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| John Battelle / John Battelle's Search Blog: |
Facebook Is No Longer Flat: On Graph Search — The post Facebook Is No Longer Flat: On Graph Search appeared first on John Battelle's Search Blog. — A sample Graph Search result for the query “friends photos before 1999.” — By now the news is sweeping across the blogosophere … | Peter Kafka / AllThingsD: |
Wall Street to Yelp: Facebook Search Should Scare You — We won't know what yesterday's Facebook search announcement means for a long time. Could take years, really. — But the market made it up its mind very quickly yesterday, and you can see it illustrated quite nicely below … | Om Malik / GigaOM: |
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Computerworld, CNET, PC World, Facebook, broadstuff, Forbes, Marketing Pilgrim and The Register
| Jordan Golson / MacRumors: |
AT&T Expands FaceTime Over Cellular Support to All Tiered Data Plans — AT&T has again expanded access to the FaceTime Over Cellular feature to customers on all tiered data plans with a compatible FaceTime device. Previously, only users with an LTE device — the iPad 3 and 4 …
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ATT Blogs, 9to5Mac, TechCrunch, GigaOM, Engadget, Gizmodo, BGR, The Verge, The Next Web, iPhone Hacks, SlashGear, iClarified, App Advice and iDownloadBlog.com
| Emil Protalinski / The Next Web: |
Verizon finds US developer outsourced his job to China so he could surf Reddit and watch cat videos — No, this is not the Onion, it's not April Fools, and I'm not making this up. All of this comes straight from Verizon, or more specifically, a case study from 2012 outlined by its security team.| Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: |
New Java Exploit Fetches $5,000 Per Buyer — Less than 24 hours after Oracle patched a dangerous security hole in its Java software that was being used to seize control over Windows PCs, miscreants in the Underweb were already selling an exploit for a different and apparently still-unpatched zero …
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| Eric Slivka / MacRumors: |
Apple's 2013 Product Roadmap Predictions: Multiple iPhones, Retina iPad Mini, All-Retina MacBook Pros — KGI Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, who has a very good track record in predicting Apple's product plans, has issued a new research report outlining his expectations for Apple's 2013 product launches.
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AppleInsider, AppleInsider, AppleInsider, CNET, iDownloadBlog.com, 9to5Mac, Forbes, BGR, InvestorPlace, Gotta Be Mobile, CNET, Edible Apple, Business Insider, iPhone, Patently Apple, iPhone Hacks, Apple Bitch, App Advice, App Advice, TUAW, iDownloadBlog.com, Know Your Cell, Softpedia News and PadGadget
| evleaks / Unwired View: |
HTC M7: first image of the 2013 flagship — Thanks to a trusted source with access to an early version of its firmware, we've finally been given a first look at the HTC M7, a flagship device meant to reverse the fortunes of the slumping Taiwanese manufacturer.| Zack Whittaker / ZDNet: |
AMD alleges former managers copied 100,000 confidential files before joining Nvidia — Summary: AMD believes that a former vice-president and three managers handed trade secrets to Nvidia, after they jumped ship to join a rival hardware-making firm. — Zack Whittaker
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| Sara Webb / Reuters: |
Samsung Galaxy tablets do not infringe Apple design: Dutch court — (Reuters) - A Dutch court, citing previous decisions in British courts, has ruled that some Samsung Electronics Galaxy tablets do not infringe an Apple design. — Wednesday's ruling by a district court in The Hague concerned …
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AllThingsD, PC Magazine, BGR, CNET, Macgasm, Electronista, iClarified, iDownloadBlog.com, iPhone Hacks and PhoneArena
| Robert Graham / Errata Security: |
I conceal my identity the same way Aaron was indicted for — According to his indictment, Aaron Swartz was charged with wirefraud for concealing/changing his “true identity”. It sent chills down my back, because I do everything on that list (and more). — To understand what I do … | Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
Leap Motion Teams Up With Best Buy As Exclusive Retail Launch Partner, Pre-Orders Start In February — Leap Motion, makers of the innovative Leap Motion controller for PCs, today announced that at launch, it will sell its device exclusively through Best Buy's physical and online stores in the U.S. …
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Engadget, Leap Motion, PC World, VentureBeat, The Verge, Technabob, VatorNews and SlashGear
| Bloomberg: |
Apple Lets Buyers on China Web Pay in 2-Year Installments — Apple Inc. (AAPL) began allowing users of its Chinese website to pay in installments as the company looks for ways to make iPhones and MacBook laptops more affordable in the world's largest computer and mobile-phone market.
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TechCrunch, Engadget, 9to5Mac, CNET, Financial Times, Tech Trader Daily, iPhone Hacks and TUAW
| Bloomberg: |
Apple Needs to Adapt to Emerging-Market Growth, Sculley Says — Ex-Apple CEO: Apple Must Adapt to Emerging-Markets — Apple Inc. (AAPL) needs to overhaul its supply chain to meet demand for cheaper smartphones in emerging markets, former Chief Executive Officer John Sculley said.
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Fortune, The Verge, Computerworld, AppleInsider, BGR, Softpedia News, The Loop, ZDNet, SlashGear and memeburn
| Dara Kerr / CNET: |
Apple, Amazon ordered to try settlement in ‘app store’ suit — Even though Apple's ongoing case against Amazon over its use of the term “app store” is scheduled to go to trial, the judge wants the companies to work to settle beforehand. — A judge has ordered Apple and Amazon to meet … | Sean Portnoy / ZDNet: |
Samsung Chromebox gets updated with Intel Core i5 Sandy Bridge CPU — Summary: The mini-desktop PC, which runs the Google Chrome OS, shows up online in a new configuration that doesn't include an under-powered processor for once. — Sean Portnoy — Google has tried to convince potential buyers …
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Engadget, Android Authority, Electronista, TweakTown News, SlashGear and Mashable
| Jessica Roy / Betabeat: |
Soho TechLabs Shuts Down Social Travel Site CasaHop — Back in April 2012, the HuffPo cabal-backed Soho TechLabs launched a social travel site called CasaHop that allowed users to “connect with people worldwide to trade homes for vacations and more.” Now, Soho TechLab's CEO Paul Berry told Betabeat …
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| Steve Dent / Engadget: |
Nikkei: Nintendo to launch unified console and handheld division by February 16th (update: confirmed) — Nintendo plans to merge its handheld and console gaming units into one division to create next generation hardware “that will turn heads,” according to Nikkei.| Ben Gilbert / Engadget: |
Sony VP teases ‘a big secret’ announcement for E3 or earlier, calls out PlayStation brand — Sony's been mum on any new PlayStation (read: PlayStation 4) news since ... well, ever (okay, there is that one exception). But Sony Electronics VP of Home Entertainment Hiroshi Sakamoto may be the first to break that silence.
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CNET, Examiner, DailyTech, Gotta Be Mobile, BostInno and Redmond Pie
| Emil Protalinski / The Next Web: |
No, Google did not run over a donkey in Botswana — Here's a story you don't see every day. Google on Wednesday has gone on record to deny reports that one of its Google Maps Street View cars killed a donkey in the Kweneng region of Botswana. Seriously, we're not kidding …
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Google LatLong, TechCrunch, Gizmodo, Engadget, CNET, The Verge, Los Angeles Times, Neowin, Forbes and WebProNews
| Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web: |
Redpoint Ventures closes new $400M Redpoint V fund, touts 14 exits in 2 years worth over $10B total — Redpoint Ventures is closing Redpoint V, their second $400M fund in three years. The firm says it has had 14 exits over the last two years that have hit $10B in aggregate market value.
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Business Wire, Digits, VentureBeat, AllThingsD and TechCrunch
| Anand Lal Shimpi / AnandTech: |
The Tegra 4 GPU, NVIDIA Claims Better Performance Than iPad 4 — At CES last week, NVIDIA announced its Tegra 4 SoC featuring four ARM Cortex A15s running at up to 1.9GHz and a fifth Cortex A15 running at between 700 - 800MHz for lighter workloads. Although much of CEO Jen-Hsun Huang's presentation focused …
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| Stuart Elliott / New York Times: |
Google, Seen as Print's Nemesis, Is Honored by USA Today for Creativity — THE winner of a contest to encourage creativity in print advertising, with a grand prize of $1 million worth of full-page ad space in USA Today, is a company that, it can be said, is a reason there are contests … | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Photo Sharing/Social Commerce Network Lockerz Closes Down Its San Diego Office, Lays Off ‘Around 30%’ Of Seattle HQ Staff — TechCrunch has learned that Lockerz, the social commerce and photo sharing service, is downsizing. It has shut down its San Diego office, laying off all but two of the staff who will now work remotely.
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