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Funny or Die Makes a Steve Jobs Movie — LOS ANGELES — Techies have been keeping a hot eye on dueling Steve Jobs biopics, one an indie starring Ashton Kutcher and the other, written by Aaron Sorkin, in the works at Sony, which made “The Social Network.” — But it turns out there was also a joker …
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| Ina Fried / AllThingsD: |
T-Mobile Plans March 26 Event to Tout Big Changes Coming — T-Mobile USA is planning a March 26 event in New York where it is expected to detail further changes to both its technology and business. — The No. 4 U.S. carrier is in the midst of readying an LTE network for commercial launch.| Joseph Volpe / Engadget: |
T-Mobile's LTE ambitions get real: network expansion, the BlackBerry Z10 and an OTA update for the Galaxy Note II — AT&T's failed acquisition was the best thing to ever happen to T-Mobile. As a consequence of the failed merger, the fourth place wireless carrier received AWS spectrum in over 100 markets … | Paul Smith / Financial Review: |
BlackBerry chief lays out survival plan and says iPhone is old news — BlackBerry chief exectutive officer Thorsten Heins has said the rapidly advancing global smartphone market has left Apple's iPhone in its wake, and predicted his company would have 100,000 native apps available …
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| Kyle Wiens / Wired: |
Forget the Cellphone Fight — We Should Be Allowed to Unlock Everything We Own — While Congress is working on legislation to re-legalize cellphone unlocking, let's acknowledge the real issue: The copyright laws that made unlocking illegal in the first place. Who owns our stuff?
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| Michael Grothaus / Co.Labs: |
An In-Depth Comparison Between iOS Map Frameworks: Apple MapKit vs. Google Maps SDK — “When we first got sight of Apple's maps in the iOS 6 SDK beta at WWDC 2012, we were excited,” says Lee Armstrong, developer of the popular Plane Finder app, which tracks planes in flight all over the world.
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| David Pierce / The Verge: |
Meet the tiny, Florida-based phone maker that thinks it can beat Samsung — One cheap, high-end, unlocked smartphone at a time — Sammy Ohev-Zion starts our chat with an economics lesson. It costs every company about the same amount to manufacture a phone, he says …
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| Matt Brian / The Verge: |
Andrew ‘weev’ Auernheimer sentenced to 41 months for exploiting AT&T iPad security flaw — Following prison term, Auernheimer will be subject to three years of supervised release; ordered to split $73,000 restitution to AT&T — Security researcher Andrew ‘weev’ Auernheimer was today sentenced …
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| Evelyn M. Rusli / Wall Street Journal: |
Tensions Rise Between Facebook, Developers — The Social Network Steps Up Efforts to Curb Spam, But Developers Say It Is Blocking Competing Apps — Last month in Paris, developer Antoine Morcos received an unexpected email: Facebook Inc. said it was cutting ties with his photo-sharing application, Vintage Camera.
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| Drew Olanoff / TechCrunch: |
Google Chromebooks Go Global: Now Available In Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Ireland And The Netherlands — Google has learned all that it needs to learn about the reception of its Chromebook laptops in the US and UK, and has announced availability of Acer, HP and Samsung flavors …
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| Ken Yeung / The Next Web: |
Saleforce's Chatter mobile apps updated to allow access to customer data, easier creation of content — Enterprise cloud computing company Salesforce.com has released an update to Chatter, its enterprise-focused social network. The iOS and Android mobile apps are getting a refresh and …
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| Jake Smith / Pocket-lint: |
Google airs ‘New Baby’ Nexus 10 ad, showing off multiple user accounts and available apps — Google has aired a new advertisement for its 10-inch Nexus 10 tablet dubbed “New Baby,” focusing in on several of the features Android 4.2 Jelly Bean brings along. — The theme of the advertisement … | Kim-Mai Cutler / TechCrunch: |
Zynga Looks To Revive Draw Something With A Sequel That's Much More Of A Social Network — Zynga's biggest acquisition to date — the $180 million deal to buy Draw Something-maker OMGPOP last year — was the one it ended up being the most pilloried for. At its peak, Draw Something … | Roberto Baldwin / Wired: |
Behold: Google's Stunning Street Views From the Top of the World — While on the Everest Base Camp Trek in Nepal you can stand face to face with Mount Everest, the “Goddess Mother of the Earth”, from the easily reached high-point of 18,192-foot Kala Pattar.| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft delivers first public preview of its Hadoop on Windows Azure service — Summary: Microsoft is making available its first public preview of HDInsight, the Hadoop big-data framework on Windows Azure technology it is developing with Hortonworks. — Microsoft made available …
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| Martin Bryant / The Next Web: |
Flattr now lets you make money from your Twitter Favorites, Instagram Likes and more — Swedish startup Flattr has been running its ‘online tipjar’ service for a few years now, and yet it's failed to gain much traction. However, it's now taking a new direction that may finally make it click with a mainstream audience.
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| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
AT&T rolls out monstrous 30GB, 40GB, and 50GB shared data tiers starting at $300 monthly — It's unlikely you'll ever see unlimited data from AT&T again, but the carrier today rolled out three new Mobile Share packages for its most data-hungry customers. The company's previous shared tiers topped …
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| Laurie Burkitt / China Real Time Report: |
Apple Attack Backfires for State Broadcaster … A report by China Central Television questioning the integrity of Apple Inc. has instead ended up shining an unkind spotlight on the state broadcaster's own reputation thanks to what appears to be a poorly edited post on the country's most popular Twitter-like microblogging service.
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| Michael McWhertor / Polygon: |
EA CEO John Riccitiello steps down — Electronic Arts announced today that John Riccitiello will step down as chief executive officer and as a member of the Board of Directors effective March 30. — Riccitiello will be replaced by Larry Probst “to ensure a smooth transition” …
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| Fred Wilson / A VC: |
Short Term Thinking vs Long Term Thinking — One of the mistakes I often see in business is short term thinking vs long term thinking. It struck me over the weekend when I saw this tweet: … Sure Samsung is making a killing on handset sales right now. So is Apple.| Greg Sterling / Marketing Land: |
State Of The News Media: Everything In Decline But Digital — The Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism's has served up its annual and comprehensive “State of the News Media” report. It offers a mostly pessimistic assessment of the condition and trajectory of various news media in the US today.| Danny Yadron / Wall Street Journal: |
Internet Providers Persuade FCC Panel Against Cybersecurity Recommendations — WASHINGTON—Big Internet providers seem to have talked their way out of unwelcome new recommendations on cybersecurity. — An original draft of a report by an advisory panel to the Federal Communications Commission …
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| Jordan Kahn / 9to5Google: |
Gmail app for Android updated with reply/archive/delete from notifications, faster search & more — Google announced today on its Official Gmail Blog that it has released an update to the Android app for Gmail that brings new features, faster search, and other enhancements for certain users.| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook Hires Co-Founders Of Trustworthiness Verification Startup Legit — Legit, a startup working on a universal reputation system that could help sharing economy services verify whether users are trustworthy, has announced its team will join Facebook. Specifically, co-founders Jeremy Barton …
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