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Can Meg Whitman Reverse Hewlett-Packard's Free Fall? — On Jan. 16, Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) plans to hold a ribbon-cutting to show off an overhauled customer meeting center at its headquarters in Palo Alto. A year in the making, the complex creates a striking first impression.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Amazon's “AutoRip” Service Goes Live, Giving Customers Free MP3s For CDs Purchased On Amazon As Far Back As 1998 — Amazon is today introducing a new service called Amazon AutoRip, which automatically gives customers free MP3 versions of any CDs they've purchased from Amazon since the launch of its Music Store back in 1998.
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Amazon.com, The Verge, The Next Web, The Register, Examiner, PC World, GeekWire, Digits, The Next Web, Ars Technica, Business Insider, paidContent, MacRumors, BetaNews, parislemon, Reuters, I4U News, PadGadget, Bloomberg, Engadget, Plagiarism Today, TechSpot, InvestorPlace, bizjournals, WebProNews, blog.chron.com, SlashGear, Brave New World, Pocket-lint, Electronista and Lifehacker
Tweets: @dannysullivan, @hunterwalk and @mathewi
See also Mediagazer| Robin Wauters / The Next Web: |
Nokia sold 4.4 million Lumia smartphones in ‘solid’ Q4 2012; results ‘exceeded expectations’ — Straight out of left field, Nokia has today announced that its fourth quarter of 2012 was surprisingly solid, making its stock price spike. — Revealing its preliminary financial results for Q4 2012 …
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Tweets: @bloombergnews, @asymco, @asymco, @m4tt and @benedictevans
| Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web: |
Schiller: Despite popularity of cheap smartphones, they won't be the future of Apple's products — Apple SVP of Worldwide marketing Phil Schiller gave an interesting interview to Chinese newspaper Shanghai Evening News yesterday. In the interview, he directly addresses the rumors surrounding … | Reuters: |
Apple's Tim Cook meets with China Mobile chairman in Beijing — Apple Inc's Chief Executive Tim Cook met with China Mobile's Chairman Xi Guohua on Thursday to discuss “matters of cooperation,” a China Mobile spokesman said, raising hopes that a deal between the two tech giants may move forward.
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| Sinead Carew / Reuters: |
Three top U.S. wireless carriers to embrace BlackBerry 10 — (Reuters) - Three of the top U.S. cellphone carriers signaled this week that they would support Research In Motion's (RIM.TO) BlackBerry 10 products, the first of which are due to be unveiled Jan 30, offering a hopeful sign for RIM's comeback effort.
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Tweets: @jkendrick and @theromit
| Jon Russell / The Next Web: |
Google begins allowing all developers to respond to user comments and reviews on Google Play — Google has continued to encourage communication between developers and users on Google Play after it begin to allow all developers to respond to comments and reviews about their apps in its download store.
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Droid Life, CNET, 9to5Mac, WebProNews, Softpedia News, FierceMobileContent News and PhoneArena. Thanks:@jonrussell
| Rafat Ali / Skift: |
Wikipedia's travel site's official launch coming soon; what to expect and not expect — Wikipedia's next big push is a travel wiki, and the official launch of Wikivoyage is coming soon, according to Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales. — Wales was on Colbert Show last night talking …
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Google's Schmidt Says He Pressed North Korea on Web Barriers — BEIJING—Google Inc. Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt said he told North Korean officials that they must drop barriers to global Internet access if they hope to develop their economy. — “As the world becomes increasingly connected … | Kevin Kwang / ZDNet: |
Lenovo confirms Windows Phone 8 handset plans — Summary: JD Howard, vice president of Lenovo's Mobile Internet and Digital Home unit, confirms it is planning for a Windows Phone 8 device and, if approved, there's a “good chance” of a 2013 release. — Kevin Kwang
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| Peter Kafka / AllThingsD: |
Beats' New Music Subscription Service Gets a New Boss: Topspin's Ian Rogers — There are a ton of digital music services out there, with more on the way. — So how will Beats Electronics, the headphone maker, stand out when it rolls out its own version this year? — The company won't spell that out quite yet.| Hamish McKenzie / PandoDaily: |
How does BuzzFeed intend to crack a $1B valuation? By embracing journalism's past — It was just over a year ago that BuzzFeed hired editor-in-chief Ben Smith away from Politico to help build the cat-happy publication into a major media company. In the intervening months … | eMarketer: |
Record Retail Sales on Smartphones, Tablets Take Greater Ecommerce Share — Tablet buyers grow sales at fastest pace — Mobile devices have become a key component of the digital shopping landscape, with both smartphones and tablets contributing higher levels of ecommerce sales …
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| Zachary Lutz / Engadget: |
Samsung Galaxy S II Plus revealed with dual-core 1.2GHz CPU and Jelly Bean — Samsung just unleashed a new phone into the world, but you've probably heard of it before: it's the Galaxy S II Plus. The handset serves as a modest update to the original Galaxy S II, which contains a 4.3-inch WVGA …
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| Paul Sawers / The Next Web: |
Google's location-aware Field Trip tour guide app now serves up local deals, courtesy of Scoutmob — Back in September we reported on Field Trip, a new location-aware tour guide Android app from Google's Niantic Labs. — In a nutshell, Field Trip helps surface “cool, hidden, and unique” things about the world around you.
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AllThingsD and PandoDaily
| Jakob Schiller / Wired: |
Photos of Tweet Locations Bring 140 Characters to Life — In their project Geolocation, Nate Larson and Marni Shindelman scan the public Twitter feed for tweets that are geotagged and then travel to those locations to take pictures where the original tweet was sent.
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ZTE Planning to Sell Mozilla-Powered Phone in Europe — ZTE Corp. (000063) is working with a European wireless carrier to introduce a smartphone based on software built by Mozilla Corp. this year, saidCheng Lixin, chief executive officer of ZTE's U.S. unit.| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Confirmed: Nuance Has Bought Virtual Assistant Specialist VirtuOz To Ramp Up Its Enterprise Services — TechCrunch has received a copy of a memo indicating that Nuance, the speech and natural language technology giant that also powers Apple's Siri voice assistant, has made another acquisition … | Steve Lohr / NYT Bits: |
The 2012 Patent Rankings: IBM on Top (Again), Google and Apple Surging — In the yearly count of patents granted in the United States, the corporate front-runner for 2012 is scarcely a surprise. — I.B.M. was granted more patents in 2012 than any other company, the 20th consecutive year in the top spot … | Mike Dano / FierceWireless: |
FreedomPop's iPhone Sleeve stuck in FCC certification, costing firm $550,000 — LAS VEGAS—MVNO FreedomPop said its WiMAX-capable iPhone Sleeve has been delayed in the FCC's approval process due to an untested design element. The company said the unexpected delay in obtaining approval has cost the company a total of $550,000 so far.
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iPhone Hacks and Business Insider
| Ken Layne / The Awl: |
Is San Francisco The Brooklyn To Silicon Valley's Unbuilt Manhattan? — Like many people who moved to San Francisco in the early 1990s, I did it because San Francisco was cheap. It didn't have the lowest rents—in the California of three recessions ago, a Silver Lake bungalow or blocks … | Dante D'Orazio / The Verge: |
Microsoft buys R2 Studios, appoints founder Blake Krikorian to Interactive Entertainment business — Following up on reports from last week, Microsoft has confirmed that it has acquired R2 Studios, a startup that was working on home automation technologies.
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GeekWire, The Next Web, Computerworld, CNET and WinBeta
| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Hack turns the Cisco phone on your desk into a remote bugging device — Internet phones sold by Cisco Systems are vulnerable to stealthy hacks that turn them into remote bugging devices that eavesdrop on private calls and nearby conversations. — The networking giant warned of the vulnerability …
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The Verge, ReadWrite, BetaNews, Gizmodo and FierceEnterpriseCommunications …
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