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New Apple iPad tops our tablet Ratings — The high-resolution screen of the new iPad establishes a new benchmark in excellence, providing the best rendering of detail and color accuracy we've ever seen on a tablet display. As a result, the iPad tops our new tablet Ratings, posted today.
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| Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune: |
| Derek Andersen / Startup Grind: |
Exclusive: Pinterest Co-Founder Paul Sciarra Is Leaving The Company — Exclusive: To be clear this is not an April Fools' joke. Multiple sources inside the company confirm that Pinterest co-founder Paul Sciarra is leaving the company within the next week or so.
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| Chris Ziegler / The Verge: |
HTC One X review — Batman Begins. The Muppets. James Bond in Casino Royale. What do they have in common? They're all examples of franchises that got better after a reboot (some will disagree on Casino Royale, but I'm standing my ground). For HTC, that's exactly what the One series represents … | Sascha Segan / PC Magazine: |
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| Colleen Taylor / TechCrunch: |
Found Makes Searching For Files Anywhere Super Simple (And Really Slick) — As much as many companies want to think that they are your one-stop-shop for data storage, the reality is that you probably have files spread across a handful of different places. Your home machine, one or two Gmail inboxes …
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| Stephen Shankland / CNET: |
Microsoft's IE reclaims lost ground in browser battle — Internet Explorer has reversed a slide in usage, at least for now. — (Credit: data by Net Applications; chart by Stephen Shankland/CNET) — Microsoft's Internet Explorer regained some of the browser usage it's lost in recent years … | John Paczkowski / AllThingsD: |
iPhone Outselling All Other Smartphones Combined at Sprint and AT&T — Led by the 4S, Apple's iPhone line continues to rack up strong sales at AT&T, Verizon and Sprint. So strong that some believe it's likely the top-selling phone at all three of those carriers.| Larry Dignan / Between the Lines Blog: |
Dell buys Wyse, plays ‘cloud client’ game — Summary: Dell expands into thin clients and virtualization software with the acquisition of Wyse. — Dell said it will acquire Wyse Technology in a move that gives the company more virtualization heft and an entry in thin computing.| Ben Popper / VentureBeat: |
With stock price tumbling, shareholder lawyers see Groupon as juicy target — UPDATE: Groupon's share price is now down more than 15 percent for the day. — Groupon's stock has been falling since it revealed on Friday that it was revising its first quarter earnings to reflect a larger than expected loss.
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Hollywood formally brings ISPs into the anti-piracy fight — The country's top Internet service providers, along with major film and recorded music companies, announced that they have hired the person who will oversee their joint antipiracy efforts, scheduled to begin this summer.
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| Daniel Rubino / wpcentral: |
Nokia kicks off US advertising campaign with a Beta Test, takes on the iPhone — There is little doubt that Nokia has the deep pockets, ingenuity and cleverness to make an effective advertising campaign for the AT&T Lumia 900. The question is, when will “Operation Rolling Thunder” …
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| Harry McCracken / Techland: |
25 Years of IBM's OS/2: The Strange Days and Surprising Afterlife of a Legendary Operating System — Big Blue's next-generation operating system was supposed to change everything. It didn't. But it's also never quite gone away. — The July 1987 issue of PC World magazine featured a centerfold (!) of Microsoft CEO Bill Gates.
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| Tom Krazit / GigaOM: |
Why Google isn't worried about Android revenue — Not all investments are made with the expectation that a big payoff is around the corner. Google's decision to bankroll the development of Android was just such an investment, which makes the past week's back and forth over just how much money Google …
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| Nathan Ingraham / The Verge: |
Is Apple preparing a physical game controller for the iPad and iPhone? — Ever since the introduction of the iPhone over five years ago, Apple has scoffed at the notion that users need anything other than their fingers to control iOS devices. Apple has never offered a stylus … | Sarah Kessler / Mashable!: |
Learning to Code? Codecademy Adds Beginner Languages HTML and CSS — Despite its promise to turn anyone into a computer programmer through interactive online tutorials — and its more than 1 million registered users, including New York City Mayor Bloomberg — Codecademy hasn't been equipped … | Jolie O'Dell / VentureBeat: |
Yahoo dives deeper down the Node.js rabbit hole with open-source Mojito — Today, Yahoo is open-sourcing Mojito, a bit of software that uses JavaScript and Node.js to run a single codebase both on client and server side. — Mojito is one of a few Node-centric projects Yahoo's been brewing.
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| Natasha Baker / Reuters: |
Wealthy smartphone users less likely to play games, tweet — (Reuters) - Wealthier smartphone users are less likely to play games or tweet and will opt for news, travel or finance apps, according to a new study. — The research by The Luxury Institute focused on app usage among wealthy consumers …
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Kim Dotcom Back Online, Prepares To Release Music Album — Following his arrest in January, Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom was immediately deprived of his freedom. — On February 22nd, just over a month later, he was released on bail but heavy restrictions meant that life would not be getting back to normal.
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| Eric Eldon / TechCrunch: |
Revealed: Bono And The Edge of U2 Are Dropbox Investors — In the annals of celebrities investing in tech startups, this one's looking especially smart. Bono and The Edge, the singer and lead guitarist of Irish rock band U2, got into Dropbox's $250 million second round last year, they said in a tweet today.| Drew Olanoff / The Next Web: |
Tumblr launches Facebook Timeline, News Feed, and Ticker integration — Sharing Tumblr posts on Facebook has been the same as adding any other piece of content until now. Tumblr has just announced that it finally has been accepted as an Open Graph partner and will be publishing feeds to your Timeline …
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| Florian Mueller / FOSS Patents: |
Patent abuse hurts the German economy: Microsoft has to relocate its European logistics center — Germany's leading news agency, dpa (Deutsche Presse-Agentur), reports that legal concerns have led Microsoft to relocate its European logistics center from Germany to the Netherlands.
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| Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web: |
Google expands typical traffic mapping to include roads, helps plan your route during rush hour — Google has today announced that it is expanding typical traffic pattern mapping service to include regular roads, not just highways. It has always provided the service on highways …
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| Douglas MacMillan / Bloomberg: |
Square Hires Tesla Executive Amid Effort to Double Staff — Square Inc., a startup that makes credit-card readers for smartphones and tablets, hired communications executive Ricardo Reyes amid an effort to double its staff to 500 this year. — Reyes, who previously ran communications …
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