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| Josh Lowensohn / CNET: |
Apple's closing shot hits at Samsung ‘copycat’ docs — Apple once again hammers away at Samsung for internal documents in its closing argument against the company. — SAN JOSE, Calif. — Apple highlighted its broad collection of Samsung internal documents, and not its millions of dollars spent …
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| John Paczkowski / AllThingsD: |
Live: Apple and Samsung Go Into the Final Round — After a last fruitless effort to reach a settlement in their closely watched patent battle, Apple and Samsung presented their closing arguments to the jury that will determine who ripped off whom. — At issue in the case: Whether Samsung …
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| Jordan Crook / TechCrunch: |
Verizon Vacation Blackout Reveals The New iPhone Will Launch On Friday, September 21 — A trusted Verizon employee has just confirmed to TechCrunch that the carrier is having an all-staff vacation blackout from the dates of Friday, September 21 to September 30. You know what that means, right?| Josh Lowensohn / CNET: |
Inside Intellectual Ventures, the most hated company in tech — Nathan Myhrvold and other executives at the controversial company say critics simply don't understand what they're doing. CNET went behind the scenes to understand what 40,000 patents and an unapologetic plan to make money from them really means.
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Amazon Glacier: Archival Storage for One Penny Per GB Per Month — You Need Glacier — I'm going to bet that you (or your organization) spend a lot of time and a lot of money archiving mission-critical data. No matter whether you're currently using disk, optical media or tape-based storage … | Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Windows 8 Pro to be priced at $199 following $69.99 promotional pricing — Microsoft's Windows 8 Pro software will be priced at $199 after a promotional price of $69.99 expires on January 31st 2013, according to one source familiar with Microsoft's plans. The software maker will also offer … | Jonathan Watson / Skype Blogs: |
Updates to Skype for iPhone & Skype for iPad Improves Performance & Adds Photo Sharing — Millions of people use Skype for iPhone or Skype for iPad each month. Today, with updates to both apps, we are introducing a frequently requested feature: Photo Sharing for iOS.| Reuters: |
Exclusive: Barry Diller's IAC offers $300 million for About.com — (Reuters) - Barry Diller's IAC/Interactivecorp submitted an offer in excess of $300 million to buy the About.com information website from the New York Times Co, according to people with knowledge of the situation.| Kara Swisher / AllThingsD: |
This Week in MarissYa: iPhones for All, Flickr Love and Management Musical Chairs — Even with all the swirl around the worrisome stock declines at Facebook, Groupon and Zynga, along with happier expected new product launches from Apple and Amazon, don't think things aren't cooking over in the land where Marissa Mayer reigns.| Times of India: |
Twitter may face govt axe in India — Twitter might face legal action if the popular microblogging site does not comply with Indian government's demand to censor objectionable content posted by its users. — Stung by the misinformation campaign that spread like wildfire through SMS …
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| R. Jai Krishna / Wall Street Journal: |
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| Karen Gullo / Bloomberg: |
Apple Sued by Ex-Worker Who Says Jobs Guaranteed His Job — Wayne Goodrich, who says he was a confidant, sounding board and close adviser to Apple Inc. (AAPL) co- founder Steve Jobs, sued the iPhone maker claiming he was fired for no legitimate reason despite Jobs's promise of job security.
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| Brad McCarty / The Next Web: |
Mission accomplished: The Oatmeal raises $875,000 to build a museum honoring Nikola Tesla — After successfully booting an IP troll in the financial groin a couple of months ago, Matthew Inman (better known to the Internet as The Oatmeal) has done it again.
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| Lance Whitney / CNET: |
MetroPCS unveils budget-friendly 4G plan and new 4G phone — The carrier is rolling out a $55 unlimited 4G LTE plan and a $149 LG Motion 4G phone to sweeten the deal. — MetroPCS may hand the major carriers some competition, with its new 4G LTE plan for budget-conscious consumers.
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| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Why passwords have never been weaker—and crackers have never been stronger — In late 2010, Sean Brooks received three e-mails over a span of 30 hours warning that his accounts on LinkedIn, Battle.net, and other popular websites were at risk. He was tempted to dismiss them as hoaxes …
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| Reyhan Harmanci / BuzzFeed: |
Tech Confessional: The Googler Who Looks At The Worst Of The Internet — Sitting in the sun at a tech company cafeteria, this former Google worker described a year spent immersed in some of the darkest content available on the Internet. His role at the tech company mainly consisted … | Dante D'Orazio / The Verge: |
Chrome OS gets updated with smaller apps list and option to save directly to Google Drive — Chromebook and Chromebox users (and anyone else using Chrome OS) have an update waiting for them that offers several usability improvements. Before you go check for the update, however …
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| Mikey Campbell / AppleInsider: |
Apple patent lets users switch away from broadcast commercials automatically — Apple on Tuesday was granted a patent that allows users to skip unwanted audio and video broadcast segments such as commercials with on-device content like songs, podcasts or other media, possibly hinting …
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| Jon Fingas / Engadget: |
Office Web Apps integrate touch support on iPad and Windows 8, brace us for an Office 2013 world — Touch-friendliness is a centerpiece for the upcoming Office 2013, but don't fret if you prefer to live in the world of Office Web Apps ahead of time. As of new preview versions of both OWA and Office 365 …
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BGR, 9to5Mac, Macgasm, PadGadget and The Microsoft Office Blog
| Kevin Fitchard / GigaOM: |
Google, Boingo bring their free Wi-Fi experiment to mall rats — Google and Boingo are building on their free Wi-Fi project in New York City, launching the advertising-paid access model in eight malls across the country. Though the project is still in its infancy, it represents a growing trend …
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
TechCrunch's Picks: The 10 Best Startups From Y Combinator's S12 Demo Day — 75 startups pitched their hearts out today at Y Combinator's 15th Demo Day. We saw surefire small businesses to risky big bets but after collecting opinions from their YCS12 classmates and top VCs, these are TechCrunch's top 10 picks.| Arik Hesseldahl / AllThingsD: |
Dell Beats Earnings Expectations, Pares Outlook on Weak Sales — Dell's quarterly numbers just came in and, as expected, it's a mixed bag of mostly bad news. — Per share earnings were 50 cents a share on sales of $14.48 billion. The earnings exceeded the consensus expectation …
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google Launches Octane: A New JavaScript Benchmark Based On Popular Apps And Libraries — Google's Chrome team just launched Octane, a new JavaScript benchmark suite that aims to measure real-world performance. Unlike most other benchmarks, which tend to use artificial tests developed … | Donald Melanson / Engadget: |
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