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Google Glass tech specs: 5MP/720P camera, 802.11b/g Wifi 16GB storage (12GB usable), full day battery — Along with today's Glass API release, Google now officially announced specs for the Glass Explorer editions. Notable is the camera which will take 5 Megapixel images or 720P video.
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| Liam Spradlin / Android Police: |
MyGlass App Goes Live In The Play Store, Google Launches Glass Setup Page — It looks like Google is gearing up for the Glass Explorer program, launching the MyGlass companion app and a new Glass setup page, both accessible to the general public. — The companion app relies on Google's now-signature …
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| Jeff Blagdon / The Verge: |
Google Glass developers prohibited from using ads or charging for apps — Google has released documentation for the Mirror API, the interface that programmers will use to write services for Glass. The contents include everything from quick start guides for Java and Python to in-depth developer guides …
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| Bloomberg: |
Twitter Said to Seek Deals With Viacom, NBC to Feature TV Online — Twitter Inc. is close to reaching partnerships with television networks that would bring more high-quality video content and advertising to the social site, according to people familiar with the matter.
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| Jonathan Stempel / Reuters: |
Trader admits fraud in $1 billion Apple stock scheme — (Reuters) - A former Rochdale Securities trader whose unauthorized purchase of about $1 billion of Apple Inc stock caused the demise of the financial services company pleaded guilty on Monday to wire fraud and conspiracy.
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| Andy / TorrentFreak: |
Massive BitTorrent and Cyberlocker Domain Crackdown Underway (Updated) — The action is being billed as “A Monster from Rome” and when you look at the scale and implications that's hard to contest. — The Public Prosecutor of Rome, Italy, has targeted a total of 27 file-sharing related sites …
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| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
Apple says small number of Apple TVs have WiFi issues, opens replacement program — Apple has informed its official retail stores, AppleCare employees, and authorized resellers that a small number of third-generation Apple TV units have WiFi issues. These issues surround not being able … | Agence France Presse: |
Taiwan probes Samsung ‘dirty tricks’ vs HTC' — TAIPEI — Taiwanese authorities said Monday they had launched an investigation into allegations that South Korean tech giant Samsung hired students to post malicious comments about local rival HTC online. — “The case was set up last week …
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| Bryan Bishop / The Verge: |
Netflix plans its move from Microsoft Silverlight to HTML5 video — Last month Google announced that Netflix was now available on ARM-based Samsung Chromebooks thanks to the use of HTML5 video — and now the streaming service has outlined its larger plans to eventually move to the format for all computers.
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| John Paczkowski / AllThingsD: |
Meet Xiaomi, the Biggest Smartphone Company You've Never Heard Of — Xiaomi may not be the biggest smartphone company in China, but it's probably the fastest-growing. And if you haven't yet heard of it, you will soon. Xiaomi sold 7.19 million handsets in 2012, and expects to sell double that number this year.
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| Derrick Harris / GigaOM: |
Gracenote co-founder on ‘iPod day’ and better music through data — It was April 2000 when the team at Gracenote got a call from Apple that would change its business forever. Apple wouldn't give Gracenote any specifics, but it did offer up some prescient advice: “You need to buy more servers.”| NPD Group: |
Screen Mirroring Awareness Reaches 40 Percent of Smartphone and Tablet Owners, According to The NPD Group — Apple's AirPlay is the most well-known — Screen mirroring technologies, which gives consumers the ability to wirelessly project content from smartphones, PCs or tablets directly to a television …
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| Jennifer Warnick / Microsoft: |
How Microsoft Quietly Built the City of the Future — A small, covert team of engineers at Microsoft cast aside suggestions that the company spend US$60 million to turn its 500-acre headquarters into a smart campus to achieve energy savings and other efficiency gains.
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| Janko Roettgers / GigaOM: |
Comcast confirms: Yes, we're encrypting basic cable now — Comcast customers, get ready for yet another TV transition: The cable provider has started to alert its customers in some markets that it is about to encrypt their basic cable signals, forcing them to order a digital adapter …
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| Jeff Blagdon / The Verge: |
Adobe Lightroom 5 beta: hands-on with Smart Previews, radial gradients, and easy straightening — A landmark photo app adds the greatest feature of all — hard drive space — In the seven years since Adobe launched Lightroom, it's established a devout fanbase of professional and amateur photographers alike.| Jon Russell / The Next Web: |
Spotify launches in 8 new markets, including first-time expansions into Asia and Latin America — Music streaming giant Spotify has launched its service in eight new countries, taking it to a total of 28 markets worldwide. The Sweden-headquartered firm is expanding into Asia — via Singapore …
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| John Paczkowski / AllThingsD: |
Mozilla Will Debut Firefox OS in Five Countries in June — Mozilla, the nonprofit foundation behind the Firefox browser, is bringing its engineering acumen to bear on a new mobile operating system, Firefox OS. And it plans to debut this year. — But when exactly does the company plan to launch it?
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| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
YouTube adds support for live streaming on iOS with latest update — When Coachella streamed its concerts on YouTube this weekend, iOS users may have been disappointed to discover that the YouTube app didn't support live broadcasts. Now, Google is adding live event streaming to iOS, albeit a little late.
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| Ina Fried / AllThingsD: |
SoftBank Says Still Hopes to Complete Sprint Deal By July — Japan's SoftBank said Tuesday that it still expects to complete its deal by July to acquire a controlling interest in Sprint Nextel. — SoftBank's statement comes despite a rival $25.5 billion bid for Sprint coming from Dish Network.
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| Adrianne Jeffries / The Verge: |
Online poker industry still reeling two years after federal ‘Black Friday’ crackdown — The Justice Department shut down the three most popular sites two years ago today. So what's in the cards for online poker? — Chris Moneymaker, the first person to become a poker world champion after rising up through playing online poker.
Tweets: @nikcub
| Jay Alabaster / PC World: |
Sony ISP launches world's fastest home Internet, 2Gbps — A Sony-backed ISP in Japan has launched a 2Gbps Internet service, which it said is the world's fastest for home use. — So-net Entertainment began offering its “Nuro” fiber-based service on Monday to homes, apartments …
| The Official BitTorrent Blog: |
BitTorrent Surf Beta Launches Today On Chrome And Firefox — In early January, we launched an Alpha of BitTorrent Surf, a Chrome plugin that brings BitTorrent to your browser. — Today, we're ready to catch bigger waves. Yep. Puns. We went there. With big thanks and props to our Alpha users … Sponsor Posts
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