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Samsung Galaxy S III full specs: 1.5GHz quad-core, 1080p display, ceramic case — We reported some exclusive details surrounding Samsung's upcoming flagship Galaxy S III smartphone this past weekend, and now we have received some more information that helps us paint a more complete picture.| Sharif Sakr / Engadget: |
Nokia announces 808 PureView: Belle OS, 4-inch display, 41-megapixel camera(!) — we go hands-on (video) — Remember that Nokia PureView tease from a few days ago? Well, suddenly it all makes sense. We are indeed looking at an imaging flagship phone and a true successor to the N8.
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| Ina Fried / AllThingsD: |
The Inside Story of Nokia's 41-Megapixel Camera Phone: Five Years in the Making — If it were easy to put a decent zoom lens in a camera phone, Nokia might never have come up with its biggest breakthrough in imaging in years. — The technology in the 808 PureView phone introduced on Monday … | Myriam Joire / Engadget: |
| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
Google to ‘double down’ on Android tablets in 2012, says Andy Rubin — It's no secret that Android tablet sales have lagged far behind Apple's iPad, and Google's planning to do something about it. In a meeting with reporters today at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona …
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| Kim-Mai Cutler / Inside Mobile Apps: |
Android crosses 850,000 activations per day, Andy Rubin says — The Android platform is now seeing more than 850,000 device activations per day, up from the 700,000 figured shared back in January, according to Andy Rubin, who oversees the OS at Google. — The figures suggest that Android … | Frederic Lardinois / SiliconFilter: |
Facebook Launches New Mobile Web Standards Initiative, Easier Payments for the Mobile Web — During a special lunch-time event at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona today, Facebook's CTO Bret Taylor introduced a number of new industry-wide initiatives for the mobile web.| Douglas Purdy / Facebook Developer Blog: |
Helping Improve the Mobile Web — To help developers reach more people, we're committed to providing distribution across all platforms. The Open Graph, combined with News Feed and Timeline, helps people discover new apps through friends, regardless of the technology stack used.
| The Mozilla Blog: |
Mozilla in Mobile - the Web is the Platform — This week we are in Barcelona at Mobile World Congress 2012, the mobile industry's largest trade show. Our goal is to meet with industry operators, vendors and developers to further the cause of promoting an open, people-centric Web for consumers …
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| Florian Mueller / FOSS Patents: |
Motorola can't enforce standard-essential patents against Apple in Germany while appeal is pending — huge victory for Apple, bad news for Google — [Update] I have produced an unofficial translation of the court's press release. [/Update] — Apple scored a breakthrough court victory today …
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| Stratfor / PR Newswire: |
Stratfor Statement on Wikileaks — Company Denounces Email Disclosure as Deplorable Breach of Privacy — AUSTIN, Texas, Feb. 27, 2012 /PRNewswire/ — Below is a statement from Stratfor on release of company emails by Wikileaks: — In December, thieves compromised Stratfor's data systems …
| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
Apple working on enhanced A5 chip (A5X) AND completely new chip (A6) — Apple's new iPad processor will likely offer improved gaming performance — Typically, when Apple's product launched approaches, many industry watchers offer conflicting views on the features the new products might sport.| Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch: |
Dropbox Buys Cove To Bring Former Facebookers Ruchi Sanghvi And Aditya Agarwal To The Team — The rumors are true! Dropbox has acquired stealth collaboration startup Cove for its talent, namely the brilliant engineering duo and couple Aditya Agarwal and Ruchi Sanghvi.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Skype for Windows Phone beta released, full version due in April — Microsoft is releasing a beta version of Skype for Windows Phone today, with a full release due in April. Skype for Windows Phone beta allows users to make audio and video calls to Skype contacts over 3G, 4G, and WiFi.| Chris Velazco / TechCrunch: |
Intel Announces New Smartphone Partnerships With Lava, ZTE, And Visa — We've already caught wind of the Lenovo K800 and Orange's newly-announced Santa Clara but Intel CEO Paul Otellini isn't content to leave their push into mobile at that. — Otellini has just announced that Intel … | Anton Troianovski / Wall Street Journal: |
AT&T Plan Would Let App Makers Pay for Subscribers' Data Use — BARCELONA—AT&T Inc. is preparing a service that would let content providers and developers of mobile applications pay the wireless carrier for the mobile data its customers use, the carrier's network and technology head John Donovan said in an interview Monday.
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| Sean Ludwig / VentureBeat: |
Vimeo launches improved iOS app with full-screen iPad playback — When streaming video service Vimeo launched brand-new Android and Windows Phone applications in early January, the company teased that it was also working on a major update for iOS so it could support the iPad.| Bloomberg: |
No Company Follows Apple's Expanded China Audits — Apple Inc. (AAPL)'s rivals aren't rushing to emulate the iPhone maker's decision to subject supplier factories to audits by a labor group. Instead, they're sticking to internal checks that may leave room for violations — and negative public relations fallout.| Mike Grishaver / The LinkedIn Blog: |
LinkedIn Follow Button: Companies, Look Who's Following You Now — Today, we're excited to announce the launch of LinkedIn's Follow Company button. Starting today, companies will be adding this button to their websites, making it easier for any consumer on the web to begin following companies of interest, on LinkedIn.
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| Jean-Louis Gassée / Monday Note: |
HP's PC Addiction — Why is HP still in the PC business? It must be for the sport, because the money isn't there. Looking at the quarterly figures released this past week, we see PC revenue down 15% year-to-year, with a low 5.2% Operating Profit: — HP can explain.
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| Garry Tan / garry's posterous: |
Steve Jobs and Farhad Manjoo are wrong: Dropbox can do what Apple, Microsoft and Google can never do. — Farhad Manjoo writes in Pando Daily about how Dropbox is just a feature. Unfortunately the examples he talks about seem to support the exact opposite. … This assertion is about as wrong as could be.
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| Kara Swisher / AllThingsD: |
Exclusive: AOL's CTO Alex Gounares Leaves Company — According to sources close to the situation, AOL's CTO Alex Gounares is leaving the New York-based Internet company. — At AOL, he was in charge of all of AOL's vast technical operations. He is among a number of execs who have been hired …
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| Liz Gannes / AllThingsD: |
Scott McNealy's Wayin Gets $14M for Second-Screen Apps — Social TV app Wayin, which asks users to “weigh in” on multiple-choice questions about live television and other topics, has raised $14 million in Series B funding led by U.S. Venture Partners, bringing it to a total of $20 million raised.
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| Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft Blog: |
Microsoft partners with Good Technology for encrypted mobile email — Summary: Microsoft has forged a new partnership with Good Technology to bring encrypted email support to Windows Phone. — While Microsoft officials seem intent on playing up all consumer focused news all the time with Windows Phone …
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PR Newswire and WinBeta
| Daniel Cooper / Engadget: |
Samsung announces Galaxy Note 10.1 at MWC (update: hands-on photos!) — Samsung's announced another 10.1-inch tablet to join its burgeoning collection of slates. The Galaxy Note 10.1 is an S-Pen toting variant of the similarly sized-and-named Galaxy Tab. It's running Touchwiz-infused ICS … Sponsor Posts
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