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| Brian Klug / AnandTech: |
Nexus 4 Includes Support for LTE on Band 4 (AWS) — I noted in my review of the LG/Google Nexus 4 that the device included hardware necessary for LTE on at least some of its bands, namely bands 1 (2100 MHz), 2 (1900 MHz), and 4 (AWS 1700/2100) based on what I saw in my teardown.
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| Mat Smith / Engadget: |
Nexus 4 shown working on Canadian LTE through simple carrier menu code (video) — Want LTE on your new Nexus 4? Well, you might have to move country. Unless it's some elaborate post-Thanksgiving hoax from our Canadian neighbors, several Telus customers have demonstrated that the LTE chip hiding inside …
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| Chris Cheesman / Amateur Photographer: |
Nokia imaging chief Dinning quits — Nokia imaging guru Damian Dinning, who is considered the driving force behind the firm's smartphone camera technology, has left the Finland-based company, Amateur Photographer (AP) can reveal.| Paul Kunert / channelregister.co.uk: |
Barclays Bank buys 8,500 Apple iPads in one go — Bank's ranks thank bosses for fondle-slabbin' workplace — Barclays Bank has bought no less than 8,500 Apple slabs of fondling loveliness in one go, The Channel can reveal. — The buy, made with dealer Insight UK, is believed …
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Anonymous hackers ‘cost PayPal £3.5m’ — The court was told Anonymous were self-styled “hacktivists” who believed everything on the internet should be free — A student attacked the PayPal website as part of a concerted effort by the Anonymous “hacktivists” that cost the company £3.5m, a court has heard.| Emil Protalinski / The Next Web: |
Instagram sees new record during Thanksgiving: Over 10M photos shared at a rate of 226 per second — Instagram saw a new record set during Thanksgiving in the US: 10 million photos shared at a rate of 226 per second during the peak. For several hours on Thursday, its 100 million users posted …
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| Christopher Downer / Realmac Blog: |
Skeuomorphism and the User Interface — Skeuomorphism is something that users have come to expect in apps for iPhone, iPad and even the Mac these days. It's easily recognisable, and Apple has mainly been responsible for bringing simulacra back to user interface design in the past few years with iOS …
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| Mathew Ingram / GigaOM: |
Facebook makes it official — an external advertising network is coming soon — There's been a lot of discussion over the past few days about the recent changes to Facebook's privacy and governance policies — including the revelation that (gasp!) Facebook is not actually a democracy …
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Business Insider, Computerworld News …, digitaltrends.com, MediaFile, Quartz, CNN and BuzzFeed. Tweets: @joshconstine
| Fraser Howard / Naked Security: |
Hacked Go Daddy sites infecting users with ransomware — Users are getting infected with ransomware thanks to criminals managing to hack the DNS records of Go Daddy hosted websites. — That's not welcome news for the world's largest domain name registrar, especially so soon after the recent denial of service attack.
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The Next Web, Softpedia News, Help Net Security and Security Intelligence. Tweets: @virusbtn. Thanks:@ajorama
| Drew Olanoff / TechCrunch: |
Google Maps Is Now Giving Out Profile Badges To The Most Helpful Community Members — One of the really interesting things about Google Maps is that there's a huge, thriving community of people who love to help make the product better. Basically, when a road closes, or something is incorrect … | Arnold Kim / MacRumors: |
Apple Launches Black Friday Sale in U.S. with Discounts on iPads, MacBook Pros, Airs and More — Following the international launches, Apple has kicked off its Black Friday sale in the U.S. Online Apple Store. The selection of products on discount are the same as the international stores.
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Forbes, LAPTOP Magazine, Computerworld, ZDNet, Softpedia News, iPodNN, AppleInsider, Engadget, The Next Web, 9to5Mac and 9to5Mac
| Emil Protalinski / The Next Web: |
Thanksgiving 2012 mobile payments: PayPal sees 173% increase, GSI up 170%, eBay up 133% — PayPal, GSI, and eBay on Friday shared mobile payments results for Thanksgiving. Between 2011 and 2012, all three companies saw increases: 173 percent, 170 percent, and 133 percent, respectively.
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CNET, VentureBeat, eBay Ink, Mercury News, PC Magazine, The PayPal Blog and TechCrunch. Tweets: @hitwise_us
| David Kravets / Wired: |
Student Suspended for Refusing to Wear a School-Issued RFID Tracker — A Texas high school student is being suspended for refusing to wear a student ID card implanted with a radio-frequency identification chip. — Northside Independent School District in San Antonio began issuing …
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