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Apple settles lawsuit over apps aimed at kids — will pay $5 iTunes credit or cash — Did your kid rack up charges on Apple's app store without your permission? You may be in luck: the company says it will pay to settle a lawsuit over so-called “bait apps,” which are games that can be downloaded …
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Law360, Gizmodo, CNET, memeburn, The Verge, AppleInsider, Macgasm, iDownloadBlog.com, MacRumors, Ars Technica, MacNN, The Next Web, TUAW, 9to5Mac, iClarified, iPhone in Canada Blog, AllThingsD and blogs.ft.com
| 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.| Roger Cheng / CNET: |
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Ubergizmo, The Verge, Ars Technica, PC World, FierceMobileContent News and PalmAddict
| 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.| Gabe / Penny Arcade: |
The MS Surface Pro — I was aware of the Surface Pro but I wasn't especially interested in it until I heard it came with a stylus and supported pressure sensitivity. I love gadgets and drawing so it only makes sense that I've always been curious about gadgets you can draw on.| Amir Efrati / Wall Street Journal: |
Samsung's Heft in Android Worries Google — Samsung Electronics Co. has become the biggest seller of mobile devices using Google Inc.'s Android mobile operating system. That creates a problem for Google. — Samsung's growing might—last year, the South Korean manufacturer shipped nearly 200 million …
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Neowin, Phones Review, Android and Me, The CIO Report, The Verge, AdAge, Droid Life, CNET, Digits, Business Insider and ParisLemon. Tweets: @amir_efrati
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Apple Rejecting Apps Using Cookie-Tracking Methods, Signaling Push To Its Own Ad Identifier Technology Is Now Underway — Mobile app developers using a technology called “cookie tracking” (sometimes called “Safari flip-flop” or “HTML5 first party cookies") are starting to have their apps rejected …
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MacNN, CNET and App Advice
| 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.
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Google Said Developing Subscription Music Service — Google Inc. (GOOG), developer of the Android mobile-phone platform, plans to start a subscription music-streaming service to challenge Spotify Ltd., said two people with knowledge of the situation. — Negotiations are under …
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The Full Signal, iDownloadBlog.com, Pocket-lint, GeekWire and 9to5Google
| Tim Stevens / Engadget: |
Chromebook Pixel review: another impractical marvel from Google — We've had a bit of a love / hate relationship with the Google Chromebook since the first one crossed our laps back in 2011 — the Samsung Series 5. We loved the concept, but hated the very limited functionality provided by your $500 investment.| Cotton Delo / AdAge: |
Foursquare Partners with Visa and MasterCard to Give Discounts When Users Shop — Company Will Take a Cut of Offers Redeemed — Looking to unlock a new revenue stream, Foursquare is announcing new partnerships with Visa and MasterCard that will let credit and debit card holders claim discounts at participating retailers.| Seth Rosenblatt / CNET: |
Firefox betas pull the shades per-tab on ‘porn mode’ — The latest versions of Firefox Beta and Firefox Beta for Android come with the ability to browse privately on a per-tab basis, among other improvements. — Private browsing, or ‘porn mode’ for people with more prurient Web browsing requirements … | Adam Goodman / The Duo Bulletin: |
Bypassing Google's Two-Factor Authentication — TL;DR - An attacker can bypass Google's two-step login verification, reset a user's master password, and otherwise gain full account control, simply by capturing a user's application-specific password (ASP). — (With all due respect to Google's “Good to Know” ad campaign)
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| 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.| Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: |
Outbox Pours Salt On Snail Mail By Launching Its Digitizing Service In San Francisco — Mail digitizing startup Outbox is launching in San Francisco today, the first step in what co-founder Will Davis says is a broader national rollout. — If, like me, you find physical mail to be an annoyance, this is good news.| Emil Protalinski / The Next Web: |
Google Chrome may soon get audio indicators to show you noisy tabs, keep them open when memory runs out — Google is working on identifying Chrome tabs that are currently playing audio (or recording it). The feature is expected to show an audio animation if a tab is broadcasting or recording sound.
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Another iPhone Passcode Bypass Vulnerability Discovered — It's getting hard to keep track of all the bugs piling up for Apple's iPhone. Now it seems a glitch in the iOS kernel of Apple's much maligned iOS 6.1 is responsible for yet another passcode bypass vulnerability, the second to surface this month.| Horace Dediu / asymco: |
Apple's International Retail Strategy — In 2012 Apple opened 41 stores. The total is the second highest yearly opening rate since the stores first began operating. The highest total was in 2008 when 47 stores opened. — Although it is a healthy total, the surprising story about retail …
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TUAW, GigaOM and Patently Apple
| Christina Bonnington / Wired: |
Durability Will Be Apple's Biggest Challenge to Making a Curved iWatch — The curved display that wraps around your wrist is the coolest thing about the revolutionary smartwatch we all know Apple is building, but it's one of the easiest parts of the project.Thanks:@prkinggarage
| Ken Yeung / The Next Web: |
Silicon Valley and NYC Mayor Bloomberg launch ‘March for Innovation’ to help reform US immigration — New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and prominent tech leaders have launched a new endeavor to shape immigration reform in the United States. Called “March for Innovation” …
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Wired, TechCrunch, Tech Cocktail, Betabeat, The Verge and CNN
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| Alyson Shontell / Business Insider: |
Spark Capital Raises $450 Million For Its 4th Fund To See Its Startups All The Way Through To Exit — Spark Capital, a Boston-based venture capital firm, has raised $450 million for its its fourth and largest fund to date. — The fund is about $100 million larger than Spark's last.
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PandoDaily, GigaOM and TechCrunch
| Juliette Garside / Guardian: |
European mobile companies vow to break Google and Apple monopolies — Mobile World Congress: Vodafone, Telefónica and Telecom Italia urge regulators to allow consolidation — European mobile companies have vowed to “break the monopolies” enjoyed by Google and Apple in smartphones …
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The Register and Reuters
| Aaron Souppouris / The Verge: |
ZTE Grand Memo: hands-on with a 5.7-inch smartphone — We're at ZTE's booth here at MWC taking a look at the Chinese manufacturer's new giant smartphone, the 5.7-inch Grand Memo. As the name — and the screen size — suggests, the Memo is enormous. Unlike more recent smartphone-tablets …
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How ImgPage Uploads 25 MB Photos to Cloud Files Using the Mailgun API — The team over at Mailgun just posted a Python tutorial written by Mailgun customer Paul Finn about how to use Python and the Mailgun API to upload large images to Cloud Files.
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Week in Review: SQL IN Hadoop and Hive, Beyond Batch with YARN, NFS access to HDFS and HBase MTTR — Or as it's more commonly being called: Week-ish in Review. Let's recap on the latest - there's some juicy technology goodness here.
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“Yammer sucks” — Not to be mean to Yammer, or anything — it's a very good tool for some use cases — but that's what a customer told me recently (and others feel the same way).
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