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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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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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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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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 … | 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 … | AppleInsider: |
Apple opens iPad mini reservations for next-day in-store pickup — With Apple's initial batch of iPad minis sold out online as well as brick-and-mortar Apple Stores, the company has initiated online reservations for the new tablet that allows interested customers to purchase a unit online for next-day in-store pickup.
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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 … | 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 … | Sim Ahmed / Computerworld: |
Dotcom pledges to resurrect international cable project — Kim Dotcom has announced his intention to invest in a second internet cable connecting New Zealand to the world. Dotcom told Computerworld that the move isn't out of charity towards New Zealanders who are currently reliant …
| Stacey Higginbotham / GigaOM: |
How the internet economy works: Guns, butter and bandwidth — Most people know certain things about the Internet. They know that cables run under the sea, that wires come into your homes, and that modems carry the digital signals to your devices. — But they've probably never heard …
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