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Apple's Planned ‘IWatch’ Could Be More Profitable Than TV — While Tim Cook has dropped hints that Apple Inc. (AAPL) is hard at work on a television to drive the next era of growth, the company's wristwatch-style device, still in development, may prove more profitable.
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| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
Apple's watch will run iOS and arrive later this year, say sources — Jony Ive wants a spot on your wrist — More details are emerging about Apple's forthcoming watch, which is targeted for release this year, according to aBloomberg report this morning and corroborated by our sources.
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| Brian X. Chen / NYT Bits: |
Samsung's New Smartphone Will Track Eyes to Scroll Pages — Samsung's next big smartphone, to be introduced next month, will have a strong focus on software. A person who has tried the phone, called the Galaxy S IV, described one feature as particularly new and exciting: Eye scrolling.
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| Ina Fried / AllThingsD: |
White House: It's Time to Legalize Cellphone Unlocking — The White House on Monday came out in support of a consumer's right to unlock their cell phone once they have fulfilled the terms of the contract. — Responding to a petition on whitehouse.gov, the executive branch stated …
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| Laird Harrison / KQED News Fix: |
Microsoft Winds Down ‘Scroogled’ Campaign Against Google — Can nothing stop Google? — On Thanksgiving, Microsoft launched attack ads against the Internet giant that were so ferocious they made headlines in advertising and technology publications alike.
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| Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune: |
Warren Buffett: If he were Tim Cook, he'd be buying Apple — “If you could buy dollar bills for 80 cents, it's a very good thing to do.” — FORTUNE — In a three-hour appearance on CNBC's Squawk Box Monday morning, Berkshire Hathaway's (BRKA) Warren Buffett addressed two burning issues …
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| John Paczkowski / AllThingsD: |
Netflix Has No Current Plans for a BlackBerry 10 App — If BlackBerry is “in talks” with Netflix about a BlackBerry 10 version of the company's popular video-streaming app, they aren't going very well. — Sources say Netflix isn't developing a version of its app for BlackBerry 10 — native or port.
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| Ernesto / TorrentFreak: |
The Pirate Bay Moves to North Korea, Gets ‘Virtual Asylum’ — Last week the Swedish Pirate Party was forced to shut down its routing services to The Pirate Bay. — The Party and its leaders took this difficult decision after they were threatened with a lawsuit by a local anti-piracy group.| Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web: |
Amazon introduces Mobile Ads API, offering in-app advertising to U.S. viewers of any Android app — Amazon has today announced its Amazon Mobile Ads API for developers, allowing them to offer display ads inside their apps. The new program serves in the U.S. only, though … | Kara Swisher / AllThingsD: |
Former Top Yahoo Ad Exec Sues Yahoo, Accusing It of Trying to “Cheat” Him Over Acquisition Compensation — Michael Katz, a former high-profile advertising exec at Yahoo who sold Interclick to the Silicon Valley Internet giant, has filed a lawsuit claiming the company tried to …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Google, Microsoft Dominate Forbes' List Of Tech Billionaires; Zuckerberg, Moskovitz Are The Youngest — Forbes has today published its annual list of the world's richest people — and once again tech and its related tentacles continue to lead the top of the list.| Peter Kafka / AllThingsD: |
YouTube Programmers Complain About Video Advertising Dollars — The big picture for YouTube looks good. The world's biggest video site keeps getting bigger, generating more video views and more ad dollars. — Things are fuzzier for some of YouTube's biggest programming partners.| Arik Hesseldahl / AllThingsD: |
IBM Makes a Big Bet on OpenStack in the Cloud — The open source software for running cloud computing installations just got a big new name in its camp: IBM. — Big Blue announced today that all of its cloud services and software will be based on an open cloud architecture.
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| Sam Byford / The Verge: |
Twitter discontinuing iPhone, Android, and Air versions of TweetDeck — Twitter has announced that it will be discontinuing several TweetDeck apps in favor of the web client. The Android, iPhone, and Air-based desktop clients will all be affected; the apps will be removed from their stores in early May … | Peter Kafka / AllThingsD: |
Facebook to Nick Bilton (And Everyone Else): Seriously, There's No Pay to Play Scheme Here — See? People still read the New York Times! — Stung by an article columnist Nick Bilton published yesterday, which suggested Facebook was gaming its news feed so that users would have a reason …
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook And Google Bury The Hatchet (Temporarily) To Kill A Core Problem In Gingerbread Dalvik — When Facebook hit a limitation in Android's virtual machine, Dalvik, that would halt its app development, Google and Facebook worked together to create a patch for Gingerbread.
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| Joel Johnson / Gizmodo: |
Hold On Tight, Gizmodo Is a TV Show Now — If we made a Top Gear for gadgets, would you watch it? In two weeks, you'll have your chance. — Nearly ten years ago, when I first ran Gizmodo, gadgets were as niche of a topic for news and debate as could be.
Tweets: @kylenw, @joshpetri, @alexweprin, @nicknotned and @joeljohnson. Thanks:@nstango. See also Mediagazer
| Graham Cluley / Naked Security: |
Jailed cybercriminal hacked into his own prison's computer system after being put in IT class — Here's a piece of advice for those running classes training prisoners about information technology. — It's probably not a good idea to let notorious hackers join the course - or, if you do …
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| Katherine Rushton / Telegraph: |
Tesco gears up for online fight with Amazon — Tesco has hired one of Facebook's most senior European executives and is launching a slew of online entertainment stores as it gears up for battle with Amazon. — Blinkbox's sales model allows it to offer recent box office hits, such as Skyfall, much earlier than its rivalsSponsor Posts
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