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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 … | Peter Kafka / AllThingsD: |
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 … | Wall Street Journal: |
Chinese Hackers Hit U.S. Media — Wall Street Journal, New York Times Are Breached in Campaign That Stretches Back Several Years — WASHINGTON—Chinese hackers believed to have government links have been conducting wide-ranging electronic surveillance of media companies including The Wall Street Journal …
| Associated Press: |
US weighs tougher action over China cyberattacks — By By LOLITA C. BALDOR, Associated Press - 2 hours ago — WASHINGTON (AP) — High-level talks with the Chinese government to address persistent cyberattacks against U.S. companies and government agencies haven't worked …
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Apple Becomes Largest Mobile Phone Vendor in United States in Q4 2012 — According to our Wireless Device Strategies (WDS) service, mobile phone shipments grew 4 percent annually to reach 52 million units in the United States during the fourth quarter of 2012.
| Matt Burns / TechCrunch: |
Congratulations Crunchies Winners! GitHub Wins Best Overall Startup — And like that, The 6th Crunchies Annual Award Show is in the bag. John Oliver provided a night of laughs while TechCrunch, GigaOm and Venture Beat jointly handed out 20 awards to the best and brightest startups, founders and venture capitalists.| Eric Eldon / TechCrunch: |
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| Ernesto / TorrentFreak: |
Kim Dotcom: Mega Search Engines Have to Play by the Rules — Yesterday a flurry of bogus DMCA notices made thousands of Mega files unavailable to the public. The actions appeared to be targeted specifically at Mega search engine Mega-Search.me. — At first it was unclear who was behind the actions …
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Dell nears buyout, deal could come as soon as Monday:sources — (Reuters) - Dell Inc is nearing an agreement to sell itself to a buyout consortium led by its founder and Chief Executive Michael Dell and private equity firm Silver Lake Partners, possibly announcing a deal as soon as Monday …
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| Edward Wyatt / New York Times: |
Jon Leibowitz Resigns as F.T.C. Chairman — WASHINGTON — Jon Leibowitz, the chairman of the Federal Trade Commission, said on Thursday that he would resign effective mid-February. His departure will end a four-year tenure in which he pushed for online privacy protections and sought …
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| Stilgherrian / ZDNet: |
Apps? No root? Your device serves others: Berners-Lee — Summary: Sir Tim Berners-Lee has warned that if you don't have administrator access on your device and it's full of proprietary apps, it really serves masters other than you. — “The right to have root on your machine,” that is …
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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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| 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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| Chris Matyszczyk / CNET: |
Samsung, Rogen, Rudd brilliantly mock Super Bowl in Super Bowl ad — Having got after Apple and BlackBerry, Samsung now mocks the ridiculous trademark rules over Super Bowl advertising. With the help of Seth Rogen and Paul Rudd. — It's not that the NFL is run by draconian white men … | Danny Sullivan / CNET: |
How trapped are your digital movies and TV shows? — Buying films or TV episodes from a digital media outlet may be great if you watch though one particular device. But what happens if you change from iOS to Android? From a PC to a Mac? From a Roku to Apple TV? We chart it out.| Facebook Newsroom: |
Introducing the Facebook Card, a New Type of Gift Card — Beginning today, people can give their friends gifts to Jamba Juice, Olive Garden, Sephora, and Target all on one reusable gift card from Facebook. — Here's how it works: — First, select a gift for your friend from the Gift Cards & Digital category.| 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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| George Avalos / Mercury News: |
Silicon Valley is the nation's top dog for innovation: study — SAN JOSE — Silicon Valley remains the nation's innovation leader, as measured by the region's patent output — and it is stretching its lead over its closest rivals, a report released Friday shows.
| Dan Frommer / SplatF: |
Watch As China Has Grown To Become Apple's Second-Biggest Market — Apple has been sharing some details of its success in China for a while. But last week, Apple formally created a Greater China segment in its quarterly earnings materials — it previously reported only a broader Asia Pacific segment … | Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
Intel pulls out bigger mobile guns, will show off dual-core Android smartphones at Mobile World Congress next month — Intel showed us it could create a competent mid-range smartphone with decent processing power and battery life to spare, and then the company decided to create a somewhat slower SOC for poorer countries like Africa.| 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.Sponsor Posts
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