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| 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 …
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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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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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| 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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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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| 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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| 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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| 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.
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Engadget, The Next Web, The Verge, Gizmodo, DIY, App Advice, Music Ally and FISTFULAYEN. See also Mediagazer
| 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, 9to5Mac, Softpedia News, WebProNews, FierceMobileContent News and PhoneArena. Thanks:@jonrussell
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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 … | 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 … | 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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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 … | Timothy B. Lee / Ars Technica: |
App developers, here are 23 pages of suggestions from CA's new privacy cops — Report is designed to complement law mandating mobile privacy policies. — The Aspen Institute — In recent months the state of California has stepped up its efforts to enforce the California Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA).
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| 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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| 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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| Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land: |
EU Antitrust Chief: Google “Diverting Traffic” and Will Be Forced To Change — While saying he's “still investigating,” the head of the European Union's antitrust regulatory body has told the Financial Times that he's convinced Google is “diverting traffic” and that it will be forced to change its results.
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Financial Times, AllThingsD, TechCrunch and DailyFinance.com
| 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 … | 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 … | Emil Protalinski / The Next Web: |
New Java vulnerability is being exploited in the wild, disabling Java is currently your only option — A new Java 0-day vulnerability has been discovered, and is already being exploited in the wild. Currently, disabling the plugin is the only way to protect your computer.
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AlienVault Labs, digitaltrends.com, InfoWorld and The Register
| 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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| 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.Sponsor Posts
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