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Barnes & Noble Weighs Its E-Reader Investment — Even for a company with a lot of bad news lately, the bulletin from Barnes & Noble this month had an ominous feel. — Barnes & Noble, the nation's largest book chain, warned that when it reports fiscal 2013 third-quarter results on Thursday …
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| Jon Fingas / Engadget: |
Nokia rebrands Drive, Maps and Transit for Windows Phones: it's all about Here (video) — The jewels in Nokia's Windows Phone crown have been its Here location services — anyone wanting them on Microsoft's platform has usually had to snap up a Lumia or make do with the Drive+ beta.
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| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
Nokia Expands Its Windows Phones To More Price Points With $180 Entry Level Lumia 520 And $330 Mid-Range Lumia 720 — Nokia has just announced two new Lumia smartphones at its Mobile World Congress press conference - broadening its Windows Phone 8 portfolio to five devices and filling …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Lumia 720 hands-on: the best Lumia body yet, but the specs let it down — Nokia just announced its latest mid-range Lumia 720 at Mobile World Congress today, and I've had a chance to take a look at it ahead of its release later this quarter. At first glance this particular Lumia embodies …
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The Verge, Ars Technica, The Next Web, Gizmodo, ZDNet, Engadget, The Next Web, IntoMobile, AnandTech and SlashGear
| Nicholas Carlson / Business Insider: |
CNET Pulled This Morning's Big News About Hewlett Packard And LG, But It's Still True — Earlier this morning CNET posted a big scoop: gadgetmaker LG had acquired WebOS from Hewlett Packard, and was going to use the smartphone operating system in TVs. — WebOS was the operating system …
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CNET, Mashable! and TechCrunch
| Sam Byford / The Verge: |
Samsung confirms Galaxy S IV for March 14th unveiling — We'd already heard from our sources that the Galaxy S III's successor would be unveiled on March 14th, and that's just been made official. In comments reported by Edaily, mobile chief JK Shin has said that the Galaxy S IV will indeed …
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Reuters, AllThingsD, CNET, Inquirer, LAPTOP Magazine, AndroidGuys, Engadget, Digits, Business Insider, Mobile Magazine, MobileSyrup.com, Droid Life, Android and Me, The Full Signal, 9to5Google, The Next Web, Phones Review, PhoneArena, TechCrunch, IntoMobile, VentureBeat, Clove Technology's Blog and Softpedia News
| Jack Purcher / Patent Bolt: |
Google Glass Part 2: Binocular — A head mounted display ("HMD") is a display device worn on or about the head. HMDs usually incorporate some sort of near-to-eye optical system to display an image within a few centimeters of the human eye. Single eye displays are referred to as monocular HMDs …
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| Chris Velazco / TechCrunch: |
MasterCard's PayPass Wallet Services Evolve Into MasterPass, Will Open To Canadian And Australian Users First — It was just this past May that MasterCard expanded its stake in the digital payments arena with its PayPass Wallet Services, and it's already getting a bit of an overhaul.
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CNET, Computerworld, LAPTOP Magazine, ZDNet, Wired, ReadWrite, NFC World and The Verge
| Dana Wollman / Engadget: |
HP Slate 7 hands-on (update: video) — Well, this might just be the biggest news to come out of Mobile World Congress. Long after discontinuing the TouchPad (and the rest of its mobile devices, for that matter) HP is back with a new tablet. This time, though, it runs not webOS, but an old safety: Android.
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IntoMobile, ZDNet, Technology Personalized, Examiner and Gizmodo
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Tweets: @stuarticus, @nateingraham, @zpower and @hp
| Michael Arrington / TechCrunch: |
Jason Kincaid On The Mythology Of TechCrunch — I was happily surprised to see Hunter Walk interview Jason Kincaid, one of the first TechCrunch employees. The interview is here and I'm reprinting it below. — Jason joined TechCrunch when it was still being run out of my house (before the city of Atherton kicked us out).| Daniel Cooper / Engadget: |
Facebook and 18 carriers to offer discounted mobile messaging data in 14 countries — Shooting the breeze using Facebook's mobile messaging service is about to get a lot cheaper. The social network is teaming up with 18 carriers in 14 countries to provide free or heavily discounted data to its customers.
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Facebook, TechCrunch, The Verge, The Next Web, AppleInsider, AllThingsD, Gizmodo, App Advice and PhoneArena
| Sam Byford / The Verge: |
Sony's sleek Xperia Tablet Z coming to the US for $499 — We're already familiar with the Xperia Tablet Z after Sony unveiled it in Japan last month, but now we know it's coming to the US. The company is using the occasion of Mobile World Congress 2013 to show off its latest slate to a wider audience …
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Ars Technica, BGR, Wired, TechCrunch, AllThingsD, CNET, LAPTOP Magazine, ABCNEWS, Telegraph, Gizmodo, Engadget, Engadget, TIME and IntoMobile
| Brian Heater / Engadget: |
AT&T LTE coming to GM's 2015 fleet — Ready to trade your old car in for a shiny new mobile hotspot? AT&T and GM are using the international platform that is Mobile World Congress to announce a partnership that'll bring the carrier's LTE network to “millions of cars” under the Chevrolet, Buick, GMC and Cadillac umbrellas.
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| Zach Honig / Engadget: |
Samsung announces SAFE with Knox, details plans to secure the enterprise Galaxy (hands-on) — BlackBerry has Balance, and no more than a month after the company once known as Research in Motion debuted its first BB 10 handset, Samsung has a dual-workspace solution of its own: SAFE with Knox.
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BetaNews, ZDNet, Computerworld and The Verge
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Mozilla Unlocks the Power of the Web on Mobile with Firefox OS — Mozilla is excited to share that today 18 operators at Mobile World Congress 2013 in Barcelona announced their commitment to Firefox OS, which will power the world's first Open Web Devices. — These operators include …
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Mozilla Press Center, The H Open Source, USA Today, BBC, InfoQ, Engadget, CNET, gHacks Technology News, Web 2.0 Asia Blog, Gizmodo, Mozilla Press Center, IntoMobile, Neowin, ZDNet, Bloomberg, Business Insider, Pocket-lint, Forbes, Engadget, Engadget, Pocketnow, NYT Bits, Digits and WinBeta
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