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Microsoft Announces New Surface Details — Microsoft Corp. today released new details about its highly anticipated Microsoft Surface, a tablet PC designed to be the ultimate stage for Windows. In addition to pricing and market availability, the company announced a special limited-quantity pre-order …
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| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
Microsoft Surface RT Priced: 32GB For $499 Without Touch Cover, $599 With; 64GB For $699 — Microsoft today detailed pricing for its Surface tablets, at least those running the scaled down RT version of its upcoming Windows 8 operating system designed for use on low-power processors.
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| David Pierce / The Verge: |
Microsoft's Surface available for pre-order in eight countries, shipping October 26th — We've been hearing about the Surface for the better part of six months, but in all that time Microsoft has kept secret what might be the tablet's most important feature: its price.
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| Jim Dalrymple / The Loop: |
Apple announces special event for Oct. 23 — Apple on Tuesday announced a special event to be held on October 23, 2012 in San Jose. The event is scheduled to take place at 10:00 am PT. — Unlike other recent events that have been held at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco …
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| Jordan Kahn / 9to5Mac: |
Apple to launch 24 new iPad models, comprised of iPad minis and perhaps Lightning iPad 3 — 9to5Mac received the above list of iPad mini SKUs today that shows Apple could be set to launch 24 models of the new device. According to the list that shows four variants (P101, P103, P105, and P107) … | Eric Slivka / MacRumors: |
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| Travis Kalanick / Uber Blog: |
UberTAXI in NYC Shutting Down for Now - NO CHANGES to UberNYC Black Car Service — We want to thank all of New York's UberFaithful for giving our NYC TAXI beta a shot over the last month. It was pretty exciting - for the first time in 30 years, New Yorkers could get a cab without going to the street and putting your arm out.
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| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
Can Boxee reinvent cable with the help of a TV antenna? — The new Boxee TV offers unlimited recording, Netflix, and movies for $99 — Input one. It is the most valuable connector on the back of the average American television — and by extension, the most valuable connector in the average American home.| Drew Olanoff / TechCrunch: |
LinkedIn Announces Massive Update To Its “Pillar Product”, The Profile — After CEO Jeff Weiner discussed the mission of LinkedIn, Senior VP of Products and User Experience, Deep Nishar, discussed the company approach to design and iteration, which is extremely interesting.
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| Kyle Wiens / Wired: |
Greenwashing the Retina MacBook Pro — Apple's latest unsustainable design was just greenlighted by the Electronic Product Environmental Assessment Tool registry (EPEAT). And it's a clear case of greenwashing. — Apple's Retina MacBook Pro - the least repairable, least recyclable computer … | Eric Slivka / MacRumors: |
| Eugene Kaspersky / Nota Bene: |
Kaspersky Lab Developing Its Own Operating System? We Confirm the Rumors, and End the Speculation! — Hi all! — Today I'd like to talk about the future. About a not-so-glamorous future of mass cyber-attacks on things like nuclear power stations, energy supply and transportation control facilities …
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| Declan McCullagh / CNET: |
Verizon draws fire for monitoring app usage, browsing habits — “We're able to view just everything that they do,” Verizon Wireless exec has boasted. Privacy groups say the initiative — including linking databases showing whether customers own pets — may violate wiretap law.| Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land: |
Google Launches Disavow Links Tool — Google has launched a new and widely anticipated “disavow links” tool. The tool was announced by the head of Google's web spam team Matt Cutts, when speaking during a keynote at the Pubcon conference today. — The tool is live and can be found here.| Arik Hesseldahl / AllThingsD: |
Intel's Q3 Beats Street's Lowered Expectations — Chipmaker Intel just reported its earnings for the third quarter, and given the fact that it warned of declining sales last month, it could have been worse. — Per-share earnings were 60 cents on sales of $13.5 billion.| Jeff Benjamin / iDownloadBlog.com: |
Email from Phil Schiller explains lack of ambient light sensor in 5th gen iPod touch — Yesterday we emphasized the lack of an ambient light sensor in the 5th generation iPod touch after initially highlighting the omission in our iPod touch 5th gen review. — Now a reader claims …
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| Dhanya Skariachan / Reuters: |
Best Buy to price its own Android tablet at $239-$259 -source — (Reuters) - Best Buy Co Inc is planning to price its own Android tablet “Insignia Flex” at $239 to $259, a source familiar with the matter told Reuters on Tuesday. — The tablet will compete with Apple's iPad and Amazon's Kindle.
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| Nicole Perlroth / New York Times: |
Quick, Hide the BlackBerry, It's Too Uncool — Rachel Crosby speaks about her BlackBerry phone the way someone might speak of an embarrassing relative. — “I'm ashamed of it,” said Ms. Crosby, a Los Angeles sales representative who said she had stopped pulling out her BlackBerry at cocktail parties and conferences.| Jon Russell / The Next Web: |
Foxconn admits it breached Chinese labor laws by hiring 14-year-old interns — Apple supplier Foxconn has admitted that it did take on intern students as young as 14 years old at its factories after the Taiwanese manufacturing giant published the findings of a report that followed media reports from September.
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
IBM Reports Q3 Earnings Mostly In Line With Expectations: $24.7B In Revenue, $4.2B Net Income, $3.62 EPS — IBM just released its Q3 2012 financials. Big Blue's GAAP earnings came in at $3.8 billion, up 3% from the last quarter. Non-GAAP earnings were $4.2 billion.
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| Jason Del Rey / AdAge: |
Yahoo Chief Revenue Officer Michael Barrett to Exit — Leaves in Wake of Appointment of Google Exec Henrique de Castro As COO — Yahoo Chief Revenue Officer Michael Barrett is on his way out at Yahoo, according to a person familiar with the situation. Mr. Barrett is in the process of negotiating his exit, this person said.| Ken Yeung / The Next Web: |
GOGII raises $18 milllion from Raine Group, rebrands as textPlus, and moves beyond group messaging — The telecommunications industry has been evolving over the past couple of years and today, one of the major players in the industry is announcing a major milestone. textPlus … | iFixit: |
iPod Nano 7th Generation Teardown — Prepare to be green with envy as we tear down the new 7th Generation iPod Nano. EditStep 1 — iPod Nano 7th Generation Teardown What's lean, new, and green? The iPod Nano 7th Generation. The Nano is available in several colors, but we decided green was the way to go.
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google Releases The First Stable SDK For Its Dart JavaScript Alternative — Google launched Dart, its class-based object-oriented language for writing complex web apps, exactly year ago and to celebrate its birthday, the Dart team is launching the first stable version of the Dart software development kit (SDK) today.
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