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Samsung takes a page from Apple's Passbook with new Wallet app — Samsung took the wraps off of its new Samsung Wallet app during a developer conference at Mobile World Congress on Wednesday. The Wallet app is designed to let users store things such as event tickets, boarding passes …
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| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft launches updated Office 365 for business users — Summary: Microsoft is launching the services piece of its ‘new Office’ for businesses on February 27. Here's what new and existing users can expect, as of today. — In late January 2013, Microsoft launched its consumer-focused version … | Erica Ogg / GigaOM: |
Passbook mobile ticketing expanding to 13 MLB ballparks this season — For the 2013 baseball season, Major League Baseball is more than tripling the number of stadiums that will accept mobile tickets via Apple's Passbook app. This year there will be 13 stadiums that will enable paperless …
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| Dennis K. Berman / Wall Street Journal: |
Is Twitter Really Worth $10 Billion? — I spent the last week trying to write a column that proved Twitter wasn't worth $10 billion. Then the facts intervened. — Stubbornly, they arranged themselves into a most unexpected conclusion, one that seems almost blasphemy to type …
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Business Insider and SocialTimes. Tweets: @reformedbroker, @dannysullivan, @zseward, @alexia, @sg, @eldon, @justinwolfers, @rsarver, @alex and @conwaytwitee
| Ryan Tate / Wired: |
This Amazing 3-D Desktop Was Born at Microsoft — LONG BEACH, California - The history of computer revolutions will show a logical progression from the Mac to the iPad to something like this SpaceTop 3-D desktop, if computer genius Jinha Lee has anything to say about it.
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The Verge, ExtremeTech and Computerworld
| Walter S. Mossberg / AllThingsD: |
Pebble Smart Watch Tells When Phone Calls, Emails Arrive — Do you ever find yourself frantically trying to fish your phone out of a pocket or purse to find out whether that beep or buzz from the device is an important call, text or email — or just something you can ignore?
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| Matt Brian / The Next Web: |
Amazon warns iOS users to skip latest app update following reports of deleted books — Amazon has warned users of its Kindle app for iOS to refrain from updating to the latest version after acknowledging that a “known issue” with its latest submission to the App Store.| Wall Street Journal: |
In India, iPhone Lags Far Behind — By DHANYA ANN THOPPILin Bangalore, India,AMOL SHARMA in New Delhi And JESSICA E. LESSIN in San Francisco — Apple Inc. is overhauling its iPhone operations in the crucial Indian market, attempting to chip away at Samsung Electronics Co.'s dominance …
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Judge Upholds VirnetX Jury Verdict Against Apple For $368M — with regards to Case No. 6:10-CV-417 VirnetX (VHC), Plaintiff vs. Apple (AAPL), Defendant a memorandum opinion and order was delivered by Judge Leonard Davis. The follow key factors were released and confirmed by the company:
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| Michael V. Copeland / Wired: |
New App Turns Your iPhone Into a Mobile Urine Lab — LONG BEACH, California - For entrepreneur Myshkin Ingawale the logic was unassailable. Everybody pees. And everyone has a cellphone. “There has to be something going on there,” Ingawale told a chuckling crowd at the TED conference.
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| Christopher Soghoian / ACLU: |
New Document Sheds Light on Government's Ability to Search iPhones — Cell phone searches are a common law enforcement tool, but up until now, the public has largely been in the dark regarding how much sensitive information the government can get with this invasive surveillance technique.| Marco Arment / Marco.org: |
Why don't MacBooks come with cellular networking? — I've shared John Gruber's theory on this for a while: … It's been long enough since cellular modems in PC laptops became commonplace, and the MacBook line is diverse enough, that the omission of cellular options looks like a deliberate choice …
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Amazon's Streaming Music Service Goes Big Screen With Debut Of Cloud Player For iPad — Only a couple of weeks after announcing Amazon Cloud Player integration with Ford SYNC's AppLink platform, the company has today updated its iOS application with native support for the Apple iPad.
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| Billy Steele / Engadget: |
Adobe outs Photoshop Touch for phones, ready to outfit pockets for $4.99 — Jealous about your mates' ability to edit photos and whatnot via their mid-sized slates? Well, Adobe has just announced a solution that's ready to equip your handset of choice. That's right, the pro design software … | Kara Swisher / AllThingsD: |
Exclusive: PayPal Co-Founder Levchin Launches New Payments Startup, Affirm — High-profile Silicon Valley entrepreneur Max Levchin is launching a new mobile payments startup today called Affirm. — It's the first project emerging from Levchin's San Francisco tech incubator Hard, Valuable … | Adam Satariano / Bloomberg: |
Apple CEO to Face Investors Seeking More of Cash Hoard — CalPERS' Simpson on Apple, Einhorn, Preferred Stock — As Apple Inc. Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook takes the stage at this year's shareholder meeting, he may not get the reception he received in 2012, when investors lauded the company's performance and rising shares.
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| James McQuivey / AllThingsD: |
Why Silicon Valley Is the Next Detroit — All good things must come to an end, including Motown and many a once-noble region or hamlet. So I have history on my side when I lob the following grenade: Silicon Valley will take its turn someday, falling from the heights it has attained.| Josh Ong / The Next Web: |
Apple reportedly rolls out movie, TV show access to iTunes in the Cloud in France, Holland and Sweden — Scattered reports are emerging that Apple is rolling out movie and TV show support for iTunes in the Cloud in Europe, namely France, the Netherlands and Sweden.
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9to5Mac, Engadget, MacRumors, MacNN, iDownloadBlog.com and iClarified
| Wisdoms of Pearl: |
Tweens + Instagram = Tweenstagram !!! — While hanging with my 12 year old cousin the other day, I unknowingly entered into the world of Tweenstagram, a vastly different space than the Instagram I have grown to know and love (and refresh too often). And what a FASCINATING world it is!
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| Sruthi Ramakrishnan / Reuters: |
Clearwire in $80 million financing deal with Sprint — (Reuters) - Clearwire Corp (CLWR.O) said on Wednesday it will draw on $80 million in financing from Sprint Nextel Corp (S.N), which wants to buy out the company, even though Clearwire said it will continue talks with rival bidder Dish Networks Corp (DISH.O).
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| Damon Poeter / PC Magazine: |
Intel Tackles Big Data With Release of Apache Hadoop Platform — Intel on Tuesday made a big play to provide organizations with an open-source, hardware-accelerated, and secure foundation for big data analysis with the announcement of the global availability of Intel Distribution for Apache Hadoop software.| Ki Mae Heussner / GigaOM: |
Practice Fusion buys mobile health startup 100Plus to power patient tools with clinical data — Electronic health records provider Practice Fusion is bringing in some new blood. On Wednesday, the San Francisco-based company said it made its first major acquisition in purchasing 100Plus, a personal health prediction startup.
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TechCrunch and VentureBeat
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Yahoo responds to outcry, says work-from-home ban is not an ‘industry view’ — SUNNYVALE — Appearing to acknowledge the uproar over its recent move to order telecommuting workers back to the office, Yahoo (YHOO) issued a brief statement Tuesday to assert that it wasn't offering a broad judgment on the practice of working from home.| Aaron Souppouris / The Verge: |
Spotify for iPhone updated with new interface — Spotify has just updated its mobile app for iPhone with a new interface that puts it on par with last year's overhauled Android version. There are a few big changes to the interface, and the most prominent is the addition of a swipe-across menu … | Geoffrey A. Fowler / Wall Street Journal: |
Boss Talk: What RSA Learned From Its Security Breach — There's a lot of hyperbole in the war against hackers. Art Coviello, the 59-year-old executive chairman of EMC Corp.'s RSA security division, is in a position to size up the real threat. — RSA makes the login security systems used by 95 of the Fortune 100 companies.
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| Ernesto / TorrentFreak: |
“Six Strikes” Anti-Piracy Scheme Starts, With Mystery Punishments — The MPAA and RIAA, helped by five major Internet providers in the United States, will start to warn BitTorrent pirates this week. The parties launched the Center for Copyright Information (CCI) and agreed on a system through …
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