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FCC Fires Back at AT&T Over T-Mobile Job Cuts — The Federal Communications Commission rejected the idea, put forth by AT&T earlier on Friday, that job cuts at T-Mobile are a sign that regulators should have allowed its megadeal to proceed. — “In a short period of time …
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| Nick Baker / Bloomberg: |
Bats Global IPO Turns Ugly After Bad Apple Trade, Quote Error — Bats Global Markets Inc.'s debut as a public company didn't go as planned, as a system glitch just as its own stock was to begin trading caused erroneous price quotes and Apple Inc. (AAPL) was halted due to a trade on its platform.| Donald Melanson / Engadget: |
US Army debuts app marketplace prototype: iOS first, Android coming soon — The promise of an Army app store has been bandied about for quite a while now, but it looks like it's slowly becoming a reality. The US Army has today officially announced a prototype of the Army Software Marketplace …
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New iPhone (iPhone 5,1) coming fall 2012 with LTE, similar sized screen — While Apple has only just released the new iPad, iMore has already started to hear more about the next generation iPhone (iPhone 5,1). We previously reported that Apple was working to reduce the size … | Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft Store swapping rival smartphones for Windows Phones in latest ‘Smoked’ challenge — Microsoft is turning its $100 “Smoked by Windows Phone” campaign into a $1,000 challenge at its retail stores across the US this weekend. Visitors can walk into a Microsoft Store between noon …
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Former Apple TV Engineer: ‘Those New Apple TV Designs Were Tossed Out 5 Years Ago’ — An interesting tweet by Michael Margolis, a former Apple TV engineer at Apple Inc., popped up in our Twitter feed this evening, and we thought it was worth passing on. According to Margolis … | Rafe Needleman / CNET: |
Box.Net became a .Com for just shy of a million bucks — CEO Aaron Levie got lucky: The company that owned the .com of his company name wanted a lot, but not as much as they could have got. — Just Box. — I just had a nice talk with Aaron Levie, the CEO of Box.net. I mean, Box.
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Pinterest revises terms of service, gives up right to sell your content — The providers of an inspiration service turned inward for some much-needed inspiration of their own, and have updated their terms of service following feedback from community members.
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RIM to Give Developers Prototypes of New BlackBerry in May — Research In Motion Ltd. (RIM) plans to give software developers prototypes of a new BlackBerry in early May, signaling RIM is a step closer to the debut of a handset it's betting on to revive slumping sales.
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| Drew Olanoff / The Next Web: |
Thanks to Google Voice, you can now make phone calls from within Google+ Hangouts — The Google+ team continues to graduate features from its sandbox into prime time for its Hangouts product. Last week, the company announced the addition of Google Docs into Hangouts, and today the service … | Daniel Rubino / wpcentral: |
Report: Nokia paying AT&T for exclusive employee use of the Lumia 900 — We've heard numerous times that the Nokia Lumia 900 will be a “hero” device for AT&T, a term that is unfamiliar for many who are not in the business of smartphones. Here, the usage refers to AT&T promoting the Lumia 900 …
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| Kim-Mai Cutler / TechCrunch: |
6waves Lolapps' CTO and Chief Product Officer Rue And Sethi Step Down — Just a few days after social gaming company 6waves Lolapps said it was laying off most of its development staff to focus on publishing, its chief product officer Arjun Sethi and chief technology officer Brian Rue have stepped down.
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| Liz Gannes / AllThingsD: |
What Google Hasn't Done: Explained Why We as Users Would Want a Unified Online Identity — After years of providing us with many very good products — search, Gmail, Google Maps, YouTube, Chrome — Google is now on a mission to turn itself into one big product that understands each of us as one unified person.
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Rdio signs deal with UK music rights-holders, as it cranks up its European expansion — Digital music subscription service just Rdio just took one small step closer towards launching in the UK, after PRS for Music, the organisation that represents the rights of 85,000 songwriters …
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| Scott McCartney / Wall Street Journal: |
To Tweet From 30,000 Feet: Picking Planes Wired for Wi-Fi — More passengers are downloading books, sending Tweets and updating their Facebook pages in the middle of a flight—even as they complain about steep prices. — Currently, about 1,700 planes in the U.S. have Internet access … | Aaron Souppouris / The Verge: |
Meet Svbtle, the beautiful blogging platform you're not invited to, and Obtvse, its open-source clone — A couple of months ago well-known writer and UX designer Dustin Curtis, tired of the “uninspiring nature” of the blogging platforms, built his personal blog from the ground up.
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| Kevin Fitchard / GigaOM: |
Is Apple planning its own mobile voice service? — Light Reading has dug up some very interesting job postings on the Apple's Website. Apple is looking for telephony software engineers to work on iOS. Judging by the list of experience requirements in the postings, Apple is looking to add voice-over-IP …
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AOL Said to Hire Evercore to Find Buyer for 800-Patent Portfolio — AOL Inc. (AOL) hired Evercore Partners Inc. (EVR) to find a buyer for its more than 800 patents and explore other strategic options, three people with knowledge of the matter said. — Private-equity firms … | Om Malik / GigaOM: |
Say what? How much did MOG sell for? What is Spotify valued at now? — Updated: For the past week or so, there have been rumors that MOG, the digital music subscription story has been been sold to HTC Corp., the Taiwanese mobile phone maker. Business Insider first reported the rumor … | Cotton Delo / AdAge: |
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