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Amid Privacy Concerns, Apple Has Started Rejecting Apps That Access UDIDs — Amid extra scrutiny from Congress around privacy issues, Apple this week has started rejecting apps that access UDIDs, or identification numbers that are unique to every iPhone and iPad.
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Instagram opens registration for its new Android app — We knew that Instagram was coming to Android, it was just a matter of when. Today, the company has opened registration for Android device owners, providing them with the chance to be ‘first in line’.
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| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
The Google Play problem: paying for ‘Angry Birds’ with battery life instead of money — Earlier this week, a report came out showing that some apps on Android use more than twice the power they actually need because they're running ads. Angry Birds in particular was called out … | Cody Fink / MacStories: |
Regarding Apple's Edge and the new Apple TV Interface — Alongside a hardware update that supports 1080p playback, the new Apple TV introduced a brand new grid-like interface that draws upon influences from iOS. Where previous Apple TV interfaces were more or less clickwheel-iPod inspired … | Kim-Mai Cutler / TechCrunch: |
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Klout and PeerIndex Don't Measure Influence. Brian Solis Explains What They Actually Do — Whether you like it not, Klout, Kred, PeerIndex, and Radian6 are measuring your social capital — not your influence but your potential for it. Altimeter Group's principal analyst Brian Solis today releases …
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| Martin Bryant / The Next Web: |
Twitter reportedly chooses Berlin for its German HQ — According to a report from Focus today, Twitter has chosen Berlin as the location for its German HQ. — In January, the company's Executive Chairman, Jack Dorsey said at the DLD conference in Munich that it was hiring in Germany.
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Why “Don't Be Evil” Is Evil, and Why Google Isn't So Bad — Early in 2000, a tiny but much-beloved search company held an employee meeting to figure out something that all successful firms feel they have to face at a certain point: What should we be about? — For most companies … | Jeremy Wagstaff / Reuters: |
Google charts a careful course through Asia's maps — (Reuters) - Google rushed out its panoramic Street View maps in Thailand on Friday as part of the country's efforts to show tourist hot spots have recovered from last year's floods. — But it also marked something of a change of fortunes …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Facebook The Patent Buyer: Even Before IBM, The List Includes HP, Friendster, BT... And Halliburton — Facebook, according to reports, is buying up a boatload of patents from IBM — 750 in all — that will help the company shore up against potential legal attacks from Yahoo and other companies claiming … | Technology Review: |
Twitter Not So Good At Predicting Box Office Revenues After All — A new study of tweets about movies suggests they are not necessarily a good predictor of box office revenues, say computer scientists — The online social network Twitter has recently gained a reputation for a certain degree of clairvoyance.| Ernesto / TorrentFreak: |
Microsoft Censors Pirate Bay Links in Windows Live Messenger — The place where breaking news, BitTorrent and copyright collide — Microsoft Censors Pirate Bay Links in Windows Live Messenger — The Pirate Bay is not only the most visited BitTorrent site on the Internet, but arguably the most censored too.
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Pair Is A Path For The Two Of Us — Let's say you're in a serious relationship, but you work all the time and you're long-distance. How do you stay close to the other person? I've personally had this situation for the last year and a half. My girlfriend and I use Skype, email, our phones … | Natethomas / XBMC: |
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