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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 … | 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.| Peter Kafka / AllThingsD: |
Beats' Jimmy Iovine on Steve Jobs, Spotify and Why He Can Make Subscriptions Work — Beats Electronics has done a very good job at making expensive headphones a mass-market item. And that's what makes them a good candidate to crack open the music subscription business, says CEO Jimmy Iovine.| Brendan Sasso / The Hill: |
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Nokia: Yes, we decrypt your HTTPS data, but don't worry about it — Nokia has confirmed reports that its Xpress Browser decrypts data that flows through HTTPS connections - that includes the connections set up for banking sessions, encrypted email and more.| Reuters: |
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CNET parent CBS bans Dish products from CES awards, further coverage — CNET disqualifies Hopper DVR due to CBS lawsuit; no products of companies in litigation with parent will be reviewed — Chalk it up to the conflicts of being a giant media company. CNET made Dish Network's acclaimed … | 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).| Zachary M. Seward / Quartz: |
In the future of television, the set-top box is king — The television industry is changing so rapidly on all fronts—hardware, software, and the content we call “TV”—that consumers are rightfully cautious about investing in any new technology that might be obsolete by next year. (3D televisions, anyone?)| 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 … | David J. Hill / Singularity Hub: |
Exclusive Interview With Ray Kurzweil On Future AI Project At Google — In an exclusive with Singularity Hub, Ray Kurzweil gave one of his first interviews since the December announcement that he joined Google full time as Director of Engineering. Speaking with Singularity Hub Founder Keith Kleiner … | Business Week: |
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.| 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| 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.| Kim-Mai Cutler / TechCrunch: |
Former Google Wallet Team Members Ready Their New Startup, Index, For Launch — Almost a year ago, an exodus on the Google Wallet team sent former members running away to companies like Square and other stealth projects. We wrote about one such stealth startup called Tappmo … | 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 … | 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.| 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 … | 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.| Nick Heath / ZDNet: |
EU privacy laws to spell an end to Facebook for free? — Summary: A lawyer has warned that proposed EU privacy laws would make Facebook and other ad-supported online services unsustainable if they make it into law. — Nick Heath — Facebook, Gmail and other ad-supported online services … | Robin Wauters / The Next Web: |
New Digg owners claim the “Digg effect is back”, user base doubled in 5 months — The new owners of once red-hot social news sharing service Digg have taken to their blog to reveal that they're ... ‘thinking about monetization’ and experimenting with several ways to make money, including a ‘sponsored app’ section on the website.| Jon Fingas / Engadget: |
Microsoft hopes to patent an ‘inconspicuous mode’ for phones — We've all seen That Person in the movie theater: the one whose compulsive texting guarantees a distraction for everyone through the bright screen. Microsoft might not change that disruptive behavior, but it could save us from noticing through a new patent application.| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft updates Skype for Windows with Outlook integration — Summary: A new version of Skype for Windows 7, Windows Vista and Windows XP adds Outlook integration, among other features and fixes. — Microsoft's Skype division rolled out a new version of Skype for Windows (version 6.1) on January 10.| 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 … | Bill Rigby / Reuters: |
Holiday PC sales dip for first time in five years — (Reuters) - Holiday-season sales of personal computers fell for the first time in more than five years, according to tech industry tracker IDC, as Microsoft Corp's new Windows 8 operating system failed to excite buyers and many instead opted for tablet devices and smartphones.
Location and Mapping for Windows Phone 8 — In this week's Inside Windows Phone we talk about Location and Mapping in Windows Phone 8.
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 …
99.999 Is Not Enough: An OpenCloud Approach to Delivering Application Uptime and Performance — Executive Summary — The pressure to keep vital applications online and performing well is extreme.
Circumventing big data hurdles with Apache Hadoop and Hortonworks — Big data analytics have gained in popularity over the last few years, yet many operations continue to struggle with their implementation.This is a Techmeme archive page. It shows how the site appeared at 11:15 PM ET, January 10, 2013.
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