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| Nicole Perlroth / New York Times: |
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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Guardian, CNNMoney.com, Wired, The Next Web, ZDNet, VentureBeat, Hillicon Valley, ABCNEWS, SiliconANGLE, Agence France Presse, Computerworld, GigaOM, Naked Security, PC Magazine, BBC, Daily Dot, TechCrunch, ExtremeTech, CNN, Gothamist, The H Security, ValueWalk, The Week, NPR, The Register, blog.chron.com, ZDNet, Help Net Security, The Raw Story, SlashGear, Securosis Highlights, Web 2.0 Asia Blog, Salon, BBC, Quartz, CNET, The Verge, Inquirer, Gizmodo, Boing Boing, DailyFinance.com, TECH.BLORGE.com, New York Times and Ars Technica
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| Andy Greenberg / Forbes: |
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.| John Herrman / BuzzFeed: |
New York Times Hack Started With A Simple Email Scam — In an internal memo, the company tells employees not to fall victim to phishing. A human hack, not code, let intruders through the door. — Image by Richard Drew / AP — The New York Times was the target of a months-long hacking campaign …
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| 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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MacRumors, The Verge, PandoDaily, AppleInsider, TechCrunch, iDownloadBlog.com, Apple Bitch, Electronista, The Loop and iClarified. Tweets: @stroughtonsmith. Thanks:@ebetters
| 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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Inquirer, CNET, CrackBerry.com, WMPoweruser, Business Insider, PetaPixel, Gotta Be Mobile and PhoneArena
| Brian Lam / The Wirecutter: |
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Los Angeles Times, iPhone Hacks, Engadget and Delimiter
| Will Connors / 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.
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IDC, Digits, CITEworld, PC Magazine, Examiner, Mobile Marketing Watch, VentureBeat, MacRumors, GigaOM, Marketing Land, iPhone Hacks, BestTechie, InvestorPlace, 9to5Mac, TechCrunch, Engadget, ZDNet, PhoneArena, AppleInsider, Pocketnow, The Verge, ITworld.com, Softpedia News, TechEye, App Advice, memeburn and Electronista
| Kevin C. Tofel / GigaOM: |
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| 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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PC World, Computerworld, LAPTOP Magazine, The Register, VentureBeat, Electronista and Neowin
| 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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cesweb.org, TechCrunch, CNET and CEA Digital Dialogue
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See also Mediagazer| Matt McGee / Marketing Land: |
Facebook: 500,000 Pages Have Used Promoted Posts, 70% Become Repeat Advertisers — Facebook touted the success of its Promoted Posts product and the general success of ads in the News Feed during its earnings call today, in which it announced Q4 financial figures that beat analyst estimates.
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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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IntoMobile, CNET, TechSpot, The Tech Report, AndroidGuys, Inquirer, HotHardware.com News, Engadget and Gadgetwise. Thanks:@nvidia
| 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.
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Facebook Newsroom, CNET, The Next Web, TechCrunch, Inside Facebook, AllFacebook, AllThingsD, Business Insider, VentureBeat, Engadget, Gizmodo, The Consumerist, WebProNews, SlashGear and Mashable!. Tweets: @jonfortt
| 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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Google+, LAPTOP Magazine, TechCrunch, CNET, Engadget, Gizmodo, Gotta Be Mobile, Softpedia News, The Verge, WebProNews and Electronista
| 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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CNET, The Tech Report, TechSpot, iPhone in Canada Blog, Kotaku, iPhone Hacks, Forbes, Macgasm, iDownloadBlog.com, PC Gamer, X-bit labs, Neowin, The Verge, VG247 and Electronista
| 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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The Windows Blog, BetaNews, The Next Web, Ars Technica, VentureBeat, GeekWire, ReadWrite, PC Magazine, ZDNet, Softpedia News, WinBeta, MSDN Blogs and CNET
| 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.
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CNET, AllThingsD, ZDNet, The Verge and Softpedia News
| 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 … | 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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CNET, Gizmodo, Betabeat, InvestorPlace, Inside Facebook and WebProNews
| 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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TorrentFreak, Boing Boing, ValueWalk, SiliconANGLE, VentureBeat, Wired, gHacks Technology News and Forbes. Tweets: @kimdotcom
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Mobile Telco Dials In and Harnesses Big Data with Hadoop — Smartphones have transformed our daily lives. A key indicator of this trend is our increased spend on data plans versus voice.
Mobile Telco Dials In and Harnesses Big Data with Hadoop — Smartphones have transformed our daily lives. A key indicator of this trend is our increased spend on data plans versus voice.
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