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BlackBerry Z10 review: a new life, or life support? — A new flagship phone and a new OS, but is it too little, too late? — Research In Motion is about to enter the battle of its life, and as you'll see in my review of its new flagship, the BlackBerry Z10, it's using everything in its arsenal to win.| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Research In Motion rebrands itself as BlackBerry — At today's BlackBerry 10 event, CEO Thorsten Heins announced that his company will no longer be known as Research In Motion. As of today, RIM is being rebranded as BlackBerry. “We have reinvented the company, and we want to represent this in our brand,” Heins said.
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| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
BlackBerry announces Alicia Keys as ‘Global Creative Director’ — BlackBerry has announced a new position, Global Creative Director, and hired its own in-house celebrity to fill the role: Alicia Keys. Keys was apparently chosen for renewing her “long-term relationship” …
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Tweets: @aliciakeys and @peterlauria3
| Joseph Volpe / Engadget: |
BlackBerry Z10 official: 4.2-inch 1,280 x 768 display, 1.5GHz dual-core Snapdragon S4 Plus, LTE, BB 10 for $200 — After months of rumors, speculation and official teases, [RIM's] BlackBerry's first full-touch BlackBerry 10 device — the Z10 — is finally official. Look familiar? It should.
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| Walt Mossberg / AllThingsD: |
BlackBerry Reinvents Itself to Compete with All-Touch Smartphones — There is a new smartphone coming to market, running on a new operating system. It's an all-touch device—with no physical navigation controls and no physical keyboard—and serves as a platform for third-party apps.| John Herrman / BuzzFeed: |
BlackBerry Announces The End Of BlackBerry — Today's BlackBerry 10 event wasn't a product launch. It was a funeral. — Image by Shannon Stapleton / Reuters — “This is for you, BlackBerry developers” says Alec Saunders, BlackBerry's VP of developer relations. “You think you took a leap of faith?| Lauren Goode / AllThingsD: |
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Facebook Reports Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2012 Results — Facebook, Inc. (NASDAQ: FB) today reported financial results for the fourth quarter and full year ended December 31, 2012. — “In 2012, we connected over a billion people and became a mobile company,” said Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook founder and CEO.
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Tweets: @pkafka and @emilychangtv
| Kim-Mai Cutler / TechCrunch: |
Facebook's Q4 Revenue Rises 40% To $1.59B, Shares Down Slightly In After-Hours — Facebook said its fourth quarter revenue rose 40 percent year-over-year to $1.59 billion. Mobile revenues grew to make up 23 percent of the company's total and mobile monthly active users rose to 680 million, or up 57 percent year-over-year.| Brian Womack / Bloomberg: |
Facebook Profit Drops Amid Higher Spending on Features, Ad Tools — Facebook Q4 Adjusted EPS Tops Estimate — Facebook Inc. (FB), operator of the world's biggest social network, said net income declined during the fourth quarter as the company ramped up investments in new mobile and ad services that boosted costs.
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| David Chen / Twitter Blog: |
Updates for viewing photos and videos — Today, we're rolling out several enhancements that make it easier to view photos and videos on Twitter — in particular, on profiles and in search results. — Large photos, right on the page. Click a photo from a profile page or in search results …
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| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Dropbox unveils social photo sharing, easier photo management, and document quick-preview — Dropbox has today unveiled two new products that work with the cloud storage service. The first relates to working with documents. Instead of simply being able to download files, it's offering a quick preview function on the webiste.
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| Liz Gannes / AllThingsD: |
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| John Paczkowski / AllThingsD: |
iPhone Users Rack Up the Highest Carrier Bills — The iPhone may command a higher carrier subsidy than its typical Android rival. It may eat into operators' profit margins when sales volumes spike after the debut of a new model. But it also generates more in carrier fees than any other smartphone.
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Ars Technica, Mobile Marketing Watch, Forbes, TUAW, App Advice and AppleInsider
| Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web: |
New Apple TV 3,2 is just a mid-season internal upgrade, with no external difference in size — Yesterday we brought you the news that there would be a new Apple TV model coming, but that's only partially true. There will be some changes made to the Apple TV internally …
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Computerworld, Pocket-lint, MacRumors, CNET, iDownloadBlog.com and Apple Bitch
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Ticketmaster dumps ‘hated’ Captcha verification system — Users have been frustrated by having to figure out barely decipherable words — The world's largest online ticket retailer is to stop requiring users to enter hard-to-read words in order to prove they are human.
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digitaltrends.com, TechHive, Gizmodo and The Verge
| Ernesto / TorrentFreak: |
CBS and CNET Protest Looming BitTorrent Client Ban — Last year, Alki David and a coalition of artists sued CBS and CNET for their role in distributing uTorrent, LimeWire and other P2P software. — The artists claimed that CNET profits heavily from distributing file-sharing software via Download.com … | Jon Fingas / Engadget: |
Nokia begins its Windows Phone 7.8 upgrade rollout (video) — Talk of Microsoft finally deploying Windows Phone 7.8 has been building to a crescendo — and we're glad to confirm it's more than just noise. The more customizable home and lock screens, Marketplace improvements and numerous under … | Ashlee Vance / Business Week: |
Microsoft's Steve Ballmer Does Not Fear Dropbox or an Office-less IPad — When Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer does his bounding these days, it's often in front of an 82-inch interactive display mounted to the wall of his office. Ballmer gets to poke at the screen—a Perceptive Pixel LCD—like a more-energetic version of Wolf Blitzer.| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Microsoft Announces Git Support For Visual Studio, Team Foundation Server And Service — Microsoft just made a major announcement that will likely take many developers by surprise. At the ALM Summit in Redmond, WA this morning, Microsoft Brian Harry just announced that its Team Foundation Server …
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MSDN Blogs, Network World, MSDN Blogs, Wired, The Next Web, Ars Technica, Neowin and VentureBeat. Thanks:@fredericl
| Katie Fehrenbacher / GigaOM: |
Exclusive: Nest has raised another $80M, now shipping 40K+ thermostats a month — Learning thermostat maker Nest has closed on $80 million to keep growing, and we've heard it's shipping 50,000 thermostats per month. The round was raised at an $800 million valuation and the company could reach …
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How ImgPage Uploads 25 MB Photos to Cloud Files Using the Mailgun API — The team over at Mailgun just posted a Python tutorial written by Mailgun customer Paul Finn about how to use Python and the Mailgun API to upload large images to Cloud Files.
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Week in Review: SQL IN Hadoop and Hive, Beyond Batch with YARN, NFS access to HDFS and HBase MTTR — Or as it's more commonly being called: Week-ish in Review. Let's recap on the latest - there's some juicy technology goodness here.
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“Yammer sucks” — Not to be mean to Yammer, or anything — it's a very good tool for some use cases — but that's what a customer told me recently (and others feel the same way).
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