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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 …
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Tweets: @bxchen, @brandstrat, @alasaarela, @noahkravitz, @jury and @lessien
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Reuters: Cheaper iPhone story withdrawn after ‘substantial changes’ to China report — Rumors of a more affordable iPhone for emerging markets took an interesting turn Friday, as the major news organization Reuters opted to rescind a story originally filed, based on comments allegedly made by Apple marketing chief Phil Schiller.
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| Eric Slivka / MacRumors: |
Phil Schiller Says Apple Wouldn't Sacrifice Quality for Market Share in a Cheaper iPhone — Apple marketing chief Phil Schiller is accompanying CEO Tim Cook on his trip to China, and the Shanghai Evening News has published an interview [Google translation] with Schiller in which he addresses recent rumors of a cheaper iPhone.
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| John Herrman / BuzzFeed: |
Every Tech Journalist's Worst Nightmare — Editors at CNET were forced to rescind a product award after their parent company stepped in. The perils of reporting on yourself.At 4:05 PM on Wednesday, Dish Networks notified its Twitter followers that it had been chosen as a finalist for CNET's … | Tim Carmody / The Verge: |
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 …
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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.
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TechEye, AppleInsider, iPhone in Canada Blog, iDownloadBlog.com, The Verge, MacRumors, Lucas Gonze's blog, 9to5Mac and iClarified. Tweets: @pkafka
| Peter Kafka / AllThingsD: |
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| Sharif Sakr / Engadget: |
Blackberry users suffer fresh server chills across UK, Europe, Africa (update: it's a Vodafone problem) — It's 2013 and RIM's BlackBerry servers seem to be as grumpy as ever — and totally oblivious to the need for happy headlines in the run up to January 30th.
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TechCrunch, ZDNet, The Next Web, Reuters, Bloomberg and Softpedia News. Tweets: @uk_blackberry
| David Meyer / GigaOM: |
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.| Yahoo! Search Blog: |
Yahoo! Image Search - now with Flickr photos — Today, we're making it easier than ever to find and share photos on the web and mobile devices. Using Yahoo! Image Search, you can now easily find photos from Flickr that are available for re-use or re-posting under Creative Commons terms.
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| Brendan Sasso / The Hill: |
Obama signs bill to let Facebook users share Netflix videos — President Obama signed a bill on Thursday to allow users of Facebook and other social media sites to opt in to automatically share which videos they have watched on sites like Netflix. — Facebook users could already choose …
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| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
YouTube's Three Year+ Copyright Battle With German Music Rights Agency Rumbles On, As GEMA Breaks Off Negotiations — A copyright dispute that has blocked German YouTube users' access to certain music videos continues to rumble on with little sign of a resolution - despite being ongoing for more than three years already.| Emil Protalinski / The Next Web: |
BitTorrent brings torrent discovery, downloading directly to the browser with Surf Chrome extension — BitTorrent on Thursday announced Surf, a Chrome extension that lets you discover and download torrents directly in Google's browser. The company says it also plans to release an add-on for Firefox soon … | Horace Dediu / asymco: |
Cracking the China code: Microsoft vs. Apple — In 2011 Microsoft's CEO bemoaned that revenue in China was about 5% of what it obtained in the US. Yesterday Apple's CEO suggested that revenue from China will overtake the US in the near future. — The contrast is even more stark …
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| Steven Millward / Tech in Asia: |
Now China's WeChat App is Censoring Its Users Globally — We've written a lot about the progress of the world's biggest messaging app, the China-made WeChat, which is fast approaching 300 million registered users and enjoying some level of global success with it.
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Quartz, The Next Web, TechPresident and The Register
| 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.
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| 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?)| Matt Brian / The Next Web: |
Apple appoints Xerox CFO Luca Maestri as new corporate controller — In a bid to strengthen its financial division, Apple has lured away Xerox executive vice president and CFO Luca Maestri, appointing him as its new corporate controller. — Announcing Maestri's departure in a press release …
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| 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.| Alex Wilhelm / The Next Web: |
Rebound: Groupon's share price has doubled since its record lows, rising 99% in 58 days — Groupon has recently been a quiet tear, doubling its share price since its record low in the middle of November last year, with its market capitalization rising towards the $3.5 billion mark.
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| Dan Seifert / The Verge: |
Samsung won't launch Windows RT tablets in the US, blames confusion and weak demand — Samsung's line of Windows RT Ativ tablets was announced just this past fall, but it doesn't look like the company will be bringing it to the US any time soon. Speaking to CNET, Samsung executive Mike Abary …
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CNET, Softpedia News, TechCrunch, The Next Web, Engadget, Pocketnow, Neowin and GigaOM
| Gary Ng / iPhone in Canada Blog: |
Apple Has Won a Technology & Engineering Emmy Award for 2012 — Apple will receive an Emmy Engineering Award tonight (via The Loop) at CES 2013 for winning in the following category: … Launched in 1948, the awards honour “development and innovation in broadcast technology and recognize companies … | Emil Protalinski / The Next Web: |
Windows RT Jailbreak tool released, opening up the door for a Microsoft Surface homebrew community — Earlier this week, reports surfaced that the Windows RT operating system had been jailbroken to allow for the execution of unsigned ARM desktop applications.
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The Register, The Verge, PhoneArena and Engadget
| Nathan Ingraham / The Verge: |
Delicious bookmarking service tries yet again with renewed focus on speed and discovery — Social bookmarking service Delicious is not what it once was, but since getting out from under Yahoo the service has been working to restore its features and win back users.| Alex Wilhelm / The Next Web: |
The Xbox 360 holds onto its sales crown for 24 consecutive months, moving 1.4 million units in December — Today Microsoft announced that its Xbox 360 console was the best-selling console in December, moving 1.4 million units. That made it the best-selling console for the 24th consecutive month, according to the NPD Group.| 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.
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| 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 …
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