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In Technology Wars, Using the Patent as a Sword — When Apple announced last year that all iPhones would come with a voice-activated assistant named Siri, capable of answering spoken questions, Michael Phillips's heart sank. — For three decades, Mr. Phillips had focused on writing software …
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Apple's Lightning to 30-Pin Adapter Begins Shipping — Apple has just begun notifying the first wave of customers who ordered the company's new Lightning to 30-pin Adapter that their orders are now shipping. MacRumors has received word from several readers located in Australia that their orders … | John Paczkowski / AllThingsD: |
iPad Mini Design “Could Outshine the New iPad” — More grist for the rumor mill ahead of the so-called iPad mini's expected debut later this month. — Chatter from Apple's overseas supply chain indicates that the company has not been cutting corners in its efforts to keep …
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Apple reportedly orders 10M iPad Minis for fourth quarter — Component makers in Asia say they have received orders for the unannounced tablet that eclipse Amazon's orders for the Kindle Fire, The Wall Street Journal reports. — Apple is apparently thinking big for its iPad Mini …
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| Ed Bott / ZDNet: |
First Windows 8 PCs appear early, crapware included — Summary: Microsoft's official launch party for Windows 8 is still weeks away, but one well-known retailer has jumped the gun. Cable shopping giant HSN has five Windows 8 PCs for sale on the web. All are, unfortunately, fully loaded.
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Microsoft DMCA Notice ‘Mistakenly’ Targets BBC, Techcrunch, Wikipedia and U.S. Govt — In recent months the number of DMCA takedown requests sent out by copyright holders has increased dramatically, and it's starting to turn the Internet into a big mess. — One of the problems …
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| Chris Matyszczyk / CNET: |
So it looks like Samsung might not have tried to copy the iPhone — Previously redacted documents presented in the Apple-Samsung case seem not to offer actual evidence that Samsung told its designers to copy the iPhone. — You remember the recent court case in which a vast amount of money was awarded to Apple?
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| Siobhan Gorman / Wall Street Journal: |
U.S. Lawmakers Say Huawei Poses Security Threat — Congressional Probe Says Huawei Poses National-Security Threat to the U.S. — WASHINGTON—A Chinese telecommunications giant that has been attempting to expand in the U.S. poses a national-security threat and may have violated U.S. laws, according to a congressional investigation.
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
BBC Builds Out Its iPlayer Empire With iPlayer Radio, New iOS And Web Apps For Radio Service — Another digital step forward for the UK's BBC today, this time involving the corporation's radio assets: the state-owned broadcaster today is launching iPlayer Radio a new, integrated mobile web and desktop app …
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| Matt Brian / The Next Web: |
HTC sees $2.397 billion revenue and 79% profit drop in Q3, only just meeting forecasts — Taiwanese mobile phone maker HTC this morning released (PDF) its final results for the third quarter of this year, reporting revenue of $2.397 billion (NT$70.2 billion) for the three month period.
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| Alec Liu / Motherboard: |
What Happened to Diaspora, the ‘Facebook Killer’? It's Complicated — It's impossible to grasp the consequences or outcomes of new technology, especially when that technology is developed by a twenty-something hacker. — That much was already clear in January 2010 … | Peter Kafka / AllThingsD: |
YouTube Adds 60 More Web Video “Channel” Deals In Europe, US — YouTube is ramping up its channel experiment. — Google is funding a new batch of video-makers to join the 100 it launched in the last year. And it's making an international push, by adding content for the UK, German and French versions of the site.Sponsor Posts
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