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Samsung Preparing Wristwatch as It Races Apple for Sales — Samsung Electronics Co. (005930) is developing a wristwatch as Asia's biggest technology company races against Apple Inc. (AAPL) to create a new industry of wearable devices that perform similar tasks as smartphones.| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
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U.S. Probes Microsoft, Partners Over Bribery Claims — Federal regulators are investigating Microsoft Corp.'s relationship with business partners that allegedly bribed foreign government officials in return for software contracts, according to people familiar with the matter.| John Frank / TechNet Blogs: |
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Google expected to unify chat under the name Babble — Google's quest to continue unifying their products is about to enter its next phase. According to multiple sources, the company's next step includes unifying their messaging platforms into a single service, which is expected to be called Babble.| Lorraine Luk / Wall Street Journal: |
HTC's Rollout of Flagship Smartphone Delayed — TAIPEI—The rollout of HTC Corp.'s new flagship smartphone is being pushed back due in part to some component shortages, executives said, a setback for the Taiwanese smartphone maker attempting to turn around its sales.| Steve Kovach / Business Insider: |
HTC Says Its Next Phone Is Delayed Because It's No Longer A ‘Tier-One’ Customer — HTC's new flagship phone, the HTC One, is facing delays because the company can't lock down the components its needs to produce the device. — In a surprisingly candid interview with WSJ … | Brian Stelter / New York Times: |
ABC Works on an App for Live Streaming Shows to Mobile Devices — THE WALT DISNEY Company, while sorting out the future of the online video Web site Hulu, has an app in the works that may render Hulu passé for some people. — The app will live stream ABC programming to the phones … | Shara Tibken / CNET: |
Nvidia CEO unveils next two gens of Tegra, dubbed Logan, Parker — Jen-Hsun Huang says the company's mobile chip will show 100-times improvement from the first generation to the fifth. — Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang today talked up the chipmaker's next two generations of mobile chip … | 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.| Kim-Mai Cutler / TechCrunch: |
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Apple releases iOS 6.1.3 with Lock screen security flaw fix, Maps improvements for Japan — Apple has released iOS 6.1.3 to end users today. It is currently available over-the-air via Software Update in the Settings app. — The update includes a security flaw fix involving the iOS device Lock screen.| Brian Cairns / Google Developers Blog: |
Build collaborative apps with Google Drive Realtime API — Google Drive lets users create Docs, Sheets, and Slides, collaborate on them in real time, and have their changes saved automatically. With the new Google Drive Realtime API, you can now easily add some of the same real-time collaboration … | John Poole / Primate Labs Blog: |
Samsung Galaxy S 4 Benchmarks — Android Authority ran Geekbench 2 on the new Samsung Galaxy S 4 last week and posted the results on YouTube. I thought it would be interesting to see how the Samsung Galaxy S 4 compares to other popular smartphones. — I've charted the Geekbench 2 scores … | Juliette Garside / Guardian: |
Incoming ARM chief vows to maintain tech titan's independence — ARM president Simon Segars will take reins from self-professed gadget luddite Warren East in July — ARM's incoming chief executive has vowed to resist any takeover attempts and maintain the fierce independence … | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
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Google undeletes RSS extension for Chrome browser — TheIt's not dead after all. Google has resurrected an extension that lets Chrome handle RSS and Atom feeds, even though it's not resurrecting the related Google Reader service. — The 868,163 people who've installed Google's RSS-handling extension … | Barb Darrow / GigaOM: |
MIT to release redacted Aaron Swartz documents — The Massachusetts Institute of Technology will release documents related to the case against activist Aaron Swartz but it will edit out names and other information, according to a letter from MIT president Rafael Reif to the MIT community.| David Kravets / Wired: |
Feds: No Warrant Needed to Track Your Car With a GPS Device — The President Barack Obama administration is claiming that authorities do not need court warrants to affix GPS devices to vehicles to monitor their every move. — The administration maintains that position despite … | Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft now allowing business customers to buy Surfaces in volume — Summary: Microsoft is allowing business customers to order Surfaces, accessories and three-year warranty plans in volume, via a new Commercial Order site. — Microsoft has begun allowing business users to place volume orders … | Leena Rao / TechCrunch: |
To Compete With Amazon, eBay Debuts Free Listings And Simpler Fee Structures For Sellers — Ebay is debuting a new fee structure and incentives for sellers today in an effort to remain the most competitive commerce platform next to e-commerce marketplace Amazon.| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
Evernote Food adds OpenTable reservations and Foursquare ratings to iOS — When Evernote Food in late 2011, it was a sign that the note-taking service was going in a new direction — but exactly where wasn't clear. Evernote Food let you collect and organize anything in your eating life … | Brendan Sasso / Hillicon Valley: |
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Microsoft, Nokia and others voice complaints about Google's top-level domain requests — The battle against closed-registry generic Top Level Domains (gTLDs) is just getting started, and Google and Amazon are right in the middle of it. — Amazon is under fire for trying to secure the rights … | Alexander Limi / Alex Limi: |
Checkboxes that kill your product — (To read this article with its formatting and typography intact, click here) — If I told you that a company is shipping a product to hundreds of millions of users right now, and included in the product are several prominent buttons that will break … | Emil Protalinski / The Next Web: |
Hulu redesigns app for Apple TV with new content categories, ‘Shows You Watch’ tray, and easier playback — Hulu on Tuesday announced a brand new Apple TV app that it says features a new Hulu Plus experience designed “from the ground up.” You can get the new app now on your Apple TV …
Windows Store Weekly — This week we take a look at: Star Trek App, Box, Fling Theory, StumbleUpon, and wordBrush.
Static.com Adds Hadoop Support for Cloud Foundry — In this guest post, Jake Farrell, CTO for Static.com, explains how the major shift in the hosting industry towards platforms for high developer productivity …
An Army Is Forming To Battle Patent Trolls — For the past several months, we've exposed the flaws in the patent system and how they're being exploited by opportunistic patent trolls looking to extort a quick buck …
Get Started with Hadoop on Hortonworks Data Platform 1.1 for Windows — We are excited to release the Hortonworks Data Platform 1.1 for Windows as a Generally Available product.
Skype in the browser — Whether you like the Skype app or not, until now, you've had no choice but to download something to make voice and video calls — either an app like Skype, or a Flash plugin (yikes) for your browser.This is a Techmeme archive page. It shows how the site appeared at 4:25 PM ET, March 19, 2013.
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