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October 25, 2012, 1:25 AM
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Apple's Schiller defends iPad mini's price tag — (Reuters) - Apple marketing wizard Phil Schiller defended the $329 price of the new iPad mini tablet, saying consumers will be willing to pay for quality not found in less expensive devices from rivals like Google and Amazon.
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| Quentin Fottrell / MarketWatch: |
iPad resales surge over 700% … Two major resale sites reported eye-popping surges in business in the run-up to the iPad Mini launch. Some 140,000 devices were put up for sale on Gazelle.com Tuesday - a 700% spike from the day before, says Anthony Scarsella, chief gadget officer at the site.| Richard Shim / DisplaySearch Blog: |
Supply Issues to Initially Limit iPad Mini — Apple revamped its mobile PC lineup on Tuesday, announcing additions to its iPad and MacBook Pro lines. As DisplaySearch had anticipated, the company introduced the iPad Mini, a refreshed iPad (the iPad with Retina Display), and a 13.3" MacBook Pro notebook.
| Kim-Mai Cutler / TechCrunch: |
Zynga Reports Third Quarter Revenue Of $317M, Shares Pop 12.7% In After-Hours — Zynga said it saw third quarter revenue of $317 million, which was slightly above the lower range of $300 million to $305 million the company said it would see earlier this month. Bookings came in at $256 million, up 11 percent year-over-year.| Alex Wilhelm / The Next Web: |
Facebook's final Instagram purchase price: $715 million in cash and stock — Today Facebook detailed the final Instagram purchase information in its 10-Q. The company stated that the final purchase of Instagram will sit in its accounting as $521 million. — That figure was arrived …
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The Verge, CNET, Inside Facebook, Mashable! and VentureBeat. Tweets: @dannysullivan. Thanks:@harrisonweber
| Dara Kerr / CNET: |
Judge steps down in patent lawsuit filed over Apple's Siri — In a new lawsuit that claims Apple's virtual personal assistant is infringing on already developed patent technology, the judge recuses himself because of “interest” in the tech company. — A recently filed lawsuit over Apple's Siri … | Joel Zand / Justia Law, Technology & …: |
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| Jordan Kahn / 9to5Mac: |
Apple confirms that 12W adapter will charge iPads quicker than older 10W adapters — The morning of Apple's iPad mini event earlier this week, we told you there was a handful of new accessories coming including four new Lightning adapters and a 12W USB power adapter.
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Mercury News, CNET, iDownloadBlog.com, PadGadget, TUAW, MacNN, Gotta Be Mobile, MacRumors and everythingiCafe
| Kim Zetter / Wired: |
How a Google Headhunter's E-Mail Unraveled a Massive Net Security Hole — It was a strange e-mail, coming from a job recruiter at Google, asking Zachary Harris if he was interested in a position as a site-reliability engineer. — “You obviously have a passion for Linux and programming,” the e-mail from the Google recruiter read.
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Computerworld, Forbes, The Register, Betabeat, The Verge, US-CERT and Slashdot. Tweets: @csoghoian. Thanks:@_trendspotter
| Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web: |
Apple wins preliminary ruling from U.S. ITC that Samsung violates 4 design and touch patents — Apple has won a preliminary ruling against Samsung in an ITC case that had begun last year, reports Bloomberg. The ruling states that Samsung has violated four Apple patents related to iPhone design …
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| Knowlton Thomas / Techvibes.com: |
Salesforce Laying Off Radian6 and Buddy Media Employees and Execs — We learned this morning that Salesforce was “decimating” Radian6's marketing and social community departments. According to a source familiar with the matter, people from the vice-president level down are facing layoffs …
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Forbes, Business Insider, AllThingsD, ZDNet, Betabeat, The Next Web, SeekingAlpha.com, bizjournals and TechCrunch. Thanks:@knowltonthomas
| Audrey Watters / Hack Education: |
Education, Technology “Journalism,” and the Apple PR Machine — I wasn't planning to write anything about Apple's media event yesterday. I tuned in to the livestream, but when all the announcements were made, it seemed clear to me that nothing that was revealed on stage in San Jose was that significant to education.
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TechPinions, Inside Higher Ed and ReadWrite
| Jeff John Roberts / paidContent: |
Game on! Vox launches long-awaited video game site, Polygon — Vox Media has shaken up sports and tech news with its unique blend of cutting-edge publishing tools and high-profile hires. Now we're about to find out if it can pull off the same trick with gaming news.| Chris Ziegler / The Verge: |
Samsung Series 3 Chromebook review — With ARM, has Google's cloud-based laptop finally found its soulmate? — People laugh when I pull the old Samsung Series 5 Chromebook out of my bag. I almost feel the need to apologize for it when I turn it on: “Here's a $450 laptop that just browses the web.| Moritz Jaeger / ZDNet: |
Google, Microsoft and Nokia launch one-stop ‘hide from maps’ service in Germany — Summary: Google, Microsoft and other companies have come together to help Germans to blur pictures of their properties in mapping services like Google Street View. The service has been made necessary …
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SlashGear, BetaNews and 9to5Google
| Josh Ong / The Next Web: |
HP outs pricing on full Windows 8 PC lineup — A huge wave of Windows 8 PCs is coming, and HP is hoping to ride it to victory. Early on Wednesday, the company announced pricing and availability for its complete Windows 8 PC portfolio, which includes a broad range of notebooks …
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CNET, Market Wire, BetaNews, The Tech Report, Computerworld and The Verge
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| Emil Protalinski / The Next Web: |
News.me shuts down iOS apps to focus on Digg, blames new Twitter requirements — News.me, the social news service built on top of Twitter (and Facebook), today announced it is killing its curation apps for iPhone and iPad. The company is blaming Twitter for the move and says it wants to focus on its Digg efforts instead.| Gavin Clarke / The Register: |
Microsoft has no plans for a second Windows 7 Service Pack — You don't like it? Hey - had you thought of Windows 8? — Exclusive Waiting for a second Windows 7 Service Pack? Keep waiting - it doesn't sound like Microsoft will be releasing one. — Sources close to Microsoft's …
| Ina Fried / AllThingsD: |
T-Mobile to Bake Free Malware Protection Into Many of Its Android Devices — T-Mobile plans to announce later on Wednesday a deal with Lookout to include some of that firm's mobile security features on its Android devices. — Automatic App Security, as the free product will be known … | Bryan Bishop / The Verge: |
Sprint announces new no-contract data plans for LTE tablets — Just a day after Apple announced it would be bringing the iPad and iPad mini to Sprint, the carrier has announced a new set of data plans that it says will offer customers 20 percent more data that its US competitors for the same pricing.
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9to5Mac, Gizmodo, community.sprint.com, Engadget, IntoMobile, Reuters, AllThingsD, AndroidGuys and Pocketables
| Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
All code on Raspberry Pi's ARM chip now open source — The makers of the Raspberry Pi credit card-sized computer today announced every last piece of code running on the computer's ARM chip has been open sourced. While the computer could already run several Linux-based operating systems, not all the drivers were open source.
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Raspberry Pi, Inquirer, OStatic blogs, Softpedia News, Slashdot and The H Open Source
| Danielle Kucera / Bloomberg: |
EBay Teams Up With FedEx on Shipping to Compete With Amazon — EBay Inc. (EBAY), owner of the world's largest online marketplace, is joining with FedEx Corp. (FDX) to offer shipping discounts and label printing as the company competes with Amazon.com Inc. (AMZN)'s vast delivery network.
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Marketing Pilgrim and WebProNews
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