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Amazon Rumored To Be Working On A $99 7-Inch Kindle Fire HD — How low will Amazon's tablets go? We're now hearing that a $99 Kindle Fire 7″ tablet is in production, and will be shipping this year. At a price that low, the Kindle Fire would be able to more easily compete at the tail end … | Business Insider: |
Amazon On The $99 Kindle Fire HD Tablet: 'It's Not Happening' — So much for all that! — Amazon is not doing a $99 Kindle Fire HD tablet, a company spokesperson tells us: “It's not happening—we are already at the lowest price points possible for that hardware.”
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| Jessica Wohl / Reuters: |
Walmart adds iPhone scan-and-checkout feature to 12 more markets — (Reuters) - Wal-Mart Stores Inc said it is tripling the number of U.S. stores in a pilot program that lets shoppers scan items with their iPhones and pay at self-checkout counters. — Walmart's “Scan & Go” … | Colleen Taylor / TechCrunch: |
Pinterest Acquires Livestar, The Mobile Recommendation Startup Founded By Fritz Lanman — Pinterest said today it's acquired Livestar, the mobile recommendations app founded by noted Microsoft alum (and Square and Pinterest investor) Fritz Lanman. — Pinterest tells TechCrunch …
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| Daniel Eran Dilger / AppleInsider: |
Why did Apple hire Adobe CTO Kevin Lynch? — Just hours after word leaked that Apple had poached Adobe's chief technology officer, the Internet is ablaze with the question of what, exactly, the iPhone maker plans to do with Kevin Lynch. — Source: Adobe — No Flash in the pan
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| John Gruber / Daring Fireball: |
Exhibit A in the Case That Newly-Hired Apple VP of Technology Kevin Lynch Is a Bozo, a Bad Hire — He wrote this, just three years ago: … Well, how'd that work out? Those companies and platforms are now either (a) out of business, (b) on the verge of going out of business, or (c) have abandoned Flash Player entirely.
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| Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
Microsoft pokes at Samsung Galaxy S3 in high-profile Windows Phone ad — Microsoft is getting more aggressive in its attempt to drum up attention for Windows Phone. — The company announced today that it's planning to air the “Windows Phone Challenge” ad above starting this week during …
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South Korea network attack ‘a computer virus’ — Staff at broadcaster YTN were faced with error messages on computer screens — Disruption that paralysed the computer networks of broadcasters and banks in South Korea appears to have been caused by a virus, an official close to the investigation has told the BBC.| Adrianne Jeffries / The Verge: |
Disconnect: why Andy Rubin and Android called it quits — Rubin created Google's mobile operating system and outgunned the iPhone. So why is he moving on after almost a decade at the helm?
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| Robin Wauters / The Next Web: |
After getting booted from the Google Play store, Adblock Plus releases new Android app with automatic updates — Google recently started removing several ad-blocking applications from its mobile app marketplace, Google Play, claiming that they violate part (section 4.4) of its Developer Distribution Agreement.| Austin Carr / Fast Company: |
Starbucks's Shoddy Square Rollout Baffles Baristas, Confuses Customers — The Starbucks clerk was at a loss. I had just ordered a mocha Frappuccino and asked to pay with Square, a service that allows customers to purchase goods at the coffeehouse chain via their smartphone. “What?| Larry Dignan / ZDNet: |
Oracle's Q3 falls short, revenue misses mark; Hardware systems tank again — Summary: Oracle's fiscal third quarter misses on many fronts as revenue comes in way short of expectations. Hardware systems sales continue to fall. — Oracle's third quarter earnings had a big buildup …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Xbox ‘Durango’ leak claims console is ‘always connected,’ games must be installed to hard disk — Last month we heard rumors of an anti-used game system for Microsoft's next-generation ‘Durango’ Xbox console, but an additional leak this week appears to reinforce those claims.
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| JP Mangalindan / Fortune: |
Klout launches business portal, is gunning for brands — The social scoring startup is making a play for business users with new enterprise features that begin rolling out today. — FORTUNE — Klout, the analytics startup that aims to measure users' influence across their social networks, is going after businesses.
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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
DRM Software Development Company Intertrust Files Lawsuit Against Apple for Patent Infringement — The Wall Street Journal reports that patent holding company Intertrust Technologies Corp. has filed suit against Apple, accusing the Cupertino-based company of infringing on 15 … | Emil Protalinski / The Next Web: |
Yahoo acquires personalized recommendation startup Jybe, started by five former Yahoo employees — Yahoo on Wednesday announced it has acquired personalized recommendation company Jybe, which aimed to help people find new interests based on what's trending in their social circles.
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The Yahoo! Yodel, VatorNews, Search Engine Land, PC Magazine, Associated Press, CNET, SiliconBeat, GigaOM, ZDNet, AllThingsD, TechCrunch, VentureBeat, ValueWalk and WebProNews. Tweets: @marissamayer
| Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent: |
Amazon launches “Send to Kindle” button for web publishers and WordPress blogs — Amazon is now allowing publishers to add “Send to Kindle” buttons to their websites and WordPress blogs, the company announced on the Kindle blog Tuesday. It can be integrated into WordPress blogs as well.| Josh Ong / The Next Web: |
Google's NCAA bracket demonstrates how far it has strayed from its original promise — Once upon a time, Google was the best search engine in the land. It cut through all the other Web portal noise to just give you plain results. Along the way, Google realized that there are actually nice benefits … | Wall Street Journal: |
H-P Board Faces Critical Vote — Autonomy Founder Calls for Evidence of Allegations Made Against U.K. Software Firm's Former Management — Hewlett-Packard Co. may see an unusual amount of fireworks at its annual shareholder meeting on Wednesday, with several board members facing opposition to their re-election.
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AllThingsD, AutonomyAccounts.org, NYT Bits, ZDNet, bizjournals, Guardian, Bloomberg and The Register. Tweets: @qthrul
| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
Inside Oculus: a tour of virtual reality's would-be savior — A small California-based team is burning the midnight oil to put goggles on your head — On the fourth floor of a fourteen-story California skyscraper, a stone's throw from UC Irvine, a tiny startup named Oculus is trying to bring the idea of virtual reality back to life.
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| Don Reisinger / CNET: |
Samsung lock screen flaw found; company working on fix — The flaw requires several steps to work, but would let someone run and interact with any app or widget, and access the settings menu. — A security researcher has revealed a method for accessing applications running on a locked Samsung handset.| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Microsoft confirms ‘high-profile’ employee Xbox Live accounts hacked — The hack used SSNs in a “stringed social engineering” attack involving another company — As more of the story about the simultaneous cyber attack and real-world “Swatting” carried out against security researcher Brian Krebs comes … Sponsor Posts
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