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Twitter Loses Ability to Properly Display Instagram Photos — Welcome to the Photo Wars. — Instagram on Wednesday disabled the ability for Twitter to properly display Instagram photos on its Web site and in its applications. The move escalates tensions between the two companies …
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Kevin Systrom On Pulling Twitter Cards Integration: We Want Images Viewed On Instagram.com — Instagram has turned off Twitter Cards integration, leaving Instagram users on the short-winded social network with cropped, less-than-perfect copies of their masterwork in iPhonography.
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Google's Explainer-in-Chief Can't Explain Apple — As Google Inc. battles rivals ranging from Apple Inc. to Internet companies that allege it fixes its search results, Eric Schmidt has become the search giant's peacemaker and explainer-in-chief. — Google's former CEO and current executive chairman met …
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iTunes Gets an Upgrade Without Missing a Beat — Apple's iTunes is the world's most popular computer program for playing, managing and buying music, movies and TV shows. The company estimates the number of copies in active use to be in the high hundreds of millions.
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Half of all app store revenue goes to just 25 developers — Top app earners carve up $60m pie — Apple's App Store and the Google Play store each claim to offer over 700,000 apps to choose from, but only a tiny fraction of them bring in significant revenue for their developers, according to research from analyst firm Canalys.
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Nokia Unveils Latest Windows Phone 8 Device: Lumia 620 Packs 3.8 Inch ClearBlack Display, NFC, Costs $249 (Before Taxes) — Marko Ahtisaari, Executive VP of Design, Nokia, has unveiled its latest Windows Phone 8 device: the Nokia Lumia 620. The product design chief was speaking at the LeWeb conference taking place this week in Paris.| Ryan Vlastelica / Reuters: |
Apple shares tumble 4 percent in heavy trade, on mix of reasons — (Reuters) - Shares of Apple Inc tumbled 4 percent in heavy, midday trading on Wednesday, rounding off a bleak ten weeks for the most valuable company in the United States, with analysts citing a mix of reasons for the drop.
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HP announces the EliteBook Revolve, a Windows 8 convertible for the business crowd (video) — See that laptop up there? Basically, HP has announced something like that every year for we don't even know how long. It's always a convertible PC of the traditional sort, one with a fixed screen …
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Rethinking Mobile First — I wrote the Mobile First Web Second blog post a few years ago. In that post, I talked about apps that were designed to be used on mobile primarily with the web as a companion. — There have been a number of startups that have taken that approach and done well with it.
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House approves resolution to keep Internet control out of UN hands — The House on Wednesday unanimously passed a Senate resolution introduced by Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) that calls on the U.S. government to oppose government control of the Internet. — The 397- vote was meant to send …
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Amazon brings one of its flagship Kindle features, X-Ray for books, to its iOS app — One of Amazon's flagship features, X-Ray for Books, has finally arrived in its iOS version. Thsi is enormous as it's one of the main reasons I love reading books on my Kindle and the Kindle Fire so much better than my iPad.
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NSFW: Apple's Russian iTunes launch plagued with bug displaying escort/pornography sites — “In Soviet Russia, Porn blocks Apple.” — It appears Apple's launch of iTunes music and movies in Russia is running into a bit of controversy with several Russian users noticing advertising …
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Nokia Maps digitises streets to battle Google's threat — Nokia is combining data gathered by lasers and cameras to make interactive 3D images of cities — Nokia smells an opportunity. Maps have become one of the most closely-watched battlegrounds in tech after a user-backlash led Apple … | Jake Smith / 9to5Google: |
Google adds horizontal carousel for web based iPad searches about local places — Google updated its web experience for U.S. iPad users who search for local places, such as bars and restaurants, on Google Search. The Mountain View-based company called the new feature a “horizontal carousel” … | Craig Lloyd / SlashGear: |
Verizon to start targeted advertising this week, will be optional — If you're a customer of Verizon's, you'll want to keep your eyes peeled for an email, text message, or notification mentioning the carrier's new “Verizon Selects” program. In exchange for sharing your data usage … | Jon Fingas / Engadget: |
Sonos for iOS adds direct device streaming, takes PCs out of the equation (hands-on) — Sonos has been steadily reducing our dependency on the computer as the cornerstone of its multi-room audio system, but there's been one link left to cut: local music. Outside of an AirPlay workaround …
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Your AT&T Bill Will Soon Be a Video — Deciphering wireless bills requires a degree of patience only slightly lower than interpreting the Constitution, so we're very happy to see AT&T making theirs a lot more human-friendly. Starting today, AT&T is explaining your monthly costs with a simple video.| Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: |
Philips, LG Electronics, 4 others fined $1.92 billion for EU cartel — (Reuters) - Philips, LG Electronics, Samsung SDI and three other firms were fined a record 1.47 billion euros ($1.92 billion) by EU antitrust regulators on Wednesday for fixing prices of TV cathode-ray tubes in two cartels lasting nearly a decade.| Romain Dillet / TechCrunch: |
Kindle FreeTime Unlimited Offers Restricted Access To Content For Kids From Disney, Nickelodeon, DC Comics, And More — Amazon today launched FreeTime Unlimited, a subscription service that offers movies, games, and books for the kids. The launch follows the recent software update to Kindle Fire …
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Verizon Using Sandy Repairs to Upgrade Wireline Network — Verizon Communications Inc. is replacing copper wire damaged by superstorm Sandy with fiber-optic cable, a move that allows the company to sell more services to customers. — The accelerated installation of fiber cable …
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Samsung promotes son and heir closer to top job — (Reuters) - Samsung Electronics Co pushed the anointed heir of the company Chairman closer to the top job on Wednesday as the it cemented a global lead in smartphones with a stock price that is close to record highs.
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Nokia announces the Lumia 920T with China Mobile, available for $739 before end of 2012 — Nokia has announced that its Lumia 920T smartphone is coming to China Mobile, the country's largest carrier, and it will launch before the end of the year for 4599 RMB ($739 - off contract) with a choice of black, white, yellow and red.| Drew Olanoff / TechCrunch: |
PeopleBrowsr Claims “Twitter Changed Position On Eve Of Discovery” Over Federal Jurisdiction Request — Tonight, PeopleBrowsr, the company that filed a restraining order against Twitter to keep a hold of its firehose of data after Twitter decided to end the deal it had in place with them, came out to discuss the latest in its case.
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Facebook Talks App Traction: 350 Apps Have 1M+ Monthly Actives On Site; Facebook Now Integrated In 200K Mobile Applications — Facebook today announced new numbers related to Facebook app usage on its site, as well as its integration into mobile platforms like iPhone and Android.
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Karma Launches Its $79 4G Mobile Hotspot And Pay-As-You-Go Data Plan That Reward Users For Sharing Their Bandwidth — The founders behind Karma (no, not that Karma) think that there's something fundamentally broken in the market for mobile providers. And they're hardly alone.
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