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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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| 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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| 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.| Reuters: |
Apple CEO Tim Cook meets with China Mobile chairman, hopeful sign for big deal — SHANGHAI — Apple (AAPL) CEO Tim Cook met with China Mobile 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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| 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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| 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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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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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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MacRumors, bizjournals, The Verge, CNET, Mashable!, iPhone Hacks, TUAW, Edible Apple, Business Insider, SiliconBeat and 9to5Mac. Tweets: @qthrul
| 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 … | 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 … | 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).| 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 … | 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.
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| 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, The Verge, Know Your Cell, Softpedia News, WebProNews, FierceMobileContent News and 9to5Mac. Thanks:@jonrussell
| 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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| 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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See also Mediagazer| 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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| Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: |
Streetline Raises $25M Round Led By True Ventures To Bring Real-Time Parking Data To Cities And Drivers — “Smart parking” platform Streetline just announced that it has raised $25 million in Series C funding. — The round was led by True Ventures, with participation from new investors Qualcomm Ventures …
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| Tim Carmody / The Verge: |
Better than Nielsen: Twitter breaks down TV behavior by demographics, device, and genre — UK statistics show that tweeting about ‘Homeland’ is not like tweeting about ‘Downton Abbey’ or ‘X Factor’ — Twitter has released a twenty-page booklet for advertisers on trends in television viewing and Twitter use in the UK.
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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.
| 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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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.| Emil Protalinski / The Next Web: |
Google launches Chrome Beta channel for Android 4.0+ phones and tablets, releases version 25 — Mere hours after releasing Chrome 24 for Windows, Mac, and Linux, Google on Thursday announced it is introducing a new Chrome beta channel for phones and tablets running Android 4.0 or higher.
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