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Samsung's Galaxy S III overtakes the iPhone 4S as the world's best-selling smartphone in Q3 2012 — Samsung's flagship Galaxy S III handset usurped the Apple iPhone 4S as the world's best-selling smartphone in the third quarter of 2012, according to a new report released by market research and consulting firm Strategy Analytics.
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| James Murray / Hitwise UK: |
Google dips below 90% market share of UK Search — October proved to be scary month not just for Halloween but also for Google's share of the UK search market. — The latest search stats show that 89.33% of all UK Internet searches were conducted on Google Sites.| Michael Kan / Computerworld: |
Apple out of China's top five smartphone list in Q3 — Coolpad smartphones took third place in market share for China, according to Canalys — Apple dropped out of the top five list in China's smartphone market for the third quarter, as local handset vendors saw their shipments surge …
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| Zack Whittaker / CNET: |
Apple quietly pulls apology-hiding code from U.K. site — Visitors to Apple's U.K. Web site are no longer forced to scroll down to view a court-ordered apology to Samsung, after Apple tried to bury it using hidden code. — Less than a week after Apple was rumbled by Reddit users …
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| Tricia Duryee / AllThingsD: |
7,000 Starbucks Locations Added to the Square Wallet — Starbucks is now accepting Square's mobile payment application at about 7,000 of its stores, as part of a wide-ranging agreement between the two companies. — The rollout is right on schedule, coming just three months after the partnership was announced in August.
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| Eva Galperin / Electronic Frontier Foundation: |
Egyptian Prosecutor Orders a Ban on Internet Porn — Censorship circumvention software is about to become very popular in Egypt. On Wednesday, the country's Prosecutor General, Abdel Maguid Mahmoud, ordered government ministries to enforce a ban on pornographic websites …
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| Dara Kerr / CNET: |
Verizon won't charge Sandy victims for voice and text usage — As New York and New Jersey residents struggle to get back on their feet after last week's superstorm, the carrier announces it will waive voice and text charges for a two-week period. — As Hurricane Sandy bore down on the East Coast …
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Lenovo Q2 earnings reveal record high sales of $8.7 billion, highest-ever PC market share — PC maker Lenovo has reported its earnings for Q2, and there was plenty of good news: $8.7 billion in sales, a record high, a PC market share of 15.6 percent, it's largest ever and operating profit of $206 million …
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| Sarah McBride / Reuters: |
Exclusive: Google Ventures beefs up fund size to $300 million a year — (Reuters) - Google will increase the cash it allocates to its venture-capital arm to up to $300 million a year from $200 million, catapulting Google Ventures into the top echelon of corporate venture-capital funds.
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| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Patent suits target Google, Intel, hundreds more for encrypting web traffic — Enlarge / A figure from the patent that has been asserted against Intel, Google, and hundreds of other companies providing SSL and TLS on their websites. — Google — An unknown company's four-year campaign … | Jacqueline Seng / CNET: |
MasterCard rolls out credit card with display and keypad — The next-generation 2-in-1 card features an embedded LCD display and touch-sensitive buttons for generating one-time passwords. — Next time you get a new card from your bank, don't be surprised if it has a keypad and an LCD on it.
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| Drew Olanoff / TechCrunch: |
Tumblr Updates Its iOS App To Be “Completely Native,” Features Redesigned Dashboard, Notifications And Gestures — Tumblr, the micro-blogging service that allows everyone to be a creative publisher, has updated its iOS app to become faster and more engaging. Tumblr says it's “completely native.”
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| Aaron Souppouris / The Verge: |
Google experimenting with free mobile access to its web services in developing markets — Google is testing out a new way to bring its services to mobile users free of charge. Dubbed Google Free Zone, the service will facilitate the use of Gmail, Google+, and Google Search via a special domain, g.co/freezone.
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| Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch: |
The Narcissism Of Minor Silicon Valley Differences — There's a prevalent myth in Silicon Valley, the myth that people aren't snobs here. This isn't true. A sort of reverse/meta-snobbery exists here, mostly intellectual in its nature, and the line between the alphas and the betas is extremely clear cut for those who can see it.
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| Daniel Terdiman / CNET: |
Obama's win a big vindication for Nate Silver, king of the quants — Despite some incredulous political pundits, the FiveThirtyEight statistician appears to have correctly predicted the winner in all 50 states in the presidential election. — In the end, big data won.| Steve Dent / Engadget: |
T-Mobile USA Q3 2012 earnings: Revenue drops 6 percent to $4.9 billion, profit down 15 percent — T-Mobile USA just announced its Q3 2012 financials, and both revenue and profits are down over last year: the company took in $4.9 billion, 6.4 percent less than last year, and earned $1.2 billion, a decline of 15.2 percent year-on-year.
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| Emil Protalinski / The Next Web: |
BlackBerry 10 gets US government certification, first time RIM products approved ahead of launch — Research In Motion today announced that the BlackBerry 10 platform has received Federal Information Processing Standard Publication 140-2 (FIPS PUB 140-2) certification.| Timothy B. Lee / Ars Technica: |
Judge blocks California's new ban on anonymity for sex offenders — On Tuesday, voters in California overwhelmingly approved Proposition 35, which ratcheted up penalties for those convicted of sex crimes, including human trafficking. The proposition included a provision requiring registered sex offenders …
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| Arik Hesseldahl / AllThingsD: |
Hurricane Sandy Proved How Hard It Is to Break the Internet — All the damage to the communications infrastructure brought on by Hurricane Sandy is sure giving the people who keep track of the technical underpinnings of the Internet a lot of fodder to see how well things do and don't work in real-world situations.
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Betabeat, Renesys Blog, Peter O'Kelly's Reality Check and CircleID
| Timothy B. Lee / Ars Technica: |
Voters boot three SOPA-sponsoring Hollywood allies from Congress — Rep. Mary Bono Mack (R-CA), a key supporter of the 1998 Copyright Term Extension Act dedicated to her late husband, lost her seat in Tuesday's election. — US Congress — When the new Congress takes office in January …
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| Emma Turpin / Google Chrome Blog: |
JAM with Chrome: Play music live with your friends online — If you ever dreamed of playing in a band, now's your chance to be a rock star. JAM with Chrome is an interactive web application that enables friends in different locations to play music together in the Chrome browser on their computers.
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| Enigmax / TorrentFreak: |
Supreme Court Rejects Hearing For Pirate Bay's Peter Sunde — Earlier this year the copyright infringement sentence of Peter Sunde was made final. This meant that the former Pirate Bay spokesman should have begun an eight month jail sentence in May, but this did not come to pass.| Andrew Sinkov / Evernote Blogcast: |
The New Evernote 5 for iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch — Our apps never stop evolving. Every few weeks, we release an update that adds something new or improves an existing feature. It's not often that we launch a complete redesign. In fact, it happens only once every few years.
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| Jordan Golson / MacRumors: |
Apple Store App Updated With Siri and Gift Card Passbook Support (Theoretically) — Apple has updated its Apple Store app [App Store] with support for Siri, and the ability to email Passbook enabled gift cards to friends via the app. However, despite being in the release notes …
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| Christina Bonnington / Wired: |
Apple Granted Patent for Original iPad Design — Apple was granted a design patent for the original iPad Tuesday. Image: USPTO — Can you patent a rectangle with rounded corners? Absolutely. And Apple has done it again. On Tuesday, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office granted …
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