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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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| Dan Frommer / ReadWriteWeb: |
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
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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| Jake Smith / 9to5Mac: |
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 … | Sisi Tang / Reuters: |
More Chinese cities halt Apple iPad orders: reports — (Reuters) - Retailers in more Chinese cities have been told by authorities to take the popular iPad tablet PCs off their shelves this week, media reports said on Thursday, due to a legal battle between a Chinese technology firm and Apple Inc over trademark issues.
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| Matt McGee / Search Engine Land: |
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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| Wall Street Journal: |
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.
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| 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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| 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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| 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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| Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web: |
Insanely Simple: A new book about Apple and Steve Jobs that should be better than the bio — Ken Segall served as Apple's agency creative director under Steve Jobs from the NeXT years on through, including some years under John Sculley's disastrous reign. Now he's written a book …
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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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| Alyson Shontell / Business Insider: |
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.| 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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| Leila Abboud / Reuters: |
France Tel CEO says network stressed by Free Mobile — France Telecom said its network was being stressed by a rapid growth in traffic brought on by its hosting of new mobile entrant Iliad and vowed to protect its clients from service interruptions, its CEO told magazine Le Point.
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| Martin Bryant / The Next Web: |
EU states must allow 4G Internet use on analogue TV spectrum by January 2013 — The rollout of 4G wireless data connectivity in Europe took a step forward today as the European Parliament approved plans to free up radio spectrum for this and other uses. — While US consumers …
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| Dow Jones Newswires: |
EU Court: Social Networks Can't Be Made To Filter Content — BRUSSELS (Dow Jones)—The owner of a social network cannot be made to install monitoring systems to prevent illegal downloads of copyrighted material, the European Court of Justice, the European Union's highest court, ruled Thursday.
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| 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 … | Austin Carr / Fast Company: |
NPR Launches An Answer To Spotify On The iPad With Streaming, Concerts, Offline Playlists — Today, NPR launched the NPR Music app for the iPad, a new platform that gives listeners access to streaming content, first-listen albums, and live concerts. But why should a nonprofit care about this kind of innovation?| Monica Chen / DigiTimes: |
Google may launch Android 5.0 in 2Q12, say Taiwan makers — Viewing that the adoption of Android 4. has fallen short of original expectations and Microsoft will launch Windows 8 in the third quarter of 2012, Google is likely to launch Android 5. (Jelly Bean) in the second quarter and appeal … | 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 … Sponsor Posts
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