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T-Mobile appeals with free 4G in laptops; no-contract unlimited smartphone data — T-Mobile is making a bid to get new customers trying its mobile broadband network: The company is including free wireless data services in select new Windows 8 laptops. Dell and HP are the first to partner …
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| Sinead Carew / Reuters: |
T-Mobile USA to soon sell iPhones, cut subsidies: CEO — (Reuters) - Deutsche Telekom AG (DTEGn.DE) unit T-Mobile USA will start selling the Apple Inc (AAPL.O) iPhone in about three to four months and will enforce its plan to get rid of cellphone subsidies in a similar timeframe, according to Chief Executive John Legere.
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| Chris Ziegler / The Verge: |
T-Mobile will launch refreshed Galaxy S III with LTE support — At a CES briefing today, T-Mobile CTO Neville Ray revealed to The Verge that the company will launch a refreshed version of Samsung's wildly popular Galaxy S III that features support for its upcoming LTE network … | 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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| Élyse Betters / 9to5Mac: |
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| Emil Protalinski / The Next Web: |
Microsoft confirms Messenger will be retired and users migrated to Skype on March 15 — Microsoft on Tuesday mass emailed its 100 million+ Messenger users to let them know that the service is officially being retired on March 15, 2013. On that date, all users will be migrated to Skype … | T.C. Sottek / The Verge: |
Exclusive interview: Valve's Gabe Newell on Steam Box, biometrics, and the future of gaming — A rare and candid talk with Valve's boss — We just sat down for a rare and wide-ranging interview with Valve CEO Gabe Newell, who opened up to The Verge with details about the company's upcoming … | Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
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: |
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| Vlad Savov / The Verge: |
It's official: 3D is dead — The tech industry's annual hot air balloon show is dead, and the world's better for it — There's something about 2013's Consumer Electronics Show that's different from every other iteration this decade. You might not realize it immediately …
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| David Kravets / Wired: |
Student Suspended for Refusing to Wear RFID Tracker Loses Lawsuit — A Texas high school student who claimed her student identification was the “Mark of the Beast” because it was implanted with a radio-frequency identification chip has lost her federal court bid Tuesday challenging her suspension … | Liz Gannes / AllThingsD: |
Google Withdraws Patent Claims Against Microsoft — Google today filed with the U.S. International Trade Commission to terminate its attempt to stop Microsoft from using video compression technology on the Xbox. — Microsoft wants to license two standards-essential patents for H.264 … | Twitter Engineering: |
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:
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| Damaster / LiveSide.net: |
Microsoft account enables Sina Weibo connection, integrates into Windows Phone, Windows 8, SkyDrive, and more — We reported as early as February last year that Microsoft is working on connecting Chinese micro-blogging service Sina Weibo to Microsoft account.
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| Omar Shahine / The Windows Blog: |
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| Diane Bartz / Reuters: |
Justice Department against most sales bans for infringing key patents — (Reuters) - Companies that own a key patent, such as those that ensure mobile and other electronic devices work together, should be allowed to win sales bans as a punishment for infringement only in rare, very specific cases …
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AppleInsider, CNET, The Verge, MacNN and Electronista
| Daniel Cooper / Engadget: |
Panasonic launches two new Toughpads, offers a choice of Windows or Android — Panasonic's launching a pair of Toughpads that'll take none of your nonsense — no matter what you throw at it. The FZ-G1 is a 10-inch version that runs Windows 8 Pro, while the seven-inch JT-B1 runs Ice Cream Sandwich.
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Inquirer, LAPTOP Magazine, Mashable!, Ubergizmo and Pocketnow
| New York Times: |
Onlike Banking Attacks Were Work of Iran, U.S. Officials Say — SAN FRANCISCO — The attackers hit one American bank after the next. As in so many previous attacks, dozens of online banking sites slowed, hiccupped or ground to a halt before recovering several minutes later.
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Gizmodo, The Verge, CNET, 24/7 Wall St. and SlashGear
| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
Europe's Telco Giants In Talks To Create Pan-European Network, Reports FT — Europe's largest mobile network operators are considering pooling their resources to create pan-European network infrastructure, the FT is reporting. Quoting several people familiar with the situation … | Stephen Shankland / CNET: |
Broadcom chip ushers in H.265 and UltraHD video — The H.265 video standard, aka HEVC or MPEG-5, squeezes more pixels over a network connection to support new high-resolution 4K TVs. Broadcom's chip supports both and is due to arrive in volume next year. — As product names go, BCM7445 is as boring as it gets.| Dan Seifert / The Verge: |
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| Ryan Gallagher / Slate: |
U.S. Spy Law Authorizes Mass Surveillance of European Citizens: Report — Participants work at their laptops at the annual Chaos Computer Club computer hackers' congress in Hamburg, Germany. They probably would not be pleased with FISA. — Europeans, take note: The U.S. government … | 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 …
| 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.Sponsor Posts
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Defrag Tools: WPT - Command Line — Andrew Richards, Chad Beeder, and Larry Larsen continue walking you through the Windows Performance Toolkit (WPT).
Defrag Tools: WPT - Command Line — Andrew Richards, Chad Beeder, and Larry Larsen continue walking you through the Windows Performance Toolkit (WPT).
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Static.com Adds Hadoop Support for Cloud Foundry — In this guest post, Jake Farrell, CTO for Static.com, explains how the major shift in the hosting industry towards platforms for high developer productivity …
Static.com Adds Hadoop Support for Cloud Foundry — In this guest post, Jake Farrell, CTO for Static.com, explains how the major shift in the hosting industry towards platforms for high developer productivity …
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Love, Magic, & APIs — I will confess, I am old enough to remember my GeoCities page. Don't hate. It was amazing, it was... this transformative moment in which I took real, actual information, and transformed it into something visible and memorable.
Love, Magic, & APIs — I will confess, I am old enough to remember my GeoCities page. Don't hate. It was amazing, it was... this transformative moment in which I took real, actual information, and transformed it into something visible and memorable.
Hortonworks » Blog:
Getting the most out of business analytics — One of the most prevalent uses of Hadoop architecture by enterprises is to create business intelligence and analytics tools that can be leveraged to identify areas …
Getting the most out of business analytics — One of the most prevalent uses of Hadoop architecture by enterprises is to create business intelligence and analytics tools that can be leveraged to identify areas …
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“Yammer sucks” — Not to be mean to Yammer, or anything — it's a very good tool for some use cases — but that's what a customer told me recently (and others feel the same way).
“Yammer sucks” — Not to be mean to Yammer, or anything — it's a very good tool for some use cases — but that's what a customer told me recently (and others feel the same way).Who's Hiring In Tech?
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