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Intel CEO Paul Otellini to Retire in May — SANTA CLARA, Calif., Nov. 19, 2012 - Intel Corporation today announced that the company's president and CEO, Paul Otellini, has decided to retire as an officer and director at the company's annual stockholders' meeting in May …
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Color Labs And Bill Nguyen Sued By Ex-Employee Alleging Retaliation, Emotional Distress — Today, Adam Witherspoon, a former employee of Color Labs who was laid off during the photo and video sharing startup's recent wind-down period filed suit against the company and its CEO Bill Nguyen alleging retaliation …
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Color Inc. lawsuit confirms ‘key assets’ being sold to Apple — Today, a lawsuit by Adam Witherspoon, a founder of Color Inc. was uncovered by Techcrunch. In the suit, which is frankly a bit insane to read, Witherspoon accuses founder Bill Nguyen of many incredibly shocking things.| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
Early builds of Apple's upcoming OS X 10.9 include Siri and Maps integration — Early builds in testing of the next-generation Mac operating system, OS X 10.9, point to Siri and Maps integration coming to Mac computers next year, according to our reliable sources.
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| Jakob Nielsen / Alertbox: |
Windows 8 — Disappointing Usability for Both Novice and Power Users … With the recent launch of Windows 8 and the Surface tablets, Microsoft has reversed its user interface strategy. From a traditional Gates-driven GUI style that emphasized powerful commands to the point of featuritis …
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| Mark Hachman / ReadWrite: |
Windows 8 ‘Slow Going,’ But 2013 Should Be Better, Top Retailer Says — A senior executive at popular retailer NewEgg described the Windows 8 launch so far as not the “explosion” that the company originally planned for, but as slow and steadily improving. — From a software perspective …
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| Mat Honan / Wired: |
Exclusive: Internal Videos Show Why Microsoft Kin Cratered — Do you remember the Microsoft Kin? It's okay if you don't-Microsoft certainly would like for you to forget it ever existed. Kin was a family of phones from Microsoft that launched to much fanfare in 2010, sold incredibly poorly …
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| Stephen Shankland / CNET: |
Google after antitrust: The good, the bad, and the ugly — U.S. and European antitrust regulators are poised to crack down on the dominant search company. What changes to Google search might the cases trigger? — Tim Carter was blindsided when his home-improvement site AsktheBuilder.com fell … | Danny Sullivan / CNET: |
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| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
Apple's redesigned iMac launches not delayed until 2013, still on track for November-December — According to our sources, Apple's already announced plans for November and December launches of the redesigned 21.5-inch and 27-inch iMac lines are still on track.| Nicholas Carlson / Business Insider: |
LEAKED: MySpace's Master Plan To Raise $50 Million And Relaunch As A Spotify Killer — The parent company of MySpace is trying to raise $50 million in order to re-launch MySpace as a direct competitor to Spotify and Pandora in 2013. — This is according to documents obtained by Business Insider, which we have included in this post.
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| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft investigating reported Windows Phone 8 reboots — Summary: Some Windows Phone 8 users (including yours truly) are experiencing spontaneous reboots and email sync problems. Microsoft officials say they are investigating. — Windows Phone 8 devices just started hitting the market … | Mark Cuban / blog maverick: |
What I Really Think About Facebook — First, I'm not recommending to any of my companies that we leave facebook. I am recommending that we de-emphasize pushing consumers or partners to like us on FB and focus on building up our followings across all existing social media platforms …
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| Alex Wilhelm / The Next Web: |
Oprah's attempt to promote the Microsoft Surface backfires: iPad used to send tweet — Oprah is out plugging the Surface for Microsoft, stating that she is buying several of the devices as gifts. — However, in sending out that specific tweet, she, or whoever was running her account that day …
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| Matt Brian / The Next Web: |
Apple's App Store has now seen more than 1 million approved apps since launch — Today, Apple (unofficially) will be celebrating another important App Store milestone — there have now been 1 million apps submitted to its marketplace since July 2008, according to App Store discovery company Appsfire.
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| Eric Mack / CNET: |
Steve Jobs' yacht gives insights into his design process — Jobs and noted designer Philippe Starck spent five years working out the details of the super yacht Venus. — Last month, we stumbled upon videos of Steve Jobs' yacht, the Venus, which was reportedly unveiled a year after Jobs' death.
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| Leena Rao / TechCrunch: |
Hunch, SiteAdvisor Founder And Angel Investor Chris Dixon Leaves eBay To Join Andressen Horowitz As General Partner — Hunch and SiteAdvisor founder, and prolific angel investor Chris Dixon is leaving his current position at eBay to join Silicon Valley VC firm Andreessen Horowitz as a general partner.| T.C. Sottek / The Verge: |
Wii U users reporting bricked consoles after losing power while trying to install big update — Several new Wii U owners have reported a serious issue with their new consoles related to the large launch-day update from Nintendo. The update, required to enable online functionality on the console …
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Ars Technica, VentureBeat, CNET, VentureBeat, DailyFinance.com, GamesIndustry International, Ars Technica, AnandTech, The Seattle Times, GamingVogue, Digits, Gizmodo, SlashGear, GamingBolt.com, VR-Zone and T3 News. Tweets: @benfritz
| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook Could Slow Down A Tiny Bit As It Starts Switching All Users To Secure HTTPS Connections — When you're dealing with 1 billion people's personal info, security is critical. But Facebook didn't want to sacrifice speed. That's why it spent the last two years making infrastructure improvements … | Emil Protalinski / The Next Web: |
Forget iPads: Emirates to outfit flight attendants with 1,000 HP Windows 8 tablets — Emirates announced on Monday at the Windows 8 launch event in Dubai that it is moving on up to Microsoft's latest and greatest. The luxury airline has developed a Windows 8 app called Knowledge Driven Inflight Service …
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| Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune: |
Apple soars $38.05, its second highest one-day dollar gain — Been down so long it looks like up to Apple shareholders — FORTUNE — After one of the longest bear markets in its roller-coaster history, Apple (AAPL) rebounded Monday, closing at $565.73, up $38.05 (7.21%) for the day … | Katie Fehrenbacher / GigaOM: |
Microsoft building clean powered data center at waste water plant — Microsoft has unveiled details of an experimental small data center that it's building next to a waste water treatment plant in Cheyenne, Wyoming. The tiny data center will be powered by a fuel cell that uses biogas …
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