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Two More Teardowns Look Inside Microsoft Surface and Amazon Kindle Fire HD — You have to credit the folks over at research firm IHS, because, apparently, they've pulling a little bit of overtime. Along with the teardown of Apple's iPad mini, the results of which they sent to AllThingsD yesterday …
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Gigabytes — From a Virtual Pants post refuting my experiences with the Surface: … Mr. Pants reminded me of a pricing trick I've wanted to point out for a while. — Flash-memory upgrades on tablets are much cheaper for the manufacturers than the $100 increments that Apple established with the original iPad pricing.
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| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
Apple to bring movie ticket purchasing to Siri with upcoming iOS 6.1 update — Apple's upcoming release of iOS 6.1 will include a new feature for Siri: the ability to get movie tickets. The feature, according to developers who are beta testing the new iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch operating system, works via Fandango.
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Google Casts a Big Shadow on Smaller Web Sites — STARTING in February, Jeffrey G. Katz grew increasingly anxious as he watched the steady decline of online traffic to his company's comparison-shopping Web site, Nextag, from Google's search engine. — In a geeky fire drill … | Michael Noer / Forbes: |
One Man, One Computer, 10 Million Students: How Khan Academy Is Reinventing Education — The headquarters of what has rapidly become the largest school in the world, at 10 million students strong, is stuffed into a few large communal rooms in a decaying 1960s office building hard …
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Microsoft posts Build 2012 session videos for eager Windows 8, Windows Phone 8 coders — Not every developer had the luxury of putting a flight to Redmond on the corporate tab so that they could attend Microsoft's Build 2012 conference in person. Much to their delight, they won't have to.
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LiveSide.net, Gizmodo.com Updates, VentureBeat and WMPoweruser
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The Russian underground economy has democratised cybercrime — If you want to buy a botnet, it'll cost you somewhere in the region of $700 (£433). If you just want to hire someone else's for an hour, though, it can cost as little as $2 (£1.20) — that's long enough to take down … | Casey Johnston / Ars Technica: |
Is Facebook “broken on purpose” to sell promoted posts? — The Dangerous Minds blog uses this image for its anti-Facebook campaign. — Dangerous Minds and Dimitri Drujchin — In recent months, some Facebook page owners have noticed that their accounts are driving much less traffic to their websites than they used to.| Sean Gallagher / Ars Technica: |
Lady Gaga fansite, NBC entities defaced in pre-Guy Fawkes Day hacker stunt — A number of pages on the NBC.com website were defaced Sunday with a reference to Guy Fawkes Day and a claim that user names and passwords for the site had been compromised. The defacement appears to be the work …
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Spanish retailer suspends plan to sell the Nexus 4 as LG hikes its retail price by hundreds of euros — Spanish mobile phone retailer Phone House has announced on its Facebook page that it is suspending plans to sell Google's new Nexus 4 after it learned that manufacturer LG is to sell … | Associated Press: |
Apple paid only 1.9 percent income tax on $36.8 billion in earnings outside US in fiscal 2012 — Apple Inc. paid an income tax rate of only 1.9 percent on its earnings outside the U.S. in its latest fiscal year, a regulatory filing by the company shows. — The world's most valuable company … | Zak Islam / Tom's Hardware Guide: |
For The First Time Ever, iPhone Owner Loyalty Declines — Loyalty of iPhone owners in both the United States and Europe experiences first ever decline. — For the first time since the iPhone's inception, the percentage of the smartphone's owners who say they will definitely or probably buy another Apple handset has declined.
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Static.com Adds Hadoop Support for Cloud Foundry — In this guest post, Jake Farrell, CTO for Static.com, explains how the major shift in the hosting industry towards platforms for high developer productivity …
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An Army Is Forming To Battle Patent Trolls — For the past several months, we've exposed the flaws in the patent system and how they're being exploited by opportunistic patent trolls looking to extort a quick buck …
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Get Started with Hadoop on Hortonworks Data Platform 1.1 for Windows — We are excited to release the Hortonworks Data Platform 1.1 for Windows as a Generally Available product.
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