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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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Mozilla CEO: Android, iOS leave lots of room for Firefox OS — Mozilla's browser-based OS can win a place among the next 2 billion people arriving on the Net, Gary Kovacs argues. And about attracting app developers, he quipped, “There's a Web for that.” — BARCELONA, Spain … | Enigmax / TorrentFreak: |
The Pirate Bay Departs Sweden And Sets Sail For Norway and Spain — When it comes to hosting a website there are thousands of companies and organizations around the world open for business. However, the options reduce massively when your site is internationally infamous.
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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.
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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.| 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.| 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.| 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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| Hugo Miller / Bloomberg: |
BlackBerry Testing Money Messenger Service — BlackBerry (BBRY) is testing whether the money-transfer business will help Canada's smartphone maker keep users hooked on its instant-messaging service. — BlackBerry is beginning a pilot project with PT Bank Permata (BNLI) …
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Bad news for Android: enterprise share dropped in Q4 — Apple's iOS increased its dominance of the enterprise market in the fourth quarter, based on activation data from mobile device management vendor Good Technology. — In its semiannual mobile device activation analysis …
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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 …
| 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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Nvidia Shows Off The Tegra 4i Reference Smartphone On Video, Delivers Impressive Mobile Gaming Performance — Nvidia only recently introduced its Tegra 4i processor, which pairs Tegra 4 power with integrated LTE — an Nvidia first for mobile chips — into a single system-on-a-chip.
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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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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.| 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.| Peter Bright / Ars Technica: |
Internet Explorer 10 finally released for Windows 7 — Four months after Microsoft released Internet Explorer 10 with and for Windows 8, Redmond has finally released a version of the company's newest browser for its 700 million Windows 7 users in 95 other languages too.
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Dell Latitude 10 Enhanced Security Hands-On: Built-in Fingerprint, Smart Card Readers — Further adding to its business creds, Dell today announced a new version of its Latitude 10 with a built-in fingerprint reader and SmartCard reader-the first for any Windows 8 tablet.
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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 … | Arik Hesseldahl / AllThingsD: |
What LG Will Do With webOS — You may be forgiven if you've all but forgotten about webOS, the mobile operating system that Hewlett-Packard picked up with its $1.2 billion acquisition of Palm in 2010. Today HP announced that South Korean electronics giant LG Electronics has acquired …
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