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Loeb Demands Yahoo Board Fire CEO by Monday Over False Resume — Now that activist shareholder Dan Loeb has discredited Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson's educational credentials and credibility, he's going full bore after the company's directors. — In a new letter to Yahoo's board of directors today …
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| Sara Forden / Bloomberg: |
Google Said to Face Fine by U.S. Over Apple Safari Breach — Google Inc. (GOOG) is negotiating with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission over how big a fine it will have to pay for its breach of Apple Inc. (AAPL)'s Safari Internet browser, a person familiar with the matter said.| Anand Lal Shimpi / AnandTech: |
The iPad 2,4 Review: 32nm Brings Better Battery Life — When Apple launched the 3rd generation iPad (as the new iPad), it also dropped the price of the entry-level 16GB WiFi iPad 2 to $399. Apple's products tend to hold their values exceptionally well, so this two-tablet strategy made sense.| Sharif Sakr / Engadget: |
Buying an iPad 2? Here's the rarer, more efficient specimen you need to (somehow) track down — Not all iPads are made equal, even if they're all packaged and branded identically. There's a major new mutation within the 2nd generation tablet and it brings significantly better battery life.
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| Brian X. Chen / Bits: |
AT&T Chief Regrets Offering Unlimited Data for iPhone — When Randall Stephenson, AT&T's chief executive, spoke about the state of the wireless industry at a conference this week, he shared some surprisingly frank comments about the iPhone. In particular, he said that he wished the company …
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Jury in Oracle v. Google Has Reached a Verdict on All Questions but One - Will Try Again Monday — The jury in Oracle v. Google is reentering the courtroom, according to the tweeting journalists at the courtroom, asking what to do. They have reached a unanimous verdict on all the questions except for one.
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FBI: We need wiretap-ready Web sites — now — The FBI is asking Internet companies not to oppose a controversial proposal that would require firms, including Microsoft, Facebook, Yahoo, and Google, to build in backdoors for government surveillance. — In meetings with industry representatives …
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| Eric Mack / CNET: |
Galaxy Tab 2 10.1 up for preorder now, in stores May 13 — There aren't any big upgrades to the Galaxy Tab 2 10.1, but the price has taken a big drop. — (Credit: Samsung) — The follow-up to the big boy of Android tablets, the 16GB Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 10.1 can be preordered online today …
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| Robin Wauters / The Next Web: |
Nokia and execs hit with lawsuit alleging fraud over meager Lumia sales, failed turnaround — Troubled Finnish phone giant Nokia is increasingly troubled, unicorns be damned. — The latest bad news for the phone maker: along with high-ranking executives Stephen Elop (CEO) and Timo Ihamuotila … | Chris Velazco / TechCrunch: |
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| Dustin Curtis: |
Facebook's numbers — I like to look at raw numbers every once in a while, without external influence, to recalibrate my ability to judge the magnitude of things. Here are some of the numbers from Facebook's most recent S-1 filing (published on May 2nd) that I think are important as metrics …
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook Messenger Apps Get More Life-Like, Now Show If Someone's Read Your Message — Facebook thinks mobile messaging should feel like you're having a face-to-face conversation, so today it updates its Messenger for iOS and Android apps with the ability to see if someone's read your message …
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| Carl Franzen / TPM IdeaLab: |
How OpenStreetMap Got Apple To Give It Due Credit — Apple has finally given credit where credit was due: To OpenStreetMap, a crowdsourced world map that Apple recently began using in its iPhoto app without proper attribution. — “Apple attributes OSM in iPhoto,” OpenStreetMap's official …
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| Andrew Feinberg / Hillicon Valley: |
Verizon moves toward 911 texting — Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski praised Verizon Wireless on Friday for selecting a vendor to help deploy its first-in-the-nation implementation of its “text-to-911” service. — The service will allow wireless phone users …
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| Nick Farrell / TechEye: |
John McAfee arrested in Belize — John McAfee, who founded McAfee Antivirus, is in trouble with a country which he has given millions of dollars to help out. — McAfee lives in Belize and has even given the country's Coastguard a patrol ship. — Now he says that he has become a target …
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| David Goldman / CNNMoney.com: |
Verizon reps push 4G Android over iPhone — NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — Want to buy an iPhone? Verizon would really, really like you to consider an alternative. — Anecdotal evidence is stacking up on chat forums and other outlets from people who say that Verizon Wireless' sales representatives …
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| David Kravets / Wired: |
Feds Seized Hip-Hop Site for a Year, Waiting for Proof of Infringement — Federal authorities who seized a popular hip-hop music site based on the assertions from the Recording Industry Association of America that it was linking to four “pre-release” music tracks gave it back more than a … | Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: |
Microsoft to Botmasters: Abandon Your Inboxes — If the miscreants behind the ZeuS botnets that Microsoft sought to destroy with a civil lawsuit last month didn't already know that the software giant also wished to unmask them, they almost certainly do now.
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Study: Apple iPad Accounts for 94.64% of all Tablet Web Traffic — What do you think of when you hear the word “tablet”? For most it would be Apple or more specifically the iPad. When the iPad was released in 2010 it quickly gained popularity amongst the masses.
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