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Apple vs. Samsung Trial Forces Companies to Open Up the Books — Everyone knows Apple and Samsung sell a lot of phones. Thanks to earnings reports there is even a pretty good sense of how many both companies sell in total each quarter. — However, the Apple-Samsung trial is providing …
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Courtroom tension boils in Apple-Samsung showdown — (Reuters) - It was the end of a long week in court in the Apple-Samsung legal war, and Samsung attorney John Quinn was trying to block his adversary, Apple attorney Bill Lee, from showing the jury a document.
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| Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune: |
Apple sold 5.7 million tablets in the U.S. last quarter, court documents show. Samsung sold 37,000 — Reports of Galaxy Tab sales, like Mark Twain's death, have been greatly exaggerated — FORTUNE — In early December 2010, dozens of reporters happily repeated Samsung's claim …
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Microsoft now using ‘Modern UI Style’ to refer to Windows 8 ‘Metro Style’ apps — Microsoft may have nixed its “Metro” branding for the new tile-based design in Windows 8 and Windows Phone, but the company appears to be split over its replacement naming. Earlier this week it was reported …
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RIM Said To Draw Interest From IBM Over Enterprise-Services Unit — Research In Motion Ltd. (RIMM)'s enterprise- services unit has attracted the interest of International Business Machines Corp. (IBM), according to two people familiar with the situation. — IBM made an informal approach … | Kara Swisher / AllThingsD: |
Exclusive: Yahoo's Mayer Eyeing Twitter's Stanton for Big Media Role — Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer has been trying to recruit Katie Jacobs Stanton, Twitter's head of international markets, to take a major job on the media side of the Silicon Valley Internet giant, according to multiple sources close to the situation.| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
Photos of purported next-gen iPhone's thinner, higher capacity battery: 3.8V, 1440 mAh — As the launch of the next iPhone approaches, lots of parts have been leaking out and we've been able to put the pieces together almost like a reverse iFixit teardown.| Meghan Casserly / Forbes: |
Here's What Happens To Google Employees When They Die — Google employee benefits last into the afterlife — It's no surprise that the employee benefits of Google are among the best in the land—free haircuts, gourmet food, on-site doctors and high-tech “cleansing” toilets are among the most talked-about … | Tricia Duryee / AllThingsD: |
DowninthedumpsVille: Morale Sinking at Zynga Along With Stock Drop — Will more Zynga employees be on their way out the door, as the company continues to struggle after going public only eight months ago? — Yes, indeed, if morale at the San Francisco-based social games company continues to sink as quickly as its stock has been.| Douglas MacMillan / Bloomberg: |
| Daniel Eran Dilger / AppleInsider: |
Apple files hint at re-engineered iMac and Mac Pro models, potentially without optical drives — Internal configuration files in Mountain Lion make apparent references to yet-unreleased new generations of Apple's iMac (iMac13,) and Mac Pro (MacPro6,), both in the context of USB booting options …
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| Danny Sullivan / Marketing Land: |
Study — Perhaps Flawed — Finds Sharing Much Higher On Twitter & Facebook, But Why Google+ Is Still Worth The Time — How popular is Google+? We could have the debate over active users again, but we've been there, done that. Instead, a new study is out that tries something different …
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Samsung Exynos 5 Dual detailed: DirectX 11 and USB 3.0 in a 32nm SOC — Samsung has released all the details about the Exynos 5 Dual, the company's upcoming dual-core 1.7GHz mobile CPU based on ARM Cortex-A15 architecture, as reported by Android Authority. The 32nm Exynos 5 Dual … | Eric Slivka / MacRumors: |
Apple Retail Stores Begin Price Matching iPhone Discounts from Carriers and Major Retailers — With a number of retailers and carriers beginning to drop prices on the iPhone as the introduction of Apple's next-generation hardware approaches, Apple has officially continued to maintain standard … | Kurt Opsahl / Electronic Frontier Foundation: |
Good News: Craigslist drops exclusive license to your posts — In a welcome course correction, craigslist has removed its short-lived provision that required users to grant it an exclusive license to—in other words granting them ownership of—every post. We were unhappily surprised …
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How to Make a Dead Cat Bounce on Twitter — I've been told that in the olden days, reporters would write articles on these things called “typewriters.” And get this: These machines weren't even connected to the Internet! — The tools have since changed. We have blogs, smartphones, digital cameras and Wi-Fi.| Jordan Golson / MacRumors: |
Blizzard's Battle.net Hacked; Company Recommends All Users Change Their Passwords — Blizzard Entertainment, the company behind Warcraft, Starcraft and Diablo, today informed customers that their internal security network had been breached. — The company doesn't believe that financial information … | Jared Newman / Computerworld: |
New Xbox to Launch Within 18 Months, Says Microsoft Job Listing — Microsoft's job listings have been a little leaky lately. First came news of next-generation Surface PCs, and now there's word of a new Xbox coming within a year and a half. — Microsoft's job listings have been a little leaky lately.
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| Devindra Hardawar / VentureBeat: |
The Mobile Payments Committee: AT&T, Verizon, Sprint, T-Mobile unite for the future of payments — The mobile payments industry is still very much like the Wild West — there's little law and order, and plenty of gunslingers itching to strike gold. But a new committee today could finally civilize the mobile payments wild lands.
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OUYA console pre-order now available for non-backers starting at $109, slated to ship in April — Miss out on your chance to snag the Android-based gaming console during OUYA's Kickstarter tour-de-force? Worry not, friends. The outfit has opened up pre-orders it promised … Sponsor Posts
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