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Nokia should fire Elop and the board should go too - Jean-Louis Gassée — Stephen Elop ought to be fired as the CEO of Nokia and the rest of the board should join him, according to Silicon Valley veteran Jean-Louis Gassée (pictured). — “I think that Elop will have to go … | Horace Dediu / asymco: |
Building and dismantling the Windows advantage — When the Macintosh was launched in 1984, computers running the MS-DOS operating system were nearing a dominant position in the market. Having launched in 1981 as the IBM PC, they were quickly cloned and four years later “PCs” were selling at the rate of 2 million/yr.
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Thousands could lose internet access July 9 due to virus — On July 9, thousands of Canadians and hundreds of thousands of people worldwide could be without access to the internet after the FBI shuts down temporary DNS servers used to assist victims of a massive internet fraud ring.
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Here's Why It Really Sucks To Be An App Reviewer For Apple — Apple's app review process gets a lot of hate from developers and customers alike, but before you judge Apple's reviewers too harshly, consider what they have to put up with. — Mike Lee, a former senior engineer at Apple …
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UK Google Nexus 7 tablets won't feature music, magazines or TV shows — GOOGLE'S NEXUS 7 TABLET won't arrive with all of the company's touted features including TV shows, music and magazines, Google has confirmed, making its £159 price-tag seem like less of a bargain.
| Bryan Bishop / The Verge: |
iOS and Mac apps reportedly crashing due to corrupt App Store updates — One of Apple's selling points with its iOS and Mac App Stores is that it can provide a safe, trusted location for users to update their apps knowing any changes have been vetted by Apple — though in the last few days …
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| David Pogue / New York Times: |
Nexus 7, Google's New Tablet, Seriously Challenges the iPad — You can love Apple or you can hate Apple, but one thing's for sure: its favorite game is Lead the Industry. And the industry's favorite game is Follow the Leader. — Steve Jobs hated the mimicry.
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L.A. Cops Embrace Crime-Predicting Algorithm — A recent study suggests that computers could be better than seasoned police analysts at predicting when and where crime will strike next in a busy city. Software tested in Los Angeles was twice as good as human analysts at predicting … | Melanie Lee / Reuters: |
Get in line: one Apple store per 216 million Chinese — (Reuters) - Apple Inc (AAPL.O) has more retail stores in Pennsylvania than in all of China - where it earns a fifth of its revenue - and a slow pace of expansion may cost the firm more than just sales.
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iPad3.com domain quickly turned over to Apple's IP lawyers following complaint — The domain iPad3.com is now in the hands of Apple's IP lawyers at Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton. It appears the previous name's owner didn't even want to wait for an arbitration panel to issue the inevitable decision …
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Rakuten begins Pinterest collaboration, adds ‘Pin It’ buttons to three key Web services in Japan — Japan-headquartered e-commerce giant Rakuten has taken its first step to collaborate with Pinterest, the social network that it recently invested $100 million in, after announcing that three … | Florian Mueller / FOSS Patents: |
Galaxy Nexus ban remains in effect (for now), Apple posts $95.6M bond, Google stops selling — There are no surprises at this point with respect to Apple's U.S. preliminary injunction against the Galaxy Nexus. — At close of business on Tuesday, Judge Koh denied Samsung's motion to stay …
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