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| Amir Efrati / Wall Street Journal: |
The Mounting Minuses at Google+ — Playing Catchup to Facebook, Google's Social Network Is a Virtual Ghost Town by Comparison — To hear Google Inc. Chief Executive Larry Page tell it, Google+ has become a robust competitor in the social networking space, with 90 million users registering since its June launch.
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| Matt Hamblen / Computerworld: |
Google exec hints of Android 5.0 release this fall — Pattern of earlier releases suggest fall, but Lockheimer says Google wants to be ‘flexible’ on timing — BARCELONA — Google is not letting on much about the next version of Android, even though it is rumored to be coming to a smartphone by early summer.
| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
Google building ‘firewall’ between Android and Motorola after acquisition — Google's Andy Rubin led the charge to acquire Motorola, but the Android boss won't have anything to do with the company once the deal closes — he told reporters at Mobile World Congress today that he “sponsored” … | Christian Zibreg / 9to5Mac: |
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| Michael J. de la Merced / DealBook: |
Yahoo Warns Facebook of a Potential Patent Fight — As Yahoo struggles to keep up with younger competitors, the Web portal company is weighing a new tactic: threatening legal action over its patent holdings. — Yahoo is seeking to force Facebook into licensing 10 to 20 patents over technologies …
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| Roger Cheng / CNET: |
Samsung: 'We're not doing very well in the tablet market' — One Samsung executive gets brutally honest about his company's performance in the tablet market, even while offering up some hope for its line of Galaxy Note mobile devices. — Samsung executive Hankil Yoon speaking during … | Richard Lawler / Engadget: |
Chrome now easily opens email links in Gmail, thanks to some HTML5 magic — The next time you open up Gmail in Chrome keep an eye out for the prompt above, which uses HTML5 to finally close the gap between the way Google's browser handles mailto: links and its popular email service.
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French Regulator Warns of Google Privacy Policy — BRUSSELS (AP) — Google's new privacy policy appears to violate the European Union's data protection rules, France's regulator said Tuesday, just two days before the new guidelines are set to come into force. — Google announced its new privacy policy with much fanfare last month.
| John Paczkowski / AllThingsD: |
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| Andy Greenberg / The Firewall: |
Google Will Offer $1 Million In Rewards For Hacking Chrome In Contest — For the last three years, Google's Chrome browser has left the world's premiere hacking competition unscathed, even as Firefox, Internet Explorer and Safari have all been taken down by the assembled security researchers.| Brian Stelter / New York Times: |
Once Film-Focused, Netflix Transitions to TV Shows — Belying the “flix” in its name, Netflix is now primarily an Internet streaming service for television shows, not feature films. — TV series now account for more than half of all Netflix viewing. That helps to explain why this Wednesday … | Eric Slivka / MacRumors: |
CNBC Claims LTE Quad-Core iPad 3 Coming at New York Media Event Next Week [Updated] — CNBC has just issued a Tweet claiming its sources have indicated that Apple will indeed be launching a quad-core iPad 3 next with 4G LTE cellular data capabilities next week.
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| Bill Rigby / Reuters: |
Microsoft's next Steve: Windows boss faces biggest test — (Reuters) - For Steven Sinofsky, the stern but creative engineering manager who runs Microsoft Corp's flagship Windows division, February 29 is showtime. — On that day, in Barcelona, Sinofsky will preside over the public test release … | Jamie Keene / The Verge: |
Intel lays out its plan for Android, will cut chip size in half by 2014 — As Paul Otellini said at the Intel press event at Mobile World Congress, “it wouldn't be an Intel presentation without a roadmap.” The company has laid out the long-term plans for its mobile processors …
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| Alice Chan / PSFK: |
Mercedes-Benz Brings Siri To Their Cars — Luxury carmaker Mercedes-Benz unveiled plans to integrate Apple's Siri into its A-Class electronics system that would allow drivers access to their iPhone apps using voice commands. The program, called the Drive Kit Plus will work in conjunction … | Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
Microsoft shows ‘Holoflector’ augmented-reality mirror — This afternoon at the Microsoft TechForum event in Redmond, the company's researchers showed a series of prototypes and demos in areas including advanced displays and augmented-reality applications. — One of the research projects …
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| Michael Gorman / Engadget: |
HBO Go coming to Xbox 360 on April 1st — HBO has slowly been bringing HBO Go to a multitude of connected platforms, from Roku boxes to some Samsung connected TVs, and now we finally know when it'll come to the Xbox 360. Tonight at an HBO event in San Francisco, company Co-President …
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| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
IBM takes big steps toward extremely fast quantum computing — IBM is announcing today that it has made major advances toward creating a practical, full-scale quantum computer, a fabled, theoretical machine that relies on the tiniest atomic properties to compute problems faster than any supercomputer that exists today.
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| Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
Whole Foods prototype puts Kinect on shopping cart, follows people around store — The quest for a high-tech “shopping cart of the future” is nothing new, but Whole Foods is planning to test a new spin on the concept, using Microsoft's Kinect sensor for Windows.
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| Sean Ludwig / VentureBeat: |
Seamless brings super simple food ordering to the iPad — Online food-ordering company Seamless has brought its ordering and menus to the iPad today — a move that hungry couch potatoes will likely applaud. — Seamless currently competes with smaller-but-still-potent startup GrubHub for online delivery and pickup order supremacy.
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Goodbye Erick, Hello Eric — TechCrunch has been through a lot lately, and we need to focus on what truly matters: covering startups and innovation. So, this post is going to be short. — But here is what's going on: Erick Schonfeld is leaving and Eric Eldon is replacing him as editor.
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Tweets: @mathewi, @rajupp, @valleyhack, @abrams, @davepell, @cpen, @tylerwillis, @eldon, @jasonkincaid, @leenarao, @a_greenberg, @pkedrosky, @megan, @sarahcuda, @kouroshk, @sg, @dozba, @jason, @joshconstine, @joshconstine, @eldon, @alexia, @allnick, @paulcarr, @fromedome, @hunterwalk, @dannysullivan, @paulcarr and @arrington
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Sequoia, Kleiner Perkins, And Obvious Put $4.5M In Sleek Social, Mobile Gifting Platform Karma — Karma, a new social, mobile gifting service from the founder of TapJoy, has raised funding from Kleiner Perkins, Sequoia Capital, The Obvious Corporation, Stephen Gillett, Felicis Ventures and other angel investors.
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Hot Item: Pre-IPO Facebook Shares — Facebook Inc. isn't publicly traded yet, but that hasn't stopped investors like Leon Cohen from trying to buy the social network's stock now. — The 83-year-old resident of Aventura, Fla., would like to purchase 10,000 or more of Facebook's private, before-initial-public-offering shares.
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| Emil Protalinski / Friending Facebook Blog: |
Law firms: Facebook Credits violates antitrust law — Summary: Facebook is once again being accused of violating U.S. antitrust laws by requiring that social game developers use Facebook Credits on its platform. This time two law firms are getting involved.
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All Facebook, The Register and The Next Web
| Danny Sullivan / Marketing Land: |
On Google & Being “Evil” — “I don't think they were ever not evil,” I'm quoted as saying about Google in a New York Times column yesterday. True enough, I said that. But I wanted to provide some further context about my comments as well as the truly disastrous two months Google has had on the public relations front.
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