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| Sachin Agarwal / Twitter Blog: |
Because you have more to show — Starting today you can make your presence on Twitter more meaningful with new Twitter profiles. Upload an all-new header photo on mobile apps for iPad, iPhone and Android or twitter.com, and the same image will appear whenever anyone views your profile on the web or these apps.
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| Sung Hu Kim / Twitter Blog: |
Expand your experience: New Twitter for iPad — Today you can download the new Twitter for iPad. We've rebuilt the app from the ground up to make it fast, beautiful and easy to use. Twitter for iPad brings you closer to what's happening all over the world, and makes it easy to keep …
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| Wilson Rothman / Digital Life: |
Twitter announces new profile pages, iPad app — In an appearance Tuesday on TODAY, Twitter CEO Dick Costolo revealed a new look for Twitter's profile pages. The fresh take won't just be seen on twitter.com, either, but will be visible on mobile apps as well, including Twitter's all-new, totally rebuilt iPad app.
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| Jeff Blagdon / The Verge: |
Motorola announces RAZR i with Intel processor — Today in London, Motorola is announcing the first fruits of its multi-year, multi-device partnership with Intel — a revamped Droid RAZR M called the RAZR i. While the two phones look almost identical externally, the most important characteristic …
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| Mat Smith / Engadget: |
Motorola's RAZR i: benchmarking Intel's first 2GHz Medfield smartphone — Motorola were quick to tell us that we're testing on pre-release RAZR i here — software updates may arrive before the device does, but these figures below should give you a good estimate at what the 2GHz Intel processor can do.
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| Michael Zhang / PetaPixel: |
Apple's Jonathan Ive to Design a Single Uber-Limited Edition Leica M — Do you love the design of Apple products? Do you have infinitely deep pockets? If you said yes to both questions, then I have some good news for you. — At Leica's special event last night, after the new Leica M was announced …
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| Bill Carter / New York Times: |
Internet Archive Amasses All TV News Since 2009 — Inspired by a pillar of antiquity, the Library of Alexandria, Brewster Kahle has a grand vision for the Internet Archive, the giant aggregator and digitizer of data, which he founded and leads. — “We want to collect all the books … | Horace Dediu / asymco: |
Is the iPhone good enough? — We don't want to make a new phone. We want to make a much better phone. - Jony Ive, video at iPhone 5 launch event Disruption theory has taught us that the greatest danger facing a company is making a product better than it needs to be.
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| Richard Lai / Engadget: |
Pegatron reportedly nabs 50 to 60 percent of iPad mini orders, breaks up Foxconn's monopoly — While folks are waiting for their precious new iPhones to arrive on their doorsteps, word has it that the leaky iPad mini has unsurprisingly entered mass production, but with a twist.| Larry Dignan / ZDNet: |
Asus Windows 8 tablet pricing comes in high; Demand likely low — Summary: Asus' Windows 8 tablet pricing will start at $599 and run to $1,299. In other words, tablets will be more than laptops in some cases without any enterprise heft to justify a premium. — Larry Dignan| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Dice Holdings Pays $20M Cash For Slashdot, SourceForge And Freecode From Geeknet — Some consolidation afoot in online media: Dice Holdings, the career website owner, has announced that it has bought the online media business of Geeknet, which includes the high-profile tech websites Slashdot, SourceForge and Freecode.
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| Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch: |
Yahoo!s Now Removing The ® From Their Logo. Is The Exclamation Mark Next? — File in “Silicon Valley Things That Are Amazing/Ridiculous"*: Apparently free iPhones and food aren't the only cultural changes being enacted in Marissa Mayer's Yahoo!® ...
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| Jon Russell / The Next Web: |
Dropbox for iOS gets Facebook, Twitter sharing and AirPrint support — Dropbox has given its iOS offering a little more social spice after it quietly updated the app with options to share content to Facebook and Twitter, while there is now support for AirPrint.
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| Peter Kafka / AllThingsD: |
Rupert Murdoch Makes Peace with “Pirate” Google, Starts Selling Movies — At the beginning of 2012, Rupert Murdoch was railing against Google, labeling it the “piracy leader.” — But that was January! Now Murdoch's 20th Century Fox studio has cut a deal to sell and rent its movies … | Kevin Burke: |
Virgin Mobile fails web security 101, leaves six million subscriber accounts wide open — tl;dr Anyone who knows your Virgin Mobile USA phone number can: — see who you've been calling and texting, — change the handset associated with your number, — change your address, your email address, or your password,| Stacey Higginbotham / GigaOM: |
AT&T will be slapped with net neutrality complaint over FaceTime blocking — Free Press, Public Knowledge, and the New America Foundation's Open Technology Institute have informed AT&T that they intend to file a complaint with the Federal Communications Commission against the wireless carrier for violating network neutrality rules.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Office 2013 packages start at $139.99 or $99.99 per year for a subscription version — Microsoft is revealing the final pricing structure for its Office 2013 packages today. After introducing a preview of Office 2013 in July, Microsoft is planning to offer a subscription version of Office 2013 … | Myriam Joire / Engadget: |
LG launches Optimus G flagship smartphone: quad-core S4 Pro, LTE, 2GB RAM, ICS, 13MP camera (updated) — It's official! Today in Seoul LG is announcing its latest flagship smartphone, the Optimus G. The 8.45mm (0.33-inch) thin handset — which has been rumored for weeks …
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| Stuart Dredge / Music Ally: |
Amazon Cloud Player launches in the UK, France and Germany — Amazon has launched its Cloud Player in the UK, France and Germany, enabling consumers here to listen to music stored in Amazon's cloud music service. We saw a few tweets and an aside in an email promoting tomorrow's Entertainment … | Brooke Crothers / CNET: |
Apple's A6 chip development detailed — Analyst Linley Gwennap explains the development Apple's A6 in the iPhone 5. — How did Apple arrive at the A6 chip in the iPhone 5? A longtime chip analyst documents the long and winding road. — While endorsing a report that the A6 is a unique Apple design …
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| Emil Protalinski / The Next Web: |
Wikimedia enables ebook export feature on Wikipedia for your offline reading pleasure — Wikimedia today announced that it has enabled a new EPUB export feature on Wikipedia, but only on the English version of the site. You can use the new feature to collate your personal collection … | Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Two men admit to $10 million hacking spree on Subway sandwich shops — The Romanians admitted their role in ring that compromised some 146,000 cards. — Two Romanian men have admitted to participating in an international conspiracy that hacked into credit-card payment terminals …
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| Josh Lowensohn / CNET: |
Judge won't dissolve U.S. Samsung tablet injunction — yet — The judge in the U.S. case between Apple and Samsung says she can't dissolve a 3-month-old injunction on Samsung's tablet. — Samsung's efforts to dissolve a 3-month-old ban on its once-flagship tablet have been put on ice by a U.S. District Court judge.
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| Robin Wauters / The Next Web: |
Nuance buys NASDAQ-listed voice technology firm Ditech for $22.5m ($1.45 per share) — One NASDAQ-listed firm buying another as voice and language solutions provider Nuance this morning announced that it has agreed to acquire San Jose, California-based Ditech Networks (Ditech) …
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| Jon Russell / The Next Web: |
Lenovo buys US-based Stoneware to strengthen its cloud computing services — Lenovo has moved to strengthen its cloud computing capabilities and ‘PC Plus’ strategy after the Chinese tech firm announced a deal to buy US-based Stoneware, completing its first ever software acquisition.| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
JetBlue to roll out in-flight Wi-Fi in Q1 2013, will launch free of charge — JetBlue travelers, the wait for in-flight W-Fi is nearly over: an internal company email today revealed the airline intends to roll out high-speed wireless networking in the first quarter of 2013.
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