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Apple's Forstall Refused to Apologize — Apple Inc. executive Scott Forstall was asked to leave the company after he refused to sign his name to a letter apologizing for shortcomings in Apple's new mapping service, according to people familiar with the matter.
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| Om Malik / GigaOM: |
From inside Apple, the Scott Forstall fallout — Tim Cook, Apple's chief executive, put his stamp on the Cupertino, Calif-based iPhone maker Monday and shook up his management team. That meant promotions for some and exits for others. While executive changes are as routine as replacing shoe insoles … | Adam Lashinsky / Fortune: |
Inside Apple's major shakeup — What is really behind the biggest management shakeup at Apple since the Steve Jobs putsch that eliminated Gil Amelio in 1997? — FORTUNE — Tim Cook's honeymoon at Apple is over. — Apple's (AAPL) CEO announced the departure of mobile software chief Scott Forstall on Monday.| Apple: |
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Microsoft announces 4 million Windows 8 upgrades sold in first three days — Microsoft has sold four million upgrades for Windows 8 in the last three days, the company announced this morning during its BUILD 2012 conference. — Steve Ballmer, the CEO of Microsoft, greeted crowds …
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| Shira Ovide / Wall Street Journal: |
Ballmer's New Mission for Microsoft — Chief Executive Steve Ballmer is betting on one of Microsoft Corp.'s busiest years ever to keep the company relevant in a new age of mobile technology. — On Monday, Microsoft formally introduced new smartphones that will use a revamped version of the company's mobile-phone operating software.
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Introducing the new compose in Gmail — We're always trying to make Gmail faster and easier to use, so today we're introducing a completely redesigned compose and reply experience that does just that. — Faster — How many times have you been writing an email and had to reference something in another message?| Rich Miller / Data Center Knowledge: |
Massive Flooding Damages Several NYC Data Centers — Flooding from Hurricane Sandy has hobbled two data center buildings in Lower Manhattan, taking out diesel fuel pumps used to refuel generators.A third building at 121 Varick is also reported to be without power.| Drew Olanoff / TechCrunch: |
Google Adds Power Outage Information To Its Hurricane Sandy Crisis Map — As we brought to your attention last night, Google set up what it calls a “Crisis Map” as we waited for Hurricane Sandy to make land-fall. It has, and damage has been done, including massive power outages in all affected areas.| John Herrman / BuzzFeed: |
| Brian Womack / Bloomberg: |
Google Says 700,000 Applications Available for Android — Google Inc. (GOOG) said there are about 700,000 applications available for downloading onto mobile devices that run the Android operating system, challenging Apple Inc. (AAPL)'s lead in the race for software tools.
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4th Generation iPad Benchmarks Show 1.4GHz Dual Core Processor, 1GB of RAM — John Poole of Primate Labs posts about some 4th Generation iPad benchmarks that appeared in their Geekbench database on Sunday night. — True to Apple's claims, the 4th Generation iPad benchmarks about twice as fast as the 3rd Generation iPad.| Arik Hesseldahl / AllThingsD: |
EMC to Acquire Silver Tail Systems — Data storage giant EMC just announced that it has reached a deal to acquire Silver Tail Systems. — This is the privately held company that specializes in detecting fraud on the Web, and the reason that venture capitalist Marc Andreesseen was speaking …
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Nook HD review: a high-def tablet with the heart of a reader — Barnes & Noble knows where it stands in the tablet race. Sure, the company has been plugging away at the space since the day the Nook Color made its transformation into a full-fledged tablet, but the Nook, it seems …
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Google Search for iOS finally gets voice features that let you ask questions, listen for answers — After a very long delay, Google today updated its native Search app for iOS with an improved voice search engine. You can download the new version now from the official Apple App Store.
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| Ina Fried / AllThingsD: |
Andreessen-Backed Start-Up ItsOn Raises $15 Million to Help Make Mobile Service More Flexible — Just recently, major carriers such as Verizon and AT&T started allowing customers to share a pool of data among several devices. But that's just the start of how flexible cellular options could be.
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| John Cook / GeekWire: |
Startup Weekend looks to stamp out 30,000 entrepreneurs in new 4-week training program ‘Next’ — Call it Startup Weekend on steroids. — The Seattle nonprofit today is unveiling a new four-week training program that's designed to get people off their duffs, pursuing that entrepreneurial idea that's been gathering dust for too long.
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| Michael Carney / PandoDaily: |
EverySignal's smart social alerts mean you never need to miss an important life moment again — The volume of content passing through most social networks is growing more unmanageable by the day. The average Facebook Newsfeed has become an overwhelming deluge of (mostly superficial) content.
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Apple blocks Siri's prostitute-finder function — SHANGHAI - Apple Inc.'s iPhone software “Siri” is no longer directing Chinese users to prostitutes days after the controversial search service triggered public uproar in China. — The inactivation came after Siri users found the popular voice-activated …
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| Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch: |
Peer-To-Peer Car-Sharing Startup Wheelz Launches In San Francisco To Take On RelayRides And Getaround — Peer-to-peer car-sharing is growing in popularity and consumer adoption, as renters are now looking beyond traditional rental firms like Enterprise and Avis, and even beyond local short-term rentals from companies like Zipcar.
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| Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web: |
Twitter is building an official app for Windows 8, says it will be ‘great’ — Twitter has just announced via the Twitter Mobile account that it is building a Twitter app for Windows 8, and that it will be ‘great’. There is currently a dearth of good Twitter apps for Windows 8 … Sponsor Posts
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