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Hey, Apple: Mapping Takes More Work than You Think — Apple's apology suggests it may underestimate how much effort is needed to build a great map app. — In response to scathing criticism over its new Maps app for mobile devices, Apple CEO Tim Cook last week apologized and admitted that the company …
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| Farhad Manjoo / PandoDaily: |
Mapgate Is Over. Apple Won. Customers Won. Google, Not So Much. — In a single succinct, sincere, and brilliant note, Tim Cook has put Apple's Maps fiasco to bed. It was a beautiful thing. He offered a clear assessment of the problem ("we fell short"), and took full responsibility for it.
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| Joshua Topolsky / The Verge: |
Kindle Paperwhite review — Amazon's fastest, most feature-packed e-reader hits a crowded market with a few new moves under its belt — I was looking forward to the review of the Kindle Paperwhite for one simple reason: I would finally have an excuse to read more.
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| Julie Bort / Business Insider: |
Larry Ellison Just Took On Amazon With A New Cloud Service — Larry Ellison just announced that Oracle was launching a brand new cloud computing service. — Oracle will now be offering “infrastructure as a service” as the industry calls it, or “hardware as a service” as Ellison dubbed it tonight.
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| Dana Wollman / Engadget: |
HP announces the ElitePad 900, a business-friendly Windows 8 tablet arriving in January — Remember those hazy days of summer when HP ran an ad during the Olympics, slipped in a a shot of an unannounced tablet and thought we wouldn't notice? (P'shaw!) Well, you can finally lay your speculation … | Seth Weintraub / 9to5Mac: |
Verizon iPhone 5 update eliminates carrier data usage while connected to a Wifi Network — An update is going to Verizon iPhone 5 owners this evening that resolves an issue where, under certain circumstances, the iPhone 5 may use Verizon cellular data while connected to a Wi-Fi network.
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| Agence France Presse: |
Iran unblocks access to Gmail — TEHRAN — Iran on Monday removed online blocks on Gmail but a government Internet filtering committee official said other, additional censorship was being prepared against YouTube, according to reports. — Internet users in Iran found themselves able …
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| Dana Wollman / Engadget: |
FreedomPop's pay-as-you-go data service launches in beta, offering 500MB of free WiMAX per month — It was almost a year ago that we first heard about FreedomPop, a startup built on the manifesto that every American (yes, you) should have access to free wireless broadband.| Jordan Golson / MacRumors: |
Widespread iTunes and App Store Terms and Conditions Bug Preventing New Purchases and Downloads [Update: Resolved] — Users are reporting that a widespread issue with Apple's App Store is preventing new purchases from being made. When users attempt to make a purchase or redownload a previous purchased …
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CNET, PhoneArena, iDownloadBlog.com, The Next Web, BGR India, iMore and AllThingsD. Thanks:@jlgolson
| Zack Whittaker / ZDNet: |
Apple warranty ads should be examined, says EU justice chief — Summary: Apple's warranty flap continues to stir in Europe, as the bloc's justice chief warns that the limited protection offered to Apple customers should be investigated. — Zack Whittaker| Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web: |
Ex-Apple CEO John Sculley tells the story of ARM and Newton at the start of Apple as a mobile giant — One of Apple's first forays into the arena that we think of today as ‘mobile’ computing was the Newton MessagePad. As a pocketable, hand-sized device that was meant to be a a personal organizer …
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| Robin Wauters / The Next Web: |
Netflix brings the “Just for Kids” user interface to the iPad, Android tablet support forthcoming — Video streaming giant Netflix today announced that it is bringing its “Just for Kids” viewing experience to the two latest versions of the iPad, with support for the original iPad and Android tablets coming ‘later this year’.| Alexei Oreskovic / Reuters: |
Facebook's new pitch to brand advertisers: forget about clicks — (Reuters) - Facebook Inc, stung by doubts that advertising on the social network delivers enough bang for the buck, is preparing to unveil data to counter its critics and show that “clicks,” the current metric of choice, tell only half the story.
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Yandex Gives Google A One-Two Punch In Russia: A New Browser And App Store For The Local Search Giant — Yandex today is doubling down in its ongoing battle to make sure that Google doesn't eat away its market share in Russia, with the launch of two products that aim directly …
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Marketing Land, ZDNet, The Next Web, Softpedia News, The Next Web and GigaOM
| John D. Stoll / Wall Street Journal: |
Nokia Seals Mapping Deal With Oracle — Nokia Corp., looking to increase use of its mapping software, will unveil a new deal with Oracle Corp. intended to give Oracle's stable of customers access to Nokia's growing vault of map data and location services. — The deal, set to be announced Monday …
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