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Microsoft Is Selling Office 365 Within iPad Apps, and Apple Is Getting Its 30 Percent Cut — While one of the big holdups for Office for iPad was getting the software just right, another was Apple's policy that apps that sell things — including subscriptions — use Apple's in-app purchase mechanism …
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| Lance Ulanoff / Mashable: |
Microsoft Office for iPad review: rich apps, strong cloud ties, but no way to print documents — Microsoft Office for iPad Isn't Perfect, But It's What We Needed All Along — It took Microsoft a while — by some measures too long — but it's finally here: Office for iPad … | Emil Protalinski / The Next Web: |
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| Euan Rocha / Reuters: |
New Blackberry phones to cater to keyboard enthusiasts, BBM for desktop getting “serious look” — New BlackBerry phones to cater to keyboard aficionados: CEO — (Reuters) - BlackBerry Ltd plans to introduce high-end smartphones that cater to keyboard aficionados in the coming 18 months …
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| Brad Reed / BGR: |
BlackBerry Q4 loss much narrower than expected but revenue sinks below $1 billion — BlackBerry's last earnings report was truly a thing of spellbinding horror as the company had just taken down its “for sale” sign and posted earnings of -$0.67 per share on $1.2 billion in revenue.
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| Greg Bensinger / Wall Street Journal: |
Amazon planning free ad-supported TV and music streaming service, no Prime subscription required — Amazon Plans Free Streaming Media Service — Website Said to Drop Strategy of Only Offering Video to Users of Its Prime Service — Amazon.com Inc. plans a free, advertising-supported streaming television … | Brad Linder / Liliputing: |
Sony 13 inch Digital Paper E Ink slate coming to America... for $1100 — Sony introduced a 13 inch slate for reading and writing on documents last year. The company calls it Digital Paper, and it's kind of a Kindle on crack with a big high-resolution, high-contrast display and a pen for taking notes or scribbling doodles.
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| Mikey Campbell / AppleInsider: |
Apple planning expansion at Arizona sapphire plant to boost output — Apple and sapphire manufacturing partner GT Advanced Technologies are looking to expand operations at the companies' Mesa, Ariz., facility, possibly to accommodate higher yields for an as-yet-unknown component, AppleInsider has learned.
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| Ernesto / TorrentFreak: |
DVD and CD ripping for personal use to be legalized in UK from June — UK Govt: DVD and CD Ripping Will Be Legalized This Summer — To most consumers it is common sense that they can make a backup copy of media they own, but in the UK this is currently illegal.| Sam Machkovech / Ars Technica: |
Mozilla employees ask new CEO Brendan Eich to step down for his support of anti-gay initiative — Mozilla employees tell Brendan Eich he needs to “step down” — This morning, a number of Mozilla employees took to Twitter with a united, nearly simultaneous message to new Mozilla Foundation CEO Brendan Eich: “Step down.”
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| Quentin Hardy / New York Times: |
Crittercism study: Google cloud services have fastest response, iOS 7.1 apps are most stable — Smartphones, the Disappointing Miracle — Smartphone users are frustrated and deprived by bad service, including slow application load times and frequent service crashes.| Dan Primack / Fortune: |
Y Combinator's YC VC may lose the actual VCs — Influential startup program Y Combinator is making a major change. — FORTUNE — For several years, a group of venture capital firms has committed to invest a pre-determined amount into each startup accepted into the storied Y Combinator incubator program.
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| Danny Yadron / Wall Street Journal: |
Data Breach Suit Against Target Also Names Security Firm Trustwave — A lawsuit stemming from the security breach at Target Corp. spotlights a private Chicago firm that does most of the payment-security checks in the U.S., including the retail giant's. — In a lawsuit filed in U.S. district court …
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| John Koetsier / VentureBeat: |
Mobile app monetization: Freemium is king, but in-app ads are growing fast — Freemium revenue for mobile apps was up 211 percent last year, according to a new report from mobile analytics company App Annie and IDC. — Clearly, free is working. — While a fairly strong majority … | Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
Huawei on NSA: If foreign spies attacked a US firm, there'd be “outrage” — Chinese tech company still trying to track down NSA infiltration. — It's been a week since revelations that the National Security Agency infiltrated the systems of Huawei, and the Chinese technology company …
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Twitter Said Close to Releasing New Ad Product for Apps — Twitter Inc. (TWTR) is planning to release a mobile-advertising product in the next few weeks that application makers can use to encourage downloads of their programs, according to people with knowledge of the matter.| Agam Shah / Computerworld: |
Fire hazard forces Lenovo recall of ThinkPad batteries — The company has set up a Web page about the recall — Lenovo is recalling certain ThinkPad battery packs that could be a fire hazard due to overheating, which could ultimately also lead to computer damage.| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft shows off Kinect for Windows version 2 hardware — Summary: Microsoft is inching closer to delivering the second version of its Kinect for Windows sensor, and is showing off what the final hardware will look like. — Microsoft is inching closer toward releasing the second version of its Kinect for Windows sensor.
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The Power of Free: OS X Mavericks Users Generate 40% of Mac Web Traffic Five Months Post-Release — Aside from a number of aesthetic and functional changes Apple included as part of OS X Mavericks, the company also turned heads by releasing the latest OS as a free upgrade for Mac desktop and laptop users.
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| Nick Summers / The Next Web: |
Facebook's Connectivity Lab is building drones, satellites and lasers to deliver Internet access — While Google is experimenting with helium balloons for Internet access, Facebook is working on drones, satellites and lasers. The company today unveiled the Connectivity Lab, which has evolved as part of its Internet.org initiative.
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| Oliver Haslam / Redmond Pie: |
Facebook Messenger v4 For iPhone And Android Released: Groups, Message Forwarding, More — It seems that someone at Facebook likes nice round numbers, because the social network has released Facebook Messenger 4.0 for iPhone and Android. Big new updates are great, except when they're not big at all … Sponsor Posts
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