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| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
Apple investigating new iPad WiFi issues, tells AppleCare to replace affected units — According to an internal AppleCare document, Apple is actively investigating a series of WiFi-related issues affecting the third-generation iPad. Since the new iPad's launch, many users have been complaining …
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| Nick Bilton / Bits: |
Google Begins Testing Its Augmented-Reality Glasses — If you venture into a coffee shop in the coming months and see someone with a pair of futuristic glasses that look like a prop from “Star Trek,” don't worry. It's probably just a Google employee testing the company's new augmented-reality glasses.
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| Jacqui Cheng / Ars Technica: |
Flashback trojan reportedly controls half a million Macs and counting — Variations of the Flashback trojan have reportedly infected more than half a million Macs around the globe, according to Russian antivirus company Dr. Web. The company made an announcement on Wednesday … | Pew Internet: |
The rise of e-reading — 21% of Americans have read an e-book. The increasing availability of e-content is prompting some to read more than in the past and to prefer buying books to borrowing them. — Summary of findings — One-fifth of American adults (21%) report that they have read … | Electronista: |
Dropbox clamps down on users gaming HTC promo — Plans to retake snatched storage — Later this month, Dropbox plans on launching a promotion giving HTC phone owners with devices that include the HTC Sense 4.0 app 23GB of online storage free for two years.
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| Neil Hughes / AppleInsider: |
Apple preparing overhaul of its online store — Apple has begun signaling to education shoppers that it plans to relaunch and overhaul its online store in the near future, making it easier to do business. — AppleInsider was alerted on Wednesday to the notice that can be found on the top …
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| Ross Miller / The Verge: |
HTC Evo 4G LTE is Sprint's first handset with HD voice, pre-orders start May 7th for $199.99 — The internals are not entirely dissimilar to the One X: a dual-core 1.5GHz Snapdragon S4 processor with 1GB RAM and 16GB ROM — not Tegra 3 since it lacks LTE support (not yet, at least).
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
How Facebook's Winning The War Against Yahoo, Patent By Patent — Facebook has executed a masterful response to Yahoo's patent trolling that protects it legally but still makes it look like the victim. Here I examine how for almost every patent Yahoo claims Facebook infringes upon …
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| Erica Ogg / GigaOM: |
Creativity tools: The next wave of iOS apps? — When Snapguide debuted last week it received pretty good reviews in the press. But more importantly, it got a “very warm response,” as founder Daniel Raffel put it, from new users. He's barely been sleeping, staying up to answer a constant stream …
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| Ian Griffiths / Guardian: |
Amazon: £7bn sales, no UK corporation tax — Online retailer's British operation owned by company in Luxembourg which receives all payments for books, DVDs and other goods — Amazon.co.uk, Britain's biggest online retailer, generated sales of more than £3.3bn in the country …
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| Emil Protalinski / Zero Day Blog: |
Anonymous hacks hundreds of Chinese government sites — Summary: Anonymous has hacked hundreds of Chinese government websites. Some sites were just defaced, but others have had administrator accounts, phone numbers, and e-mail addresses leaked. — The hacktivist group Anonymous now has a Chinese branch.| Arik Hesseldahl / AllThingsD: |
Exclusive: HP Labs Head Prith Banerjee Leaving — Prith Banerjee, a Hewlett-Packard senior vice president — and for five years the head of its research and development organization, HP Labs — is leaving the company effective April 15, according to an internal company memo obtained by AllThingsD.| Katie Fehrenbacher / GigaOM: |
Google to build its first thermal storage for a data center — Google has been more than creative when it comes to making its data centers more energy efficient and greener (seawater cooling and water recycling), and this week says it plans to implement a new energy efficient feature for a data center in Taiwan: thermal energy storage.
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| Tom Krazit / GigaOM: |
Nine publishers ready to embrace Zite's mobile news app — Almost a year after Zite's news reader app for the iPad drew the ire of several publishers — not to mention a few angry letters — the company is making friends with its former antagonists. Zite has now signed deals with eight publishers … | Heidi Lemmetyinen / Nokia Conversations: |
Nokia TV coming to Lumia smartphones in Finland — ESPOO, Finland - You may have seen some excitement online about a new TV service from Nokia for our Lumia smartphones. — We are very pleased to be able to confirm that Nokia TV, the latest Lumia entertainment offering from Nokia following Nokia Music …
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All About Windows Phone, SlashGear, VR-Zone, WMPoweruser, My Nokia Blog, PhoneArena and Pocket-lint
| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
Apple subsidiary FileMaker releases new version of its flagship product, makes iOS version free — Apple subsidiary FileMaker has announced a new version of their flagship software product, FileMaker 12, with new database creation tools and themes. The Mac version of FileMaker 12 gain …
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The Apple Core Blog, CNET, MacRumors and PadGadget
| Patrick Flanary / Rolling Stone: |
Neil Young Trademarks New Audio Format — Rocker developing high-def alternative to MP3's — Neil Young performs in Los Angeles. — By — They might sound like great song titles, but “21st Century Record Player,” “Earth Storage” and “Thanks for Listening” aren't new Neil Young tunes.
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| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Draw Something hits mobile game record as it passes 50M downloads — Draw Something, the Pictionary-style app that Zynga acquired with its $180 million purchase of OMGPOP, has surpassed 50 million downloads. — In just 50 days, the title has become the fastest-growing original mobile game of all time.
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Gotta Be Mobile, PhoneArena, SlashGear, The Verge, Inside Mobile Apps, CNET, T3 News, Forbes and Ubergizmo
| Sam Byford / The Verge: |
Apple has a 7.85-inch iPad prototype in its labs, according to John Gruber — Apple has been working on a smaller version of the iPad in its Cupertino labs, according to Daring Fireball's John Gruber. On an episode of The Talk Show podcast, Gruber said that he's heard details … | Brooke Crothers / CNET: |
Intel revs up ultrabook campaign: A better MacBook? — With Intel's latest silicon due soon, the chipmaker is cranking up the marketing volume for ultrabooks, saying the skinny laptops usher in a “a new era of computing.” — The marketing campaign launched this week is the biggest in about a decade …
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Tom's Hardware Guide and The Verge
| Sebastian Anthony / ExtremeTech: |
Just how big are porn sites? — It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a person in possession of a fast internet connection must be in want of some porn. — While it's difficult domain to penetrate — hard numbers are few and far between — we know for a fact that porn sites …
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| Lance Whitney / CNET: |
IE10 in Windows 8: Can pinned Web sites truly replace Favorites? — (Credit: Screenshot by Lance Whitney/CNET) — Internet Explorer users accustomed to working with Favorites will find life a bit different in the new Windows 8 Metro version of the browser.
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MSDN Blogs, Windows 8 Beta and WebProNews
| Leena Rao / TechCrunch: |
PayPal Debuts Tiered Suite Of Online, Offline And Mobile Payments Options For Small Businesses — As we heard over the past few months, PayPal is ramping up its payments options for large and small merchants. The payments giant debuted an in-store payments platform for large retailers …
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eWeek, The PayPal Blog, VentureBeat, WebProNews and Mashable
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