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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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| Arik Hesseldahl / AllThingsD: |
Oracle's Ellison Vindicated in Autonomy PR Flap by HP's $8.8 Billion Writedown — Oracle CEO Larry Ellison and President Mark Hurd look pretty good right now in light of the disclosure of alleged accounting improprieties at Autonomy, the British software firm Hewlett-Packard acquired in 2011.
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| Arik Hesseldahl / AllThingsD: |
The Red Flags That Were Obvious — To Some — In the HP-Autonomy Deal — The one big, glaring question that will probably never be fully answered in the still-developing HP-Autonomy scandal is this: If buying Autonomy has so obviously turned out to be a bad deal 15 months after it was first announced …
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| Michael J. de la Merced / DealBook: |
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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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| Alexei Oreskovic / Reuters: |
Facebook to share data with Instagram, loosen email rules — (Reuters) - Facebook Inc is proposing to combine user data with that of recently acquired photo-sharing service Instagram, and will loosen restrictions on emails between members of the social network.| John Paczkowski / AllThingsD: |
Apple Happy to Redact HTC Deal Down to 33 Words Just for Samsung — Samsung's request to see a full copy of Apple's 10-year patent licensing settlement with HTC is moot because the South Korean company already agreed to accept a redacted version of the agreement.
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| David Pogue / New York Times: |
Nokia Lumia 920 and HTC Windows Phone 8X Are Great, and Yet — Thanksgiving, is it? I'll tell you what I'm thankful for: competition. — Because competition drives innovation. Innovation leads to improvement. Improvement begets happiness. — In the tech world … | Ionut Arghire / Softpedia News: |
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| Jordan Golson / MacRumors: |
Artists Being Asked to Prepare for iTunes 11 Launch in “Next Days” — According to a post on the MacRumors Forums, Apple is asking record labels to submit pictures and galleries of their artists to iTunes for use in iTunes 11's new Music Store layout. — This email was sent to artists …
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| Harry McCracken / TIME: |
Lotus: Farewell to a Once-Great Tech Brand — Wolfgang Gruener of Tom's Hardware alerted me to a bit of news that, while minor, has left me in a wistful mood. IBM is planning to remove the Lotus branding from its Notes and Domino workgroup products. It's the apparent end of Lotus … | BBC: |
Kickstarter sued over 3D Systems' printer patent — Formlabs's printer was developed by researchers working at Massachusetts Institute of Technology — Crowd-funding website Kickstarter is being sued for its promotion of a new 3D printer. — More than 2,000 users contributed over $2.9m … | Peter Kafka / AllThingsD: |
A Peek at TV's Future, Via Google Fiber — The Google Fiber experiment/maybe-not-an-experiment in Kansas City is important because it shows Google's ability to compete directly with broadband providers for control of the Internet pipe itself. — If Google doesn't need to rely on the Comcasts …
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| Alex Wilhelm / The Next Web: |
BlackJet, the Uber for private air travel, is now live — BlackJet, the Uber for private air travel, founded by the co-founder of Uber, is now live. If you managed to score an invite, and have the cash - you bastard - you can now “book seats, manage [...] travel and invite [...] friends.”| Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web: |
Sparrow email client gets iPhone 5 and Passbook support — The much-loved email client Sparrow has today been updated with support for the iPhone 5′s larger screen and Apple's Passbook. The update, noticed by reader Matt Gibstein, should be available to you now.| Jack Purcher / Patently Apple: |
Apple's “iMessage” is now a Registered Trademark — Apple's iMessage was first introduced by Scott Forstall at their World Wide Developer Conference in June 2011. Then in February 2012, Apple announced that iMessage was going to replace iChat in OS X Mountain Lion.
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App Advice, iDownloadBlog.com, iClarified and Mashable!
| 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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| 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.| Jake Smith / 9to5Mac: |
Apple updates Spaceship campus plans with Cupertino including new mid-2016 completion date — Following this morning's report that Apple's grand Spaceship Campus introduced by Steve Jobs in 2011 won't be opening until mid-2016, Apple has sent its revised plans to the city of Cupertino this afternoon.
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| Digits: |
Fab's Newest Distribution Channel: LivingSocial — Designer e-commerce company Fab today is beginning to sell “gifts” through LivingSocial's website and marketing channels. — Fab will feature 50 of its “top picks” from its Holiday Shops in LivingSocial's gift guide.
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CNET, The Next Web and GigaOM
| Richard Lawler / Engadget: |
Verizon FiOS Mobile app for iPad updated with streaming access to 75 channels — The first time we saw Verizon's FiOS Mobile app for the iPad, it was showing off the ability to stream live TV channels directly to the tablet. Unfortunately when it was released later in 2010 that feature …
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The Verge, PhoneArena and SlashGear
| Om Malik / GigaOM: |
For some companies, confusion in app-land equals money — When News.me, a New York-based company, acquired some assets of the earliest social news sharing service Digg and refocused on Digg, its chances to make it were seen as a long shot. And while that dark prognosis hasn't changed …
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BGR and Business Week
| Bryan Bishop / The Verge: |
Samsung accuses iPad mini of patent infringement in latest legal salvo — Samsung successfully added the iPhone 5 to its newest patent battle with Apple, and today the company accused several more of Cupertino's products of infringement — including the iPad mini.
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AppleInsider, SlashGear and PhoneArena
| Mikey Campbell / AppleInsider: |
Apple's journaling system for iOS makes geotagging a system-wide feature — The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office on Tuesday granted Apple a patent for an advanced journaling system that timestamps and geotags any iOS device event, such as a phone call, an app download, the playing of a song, and more.
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TUAW, iPhone Hacks and TechCrunch
| 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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Examiner, VentureBeat, PSFK, Globe and Mail, digitaltrends.com and The Atlantic Online
| Richard Nieva / PandoDaily: |
Umano wants to tell you the news, literally — As a Bay Area resident, I think I can speak for most when I say: BART is awful. The Bay Area Rapid Transit pales in comparison to other metropolis' public transportation trains. It's overly crowded at rush hour, makes a grand total of eight stops …
Tweets: @akovacs
| Paul Sloan / CNET: |
Feds aim to kill .Army, other military domains — Demand Media wants to run three military domain extensions that — big surprise — Uncle Sam isn't too happy about. — Here's a cyberfight it seems anyone could have seen coming. — Among the hundreds of new generic top-level domains under consideration …
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