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| Adam Satariano / Bloomberg: |
Apple Said to Fire Maps Manager After Flaws Hurt IPhone 5 Debut — Apple Inc. (AAPL) has fired the manager responsible for its troubled mapping software, seeking to win back the trust of users disappointed after the program debuted in September, according to people familiar with the move.
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CNET, 9to5Mac, Gizmodo, AllThingsD, Engadget, TechCrunch, GigaOM, BGR, The Verge, MacRumors, Tech Trader Daily, The Next Web, Business Insider, iDownloadBlog.com, TUAW and iClarified
| Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web: |
Apple seeking ‘advice’ from TomTom on how to fix its point-of-interest woes with Maps — In an report today about Apple firing Maps manager Richard Williamson over the poor launch of its Maps app, it was also noted that it was looking for ways to improve its point-of-interest data.| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Kantar Worldpanel: Apple Shoots Back To Top Of U.S. Smartphone Sales On An iPhone 5 Rocket, Android Leading Elsewhere — Samsung may be be the world's most popular smartphone brand, but in the influential U.S. market, Apple has climbed back to the top of the pack on the strength of its iPhone 5 sales.
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Kantar Worldpanel, eWeek, ZDNet, AppleInsider, Reuters, 9to5Mac, CNET, Tech Trader Daily, Business Insider, BGR, MacRumors, DailyFinance.com, Fortune, Quartz, Forbes, MobileBurn.com, Inquirer, SlashGear, Pocketnow, MacDailyNews, ITProPortal, PhoneArena, Patently Apple, The Loop and Datamation.com
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| Arik Hesseldahl / AllThingsD: |
Autonomy Founder Lynch Asks Board to Explain HP Allegations — Autonomy's founding CEO launched a new public offensive just a few minutes ago, sending an open letter to Hewlett-Packard's board of directors seeking “immediate and specific explanations” regarding allegations of accounting improprieties … | Jake Smith / 9to5Mac: |
Apple announces redesigned 21.5-inch iMac will be available Friday, November 30th, 27-inch models still on for December — After being unveiled in late-October, Apple has officially announced that the 21.5-inch iMac will be available Friday, November 30th. The latest iMac is the eighth generation and …
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Business Wire, ABCNEWS, Ars Technica, MacRumors, digitaltrends.com, Inquirer, Computerworld, Gizmodo, BGR, CNET, Business Insider, WebProNews, The Verge, TechCrunch, The Next Web, Engadget, iDownloadBlog.com, GadgeTell, App Advice, Gadgetsteria, Mashable, iPhone Hacks, Apple Bitch, MacStories and TUAW
| Drew Olanoff / TechCrunch: |
Google Play Gets Real: Reviews Will Now Be Posted With Your Google+ Name And Picture — When you visit a review on Google Play for an app, book, song or movie, you won't have to worry as much about whether someone is sheepishly hiding behind a computer firing off nasty words … | Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land: |
How PRWeb Helps Distribute Crap Into Google & News Sites — “What's the use of PRWeb?,” tweeted Megan McCarthy of Reuters, trying to digest how that service ended up circulating a fake Google acquisition story. Come along, Megan and others, and I'll explain one of the sorriest uses …
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| Jon Fingas / Engadget: |
Nintendo makes Wii Mini official: exclusive to Canada, launches December 7th for $100 — That was quick — scarcely two hours after Best Buy spoiled the party, Nintendo is launching the Wii Mini. The console is a Canada-exclusive and cuts out both GameCube compatibility and, more importantly, internet access.| Joseph Goldstein / New York Times: |
New York City Police Amassing a Trove of Cellphone Logs — When a cellphone is reported stolen in New York, the Police Department routinely subpoenas the phone's call records, from the day of the theft onward. The logic is simple: If a thief uses the phone, a list of incoming and outgoing calls could lead to the suspect.
| Andy Greenberg / Forbes: |
Security Flaw In Common Keycard Locks Exploited In String Of Hotel Room Break-Ins — Matthew Allen Cook, who police have charged in one Houston hotel room break-in and suspect in others. Hotel staff say a hacking tool was used to open its keycard locks. — Whoever robbed Janet Wolf's hotel room did his work discreetly.
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Examiner, BBC, Ars Technica, Softpedia News, SlashGear, Gizmodo, CNET and Ubergizmo
| Peter Bright / Ars Technica: |
64-bit Firefox for Windows should be prioritized, not suspended — The Red Panda, or Firefox, is an adorable inhabitant of forests in foothills of the Himalayas. — Flickr user — The stable, supported, mainstream version of Firefox on Windows is a 32-bit application.| Bill Callahan / Bloomberg: |
Apple and LG Electronics Face Trial Over Alcatel-Lucent Patents — Apple Inc. (AAPL) and LG Electronics Inc. (066570) are set to face trial over claims by an Alcatel-Lucent SA (ALU) unit that they infringed patents for electronic devices including phones and computers.
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CNET, Inquirer, VentureBeat and TechnoBuffalo
| T.C. Sottek / The Verge: |
Nexus 4 in stock and available from Google today starting at noon PST — Google has just announced in an email notification that the Nexus 4 will be available for sale from Google Play starting today at noon PST, only in the US. Customers were faced with what appeared to be a frenzy …
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The Next Web, CNET, TechCrunch, GigaOM, Android Central, Business Insider, Engadget, 9to5Google, SlashGear, IntoMobile and Pocketables
| Jay Yarow / Business Insider: |
AMAZON: We Doubled Kindle Sales—No, We're Not Telling You What That Really Means — Amazon has another (pretty much) informationless press release out about Kindle sales this morning. — The closest thing we get to real data: Worldwide Kindle sales over the holiday shopping weekend were more than double last year's sales.
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Amazon.com, Reuters, CNET, Engadget, Gizmodo, The Next Web, TechCrunch, Know Your Cell, Mashable and PhoneArena. See also Mediagazer
| Matt Brian / The Next Web: |
Google settles Immersion patent lawsuit, licenses its haptic technology for use in future Motorola devices — Nine months after it was named in a patent lawsuit by touch feedback development company Immersion, Google has signed a settlement and licensing agreement with the company …
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Engadget, AllThingsD, Tech Trader Daily and Business Wire
| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
Google Returning Month Of December To Nexus Devices With Android 4.2.1 OTA Update — Google is in the process of rolling out Android 4.2.1 to at least Nexus 4 and Nexus 10 devices (with Nexus 7 and Galaxy Nexus hardware likely to follow) as an over-the-air update, Android Central reports.| Bob Van Voris / Bloomberg: |
Facebook Claimant Ceglia Indicted for Wire, Mail Fraud — Paul Ceglia was indicted on charges he faked evidence to support his claims that he signed a contract with Facebook Inc. (FB) Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg giving him a multibillion-dollar share in the world's biggest social network,
| Bloomberg: |
Google Joins Apple in Drawing French Tax Collectors' Indignation — Google Inc. (GOOG), Apple (AAPL) Inc. and other Internet-linked companies may soon feel the long arm of the French taxman. — In what may be Europe's first such effort, President Francois Hollande's government says it will look … | Shara Tibken / CNET: |
LinkedIn CEO: Site will become ‘economic graph’ over next decade — Jeff Weiner, speaking at a Business Insider conference, says the company plans to evolve a lot over the longer term to help companies do things like determine skill gaps and create just-in-time curriculum to “train workers for the jobs of tomorrow.”
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Digits, Business Insider, Business Insider and Business Insider
| Joseph Menn / Reuters: |
Bitter struggle over Internet regulation to dominate global summit — (Reuters) - An unprecedented debate over how the global Internet is governed is set to dominate a meeting of officials in Dubai next week, with many countries pushing to give a United Nations body broad regulatory powers … | Jon Russell / The Next Web: |
Ericsson sues Samsung over wireless patents after growing frustrated by 2 years of negotiation — Ericsson is the latest to file a patent suit against Samsung after the Swedish telecoms firm accused the Korean electronics giant of refusing to sign FRAND (Fair, Reasonable and Non-Discriminatory) … | Eric Slivka / MacRumors: |
Siri ‘Eyes Free’ Mode Coming to Chevrolet Spark and Sonic in Early 2013 — Back in June, Apple announced that it was working with car manufacturers on a new “Eyes Free” mode for Siri that would integrate with voice command buttons found in an increasing number of car models to allow users … | Matt Brian / The Next Web: |
Google launches “Defend Your Net” campaign in Germany to protest against planned copyright restrictions — For Google, what is happening in Germany right now is a very big issue. If the German Bundestag (government) gets its way, the search giant could be forced to remove publisher content … | Emil Protalinski / The Next Web: |
Gmail now lets you insert up to 10GB of Google Drive files directly into an email — Google on Tuesday announced a new way to send files by further linking together its Gmail and Drive services. You can now directly insert files you host on Google Drive into an email on Gmail.
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CNET, Google Enterprise Blog, The Verge, 9to5Google, Softpedia News and ReadWrite
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An Army Is Forming To Battle Patent Trolls — For the past several months, we've exposed the flaws in the patent system and how they're being exploited by opportunistic patent trolls looking to extort a quick buck …
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