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| Jessica E. Lessin / Digits: |
Apple Design Teams Get Cozier — Last October Apple Inc. announced a management shake-up designed to increase collaboration across its different divisions. Sure enough, some walls have come down, though many others remain. — One of the biggest areas of change has been design.
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| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
Apple beefs up iCloud, Apple ID security with two-step verification — Today, Apple has rolled out a new two-step verification service for iCloud and Apple ID users. This functionality greatly enhances the security of Apple accounts because it requires users to use a trusted device and an extra security code.
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| Jeff Blagdon / The Verge: |
Google's Android unit reportedly building a smartwatch — According to a recent report from The Financial Times, Google might also be getting into the smartwatch game. And unlike Glass, which was developed in the company's experimental X Lab, the watch (not pictured above) …
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| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
App Store apps that access UDIDs, don't support iPhone 5/Retina to be rejected May 1 — Apple has informed developers that it will begin officially rejecting newly submitted and updated applications that access the iOS device UDID. Apple says that this new policy will begin on May 1st.| Don Reisinger / CNET: |
Apple, Google: Google Now not submitted to App Store — The company has confirmed to CNET that the app was never brought to the App Store's submission service, despite Eric Schmidt indicating it might have been. — Google Now has not been submitted yet to Apple's App Store, the iPhone maker has confirmed to CNET.
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| Charles Arthur / Guardian: |
Surprise! Google chairman Eric Schmidt uses.. a BlackBerry — He likes the keyboard - even though Android alternatives are available. Schmidt also spoke on whether Android and ChromeOS will merge: ‘not for a long time’ — Who's the person you'd least expect to discover is a BlackBerry user?
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| Devidutta Tripathy / Reuters: |
| Asher Moses / Sydney Morning Herald: |
Apple blames rights holders for 70% mark-ups in Australia — Apple Australia boss Tony King has blamed “old-fashioned notions” of record labels, movie studios and TV networks for inflated prices of digital media paid by Australians on the iTunes store. While claiming prices of Apple's products …
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| Jon Fingas / Engadget: |
Strategy Analytics: iCloud, Dropbox and Amazon top cloud media in the US — We often focus on market share for hardware, but cloud media services increasingly dictate our lives after the devices have reached our bags and pockets. Wouldn't it be nice to know who rules the online media landscape?| Amanda Blum: |
Adria Richards, PyCon, and How We All Lost — Let me get this out of the way: I don't like Adria Richards. I think I have good reason to not like Adria Richards. So I should be feeling some major Schadenfreude right now. Instead, though, I think what's unfolded in the developer community in recent days has been a tragedy.| Kim-Mai Cutler / TechCrunch: |
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Firefox Nightly Now Includes OdinMonkey, Brings JavaScript Closer To Running At Native Speeds — Browsers today are able to execute JavaScript code significantly faster than just a few years ago, but even as our web apps now look more like desktop apps, JavaScript performance is still a far cry …
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HBO CEO mulls teaming with broadband partners for HBO GO — (Reuters) - HBO could widen access to its HBO GO online streaming service by teaming up with broadband Internet providers for customers who do not subscribe to a cable TV service, according to HBO's Chief Executive Richard Plepler.
| Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web: |
7 years later, another look at Twitter — I don't know exactly when I joined Twitter. The account that I'm using now was opened in January of 2009, but there were others before that as I was playing around with the service and not really getting it. — Trudging back through my history … | Dan Frommer / SplatF: |
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| Joe Mullin / Ars Technica: |
IsoHunt's Fung helped users infringe, blew off “red flags,” say judges — A mosaic of Lady Justice at the 9th Circuit in San Francisco. — Thomas Hawk — A major Hollywood court win against the IsoHunt torrent site has been upheld on appeal. In a ruling (PDF) issued this morning … | New York Times: |
IPhone Contracts With Carriers Under Scrutiny in Europe — European Union regulators are examining the contracts Apple strikes with cellphone carriers that sell its iPhone for possible antitrust violations after several carriers complained that the deals throttled competition.
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CNET, AppleInsider and The Verge
| Ina Fried / AllThingsD: |
BlackBerry Hoping Long-Awaited U.S. Launch Pays Off — BlackBerry officials say they are pleased with the early response in the two dozen or so countries where the company's all-new phones have launched. — However, the Canadian company's comeback effort will face a key test Friday … | Jason Clampet / Skift: |
Google quietly pulls plug on Frommer's print travel guidebooks — The first edition of “Europe on $5 a Day” alongside “Frommer's Belize,” which is the last title in the series that has a cover image on Amazon.com. — » Get your daily dose of Skift: subscribe to our newsletter, RSS, Twitter or Facebook.| Mat Smith / Engadget: |
Google applies for another Glass patent, thinks about controlling your garage door and fridge — In case you hadn't noticed, the people over at Mountain View continue to work pretty hard on bringing yet more functionality to its Google Glass. During our patent application trawling this week … | Mikey Campbell / AppleInsider: |
Apple looks to protect dropped iPhones by shifting their orientation mid-flight — An Apple invention discovered on Thursday describes a system that could potentially save the most fragile components of an iPhone, such as the glass screen, by detecting when a device is falling and shifting …
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TechCrunch, Patently Apple, CNET, NBC Bay Area and Engadget
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Future Windows Phone speech recognition revealed in leaked video — Microsoft has had speech recognition in Windows Phone since it first debuted, but it looks like the company is preparing a fairly significant upgrade. In a leaked video from Microsoft's TechFest earlier this month …
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| Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web: |
Apple updates Podcasts app with custom stations, on-the-go playlists and less ‘skeuomorphic’ design — Apple has updated its much-maligned Podcasts app for iOS with custom iCloud-synced stations that update automatically when new episodes of those podcasts are posted.
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Engadget, Softpedia News, TUAW, iMore, Gizmodo, MacRumors and TechCrunch
| Kevin Bostic / AppleInsider: |
Apple data centers now 100 percent renewable-powered, but emissions rise 34 percent — Apple's data centers are 100 percent powered by renewable energy, and its corporate facilities are increasingly green, but a new report from the company shows that its greenhouse gas emissions actually increased by 34 percent in 2012.| Josh Ong / The Next Web: |
Email app Mailbox hits 1M reservations filled as it moves into its new office at Dropbox — Mobile email client Mailbox has announced taking its 1 millionth reservation, as it moves into its new offices at its new parent company Dropbox. — The app was released to much fanfare just six weeks ago.
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MacNN, MacRumors, iPhone in Canada Blog, iClarified, Cult of Mac and AppleInsider
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