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LinkedIn announces Intro, a new service that brings LinkedIn profiles into the iOS Mail app — LinkedIn's made mobile a major focus over the last year, and today the company is announcing a number of new mobile initiatives. At an event in San Francisco, CEO Jeff Weiner and the rest … | Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
LinkedIn Hits 38% Of Unique Visits From Mobile, Up From 8% In Q1 2011 — LinkedIn is making the shift to mobile. It now sees 38 percent of unique visits from mobile, which is up from 8 percent in the first quarter of 2011, and users who access via mobile are 2.5x as active as desktop-only users.
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Apple's pricing of iWork, Microsoft's hesitation with Office for iOS seen as strategic plays — Apple Exploits Microsoft Hesitation on Office — Microsoft may want to rethink its hesitation about bringing its Office applications to the iPad. — On Tuesday, Apple made its own rival suite …
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All Of The Ways Apple's New Free Mac OS Hurts Microsoft Windows — Apple announced today that Mavericks, its latest version of Mac OS X, will be free for all Mac users to download. Windows 8.1 is still $119.99. — Apple products are usually seen as expensive if not out of reach for average consumers … | Serenity Caldwell / Macworld: |
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LG's curved-screen G Flex smartphone revealed in photos and video — We've seen rendered images of LG's G Flex and its curved OLED display, but the device itself has proven elusive — until now. Argentinian broadcaster Telefe Noticias managed to obtain the phone for an in-studio hands-on video …
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| Greg Koenig / Atomic Delights: |
How Apple Makes the Mac Pro — As a product designer, one of my favorite parts about any new Apple product launch is the inevitable “How it's made” video. The Mac Pro video did not disappoint. — What makes Apple fascinating is not that they are using some wiz-bang alien technologies to make things …
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Call Yourself A Hacker, Lose Your 4th Amendment Rights — The US District Court for the State of Idaho ruled that an ICS product developer's computer could be seized without him being notified or even heard from in court primarily because he states on his web site “we like hacking things and don't want to stop”.
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Google Testing Huge Banner Ads For Branded Queries — Google has confirmed that they are testing incredibly large banner ads for specific branded queries. — @SynrgyHQ posted an image on Twitter showing for the query [southwest airlines a huge “sponsored” ad at the top of the search results.| Emil Protalinski / The Next Web: |
Yahoo acquires image recognition startup LookFlow to improve discovery in Flickr, build a deep learning group — Yahoo today acquired LookFlow, a startup that was building new ways for people to find, explore, collect, and share content they're interested in.
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Facebook's Zuckerberg highest-paid CEO at $2.28 billion — Facebook (NASDAQ: FB) CEO Mark Zuckerberg was the highest paid CEO of a North American public company last year, with total compensation of $2.28 billion — almost all of it coming from share options exercised when Facebook went public …
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Samsung acquires 7.4 percent of Gorilla Glass maker Corning, signs long-term supply deal — In a move that could raise eyebrows in the LCD business, Corning has taken full control of Samsung Corning Precision Materials Co. Ltd., a joint venture 43 percent owned by Samsung.| Jon Fingas / Engadget: |
LG unveils the Fireweb, its first Firefox OS smartphone (video) — So far, Firefox OS has been limited to ultra-basic smartphones like the ZTE Open. LG is expanding the platform's reach today by releasing its inaugural Mozilla-powered handset, the Fireweb.| Bonnie Cha / AllThingsD: |
T-Mobile's Next Act: 200MB Free Data Monthly for Tablets, Plus Trade-In Program — In its latest move to be the “Uncarrier,” T-Mobile today announced new plans for tablets that include a free monthly allotment of 4G LTE data for the life of the product, and the option to purchase a new device … | iFixit: |
Microsoft Surface Pro 2 Teardown — Today, Microsoft adds a new surface to their tablet line. No, not a third dimension—leave those 3D glasses at the theater. Instead, let your friends at iFixit break out the X-ray specs and show you what's inside the new Surface Pro 2.
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Exclusive: HTC scales back production lines as cash flow worsens-sources — (Reuters) - Taiwanese smartphone maker HTC Corp has halted at least one of its four main manufacturing lines, accounting for at least a fifth of total capacity, and is outsourcing production as a sales slump puts pressure … | David Meyer / Gigaom: |
Snowden revelations hit war on terror as EU MPs call for suspension of data-sharing deal — The European Parliament has voted to suspend a data-sharing agreement with the U.S., which gave the Americans access to certain details of financial transactions in order to track terrorist financing.| Mike Isaac / AllThingsD: |
Facebook Reverses Stance — Again — On Violent Viral Video — Sometimes figuring out the fine line between free expression and overly objectionable content is harder than you'd think. — Just ask Facebook, which on Tuesday reversed a stance it took just 24 hours previously and removed … | MG Siegler / TechCrunch: |
Air or Mini? A hard choice - nearly identical internals, both comfortable one-handed devices — Two iPads To Tango — I walked into today's Apple event positive that the iPad mini with a retina display, if unveiled, would be the one iPad to rule them all.
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Galaxy Gear compatibility comes to the Samsung Galaxy S 4, S3, Note 2 and more — If you wanted live out your Inspector Gadget fantasies, but lacked the Galaxy Note 3 needed to take full advantage of the possibilities, we've got good news. Samsung's bringing compatibility for its Galaxy Gear …
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SEC Votes To Propose Equity Crowdfunding By Unaccredited Investors, Now Up For Public Comment — Hundreds of days past the deadline, an SEC panel today unanimously voted to propose a rule allowing equity crowdfunding of startups by anyone, not just rich accredited investors.| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft enables developers to add speech recognition to Windows 8 apps — Summary: Microsoft is continuing to flesh out its Bing developer platform with a new speech-recognition control, allowing coders to add speech input to their Windows 8 apps. — In July of this year …
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Why in-contract price hike controls will likely mean the end of UK handset subsidies — Britain's telecommunications regulator, Ofcom, has told the country's fixed-line and mobile carriers that they will no longer be allowed to keep customers tied to their monthly contracts if they raise prices before the contract is up.
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Microsoft buys API management startup to add to its Azure cloud — Summary: Microsoft has purchased Washington, D.C. startup Apiphany, a maker of an application-programming-interface management platform, which it plans to make available as part of Windows Azure.
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