Special Operations Command canceled its planned acquisition of Apple iPad tablet computers last week, two days after receiving a query from Nextgov about the inclusion of Russian-developed security and documents reader software specified in procurement documents.
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| Michael Arrington / Uncrunched: |
Look, This Is What It Comes Down To — The old press is still having the same conversation about the new press: objectivity! Here's the latest by the L.A. Times, titled Are Silicon Valley tech bloggers truly objective? — This can (and has) gone on and on and on.
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Rapportive Acquired By LinkedIn! — Hey there! This is Rahul from Rapportive. — Our vision is to make you brilliant with people. Not just good, not just effective, but actually brilliant. That's our dream. — Since we accidentally launched, we have relentlessly pursued this vision … | Garett Sloane / New York Post: |
Google ready to launch pilot pay-TV program in Kansas City — Call him Larry the Cable Guy. — Google CEO Larry Page is ready to launch a pilot pay-TV program to rival Time Warner Cable in Kansas City, Mo., The Post has confirmed. — Last week, the Internet giant filed for a video franchise license … | Eliot Van Buskirk / Wired: |
Tomahawk, the Most Important Music App Nobody's Talking About — In order for a technology to take off these days, it has to be simple. Twitter, Facebook, iTunes, Spotify — each can be summed up in a sentence or so and readily understood from the very first time you use it.
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Make a Good Search Impression with Bing's Linked Pages — Whether it's an old friend, a former classmate or (ahem) yourself, searching for people is one of the most common things we do on the web. Last year, we took the first step to bring expanded search results of your Facebook friends into Bing … | Bits: |
Apple, Google and Others in Agreement on App Privacy — Updated Adding Google statement. Updated Adding comments from Ms. Harris. — California's attorney general, Kamala D. Harris, said on Wednesday that the state had reached an agreement with Amazon.com, Apple, Google, Hewlett-Packard …
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iOS 5.0.1 bug bypasses security passcode to provide access to contacts and phone app — A new bug in Apple's iOS 5.0.1 software could allow unauthorized access to contacts and the calling features of an iPhone, bypassing passcode protection. That is the claim from iPhoneislam, which discovered the flaw this week.
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| Leena Rao / TechCrunch: |
HP Q1 Revenue Down 7 Percent To $30B; Net Income Down 44 Percent, Software Sales Up 30 Percent — HP just reported mixed first quarter earnings. The company posted non-GAAP diluted earnings per share of $0.92, down 32% from the prior-year period (GAAP diluted earnings per share were $0.73, down 38% from the prior-year period).
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Facebook's Top Cop: Joe Sullivan — Facebook chief of security Joe Sullivan, sitting in front of a display of the bad guys his team has taken down (Photo Credit:Timothy Archibald) — This story appears in the March 12, 2012 issue of Forbes magazine. — If Facebook were a country … | Robert Scoble / Scobleizer: |
Why I am tired of Silicon Valley's focus on virality, Glassmap is far worse than Path ever was — You might have seen all the people beating up on Path about two weeks ago. But that really is pretty benign behavior, in my experience, when compared to companies, like Glassmap, who really are hurting the entire app economy.
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Google Seen Poised To Overtake Facebook In Display Ads — Google Inc.'s display-advertising business is growing faster than anticipated and is on track to surpass that of Facebook Inc. next year, according to research published Wednesday. … According to data from eMarketer …
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Amazon Yanks 5,000 Kindle Titles In Fight Over Terms — Updated: IPG's full memo to publishers on page 2. — Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) has turned off the buy button on nearly 5,000 Kindle titles from distributor Independent Publishers Group after IPG refused to capitulate to Amazon's demand for better terms.Sponsor Posts
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Announcing TypeScript 0.9: Generics and More — Anders Hejlsberg, Steve Lucco, and Luke Hoban join us for a conversation about TypeScript 0.9. TypeScript now has generics! (and more)
Announcing TypeScript 0.9: Generics and More — Anders Hejlsberg, Steve Lucco, and Luke Hoban join us for a conversation about TypeScript 0.9. TypeScript now has generics! (and more)
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Static.com Adds Hadoop Support for Cloud Foundry — In this guest post, Jake Farrell, CTO for Static.com, explains how the major shift in the hosting industry towards platforms for high developer productivity …
Static.com Adds Hadoop Support for Cloud Foundry — In this guest post, Jake Farrell, CTO for Static.com, explains how the major shift in the hosting industry towards platforms for high developer productivity …
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99.999 Is Not Enough: An OpenCloud Approach to Delivering Application Uptime and Performance — Executive Summary — The pressure to keep vital applications online and performing well is extreme.
99.999 Is Not Enough: An OpenCloud Approach to Delivering Application Uptime and Performance — Executive Summary — The pressure to keep vital applications online and performing well is extreme.
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University makes major investment in big data development — As news of the benefits provided by big data platforms such as Apache Hadoop spreads, more organizations are investing in the burgeoning technology.
University makes major investment in big data development — As news of the benefits provided by big data platforms such as Apache Hadoop spreads, more organizations are investing in the burgeoning technology.Who's Hiring In Tech?
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