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Apple: App Access to Contact Data Will Require Explicit User Permission — After a week of silence Apple has finally responded to reports that dozens of iOS applications have been accessing, transmitting and storing user contact data without explicit permission.
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Facebook Launches Verified Accounts and Pseudonyms — Facebook, a service built on real names and real identities, will tomorrow start allowing prominent public figures to verify their accounts and then opt to display a preferred nickname instead of their birth name.
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Apple finally talks, says Proview refuses to honor agreement to transfer iPad trademark — Numerous online stores in China took the iPad off their shelves after Proview said Apple was breaking its trademark on the term “iPad.” The fight continues in court, but Apple released a statement today … | Kunur Patel / AdAge: |
Facebook to Release Timeline for Brands This Month — Launch Announcement Expected at Company's Feb. 29 Marketer Conference — Facebook will be bringing its new Timeline profile pages to brands this month in the U.S., according to executives briefed on the company's plans.
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| Roger Cheng / CNET: |
LightSquared blew it, and here's why — LightSquared may have had a great case for building its wireless network, but the fledgling company lacked the political tact to see it through. — LightSquared CEO Sanjiv Ahuja delivers a speech at CTIA 2011. — LightSquared today fired … | Greg Bensinger / Wall Street Journal: |
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DuckDuckGo Has Its First Million-Search Day — The growth chart continues to trend in the right direction for DuckDuckGo. — It was just about three weeks ago that we wrote about the search engine setting its own record with 731,000 searches in a single day. To go from that to more than a million in a few weeks is impressive.
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Pinterest's Rite of Web Passage - Huge Traffic, No Revenue — If you haven't heard of Pinterest, you likely will soon. — Traffic to the website—which lets users create online scrapbooks to share images of projects or coveted products—has grown tenfold over the past six months.| Jennifer Van Grove / VentureBeat: |
| Terril Yue Jones / Reuters: |
Apple iPad plant conditions better than the norm: agency — (Reuters) - Working conditions at Chinese manufacturing plants where Apple Inc's iPads and iPhones are made are far better than those at garment factories or other facilities elsewhere in the country, according to the head of a non-profit agency investigating the plants.
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| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
FCC requires VoIP services to report outages, mirroring landline rule — In a US Federal Communications Commission meeting today, the Commission ruled that internet telephony (i.e. VoIP) providers are subject to the same outage reporting rules as other service providers. 31 percent …
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The $600 Million Social Life Of Foursquare Founder Dennis Crowley — For Dennis Crowley, life has always been a game that should be played with friends. Few people could turn that mentality into a $600 million business. — Dennis Crowley sold his first startup to Google.| Vlad Savov / The Verge: |
Did Samsung just reveal a Galaxy Note 10.1 for MWC? — Samsung's official website may have revealed the name of a heretofore unannounced product: a Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1. The name appears on the company's invitation to a Samsung Developer Day at MWC this year, alongside the Galaxy Note … | Daniel Terdiman / CNET: |
Obama campaign opening tech field office in San Francisco — The president's re-election effort is looking for a boost in the middle of one of the most tech-savvy cities in the world. It's not staffed up yet, but the campaign is looking for volunteers. — President Obama's re-election campaign … | Bryan Bishop / The Verge: |
Sony completes Ericsson buyout, Sony Mobile Communications is born — With regulators signing off, we knew it was just a matter of time before Sony's buyout of mobile partner Ericsson was complete, and it looks like today's the day. Sony has announced that it has completed its acquisition …
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| Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft Blog: |
As more Windows Phone ‘Tango’ info leaks, questions resurface — Summary: New leaks about the next version of the Windows Phone operating system make me wonder if the Tango1/Tango2 rumors from last year are going to prove true, after all. — I haven't blogged much recently about Windows Phone … | Agam Shah / Computerworld: |
HP CEO: Google-Motorola deal could close-source Android — HP CEO Meg Whitman said a closed-source Android and iOS could create a big opportunity for webOS in the long run — WebOS could be an important player in the long run as an open-source mobile operating system because Android …
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Israelis Tap In to Silicon Valley — PALO ALTO—A group of visiting Israeli technology entrepreneurs recently got some blunt advice on how to do business in Silicon Valley. Be positive, smile a lot and don't bad-mouth a competitor, venture capitalist Itamar Novick told them.| Ryan Heise / The Verge: |
Adobe shows off Photoshop CS6's content-aware move feature — Adobe has been previewing more and more CS6 features in the run up to its release, and today we have something significantly more interesting than its darkened UI. In a video posted to its YouTube channel, Adobe demonstrated … | Ina Fried / AllThingsD: |
Opera Acquires Two Mobile Ad Networks — Browser maker Opera said late Wednesday that it has acquired London-based 4th Screen Advertising and San Francisco-based Mobile Theory, two mobile advertising networks. Opera said the moves should help the company “better monetize the traffic” from its Opera Mini and Opera Mobile browsers.
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