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Facebook to Launch Its Own Snapchat Competitor App — Facebook is currently testing its own built-in-house version of a “Snapchat-like” application, a messaging app that allows users to send impermanent photo messages to one another, according to sources familiar with the matter.| Apple: |
iPhone 5 First Weekend Sales in China Top Two Million — Apple® today announced it has sold over two million of its new iPhone® 5 in China, just three days after its launch on December 14. iPhone 5 will be available in more than 100 countries by the end of December, making it the fastest iPhone rollout ever.
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| Horace Dediu / asymco: |
Calibrating launch performance for the iPhone in China — When the iPhone 5 launched Apple promised availability in 100 countries before the end of year. This was a very aggressive plan given the gradual release of previous products. Last year the iPhone 4S only arrived in China (along with 21 additional countries) on January 13th.| Eben Upton / Raspberry Pi: |
Introducing the Pi Store — We've been amazed by the variety of software that people have written for, or ported to, the Raspberry Pi. Today, together with our friends at IndieCity and Velocix, we're launching the Pi Store to make it easier for developers of all ages to share their games …
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Sprint to Acquire 100 Percent Ownership of Clearwire for $2.97 per Share — Transaction strengthens Sprint's position and increases competitiveness in the U.S. wireless industry — Interim funding allows Clearwire to continue LTE build-out and complement Sprint's LTE deployment| Michael J. de la Merced / DealBook: |
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| Tim Culpan / Bloomberg: |
HTC Said to Halt Larger Windows Phone on Display Resolution — HTC Corp. (2498) scrapped plans to produce a large-screen smartphone using Microsoft Corp. (MSFT)'s operating system because the screen would have had lower resolution than competing models, according to a person familiar with the project.| Nielsen: |
Nielsen and Twitter Establish Social TV Rating — Nielsen, a leading global provider of information and insights into what consumers watch and buy, and Twitter today announced an exclusive multi-year agreement to create the “Nielsen Twitter TV Rating” for the US market.
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| John Davidson / Financial Review: |
Microsoft urged to ditch Windows brand by Dell — Top Dell executives warned Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer against sticking with the Windows brand for its new tablet operating system Reuters — A top Dell executive warned Microsoft boss Steve Ballmer not to call its new tablet operating system …
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| Steve Dent / Engadget: |
French reporters infiltrate Foxconn iPhone 5 factory, find few of the vaunted changes (updated) — Envoyé Spécial, a 60 Minutes-like program from public TV station France 2, went undercover at the Zhengzhou iPhone 5 Foxconn factory recently (within the past two months) …
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| Don Reisinger / CNET: |
RIM sends out invites for January 30 BlackBerry 10 event — The company will be hosting the event in New York City, with kick-off starting at 8:30 a.m. ET. — Research In Motion has officially announced a BlackBerry 10 event for January 30. — The company sent the invites out today …
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| Myriam Joire / Engadget: |
Nokia Lumia 920 camera fuzziness getting fixed in PR1.1 update — We're not going to lie. After spending some quality time with several Lumia 920 prototypes in Finland last September, we came away extremely impressed with the PureView-branded camera aboard Nokia's Windows Phone 8 flagship.| Amy Thomson / Bloomberg: |
Apple Drops Below $500 for First Time Since February — Apple Inc. (AAPL) shares dropped below $500 for the first time since February after Citigroup Inc. (C) reduced its rating for the stock on concern that demand for the iPhone 5 is slowing. — Apple fell to $499 at 6:55 a.m. New York …
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| Charles Arthur / Guardian: |
Google chief blames Nexus 4 delays on manufacturer — Dan Cobley, head of Google UK, offers fulsome apology to would-be Nexus 4 buyers who complain that system is fulfilling orders in wrong order, while Nexus 10 buyers complain about returns mixup — Google UK's managing director …
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| Bloomberg: |
Cisco Said to Hire Barclays to Sell Linksys Division — Cisco Systems Inc. (CSCO), the largest maker of equipment for computer networks, has hired Barclays Plc (BARC) to find a buyer for Linksys, which makes routers for home wireless access, said people with knowledge of the situation.| T.C. Sottek / The Verge: |
Instagram debuts new privacy policy, set to share user data with Facebook beginning January 16 — As Instagram prepares to scale under its new ownership by Facebook, the company has provided a preview of changes to its privacy policy that will take effect on January 16, 2013.
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| Sara Forden / Bloomberg: |
Google Said to End FTC Probe With Letter Promising Change — Google Inc. (GOOG) is poised to offer voluntary concessions that will end a 20-month antitrust probe of the company's business practices by U.S. regulators without any enforcement action being taken, two people familiar with the matter said.| Steve Lohr / New York Times: |
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| Barb Darrow / GigaOM: |
Real “touch” screens and tasteful computers: IBM predicts the future — What if a computer could let us “feel” the texture of a fabric before we buy clothes online? Or gives us a whiff — or even a taste — of a meal we're thinking of preparing? That's pretty game-changing stuff.
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| Charles Arthur / Guardian: |
China tightens ‘Great Firewall’ internet control with new technology — Companies and individuals affected by new system thought to ‘learn, discover and block’ encrypted communications — China appears to be tightening its control of internet services that are able to burrow secretly through …
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