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December 3, 2012, 1:00 PM
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| Peter Kafka / AllThingsD: |
News Corp. Shutters The Daily iPad App — The Daily, News Corp.'s attempt to create a newspaper for the iPad era, is shutting down after less than two years. — The media giant, which also owns this Web site, said it will “cease standalone publication” of the app on Dec. 15.
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News Corporation, Deadline.com, Ars Technica, The Verge, Guardian, Engadget, GeekWire, PandoDaily, CNET, Business Insider, Reuters, MacRumors, The Register, PC Magazine, AppleInsider, Inside Mobile Apps, AdAge, TechCrunch, Poynter, Inquirer, The Next Web, paidContent, Betabeat, VentureBeat, Digits, Nieman Journalism Lab, TUAW, Capital New York, 9to5Mac, Know Your Cell, Macgasm, WebProNews, Talking Points Memo, Network World, Pulse2, Neowin, everythingiCafe, Beyond Search, iDownloadBlog.com, NBC Bay Area, Softpedia News, Apple Bitch, The Awl, PhoneArena, Quartz, Mashable!, Poynter, IntoMobile, PalmAddict and MacStories
Tweets: @erickschonfeld, @realdanlyons, @markzohar, @timwindsor, @llsethj, @rafat, @joemfbrown, @mathewi, @joemfbrown, @reckless and @pgcat
See also Mediagazer| TechCrunch: |
What's Up With Whatsapp? Facebook Might Want To Buy It, That's What — Whatsapp, the multiplatform mobile messaging app that has been one of the runaway success stories for ad-free, paid services, has been in talks to be acquired by Facebook, according to sources close to the matter.
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Business Insider, AllFacebook, VentureBeat, PandoDaily, CNET, BGR, Telegraph, Betabeat, TechSpot, iPhone Hacks, Mashable!, FierceMobileContent News, The Next Web, iDownloadBlog.com, ValueWalk, iHackintosh, VoIP Watch, Pocket-lint, memeburn, Techie Buzz, Ubergizmo, MobileBurn.com, Inquirer, TG Daily and MacNN
Tweets: @markgurman, @cjamesmusic and @jonrussell
| Brooke Crothers / CNET: |
Intel to slash power consumption on Ivy Bridge chip — Chip giant plans to make Ivy Bridge more power efficient than the versions that are currently used in the MacBook Air and Windows 8 ultrabooks. — Intel is on a mission to cut the power consumption of its chips. But that's not only future silicon.
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LAPTOP Magazine, VentureBeat, MacRumors, TechSpot, Geek.com, Mashable!, Neowin, SlashGear, PhoneArena, Electronista, TechEye and Fudzilla
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
iTunes Event Taking Place In Moscow On Dec 4: Is Russia Finally Getting Apple's Music Service? — At long last, Apple appears to be approaching a launch date for iTunes in Russia — and it could come as soon as tomorrow. A tipster has forwarded us an email, in Russian …
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CNET, MacRumors, iPhone Hacks, TUAW, 9to5Mac, iDownloadBlog.com, iPhone, Macgasm, Softpedia News and MacNN
| Joe Mullin / Ars Technica: |
New filing: Apple knew almost nothing about jury foreman in Samsung case — There have been many, many post-trial machinations following this summer's $1.05 billion patent infringement verdict in Apple v. Samsung. But the most provocative is surely Samsung's theory that the jury pool …
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CNET and iDownloadBlog.com
| BBC: |
Texting SMS pioneer Matti Makkonen 20 years on — In a world first, on 3 December 1992, an engineer sent the message “Merry Christmas” from a PC to a mobile device using Vodafone's UK network. — But the origins of the idea date back further to Matti Makkonen.
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ABCNEWS, The Verge, AllThingsD, Digital Spy, Engadget, ZDNet, CNET, Telegraph, SlashGear, TechSpot, The Register, IntoMobile, ValueWalk and Pocket-lint
| Jeremy Kirk / Computerworld: |
Instagram vulnerability on iPhone allows for account takeover — A security researcher has found a vulnerability in Instagram involving how it handles cookies — A security researcher published on Friday another attack on Facebook's Instagram photo-sharing service that could allow a hacker to seize control of a victim's account.
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everythingiCafe, SlashGear and App Advice
| Greg Bensinger / Wall Street Journal: |
Same-Day Delivery Becomes a Costly Web Battleground — SAN FRANCISCO—To gain a competitive edge in online sales this holiday season, companies including eBay Inc. and Wal-Mart Stores Inc. are turning to a new weapon: people like Jaclyn Widtfeldt. — On a recent Tuesday just before 7 p.m. … | Vint Cerf / The Official Google Blog: |
Keep the Internet free and open — Starting in 1973, when my colleagues and I proposed the technology behind the Internet, we advocated for an open standard to connect computer networks together. This wasn't merely philosophical; it was also practical. — Our protocols were designed …
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CNET, BBC, Hillicon Valley, Gizmodo, PC Magazine, ReadWrite, 9to5Google, The Mozilla Blog, Mashable!, Techdirt, TechEye, SocialTimes, dailywireless.org, WebProNews, ZDNet, Rev2.org, Guardian, Wired, International …, The Mozilla Blog, memeburn, David Talbot and Delimiter. Tweets: @mattcutts
| Tricia Duryee / AllThingsD: |
On the Facebook Menu at Zuckerberg's Recent Dinner With Game Developers: Sushi and a Sliding Pay Scale — As mobile gaming gets hotter, Facebook is trying hard to keep more game developers, beyond Zynga, interested in its platform. — Last week, Facebook let its longtime dominant gaming partner Zynga …
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| John Koetsier / VentureBeat: |
Alibaba reaches 1 trillion RMB ($157B) in sales to become biggest e-commerce company in the world — Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba sold one trillion RMB worth of goods in 2012, the company announced today. That's $157 billion U.S. in gross merchandise volume (GMV) …
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The Next Web, Alizila, ZDNet and Tech in Asia
| Surur / WMPoweruser: |
Microsoft claims 100% + increase in app downloads, developer revenue after WP8 debut — On Twitter Microsoft's Todd Brix, Senior Director, Windows Phone Apps Team, has announced that Windows Phone app downloads and developer revenue has more than doubled since the advent of Windows Phone 8 in November.| Brian X. Chen / New York Times: |
App Maker Uber Hits Regulatory Snarl — WASHINGTON — Summoning a taxi or car service with your smartphone feels like the future. City governments around the world can agree on that. But many of them are proposing new rules that would run Uber, one of the most prominent ride-requesting apps, off the road.
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The Next Web, BostInno, NYT Bits and Hillicon Valley
Tweets: @kzaleski, @agpublic and @brettgurewitz
| Cade Metz / Wired: |
How Amazon Followed Google Into the World of Secret Servers — Chris Pinkham was walking through a data center that would one day house Amazon's seminal cloud computing service — the Elastic Compute Cloud — when he came face to face with a cage of Google machines.| Dylan Love / Business Insider: |
Some Tumblr Blogs Have Been Hacked — UPDATE: According to a tweet by Mashable reporter Alex Fitzpatrick, Tumblr is operational again. — PREVIOUSLY: Tumblr has been hacked. — Check out the Daily Dot's Tumblr page to see what's going on, but be careful - if you visit a hacked page …
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buzzfeed.com, CNET, The Verge, The Next Web, Gizmodo, TechCrunch, Betabeat, Guardian, BetaNews, Mashable!, Digits, Gawker and SocialTimes
Tweets: @verge, @alexjamesfitz and @lheron
See also Mediagazer| Phil Muncaster / The Register: |
Microsoft claims £3.6m piracy scalp in China — Shanghai retailer apologises after reaching settlement — Microsoft's anti-piracy efforts in China chalked up a big win last week when Shanghai retailer Ruichuang Network Technology agreed to pay 36 million yuan (£3.6m) …
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Geek.com, ZDNet and Softpedia News
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Mobile Drives Adoption Of Social Media In 2012: Apps & Mobile Web Account For Majority Of Growth; Nearly Half Of Social Media Users Access Sites On Smartphones — Research firm Nielsen and NM Incite, a joint venture between Nielsen and McKinsey, today published a comprehensive look at the state of the social media ecosystem in 2012.
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Nielsen Wire, AllThingsD, Gizmodo, iDownloadBlog.com, WebProNews, SlashGear, ValueWalk, hypebot and ResourceShelf
| Fred Wilson / A VC: |
Nobody Is Crying For You When You Are Worth Billions — I did a talk with Bill Werde at Billboard's FutureSound conference a few weeks ago. The entire talk is online (in two parts) here. If you go to 7:45 minutes in on the first video (embedded below) you will get to a conversation …
Tweets: @dhh
| The Mozilla Blog: |
Firefox Gets Social with Facebook — Today, we're excited to announce that Firefox is getting social with Facebook Messenger for Firefox, which is built on a new Social API for the Web. — Firefox is the Web browser of choice for hundreds of millions of people worldwide and as social sites …
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Facebook, The Verge and The Next Web
| Cyrus Farivar / Ars Technica: |
McAfee Security founder says he's now out of Belize, eluding investigators — A few weeks ago, founder of McAfee Security John McAfee (he no longer has any connection to the company), was named by Belizean authorities as a “person of interest” in the murder of another American expatriate also living in the Central American country.
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Who is McAfee?, TIME, Business Insider, Betabeat, The Inquisitr, WebProNews and Business Insider
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Tim Berners-Lee's Open Data Institute Gets Its First Outside Investment, $750K From The Omidyar Network To Top Up UK's $16M — The Open Data Institute, a UK-based incubator and promoter of open-data businesses that was first conceived by Tim Berners-Lee and artificial intelligence pioneer Nigel Shadbolt …
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The Next Web and ZDNet
| Matt Brian / The Next Web: |
Apple announces iPhone 5 hitting South Korea on Dec. 7, 50 additional markets across December — Following its Chinese iPad announcements last week, Apple has announced that it will launch the iPhone 5 in South Korea on Friday, December 7, releasing the smartphone in more than 50 additional countries across December.
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Apple, BGR, VentureBeat, AllThingsD, PC Magazine, GigaOM, CNET, MacRumors, 9to5Mac, AppleInsider, Engadget, Cydia Blog, everythingiCafe, Macgasm, Mashable!, iLounge, MacStories, IntoMobile, TUAW, Pocketnow, iDownloadBlog.com, PhoneArena, iPhone and SlashGear
| Florian Mueller / FOSS Patents: |
Ericsson steps up patent enforcement against Samsung with request for U.S. import ban — Last Tuesday Swedish telecommunications equipment maker Ericsson filed two patent infringement lawsuits against Samsung with the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas …
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ZDNet, BetaNews, The Register and Reuters
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