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| Taylor Wimberly / ReadWrite: |
HP To Adopt Android For Upcoming Mobile Devices — Having failed to carve out a place for itself in the post-PC era, Hewlett-Packard is now taking drastic measures — by adopting Google's Android operating system to run a series of upcoming mobile devices. — It's a bit of a Hail Mary pass for HP …
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| Apple: |
Apple Updates Processors & Prices of MacBook Pro with Retina Display — Apple® is making the MacBook Pro® with Retina® display faster and more affordable with updated processors and lower starting prices. The 13-inch MacBook Pro with Retina display now starts at $1,499 for 128GB of flash … | The White House: |
Executive Order — Improving Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity — By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered as follows: Section 1. Policy. Repeated cyber intrusions into critical infrastructure demonstrate …
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| BBC: |
Apple loses Brazilian iPhone trademark ruling — Gradiente launched its Android-powered iPhone in Brazil in December — Brazilian regulators have ruled that Apple does not have exclusive rights to use the “iPhone” trademark in the country. — The decision is the result of a local company … | Owen Thomas / Business Insider: |
Jeff Weiner Just Gave Every LinkedIn Employee An iPad Mini — Darain Faraz, a communications manager at LinkedIn in the UK, just tweeted that CEO Jeff Weiner just gave an iPad Mini to every one of LinkedIn's 3,500 employees. — A spokesperson confirmed the gift:
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| Nate Raymond / Reuters: |
Another investor sues Apple, taking a page from Einhorn playbook — (Reuters) - Apple Inc on Wednesday was hit by another shareholder lawsuit, a case that is similar to the court challenge that star hedge fund manager David Einhorn brought as part of his push to unlock the company's cash hoard.| Nate Raymond / Reuters: |
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| Opera Press Room: |
Opera gears up at 300 million users — Opera Software today announced reaching the milestone of 300 million monthly users across all its browser products on phones, tablets, TVs and computers. — “300 million marks the first lap, but the race goes on,” says Lars Boilesen, CEO of Opera Software.
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| Stephen Shankland / CNET: |
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| iFixit: |
Microsoft Surface Pro Teardown — It's a laptop! It's a tablet! It's a lablet! It's...it's...Microsoft's Surface Windows 8 Pro, and it's about to go down on the teardown table. Want more super gadget gutting? Follow us on Twitter or like us on Facebook.| Sean Ludwig / VentureBeat: |
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| Ryan Block / gdgt blog: |
AOL adds gdgt to its Have-list! — We've got some big news: we couldn't be more excited to announce that gdgt has been acquired by AOL! — As you might recall, last year we started a fruitful partnership with the fine folks at Engadget to provide structured product data to their site.
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| Gartner: |
Gartner Says Worldwide Mobile Phone Sales Declined 1.7 Percent in 2012 — Huawei Reached No. 3 Spot in Worldwide Smartphone Sales Ranking — Apple and Samsung Increased Share to Control 52 Percent of Worldwide Smartphone Sales — Worldwide mobile phone sales to end users totaled 1.75 billion units …
| Meghan Kelly / VentureBeat: |
Google is getting its own film: Trailer for The Internship Movie released today — Google is getting two wacky interns. — Fox released the trailer for its comedy The Internship Movie following two “salesmen whose careers have been torpedoed by the digital world.”
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Marketing Land, TechCrunch, 9to5Google, Stuff.co.nz, AdAge, Geeks of Doom, Empire News, Vulture, Yahoo! Movies and WebProNews
| Reuters: |
Google files patent lawsuits against BT — (Reuters) - Google Inc and its Motorola Mobility unit filed patent lawsuits on Wednesday against BT Group plc in the United States and in the U.K., a Google spokeswoman said, more than a year after the British telecoms group launched its own lawsuit against Google.| Horace Dediu / asymco: |
Tim Cook's comments on Apple Stores, illustrated — Yesterday Tim Cook spoke at the the 2013 Goldman Sachs conference:
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| Adrianne Jeffries / The Verge: |
Google engineers found over half the bugs in Microsoft's latest security update — 32 of 57 vulnerabilities identified in this month's massive update were reported by researchers at the rival company — Microsoft is having one of its biggest “Patch Tuesday” monthly security updates ever …
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nbcnews.com, Gizmodo, Softpedia News and Datamation.com
| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft CFO Klein: We're ready for devices of all sizes — Summary: Microsoft is continuing to hint that its core Windows platform will scale across devices of all sizes. Write once, run anywhere really is getting closer, the company's CFO says. — For years, write once …
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GeekWire, TechCrunch, Digits, The Verge, Business Insider, Pocket-lint, Forbes, CNET and WMPoweruser
| Declan Butler / Nature: |
When Google got flu wrong — US outbreak foxes a leading web-based method for tracking seasonal flu. — When influenza hit early and hard in the United States this year, it quietly claimed an unacknowledged victim: one of the cutting-edge techniques being used to monitor the outbreak.
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Gizmodo and Search Engine Land
| BBC: |
Spanish scientists develop more accurate sat-nav system — Toyota is one of several car manufacturers working on automated vehicles — Researchers in Spain have developed a system they say can greatly improve the accuracy of car sat-navs. — It combines a conventional global positioning system …
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uc3m.es, The Next Web and The Verge
| Brian Stelter / Media Decoder: |
A CBS Deal Bolsters Amazon's Challenge to Netflix — Slowly but confidently, Amazon is building a library of television shows and movies to rival that of Netflix, much to the satisfaction of media companies like Time Warner and CBS, whose executives love to see the competition.
| Bryan Bishop / The Verge: |
Google Search for Android updated with Google Now widget, Fandango movie passes, and more — The existence of a Google Now widget was leaked on the official Nexus support pages just days ago, and now a new version of Google Search has been released that adds the feature and quite a bit more.
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Official Android Blog, CNET, AllThingsD, TechCrunch, Marketing Pilgrim, Gotta Be Mobile, 9to5Google and Pocketnow. Thanks:@sidharthdassani
| Arik Hesseldahl / AllThingsD: |
Cisco Beats Expectations in Second Fiscal Quarter — Quarterly results from networking giant Cisco Systems just crossed the wires, and they're above expectations. Cisco shares are moving up slightly after hours. — Cisco reported earnings of 51 cents per share on revenue of $12.1 billion.| Wayne Chang / Crashlytics Blog: |
Crashlytics Enterprise Is Now Free — Crashlytics gives mobile app developers insight into their apps' performance, so you can pinpoint and fix issues quickly and easily. In addition to the main Crashlytics product, we've also offered Crashlytics Enterprise, which we introduced …
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