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Google Begins Testing Its Augmented-Reality Glasses — If you venture into a coffee shop in the coming months and see someone with a pair of futuristic glasses that look like a prop from “Star Trek,” don't worry. It's probably just a Google employee testing the company's new augmented-reality glasses.
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How Facebook's Winning The War Against Yahoo, Patent By Patent — Facebook has executed a masterful response to Yahoo's patent trolling that protects it legally but still makes it look like the victim. Here I examine how for almost every patent Yahoo claims Facebook infringes upon …
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Apple preparing overhaul of its online store — Apple has begun signaling to education shoppers that it plans to relaunch and overhaul its online store in the near future, making it easier to do business. — AppleInsider was alerted on Wednesday to the notice that can be found on the top …
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HTC Evo 4G LTE is Sprint's first handset with HD voice, pre-orders start May 7th for $199.99 — The internals are not entirely dissimilar to the One X: a dual-core 1.5GHz Snapdragon S4 processor with 1GB RAM and 16GB ROM — not Tegra 3 since it lacks LTE support (not yet, at least).
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Google's Page: Apple's Android Pique ‘For Show’ — On April 3, Google (GOOG) co-founder and Chief Executive Officer Larry Page sat down with Bloomberg Businessweek to discuss his first year at the helm of the technology giant, his plans for the future, and the company's relationships with its competitors.| Jacqui Cheng / Ars Technica: |
Flashback trojan reportedly controls half a million Macs and counting — Variations of the Flashback trojan have reportedly infected more than half a million Macs around the globe, according to Russian antivirus company Dr. Web. The company made an announcement on Wednesday …
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| Amir Efrati / Digits: |
Read Yahoo CEO's Letter to Employees About Layoffs … Yahoo today confirmed this morning it plans to cut 2,000 jobs, or 14% of its 14,000 work force. — Here's CEO Scott Thompson's letter to employees: — Yahoos - — Today we are restructuring Yahoo! to give ourselves the opportunity to compete and win in our core business.| Leena Rao / TechCrunch: |
| Erica Ogg / GigaOM: |
Creativity tools: The next wave of iOS apps? — When Snapguide debuted last week it received pretty good reviews in the press. But more importantly, it got a “very warm response,” as founder Daniel Raffel put it, from new users. He's barely been sleeping, staying up to answer a constant stream …
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Apple subsidiary FileMaker releases new version of its flagship product, makes iOS version free — Apple subsidiary FileMaker has announced a new version of their flagship software product, FileMaker 12, with new database creation tools and themes. The Mac version of FileMaker 12 gain …
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Google to build its first thermal storage for a data center — Google has been more than creative when it comes to making its data centers more energy efficient and greener (seawater cooling and water recycling), and this week says it plans to implement a new energy efficient feature for a data center in Taiwan: thermal energy storage.
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Draw Something hits mobile game record as it passes 50M downloads — Draw Something, the Pictionary-style app that Zynga acquired with its $180 million purchase of OMGPOP, has surpassed 50 million downloads. — In just 50 days, the title has become the fastest-growing original mobile game of all time.
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Broad Rollout of iPhone to Small U.S. Carriers Coming on April 20 — Earlier today, we noted that nTelos Wireless, a CDMA carrier based in Waynesboro, Virginia, announced that it would begin carrying the iPhone 4S and iPhone 4 on April 20. Pricing for the device comes in at $50 below …
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| Arik Hesseldahl / AllThingsD: |
Exclusive: HP Labs Head Prith Banerjee Leaving — Prith Banerjee, a Hewlett-Packard senior vice president — and for five years the head of its research and development organization, HP Labs — is leaving the company effective April 15, according to an internal company memo obtained by AllThingsD.| Patrick Flanary / Rolling Stone: |
Neil Young Trademarks New Audio Format — Rocker developing high-def alternative to MP3's — Neil Young performs in Los Angeles. — By — They might sound like great song titles, but “21st Century Record Player,” “Earth Storage” and “Thanks for Listening” aren't new Neil Young tunes.| Tim Hoover / Denver Post: |
Federal court tosses 2010 Colorado Amazon tax law — A federal court has thrown out a 2010 Colorado law meant to spur online retailers like Amazon to collect state sales tax. — The law had already been temporarily blocked in federal court last year, but U.S. District Judge Robert Blackburn's ruling Friday permanently handcuffs it.
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IE10 in Windows 8: Can pinned Web sites truly replace Favorites? — (Credit: Screenshot by Lance Whitney/CNET) — Internet Explorer users accustomed to working with Favorites will find life a bit different in the new Windows 8 Metro version of the browser.
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| Peter Kafka / AllThingsD: |
Randi Zuckerberg and Ben Huh Bring Silicon Valley to Bravo TV — Cue up the righteous anger, Silicon Valley. Here comes a clueless effort by a big dumb TV channel to portray you world-changers as a bunch of vapid schemers. Even worse, it's from a cable TV channel …
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| Brooke Crothers / CNET: |
Intel revs up ultrabook campaign: A better MacBook? — With Intel's latest silicon due soon, the chipmaker is cranking up the marketing volume for ultrabooks, saying the skinny laptops usher in a “a new era of computing.” — The marketing campaign launched this week is the biggest in about a decade …
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| Kim-Mai Cutler / TechCrunch: |
Eight Mobile Ad Companies Get Behind ODIN In A Quest To Replace The UDID — More than a half-dozen mobile ad companies are getting behind a working group called ODIN to find a new way of tracking and identifying iOS users that still respects their privacy. This is happening because Apple …
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| Jacqui Cheng / Ars Technica: |
Can Apple give police a key to your encrypted iPhone data? Ars investigates — Does Apple have a backdoor that it can use to help law enforcement bypass your iPhone's passcode? That question became front and center this week when training materials (PDF) for the California District …
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| Amy Chozick / Media Decoder: |
Reed Hastings Will Get His HBO Go as Comcast Nears Deal on Xbox — Comcast and Time Warner are close to finalizing a deal to make the HBO Go app available on Xbox, according to several people familiar with the negotiations. — The app, which offers all of the pay cable channel's shows … | Leena Rao / TechCrunch: |
PayPal Debuts Tiered Suite Of Online, Offline And Mobile Payments Options For Small Businesses — As we heard over the past few months, PayPal is ramping up its payments options for large and small merchants. The payments giant debuted an in-store payments platform for large retailers …
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HTC wins patent for Face Unlock — HTC has basically been granted a patent on Face Unlock. This is interesting, because that feature was first added to Android by Google, in its 4.0 release. It has subsequently made its way onto the very few devices that have so far been updated … Sponsor Posts
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