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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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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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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.
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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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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 … | Foursquare Blog: |
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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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 …
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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.| 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)
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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 …
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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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| 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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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.
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| 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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| 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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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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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 … | 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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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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