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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Exclusive: Microsoft Office for iPhone, iPad, and Android revealed — Office Mobile will arrive in early 2013 — Microsoft's Office for iPad, iPhone, and Android is a reality. Although Office Mobile has been rumored and reportedly spotted in the wild, Microsoft has remained persistently quiet about its plans for the product.
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| Mike Isaac / AllThingsD: |
On Election Day 2012, Twitter Kills the Great White Fail Whale — In one pithy, three-word sentence, Twitter creative lead Doug Bowman summed up the microblogging service's election day perfectly: — “RIP Fail Whale.” — Indeed, all throughout Nov. 6, that cutesy, once-ubiquitous cartoon … | Mazen Rawashdeh / Twitter Engineering: |
Bolstering our infrastructure — Last night, the world tuned in to Twitter to share the election results as U.S. voters chose a president and settled many other campaigns. Throughout the day, people sent more than 31 million election-related Tweets (which contained certain key terms and relevant hashtags).
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| Michael Scherer / TIME: |
Inside the Secret World of Data Crunchers Who Helped Obama Win — “The cave” at President Obama's Election headquarters in Chicago — In late spring, the backroom number crunchers who had powered Barack Obama's campaign to victory noticed that George Clooney had an almost gravitational tug on West Coast females ages 40 to 49.
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Foxconn's Gou says tough to cope with iPhone demand — TAIPEI (Reuters) - Taiwan's Foxconn Technology Group said on Wednesday the company's flagship Hon Hai unit is finding it difficult to cope with the massive demand for Apple Inc's iPhones. — “It's not easy to make the iPhones.
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Apple's Eddy Cue joins Ferrari board of directors — Eddy Cue, Apple's head of Internet software and services, has joined the Ferrari board of directors, in a move that could hint that Apple is interested in moving into users' vehicles. — Ferrari announced in a statement on Wednesday that Cue has joined its board.
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| Roger Cheng / CNET: |
AT&T will spend $14B to pump up wireless, wireline network — The telecommunications giant is investing heavily in its infrastructure in a bid to spark accelerating growth. — AT&T today laid out a broad plan to upgrade both its wireline and wireless networks and keep its growth moving.
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Me.ga Hackers: We're Real Pirates & We'll Sell Dotcom's Domain To Universal — On January 20, 2013 Kim Dotcom is set to launch the successor to Megaupload, along with a promise for it to be bigger and better than before. — In anticipation of opposition, Dotcom previously revealed … | Greg Sandoval / CNET: |
| Jeremy C. Owens / Mercury News: |
Apple officially in ‘bear market’ following postelection sell-off — CUPERTINO — Apple (AAPL) shares plunged to a five-month low Wednesday in the midst of a postelection sell-off, pulling shares to 20 percent below the peak reached less than two months ago, which investors term a “bear market.”
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Adobe, now ‘married’ to Microsoft, moves Flash updates to Patch Tuesday — Will sync Flash security updates with partner's monthly schedule — Adobe on Tuesday announced that it will pair future security updates for its popular Flash Player with Microsoft's Patch Tuesday schedule.
| Arik Hesseldahl / AllThingsD: |
Appcelerator Acquires Nodeable, Boosts Mobile Big Data — Appcelerator, a mobile applications development outfit, said today that it had acquired Nodeable, a small start-up focusing on using Hadoop for real-time big-data work. — The combination, Appcelerator says, will boost its ability …
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| Sam Byford / The Verge: |
Microsoft's Xbox SmartGlass app now out for iOS — It's been a couple of weeks since the Android app launched, but Xbox-owning iOS users can finally get their first look at SmartGlass in action today. Microsoft has released SmartGlass as an update to its existing Xbox Live app …
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| Daniel Cooper / Engadget: |
AT&T selling Nokia's Lumia 920 for $450 off-contract — It's an understatement to say that the Lumia 920 is priced “to sell,” and that doesn't just mean with AT&T's carrier subsidy. If you'd prefer to own your smartphone outright, you can snag the handset for $449.99 … | Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune: |
Did Apple use $2 billion to bail out Sharp last quarter? — Explaining a curious discrepancy in Apple's projected and actual capital expenditures — FORTUNE — Sharp was in serious trouble last summer. — It had hemorrhaged 103 billion yen ($1.3 billion) in cash in the first half of 2012.
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| Peter Kafka / AllThingsD: |
Netflix Has Big Usage Lead on Amazon, Hulu, HBO, says Sandvine Report — Netflix has plenty of competitors selling streaming video on the Web. — So far none of them is remotely close to challenging Reed Hastings and company. — That's a reasonable conclusion to draw from a new report … | Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft to fold in-memory database technology into SQL Server Next — Summary: Hekaton, Microsoft's coming in-memory database engine, will be built into the next version of SQL Server. And SQL Server 2012 SP1 is now generally available. — Just a few months after launching SQL Server 2012 …
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| Ryan Kim / GigaOM: |
Waze begins monetization push with location-guided ads — Waze, a crowd-sourced navigation app, has become an important free tool for 30 million users, who spend an average of 440 minutes in the app each month. That's a lot of people spending gobs of time telling Waze where they're going and what they're stopping for on their trips.
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| Rachel Emma Silverman / Wall Street Journal: |
Evernote CEO in No Rush for an IPO — Evernote Corp. Chief Executive Phil Libin likens his company's productivity app to an “external brain” that lets users collect notes, lists, clippings and other ephemera in a single digital hub. — The app's roughly 41 million users suggest there is demand …
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| Kevin C. Tofel / GigaOM: |
T-Mobile makes three more cities iPhone-friendly with 4G — Apple iPhone owners wanting to use their device on T-Mobile's 4G network can now do so in three additional metropolitan areas. The operator announced Wednesday that the Washington, DC, Baltimore and Houston markets now support HSPA+ service on the 1900 MHz band.
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