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| Peter Burrows / Bloomberg: |
Jobs's Spaceship-Like Apple Offices to Arrive Later Than Planned — Apple Inc. (AAPL) said the construction of a new spaceship-like headquarters with a circular design in Cupertino, California, won't be completed until mid-2016, later than originally projected, as the company revises its plans.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft ‘Xbox TV’ device due in 2013 with casual gaming and streaming — A set-top box to compete with Apple TV and others — Microsoft is building an Xbox set-top box. Multiple sources familiar with Redmond's plans have confirmed to The Verge that the company plans to introduce …
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| Michael J. de la Merced / DealBook: |
Deloitte Denies Knowledge of Fraud at Autonomy — Deloitte is finally speaking up about Autonomy P.L.C. — and the accounting firm says it knew nothing about potential fraud at its onetime client. — The statement by Deloitte comes after Autonomy's parent, Hewlett-Packard …
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| Jonathan Weil / Bloomberg: |
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| Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune: |
Apple has solved its iPhone 5 supply problems - just in time — Ship times hit 2 weeks Tuesday and a spot check found it at 9 out of 10 of Apple stores — FORTUNE — Despite stock-outs, production hiccups and Foxconn worker unrest, it looks like Apple (AAPL) will have an iPhone 5 available …
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| Bloomberg: |
U.S. Said to Waver on Antitrust Case Against Google — Google Inc. (GOOG) may skirt the most serious antitrust allegations under investigation by the U.S. as regulators waver on whether they can prove consumers are hurt by the way the company ranks its search results, three people familiar with the matter said.
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| Cecilia Kang / Washington Post: |
FCC chairman backs Dish Network plan to compete with wireless giants — The chairman of the Federal Communications Commission on Tuesday proposed to greenlight Dish Network's long-fought plan to create a wireless service that would compete with those of giants AT&T and Verizon Wireless.
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| Mike Dano / FierceWireless: |
| Arnold Kim / MacRumors: |
AT&T Seems to Be Extending FaceTime-Over-Cellular to All Customers — AT&T appears to be quietly extending FaceTime-Over-Cellular capabilities to all their iPhone customers. Earlier this month, AT&T announced that they would allow any customer “with an LTE device” on a “tiered data plan” to use iOS 6's FaceTime over Cellular feature.
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| Will Connors / Digits: |
NTSB May Drop BlackBerrys for iPhones, Citing Reliability — Research In Motion Ltd. may be losing another U.S. government customer, but this time the reason isn't fickle employees who prefer to carry around an iPhone. — The National Transportation Safety Board said it's looking to switch …
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| John Paczkowski / AllThingsD: |
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| Mike Isaac / AllThingsD: |
With Site Badges Debut, “Mobile First” Instagram Is Catching Up to the Web — Building on the momentum of its Web profiles launch earlier this month, Instagram announced Wednesday the rollout of badges, small icons that users can post to promote their Instagram pages. — They'll certainly look familiar.
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| Stephen Hall / WindowsWave: |
Security Hole Allows Pirates to Get a Legitimate Windows 8 Activation for Free — A new security hole has been discovered in Microsoft's product activation process that allows pirates to get a free legitimate activation of Windows 8 using the current Windows Media Center upgrade promotion.
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook Asks Users If It Can Abolish Their Right To Vote On Future Site Governance Changes — Today Facebook will send its largest email blast to date, informing all 1 billion users that it's proposing to modify the site's governance structure and remove the ability for users to vote on changes.
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| Aaron Souppouris / The Verge: |
Jolla gives a first glimpse at its MeeGo-based Sailfish OS — As promised, Finnish startup Jolla has given a first demo of its new MeeGo-based OS, Sailfish. The company, which was founded by a number of ex-Nokia employees, is currently demoing the OS at a live show in Finland, but has uploaded a promotional video to YouTube.
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| Kim-Mai Cutler / TechCrunch: |
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| Tammy Parker / Fierce Broadband Wireless: |
T-Mobile exec: iPhone isn't worth sacrifices — T-Mobile USA has lost customers because it does not carry Apple's (NASDAQ:AAPL) iPhone, but the company is not willing to make major sacrifices to add the device to its portfolio, said a T-Mobile executive. — “Make no mistake about it: We would love to carry the iPhone.
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| Kim Yoo-chul / The Korea Times: |
‘No iPhone without Samsung patents’ — The chief executive of Samsung Electronics has expressed confidence about the ongoing patent battle with Apple, saying that no smartpohone can exist without patents from Korea's technology giants. — “The truth never lies.
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| Dave Herman / Hulu Blog: |
Hulu Plus Launching on Nintendo Wii U with Integrated Second Screen Experience — At Hulu's development center in Seattle, we spend our time focusing on making the Hulu Plus living room experience delightful for our subscribers. With our latest innovation, we've teamed up with Nintendo …
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| Spencer E. Ante / Wall Street Journal: |
Checking In on Foursquare's Valuation — Facebook's IPO, Flattening Valuations Put Hurdles Before Social Media Startups — Some social media startups are finding investors a lot less friendly in the wake of Facebook Inc.'s messy initial public offering. — A few months before Facebook went public …
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Business Insider and FierceMobileContent News
| Kashmir Hill / Forbes: |
Google's Eric Schmidt Tells Parents To ‘Have Online Talk Before Sex Talk’ With Kids. Survey Suggests Many Do. — “We need to fight for our privacy or we will lose it,” said Google chairman Eric Schmidt to Reuters in a recent on-camera chat. “[All of the user generated material on the web] …
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Pew Internet, Gizmodo and Pocket-lint
| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Evernote Outlines Its Roadmap To “Fix” And Improve Skitch 2.0 For Mac — At first, the marriage between Skitch and Evernote looked like a perfect match, but after Evernote launched the completely redesigned Skitch 2. for Mac, the company faced quite a bit of backlash as the new version …
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The Verge, The Next Web, MacStories and Evernote Blogcast
| Andrew Roberts / Bloomberg: |
Bionic Mannequins Spy on Shoppers to Boost Luxury Sales — Store mannequins are meant to catch your eye. Soon you may catch theirs. — Benetton Group SpA is among fashion brands deploying mannequins equipped with technology used to identify criminals at airports to watch over shoppers in their stores.
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Globe and Mail, PSFK and digitaltrends.com
| Richard Shim / DisplaySearch Blog: |
Black Friday: Catalyst for Tablets to Far Surpass Notebook Shipments in North America — This year's Black Friday is expected to be the catalyst for tablets to pass notebook shipments for the first time in North America, a trend which we expect to continue for the foreseeable future.
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Tech Trader Daily, PC Magazine, LAPTOP Magazine, TechSpot, FierceWireless, The Tech Report and CNET
| Jon Russell / The Next Web: |
Baidu raises $1.5bn “strategic war chest” to pay off debts, pursue M&A opportunities and more — Chinese Internet giant Baidu has announced that it is offering $1.5 billion in notes as it looks to close down debts and provide itself with the financial cloud to pursue future strategic opportunities …
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Dow Jones Newswires, Baidu, TechCrunch and ZDNet
| Florian Mueller / FOSS Patents: |
Apple and HTC fine with showing license agreement to Samsung — but not the royalty rate — On Friday Samsung's counsel in the Apple case in California brought a motion to compel, demanding access to the newly-minted Apple-HTC license agreement that settled Apple's first Android patent case ever.
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Mac Weekend and iDownloadBlog.com
| Sebastian Anthony / ExtremeTech: |
World's oldest original digital computer is turned back on after 61 years — The world's oldest, original, still-working digital computer has been unveiled at the National Museum of Computing in Bletchley Park, the home of the United Kingdom's Second World War encryption and codebreaking efforts …
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