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Unsold IPhones Piling Up at Leap Wireless — For one of the country's prepaid cellphone carriers, a big bet on the iPhone is becoming a big headache. — Leap Wireless International Inc., which operates the Cricket cellphone brand, said it is on pace to sell half as many iPhones as it committed …
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Digits, AllThingsD, Business Insider, DailyTech, CNET, TUAW, MobileBurn.com, The Verge, iPhone Buzz and SlashGear
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iTunes U Content Tops One Billion Downloads — CUPERTINO, CaliforniaFebruary 28, 2013Apple® today announced that iTunes U® content downloads have topped one billion. iTunes U features the world's largest online catalog of free educational content from top schools and prominent libraries …
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Groupon's Loss Widens; Stock Dives — Groupon Inc.'s stock plunged 26% after the daily-deals site capped a turbulent first year as a public company with a wider quarterly loss and a forecast for weak growth. — Chicago-based Groupon has turned a profit just once since going public and is struggling to rev up sales.| Alex Wilhelm / The Next Web: |
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Groupon, Inc., The Register, Reuters, DailyFinance.com, Wall Street Journal, SocialTimes, TechCrunch, AllThingsD, CNBC, Business Insider, Bloomberg, VentureBeat, internetretailer.com, Electronista, Business Insider, Screenwerk, Digits, AllThingsD, Digits and Mashable!
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| Florian Mueller / FOSS Patents: |
UK judge who issued extreme ruling for Samsung against Apple hired by... Samsung! — By far and away the weirdest ruling in the worldwide smartphone and tablet wars came down last year in the UK, where a publicity order forcing Apple to promote Samsung's products and to make itself ridiculous …
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| Steve Lohr / New York Times: |
I.B.M. Exploring New Feats for Watson — I.B.M.'s Watson beat “Jeopardy” champions two years ago. But can it whip up something tasty in the kitchen? — That is just one of the questions that I.B.M. is asking as it tries to expand its artificial intelligence technology and turn Watson … | Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent: |
As Nook revenues plunge, B&N says it's “calibrating” strategy but “committed” to devices — Barnes & Noble had warned investors that its third-quarter Nook earnings would be disappointing. The earnings report was released before the market opened Thursday morning, and indeed, Nook revenues … | Phil Wahba / Reuters: |
| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Time Warner Cable says there's no consumer demand for gigabit internet — Speaking at the Morgan Stanley Technology Conference moments ago, Time Warner Cable's Chief Financial Officer Irene Esteves seemed dismissive of the impact Google Fiber is having on consumers.
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DSLreports, The Tech Report and TechSpot
| Avram Piltch / LAPTOP Magazine: |
E Ink Android Phone Lasts a Week, Weighs Next to Nothing — Who would want a smartphone with a grayscale E Ink screen? Anyone who want days of battery life, superior outdoor readability and low cost should be interested in using the technology in a phone.
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PhoneArena, Gizmodo and GigaOM
| Casey Newton / CNET: |
Sergey Brin: Smartphones are ‘emasculating’ — During a talk at TED, the Google co-founder says Glass improves on the smartphone experience. — Mobile phones may generate the fastest-growing segment of Google's revenue, but the experience of using them still bothers Google co-founder Sergey Brin.
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| MIT Technology Review: |
An Autopsy of a Dead Social Network — Following the collapse of the social network Friendster, computer scientists have carried out a digital autopsy to find out what went wrong — Friendster is a social network that was founded in 2002, a year before Myspace and two years before Facebook.
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Gizmodo, Daily Dot, Wired.co.uk and BuzzFeed
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Court orders UK ISPs to block more piracy sites — The BPI says blocking sites helps protect the revenue streams needed to create new music — The High Court has ordered the UK's major internet service providers to block three websites offering links to pirated material.
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TorrentFreak, BetaNews, PC Magazine, Inquirer, The Next Web, Softpedia News, Open Rights Group and Neowin
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
AOL Confirms Susan Lyne As CEO Of Brand Group, Artie Minson Out As COO Role Goes (Memo) — AOL today confirmed a couple of big changes at the top of the company, as first reported yesterday by Bloomberg and AllThingsD. Susan Lyne, the exec who had previously been CEO of Gilt Groupe and an AOL board member …
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Bloomberg, AllThingsD, WebProNews, Business Insider and Deadline.com. Thanks:@sohear. See also Mediagazer
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Samsung Fails to Block Apple IPhone, IPad Sales in Japan — Samsung Electronics Co. (005930) failed in a bid to block sales of Apple Inc. (AAPL) iPads and iPhones in Japan, the latest step in a global patent spat between the world's two largest smartphone makers.
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CNET, Reuters, TUAW, Electronista, App Advice and FOSS Patents
| Evelyn M. Rusli / Wall Street Journal: |
LinkedIn: The Ugly Duckling of Social Media — Shares of Facebook Inc., Zynga Inc. and Groupon Inc. tanked after their rocky stock-market debuts. But LinkedIn Corp.'s stock is still soaring, closing at an all-time high of $168.55 on Wednesday. — That may be because of people such as Chris Hoyt … | Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Online Radio Service TuneIn Adds Recommendation Engine And Google+ Sign-In Integration — TuneIn, the popular online radio service that lets users listen to over 70,000 radio stations from around the world, just announced the launch of TuneIn Live, the company's new service for helping listeners discover new audio content.
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| Alex Fitzpatrick / Mashable!: |
ISPs Finally Explain How ‘Six Strikes’ Anti-Piracy Program Will Work — Internet Service Providers are finally revealing how they will implement a new anti-piracy system known as “Six Strikes” which has been rolling out this week. — The program, officially called the Copyright Alert System … | Scott Webster / CNET: |
Big screens and Jelly Bean mark Android trends at Mobile World Congress — The annual conference yields plenty of new Android products but what do they have in common? — As expected, the annual Mobile World Congress has delivered an army of new Android device devices.
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Ars Technica and VentureBeat
| Rip Empson / TechCrunch: |
With $1.8M From Andreessen, Chris Sacca & More, Rental Marketplace Getable Digs Into The $32B Construction Market — When we last caught up with Getable, the startup formerly known as Rentcycle, it was announcing that Netflix co-founder Marc Randolph was joining Collaborative Fund founder Craig Shapiro …
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| Ernesto / TorrentFreak: |
Comcast Punishes BitTorrent Pirates With Browser Hijack — Earlier this week when the six strikes system launched, little was known (officially) about the punishments ISPs were planning for persistent pirates. — Since then Verizon reinstated their copyright alerts section, revealing the mitigation measured that leaked last month.
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VentureBeat, DSLreports, Comcast, Geek.com and Softpedia News
| Kunal / Sammy Hub: |
Samsung planning something at Times Square on Galaxy S4 unveiling day — There's no doubt that Samsung will go on a marketing overdrive when they announce their Galaxy S4 on March 14 but according to an image posted by Samsung Mobile, they're planning to do something special on the unveiling day at the Times Square as well.
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9to5Google, LAPTOP Magazine, BGR, Engadget, BestTechie, The Next Web, Softpedia News, Electronista, PhoneArena and MobileSyrup.com. Tweets: @samsungmobile
| Mike Masnick / Techdirt: |
Google, Facebook And Twitter Ordered To Delete Photos By UK Law Enforcement — It seems that, once again, the UK is going censorship crazy and not realizing how that only attacts more attention to that which they're trying to censor. This time, it involves some photos that were posted online …
| Ellyne Phneah / ZDNet: |
China says US regularly hacks its military sites — Summary: Web sites of Defense Ministry and China Military Online were hacked approximately 144,000 times per month in 2012, with over 60 percent of IP addresses originating from the U.S., says China's defense ministry. — Ellyne Phneah
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| Vitalik Buterin / Bitcoin Magazine: |
Bitcoin Price Breaks All Time High — The Bitcoin price has just broken the all-time high of $31.9099 that it set on June 9, 2011 on MtGox. After a persistent, one-and-a-half month rally from $13 to $38, followed by nearly two weeks of bumping up against $30 and then hovering around the $28-$31.5 range …
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