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New Apple maps app under fire from users — Apple's map app renames the town of Hagley as Dudley - which is more than seven miles away — Inaccuracies and misplaced towns and cities in Apple's new map software have provoked anger from users. — In June Apple announced it would stop using Google Maps …
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| Piers Dillon Scott / The Sociable: |
That's not an airport, it's a farm - Irish Minister for Justice considers Apple's iOS 6 Maps dangerous — Ireland's Minister for Justice has a few concerns with Apple's new iOS6 map application. The main one being that iOS6′s new mapping app identifies Airfield Garden, a working farm in a residential area, as an actual airport.| Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land: |
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| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
HP marches out an army of Windows 8 consumer and business PCs — Hewlett-Packard is introducing a dozen new computers and accessories today that represent the core of its line-up for Microsoft's Windows 8 operating system coming on Oct. 26. — This new pack of computers isn't even HP's whole line-up.| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft's Surface challenge: Proving it's a premium product worth a premium price — Summary: I think there's a market for premium, differentiated PC/tablet hybrids that aren't trying to compete primarily on price. I'm hoping Microsoft's Surface proves this category exists.
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Exclusive: Facebook to charge merchants to run Offers — (Reuters) - Facebook Inc said it will start charging businesses to run Offers on its social network, turning a previously free service into a potential revenue generator at a time when Wall Street is demanding new sources of growth and profit from the company.| Ellis Hamburger / The Verge: |
Facebook tests automatic ‘Photo Sync’ uploads on Android — Facebook has begun testing a new feature for Android owners that syncs photos you shoot on your phone straight to your Facebook account. It's a hybrid of Google+'s instant photo-upload feature and Apple's Photostream … | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Business Card Upstart Moo.com Buys Flavors.me To Expand Its Digital Profile — Moo.com, the online-to-print business card company that was one of the UK's earlier startup successes, is branching out: it is buying all of the assets of Flavors.me, the site where people can create online personal profiles …
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How To Undo Facebook Hiding Your Email Address Before Your Friends Use iOS 6 Contact Sync — Millions of people are downloading iOS 6 right now, and many will use the Facebook contact sync feature to pull in photos and current phone numbers of friends. But rather than your real email address … | Jordan Golson / MacRumors: |
| David Talbot / San Francisco magazine: |
How Much Tech Can One City Take? — Shaken by the latest digital gold rush, San Francisco struggles for its soul. — Last year, when Mayor Ed Lee heard that Twitter was planning to move its headquarters out of San Francisco and down to the peninsula, he quickly consulted with his digital experts …
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| Matthew Humphries / Geek.com: |
Raspberry Pi gets a 1GHz turbo mode — The Raspberry Pi is a fantastic bit of kit out the box, offering a complete PC for just $35. But of course, as soon as you start using it you would like it to go a bit faster than the stock 700MHz clock frequency, and then you start editing the config.txt …
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History, As Recorded on Twitter, Is Vanishing From The Web, Say Computer Scientists — Almost 30 per cent of recorded history, shared over social media such as Twitter, has disapeared, according to a new study of the Egyptian uprising and other significant events
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| Hugo Miller / Bloomberg: |
BlackBerry Creator Lazaridis Puts $100M Into Nano Labs — Mike Lazaridis, whose invention of the BlackBerry smartphone more than a decade ago redefined the way people send e-mail, is drawing inspiration from the early days of computing for his next act. — Backed by his $100 million donation … | Ina Fried / AllThingsD: |
Major League Baseball Hopes iPhone Tickets Will Be a Hit — While riding to San Francisco's AT&T Park on Thursday, an alert popped up on my phone letting me know that the Giants game was nearby, even though I was still on the train nearing the ballpark. — As I neared the gate …
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| Matthew Moskovciak / CNET: |
Roku Streaming Stick coming in October for $99, Roku 2 boxes get Vudu app, plus mobile app adds AirPlay-esque streaming — Roku's Streaming Stick will be out in time for the holidays, but it only works with a handful of TVs. — Roku's Streaming Stick was one of the most interesting home theater products … | Enigmax / TorrentFreak: |
Pirate Bay Financier Files For Bankruptcy, Focus Shifts To Peter Sunde — Following their earlier convictions for copyright infringement, Pirate Bay co-founders Gottfrid Svartholm and Fredrik Neij, former site spokesman Peter Sunde, and financier Carl Lundström all owe a considerable amount in damages.| Ryan Naraine / ZDNet: |
Mobile Pwn2Own: iPhone 4S hacked by Dutch team — Summary: How long would it take a determined attacker to hack into Apple's iPhone 4S from scratch? A Dutch research team uses the Pwn2Own contest to provide the answer. — Ryan Naraine — AMSTERDAM — How long would it take a determined attacker … | Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica: |
iCloud for Windows 2.0: An improvement, but not much has changed — iCloud gets a lot of attention in reviews of iOS and OS X, and with good reason—it's one of Apple's biggest services, and with every new version of its desktop and mobile operating systems, iCloud expands to store just a bit more of your stuff.
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Microsoft issues a rebootless ‘Fix’ to the Internet Explorer security weakness — Yesterday we brought you the news that Microsoft was preparing a one-click solution for Internet Explorer, protecting users from a security flaw that was discovered. — The company adamantly states that few users …
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Apple and publishers subpoena Amazon in ebook pricing case — Apple wants the Department of Justice to turn over the interviews it conducted with Amazon employees as part of the ebook pricing lawsuit. In an August filing, Apple wrote, “Amazon was the driving force behind the Government's investigation … | Carey Kolaja / AllThingsD: |
The iPhone 5 Doesn't Have NFC — So What? — With last Wednesday's Apple iPhone 5 unveiling, and the recent Nokia Lumia launch, mobile is on top of the media agenda. But as the screen size and connector stories die down, the question of “when will my mobile phone become my wallet?” rises up once again.
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| Stephen C. Webster / The Raw Story: |
New Philippines law bans ‘cybersex’ — The president of the Philippines signed a cyber crime bill into law on Tuesday that, much to the chagrin of Internet freedom activists, outlaws “cybersex,” bans “unsolicited commercial communications” online and imposes criminal penalties on people convicted of libel.
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Google, Chunghwa Telecom sign deal on YouTube broadcasting — Google's video website YouTube will soon be available on a digital television service offered by Chunghwa Telecom Co, the Taiwanese carrier said Tuesday. — The content will be introduced under an agreement signed last month … | Edward Wyatt / NYT Bits: |
F.T.C. Still Expects to Resolve Google Antitrust Inquiry by Year's End — The Federal Trade Commission intends to decide by the end of the year whether to bring legal action against Google for anticompetitive practices, Jon Leibowitz, the chairman of the commission, said on Wednesday in Washington.
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ZDNet, Inquirer, Softpedia News, The Next Web and CNET
| Gregory Ferenstein / TechCrunch: |
California And 11 Other States Now Allow Online Voter Registration — Silicon Valley, residents of California, and citizens in 11 other states can now register to vote online. California, the newest state to ease the inconvenience of voter registration, launched their online portal today.
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