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How Apple Squeezes Four Times the Number of Pixels into its New iPad Retina Display — Apple's new iPad offers multiple enhancements, the most prominent of which - and clearly the focus of Apple's marketing campaign - is the 2048 × 1536, 264 ppi retina display.| Farhad Manjoo / Slate: |
The iPad Is Unbeatable — Why Apple's tablet competitors don't stand a chance—and maybe never will. — Apple CEO Tim Cook announcing the newest iPad — Imagine you run a large technology company not named Apple. Let's say you're Steve Ballmer, Michael Dell, Meg Whitman, Larry Page, or Intel's Paul Otellini.
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New 4G iPad seen costing $310 to make, lowering margins — UBM sees Apple making less on new iPad — A UBM TechInsights preliminary breakdown of the new iPad's costs has suggested Apple is at least taking a slight price hit to build it. It believed that a 16GB, iPad 4G model cost about $310 in raw components.
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| Trevor Berg / The Dropbox Blog: |
A fresh new Dropbox on the web — Over the past few weeks, we've been quietly rolling out a major redesign of the Dropbox website. Today we turned it up to 11, and anyone who signs into dropbox.com will see a simpler, more powerful, and more beautiful web experience. Here's what we came up with:| Geoff Duncan / Digital Trends: |
Why are companies defecting from Google Maps? — First Foursquare and now Apple are scaling back their use of Google Maps. Why are major players starting to back way from Google's nearly ubiquitous mapping service? — In recent years, Google Maps has transformed itself … | Ernesto / TorrentFreak: |
Leaked: Police Plan to Raid The Pirate Bay — In the spring of 2006 a team of 65 Swedish police personnel entered a datacenter in Stockholm. The officers were tasked with shutting down the largest threat to the entertainment industry at the time - The Pirate Bay's servers.
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T-Mobile executive: Key to fixing industry is removing device subsidies — Cole Brodman, CMO of T-Mobile, speaks at the GeekWire Summit in Seattle (Karen Ducey Photography) — As mobile devices become more powerful, prices continue to fall. And while consumers now have more computing power …
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Apple TV now treats DVD digital copies as iTunes purchases — Previous Apple TV hardware still limited to 720p — Users trying out the new Apple TV software update v5.0 have uncovered a significant change in the way the unit (both the previous 2011 version and the new 2012 edition) handle … | Ryan Tate / Gawker: |
Twitter's Secret History As the World's Worst Tech or Media Business — Twitter Inc.'s been spinning quite a turnaround story in the press lately. The microblogging service “has finally turned a corner,” declares the cover of Bloomberg Businessweek. “It's a juggernaut,” a company executive tells the magazine.
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Apple Investing $300 Million in Austin, Texas to Add 3,600 More Workers — The State of Texas today announced that Apple has committed to spend $304 million to expand its operations in Austin, seeking to add 3,600 employees to its facilities there. … Apple's campus in Austin, Texas (Source: Flickr/The Pug Father)
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| Matt Brian / The Next Web: |
Microsoft's next-gen Xbox will reportedly drop disc drives, launching in 2013 — Microsoft has stayed quiet on its plans to launch a successor to its wildly popular Xbox 360 console, but a new report today has suggested that the company will do away with the traditional disc drive for its next-generation console and launch in 2013.| Iljitsch van Beijnum / Ars Technica: |
iTunes 1080p video looks better, saves space using better H.264 compression — In the comments on yesterday's AppleTV story, many people doubted whether 1080p support in the third-generation AppleTV will be very useful. That question becomes even more relevant when observing the file sizes …
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MacRumors, iClarified, everythingiCafe and Computerworld
| Chad Bray / Wall Street Journal: |
FBI's ‘Sabu’ Hacker Was a Model Informant — As soon as he was caught, an influential computer hacker agreed to become a government informant and “literally worked around the clock” to help federal agents nab an elusive collective of alleged cyber criminals who have launched online attacks against companies …
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Betabeat, New York Times, CNET, Neowin.net and Gizmodo
| Hubert Nguyen / Ubergizmo: |
Apple A5X and the great quad-core confusion, explained — When Apple announced the New iPad, the part about the Apple A5X chip has created a lot of confusion, hype, joy and sometime sheer anger: first, many now believe that the new iPad is a Quad-Core tablet and secondly …
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Facebook Co-Founder Chris Hughes Is Buying ‘The New Republic’ — Social media meets old media: — Saying that he's convinced “the demand for long-form, quality journalism is strong in our country,” Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes tells NPR's Steve Inskeep that he's buying The New Republic.| Robin Wauters / The Next Web: |
Green Dot acquires location-based services company Loopt for $43.4 million in cash — In a move straight out of left field, Green Dot, a U.S. provider of prepaid debit cards, has acquired Loopt for total consideration of $43.4 million in cash. — The press release is below, we're updating this post.| Larry Dignan / ZDNet: |
Cloud's price race to zero: Microsoft cuts Azure pricing, eyes Amazon — Summary: Cloud computing costs are falling fast for IT buyers and are already on par with electricity rates. — Microsoft on Friday cut pricing on its Azure storage as you go service and its extra small compute effort.
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Advertising: Google Remixes Four Classic Campaigns - Advertising — GOOGLE is going all Marty McFly on Madison Avenue, sponsoring a back-to-the-future project that reimagines classic campaigns from the “Mad Men” age for modern sensibilities — and technologies.| Chris Chang / M.I.C. Gadget: |
China Telecom Starts Selling iPhone 4S, Receives Over 200,000 Pre-orders — Major Chinese carrier China Telecom starts selling Apple's iPhone 4S in China today, and the phone is available for sale at 2,850 retail outlets of China Telecom, and from local electronics retailers.
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MacRumors, 9to5Mac, iLounge, Business Insider, The Next Web, Fortune, MacNN, TUAW and iClarified
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H.P. Attempts to Take On Amazon's Cloud Service — Within two months, Hewlett-Packard will offer a large and powerful cloud computing service similar to Amazon Web Services, but with more business-oriented features, according the head of the project. — “We're not just building a cloud …
| Jenna Wortham / New York Times: |
New Apps Connect to Friends Nearby — Smartphones have become indispensable for some people to find nearby cool new places for a bite or a drink. — Social networks like Facebook help those people connect with friends and colleagues. — What if those two features were merged into one service …
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Germany Wants To Charge Search Engines To Use News Excerpts — Germany's government wants search engines and news aggregators to pay news publishers for using pieces of their material. — Its coalition committee has resolved that a collecting society should charge royalties to re-publishers of news material.| Paul Sawers / The Next Web: |
Vevo rolls out new “bigger, smarter, faster” video platform, and makes Facebook mandatory — One week after we reported that Vevo users would soon only be able to log in using their Facebook credentials, the video-streaming website is rolling out an entirely new version of the platform, that's “bigger, smarter and faster” than ever.
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