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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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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.| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
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| 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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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Visa, Samsung Ink NFC Deal, Galaxy S IV First In Line For Deep Integration; ROAM Is Visa's First ‘Ready’ Mobile Payment Partner — Visa is swiftly moving ahead announcing its first partners for its new NFC initiative and push into the wider world of mobile payments — two programs it announced …
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| Ina Fried / AllThingsD: |
webOS Finds New Life Yet Again, This Time in LG Televisions — Like Morris the cat, webOS would appear to have nine lives. — The operating system, developed by Palm and sold to Hewlett-Packard, is changing hands again. — Korean electronics giant LG is scooping up the technology and what remains of its development team.
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| Robin Wauters / The Next Web: |
Yandex deals Google a one-two punch, debuts alternative Android app store and 3D interface — We knew it was coming soon, but Yandex has waited for the official start of the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona to actually debut it: say hola to Yandex.Store, its alternative Android app store …
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| Dana Wollman / Engadget: |
ASUS PadFone Infinity announced: 5-inch, 1080p display, Snapdragon 600 CPU and full HD tablet display — You may have heard a new PadFone was on the way — it's not like ASUS has been dropping obvious hints or anything. In any case, surprise! ASUS just unveiled a new model.
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| 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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| Marco Arment / Marco.org: |
The Magazine: now with full-article sharing, web subscriptions — When I launched The Magazine in October, I didn't know whether enough people would subscribe to keep it afloat. I didn't know whether most people would make fun of the idea, argue that articles on the internet should be free …
| 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.| 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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| David Carr / New York Times: |
For ‘House of Cards,’ Using Big Data to Guarantee Its Popularity — In the television business, there is no such thing as a sure thing. You can have a gold-plated director, a bankable star and a popular concept and still, it's just a roll of the dice. — Or is it?| 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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| 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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| Jon Fingas / Engadget: |
Kantar: Android back on top of US smartphone share in January with Sprint's help — Most US smartphone market share estimates last fall saw Apple retake the lead as it rode a wave of iPhone 5 sales. While there was always a question as to how long that trend would last …
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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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