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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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Pinterest Co-Founder Paul Sciarra Leaves, Ben Silbermann Officially Takes On CEO Role — Well, big changes on the horizon for Pinterest! We've confirmed reports that Pinterest co-founder Paul Sciarra is indeed leaving the company. And it's complicated: While Sciarra … | 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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| Dan Balaban / NFC Times: |
Google Wallet Co-Founding Engineer Departs Google for Square — Google Wallet co-founding engineer Rob von Behren has left the Web giant for payments startup Square, following former colleague Jonathan Wall in departing the Web giant. — Von Behren disclosed the move today in his LinkedIn profile …
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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 … | 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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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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| 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.| 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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| 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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| 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 … | 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.| AppleInsider: |
Apple putting the squeeze on retail employees as some stores see traffic double — With sales booming in line with a rapid rate of innovative product introductions, Apple's international retail chain has come under heavy pressure from a striking increase in customer traffic …
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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 … | 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 … | Andrew Webster / The Verge: |
1940 US Census becoming fully searchable online through volunteer effort — Today the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) released images of the 1940 Census, and a project is already underway to ensure that the information becomes easily available to anyone who wants to know a bit more about the Great Depression.
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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.| Enigmax / TorrentFreak: |
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.| Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web: |
Path now hashing and anonymizing contact data to protect user privacy — In a post on its company blog, the private social network Path has stated that it will begin hashing user contact data in order to make it anonymous and protect it. This is in response to issues that began when it was found …
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| 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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Samsung Hires Hint at New Chip Focus — Samsung Electronics is a major maker of processors that power cellphones and other mobile devices. But some observers think the Korean giant's recent hiring point to another possibility-chips for server systems.
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Lawsuit Says Circumstantial Evidence Enough To Prove e-Book Conspiracy — The plaintiffs who are accusing Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) and publishers of fixing e-book prices say they don't have to show an actual meeting took place. Instead, they say, indirect evidence like price jumps and a common motive … | 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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