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Microsoft Tests Smartphone With Asia Suppliers — TAIPEI—Microsoft Corp. is working with component suppliers in Asia to test its own smartphone design, people familiar with the situation said, suggesting the computer-software giant is increasingly adopting a variation of a business model favored …
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Apple Removes “Incorrect” Legal Statement From U.K. Website Following Court Order In iPad Vs Galaxy Tab Case — Apple has pulled down a legal statement on its U.K. website, posted after it lost an appeal in a U.K. court against a ruling that Samsung's Galaxy Tab tablets do not infringe the design of the iPad.
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Apple's reformed ‘apology’ to Samsung makes an appearance in UK newspapers — Coming a day after it the company was reprimanded for its “non-compliant” apology on its website, stating Samsung did not infringe on its products, Apple has today published its first newspaper adverts, as required by the UK court of appeal.| Thuy Ong / Reuters: |
Apple rolls out iPad mini in Asia to shorter lines — (Reuters) - Apple fans lined up in several Asian cities to get their hands on the iPad mini on Friday, but the device, priced above rival gadgets from Google and Amazon.com, attracted smaller crowds than at the company's previous global rollouts.
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Introducing: The Physical Google Wallet Card - Coming Soon To Google Wallet, And More New Features — We just had a bomb dropped on us by an anonymous tipster, courtesy of a leaked version of the Google Wallet app - and it was hiding some pretty amazing secrets. Let's cut to the chase: physical Google Wallet card.| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
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iPad 4 Teardown — We got our hands on the fourth generation of iPad; we shall call it iPad 4. The iPad 4 is kind of like a fourth book added on to a trilogy: its release was a bit sudden and unexpected, but it's a part of the group, nonetheless. This fourth iteration of iPad shares a lot …
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FTC Staff Said to Formally Recommend Google Patent Suit — Google Inc. (GOOG) should be sued by the Federal Trade Commission for trying to block competitors' access to key smartphone-technology patents in violation of antitrust law, the agency's staff told commissioners in a formal recommendation … | Ernesto / TorrentFreak: |
Megaupload Publishes Deal to Counter U.S. Extortion Claims — Last month Megaupload filed a renewed request to dismiss the indictment against it, until the U.S. Government finds a way to properly serve the company. — Megaupload's legal team reiterated that the company's due process is at stake.| Greg Sandoval / CNET: |
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Facebook disables URL login shortcut after Google search exposes potential security flaw — A security hole has been discovered that allows anyone to see the email addresses corresponding to seemingly over a million Facebook accounts. Worse yet, some appear to be accessible without even entering a password.| Jordan Kahn / 9to5Mac: |
What's new in iOS 6.1 beta: Maps bugs reporting, lockscreen music, more — Apple just released a beta version of iOS 6.1 to developers, following the public release of iOS 6.0.1. We get mostly expected fixes in 6.0.1, but we are already started discovering new features in the 6.1 beta.| Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web: |
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| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Nokia Lumia 920 review — Will Nokia's third attempt at launching a premiere Windows Phone finally be the home run it needs? The Nokia Lumia 920 is the company's third attempt at launching the definitive Windows Phone. In April, Nokia and Microsoft tried to convince the world that the Lumia 900 …
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BitTorrent Pirate Ordered to Pay $1.5 Million Damages For Sharing 10 Movies — Since early 2010, hundreds of thousands of people in the U.S. have been sued for downloading and sharing copyrighted content on BitTorrent. — Nearly all of these cases end up dismissed or settled …
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Google Now has a Built-in Pedometer - Tracks Miles Walked and Biked From Each Month — Last night, and possibly because the month of October came to a close, Google Now started showing a new card to a number of our readers. That new card is a pedometer that has been tracking their steps …
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Amazon fattens up EC2 compute cloud, chops prices — Embiggened CPU and memory, but EBS storage only — Cloud computing juggernaut Amazon Web Services has cut prices and fattened up its offerings. — AWS was founded to sell raw compute and storage like any other kind of retail item …
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Misconfigured Apache sites expose user passwords, other private data — A publicly viewable server status on one site exposes user passwords to the world. — More than 2,000 websites—some operated by Fortune 500 companies, game sites, and retail outlets—are exposing system status information …
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MIT researcher says he can predict Twitter trends — A researcher at MIT claims to have developed an algorithm that can accurately predict what topics will trend on Twitter. But Twitter being a relatively minor business in the grand scheme of things, the algorithm might end up being more useful elsewhere … | Brittany Darwell / Inside Facebook: |
Facebook brings keyword search to App Center — Facebook is rolling out search for App Center, allowing users to not only find apps by name but also by keyword such as “cars” or “fitness.” — This change will help users better navigate App Center, which previously offered filters by category but no direct search.| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
| Emil Protalinski / The Next Web: |
Android grabs 75.0% market share in Q3, followed by 14.9% for iOS and 4.3% for BlackBerry — Google's Android managed to grab exactly 75.0 percent market share in the third quarter of 2012. Rounding out the top three smartphone operating systems were iOS at 14.9 percent and BlackBerry at 4.3 percent.
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Apple Maps Sees Its First International Territorial Dispute As Korea Protests Island Naming — From the it-had-to-happen-sooner-or-later department: Apple is in the midst of its first international territorial dispute over its new Apple Maps product. — As the Korea Times reports …
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