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That Tesla Data: What It Says and What It Doesn't — The Model S at the Tesla Supercharger in the Interstate 95 service plaza in Milford, Conn. — Elon Musk , the chief executive of Tesla Motors, has now responded in detail to the account of my test drive of his Model S electric car …
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See also Mediagazer| Rebecca Greenfield / The Atlantic Wire: |
Elon Musk's Data Doesn't Back Up His Claims of New York Times Fakery — Elon Musk's long-awaited blog post take-down has arrived with what he claims is the data to prove New York Times John M. Broder reporter committed some sort of journalistic malpractice to run a bad review of the Tesla Model S's range capability.
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iPhone lockscreen can be bypassed with new iOS 6.1 trick — A security flaw in Apple's iOS 6.1 lets anyone bypass your iPhone password lock and access your phone app, view or modify contacts, check your voicemail, and look through your photos (by attempting to add a photo to a contact).
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| John Paczkowski / AllThingsD: |
Apple Working on Fix for iOS 6.1 Passcode Hack — Looks like the latest version of Apple's iOS mobile operating system brought more than just Siri-enabled movie-ticket purchases and iTunes Match enhancements to the devices on which it runs. — A new vulnerability has been discovered … | Brian X. Chen / NYT Bits: |
How Lightning Tightens Apple's Control Over Accessories — When the iPhone 5 was released in September with the new Lightning connection port, all those docks and accessories that longtime Apple customers had been collecting for years were suddenly obsolete.
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| Nick Gray / HTC Source: |
Exclusive: HTC One (M7) U.S. retail availability and price revealed — Nearly a week and a half ago, we broke the news that HTC would start selling the HTC M7 in Europe on March 8th. That date was later confirmed by another source, along with a price tag of of €649.99 (roughly $880).| Aaron Pressman / Reuters: |
Big hedge funds fueled Apple's 4th-quarter share plunge — Some of the biggest hedge funds that helped make Apple Inc a stock market darling lost faith and dumped their stakes in the fourth quarter, fueling the massive drop in the iPhone maker's share price.
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| Danny Sullivan / Marketing Land: |
Microsoft's “Scroogled” Campaign Against Gmail Wins 0.002% Of Users — It's been a week sine Microsoft went on the attack against Gmail, launching its “Scroogled” campaign portraying Gmail as a privacy monster that reads your emails for ad targeting purposes. How's that been working out?
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| Gina Chon / Quartz: |
Dropbox is talking to banks about an IPO later this year — Dropbox has been holding meetings with banks about an initial public offering, possibly in the second half of this year, according to sources briefed on the talks. — The market has been waiting for its next hot tech IPOs …
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| Jon Russell / The Next Web: |
Opera buys mobile video optimization specialist and browser maker Skyfire for up to $155m — Opera revealed plans to transition its Web browsers to WebKit this week, and the Norwegian firm is making more moves after announcing the acquisition of Skyfire Labs, a mobile video optimization specialist …
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| Roger Cheng / CNET: |
Ex-BlackBerry co-CEO Jim Balsillie dumps entire stake — A year ago, Balsillie owned 26.8 million shares of BlackBerry stock. Now he's down to zero. — Jim Balsillie, the former co-CEO of BlackBerry, sold off his entire stake in the company, according to a regulatory filing.| IDC: |
Android and iOS Combine for 91.1% of the Worldwide Smartphone OS Market in 4Q12 and 87.6% for the Year, According to IDC — Android and iOS, the number one and number two ranked smartphone operating systems (OS) worldwide, combined for 91.1% of all smartphone shipments during the fourth quarter of 2012 (4Q12).
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Xoom pays off for PayPal Mafia, sets $100 million IPO — SAN FRANCISCO — Online payments company Xoom will receive a large payment of its own in its initial public offering, deciding Thursday to push its price higher and bring in $100 million. — Xoom, a startup that helps people transfer …
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| JP Mangalindan / Fortune: |
LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner: Treat employees like adults, and you won't have leaks — With 1 million user “endorsements” and counting, Jeff Weiner explains the secret behind his company's red-hot streak. (Hint: It has nothing to do with the 3,500 iPads he just gave employees.)
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| Jesus Diaz / Gizmodo: |
Iceland Wants to Ban Internet Porn — “If we can send a man to the moon, we must be able to tackle porn on the internet.” Those are the now immortal words of Halla Gunnarsdóttir, the political advisor to Iceland's Interior Minister Ögmundur Jónasson. Iceland wants to block all internet porn.
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| Facebook: |
How Graph Search Works for Young People — We recently we announced the limited preview of Graph Search, a privacy aware enhancement to our existing search tool that helps people discover people, places, photos, and other interests that have already been shared with you on Facebook.
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| Patrick Clark / Betabeat: |
Not So Fast! Black Car Industry Files Injunction One Day Before NYC Taxi App (UPDATE) — A pilot program for smartphone apps that would allow New Yorkers to hail yellow cabs at the press of a button may be delayed by a court injunction filed today by organizations representing the black car industry.
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| Cyrus Farivar / Ars Technica: |
Skype calls now equivalent to one-third of global phone traffic — New research (PDF) from TeleGeography, a telecom market analysis firm, shows that worldwide Skype usage is now equivalent to over one-third of all international phone traffic—a record level.
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| Jonathan Stempel / Thomson Reuters News …: |
Judge throws out Netflix shareholder lawsuit — Netflix Inc won the dismissal of a shareholder lawsuit accusing the dominant U.S. video rental and streaming company of inflating its share price by concealing its rising costs, even as insiders like Chief Executive Reed Hastings sold millions of dollars of stock.
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| Jolie O'Dell / VentureBeat: |
You can now Bump any files from any device, computer or PC, with a single tap — “No one has never said, ‘Boy, I sure do love emailing myself files.’” — Truer words were never spoken. The ones above come from the mouth of Dave Lieb, Bump's CEO. His app makes it easy to share contact information … | Liz Gannes / AllThingsD: |
Quora Sets Up a Leaky Paywall — But for Registrations, Not Money — Quora has been under fire in recent days and months for increasing efforts to mandate that users register and/or download its apps in order to fully experience the site's user-contributed content.
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| Rebecca Greenfield / The Atlantic Wire: |
Randi Zuckerberg Says Her Book Will Be a ‘Crazy’ Look at the ‘Front Lines’ of Facebook — Taking the next logical step in her quest to gin up as much celebrity as possible for being related to the CEO of Facebook and not much else, Silicon Valley media “personality” Randi Zuckerberg is writing …
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| Eric Eldon / TechCrunch: |
Big Plans For CrunchBase — CrunchBase has grown like a tree planted in a quiet corner of the yard and left to do its thing. Six years in, our free and editable industry database gets 1.5 million unique visitors a month and has had 90,000 users create 105,000 companies and 140,000 individual profiles.
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| Garett Sloane / New York Post: |
Venturing out — Google grows into a VC power, too — Google is close to becoming the top dog in yet another business sector: venture capital. — The search giant's 4-year-old financing arm, Google Ventures, has quietly become the country's No. 3 most active venture-capital firm, according to a recent report.Sponsor Posts
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