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Exclusive: Valve said to be working on ‘Steam Box’ gaming console with partners, could announce at GDC — Recently there's been chatter that Valve — the company behind the massively popular gaming service Steam — has been considering getting into the hardware business.
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| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
iPad 3 prices and features matrix revealed — iPad 3 price matrix will be the same as iPad 2, above — One of the remaining mysteries ahead of the iPad 3 launch next week are the prices and configurations. If you don't like surprises we have good news.| Eric Slivka / MacRumors: |
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| Eric Eldon / TechCrunch: |
Foursquare And Glancee Are Cool, But Here's Why I'm So Excited About Using Highlight At SXSW — The crowds and hype of South By Southwest make the massive Austin tech and media conference the perfect place for launching, well, any sort of app that needs crowds and hype to break out of tech circles and into the mainstream.| Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch: |
Google's Plan To Compete With Apple's Multi-Platform Siri? Google “Assistant” — The tech world woke up today to reports of an imminent Apple TV, as Apple works to solidify deals with content providers. The rumored television product could indeed be ground-breaking, not just for television, but for computing as a whole.| Matt Rosoff / Business Insider: |
REVEALED: How Giant Patent Troll Intellectual Ventures Does Business — Two researchers say they have uncovered a bunch of new information about the world's largest patent “aggregator,” Intellectual Ventures. — Founded by former Microsoft chief technology officer Nathan Myhrvold about a decade ago …
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| Henry Blodget / Business Insider: |
Hey, People Buying YELP At $25 A Share, What On Earth Are You Thinking? — The king of online local restaurant reviews, Yelp, went public this morning. — Its stock is now trading at $25 a share, ~70 percent above the price institutional investors paid for it last night.
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| Drew Olanoff / The Next Web: |
Google+ adds new mask effects for Hangouts, so go turn yourself into a cat — I'm a huge fan of Google+ Hangouts and I think that the company is really onto something when it comes to interaction over video. It beats the absolute crap out of a Skype conversation, and has fun effects like Apple should be creating for Facetime.| Rick Falkvinge / Falkvinge on Infopolicy: |
How Microsoft Pays Big Money To Smear Google In European Parliament — Transparency: I spent this week in the European Parliament in Brussels. One of the seminars I attended was advertised as being a seminar on privacy, big data, profiling, and online identities. As interesting as it sounded, it was anything but.
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| Horace Dediu / asymco: |
When will tablets outsell traditional PCs? — I truly believe, and many others in the company believe, that there will come a day that the tablet market in units is larger than the PC market. Tim Cook Discusses Q1 2012 Results - Earnings Call Transcript - Seeking Alpha Question is when?
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| Mathew Ingram / GigaOM: |
Twitter & Facebook share a problem: Proving social ads work — There's a been a big focus recently on the advertising strategy at both Twitter and Facebook, with two in-depth profiles of Twitter in the Wall Street Journal and BusinessWeek that spent a lot of time talking about the company's ad model …
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| Andrew Tarantola / Gizmodo: |
Anonymous Members Hacked During Their Own DDoS Attacks — Membership in the Anonymous hacker collective is not without its dangers—and I don't mean just the 25 Guys in custody. Turns out that someone slipped a Trojan into some popular Anon DDoS software and has been stealing bank info from anyone that runs it.| Sebastian Anthony / ExtremeTech: |
Vortex radio waves could boost wireless capacity “infinitely” — After four years of incredulity and not-so-gentle mocking, Bo Thide of the Swedish Institute of Space Physics and a team in Italy have finally proven that it's possible to simultaneously transmit multiple radio channels over exactly the same wireless frequency.
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