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| Joe Jerde / BlackBerryOS.com: |
Exclusive: Leaked BlackBerry 10 2013 Roadmap — BlackBerry news in the last week has had it's plenty of downs. However, with this less than par news we have gained plenty of new insight into the BlackBerry 10 platform and what it entails. The news has taken us on a roller coaster.| Vanity Fair: |
Microsoft's Downfall: Inside the Executive E-mails and Cannibalistic Culture That Felled a Tech Giant — Microsoft C.E.O. Steve Ballmer delivers the keynote address at the 2012 International Consumer Electronics Show, in Las Vegas, on January 9. — Analyzing one of American corporate … | iFixit: |
Nexus 7 Teardown — Google announced the Nexus 7 at their I/O keynote on June 27, 2012. Five days later, we tore one down. Some are calling the Nexus 7 a ‘Kindle Fire killer,’ but can it stack up to the Fire's impressive eight out of ten repairability score? We just had to find out.
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GM Talks to Facebook About Returning as a Paid Advertiser — After a High-Profile Split, Facebook Is Trying to Prove That Its Ads Do Work — General Motors Co. and Facebook Inc. are in talks to bring the auto maker back as a paid advertiser, two months after a high-profile falling out, people close to both companies said.| Jim Edwards / Business Insider: |
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| Herman Lai / M.I.C. Gadget: |
Chinese Household Chemical Company Sues Apple For “Snow Leopard” Trademark — After Apple settled the “iPad” trademark dispute with Proview, the tech giant is facing another trademark lawsuit from a Chinese household chemical company called “Jiangsu Xuebao”.| James Brightman / GamesIndustry International: |
EA is “going to be a 100% digital company, period” says Gibeau — EA's Labels president also tells us that NPD's monthly reports are “totally irrelevant” — Electronic Arts is one of the publishers in this industry that is at the forefront of the digital transition.| John Gruber / Daring Fireball: |
The iPhone and Disruption: Five Years In — Clayton Christensen, author of the deservedly much-praised The Innovator's Dilemma, was wrong about the iPhone five years ago: … Last month, Larissa MacFarquhar profiled Christensen in The New Yorker (subscribers-only, alas), and in a parenthetical …
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| Erin Geiger Smith / Reuters: |
Judge rejects Samsung's request to allow U.S. tablet sales — (Reuters) - A U.S. judge rejected on Monday Samsung Electronics Co. request to lift an injunction against U.S. sales of its Galaxy Tab 10.1, a tablet computer than runs on Google Inc's Android and competes with Apple Inc.'s iPad.| canada.com: |
Research In Motion CEO challenges perception that RIM is in ‘a death spiral’ — TORONTO - Research In Motion chief executive Thorsten Heins says “there's nothing wrong with the company as it exists right now” and he's confident it will get past its current challenges.| Wall Street Journal: |
CEO of Poker Site Full Tilt Is Arrested — The chief executive of Full Tilt Poker, the beleaguered one-time Web poker giant, was arrested Monday on a plane that had just landed at John F. Kennedy International Airport as the government unveiled new criminal charges against him related to an alleged Ponzi scheme.
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| Carly Page / Inquirer: |
Google's Nexus 7 tablet infringes Nokia patents — THE GOOGLE NEXUS 7 is already in hot water, as Nokia claims that the tablet infringes some of its patents. — Announced last week, the Asus built Nexus 7 is Google's first own-brand tablet and boasts Android 4.1 Jelly Bean … | Mark Milian / Business Week: |
QR Code Fatigue — When 29-year-old manufacturing worker Michael Hellesen sees a Quick Response code around his hometown of Racine, Wis., he sometimes scans it using an application he downloaded to his Google (GOOG) Android smartphone. More often than not, it takes Hellesen to a brand's website.| Jon Russell / The Next Web: |
Ice Cream Sandwich passes 10% of Android installations, as Jelly Bean launch draws closer — The latest distribution data from Android's developer team reveals that the installation rate of its latest Ice Cream Sandwich (ICS) flavour has passed 10 percent of active devices on the market for the first time.
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| Joshua Kopstein / The Verge: |
Twitter account re-tweets public photos of peoples' debit cards — While over-sharing online typically involves annoying-but-harmless pictures of food on Instagram, it's interesting to consider whether compulsive social media use or sheer thoughtlessness is to blame for the contents of @NeedADebitCard …
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| Jack Clark / ZDNet: |
Amazon Web Services: The hidden bugs that made AWS' outage worse — Summary: Although an electrical storm caused the Amazon Web Services outage, it was a slew of previously unseen bugs in the cloud's technology that extended the downtime — Amazon Web Services' prolonged downtime …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Google+ Integration Comes To Chrome Web Store, Now Powers Social Discovery Of Apps — Just because Google I/O is over, that doesn't mean the Google+ announcements have stopped flowing. Yesterday, the company revamped its Google Places iOS app (it's now “Google+ Local” and includes Zagat integration) …
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| Lisa Jucca / Reuters: |
Apple says disagrees with Italy antitrust complaint — (Reuters) - Tech giant Apple disputed on Tuesday a request by the Italian competition authority that it must offer a free two-year warranty on its goods or face fines of 300,000 euros ($378,200) and even temporary closure of its Italian operations.
| Cornelius Rahn / Bloomberg: |
Deutsche Telekom in Talks With Google on Mobile Payments — Deutsche Telekom AG (DTE) is in discussions with Google Inc. (GOOG) (GOOG) along with credit-card companies and banks to add partners to its mobile-payment system, Thomas Kiessling, the German company's head of innovation, said in an interview.| Agence France Presse: |
Kodak patent auction approved over Apple complaint — NEW YORK — Beleaguered photography pioneer Kodak said a US bankruptcy court has approved its bid to auction off more than 1,100 patents despite objections by Apple and FlashPoint over a small number of them.
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| Jordan Golson / MacRumors: |
iCloud Beta Previews Web Versions of Notes and Reminders — Leaks first appeared in May that Apple was planning to add web versions of the Reminders and Notes iOS apps to iCloud.com for access from desktop Macs and PCs. — The iCloud Beta portal has since been activated for developers enrolled the iOS 6 beta at beta.icloud.com.
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Computerworld, CNET, Macgasm, iLounge, Pulse2 Technology …, SlashGear, MacNN, iPhone Buzz, Softpedia News, PadGadget, iDownloadBlog.com, WebProNews and 9to5Mac. Thanks:@jlgolson
| Stephen Shankland / CNET: |
Adobe: Web standards match 80 percent of Flash features — SAN FRANCISCO—Adobe Systems, retooling as fast as it can for a future of Web publishing and Web apps, sees the technology as mostly caught up to the Flash technology that Adobe previously preferred.
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| David Meyer / ZDNet: |
Oracle cannot block the resale of its software in Europe — Summary: Downloaded software can be resold just like software on physical media can, the Court of Justice of the European Union has said in a ruling that shreds the distinction between software and license sales
| Paul Mozur / Wall Street Journal: |
Watching How China Censors — As Officials Crack Down on Web Chatter, New Technology Finds Out Why — China's government isn't the only one paying close attention to what the country's citizens are saying on social media sites. — As China's 500 million Internet users rapidly adopt social media … | Paul Sawers / The Next Web: |
Google Maps goes indoors in the UK, launching with 40 venues across the country — Last November we reported that Google Maps was going indoors, letting Android users navigate their way around the inside of buildings. — But alas, it launched initially for the US and Japan only, with Switzerland and Canada following after.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
With Places, Payments Platform Dwolla Finally Lists Where It Works, Lets You Request Merchant Support — Mobile payments platform Dwolla has the potential to disrupt how money moves in the new, digital economy. It's an idea of how a payments network should look, if one had been built today … | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
MOG Went For A Song. HTC Says Beats Paid Only $14M For The Music Streaming Service — Yesterday, Beats Electronics confirmed that it was buying the music streaming service MOG. Today, HTC, which invested $309 million in Beats last year, revealed to its shareholders just how much was paid …
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| Paul Sawers / The Next Web: |
Taxis, black cars, hybrids, SUVs...Uber announces ‘freedom to choose’ for US and Canadian riders — Uber officially launched its private driver-for-hire service in London last week, and as we reported yesterday from this Wednesday, Uber-ers in San Francisco and New York will have the option … | Globes Online: |
Intel acquires Idesia Biometrics — Intel will pay several million dollars for the biometrics start up, which identifies people based on their unique heartbeat. — Sources inform “Globes” that Intel Corporation (Nasdaq: INTC) has acquired Israeli medical device company IDesia Biometrics.
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