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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.| Brad Molen / Engadget: |
Exclusive: Sprint iPad shows up in Best Buy's database — If you were keeping score during Apple's iPad keynote on Wednesday, you noticed AT&T and Verizon listed amongst the carriers that will get the new iPad, but what about Sprint? It's going to be rockin' LTE in the not-too-distant future, after all.
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| Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web: |
Apple has now completely sold out first online shipment of new iPads worldwide — Apple has run through its initial online shipment of the new model of iPad worldwide. The shipment dates on Apple's site have now slipped to March 19th from March 16th in the US.
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| Matt Thomas: |
Something's Unraveling, Alright — Jolie O'Dell at VentureBeat: Apple's press conference showed a brand unraveling While today's Apple event unveiled a couple new improvements to an expected lineup of products, it also revealed a certain sloppiness that was absent from former, Steve Jobs-led launches.
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| 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 … | 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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AT&T's Nokia Lumia 900 launch delayed, now set to debut on April 22nd for $99.99 — BGR exclusively reported this past January that the Nokia Lumia 900 will retail for a mind-blowing $99.99 with two-year agreement when it launches on AT&T. We also reported that the sleek smartphone was slated …
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| John P. Holdren / White House Blog: |
Todd Park Named New U.S. Chief Technology Officer — I'm very excited that President Obama today is appointing Todd Park as the new U.S. Chief Technology Officer, with the important task of applying the newest technology and latest advances to make the Federal government work better for the American people.
| Scott Gilbertson / Webmonkey: |
Twitter Catches the ‘SPDY’ Train — Twitter has embraced Google's vision of a faster web and is now serving webpages over the SPDY protocol to browsers that support it. — SPDY, pronounced “speedy,” is a replacement for the HTTP protocol — the language currently used when your browser talks to a web server.| 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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| Quentin Hardy / Bits: |
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 …
| Barb Darrow / GigaOM: |
New problem for Amazon: Sony defects to OpenStack — Updated: Sony's gaming arm is moving at least some of its workload from Amazon Web Services to the rival Rackspace OpenStack. That move shows that, although AWS remains the leader in public cloud infrastructure, it faces increasing competition …
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GeekWire and Computerworld
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Is it open? Business hours are now on foursquare! — On the prowl for a late night snack? Or a cafe that's open super early? Or a place that's still serving brunch on a late Sunday afternoon? — Now when you're looking for great places to try, you'll see a business' hours …
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App Advice, The Next Web, Tip Desk and WebProNews
| John Cook / GeekWire: |
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 … | Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
Apple to close iWork.com service on July 31st, tells users to use iCloud instead — In an email to customers, Apple has announced that their iWork.com beta service will be shutting down effective July 31, 2012. The service was launched in early 2009 in concert with iWork '09 …
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BGR, The Verge, CNET, PC World, Engadget, SlashGear, Apple, MacStories, 512 Pixels, The Next Web, Macgasm, TUAW and MacRumors
| Eric Slivka / MacRumors: |
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)| Jennifer Van Grove / VentureBeat: |
Cha-ching! Chegg raises $25M more for textbook and education platform — Textbook rental service Chegg has raised nearly $25 million in equity funding, according to a form D the company filed Friday with the Securities and Exchange commission. — “The funding is led by existing investors …
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| Zack Whittaker / Between the Lines Blog: |
Anonymous leaks Symantec's Norton anti-virus source code — Summary: Anonymous has released what appears to be the source code from Norton Antivirus 2006, in what could be a seriously damaging exercise for Symantec. — Anonymous, for which LulzSec was distantly related to …
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Business Insider and Datamation.com
| Kim-Mai Cutler / Inside Mobile Apps: |
Secrets of the acquisition process from EA and Zynga (straight from the horse's mouth!) — The corporate development folks over at Electronic Arts and Zynga shared some insider advice last night on how the acquisitions process works at both companies. — I've excerpted some advice from the panel …
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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 … | Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
Tether launches $30/year web-based tethering service for iPhones, works around Apple's restrictions — Tether made news in November, 2011 when Apple seemingly accidentally accepted their application into the iTunes App Store. The $14.99 piece of iPhone software allowed anyone to simply download …
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The Verge, Engadget, CNET, MacRumors, Tether.com, The Next Web and Electronista. Thanks:@markgurman
| Karan Mangla / Facebook: |
Under the Hood: Building the Location API — Earlier this week, we added the ability to tag location in stories published from apps on the open graph. Like with any update you make from your composer, location can now be added to any photo, link, or update written from an app back to Facebook …
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VentureBeat, All Facebook, Friending Facebook Blog and GigaOM
| The Mainichi Daily News: |
Apple cellphones become top seller in Japan for 1st time — TOKYO (Kyodo) — Cellphones made by Apple Inc. captured the largest share of mobile phones shipments in Japan for the first time in the October-December quarter, accounting for 26.6 percent, due to the popularity of the iPhone 4S smartphone model …
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Electronista, IntoMobile, MacDailyNews, PhoneArena, TUAW, The Next Web and Engadget
| Ed Bott / The Ed Bott Report Blog: |
Mozilla begins development of Firefox for Metro — Summary: Mozilla today announced that it has begun “a very large project” to build a Metro styled version of Firefox for Windows 8. Can Firefox for Metro really be ready this summer? — Mozilla's Brian R. Bondy revealed today that development has begun on Firefox for Metro.
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