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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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| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
HP emerges as big winner in webOS sale, and LG doesn't rule out a phone — LG doesn't seem to know why it just bought webOS — HP will indeed sell key pieces of its webOS product and team to LG for use in smart TVs, but contrary to earlier leaked reports, the deal doesn't include the entire webOS portfolio.| Ina Fried / AllThingsD: |
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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 … | Jeffrey McCracken / Bloomberg: |
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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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App.net introduces free tier, invite-only for now, includes following 40 people — Today, the versatile web platform App.net introduces its new free tier. The free accounts will be available by invite only from a current member and will allow the following of 40 accounts and 500MB of file storage.
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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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| Matt Brian / The Next Web: |
Sony jumps on the Mozilla bandwagon, will launch Firefox OS device in 2014 — Following the news yesterday that LG and Huawei have committed to launching new smartphones running Mozilla's Firefox OS platform, Sony today announced it too wants a piece of the HTML5 pie, committing to launching a Firefox OS device in 2014.
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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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| 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?
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| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Zynga shuts Baltimore studio and consolidates three other locations — Following up on its promise to be more cost efficient, casual and social game publishing giant Zynga is shutting down its Baltimore studio today and consolidating locations in three other cities.| Andy Greenberg / Forbes: |
Apple Is Beta-Testing An Update That Kills Evasi0n Jailbreak — All good jailbreaks must come to an end. — Late last week Apple released an update for iOS to developers in beta that prevents the use of the popular jailbreak software evasi0n, according to one of evasi0n's creators who tested the patch over the weekend, David Wang.
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| 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.| Kara Swisher / AllThingsD: |
Survey Says: Despite Yahoo Ban, Most Tech Companies Support Work-From-Home for Employees — Last week, a fierce debate erupted over a range of social networks and in the media about a story we posted on Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer's new decree that employees at the Silicon Valley Internet company would no longer be able to work from home.
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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 …
| Adrianne Jeffries / The Verge: |
Internet providers launch controversial Copyright Alert System, promise ‘education’ over lawsuits — The new program rolls out with five major internet service providers today, but the bark is worse than the bite — Five major internet service providers have signed onto a private sector effort … | 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 … | Michael J. De La Merced / DealBook: |
J. Crew Chief and American Express Invest in Warby Parker — Warby Parker, the hip purveyor of retro-style glasses, has solidified ties with two of its most prominent fans. — Now the three-year-old start-up can count Millard S. Drexler, the chief executive of J. Crew … Sponsor Posts
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