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Just How Dumb Is It For CBS To Block CNET From Giving Dish An Award? — As you may or may not recall, last year, pretty much all the TV networks sued Dish Networks over a new feature it had launched, PrimeTime Any Time (PTAT), with its Autohopper technology on its DVRs.| 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: |
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PC Magazine, CNET, Business Wire, Bloomberg Tech Blog, Forbes, AllThingsD, Reuters and Digits
Tweets: @leolaporte, @cnet, @tomkrazit, @dannysullivan, @panzer and @panzer
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Reuters: Cheaper iPhone story withdrawn after ‘substantial changes’ to China report — Rumors of a more affordable iPhone for emerging markets took an interesting turn Friday, as the major news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.| Ernesto / TorrentFreak: |
Verizon's “Six Strikes” Anti-Piracy Measures Unveiled — In 2011 the MPAA and RIAA teamed up with five major Internet providers in the United States to launch the Center for Copyright Information (CCI). — The parties agreed to implement a system through which subscribers are warned …
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| Tricia Duryee / AllThingsD: |
Nintendo's Wii U Outperforming the Original Wii, Only Because It Costs More — Nintendo's Wii U has managed to outperform the launch of its original Wii, at least in terms of revenue, but only because it costs more. — In the U.S., Nintendo sold 460,000 Wii U devices in December …
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Engadget, Bloomberg, Guardian, Los Angeles Times, VG247, WebProNews, Nintendo, VentureBeat, The Verge and Polygon
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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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PC Magazine, WebProNews, The Next Web, Marketing Pilgrim and Softpedia News
| Don Melton: |
Safari is released to the world — During the early development of Safari, I didn't just worry about leaking our secret project through Apple's IP address or our browser's user agent string. It also concerned me that curious gawkers on the outside would notice who I was hiring at Apple.
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MacRumors, Business Insider and iPhone in Canada Blog
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| 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 … | Josh Ong / The Next Web: |
AngelList's new online investment feature raises $1m for startups in its first month — AngelList has announced that its Invest Online feature has already brought $1 million in commitments from investors in less than a month. — The service, which connects early-stage startups with interested investors …
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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.
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| 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.| 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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PandoDaily, Web 2.0 Asia Blog, The Next Web, The Register, Quartz and TechPresident
| 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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TheTechStorm, Ubergizmo and Edible Apple
| 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 … | Kevin Fitchard / GigaOM: |
MetroPCS rejiggers its plans again, restoring $60 unlimited tier — MetroPCS isn't done tinkering with its data plans. On Thursday it revamped its rates for the second time in a year. Most significantly, Metro restored its $60 unlimited LTE data tier, one of the best deals in wireless.
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Engadget, Ubergizmo, IntoMobile, CNET and PhoneArena
| 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.| 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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Reuters, TechCrunch, GigaOM, Wall Street Journal, BGR, The Register, The Next Web, memeburn, ValueWalk, Bloomberg and Softpedia News. Tweets: @uk_blackberry
| Carl Franzen / TPM IdeaLab: |
FTC Chairman Defends Google Settlement: We Did What The Law Required — It's been just over a week since the U.S. Federal Trade Commission announced a historic settlement with Google, wherein they declined to press antitrust charges after a 19-month-long investigation into the Internet giant's search and mobile businesses.
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The Register and Inside Google
| 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.
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CNET, VentureBeat, PadGadget, Edible Apple, iPhone in Canada Blog, AppleInsider, TechEye, iDownloadBlog.com, The Verge, MacRumors, Lucas Gonze's blog, iClarified, 9to5Mac, Engadget and Digits. Tweets: @pkafka. See also Mediagazer
| 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?)| 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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TechCrunch, AllThingsD and Business Insider
| 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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BuzzFeed, Gizmodo, The Verge, CNET, VentureBeat, Engadget, Forbes, PhoneArena and WebProNews
| 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 … | 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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Featured Startup - FormVerse — If there was one tool not made for effective work, it would have to be email. If you take silos of information, and a chronological effect, where old or new is piled on top of each other …
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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 …
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 …
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DevOps: Improved Productivity, Higher Value — Those of us who have been aligned with DevOps for some time already know that the greater agility and closer collaboration it enables deliver real business value for our organizations.
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Skype in the browser — Whether you like the Skype app or not, until now, you've had no choice but to download something to make voice and video calls — either an app like Skype, or a Flash plugin (yikes) for your browser.
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