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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Windows Blue is Microsoft's future low-cost OS with yearly updates — Microsoft is busy preparing its next-generation Windows client, shortly after shipping Windows 8 in October. The Verge has learned from several sources familiar with Microsoft's plans that the company is planning …
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LAPTOP Magazine, Daring Fireball, Softpedia News, Neowin, TechnoBuffalo, ExtremeTech, BGR, gHacks Technology News, Gizmodo, Gotta Be Mobile, WebProNews, Techie Buzz and WinBeta
Tweets: @tomwarren and @maryjofoley
| Brandon LeBlanc / The Windows Blog: |
Windows 8 - 40 Million Licenses Sold — As we pass the one month anniversary of the general availability of Windows 8, we are pleased to announce that to-date Microsoft has sold 40 million Windows 8 licenses. Tami Reller shared this news with industry and financial analysts …
| Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
Ballmer says Windows 8 users ‘get it, and like it’ — Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer is addressing the company's annual shareholders meeting right now in Bellevue, Wash. He started by talking about the uptake of Windows 8, citing the 40 million licenses sold, and alluding to the early usage patterns that the company reported yesterday.
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| Martyn Williams / Computerworld: |
Exclusive: Nokia seeks to block sale of some RIM products — Nokia wants a US court to enforce an arbitration agreement that could affect most of RIM's smartphones — Nokia has asked a California court to enforce an arbitration award that would prevent Research In Motion from selling products …
| Tarmo Virki / Reuters: |
BlackBerry maker RIM loses patent dispute with Nokia — (Reuters) - Canada's Research In Motion (RIM) has lost a contract dispute over the use of Nokia patents in a case which could halt sales of its BlackBerry phones if it does not reach a deal to pay royalties to the Finnish company.
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| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
iPad And Android Tablet Market Share Margin Narrows Much Faster Than Originally Predicted — Apple continued to win out in terms of tablet market share this past quarter, according to the latest figures from ABI Research, with a 55 percent share of all shipments during the period.| Larry Dignan / ZDNet: |
Amazon Web Services cuts S3 prices, knocks old guard rivals — Summary: “We're lowering prices for S3 by 24 percent to 27 percent in all regions,” said Andy Jassy, senior vice president of Amazon Web Services. Jassy also mocked old guard technology rivals, which were seen as cloud washers.
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| Larry Dignan / ZDNet: |
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| Vibhu Norby / philosophically: |
Why We're Pivoting from Mobile-first to Web-first — There has been much discussion from the venture capitalist angle on the failings of mobile companies, including posts by Fred Wilson and Om Malik. I wanted to share my perspective, having been the co-founder of a mobile-first startup …
Tweets: @pkedrosky and @davemcclure
| Leena Rao / TechCrunch: |
Confirmed: Google Acquires Incentive Targeting To Power Super Targeted, Personalized Coupon Programs — Google has just acquired coupon targeting company Incentive Targeting. The acquisition was confirmed in a tweet from Mike Dudas, who is on the team building Google's mobile commerce business.
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AllThingsD, The Next Web, CNET, Engadget, 9to5Google, Screenwerk, ZDNet, Understanding Google …, SlashGear, Xconomy, Droid Life and SocialTimes. Tweets: @mdudas. Thanks:@chrisvelazco
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft's launches ‘Scroogled’ anti-Google Shopping website — Microsoft is launching its latest anti-Google campaign this week. A new Scroogled site has emerged that directly attacks Google's “unfair pay-to-rank shopping practices” says Microsoft. “Simply put, all of their shopping results … | BBC: |
‘Piracy’ student Richard O'Dwyer avoids US extradition — Mr O'Dwyer faced a maximum sentence of five years in prison if found guilty in the US — A student facing trial and possible imprisonment in the United States has struck a deal to avoid extradition, the High Court has been told.
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| Google Drive Blog: |
Edit spreadsheets on the go with the Drive mobile app — You're making your list, you're checking it twice—and now you can do it from anywhere. — Just in time for this year's holiday season, you can edit Google Sheets on your mobile device, just like you can with Google Docs.| Loek Essers / Computerworld: |
Apple gets sales ban on some Samsung Galaxy products in the Netherlands — Dutch court bans sale of Samsung products that infringe on an Apple patent on navigating images in a photo gallery — A Dutch court has banned sales of Samsung Electronics' Galaxy products that infringe …
| Shara Tibken / CNET: |
Yelp CEO: Yep, Google can be pretty evil — Jeremy Stoppelman, speaking during a Business Insider conference, also said doing anything local takes depth and time. — NEW YORK—Sure, Google can be pretty evil, Yelp Chief Executive Jeremy Stoppelman said. — Stoppelman, speaking … Thanks:@lutherlowe
| Sharif Sakr / Engadget: |
Will.i.am launches pricey i.am+ camera add-ons for iPhone, we go hands on (video) — So, we learned two things today. Firstly, Will.i.am is able to attract quite a media scrum, and secondly, national press photographers have sharp elbows. Nevertheless, we braved the London debut …
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Telegraph, MacRumors, Gizmodo, LAPTOP Magazine, parislemon, 9to5Mac, Gotta Be Mobile, SlashGear, Apple Bitch, iClarified, everythingiCafe, iDownloadBlog.com and iPhone Hacks. Tweets: @panzer
| Ina Fried / AllThingsD: |
Telefonica, Mozilla and VCs Still Betting Big on HTML5 as They Pour $25 Million Into Everything.Me — For Mozilla to be successful with its Firefox OS, it needs a lot of good HTML5 apps and content. — Given that, it is not terribly surprising that Mozilla and carrier partner Telefonica …
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| Emil Protalinski / The Next Web: |
Amazon's Maps API now available to all developers, becomes part of Mobile App SDK — Amazon on Tuesday announced the release of its Maps API, now out of beta and integrated into the Amazon Mobile App SDK. The company is pushing for developers to get started using it for Kindle Fire …
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Search Engine Land, PC World, TechCrunch, TUAW, All Points Blog, GadgeTell and WebProNews
| Peter Kafka / AllThingsD: |
Groupon's Andrew Mason: Of Course My Board Is Discussing Replacing Me. But I Want to Stay. — So that's pretty straightforward: Groupon CEO Andrew Mason says that yes, his board is discussing whether he should be replaced. — That's totally normal, he says, for a company whose stock is down 80 percent.
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CNET, Betabeat, CNNMoney.com, GigaOM, Business Insider, TechCrunch, Digits, Mashable!, ValueWalk and Business Insider. Tweets: @hblodget
| Kara Swisher / AllThingsD: |
Marissa Mayer's First Live Interview (Which ATD Had to Virtually Sneak Into): God. Family. Yahoo. — Tonight, new Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer gave her first public interview since becoming the leader of the troubled Silicon Valley Internet giant. — Not to cranky me, of course …
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CNET, SiliconBeat, Fortune, SocialTimes, Mashable!, AdAge and Business Insider. See also Mediagazer
| Kyle Rush: |
Meet the Obama campaign's $250 million fundraising platform — The numbers — $250 million dollars, 4,276,463 donations — 81,548,259 pageviews, 17,807,917 unique visitors — 60% faster time to paint than previous platform — 240 a/b tests, 49% increase in donation conversion rate| Alex Wilhelm / The Next Web: |
Microsoft promises Windows Phone 7.8 update in Q1 2013, new models running the software coming shortly — Today Microsoft promised to bring the Windows Phone 7.8 update to market early next year for current Windows Phone 7.5 devices, and that new handsets running the software would be sold running …
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Windows Phone Blog, TechCrunch, The Verge, ZDNet, WebProNews, Gotta Be Mobile and WMPoweruser
| Noel Randewich / Reuters: |
AMD plans to sell Texas campus to raise cash — (Reuters) - Advanced Micro Devices Inc plans to sell and lease back its Austin, Texas campus to raise cash and fund its chipmaking business as it diversifies beyond the troubled PC industry into new markets. — AMD expects to sell the 58-acre site …
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| Tom Cheredar / VentureBeat: |
Rep. Darrell Issa introduces a 'don't mess with the Internet for two years' bill — If it ain't broke, don't fix it. Yet, when it comes to the Internet, there are plenty of politicians who believe something is broken. — Suffice it to say, the majority of active Internet users …
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Guardian, CNET, Gizmodo, Techdirt, digitaltrends.com, Network World, Hillicon Valley, ZDNet and TechEye
| Ben Gilbert / Engadget: |
Oculus Rift dev kits to ship in March 2013, orders fulfilled by mid-April — Were you one of the many folks to donate your hard-earned cash to the crazy folks developing the Oculus Rift virtual reality headset? Sadly, we've got some bad news for ya — you won't be playing Doom 3 …
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