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| Joshua Topolsky / The Verge: |
Sources: Apple TV update, iPad 3 for Verizon and AT&T LTE launching tomorrow, no quad-core SoC — When Tim Cook takes the stage tomorrow in San Francisco, a new iPad apparently won't be the only product announced. As we reported last week, a new Apple TV model is expected to arrive alongside the higher-resolution iPad update.| Seth Weintraub / 9to5Mac: |
Apple's next iPad will be available on March 16th, additional launch event planned — . — We've been told by an Apple Store source who has been reliable in the past that preparations are being made for a big Apple Store event which will culminate on Friday, March 16th.| Mat Honan / Gizmodo: |
What to Expect at Apple's Event Tomorrow — Apple has an event tomorrow, and it will be the Biggest Consumer Technology News of 2012. It will likely remain the Biggest Consumer Technology News of 2012 until Apple's next event, which may then overtake it. Here's what to expect.
| Arnold Kim / MacRumors: |
Apple Creates a New App Store Category Called ‘Catalogs’ on Eve of Media Event — On the eve of the Apple media event for the iPad 3, Apple has added a new category in the App Store. The new category is called “Catalogs” and seems to be not yet fully deployed.| Eric Slivka / MacRumors: |
98% of U.S. Apple Retail Stores Out of Stock of Apple TV [Updated] — Last week, we noted that shortages of the Apple TV at third-party retailers had begun spreading to Apple itself, with a number of the company's own retail stores reporting that the set-top box was unavailable for immediate in-store pickup.
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| Jamie Rosenberg / The Official Google Blog: |
Introducing Google Play: All your entertainment, anywhere you go — Entertainment is supposed to be fun. But in reality, getting everything to work can be the exact opposite—moving files between your computers, endless syncing across your devices, and wires...lots of wires.
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TechCrunch, Mercury News, The Next Web, TechPinions, VentureBeat, ReadWriteWeb, GadgeTell, ZDNet, Wired, USA Today, The New Persuaders, the Econsultancy blog, AndroidGuys, Telecompetitor, PadGadget, Gotta Be Mobile, Techland, Redmond Pie, Digits, Liliputing, memeburn, Computerworld, Business Insider, Android Community, PhoneArena, Mobile Marketing Watch, Ed Burnette's Dev …, PC Magazine, TmoNews, TPM Idea Lab, Lifehacker, Google Operating System, Android Phone Fans and SiliconFilter. Tweets: @bdsams
| Jana Winter / Fox News: |
EXCLUSIVE: Infamous international hacking group LulzSec brought down by own leader — EXCLUSIVE: Law enforcement agents on two continents swooped in on top members of the infamous computer hacking group LulzSec early this morning, and acting largely on evidence gathered by the organization's brazen leader …
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| Nate Anderson / Ars Technica: |
| Chronic Wire: |
iOS 5.1 Gold Master passes QA — The Gold Master build of iOS 5.1 has been in a vigorous quality assurance phase for the past three weeks, with extensive testing being done internally by Apple as well as by various carriers/partners. — It is rumored to have added Japanese language support in Siri …
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Exclusive: Netflix in talks for cable partnership — (Reuters) - Netflix Chief Executive Reed Hastings has quietly met with some of the largest U.S. cable companies in recent weeks to discuss adding the online movie streaming service to their cable offerings, according to sources familiar with matter.| Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web: |
Twitter co-founders' Obvious Corp. announces Branch, a ‘curated discussion platform’ — Obvious Corporation, the new endeavor of Twitter founders Biz Stone, Evan Williams and Jason Goldman, has today announced its second project. It's called Branch and it's a partnership with developers Josh Miller … | Eric Slivka / MacRumors: |
Apple Proposing Settlements in Android Device Patent Disputes, Would Reap $5-15 Per Android Device — Dow Jones Newswires reports that Apple has expressed a willingness to settle some of its patent disputes with manufacturers of Android-based handsets such as Samsung and Motorola … | Nick Bilton / Bits: |
Countering the Google Plus Image Problem — Google has a bit of an image problem. — For people peering in, Google Plus, Google's latest attempt at social media, has been a ghost town. Some say it is a desolate wasteland that is used only by, well, Google employees and a few Google faithful.| Juan Carlos Perez / Computerworld: |
Google drops the price of Cloud Storage service — Google has cut the price of its Cloud Storage, a hosted service designed for enterprise developers who want to store their applications' data in the cloud, as opposed to in their own servers. The fees, based on monthly usage …
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| Zack Whittaker / Between the Lines Blog: |
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| Jack Purcher / Patently Apple: |
Apple Wins Patent for iWallet: The one that will rule the World — In May of 2010 we were surprised to see Apple's first iWallet patent officially surface. In that year we witnessed a steady stream of Near Field Communication based patents that kick started the iWallet trend.
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| Leena Rao / TechCrunch: |
Pandora Misses; Revenue Up 71 Percent To $81.3M But Swings To A Loss — Internet radio giant Pandora Media just reported fourth quarter results. The company posted revenue of $81.3 million, which was up 71% year-over-year. Non-GAAP net loss per share was $0.03.| Joshua Topolsky / The Verge: |
Sony tries to pivot back to premium, begins ‘unilateral’ pricing on consumer electronics — Today at a small gathering of journalists, Sony COO Phil Molyneux shared plans for the company's new retail strategy, and it's a new but familiar direction for the company.
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| Dan Polivy / Bing: |
Announcing: Bing Maps for Metro Style Apps — On Wednesday, February 29, our friends over in the Windows division proudly unveiled the Windows 8 Consumer Preview release to the world. Today, we are excited to announce a beta of the new Bing Maps SDK for Metro style apps …
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| Nick Bilton / Bits: |
With New Hardware, Square Begins Taxi Rollout — If you've ever been in a rush and in a taxi cab in New York, then you know how it feels to swipe your credit card at the end of the ride and wait for the receipt to pop out so you can sign it and hand it back to the driver.
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| Ben Popper / VentureBeat: |
Rep. Darrell Issa opens up secretive intellectual property “treaty”, ACTA, to the public — While Americans were busy fighting the SOPA and PIPA bills at home, nations around the globe, including the United States, were signing on to ACTA, the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement …
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Computerworld, Techdirt and The Register
| Noel Randewich / Reuters: |
Intel launches high-end server chip for the cloud — (Reuters) - Intel Corp formally launched its newest high-end “Xeon” server chip on Tuesday, seeking to capitalize on an explosion of Internet traffic sparked by Web-based cloud computing, social networking and expanding use of smartphones and tablets.
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Computerworld, Bits, GigaOM, The Tech Report, Computerworld, Digits, Inquirer, CNET and eWeek
| Chris Velazco / TechCrunch: |
New Skype For Mac Update Finally Includes Full Screen Mode, Automatic Updates — I lean on Skype (and Macs) pretty heavily, so when a fairly substantial update for the VOIP/messaging service goes live, my ears tend to perk up. The new Skype 5.6 update has me especially tickled …
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| Steve Green / VEGAS INC: |
Judge strips Righthaven of rights to 278 copyrights and its trademark — Like a gunfighter with no bullets, Las Vegas copyright company Righthaven LLC no longer has any copyrights to sue over. — A federal judge in Las Vegas on Monday stripped Righthaven of whatever interests …
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