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The FTC and Google: A Missed Opportunity — Vice President & Deputy General Counsel, Microsoft — The FTC took steps today to address some of Google's improper business practices. We find it troubling that the agency did not adhere to its own standard procedures that call for the agency …
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| Ethan Bilby / Reuters: |
EU says its Google case not affected by U.S. ruling — (Reuters) - A decision by U.S. regulators to end a probe into whether Google Inc hurt rivals by manipulating internet searches will not affect the European Union's examination of the company. — “We have taken note of the FTC … | Liz Gannes / AllThingsD: |
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| Rik Henderson / Pocket-lint: |
Spotify suspends music download service in the UK — EXCLUSIVE: No longer supporting purchases — Spotify is no longer allowing users to buy music through its streaming service, Pocket-lint has discovered. — When trying to buy tracks, even Premium subscribers are met with a notice that states …
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Keeping Safari a secret — For much of the time we spent developing Safari — long before it was called by that name — it pretended to be Microsoft Internet Explorer. Specifically, Internet Explorer for Mac, which Apple had provided with the OS since 1998.
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| Hyunjoo Jin / Reuters: |
Samsung expected to widen smartphone lead over Apple this year — (Reuters) - Samsung Electronics Co Ltd is expected to widen its lead over Apple Inc in global smartphone sales this year with 35 percent growth, helped by a broad product lineup, market researcher Strategy Analytics told Reuters on Friday.
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| Dante D'Orazio / The Verge: |
Amazon Prime Instant Video adds A&E, History, and Lifetime after Netflix's deal falls through — Months after Netflix users lose access, Amazon strikes a deal with A&E — Amazon's Prime Instant Video streaming service is continuing to fill out its selection with today's announcement …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Surface Pro release date set for late January — Microsoft's Surface Pro tablet is set to go on sale in late January. After unveiling the pricing for its Windows 8 tablet late last year, Microsoft has remained relatively quiet about the exact timing of release outside of a promised January timeframe.
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| Alex Williams / TechCrunch: |
Forrester Report Says Apple Will Sell $39 Billion In Macs and iPads To Businesses Over Next 2 Years — Forrester Research is reporting that Apple will sell $39 billion in Macs and iPads through 2014. — According to the firm's latest report, Apple will sell $7 billion worth of Macs …
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| Greg Bensinger / Wall Street Journal: |
The E-Reader Revolution: Over Just as It Has Begun? — The e-reader era just arrived, but now it may be ending. — Dedicated devices for reading e-books have been a hot category for the past half-dozen years, but the shrinking sizes and falling prices of full-featured tablet computers …
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| Kim Zetter / Wired: |
Write Gambling Software, Go to Prison — In a criminal case sure to make programmers nervous, a software maker who licenses a program used by online casinos and bookmakers overseas is being charged with promoting gambling in New York because authorities say his software was used by others for illegal betting in that state.
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Google Quietly Removes Censorship Warning Feature For Search Users In China (Updated) — Google has quietly disabled a feature that notified users of its search service in China when a keyword had been censored by the Chinese government's internet controls, according to censorship monitoring blog GreatFire.org.| Eric Slivka / MacRumors: |
Best Buy Complains About Walmart's iPhone 5 Holiday Sale, Claims $65,000 Profit Loss in One Day — The Wall Street Journal notes that several retailers including Best Buy and Toys “R” Us have complained to attorneys general in a handful of states about advertising practices of Walmart.| Jamillah Knowles / The Next Web: |
Euclid launches Google Analytics style measurement for brick and mortar stores via WiFi — Analytics provider Euclid is launching no-hardware solution Euclid Zero for brick and mortar shops to monitor customer behaviour and make better decisions about things like window displays and store layout.
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| Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
Kim Dotcom: US “planted” evidence to obtain illegal search warrants — Kim Dotcom living large in happier times. — Handout — Megaupload has accused US investigators of “planting” evidence the government used to prove that Megaupload knowingly kept copyrighted files on its servers and ultimately shut the file-sharing site down.
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| Janko Roettgers / GigaOM: |
CinemaNow or never: Rovi puts its digital movie store up for sale — After having spent $720 million on it two years ago, Rovi announced Thursday that it intends to sell its Rovi Entertainment Store digital video platform, which was formerly known as CinemaNow.| John Ribeiro / Computerworld: |
US frowns on Eric Schmidt's North Korea trip — The U.S. Department of State has described the timing of a proposed visit by Google's executive chairman Eric Schmidt and others to North Korea as not “particularly helpful” in view of the Asian country's recent launch of a long-range rocket.
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| Jungah Lee / Bloomberg: |
Samsung, LG Display Fined by China for Fixing LCD Panel Prices — Samsung Electronics Co. (005930) and LG Display Co. (034220), the world's biggest makers of flat panels, were among six companies fined by China's government for participating in a price-fixing scheme.
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| Alex Wilhelm / The Next Web: |
Ex-Windows boss Steven Sinofsky launches new blog focused on ‘technology product development’ — Steven Sinofsky may no longer hold the Windows reins at Microsoft, but that certainly doesn't mean that he intends on stepping back from the public sphere. Made famous for his work on Windows 7 … | Adrienne LaFrance / Washington Post: |
Library of Congress has archive of tweets, but no plan for its public display — In the few minutes it will take you to read this story, some 3 million new tweets will have flitted across the publishing platform Twitter and ricocheted across the Internet. The Library of Congress is busy archiving … Sponsor Posts
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