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China Unicom Reservations for New IPhones Pass 100,000 Units — China Unicom (Hong Kong) Ltd. (762), the nation's second-largest wireless carrier, said online reservations for Apple Inc.'s new iPhone 5C and 5S have passed 100,000 units since the devices were unveiled last week.| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Apple quiet on iPhone 5c pre-orders as stock price slides — Apple is clearly positioning the upcoming iPhone 5c as its next smartphone for the masses. The colored, plastic device is the first thing you see when visiting Apple.com or the company's iPhone page.
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| Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
Gabe Newell: Linux is the future of gaming, new hardware coming soon — Gabe Newell speaking at LinuxCon today. — Linux Foundation — Gabe Newell, the co-founder and managing director of Valve, said today that Linux is the future of gaming despite its current minuscule share of the market.
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Bump Mobile Contact Sharing App Acquired By Google, Will Stay Alive For Now — After raising nearly $20 million and becoming one of the most downloaded mobile apps but failing to find real revenue, Bump Technologies has been acquired by Google. Its namesake app Bump lets …
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| Mike Isaac / AllThingsD: |
Twitter iOS Redesign Focuses on Streams, Media, TV and Photos — Twitter has lots of users. It wants a lot more. — That is, in part, why it is planning a massive overhaul of its mobile apps, designed to make the service more appealing to mainstream users.
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Apple airs new ‘Plastic Perfected’ ad to showcase iPhone 5c colors — Apple has started airing a new advertisement for the iPhone 5c. The ad is called “Plastic Perfected” and it focuses on the colors and materials of the new iPhone model. Much of the advertisement is reminiscent of scenes …
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| Don Clark / Digits: |
IBM Again Pledges $1 Billion to a Linux Effort — Linux continues to dominate data centers. IBM wants more of that action to take place on its hardware. — The computer giant on Tuesday plans to pledge that it will spend $1 billion over four or five years on Linux and related open-source technologies …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Bing gets a new logo and modern design to take on Google — Microsoft's Bing search engine is getting a new look. A year in the making, Bing is dropping its curly blue logo for a modern design that closely matches the rest of Microsoft's recently redesigned product branding.
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Search Blog, The Next Web, Engadget, ZDNet, CNET, TechCrunch, Digits, Search Blog, Softpedia News, Bloomberg and Beyond Search. Tweets: @le3ky
| Greg Sandoval / The Verge: |
Eclipsed by rivals, Rhapsody reduces staff and ousts key managers — Rhapsody's managers were right in predicting more than a decade ago that consumers would one day flock to subscription music services. The only problem is, Rhapsody isn't one of the services they're choosing.
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GeekWire, TechStartups.com, New York Times and Brier Dudley's blog. Tweets: @sandonet. See also Mediagazer
| Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
Google and Samsung soar into list of top 10 Linux contributors — And Microsoft's days of major Linux contributions have come to a halt. Google and Samsung have become increasingly frequent contributors to Linux, and each is now among the top 10 companies sponsoring the open source kernel …
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| Brian Roemmele / Quora: |
What is Apple's new Secure Enclave and why is it important? — ·clave noun \en-klv, än-klv\ : A group that is set off from a larger population by its characteristic or behavior. A Seven Year Apple Odyssey That Ended At The Enclave With the September 10th, 2013 announcement [1] … | Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Fatal crypto flaw in some government-certified smartcards makes forgery a snap — As many of 10,000 of these smartcards may provide little or no cryptographic protection despite receiving two internationally recognized certifications. — Angelo Su — Raising troubling questions … | Liz Gannes / AllThingsD: |
Mindjet and Spigit to Merge Idea-Generation Platforms — Mindjet, the maker of whiteboarding and task-management tools for teams, has merged with Spigit, a platform for large companies to solicit ideas from the crowd and make company decisions based on mathematical analysis of input.| Cade Metz / Wired: |
Box.com Melds Google and Microsoft Into Document Engine of the Future — Aaron Levie, the 28-year-old CEO of Silicon Valley startup Box, happened to notice that ex-Microsoft kingpin Steven Sinofsky was returning to the States after a trip to Africa, so he tracked him down on Facebook.| Matt Rosoff / CITEworld: |
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