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Enabling FaceTime Over Our Mobile Broadband Network — Last week, we confirmed plans to make FaceTime available over our mobile broadband network for our AT&T Mobile Share data plan customers. — FaceTime is a video chat application that has been pre-loaded onto every AT&T iPhone since the introduction of iPhone 4.
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| Chris Ziegler / The Verge: |
AT&T responds predictably to FaceTime controversy, says claims of FCC violations are ‘another knee jerk reaction’ — AT&T's outspoken senior vice president of regulatory affairs Bob Quinn is coming out with guns blazing on the outcry over the company's recently-announced restrictions on FaceTime …
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Facebook Officially Launches “Sponsored Results” Search Ads — While it hasn't been publicly announced, Facebook is now telling marketers the Sponsored Results search typeahead ad unit it began testing last month “launches today”. It lets marketers target users searching for specific apps … | Ellis Hamburger / The Verge: |
Facebook debuts two-pane Messages view, adds keyboard shortcuts — Facebook today announced the launch of a new two-paned view for its Messages page that consolidates all of your conversations onto one screen. Facebook's new Messages view takes a page out of Apple's book …
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| Jordan Golson / MacRumors: |
Apple Pulls ‘Genius’ TV Ads from YouTube and Apple.com — Apple has removed the controversial ‘Genius’ TV spots from its YouTube channel and from the Apple.com marketing page for the Mac. The ads were poorly received with some critics asking if it was a good idea to make potential customers seem clueless.
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| John Ribeiro / PC World: |
Android App Websites Seized in the U.S. for Alleged Copyright Violations — U.S. law enforcement officials said on Tuesday that three websites that were allegedly distributing illegal copies of copyrighted Android cell phone apps had been seized in what is described as the first such operation against cellphone apps marketplaces.
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| Tricia Duryee / AllThingsD: |
PayPal Trumps Square's Deal With Starbucks by Partnering With Discover — Under a new partnership being announced with Discover, PayPal is super-sizing the number of merchant locations it will accepted at in the U.S. to more than seven million. — “The whole industry has been looking for a landmark … | Rob Wong / Hulu Blog: |
Launching a New Hulu: A Fresh Look for the Shows You Love — In 1992, the great comedian Phil Hartman threw on his Arkansas sweatshirt and walked into a McDonald's. He was on the set of “Saturday Night Live” and doing his best Bill Clinton impression, continuing the show's grand tradition of Presidential lampoons.
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The U.S. election, live on YouTube — Today we're introducing the YouTube Elections Hub, a one-stop channel for key political moments from now through the upcoming U.S. election day on November 6. You can watch all of the live speeches from the floor of the upcoming Republican … | Sven Grundberg / Wall Street Journal: |
Spotify to Launch in Canada — STOCKHOLM—Spotify is set to launch its popular music-streaming service in Canada, and has further plans to possibly expand into Asia and South America, according to the Anglo-Swedish company's recently published annual accounts.
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| Neil Hughes / AppleInsider: |
47% of US consumers feel they don't need 4G LTE — Though Apple's next iPhone is widely expected to have high-speed 4G long-term evolution connectivity, a new survey has found that nearly half of American consumers feel they don't need 4G LTE. — The details come from a survey …
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| Dina Bass / Bloomberg: |
Verizon Is Said To Offer Nokia Windows 8 Phone This Year — Verizon Wireless plans to sell a new Nokia (NOK1V) Oyj phone with Microsoft Corp. (MSFT)'s Windows 8 software this year, marking the first time it has released a Windows device since May 2011, a person with knowledge of the matter said.
| Roger Cheng / CNET: |
RIM: Next server will work with all BlackBerry devices — Research in Motion says its BlackBerry Enterprise Server 10 will be able to support existing devices, the PlayBook, and BlackBerry 10 phones. — Research in Motion said today that the next iteration of its BlackBerry Enterprise Server …
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| Claire Cain Miller / NYT Bits: |
YouTube Will Now Let Mobile Users Choose Whether to Watch Ads — People often visit Web sites on their mobile phones as much or more than they do on computers. But that leaves Web companies with a challenge: how to make money on phones, where there is less space for advertisements and people have less patience for them?| Colleen Taylor / TechCrunch: |
Kayak First Post-IPO Earnings: $76.9 Million Sales Beats Expectations — Updated: Online travel search engine Kayak today posted its financial results for the second quarter of 2012, its first earnings report as a public company since its well-received initial public offering last month.
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| Natasha Singer / New York Times: |
Web Sites Accused of Collecting Data on Children — A coalition of nearly 20 children's advocacy, health and public interest groups plans to file complaints with the Federal Trade Commission on Wednesday, asserting that some online marketing to children by McDonald's and four …
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| Ben Sisario / New York Times: |
How ‘Call Me Maybe’ and Social Media Are Upending Music — For decades, the song of the summer would emerge each year following a pattern as predictable as the beach tides. — Pop radio would get it rolling before school let out, and soon the song — inevitably one with a big … | Alex Fitzpatrick / Mashable!: |
Who's Behind That Political Ad? This App Tells You — You know the ultra-useful Shazam and SoundCloud apps that let you hold your cellphone up to a speaker to instantly identify the song title and artist? A new app released Wednesday is doing exactly the same thing — but for political ads instead of music.
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| Christina Farr / VentureBeat: |
CouchSurfing, now a ‘social travel network’, gets a $15M boost — CouchSurfing, a website that connects travelers with friendly, foreign strangers willing to share their home, is proving to be profitable business. Today, the company raised an additional $15 million, bringing its total funds raised in the past year to $22.6 million.
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| Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web: |
The FTC has closed its investigation of the Facebook acquisition of Instagram, the deal goes ahead — The FTC has reported that its investigation into the acquisition of Instagram by Facebook has concluded, and that the deal may proceed. — Though the Instagram deal was initially valued …
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