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Rage against rules — Instagram revolt — Instagram users outraged over new rules made good on their threat to dump the popular photo-sharing app. — The app, which Facebook acquired for $1 billion earlier this year, may have shed nearly a quarter of its daily active users in the wake of the debacle …
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Instagram Loses 25% of Daily Users After Term of Service Backlash — By ALISTAIR CHARLTON: Subscribe to Alistair's RSS feed — They were reversed in less than 24 hours, along with a sincere apology from the CEO, but Instagram's proposed changes to its terms and conditions may have cost …
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RIM's First Patent Payment to Nokia: $65 Million — When Research In Motion settled its patent dispute with Nokia last week, the company agreed to make a “one-time payment and on-going payments” to its Finnish adversary. But the size of those payments wasn't disclosed, and the terms of the deal kept confidential.
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How Anybody Can Secretly Save Your Snapchat Videos Forever — The videos you send through Snapchat and Poke are supposed to disappear in 10 seconds or less. Except a security flaw makes it easy to save them forever — without the sender ever knowing. — Via: yourprops.com
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Analysis: For tech investors, it's hard to know when to bolt — (Reuters) - When Hewlett-Packard Co agreed to buy British software company Autonomy in August last year for $11.1 billion, two well-known investors made diametrically different bets on how the big deal would play out.
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| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
Senate votes to let the NSA keep spying on you without a warrant until 2017 — The US Senate has voted to approve the FAA Sunsets Extension Act of 2012, which will authorize warrantless surveillance of Americans for counter-terrorism purposes for another five years.
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For every 100 web pageviews on an iPad, a Kindle gets 5, a Galaxy gets 3, and a Surface gets 0.22 — Non-iPad web traffic is growing, but it's still a tiny fraction of what Apple's iconic tablet pulls in. — Advertising and analytics company Chitika released its December 2012 tablet market update … | Alex Wilhelm / The Next Web: |
Adding 415 apps daily, Windows 8 blows past the 35,000 app milestone — Microsoft's Windows 8 operating system now has a total of 35,0000 applications in its Store, according to tracking website MetroStore Scanner. — The total tally, 35,167, represents a growth of 14,557 in the last 35 days … | Joan Lowy / Associated Press: |
Fees undermine fliers' ability to compare fares — WASHINGTON (AP) — For many passengers, air travel is only about finding the cheapest fare. — But as airlines offer a proliferating list of add-on services, from early boarding to premium seating and baggage fees, the ability to comparison-shop for the lowest total fare is eroding.| Salvador Rodriguez / Los Angeles Times: |
Cycloramic app spins iPhone 5 to take 360-degree video — Cycloramic, a new app, uses the iPhone 5's vibrations to spin the phone around and capture handsfree 360 degree video. — Could this be the coolest app ever? It'll certainly be the center of attention at a party.
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Here come the design patents: new law boosts rights in shapes, designs — One of Apple's key weapons in its legal battle against competitors is a special type of patent that protects the visual appearance of a product. Critics have denounced these patents as a way to own “rounded rectangles” … | Jamie Rigg / Engadget: |
‘Leaked’ BlackBerry 10 info shows video chat and screen sharing in BBM, new task manager — Top dog at RIM Thorsten Heins heavily implied that video chat would be added to BBM when BlackBerry 10 showed up, and now possible confirmation of the feature has come from what are thought to be leaked presentation slides.| Alex Wilhelm / The Next Web: |
The cost of Netflix's political win: $1 million in lobbying over two years and its own PAC — Netflix has a win under its belt heading into 2013: its users will soon be able to share their video viewing history through social channels. A small feature one might think … Sponsor Posts
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