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| Jordan Kahn / 9to5Mac: |
Apple's in-app purchasing process circumvented by Russian hacker — Today we received some disturbing tips that a Russian developer has published a method of obtaining in-app purchases from iOS apps for free. First noticed by Russian blog i-ekb.ru, the “in-app proxy"method does not require a jailbreak …
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Inside Mobile Apps, ZDNet, PC World, The Loop, Naked Security, Gizmodo, The Register, Ars Technica, iPhone, Daring Fireball, PadGadget, TechSpot, The TechBlock, Gotta Be Mobile, VentureBeat, Examiner, IntoMobile, Pocketnow, Bits, AllThingsD, Wall St. Cheat Sheet, TechnoBuffalo, WebProNews, BGR, CNET, iClarified, PC Magazine, GigaOM, TUAW, MacNN, Mashable!, Apple, SlashGear, everythingiCafe, The Next Web, ThinkiOS, The Verge, Appolicious Advisor, Apple Bitch, Business Insider, Inquirer, Pulse2 Technology …, iDownloadBlog.com, Slashdot and ZDNet
| The Next Web: |
How a flaw in Apple's in-app purchase process enabled more than 30,000 illegal virtual transactions — Earlier today a method came to light that allows Apple device users to ‘purchase’ any kind of in-app content for free. The content can be obtained without “hacking” the device and cannot … | Dalton Caldwell: |
Announcing an audacious proposal — The overwhelmingly positive response to my blogpost, What Twitter could have been has been inspiring. The post has generated 80K pageviews thus far. Without really meaning to, I touched a nerve. The responses to my post largely fell into two camps.
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TechCrunch and Dustin Curtis. Tweets: @mathewi, @semil, @gruber, @hunterwalk, @daltonc, @jason, @carnage4life and @davewiner
| Kevin Rose / Google+: |
If you haven't heard the news, I'm thrilled to announce that Digg is now in the hands of Betaworks — (makers of bitly, chartbeat, news.me, and other great products). I've been a big fan of John Borthwick ( http://foundation.kr/11/ ) for awhile now and I'm excited to see where his team takes the product!
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Pulse2 Technology …, The TechBlock, VentureBeat and The Atlantic Online
Tweets: @rossneumann, @scottbeale and @drewcurtis
See also Mediagazer| Spencer E. Ante / Digits: |
Kevin Rose: Digg Failed Because ‘Social Media Grew Up’ — In his first interview since the remains of fallen social media Digg star were sold to Betaworks, Digg's founder Kevin Rose said he sold some company shares during the its venture-capital financing rounds but “did not make a lot of money.”| Reuters: |
Google's Nexus tablet selling fast across retail chains — (Reuters) - Google Inc's “Nexus 7” tablet is off to an encouraging start, with major retailers running out of the gadgets as the Internet company's first entry in an increasingly crowded market showed up in U.S. stores on Friday.
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| Salvador Rodriguez / Los Angeles Times: |
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Droid Life, Android Police, Android Phone Fans, Gotta Be Mobile, TechCrunch, Pocketables, CNET, Liliputing, Gizmodo, Android Central, IntoMobile, DroidMatters.com, IntoMobile, The TechBlock, Ubergizmo, Tech Daily Dose, Ars Technica, Engadget, 9to5Google and Pulse2 Technology …. Tweets: @googlenexus
| Florian Mueller / FOSS Patents: |
Apple contacted U.S. carriers and retailers to demand removal of banned Samsung products — During the last 24 hours there have been various filings with the Federal Circuit in the cases relating to Apple's preliminary injunctions against the Galaxy Tab 10.1 and the Galaxy Nexus smartphone.
| John Paczkowski / AllThingsD: |
RIM Is Bleeding Developers — Research In Motion's sad decline is having all manner of ill effects on the company's long-suffering developer community. — Disillusioned with repeated delays to RIM's next generation BlackBerry 10 operating system and the company's ebbing smartphone market share … | Horace Dediu / asymco: |
How many Lumia phones were sold in the US? — Nielsen and comScore survey US consumers through different methodologies, however they both try to paint a picture of the smartphone patterns of ownership and consumption. — I regularly report on comScore's data as it's published on a monthly basis.
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AppleInsider, PhoneArena, The TechBlock, Business Insider, Pocketnow, CNET and Daring Fireball
| Ben Kuchera / Penny Arcade Report: |
Ads up, games down: The ugly, profitable details about Xbox Live advertising — Xbox Live is the online platform for the Xbox 360 that allows people to play against each other online, chat across games, and manage their friend list. Xbox Live is also a for-pay service …
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The Next Web, Kotaku and Slashdot
| Cotton Delo / AdAge: |
Facebook Starts Automating Home-Page Ad Buying — Premium Ads Now Available Through Third-Party Sellers — Two months after announcing it would automate the buying of premium ads that appear on user home pages and in their news feeds, Facebook has opened the floodgates.
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| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
Apple reverses course: Apple products go back on EPEAT, letter from SVP Bob Mansfield — Following complaints, Apple has reversed its decision to pull its elgible products from the EPEAT standard. Apple's SVP of Engineering has issued a letter:
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TECHGEEK.com.au, Apple, Mashable!, Business Insider, TUAW, Engadget, MacRumors, BuzzFeed, Geek Beat Technology News, PC Magazine, TechCrunch, CNET, AllThingsD, LAPTOP Magazine, ZDNet, MacDailyNews, Daring Fireball, The Next Web, Macworld, GigaOM, The Verge and BGR. Tweets: @mayoredlee
| Ryan Paul / Ars Technica: |
Korean company's tiny quad-core ARM Linux computer packs a punch at $129 — Hardkernel's little Linux computer, with a quad-core Samsung Exynos CPU — Little Linux computers have attracted a lot of interest from hobbyists this year. The $35 Raspberry Pi ARM board, which met with huge demand …
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Mobile Magazine, SlashGear, Gizmodo and Liliputing
| Liz Gannes / AllThingsD: |
Amazing Alex Shoots to No. 1 on First Day — Rovio doesn't need birds to fly it to the top of the app charts. Its new non-Angry Birds game, Amazing Alex, is already No. 1 in many regions, just a day after it was released, with particular strength on iOS. — The iPhone version of Amazing Alex …
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BGR, VatorNews, SlashGear and VentureBeat
| Nicole Perlroth / Bits: |
Skout Reopens Social App for Teenagers — Just one month ago, Skout, a mobile app, was forced to close down its social network for 13- to 17-year-olds when three adults were arrested after using the app to prey on minors and, authorities said, sexually assault them.
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Venture Capital Dispatch and VentureBeat
| Eric Slivka / MacRumors: |
Retina MacBook Pro Shipping Estimates Improving for the First Time — For the first time since its launch just over one month ago, Apple's Retina MacBook Pro has begun to see improvements in shipping estimates for new orders placed through the company's online store.
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Apple Bitch, 9to5Mac, Los Angeles Times, BGR, TUAW, Macgasm, AppleInsider, MacNN and Computerworld
| Drew Olanoff / The Next Web: |
LinkedIn Today gets Facebook-esque commenting, liking and trending features — Now that LinkedIn has gotten rid of all of the Twitter spam from its service, the company is now focusing on bubbling up great content via its “Today” product. — Today, the company announced some new social features for Today … | Sam Byford / The Verge: |
Facebook for Android update lets you use the front-facing camera — Facebook version 1.97 for Android is here, and it comes with the usual array of minor interface tweaks and bug fixes. One feature of note, however, is that you're now able to take and upload photos using your device's front-facing camera.
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CNET, 9to5Google, Electricpig.co.uk and fiercemobilecontent.com
| Danny Sullivan / CNET: |
Does an app store's size matter if content is the killer app? — Apple claims 500,000 apps in its App Store for the iPhone and over 700,000 when iPad apps are added in. Google Play claims 600,000 apps for Android. Windows Phone is estimated to have 100,000 apps in its marketplace.
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