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App Store Tops 40 Billion Downloads with Almost Half in 2012 — Apple® today announced that customers have downloaded over 40 billion apps*, with nearly 20 billion in 2012 alone. The App Store has over 500 million active accounts and had a record-breaking December with over two billion downloads during the month.
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| Matthew Lynley / Digits: |
Apple Has Paid Out More Than $7 Billion To Developers — Apple announced today that more than 40 billion apps have been downloaded from its App Store for the iPhone and iPad — which has led to more than $7 billion in payments to developers. — That's still a fraction of Apple's revenue …
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Intel's New Chips: Everything You Need to Know — Intel's talking about its new stuff today at CES. Some of it's new, some of it we've heard before. But we'll let you know everything important that goes down today. — Here's the quick version of everything Intel will be talking about today …
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Intel: 4th generation Ultrabooks will require touch and will retail for $599 by end of 2013 — Today at its CES event, Intel made the claim that by the end of 2013, the market will enjoy the presence of $599, touch-enabled Ultrabook laptops. The company also stated that the devices will be required to support touch input.
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Intel confirms partnership with Comcast, brings Xfinity TV viewing to Intel-based devices — Well, there's no new set-top box box per se, but most of those rumored Intel / virtual cable TV details have come true here at CES. Intel just announced a new partnership with Comcast …
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Why We're Not At The Biggest Tech Show In The World — Because it's not the most important event in technology anymore. The two trends that killed CES. For a long time, the Consumer Electronics Show, which began in 1967, was the Super Bowl of new technology.| Mat Honan / Wired: |
CES Is the World's Greatest Hardware Show Stuck in a Software Era — LAS VEGAS — Thousands of companies will roll out millions of products at CES this week. Lights will blink. Glass will shimmer. Screens will illuminate and speakers will reverberate.
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Vizio gets back in the phone game with 5-inch 1080p and 4.7-inch 720p handsets... for China — Two of the hottest phones at CES, but you can't have one — Two years ago, Vizio came to CES and announced the Vizio Phone, a skinned Android phone that quietly died at the hands of American carrier politics.
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Samsung tries to do it all with new Smart TV interface, lets older sets upgrade with Smart Evolution Kit — Smart TVs universally have horrible interfaces, and it seems like Samsung knows that its prior efforts haven't been up to par. The company has shown off its new user interface …
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| Alex Fitzpatrick / Mashable!: |
Congressman Demands Investigation of Google FTC Probe Leaks — Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), Chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, demanded an investigation of the Federal Trade Commission's role in sharing private information about the Commission's Google probe …
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| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
New Swype keyboard for Android crowd-sources your autocorrections — The market for Android keyboards is remarkably heated and fast moving, with companies cribbing different features from each other seemingly every month. The latest such move comes from Swype, which is adding a feature called …
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| Jesus Diaz / Gizmodo: |
Nokia Boss: “Today we are with Microsoft, but anything is possible” — Gizmodo es Español reports on some surprising words by Nokia big chief Stephen Elop. Asked about a potential Android phone in Nokia's near future, Elop said that “anything is possible”:| Jamie Rigg / Engadget: |
Netgear's NeoTV PRIME with Google TV gets official at CES — We didn't doubt the reality of Netgear's NeoTV PRIME (GTV100) Google TV box after the candid shots of it we saw last month, but as expected, the company has chosen to make it official at CES. In addition to providing access …
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| Steve Stecklow / Reuters: |
Exclusive: U.S. nuclear lab removes Chinese tech over security fears — (Reuters) - A leading U.S. nuclear weapons laboratory recently discovered its computer systems contained some Chinese-made network switches and replaced at least two components because of national security concerns, a document shows.
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| John Paczkowski / AllThingsD: |
Apple Can't Afford Buyer's Remorse With Next Retail Hire — John Browett, the Dixons exec tapped to oversee Apple's retail operations last January, was Tim Cook's first big hire after taking up the CEO reins at the company. Nine months later, he would be among Cook's first big fires … | Ryan Tate / Wired: |
In Apple's War on Taxes, Surrender Costs $28 Billion — With the U.S. Senate reportedly finishing an investigation into how Apple and others dodge taxes, and with Apple fighting for an officially sanctioned tax holiday, it's worth taking stock of Apple's tax liabilities.
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| Brooks Barnes / New York Times: |
At Disney Parks, a Bracelet Meant to Build Loyalty (and Sales) — ORLANDO, Fla. — Imagine Walt Disney World with no entry turnstiles. Cash? Passé: Visitors would wear rubber bracelets encoded with credit card information, snapping up corn dogs and Mickey Mouse ears with a tap of the wrist.
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| Emil Protalinski / The Next Web: |
Yahoo Mail users hit by widespread hacking, XSS exploit seemingly to blame (Update: Yahoo is investigating) — Late last night reports started coming in suggesting that Yahoo Mail users have had their accounts hacked. While “hacked” is a very broad term nowadays, it does appear …
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| John Herrman / BuzzFeed: |
The AP Has Started Selling Its Twitter Feed — America's most venerable newswire is experimenting with new ways to make money. And they're going around Twitter to do it, too. — During the Consumer Electronics Show, the Associated Press's 1.5 million followers will see tweets about Samsung's new products.
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| Nate Anderson / Ars Technica: |
The bizarre tale of John McAfee, spymaster — McAfee, now traveling around the Midwest, has a taste for Cracker Barrel. — The craziest story of this last week? It's an easy call—John McAfee's self-told tale of becoming a spymaster in Belize, passing out malware-laden laptops to officials …
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| Chris Velazco / TechCrunch: |
Huawei Officially Reveals The 6.1-Inch Ascend Mate And The 5-Inch Ascend D2, We Go Hands-On — Neither LG's nor AT&T's pre-CES conferences had much to show off in the way of smartphone hardware, but Huawei has just changed all that here at its press event at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center.
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| Leena Rao / TechCrunch: |
Disruptive Web Security Startup Shape Security Nabs $20M From Venrock, Google Ventures, Kleiner, Eric Schmidt — Shape Security, a company that wants to disrupt web security technology, has raised $20 million in Series B financing round led by Venrock, with participation …
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Year-end Wii U sales steady, says Nintendo chief — (Reuters) - Nintendo Co Ltd's year-end sales of its Wii U games console were steady, though not as strong as when its Wii predecessor was first launched, the Japanese game maker's top executive told Reuters on Monday.
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| Tim Stevens / Engadget: |
Lexus' autonomous Advanced Active Safety Research Vehicle and why we're not ready for self-driving cars — Self-driving cars aren't just the future, they're the present. Sort of. They're out there, but you can't buy one just yet. Google of course has made waves with its driverless car …
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| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Walmart now lets you convert DVDs to UltraViolet digital copies without leaving home — Walmart first launched its disc-to-digital initiative last year, allowing customers to bring a DVD collection to any of the retailer's stores and pay to receive UltraViolet digital copies of their movies.| Brad Molen / Engadget: |
Alcatel intros the One Touch Idol Ultra, the 'world's slimmest phone' at 6.45mm (hands-on video) — Yes, there's a bit of a contest going on among smartphone manufacturers to determine which one has the thinnest device. As proof that Alcatel can play that game, too, the company has just jumped …
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| Ina Fried / AllThingsD: |
Exclusive: Former Motorola Exec Christy Wyatt to Head Good Technology — Enterprise mobility company Good Technology plans to announce later Monday that it has hired Christy Wyatt as its next chief executive. Wyatt, a former Motorola and Apple executive, had most recently served a short stint … Sponsor Posts
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