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| Stormy Peters / Mozilla Hacks: |
Announcing the Firefox OS Developer Preview Phone! — Firefox OS is a new mobile operating system built entirely using open web standards. In Firefox OS, HTML5 apps can do “phone things” - they can make the phone vibrate, make a phone call or send a text message.
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| David Meyer / GigaOM: |
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| Microsoft: |
Microsoft Grows Surface Family — Announces Surface Windows 8 Pro availability, market expansion and new accessories. — Microsoft Corp. today announced that its Surface family of PCs is growing. Its newest model — Surface Windows 8 Pro — will be available for purchase on Feb. 9 …
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| Dana Wollman / Engadget: |
Microsoft Surface Pro on sale February 9th in the US and Canada, starts at $899 — So it won't arrive in January as originally planned, but better a little late than never, right? Microsoft just announced that its Surface Pro tablet will go on sale February 9th in the US and Canada …
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| Anand Lal Shimpi / AnandTech: |
Hands on with Microsoft's Surface Pro, Available in US & Canada on February 9th — When it launched Surface RT, Microsoft mentioned that 3 months later it would be bringing out an Ivy Bridge version running Windows 8 Pro. At the end of last year, Microsoft announced pricing for Surface Pro … | Tom Warren / The Verge: |
| Jay Yarow / Business Insider: |
Microsoft Might Kick In $1-$3 Billion To Help With The Dell Buy Out — Microsoft is in talks to participate in the deal to take Dell private, CNBC's David Faber reports. According to his sources, Microsoft might invest $1-$3 billion with the group looking to take Dell private.
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| Brian Ellin / Twitter Blog: |
An update to embedded Tweets — Tweets bring you closer to what's happening around the world, from breaking news to global conversations. With embedded Tweets, you can see and interact with Tweets across the web. We often embed Tweets here on our blog to highlight great Tweets …
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| Roger Cheng / CNET: |
Verizon Q4 loss doubles thanks to Sandy, pension costs — The telecommunications provider saw revenue rise nearly 6 percent on strong customer growth in the wireless business. — Superstorm Sandy and mounting pension costs took its toll on Verizon. — The New York telecommunications provider posted …
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| Seth Fiegerman / Mashable!: |
Verizon Activated 6.2 Million iPhones in Q4, Almost Half Were iPhone 5 — We just got our first glimpse at iPhone 5 sales for the fourth quarter. — Verizon revealed during its earnings call Tuesday that it activated 6.2 million iPhones in the fourth quarter, almost half of which were LTE-enabled iPhone 5 devices.
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| Ed Bott / ZDNet: |
A close look at how Oracle installs deceptive software with Java updates — Summary: Oracle's Java plugin for browsers is a notoriously insecure product. Over the past 18 months, the company has released 11 updates, six of them containing critical security fixes.
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| Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web: |
Hot email app Mailbox launches reservation system to handle demand, arrives for free in a few weeks — Mailbox, an app that is attempting to change the way that we manage our inboxes, has managed to garner a significant amount of hype over the past few weeks.| Hugo Miller / Bloomberg: |
Samsung Ventures Buys Fixmo Stake to Take on BlackBerry — Samsung Electronics Co. (005930) bought a stake in Canadian security software maker Fixmo Inc., looking to extend its smartphone growth with businesses and government customers traditionally served by Research In Motion Ltd. (RIM)
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| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft delivers software development kit for Windows Phone 7.8 — Summary: Still no word on when existing Windows Phone users will get the Windows Phone 7.8. But the developer kit for 7.8 is available now. — Microsoft has made available for download its software development kit (SDK) for Windows Phone 7.8.
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| Nick Summers / The Next Web: |
AT&T acquires Alltel's US retail wireless business for $780m to boost its rural coverage — American telecommunications giant AT&T has signed an agreement with Atlantic Tele-Network to acquire its retail wireless operations, which currently operate under the Alltel brand …
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| Farhad Manjoo / Slate: |
The Happiness Machine How Google became such a great place to work — A cube at Google's global headquarters in Mountain View, Calif. — Courtesy Google. — A few years ago, Google's human resources department noticed a problem: A lot of women were leaving the company.
Tweets: @sheelahk
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Basecamp Personal Takes Project Management Out Of The Office, Ditches Subscriptions For A One-Time Fee — Basecamp, the project management platform from 37 Signals that originally launched back in 2004, has withstood the test of time to become one of the established players in the online collaboration market.
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| Liz Gannes / AllThingsD: |
Yahoo Poised to Acquire Content Curation Site Snip.it — Marissa Mayer's Yahoo is in the process of acquiring a startup to help its efforts to become a destination for content. — Yahoo is expected to announce this week that it has acquired Snip.it, a Pinterest-like site for article curation … | Nick Summers / The Next Web: |
Google integrates Google+ profiles into its company jobs board, adding one-click applications and more — Google has updated its company jobs board with support for Google+ profiles, allowing users to see more relevant search results, star jobs they want to return to later on and receive curated email updates.
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Inside H-P's Missed Chance To Avoid a Disastrous Deal — Days before Hewlett-Packard Co. dived into an $11 billion software deal it almost instantly regretted, it missed a chance to back away. — During a call with an H-P delegation, outside auditors for British software maker Autonomy Corp. mentioned …
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| Jordan Crook / TechCrunch: |
LG's Optimus G Will Hit LTE Markets In 50 New Countries Starting In Late January — LG's Optimus G might not have gotten the same attention as the Nexus 4, but it's the cream of LG's 2012 crop. And to that end, the company has just announced that it will roll out the Optimus G smartphone globally …
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| IBNLIve: |
India setting up cyber security architecture: National Security Advisor … Bangalore: India is setting up a national cyber security architecture to protect critical information infrastructure and other networks, National Security Advisor (NSA) Shivshankar Menon said on Monday.
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