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Hackers in China Attacked The Times for Last 4 Months — SAN FRANCISCO — For the last four months, Chinese hackers have persistently attacked The New York Times, infiltrating its computer systems and getting passwords for its reporters and other employees.
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Symantec Gets A Black Eye In Chinese Hack Of The New York Times — Having your email hacked and malicious software spread on your servers for months may be embarrassing. But being outed as the antivirus vendor that failed to catch the vast majority of that malware is likely more humiliating still.| Ben Blanchard / Reuters: |
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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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| Zachary M. Seward / Quartz: |
Facebook's $1.6 billion quarter in charts: how and where it makes money — Facebook made $64 million (corrected; an earlier version of this story cited the operating profit, $523 million) on $1.585 billion in revenue in the fourth quarter of 2012, a result investors found somewhat disappointing.
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| Mario Aguilar / Gizmodo: |
BlackBerry Z10 Camera: The Worst Low-Light Performance We've Seen in a Long Time — For the old BlackBerry, a handset's camera was an ancillary feature. But the new hip BlackBerry is supposed to be tuned into how regular people—not just suits—use their phones.
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| Emil Protalinski / The Next Web: |
IDC: Apple's iPad dropped to 43.6% tablet share in Q4, Samsung took second with 15.1%, Amazon third with 11.5% — The latest tablet market share estimates are out, and the last quarter of 2012 was unsurprisingly another record one, with a total of 52.5 million units shipped worldwide.
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| Griffin McElroy / Polygon: |
Gabe Newell: Steam Box's biggest threat isn't consoles, it's Apple — The biggest danger facing the success of Steam Box or any other PC ecosystem hoping to find space in the living room is Apple, according to a lecture given by Valve co-founder Gabe Newell to a class at the University of Texas' LBJ School of Public Affairs.
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| Brian Caulfield / NVIDIA: |
How Project SHIELD Got Built — It's 9 o'clock at night. Aaron Gilroy has been working 14-hour days nonstop for months. The tireless program manager's latest task: hauling a dozen greasy bags of Kentucky Fried Chicken to a building in a scruffy light-industrial neighborhood in Silicon Valley.
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Inquirer, CNET, Engadget, HotHardware.com News, Gadgetwise, Android Police and bit-tech.net. Thanks:@nvidia
| 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 … | Drew Olanoff / TechCrunch: |
Google's No. 1 Asset Is Its Ability To Empathize With Its Users Through Design And Product Development — As your Internet use has evolved, Google has evolved with you. And for you. Its ability to make the right decisions about what to work on and at what time is a testament to the leadership at the company.| Brooke Crothers / CNET: |
Microsoft Surface sales well below shipments, says iSuppli — Microsoft's Surface RT sales weren't big, at least not initially, according to the market research firm. — Sales of Microsoft's first Surface tablet fell well short of the 1 million mark, while return rates were high, IHS iSuppli told CNET.
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| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft to launch Surface Pro at Best Buy New York on February 8 — Summary: Microsoft is planning another midnight launch for the latest member of its Surface family, just ahead of its February 9 commercial availability date. — Following the pattern it set with its Surface RT launch in October 2012 …
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| Olga Kharif / Bloomberg: |
Google Fends Off BrightRoll in $7.6 Billion Video Market — Google Inc. (GOOG), the world's biggest seller of Web-search advertising, is getting one-upped in the surging $7.6 billion market for online-video ads from a six- year-old startup one-tenth its size.
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| Steve Stecklow / Reuters: |
Exclusive: Huawei CFO linked to firm that offered HP gear to Iran — (Reuters) - A Hong Kong-based firm that attempted to sell embargoed Hewlett-Packard computer equipment to Iran's largest mobile-phone operator has much closer ties to China's Huawei Technologies than was previously known, corporate records show.| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook Tries Letting You Share Emoticons Of Exactly What You're Feeling, Reading Or Eating — Facebook is poised to get a lot more expressive. Today it began tests of a new status composer that lets you say “what are you doing?” by selecting from different categories to share activities such as feeling, reading, or eating.
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Betabeat and Inside Facebook
| Nick Summers / The Next Web: |
After nearly 3 billion check-ins, Foursquare reveals its top places across the US for 2012 — Location-based social network Foursquare has launched a new part of its website, called ‘The Best of Foursquare 2012’, which ranks places and businesses across the US based on the billions of check-ins and review data uploaded by its users.| Om Malik / GigaOM: |
Max Levchin talks about data, sensors and the plan for his new startup(s) — After selling his second company, Slide, to Google for hundreds of millions of dollars, Max Levchin slipped into a state of blissful anonymity, focusing his energies on his kids and cycling.
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| Lauren Goode / AllThingsD: |
BlackBerry 10 Boasts Some Key Apps, but Many Big Names Missing — The big day for BlackBerry has finally arrived. The world now knows what the company's newest entrant in the smartphone race looks like. — But what about apps? — For starters, a few key apps were already known, like Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and Foursquare.
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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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