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App Store Tops 40 Billion Downloads with Almost Half in 2012 — Record-Breaking December with Over Two Billion Downloads — CUPERTINO, CaliforniaJanuary 7, 2013Apple® today announced that customers have downloaded over 40 billion apps*, with nearly 20 billion in 2012 alone.
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| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
Lenovo ThinkPad Helix tablet / laptop hybrid gets a power-up when it docks — Did you think you'd seen every possible way a laptop and tablet could merge? Lenovo's ThinkPad Helix is here to show you otherwise. Rather than simply flipping head over heels, twisting in place …
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NVIDIA building Tegra 4 into an Android gaming controller / console, dubbed ‘Project Shield’ — A video shown on-stage during NVIDIA's press conference just unveiled “Project Shield,” a gaming controller / portable console running Tegra 4. The controller looks an awful lot like a PlayStation 3 DualShock 3 …
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| Aaron Souppouris / The Verge: |
Nvidia unveils Tegra 4, 'world's fastest mobile processor' — Nvidia has just announced its next-generation Tegra 4 processor for smartphones, tablets, and notebooks. The Tegra 4, like its predecessor, features a quad-core processor along with a fifth, low power, core to save battery life.
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| Om Malik / GigaOM: |
My conversation with ex-Facebook CTO and Quora co-founder Adam D'Angelo — To say that I have had a contentious relationship with former Facebook chief technology officer Adam D'Angelo's three-year-old startup Quora would be an understatement. I've had my reasons for disagreeing with some of its policies relating to the content.| Amar Toor / The Verge: |
David Kelley talks about Steve Jobs and ‘design thinking’ in ‘60 Minutes’ interview — IDEO founder David Kelley sat down with 60 Minutes this week to discuss the philosophy behind “design thinking” — an innovative approach that melds product design with human behavior.
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Dropbox's new Modern UI Windows 8 app finally arrives in the Windows Store — It's been a month since we revealed that Dropbox had pushed its Windows 8 app for submission to Microsoft, and now the app is fully certified and has landed in the Windows Store for Windows 8 and Windows RT devices.| Rip Empson / TechCrunch: |
Following AMD & Asus, BlueStacks Strikes Distribution Deal With Lenovo To Bring 750K Android Apps To Its PCs — The good news keeps rolling in for BlueStacks, the startup best known for making technology that enables one and all to download and use Android applications on their desktop PCs — and more recently, their Macs.
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Why Does Everyone Think Google Beat the FTC? — In the aftermath of the FTC's settlement with Google yesterday, too many reporters fell for the line that Google used some fancy combination of executive charm and lobbying prowess to beat the federal government at its own game.| Andrew Longstreth / Reuters: |
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HTC Posts Lowest Net Income in Eight Years After Revenue Drops — HTC Corp. (2498), Asia's second-largest smartphone maker, posted its lowest profit in eight years as a lack of new models prompted a loss of market share. — Fourth-quarter net income was NT$1 billion ($34 million) …
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| David Jolly / New York Times: |
Ad Blocking Raises Alarm Among Firms Like Google — PARIS — Xavier Niel, the French technology entrepreneur, has made a career of disrupting the status quo. — Now, he has dared to take on Google and other online advertisers in a battle that puts the Web companies under pressure to use …
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| Tamar Lewin / New York Times: |
Massive Open Online Courses Prove Popular, if Not Lucrative Yet — MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — In August, four months after Daphne Koller and Andrew Ng started the online education company Coursera, its free college courses had drawn in a million users, a faster launching than either Facebook or Twitter.
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| Miyoung Kim / Reuters: |
Hitting a high Note: ‘phablets’, chips to drive Samsung fourth quarter profit — (Reuters) - Samsung Electronics, the world leader in mobiles and memory chips, likely earned a quarterly profit of $8.1 billion, as it sold close to 500 handsets every minute and as demand picked up for the flat screens … | Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch: |
Roku Now Has 700 Channels, Including Time Warner Cable; Also Has 14 TV Manufacturers Compatible With Its Streaming Stick — Roku is announcing at CES today a significant milestone both in the amount of content and the number of devices that are compatible with its USB-sized streaming stick.
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| Darren Murph / Engadget: |
Seagate's $200 Wireless Plus 1TB hard drive streams content everywhere, includes 10-hour battery — A (very) early slip through the FCC's database uncovered Seagate's Wireless Plus drive several months ago, but here at CES, the company is finally ready to take the official wraps off of the aforesaid drive.
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| Charlie Osborne / ZDNet: |
Apple secures majority of US smartphone market, Samsung dominates Europe — Summary: According to new research, the iPad and iPhone maker has managed to secure over 50 percent of the American smartphone market, whereas Samsung is still top dog in Europe. — Charlie Osborne| Associated Press: |
Google executive chairman arrives in North Korea — By By JEAN H. LEE, Associated Press - 2 hours ago — PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) — The Google chairman wants a first-hand look at North Korea's economy and social media in his private visit Monday to the communist nation, his delegation said …
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| Jon Fingas / Engadget: |
HP Pocket Playlist WiFi drive takes video from Hulu or Netflix, shares media with five devices — There's no shortage of WiFi storage devices these days, but it's not often that they collect web video — which makes HP's new Pocket Playlist at least somewhat worthy of a closer look.
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| Leena Rao / TechCrunch: |
Reddit Rumored To Be Raising Money, At A $400 Million Valuation — Welcome to yet another Rumor Sunday™. In 2011, Reddit was spun out of Conde Nast as a standalone company, but the publishing giant kept full ownership. At the time, Peter Kafka of AllthingsD reported that Conde Nast …
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