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Apple CEO Tim Cook in the Hot Seat at D — While he has presided over a number of events since taking over as Apple CEO last year, Tuesday night promises to offer a new look inside the mind of Tim Cook. — Cook, as Steve Jobs did several times during his career, is taking the stage at D …
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| Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch: |
Tim Cook On Apple's (Tumultuous) Relationship With Facebook, “Stay Tuned” — When asked onstage at D10 about what could be done about the lack of Facebook integration on iOS despite Facebook's formidable 900 million users and Apple's partnership with the much smaller social network Twitter …
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Apple TV Sales Have Doubled, but It's Still an Experiment, Says Tim Cook — Tim Cook won't say a word about his Apple TV plans. But he is willing to explain what he thinks about his current Apple TV product: It's a little different from his other products, because it's not a big hit. And that's okay.
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| Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch: |
Cook Reveals More Details About Apple's Product Naming Policies, And Yes, The ‘S’ Stands For Siri — Apple's product naming polices can be somewhat confusing and arbitrary: And today an audience member at the D10 conference called Apple CEO Tim Cook out on the somewhat bizarre nomenclature …
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Salesforce Set to Snap Up Facebook Friend Buddy Media for More Than $800 Million — Enterprise, meet social: Cloud-computing pioneer Salesforce.com is close to a deal to acquire Buddy Media, the five-year-old company that helps brands manage their Facebook presence.
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| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
Photos: Black and white next-gen metal iPhone backs, mini-dock, taller screen, moved earphone jack present — Earlier today, we posted the first image of the back plate for the next-generation iPhone, and now we have received several more images that are very high-resolution.
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| Om Malik / GigaOM: |
Google launches Chromebook, Chromebox & gets it right — We often joke Google is like the old Microsoft — getting things wrong, bumbling its way into new markets, and getting things right on the third try. This seems to be quite true of Google's efforts to develop a cloud PC.| David Pierce / The Verge: |
New Samsung Chromebook & Chromebox review: Chrome OS grows up — 2012 is the year of Chrome OS — or so we're told. When we spoke with Sundar Pichai, senior vice president of Chrome, he told us that this is the culmination of “a long, slow march” for Google's cloud-based operating system.
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| Arik Hesseldahl / AllThingsD: |
RIM Expects Operating Loss as Bankers Help Company Explore Options — Research In Motion, the troubled Canadian company that makes the BlackBerry line of smartphones, just announced that it expects an operating loss in the quarter ending June 2. — The company also said it has hired J.P. Morgan …
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Xbox Beyond the Box — Next week, the Xbox team heads to Los Angeles for E3. Having recently joined the team, I have the benefit of fresh perspective, and one of the things that has struck me is the amount of opportunities we have ahead. — Before joining Xbox, I had the fortune … | Dan Webb / Twitter Engineering: |
Improving performance on twitter.com — To connect you to information in real time, it's important for Twitter to be fast. That's why we've been reviewing our entire technology stack to optimize for speed. — When we shipped #NewTwitter in September 2010, we built it around …
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| Kim-Mai Cutler / TechCrunch: |
Facebook Has Lost About $35 Billion In Value Since IPO As Shares Dip Below $29 — Pain, pain, and more pain for Facebook's stock. Facebook sunk into the $20s for the first time today, declining about 9 percent as options trading started. The decline also came a day after a third wave … | Alexis Madrigal / The Atlantic Online: |
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Sergey Brin Finally Lets Someone Else Wear Google Glass — Google's co-founder manipulates the Google Glass touch pad. Image Capture: Current TV — Sergey Brin has once again hit the town with Project Glass — but this time he let someone else wear Google's augmented reality headset.| Marie Mawad / Bloomberg: |
Technicolor Dissects IPhones In Hunt For Patent Payoff — When Apple Inc. (AAPL)'s next iPhone hits store shelves, Technicolor SA (TCH)'s engineers will rush to get the handset — not to make calls or play games, but to rip it apart. — Technicolor, an unprofitable French company that invented … | T.C. Sottek / The Verge: |
HTC says One X and Evo 4G LTE have cleared US customs, are in compliance with ITC rulings — HTC says that it has completed the review process with US customs, and that “HTC devices have been released, as they are in compliance with the ITC's ruling.” The company's One X and Evo 4G LTE phones …
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Bitly Goes Beyond Link Shortening, But Its Users Are Not Amused — Bitly launched a major update and redesign of its link shortening service today that, in the eyes of many of its users, de-emphasizes some of its core feature. Instead of being able to just copy and paste a link …
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| Amir Efrati / Digits: |
Google: Search Activity Rising Following Revamp — Google said it has seen a noticeable increase in activity on its vaunted Web-search in the two weeks since the company began one of the biggest search transformations in its history. — People doing Web searches now see a big box …
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Apple's Crystal Prison and the Future of Open Platforms — Two weeks ago, Steve Wozniak made a public call for Apple to open its platforms for those who wish to tinker, tweak and innovate with their internals. — EFF supports Wozniak's position: while Apple's products have many virtues …
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| Andrew Webster / The Verge: |
6.4 percent of most popular Windows Phone apps are incompatible with Tango devices — We've already seen several instances where low-memory Windows Phone devices like the Lumia 610, which has just 256MB of RAM, simply can't run certain high-profile apps. But just how bad is the problem?
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