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A letter from Tim Cook on Maps — To our customers, At Apple, we strive to make world-class products that deliver the best experience possible to our customers. With the launch of our new Maps last week, we fell short on this commitment. We are extremely sorry for the frustration …
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| Jordan Crook / TechCrunch: |
Tim Cook Apologizes For Apple Maps, Points To Competitive Alternatives — Apple CEO Tim Cook has written an open letter on Apple's website, finally apologizing for the Maps drama that's been unfolding over the past few weeks with the introduction of iOS 6. — In the letter, Cook states that he is …
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Sharp says making adequate volumes of display used in iPhone5 — (Reuters) - A Sharp Corp executive said the company is making “adequate volumes” of displays it is known to supply for Apple Inc's new iPhone5, indicating that a bottleneck in supplies of screens may have eased.
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| Claire Atkinson / New York Post: |
Apple's plan to have music-streaming service built into iPhone 5 scuttled by royalty fight with Sony/ATV — Apple's plan to have its own music-streaming service built into the iPhone 5 was dramatically dashed when talks between the tech giant and Sony/ATV hit a last-minute snag, The Post has learned.
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| Drew Olanoff / TechCrunch: |
Twitter Announces New Improvements For Discover Tab, Adds Continuous Tweet Stream — Today, Twitter announced some updates to its Discover offering. Here's what the company had to say: … The name of this game is context. What Twitter has been working really hard at is providing top news stories … | Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web: |
Yes, the iPhone 5 does vibrate differently — If you're the proud owner of an iPhone 5, you may have noticed something different about the way that it vibrates. Well, you're not imagining it, because there is something different about it: the vibrating motor.| Ina Fried / AllThingsD: |
T-Mobile Leases Its Towers for $2.4 Billion to Fund Its LTE Plans — T-Mobile said on Friday that it has reached a deal to unload its cellular towers for $2.4 billion, a move that will help fund the company's effort to modernize its network. — The buyer is Houston-based Crown Castle, a major owner of such towers.
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| Nivedita Bhattacharjee / Reuters: |
Exclusive: Groupon reshuffles execs, seeks to fix Europe business — (Reuters) - Groupon Inc (GRPN.O), the world's largest online daily deals provider, is reshuffling senior management roles in an attempt to fix its struggling European business — a shake-up that will also include the departure of its chief of international business.
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Leaked: Check out photos of RIM's BlackBerry 10 phones — Renderings of its two upcoming phones — a full touchscreen device and one with a Qwerty keyboard — pop up on the Web. — Research in Motion may not be showing off its BlackBerry 10 phones any time soon, but that doesn't mean photos … | Daniel Eran Dilger / AppleInsider: |
Google's “iLost” Motorola ad faked an address to “lose” iOS 6 Maps — Google's Motorola Mobility subsidiary went looking for an address that didn't actually exist in an effort to artificially portray Apple's new iOS 6 Maps as deficient. — In a marketing ploy not unlike Nokia's faked camera shots …
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| Stephen Totilo / Kotaku: |
Notch: “I'd rather have minecraft not run on win 8 at all than to play along.” — Markus “Notch” Persson, the creator of Minecraft, is in the rare position to be able to do just about whatever he wants and say whatever he feels. So the man whose game is tearing up the charts on Xbox Live Arcade … | AppleInsider: |
Apple iPad dominates tablet-based web browsing with 98% share, report says — A study released on Thursday claims the iPad accounts for nearly of all web traffic originating from tablets, and 54.5 percent of all traffic from mobile devices, to sites running the touch-centric Onswipe platform.| Dara Kerr / CNET: |
Calif. law passed to halt employer snooping on social media — Calif. Gov. Jerry Brown signs a privacy bill making it illegal for employers to demand employee usernames and passwords for social media accounts. — Calif. Gov. Jerry Brown took to social media today to announce that he signed … | Matt Burns / TechCrunch: |
Google Maps, Now With More High-Res Satellite And 45° Aerial Imagery — Google Maps gets more awesome by the day. Earlier this week, the service started rolling out stunning underwater imagery- if you will, a seaview mode. Now Google took to the Google Maps blog to announces the inclusion …
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| Jon Russell / The Next Web: |
No, Facebook does not have 63.5 million active users in China. — A new report published this week has suggested that China is Twitter's largest global market and Facebook has 63.5 million users there — despite both being blocked by the country's Internet censorship system … | Douglas MacMillan / Bloomberg: |
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| Mike Masnick / Techdirt: |
Google's Copyright Crackdown Punishes Author For Torrenting His Own Book — Over the years, we've pointed out repeatedly a massive Achilles Heel for Google: its often dreadful customer service. Trying to communicate with Google can often be like facing a giant white monolith, rather than any sort of human being.
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