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Facebook launches free calling for all iPhone users in the US — In early January, Facebook began testing free calling over Wi-Fi and cellular data for all Messenger for iPhone users in Canada, and said that a US launch could be coming soon. Apparently, the test went well — a new free calling button has appeared in the app.
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| Matthew Lynley / Digits: |
The ‘Facebook Phone’ Might Already Be Here — Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has publicly quashed rumors that the company is building a phone, calling such a move “wrong strategy.” He said building Facebook's own mobile phone is “so clearly the wrong strategy for us” during a keynote conversation in September last year.
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| John Battelle / John Battelle's Search Blog: |
Facebook Is No Longer Flat: On Graph Search — By now the news is sweeping across the blogosophere and into the mainstream press: Facebook is doing Search! Well, not so fast. Facebook is not doing search, at least not search Google-style. However, the world's largest social network …
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| Colleen Taylor / TechCrunch: |
StumbleUpon Lays Off 30% Of Staff As It Restructures Company Into A Profitable State — StumbleUpon today laid off 30 percent of its staff, the company has confirmed to TechCrunch. The move, which brings StumbleUpon's employee count from 110 to 75, is part of a larger restructuring plan …
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| Derrick Harris / GigaOM: |
Has Ayasdi turned machine learning into a magic bullet? — A couple months ago, I had a chance to see — and I mean really see - what might become a common first step in answering questions and curing diseases that have been plaguing us for centuries. It was a demonstration by the founders of Ayasdi … | 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.| 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 … | Reuters: |
Insight: How cleantech tarnished Kleiner and VC star John Doerr — (Reuters) - In the spring of last year, John Doerr received some bad news: Miasole, the solar-panel maker backed by his famed venture capital firm, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, was on the verge of bankruptcy.
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| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft Office 2013: What to expect on the pricing front — Summary: Microsoft's Office 2013/new Office should be launching soon. Here's what we know so far about prices and packages. — As expected, Microsoft is pricing its next-generation Office 2013 line-up in a way to try …
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| 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 … | Leena Rao / TechCrunch: |
Thanks To Growth In Mobile And Marketplaces, eBay's Q4 Revenue Up 18 Percent To $4B, Net Income Up 22 Percent — eBay's Q4 and full-year 2012 earnings hit this afternoon, with revenue for the fourth quarter ended December 31, 2012, increasing 18 percent to $4 billion, compared to the same period of 2011.| 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.| 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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| 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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| Kyle Orland / Ars Technica: |
Did President Obama just order the government to study video game violence? — Despite Obama's mention of games, policy in gun control address is more nuanced. — All afternoon, my little corner of the Internet has been blowing up with tweets, links, and e-mail messages regarding President … | 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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| Steve Friess / Politico: |
How President Obama's inaugural app mines data for Democrats — Looking for a public toilet using the new Inauguration smartphone app? That might just land you on left-leaning email lists or solicited in coming years to be a Democratic campaign donor. — Thousands have downloaded … | Esteban Israel / Reuters: |
Twitter to open office in social network-crazed Brazil — * Follows in footsteps of Facebook and Amazon — Without even setting foot in Brazil, Twitter attracted 40 million subscribers in this social network-obsessed nation. — Now the U.S. company is planning to open an office …
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| 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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| Arik Hesseldahl / AllThingsD: |
No, HP Will Not Be Selling Autonomy or EDS or Anything Else — Hewlett-Packard is receiving plenty of interest from potential buyers of its Autonomy software and EDS IT services business units. But they're all getting the very same answer from CEO Meg Whitman: Thanks, but no thanks.
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| 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.| Donald Melanson / Engadget: |
Nexus 7 now available to order with T-Mobile SIM, carrier expands Nexus 4 retail availability — There's some good news today for T-Mobile customers looking to add a few more Nexus devices to their lives. The carrier announced today that the Nexus 7 tablet is now available to order …
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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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Ontario Court Rejects U.S. Government Demand for Full Access to Megaupload Servers Seized in Canada — Many readers will recall that nearly one year ago, the U.S. government launched a global takedown of Megaupload.com, with arrests of the leading executives in New Zealand and the execution of search warrants in nine countries.
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| Limor S Kessem / RSA: |
Laser Precision Phishing — Are You on the Bouncer's List Today? — By Limor S Kessem, Cybercrime and Online Fraud Communications Specialist, RSA — As we close out 2012, it's safe to say that phishing has had yet another record year in attack volumes. The total number of phishing attacks launched …
| 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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