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| Donna L. Tapellini / Consumer Reports News: |
Our test finds new iPad hits 116 degrees while running games — The new iPad can run significantly hotter than the earlier iPad2 model when running an action game, Consumer Reports testers have found. — Using a thermal imaging camera, Consumer Reports engineers recorded temperatures …
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| Peter Kafka / AllThingsD: |
Apple's Chilly Response to iPad Heat Complaints — It's not uncommon for Apple enthusiasts to start finding fault with their new gadget within a couple days of buying the latest and greatest. — In some rare cases — most famously, with the iPhone 4 antenna — Apple may end up acknowledging some validity to the griping.| Zach Honig / Engadget: |
Visualized: new iPad burns 10 degrees hotter than its predecessor — We wouldn't exactly be going out on a limb by suggesting that the new iPad is Apple's hottest tablet to date — even before Tim Cook confirmed as much earlier today. But while Apple has plenty of reason to brag …
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| Arik Hesseldahl / AllThingsD: |
Exclusive: In a Major Restructuring, Hewlett-Packard to Combine Printer and PC Groups — Hewlett-Packard will announce a sweeping reorganization today that will move its Imaging and Printing Group, once the jewel in the IT giant's crown, under its PC-making Personal Systems Group, sources familiar with the matter tell AllThingsD.
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Mercury News, New York Times, PC Magazine, The Tech Trade, Network World, VentureBeat, Forbes, Reuters, CNET, Engadget, SlashGear, The Verge, Dice Blog Network, GigaOM, Between the Lines Blog, Tech Trader Daily, BGR, Between the Lines Blog, WebProNews, Techie Buzz, Business Insider and Business Insider. Tweets: @jswartz652
| Wall Street Journal: |
Zuckerberg Skips Analyst Meeting — Facebook Inc. chief executive Mark Zuckerberg doesn't expect to play a hands-on role selling the social network's initial public offering to analysts, one Facebook executive told Wall Street analysts Monday. — Mr. Zuckerberg skipped a meeting Monday …
| Felix Salmon / Wired: |
For High Tech Companies, Going Public Sucks — When Facebook goes public this year, it will raise at least $5 billion, making it the biggest Internet IPO the world has ever seen. The day it debuts on the stock exchange, Facebook will be worth more than General Motors, the New York Times Company, and Sprint Nextel combined.| Matt Lynley / Business Insider: |
The Real Reason Google Bought Kevin Rose And Milk: It Needs Designers — Google acquired the Milk team last week — but only about half of it. — Business Insider has learned the other half, which included Milk engineers Amber Reyngoudt and David Peck, were not offered positions at Google.Thanks:@graemethickins
| Peter Kafka / AllThingsD: |
Beats Is Buying MOG Music Subscription Service — Headphone-maker Beats is purchasing music subscription service MOG, according to multiple sources familiar with the deal. But the deal hasn't closed yet. — Beats' majority owner is HTC, the Taiwanese cellphone maker, which put $300 million into the company last year.
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| Dan Rowinski / ReadWriteWeb: |
Mobile Devs Interested in Google Over Facebook for Social Mobile Apps — Google and Facebook are in a war for user attention on the Web. This is not just about how many eyeballs are on Google+ versus Facebook but also from an end-to-end platform perspective.
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BGR, 9to5Google, WMPoweruser, The Register, Appcelerator, BetaNews, CNET, PhoneArena, Electronista, dailywireless.org, GigaOM and Between the Lines Blog. Thanks:@dan_rowinski
| Drew Fitzgerald / Wall Street Journal: |
Oracle's Profit Rises 18% on Growth From Software Licenses — Oracle Corp.'s fiscal third-quarter profit rose 18% as new licenses from the technology giant's software business continued to offset weaker hardware revenue. — Shares rose 2.1% to $30.75 after hours on a stronger-than-expected core profit.| Dr. Raymond M. Soneira / DisplayMate: |
new iPad Display Technology Shoot-Out iPad 2 - new iPad - iPhone 4 — Introduction The iPad has been a phenomenal runaway success - to a degree that may have even surprised Steve Jobs. At the new iPad launch Tim Cook remarked that people have been wondering who would improve upon the iPad.| Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
CEO dares Microsoft to sue him over virtual desktops that flout licensing — We recently told you about a virtual desktop service for iPads and other devices that seems to exist only because it breaks Microsoft's Windows licensing rules in order to provide an unbeatable price: free …
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| Andrew Harris / Bloomberg: |
Apple Fails to Wrest Android Data From Motorola Mobility — Apple Inc. lost a bid to force Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc. (MMI) to turn over data about Google Inc. (GOOG)'s development of its Android mobile-phone operating system and planned acquisition of the mobile phone manufacturer.
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PhoneArena, AllThingsD and Techie Buzz
| Sebastian Anthony / ExtremeTech: |
Seagate hits 1 terabit per square inch, 60TB hard drives on their way — Seagate has demonstrated the first terabit-per-square-inch hard drive, almost doubling the areal density found in modern hard drives. Initially this will result in 6TB 3.5-inch desktop drives and 2TB 2.5-inch laptop drives …
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VentureBeat, Hard Drives, PC Magazine, Gizmodo, PC World, WebProNews, TechEye, GSMArena Blog, Geek.com and Slashdot
| Peter Kafka / AllThingsD: |
New York Times Cuts Back on Free Web Access — A year after launching a controversial paywall, the New York Times says it has nearly half a million paying subscribers for its flagship paper. It also says it will make it harder for people to read on the Web without paying up.
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The Next Web, Poynter, CNET, VatorNews, iPhone, WebProNews, VentureBeat and Tech Trader Daily. See also Mediagazer
| Nick Bilton / Bits: |
Wantful, Gift-Giving Start-Up, Announces Funding — When it comes to sending people birthday and Christmas gifts, I would likely win the award for: “Worst. Gift-giver. Ever.” Not only do I pick terrible presents for people, but worse, I have half-written birthday cards stuffed around …
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BetaKit, VentureBeat and silicontap.com
| Greg Kumparak / PandoDaily: |
An Exclusive First Interview With Reddit's New CEO, Yishan Wong — Just a bit over a week ago, reddit announced that they'd finally found a CEO. Now, this wasn't a matter of swapping the old guy out with the new guy — up until Condé Nast spun reddit off into its own thing back in September … | Jack Purcher / Patent Bolt: |
Microsoft Invents Projector Eyewear for Xbox & Beyond — It came to light in 2008 that an Apple research team was working on a visual headset for the iPod. In recent months news has surfaced that a next generation super high res micro OLED display is ready to support new visual headsets coming to market later this year.
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Ars Technica, BGR, CNET, News at About Projectors, ITProPortal, WMPoweruser and VR-Zone
| Meghan Kelly / VentureBeat: |
Google answers the question, “Why is this spam?” with new spam-box feature — Google released a very basic, but helpful tool today: a “Why is this spam?” answer box at the top of each e-mail placed into your spam folder. — Google is fairly good at parsing e-mails in your inbox …
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The Next Web, PC World, msnbc.com, Gmail Blog, Softpedia News, CNET, Lifehacker and The Verge
| Tricia Duryee / AllThingsD: |
Exclusive: Square Snags PayPal VP Alyssa Cutright for International Expansion — A Square spokesperson has confirmed to All Things D that the payments company has hired Alyssa Cutright, a 12-year veteran of PayPal, to head up its international expansion. — Most recently, Cutright …
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VentureBeat and Betabeat
| J.B. / Fusible.com: |
Google trademarks Showy for software that turns a device into a remote control — Late last month, Google registered the domain name GoogleShowy.com. With such generic words in the name there was not much to go on. — But now, Google has filed a trademark application with the United States Patent …
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9to5Google, MobileSyrup.com and Business Insider
| Timothy B. Lee / Ars Technica: |
Samsung and RIM sued for infringing lol-worthy emoticon patent — In an apparent quest to make the patent system look even more ridiculous, a firm on Thursday sued Samsung and Research in Motion for allegedly infringing a patent titled “emoticon input method and apparatus.”
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CNET, I4U News, Sammy Hub, PC Magazine, PC World, MobileBurn.com, WebProNews, Between the Lines Blog, TechEye, Datamation.com and SlashGear
| Jonathan Stempel / Reuters: |
Diller-backed Aereo countersues Fox, PBS — (Reuters) - Aereo Inc, an online television service backed by billionaire Barry Diller, filed a second countersuit against major broadcasters that want to stop it from retransmitting their programming. — Tuesday's lawsuit against News Corp's Fox …
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The Verge and VentureBeat
| T.C. Sottek / The Verge: |
Obama administration enters aggressive stance towards Iran on internet policy, provides guidance to subvert its ‘electronic curtain’ — Today the Obama administration released a blog post condemning Iran for denying its citizens “a universal right to access information, and to freely assemble online …
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