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Qualcomm's insane CES 2013 keynote in pictures and tweets — A night of cringeworthy conversations, product demos, and music — 2013 was the first time in many years that Microsoft didn't host the opening keynote for the Consumer Electronics Show here in Las Vegas.| Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
Video: Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer crashes CES keynote — For the first time in many years, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer didn't deliver the preshow keynote address at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas last night — but that didn't stop him from making a appearance.| Peter Kafka / AllThingsD: |
Aereo Raises $38 Million to Take Its Cord-Cutting Service to 22 More Cities — Right now you can only watch Aereo, the Web TV service the TV networks hate, if you live in New York City. — That will change soon, Aereo says: The startup plans to roll out 22 more U.S. cities this year, starting in “late spring.”| Jessica E. Lessin / Wall Street Journal: |
Apple Working On a Less-Expensive iPhone — Apple Inc. is working on a lower-end iPhone, according to people briefed on the matter, a big shift in strategy as its supremacy in smartphones has slipped. — While Apple has explored such a device for years, the plan has been progressing …
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The Verge, MacRumors, Digits, Engadget, TechCrunch, BGR, Business Insider, The Next Web, iDownloadBlog.com, WebProNews and Examiner
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| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft: 60 million Windows 8 licenses sold to date — Summary: Microsoft has sold 60 million Windows 8 licenses to PC makers and those upgrading as of early January, officials said at the Consumer Electronics Show. — Microsoft officials said the company has sold 60 million Windows 8 licenses to date.
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The Windows Blog, The Verge, Bloomberg, TechCrunch, GeekWire, Engadget, Business Insider, The Next Web, BetaNews, InformationWeek, Reuters, WinBeta and The Register. Tweets: @reuterstech
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Improving Twitter search with real-time human computation — One of the magical things about Twitter is that it opens a window to the world in real-time. An event happens, and seconds later, people share it across the planet. — Consider, for example, what happened when Flight 1549 crashed in the Hudson River:| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
U.S. Senator Charles Schumer, Google CIO To Unveil Free WiFi In NYC's Chelsea Neighborhood — Google has slowly been building up its service provider cred, with an ambitious fiber project in Kansas City and free WiFi initiatives through a partnership with Boingo.| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Target will now price-match Amazon, other retailers year-round — Matching Amazon's pricing during the holidays is one thing, but Target today announced it plans to continue the practice on a year-round basis. The extended policy will apply to competitors other than the internet retailer …
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Business Wire, Engadget, CNET, TechCrunch, GeekWire, Examiner, Reuters, Gizmodo, Business Insider, WebProNews, bizjournals, bigstory.ap.org and Mashable!
| Omar Shahine / The Windows Blog: |
Improved sharing & new HTML5 features for SkyDrive.com — We're ringing in the new year with a few improvements to SkyDrive.com. You now have a single, unified view into how each of your files is shared so you can more easily control who has access to your files.
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ZDNet, BetaNews, TechCrunch, The Next Web, Neowin and WinBeta
| David Pierce / The Verge: |
Panasonic shows off 20-inch Windows 8 tablet with insane 4K resolution — 4K's unquestionably the buzzword of CES 2013, but it's typically used in conjunction with “TV.” Panasonic's taking it a different direction, though, using its keynote at the show to introduce a 20-inch Windows 8 tablet with 4K resolution.
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Engadget, The Verge, InfoWorld, Gizmodo, Engadget, Gotta Be Mobile, TechCrunch, IntoMobile, Mashable! and Neowin
| Matt Brian / The Next Web: |
AT&T sold a record 10m smartphones in Q4 2012, helped by best-ever sales of Android and Apple devices — US operator AT&T announced today a new for sales of smartphones by the company, after it saw sales top the 10 million unit market for the first time in its history in the fourth quarter of 2012 … | Los Angeles Times: |
Is Facebook worth it? Film execs confide they may cut movie ads — Some movie executives are increasingly skeptical that Facebook ads and promotional campaigns that ask users to ‘like’ a movie can deliver big box-office returns. — Major studios are taking a hard look at the cost of winning friends on Facebook.
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Business Insider, AllFacebook and Digital Media Wire
| John Koetsier / VentureBeat: |
Kickstarter's best of 2012: 2.2M backers, $319M raised, 18K projects funded — Kickstarter released it's “best-of” list for 2012, and the numbers are impressive: 2,41 million people funded at least one project and pledging a total of $319 million. That's more than $600 per minute over the course … | Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
“The telephone network is obsolete”: Get ready for the all-IP telco — Two months ago, AT&T petitioned the Federal Communications Commission to plan for the retirement of traditional phone networks and transition to what AT&T sees as an inevitability: the all-IP telco.| Ben Gilbert / Engadget: |
Hands-on with Razer's Edge, a $999 gaming tablet / home console — The PC ecosystem is no longer as simple as it once was — first there were desktops, then laptops, then tablets, then all-in-ones. Buying a PC now is more nebulous than it ever was. You could build your very own rig …
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Ars Technica, LAPTOP Magazine, Gotta Be Mobile, The Verge, Joystiq, Electronista, WebProNews, AnandTech and VG247
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Svbtle funding — Just a quick update: we've recently raised a round of financing from great investors like CrunchFund, Betaworks, Y Combinator, and more, including some fantastic angels. Now we have the resources and absolute focus that will allow us to build not only a great collection of people …
| Ellis Hamburger / The Verge: |
Facebook invites press to 'see what we're building' — Facebook just pinged members of the press with an invitation for a big event on January 15th, which immediately follows the madness here at CES this week. Facebook doesn't host many large events at its corporate headquarters — a hint that something big is likely in the works.
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Engadget and Business Insider
| Thomas Gryta / Digits: |
Could Verizon, AT&T Follow T-Mobile in Ending Subsidies? — The biggest U.S. wireless carriers are watching T-Mobile USA's experiment with ending smartphone subsidies, but they aren't sure if subscribers are ready to make the change. — Major wireless carriers tend to subsidize the cost …
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VentureBeat, The Verge, PhoneArena, Droid Life and Gotta Be Mobile
| Joanna Stern / ABCNEWS: |
Sony Goes Big Into 4K: OLED Ultra HD, 4K Video Service and Consumer Camcorder — Image: Sony. — LAS VEGAS — You're not surprised, are you? Sony took the stage this evening at its press conference at CES 2013 to unveil a whole array of electronics, including, yes, a 4K TV.
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The Verge, 9to5Mac, DailyFinance.com, VentureBeat, Bloomberg Tech Blog, Electronista, Gizmodo and Inquirer
| Jason Clampet / Skift: |
Airbnb's growing pains mirrored in New York City, where half its listings are illegal rentals — Apartment rental site Airbnb's revolutionary simplicity has made it easy for tens of thousands of people to both list and discover lodging options in private residences and book them easily, quickly, and safely.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Hulu Debuts Previews Of Its 2013 Original Programming And Exclusive Series — Continuing its expansion into original content and exclusive third-party content, Hulu is today offering previews of its new programming for 2013, which includes its first animated Hulu Original Series, “The Awesomes …
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Hulu Blog, Engadget, Business Wire, The Verge, Gizmodo, WebProNews, The Next Web and HotHardware.com News
| Matt Brian / The Next Web: |
Apple CEO Tim Cook meets high-level officials, US ambassador on visit to China — While Google chairman Eric Schmidt is enjoying a much-criticised visit to North Korea, Apple is coordinating an Asia visit of its own, after its CEO Tim Cook met with China's Minister of Industry and Information Technology …
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Bloomberg, PC Magazine, Macgasm, China Real Time Report, The Verge, Computerworld, AllThingsD, MacDailyNews, Tech in Asia, MacNN, Engadget, 9to5Mac, App Advice, MacRumors, iPhone Hacks, iDownloadBlog.com, GigaOM and iClarified. Tweets: @jimsciuttochina
| Sinead Carew / Reuters: |
Dish chairman says mobile plans to take time to coalesce — (Reuters) - Dish Network Chairman Charlie Ergen said on Monday it could take months to finalize his plans to enter the wireless industry because of regulatory and technology complications, but his company has no intention of selling spectrum it spent billions acquiring.
| Emil Protalinski / The Next Web: |
Firefox 18 gets up to 25% faster JavaScript with IonMonkey, built-in PDF viewer, and Retina support — Mozilla on Tuesday officially launched Firefox 18 for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Android. The improvements include a new JavaScript compiler, a built-in PDF viewer, as well as Retina support (on Macs) and touch events (for mobile).| NPD DisplaySearch: |
Tablet PC Market Forecast to Surpass Notebooks in 2013, NPD DisplaySearch Reports — Tablet PC shipments are expected to reach more than 240 million units worldwide in 2013, easily exceeding the 207 million notebook PCs that are projected to ship, according to NPD DisplaySearch Quarterly Mobile PC Shipment and Forecast Report.
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Computerworld, The Register, PC Magazine, CITEworld, PandoDaily, Mashable!, ZDNet, CNET and Quartz
| David Zax / Fast Company: |
This 15-Year-Old Built An App To Help His High School Debate Team. It Could Do Much More Than That — Tanay Tandon, high school sophomore, put out a Flipboard-like app last week called Clipped. What's it like to be a teen prodigy hacker juggling the demands of high school?
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iPhone Hacks and Business Insider
| Shalini Ramachandran / Digits: |
McGraw-Hill to Debut Adaptive E-Book for Students — Who ever said the best way to read a textbook was from the start to finish? — At the Consumer Electronics Show Monday night McGraw-Hill Education , a division of the McGraw-Hill Companies, will demonstrate its new adaptive e-book for students dubbed …
| Dan Rayburn / StreamingMediaBlog.com: |
Netflix Announces Major ISPs Deploying Their CDN Caches; New 3D Streaming — Last June, Netflix announced plans to build out their own content delivery network by giving ISPs free caches to place inside their networks. Called Open Connect, Netflix's new platform allows network operators …
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| Aaron Souppouris / The Verge: |
Mozilla's Firefox OS demoed, coming to emerging markets later this year (hands-on) — Mozilla is at CES showing off its upcoming Firefox mobile OS on a prototype device. It's come a long way since we saw it as “Boot to Gecko” back at MWC last February, and now looks a bit …
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Engadget, CNET, FierceMobileContent News, linux.com and Los Angeles Times
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ZTE joins the 5-inch, 1080p smartphone party with the ultra-thin Grand S (hands-on) — It seems like every cellphone manufacturer agreed on the same set of specs for their flagship devices in the early part of 2013. ZTE's new Grand S is highlighted by a 5-inch, 1080p display …
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