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New iPad Arrives in the US & Nine Additional Countries on Friday — CUPERTINO, CaliforniaMarch 14, 2012Apple® today announced the new iPad®, the third generation of its category defining mobile device, will arrive at Apple's retail stores and the Apple Online Store (www.apple.com) …
| Andy Baio / Wired: |
A Patent Lie: How Yahoo Weaponized My Work — While most of the tech world was partying at South by Southwest in Austin yesterday, Yahoo announced it was filing a lawsuit against Facebook for allegedly infringing on 10 patents from their 1,000+ patent warehouse. — I'm no fan of Facebook, but this is a deplorable move.
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| Mark Cuban / blog maverick: |
I Hope Yahoo Crushes Facebook in its Patent Suit — Anyone who reads this blog knows how much I hate patent laws. I think 99pct of the time they are anti-competitive, corruptive, impede creativity and innovation and can kill small businesses. I think the ratio of patent law doing …
| Om Malik / GigaOM: |
Yahoo-Facebook patent fight: more than meets the eye — It has been an interesting day to say the least. The news of Yahoo suing Facebook for infringing its patents has drawn sharp reactions from some of the more measured voices in our industry. Here is a small sampling of reactions:
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Everyone Has The Features Yahoo's Suing Facebook For: Here They Are — Yahoo reared its patent troll head this week, and it's not just Facebook that has reason to be worried — at least, judging by the extremely broad features that it's being targeted for. Yahoo could easily sue Twitter …
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| James Whittaker / MSDN Blogs: |
Why I left Google — Ok, I relent. Everyone wants to know why I left and answering individually isn't scaling so here it is, laid out in its long form. Read a little (I get to the punch line in the 3rd paragraph) or read it all. But a warning in advance: there is no drama here …
| Julie Bosman / Media Decoder: |
After 244 Years, Encyclopaedia Britannica Stops the Presses — After 244 years, the Encyclopaedia Britannica is going out of print. — Those coolly authoritative, gold-lettered sets of reference books that were once sold door to door by a fleet of traveling salesmen and displayed …
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BuzzFeed, Britannica Blog, Associated Press, The Next Web, Geekosystem, Reuters, Boing Boing, Gizmodo UK, NevilleHobson.com, Howard Lindzon, PC Magazine, Techland, Engadget, peterme.com, ReadWriteWeb, VentureBeat, Gotta Be Mobile, The Verge, The Daily What, New York Times and ABCNEWS. Tweets: @qthrul. See also Mediagazer
| Bloomberg: |
Apple Said to Be Subpoenaed by U.S. Regulators on Google's Mobile Search — The U.S. Federal Trade Commission subpoenaed Apple Inc. (AAPL) as part of its antitrust probe of Google Inc. (GOOG), seeking information on how the computer maker uses the search engine on the iPhone and iPad, two people familiar with the matter said.| John Paczkowski / AllThingsD: |
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The Next Web, Guardian, Ars Technica, iDownloadBlog.com, textually.org and BGR. Tweets: @satariano
| Hacker News: |
New: Apply to Y Combinator without an Idea — Y Combinator is trying an experiment this funding cycle. We're going to have a separate application track for groups that don't have an idea yet. — So if the only thing holding you back from starting a startup is not having an idea for one, now nothing is holding you back.
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Tweets: @lizgannes, @semil and @counternotions
| Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft Blog: |
Microsoft: What's new in IE10 in the Windows 8 Consumer Preview — Summary: The Metro-style version of IE10 that's integrated into the Windows 8 Consumer Preview includes a number of new features added since September. Here are some of them. — Microsoft made quite a number of changes …
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| Jon Russell / The Next Web: |
HTC confirms upcoming Ice Cream Sandwich updates for 16 devices — HTC is joining Samsung in its Ice Cream Sandwich (ICS) party after the Taiwanese handset maker announce a slew of devices that are set to get upgrades to the latest Android 4.0 operating system.| Peter Kafka / AllThingsD: |
Walmart's Disc-to-Digital Hard Sell Will Be a Hard Sell — Earlier today, I described Walmart's new “disc to digital” program as DOA. Maybe I was too harsh. — Let's assume that some of you are interested in taking your old DVDs to Walmart, and paying up to $5 a disc so you can access … | Ryan Paul / Ars Technica: |
Idealism vs. pragmatism: Mozilla debates supporting H.264 video playback — The HTML5 video element promised to be a game-changer for Internet media publishing. It provided a vendor-neutral standards-based mechanism for conveying video content on the Web without the need for proprietary plugins …
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TechEye and parislemon
| John Cook / GeekWire: |
Anatomy of a news story: How Bing and Google performed when Steve Jobs resigned — A new study out today from Seattle-based Optify attempts to get behind the scenes on how Bing and Google operate when big news breaks. Obviously, that's an interesting topic for news hounds like us.
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Optify and The New Persuaders
| Peter Svensson / Associated Press: |
AT&T offers quiet settlement with iPhone user — NEW YORK (AP) — AT&T is offering to discuss a settlement to an iPhone user who won a small-claims case that alleged the company was slowing down his “unlimited” data service. — In a letter dated Friday, a law firm retained by AT&T Inc …
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DSLreports, Inquirer, TechCrunch, iPhone Buzz, everythingiCafe, PhoneArena, SlashGear, CNET, Gotta Be Mobile and BGR
| Sam Oliver / AppleInsider: |
LG supplying Apple with iPad Retina displays along with Samsung - report — Samsung isn't the only company supplying Retina displays for Apple's new iPad, with LG also manufacturing the high-resolution panels, according to a new report. — Citing a source close to the matter …
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9to5Mac, MacRumors, Reuters, MacNN, MacDailyNews and PhoneArena
| Ryan Paul / Ars Technica: |
Firefox 11 released with Style Editor and 3D DOM viewer — Mozilla has announced the availability of Firefox 11, a new version of the popular open source Web browser. The update brings several noteworthy new user-facing features and a number of technical improvements under the hood.
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Softpedia News, Engadget, MacStories, CNET and AnandTech
| Rands In Repose: |
Hacking is Important — Back in the early 90s, Borland International was the place to be an engineer. Coming off the purchase of Ashton-Tate, Borland was the third largest software company, but, more importantly, it was a legitimate competitor to Microsoft.
| Brandon Griggs / CNN: |
Pinterest: Revamped profile pages, iPad app coming soon — Austin, Texas (CNN) — You might excuse Ben Silbermann, co-founder and CEO of photo-sharing site Pinterest, if he looks a little overwhelmed these days. — Pinterest, which encourages users to collect images of their passions …
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PC World, Wall Street Journal, Mashable! and Reuters
| Dana Wollman / Engadget: |
HP Envy 14 Spectre review — In a previous life, the HP Envy 14 was a laptop's laptop: a 5.69-pound slugger with an optical drive, discrete AMD graphics and a battery that couldn't last four hours in our battery rundown test. That notebook — one of our favorites in the 2010-2011 year …
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The Verge
| Mark Sweney / Guardian: |
BSkyB probe to include Netflix and LoveFilm — Competition Commission extends deadline for final report until July to to take into account changes in the movie market — BSkyB's battle to retain its stranglehold on Hollywood films on pay-TV has been given a potential boost … | Reuters: |
European antitrust regulator questions telecoms — * Relates to meetings held among top operators since 2010 — The European competition watchdog is questioning five of Europe's biggest telecoms companies to see if a series of meetings they held since 2010 on strategy and technical co-operation constituted collusion.
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Financial Times, CNET, The Verge, MacNN and Bloomberg
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