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Chinese hackers infiltrate The New York Times, Wall Street Journal — In the months just before and since The New York Times published an investigation of Chinese prime minister Wen Jiabao's family, hackers have been “infiltrating its computer systems and getting passwords for its reporters and other employees,” the paper reports.
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Chinese Hackers Targeted Wall Street Journal Computers — The Wall Street Journal said Thursday that its computer systems had been infiltrated by Chinese hackers for the apparent purpose of monitoring the newspaper's China coverage. — The infiltration at the Journal …
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| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
China calls NYT hack accusation ‘groundless’ as Symantec deflects blame for intrusion — China is staunchly denying a report from The New York Times that suggests its military colluded with hackers to launch a four-month cyber attack against the US newspaper.| John Herrman / BuzzFeed: |
| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
Apple to discontinue Mac Pro in Europe March 1st over new regulatory standards — Apple will stop selling its current Mac Pro professional desktop computer in Europe on March 1st, according to our sources. — While the Mac Pro has been seen as an Apple product nearing discontinuation …
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| Ellis Hamburger / The Verge: |
‘The Facebook Card’ takes the social network's Gifts initiative offline — Hot on the heels of its fourth quarter earnings report yesterday afternoon, Facebook has announced The Facebook Card, a new part of its online Gifts platform intended to be yet another revenue stream for the social network.| Facebook Newsroom: |
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| Tim Carmody / The Verge: |
CNET loses CES awards following Dish Hopper controversy; DVR named ‘Best In Show’ — The Hopper with Sling will be named co-winner of ‘Best In Show’ alongside official CNET choice the Razer Edge — The Consumer Electronics Association has issued a press release awarding the Dish Hopper …
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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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| Megan Geuss / Ars Technica: |
Wait for it... select files from Mega now indexed on third-party site — Looking to share some files with the general public? Whether those files are of the legal or illegal kind, a website has cropped up to index files on Kim Dotcom's brand new cloud-storage site. Mega.co.nz, meet Mega-search.me.
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Apple TV Said to Start Carrying HBO App Later This Year — Apple Inc. (AAPL) is in negotiations to start carrying Time Warner Inc. (TWX)'s HBO Go application on Apple TV by mid-2013, according to two people familiar with the plans. — Cable and satellite subscribers who pay for HBO …
| Nick Summers / The Next Web: |
Google to add a new Notification Center to Chrome, paving the way for Google Now integration — Chromium, the open source web browser project that shares much of the same code and features as Google Chrome, has been updated for Windows to include a new notification center.
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| Eric Slivka / MacRumors: |
Apple Acquires 18 ‘Axis-Based User Interface’ Patents from Maya-Systems — Canadian firm Maya-Systems today announced that it has sold a group of 18 user interface patents to Apple. The patents appear to be related to Maya-Systems' work with axis-based interfaces in which documents … | Marco Arment / Marco.org: |
A crazier prediction: iPhone Plus is real, and huge — So far, I'm betting on an A5X-powered Retina iPad Mini by this fall. While I'm making semi-crazy predictions about future iOS products so I can look back on this in a year and probably feel like an idiot for being so wrong, here's one more.
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Small Firms Say LinkedIn Works, Twitter Doesn't — Six out of 10 small-business owners say they believe social-media tools are valuable to their company's growth—but most aren't impressed by Twitter Inc. — Just 3% of 835 business owners surveyed earlier this month by The Wall Street Journal …
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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.| Kevin C. Tofel / GigaOM: |
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Microsoft Launches Modern.IE To Help Developers Test Their Web Apps For Legacy And Modern Versions Of IE — Even though Microsoft itself would prefer to change this, many users still rely on older versions of Internet Explorer. For developers, this means spending hours on testing their web apps …
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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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Mashable!, CNET, The Tech Report, TechSpot, AndroidGuys, IntoMobile and Inquirer. Thanks:@nvidia
| Jordan Kahn / 9to5Mac: |
Temple Run 2 becomes fastest growing mobile game with 50M downloads in under 2 weeks — After previously announcing 20 million downloads in just four days for its new Temple Run 2 title, developer Imangi Studios announced today that the game has now become the fastest growing mobile game ever … | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Amazon Responds To Outage, Confirms Offline For 49 Mins, AWS Unaffected, Outside Groups Uninvolved — Amazon earlier today experienced an outage of its main Amazon.com homepage that lasted for nearly one hour, the company confirmed today. It is still not explaining what the problem …
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| Dan Seifert / The Verge: |
Motorola job listing confirms ‘X-Phone’ project in the works — Late last year, The Wall Street Journal reported that Google and Motorola were working on a new phone and tablet with the code names “X Phone” and “X Tablet.” These devices were said to be the first true collaboration between …
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Android Phone Fans, CNET, 9to5Google, Ars Technica, TechCrunch, BGR, Pocketables and Pocket-lint
| Nathan Ingraham / The Verge: |
Google Glass headset with bone-conduction speakers revealed in FCC filing — Google has been pretty up front about its plans for Google Glass — the company said the first “Explorer Edition” of its virtual reality headset would arrive early in 2013, and now the glasses themselves have shown up at the FCC.
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| Jon Russell / The Next Web: |
Evernote takes Penultimate free, integrates it with its core service, but gives users an opt-out — Online note-taking service Evernote has given Penultimate, the hugely-popular handwriting app for the iPad that it acquired last year, a significant overhaul after making it free to download … Sponsor Posts
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