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New Apple maps app under fire from users — Apple's map app renames the town of Hagley as Dudley - which is more than seven miles away — Inaccuracies and misplaced towns and cities in Apple's new map software have provoked anger from users. — In June Apple announced it would stop using Google Maps …
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| Piers Dillon Scott / The Sociable: |
That's not an airport, it's a farm - Irish Minister for Justice considers Apple's iOS 6 Maps dangerous — Ireland's Minister for Justice has a few concerns with Apple's new iOS6 map application. The main one being that iOS6′s new mapping app identifies Airfield Garden, a working farm in a residential area, as an actual airport.
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Exclusive: Wal-Mart stops selling Amazon Kindles — (Reuters) - Wal-Mart Stores Inc will no longer sell Amazon.com Inc's Kindle products, making the world's largest retailer the second major chain to stop selling Amazon's devices, according to an internal memo and a source familiar with the situation.
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| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
HP marches out an army of Windows 8 consumer and business PCs — Hewlett-Packard is introducing a dozen new computers and accessories today that represent the core of its line-up for Microsoft's Windows 8 operating system coming on Oct. 26. — This new pack of computers isn't even HP's whole line-up.| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
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| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
Netgear Debuts New NeoTV, NeoTV PRO and NeoTV MAX Streaming Players To Take On Roku — Netgear unveiled an all-new lineup of streaming media players today, including the NeoTV, NeoTV PRO and NeoTV MAX, available for $49.99, $59.99 and $69.99 respectively beginning today, September 20.| Matthew Moskovciak / CNET: |
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Exclusive: Facebook to charge merchants to run Offers — (Reuters) - Facebook Inc said it will start charging businesses to run Offers on its social network, turning a previously free service into a potential revenue generator at a time when Wall Street is demanding new sources of growth and profit from the company.
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CNET, Forbes, Inside Facebook, VentureBeat, TechCrunch, Pulse2 Technology …, The Next Web, The Tech Block and Techie Buzz. Tweets: @eldon
| Ellis Hamburger / The Verge: |
Facebook tests automatic ‘Photo Sync’ uploads on Android — Facebook has begun testing a new feature for Android owners that syncs photos you shoot on your phone straight to your Facebook account. It's a hybrid of Google+'s instant photo-upload feature and Apple's Photostream … | Florian Mueller / FOSS Patents: |
Microsoft wins third German injunction against Google's Motorola over high-power patent — Google just suffered a strategically very important defeat at the Munich I Regional Court, where Presiding Judge Dr. Peter Guntz just announced a ruling in Microsoft's favor against wholly-owned Google subsidiary Motorola Mobility.
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PC Magazine, PandoDaily, ZDNet, Associated Press, AllThingsD, WebProNews, iDownloadBlog.com, Engadget, The Tech Block, PhoneArena and GeekWire. Tweets: @fosspatents
| Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent: |
Apple and publishers subpoena Amazon in ebook pricing case — Apple wants the Department of Justice to turn over the interviews it conducted with Amazon employees as part of the ebook pricing lawsuit. In an August filing, Apple wrote, “Amazon was the driving force behind the Government's investigation …
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| Miyoung Kim / Reuters: |
Samsung to add iPhone 5 to U.S. lawsuits vs Apple — (Reuters) - Samsung Electronics Co plans to add Apple Inc's iPhone 5 to existing patent lawsuits against its U.S. rival, stepping up its legal challenge to Apple as the two smartphone leaders seek to assert rights to key technologies.| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Business Card Upstart Moo.com Buys Flavors.me To Expand Its Digital Profile — Moo.com, the online-to-print business card company that was one of the UK's earlier startup successes, is branching out: it is buying all of the assets of Flavors.me, the site where people can create online personal profiles …
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GigaOM, Wired.co.uk, PandoDaily, Betabeat, Forbes, Pulse2 Technology … and The Next Web
| Ina Fried / AllThingsD: |
Major League Baseball Hopes iPhone Tickets Will Be a Hit — While riding to San Francisco's AT&T Park on Wednesday, an alert popped up on my phone letting me know that the Giants game was nearby, even though I was still on the train nearing the ballpark. — As I neared the gate …
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Inquirer, Pulse2 Technology …, SlashGear, Macgasm, The Next Web and PhoneArena
| Jeff John Roberts / GigaOM: |
US government and Stack Exchange launch crowdsourced patent process — A new partnership between the US government and a popular Q&A site may help rid the country of the low quality patents that have produced an endless series of lawsuits that threaten to stunt parts of the technology sector.
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The Verge, Ars Technica, StackExchange Blog and Techdirt
| Richard Rubin / Bloomberg: |
Microsoft Avoided Billions in U.S. Tax, Senate Memo Says — A U.S. Senate committee memo said Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) used aggressive international tax maneuvers to avoid billions of dollars in taxes over the past three years. — The report, released in advance of a 2 p.m. hearing in Washington today …
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| Eric Savitz / Forbes: |
Unwired Planet Sues Apple, Google With Infringing 10 Patents Each — Unwired Panet, the wireless Internet technology company formerly called Openwave, this morning said it has filed patent infringement complaints against both Apple and Google in federal court in Nevada.| Enigmax / TorrentFreak: |
Pirate Bay Financier Files For Bankruptcy, Focus Shifts To Peter Sunde — Following their earlier convictions for copyright infringement, Pirate Bay co-founders Gottfrid Svartholm and Fredrik Neij, former site spokesman Peter Sunde, and financier Carl Lundström all owe a considerable amount in damages.
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| Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica: |
iCloud for Windows 2.0: An improvement, but not much has changed — iCloud gets a lot of attention in reviews of iOS and OS X, and with good reason—it's one of Apple's biggest services, and with every new version of its desktop and mobile operating systems, iCloud expands to store just a bit more of your stuff.
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TUAW and Softpedia News
| Anna Heim / The Next Web: |
RSS monetization network Mediafed acquires news reading platform Taptu — RSS monetization network Mediafed has bought news reading platform and app publisher Taptu for an undisclosed amount, the companies announced today. — Following the deal, Mediafed and Taptu hope to create a …
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PandoDaily, TechCrunch, VatorNews, paidContent, VentureBeat, AllThingsD and BetaKit. See also Mediagazer
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History, As Recorded on Twitter, Is Vanishing From The Web, Say Computer Scientists — Almost 30 per cent of recorded history, shared over social media such as Twitter, has disapeared, according to a new study of the Egyptian uprising and other significant events
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Business Week, Pulse2 Technology … and GigaOM
| Carey Kolaja / AllThingsD: |
The iPhone 5 Doesn't Have NFC — So What? — With last Wednesday's Apple iPhone 5 unveiling, and the recent Nokia Lumia launch, mobile is on top of the media agenda. But as the screen size and connector stories die down, the question of “when will my mobile phone become my wallet?” rises up once again.
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Apple Outsider and The Loop
| Matthew Humphries / Geek.com: |
Raspberry Pi gets a 1GHz turbo mode — The Raspberry Pi is a fantastic bit of kit out the box, offering a complete PC for just $35. But of course, as soon as you start using it you would like it to go a bit faster than the stock 700MHz clock frequency, and then you start editing the config.txt …
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ZDNet, The H Open Source, Inquirer, TechEye, Softpedia News, Gizmodo UK, bit-tech.net, Liliputing, Engadget, Raspberry Pi and SlashGear
| Alex Wilhelm / The Next Web: |
Microsoft issues a rebootless ‘Fix’ to the Internet Explorer security weakness — Yesterday we brought you the news that Microsoft was preparing a one-click solution for Internet Explorer, protecting users from a security flaw that was discovered. — The company adamantly states that few users …
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PC Magazine, Microsoft Support, Computerworld, Reuters, ZDNet, Softpedia News, Krebs on Security, CNET and eWeek
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