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HTC in disarray: staff departures, ‘disastrous’ First, and production problems cloud company's future — Internal upheaval comes at a bad time for the struggling phone maker — The Verge has learned that HTC's Chief Product Officer, Kouji Kodera, left the company last week.| Aloysius Low / CNET: |
HTC Asia CEO Lennard Hoornik leaves company — Earlier today, it was reported on the Verge that HTC's chief product officer, Kouji Kodera had left the company alongside other high-level employees. Product strategy manager Eric Lin even had a strongly worded warning for remaining employees …
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Microsoft unveils Xbox One: the ultimate all-in-one home entertainment system — Blockbuster titles, Steven Spielberg-produced Halo TV series, and exclusive agreements with the NFL transform games, TV and entertainment for the 21st century living room. — A new vision for the future comes …
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| Chris Kohler / Wired: |
How Xbox One Plans to Fight Sony, Steam, and Everything Else — The other day, unable to take it anymore, we sucked it up and ordered HBO. We needed our Game of Thrones fix immediately. When the order went through and we were ready to binge-watch, it wasn't our cable box we turned on, but our Xbox.
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| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
Live TV on the Xbox One: Microsoft learns nothing from Google TV's mistakes — webTV returns to Redmond... with a vengeance — “For the first time, you and your TV will have a relationship.” — That's how Microsoft began the introduction of its new Xbox One today …
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| Tim Stevens / Engadget: |
Xbox One has non-replaceable hard drive, external storage is supported — We had the opportunity to chat with Albert Penello, senior director of product planning at Microsoft this afternoon, who was kind enough to clarify a few topics for us regarding the recently-unveiled Xbox One.
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| Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land: |
Google's Impressive “Conversational Search” Goes Live On Chrome — The “conversational search” that Google demonstrated at last week's Google I/O conference is now available to users of its Chrome browser, and it's a significant leap in how we use search engines.| Reuters: |
Ireland feels the heat from Apple tax row — (Reuters) - Ireland called on Wednesday for an international clampdown on multinationals shifting profits around the world to avoid tax, after criticism that Irish loopholes helped technology giant Apple to shrink its tax bill.
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| Melissa Grey / Engadget: |
Nokia adds sight recognition to Here Maps for Windows Phone 8 — Six months after promising to integrate sight recognition technology into its Here suite of apps, Nokia has finally updated Here Maps with LiveSight. The update is available today in the Windows Phone app store and requires Windows Phone 8.| Amy O'Leary / NYT Bits: |
GIF Creator, Steve Wilhite, Receives Lifetime Achievement Webby Award — Among the thousands of file formats that exist in modern computing, the GIF, or Graphics Interchange Format, has attained celebrity status in a sea of lesser-known BMPs, RIPs, FIGs and MIFFs.
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| Dennis Schaal / Skift: |
Hipmunk CEO: We think we can be bigger than Kayak — Hipmunk CEO Adam Goldstein, left, and co-founder Steve Huffman. / Hipmunk — Hipmunk co-founder and CEO Adam Goldstein, 25, believes his flight and hotel metasearch company can one day be larger than Kayak, and with $20.2 million … | Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
Urturn Raises $13.4M Series A, Led By Balderton, For Its Social Expressions Platform That Lets Teens Create Memes & Movements — Urturn, the social expressions platform that soft-launched as stealthily as possible last year by intentionally hiding under a really boring name …
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| Greg Sterling / Marketing Land: |
Pew: 94% Of Teenagers Use Facebook, Have 425 Facebook Friends, But Twitter & Instagram Adoption Way Up — Teenagers use Facebook by far more than any other social media site and have over 400 friends on it. But Twitter and Instagram have massively increased their usage in the past year …
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| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
Flickr, Vimeo integration likely to bolster social ties in iOS 7 — In the upcoming overhaul of its iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch operating system, iOS 7, Apple plans to include an increased presence of third-party social networks, including Flickr and Vimeo, according to a person familiar with the software.| Matt Brian / The Verge: |
AMD slips to fourth spot as Qualcomm and Samsung capitalize on mobile processor sales — A fall in demand for desktop PCs and continued growth of the smartphone and tablet market saw AMD fall from second to fourth place for microprocessor sales in 2012. According to a new report from IC Insights …
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| Arik Hesseldahl / AllThingsD: |
Powermat Acquires Finland's PowerKiss, Stirs Up Wireless Power Standard War — In the unfolding standards battle around wireless power technology, two players will today combine into one. — Powermat, the company that last year allied with Procter & Gamble's Duracell brand …
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| John Cook / GeekWire: |
Images: Amazon.com wants to build a massive biosphere in Seattle (perfect for workers and mature trees) — Amazon.com is charting a new course for one of its proposed downtown Seattle office buildings, unveiling new drawings this week which show a massive spherical greenhouse-like structure capable …
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