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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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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Google makes Microsoft sweat over Sync cutoff, but Windows Phone will get DAV support — A curious twist in the ongoing ecosystems war — Google's decision to drop Exchange ActiveSync support, a protocol used to sync Gmail calendar, contacts, and mail items on mobile devices, left Microsoft surprised and disappointed.
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| Jon Russell / The Next Web: |
RIM extends BlackBerry 10 app incentive deadlines following ‘remarkable’ number of submissions — In the final mile before it officially unveils its new BlackBerry 10 smartphones, RIM's quest for mobile apps and content appears to be going well. So well, in fact, that it says it is pushing … | Jonathan S. Geller / BGR: |
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| 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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| 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 … | 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.| Sam Byford / The Verge: |
Microsoft hires designer who presented bold revamp of the company's brand — Last summer designer Andrew Kim's vision for “The Next Microsoft” got a lot of traction online — including on The Verge — for its aggressively minimal rebranding of the company across platforms.
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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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| Bill Rigby / Reuters: |
Former Microsoft executive says CEO Ballmer culls internal rivals to retain power — (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp Chief Executive Steve Ballmer is not the right leader for the world's largest software company but holds his grip on it by systematically forcing out any rising manager who challenges …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Behind The Scenes Of The iPhone 5 Jailbreak — Technically speaking, the iPhone 5 is already jailbroken. You're just not allowed to have it yet. The reason for this is because one of the bugs that contributes to a functional jailbreak is so good, that the hackers who discovered …
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| David Streitfeld / New York Times: |
A Casualty on the Battlefield of Amazon's Partisan Book Reviews — Reviews on Amazon are becoming attack weapons, intended to sink new books as soon as they are published. — In the biggest, most overt and most successful of these campaigns, a group of Michael Jackson fans used Facebook … | Paul Graham / Hacker News: |
What we discovered about InstallMonetizer — Last week there was some controversy online about a company we funded called InstallMonetizer. IM makes software that companies can put in their Windows installers that offers other software to the user as part of the install process.
Tweets: @theromit, @steveklabnik, @longzheng and @syneryder
| John Battelle / John Battelle's Search Blog: |
Portrait of Twitter As A Young Media Company — The post Portrait of Twitter As A Young Media Company appeared first on John Battelle's Search Blog. — Last year I predicted that Twitter would become a media company. However, I focused mainly on the new “Discover” functionality, and I probably should have gone a lot further.| Jon Russell / The Next Web: |
Uber finally drives into Asia as the private car service begins testing in Singapore — Uber, the private car hire service that has taken the US by storm, has ramped up its global expansion plans after stepping into Asia for the first time with a soft launch in Singapore.
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Uber Blog, TechCrunch and Web 2.0 Asia Blog
| Jon Fingas / Engadget: |
Fujitsu transfers files from PCs to phones through hidden network info (video) — Most attempts to simplify device-to-device file transfers through a phone camera aren't very subtle or elaborate: Scalado's Photobeamer and Sony's vscreens rely on conspicuous QR codes, and aren't useful for much more than sharing images.
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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 … | Jeff John Roberts / paidContent: |
Report: Google made €50 million copyright offer, French publishers want €100 million — Google proposed an annual €50 million payment to news publishers to resolve a long-simmering copyright dispute, but the publishers decided to hold out for more, according to a report Friday in Le Monde.| Valéry Marchive / ZDNet: |
| Andrew Auernheimer / TechCrunch: |
iPad Hack Statement Of Responsibility — Editor's note: Andrew Auernheimer, also known by his pseudonym weev, is an American grey hat hacker and self-described Internet troll. Follow him on Twitter @rabite. — In June of 2010 there was an AT&T webserver on the open Internet.
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