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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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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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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 …
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HBO Go Is Coming to Apple TV. Why Isn't Everything Coming to Apple TV? — As Bloomberg reports, sometime this year, Apple TV users will be able to watch HBO shows — if they're already subscribing to HBO via a pay-cable provider. — In other words, HBO will port its popular HBO Go app to Apple TV … | Adrianne Jeffries / The Verge: |
Pirates beware: Kim Dotcom's Mega isn't the safe haven he says it is — Abandon all hope, ye who enter here — Kim Dotcom — the infamous, indefatigable internet entrepreneur with an unidentifiable European cadence and the bravado of a Bond villain — is back in our lives.
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‘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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| 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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| 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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| Zak Islam / Tom's Hardware Guide: |
Nokia Receives $1.35 Billion Grant to Develop the “Strongest Material Ever Tested” — Graphene is a class 2D structure measuring just one atom thick. — Nokia has received a $1.35 billion grant to develop the strongest material to ever. — Graphene is a class 2D structure measuring just one atom thick.
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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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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 … | 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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| Daniel Eran Dilger / AppleInsider: |
NPD: Apple's iTunes takes biggest piece of online video on demand pie — As sales of Blu-ray disc and DVDs continued to slip, Apple has taken the leading share of the emerging Internet video on demand market, according to a new report by The NPD Group. — NPD issued a report today …
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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 … | Matthias Gelbmann / W3Techs: |
The PNG image file format is now more popular than GIF … PNG is now used on 62.4% of all websites, just ahead of GIF with 62.3%. GIF was leading by more than 15% one year ago. — PNG is now the most popular lossless image compression format on the web.
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Sony Is Teasing a PlayStation-Related Event for February — Sony is holding a mystery event in February, teasing fans with a Playstation-related video posted on its blog. — The tagline is “see the future.” Naturally there are no additional details, but we do know that Sony is reportedly working …
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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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| Liz Gannes / AllThingsD: |
Just Under Deadline, Google Responds to European Antitrust Concerns — Google hit the European Commission's deadline of January 31 to provide a substantive response to antitrust concerns — but just barely. — The company submitted a proposal regarding what it is willing to settle earlier today …
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| Jordan Crook / TechCrunch: |
Watch The Crunchies 2012 Live! — It's that time again, folks. — The 6th Annual Crunchies Awards show is upon us, and it's set to be the best event yet. We're at Louise M. Davies Symphony Hall in San Francisco, again partnering with GigaOm and VentureBeat, to recognize …
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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 … | Alex Wilhelm / The Next Web: |
Xbox to ‘unlock’ its Netflix app this weekend, granting access to all subscribers for a mere three days — If you felt that it was asinine of Microsoft to limit use of the Netflix app to only Gold-level subscribers of its Live service, this weekend will offer you some reprieve.
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