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| Bloomberg: |
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.| 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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Ars Technica, The Register, PC Magazine, SlashGear, Gotta Be Mobile, ReadWrite, MobileSyrup.com, digitaltrends.com, nbcnews.com, Pocket-lint, TechCrunch, LAPTOP Magazine, iPhone Hacks, Examiner, Edible Apple, TG Daily, The Full Signal, AndroidGuys, ValueWalk, CNET, Engadget, BGR, Geek.com, iDownloadBlog.com, The Verge, PhoneArena, The Consumerist, GigaOM, Redmond Pie, Pocketnow and VentureBeat. Tweets: @markmilian. Thanks:@bxchen
| Aaron Souppouris / The Verge: |
Samsung posts first teaser video for Galaxy S 4 — Samsung has just posted a teaser video for the upcoming launch of its new flagship smartphone, the Galaxy S 4. The clip shows a young boy, apparently “the secret messenger” of Samsung Unpacked 2013, taking delivery of a secret package.
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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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Tweets: @qthrul, @digiphile and @nerdtalker
| 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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| 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 …
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| Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune: |
The rise and fall of Andy Zaky — How an Internet-trained Apple analyst lost tens of millions of other peoples' money — FORTUNE — In the late 1990s, an ad agency creative director I'll call Joe Smith to protect his privacy bought several hundred shares of Apple (AAPL) at $60 apiece.| 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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Tech Trader Daily, ValueWalk, TUAW, Guardian, Edible Apple, VentureBeat, MacRumors and CNET
| Jeremy C. Owens / Mercury News: |
| 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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PC Magazine, TechCrunch, ValueWalk, MobileSyrup.com, Gotta Be Mobile, Mashable!, BGR, WMPoweruser and The Verge
| Carl Franzen / The Verge: |
The Pirate Bay's move to North Korea is probably more satire than fact — The Pirate Bay published a blog post today claiming that it has relocated to a “new provider” in North Korea after being invited by the totalitarian country's leadership “to fight our battles from their network.”| 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.
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| 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 …
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| 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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The Register, VentureBeat, ZDNet, GigaOM, Wired and Datamation.com
| 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.
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TechHive. Tweets: @kylenw, @joshpetri, @alexweprin and @joeljohnson. Thanks:@nstango. See also Mediagazer
| Paul Thurrott / SuperSite for Windows: |
Office and SharePoint 2013 Developer Tools Now Available — Microsoft delivers tools for developers targeting Office 2013 and SharePoint — Microsoft announced today that the Office Developer Tools for Visual Studio 2012 are now available, allowing developers to create apps that target Office 2013, SharePoint 2013 and Office 365.| 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.| 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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CNET, The Register and Computerworld
| 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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Facebook, Ars Technica, Engadget, Computerworld, VentureBeat, SlashGear, AllFacebook and AllThingsD
| Donna Tam / CNET: |
Facebook adds VoIP to Android messaging app for Canadians — Android users — at least those in Canada — can now try out actual voice calls through Facebook thanks to an update to the Messenger app. — Facebook's Messenger app for Android will now include free VoIP calls for its Canadian users.
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PandoDaily, TechCrunch, Engadget, AllFacebook, The Verge, SlashGear and MobileSyrup.com
| Andy Abramson / VoIP Watch: |
Exclusive-Skype's Jonathan Rosenberg, Father of SIP, Bolts Back To Cisco — Jonathan Rosenberg, who is widely acknowledged to be the real father of SIP (session initiation protocol) has left Skype to return to Cisco where he will be CTO of Cloud Collaboration.
| John Callaham / Neowin: |
Microsoft acquires Microsoft Accelerator startup MetricsHub — In October 2012, Microsoft announced that it had picked 10 startup companies to help fund and mentor with its Microsoft Accelerator for Windows Azure program. One of those 10 companies was MetricsHub, a Bellevue …
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