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| Chris Matyszczyk / CNET: |
Samsung's Bowl ad claims it can help Apple fanboys break free — Many of the deeply affected have been standing in line waiting to see how Samsung would attack Apple in launching the Galaxy Note. — So here we were, during the Super Bowl, with Apple fanboys and fangirls lining up in San Francisco.
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| Rip Empson / TechCrunch: |
First Legal Streaming Super Bowl A Success, But Audience Still Denied The Real Show — Lately, we've been seeing more and more big television events come with an online streaming counterpart. Sporting and televised events are showing up online with increasing frequency … | Drew Olanoff / The Next Web: |
| Ernesto / TorrentFreak: |
BitTorrent Giant BTjunkie Shuts Down For Good — Founded in June 2005, BTjunkie has been among the top BitTorrent sites for more than half a decade. — The site was never involved in any legal action, and to keep it this way the site's operators decided to shut the site down for good today.| Jacqui Cheng / Ars Technica: |
Over 3 years later, “deleted” Facebook photos are still online — Facebook is still working on deleting photos from its servers in a timely manner nearly three years after Ars first brought attention to the topic. The company admitted on Friday that its older systems for storing uploaded content …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Windows 8 Start button removed by Microsoft in ‘Consumer Preview’ — Microsoft has taken the bold step of removing the traditional Windows Start button from its Windows 8 “Consumer Preview.” The Start button and menu were both introduced with Windows 95 over 15 years ago … | Jenna Wortham / New York Times: |
Facebook's Mobility Challenge — Lots of people love their cellphones. Facebook, so far, is not a big fan. — Amid the jaw-dropping financial figures the company revealed last week when it filed for a public offering was an interesting admission. Although more than half …
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| Peter Kafka / AllThingsD: |
Is GigaOm Buying PaidContent? — Who wants to pay for PaidContent? We'll find out soon, it seems, because the sales process for the pioneering blog and its parent company ContentNext appears to be wrapping up. — But if you were making a bet, you'd get good odds that the most likely buyer …
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| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Google hires a senior director at Apple for a top secret project (exclusive) — Google has pulled off a coup by hiring an Apple senior director of product integrity for a secret project, VentureBeat has learned. — The recruiting feat is historic since Google has never hired such a senior person away from Apple.| Clare Jim / Reuters: |
Taiwan smartphone maker HTC sees Q1 revenue falling — (Reuters) - HTC was once the standard bearer of the Android phone but that was 2010 — a long time ago in mobile terms. Now analysts say it faces another weak quarter and an uphill struggle to prove to investors it still retains its innovative touch.
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| Stephen Shankland / CNET: |
Why Apple's A5 is so big—and iPhone 4 won't get Siri — Why Apple's A5 is so big and the iPhone 4 won't get Siri Noise-reduction technology from a start-up called Audience accounts for the size of the iPhone 4S chip and keeps Siri off the iPhone 4, analyst Linley Gwennap concludes.
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| Katie Notopoulos / The Verge: |
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