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| Bryan Bishop / The Verge: |
Judge Koh dissolves sales ban on the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 — Samsung has been pushing for the preliminary injunction on the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 to be lifted ever since Apple won its $1.049 billion victory, and today it got its wish: Judge Lucy Koh has dissolved the US sales ban on the tablet.
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CNNMoney.com, AllThingsD, digitaltrends.com, Ars Technica, Engadget, CNET, AppleInsider, Bloomberg, bizjournals and Electronista
| Alex Wilhelm / The Next Web: |
Ultrabooks are dead? Then why are they outselling Apple's entire laptop line? — Note: Yes, there is a real difference between shipped and sold. I was trying to make a much larger point, but I'll add a short note to clarify some notes that I've received.
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| Brad Chacos / LAPTOP Magazine: |
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| Claire Cain Miller / NYT Bits: |
Square Acquires a New York Design Firm — Tech companies, in a high-stakes competition for engineers, are also chasing another highly prized kind of employee: designers. — Square, the popular mobile payments company, has proved just how important designers are by making a surprising acquisition.
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Mashable!, Betabeat, VentureBeat, iDownloadBlog.com and The Next Web
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| Jeff Bercovici / Forbes: |
More Mobile News Consumers Choosing Web Over Apps — Mobile apps were supposed to be the reset button for the news industry. The last fifteen years have shown how hard it is to get consumers to pay for content on websites or pay attention to ads there. In the app environment, all that was going to be different.| Matt Hamblen / Computerworld: |
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| Robert Beckhusen / Wired: |
3-D Printer Company Seizes Machine From Desktop Gunsmith — Cody Wilson planned in the coming weeks to make and test a 3-D printed pistol. Now those plans have been put on hold as desktop-manufacturing company Stratasys pulled the lease on a printer rented out for Wiki Weapon …
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CNET, nbcnews.com, WebProNews and The Verge
| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
Apple CEO Tim Cook thanks employees for an ‘incredibly successful’ 2012, Thanksgiving vacation to be extended — Apple CEO Tim Cook has announced in an email to employees that this year's Thanksgiving vacation will be extended with pay. Cook also thanks all employees for an amazing 2012.
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| Tim Mak / Politico: |
White House confirms cyberattack — The White House confirmed but sought to downplay a report by a conservative website on Sunday that it had been the victim of a cyberattack, volunteering to POLITICO that no harm had been done. — The Washington Free Beacon reported that Chinese hackers … | Jennifer Martinez / Hillicon Valley: |
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| Casey Johnston / Ars Technica: |
Motorola reneges on Ice Cream Sandwich software update — Motorola regrets to inform you that your ICS request has been denied. — Motorola Atrix 4G owners will not get the Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich update the company promised them, according to a newly revised upgrade chart.
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The Next Web, AllThingsD, Engadget, parislemon, Liliputing, WebProNews, Business Insider, Gotta Be Mobile, Pocketnow and BGR
| Gregg Keizer / Computerworld: |
Poor pre-launch showing plagues Windows 8 — Now five times less likely to be on a PC than early-adoption benchmark set by Windows 7 — With just weeks before the public launch of Windows 8, users are five times less likely to be running the new OS than they were Windows 7 at the same point …
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Computerworld and BGR
| Keith Andrew / Pocket Gamer.biz: |
Is Apple clamping down on third-party app promotion services? — Guidelines point to promo app update block Media attention may have been focused on the launches of iPhone 5 and iOS6 - including the subsequent ‘MapGate’ and ‘ScuffGate’ backlashes - but it appears Apple itself has turned its attention to the art of app promotion.| Eric Slivka / MacRumors: |
Apple Removes Chomp Website and App, Shuts Down Existing App Installs — Following the introduction of the new Chomp-styled App Store layout in iOS 6, built upon Apple's acquisition of the app search and discovery platform earlier this year, Apple over the weekend shut down the standalone Chomp service.
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MacNN, iDownloadBlog.com, VentureBeat, CNET and iPhone in Canada Blog
| Phil Goldstein / FierceWireless: |
AT&T undercuts Verizon with $65 prepaid smartphone plan — AT&T Mobility (NYSE:T) is introducing a new $65 prepaid plan with unlimited voice, texting and 1 GB of data, undercutting rival Verizon Wireless (NYSE:VZ) and bringing its pricing closer to more traditional no-contract offerings.| Timothy B. Lee / Ars Technica: |
Judge decries “excessive” copyright and software patent protections — Richard Posner, the federal judge who threw out the entire Apple v. Motorola patent battle in June, has penned a new blog post complaining about the proliferation of patents. “I am concerned that both patent and copyright protection …
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CNET, The Verge and The Becker-Posner Blog
| Eric Slivka / MacRumors: |
Apple and Virgin Mobile USA Planning to Launch iPhone 5, But Timeframe Unknown — While the three major U.S iPhone carriers launched the iPhone 5 on September 21 and prepaid carrier Cricket and a number of regional carriers followed suit on September 28, one U.S. brand has been curiously silent …
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digitaltrends.com, CNET, Mashable! and Gotta Be Mobile
| Andy Greenberg / Forbes: |
WikiLeaks' And Pirate Bay's Web Host PRQ Raided By Swedish Police — PRQ owner Mikael Viborg in front of the Stockholm-based Web host's entrance. — The Stockholm-based web host PeRiQuito AB, or PRQ, has long attracted some of the most controversial sites on the Internet.
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| 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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| Liz Gannes / AllThingsD: |
Mashery Is the Latest to be Snared by Craigslist's Copyright Crusade — First, Craigslist went after PadMapper for arranging its apartment rental listings on a map; then, when the start-up shifted to data supplier 3Taps, Craigslist sued them both for copyright infringement … | Brian Womack / Bloomberg: |
Google Passes Microsoft's Market Value as PC Loses to Web — Google Inc. (GOOG) has surpassed Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) to become the world's second-largest technology company, in another sign of the expanding ability of the Internet to facilitate computing tasks once completed on desktop machines.
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The Next Web, Geekosystem, WebProNews, Droid Life, Softpedia News, TechSpot, Neowin, Android Authority, Business Insider and parislemon. Tweets: @mhelft
| David Talbot / Technology Review: |
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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O'Reilly Radar, Mashable!, Observatory and App Advice
| John Paczkowski / AllThingsD: |
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| Kirk Johnson / New York Times: |
Seattle Police Department Uses Twitter to Report Crime — SEATTLE — The business of policing, as cops have known since at least the first bobbies on the beat, is partly about being seen on the job, having a local presence, even if it is just twirling a baton down the avenue.| Julia Boorstin / Media Money: |
Where Facebook Is Looking to Grow: COO Sheryl Sandberg — For the first time since Facebook's IPO, COO Sheryl Sandberg sat down for an exclusive interview to talk about what's happened since the social network went public, and where she's taking the company next. — Facebook's IPO Disaster & Stock Slide
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CNET, AllFacebook, Inside Facebook, Los Angeles Times and Mashable!
| Shalini Ramachandran / WSJ: |
Google Rivals in Kansas City Want the Same Incentives — To entice Google Inc. to build its ultra-high-speed fiber network there, Kansas City, Kan., and Kansas City, Mo., offered the Internet company sweeteners including several free or discounted city services.Sponsor Posts
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