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Apple Drops the “Most Powerful Mapping Service Ever” Claim — Apple's CEO Tim Cook has honestly admitted that Apple Maps isn't as good as competing mapping services but the Apple website made a slightly contradictory claim. It said: … Apple Maps may be beautiful for some regions …
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| Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune: |
Does Apple have a Scott Forstall problem? — There's no shortage of embarrassing instances where Apple (AAPL) Maps “fell short” — as Tim Cook's public apology put it — but on Friday Canadian reader John Garner pointed me to a particularly striking one. Jason Matheson, a fellow Canadian … | Aaron Souppouris / The Verge: |
Sloppy security? Apple and Nokia conceal fewer sensitive sites than Google Maps — iOS 6 Maps is the most transparent of the three — but is that a good thing? — The launch of Apple's new mapping service in iOS 6 has generated a wave of criticism that shows no sign of abating.| Nicholas Carlson / Business Insider: |
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| Leena Rao / TechCrunch: |
Simon Cowell And Will.i.am Are Teaming Up To Create An X Factor To Find The Next Mark Zuckerberg — Simon Cowell is on the hunt for the next Mark Zuckerberg or Bill Gates. According to The Sun, the former American Idol and current X Factor judge is teaming up with Black Eyed Peas rapper …
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| Joseph Straw / NY Daily News: |
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano says she doesn't use email — Napolitano tells cybersecurity conference that she doesn't have accounts. Agency acts as the nation's top cybercop — Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano says she avoids email for “a whole lot of reasons.”
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| Chico Harlan / Washington Post: |
As Apple and Samsung dominate, Japan's tech giants are in a free fall — TOKYO — While electronics giants Apple and Samsung fight each other for market dominance, with hotly competitive product releases and tit-for-tat patent lawsuits, Japan's consumer electronics makers find themselves …
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| Quentin Hardy / New York Times: |
Meg Whitman's Toughest Campaign: Retooling H.P. — IT'S not as easy being Meg Whitman as Meg Whitman might have expected. — At 56, Ms. Whitman, the eBay billionaire who spent a fortune unsuccessfully trying to become the governor of California, has found her Act III.| Rik Myslewski / The Register: |
Microsoft: 'To fill 6,000 jobs, we'll pay $10K per visa' — Plus $15K for green cards - other companies could buy in, as well — Microsoft has entered the US immigration debate with a novel proposal for expanding the number of visas available for foreign techies: have companies pay … | Technology Review: |
PlaceRaider: The Military Smartphone Malware Designed to Steal Your Life — The US Naval Surface Warfare Center has created an Android app that secretly records your environment and reconstructs it as a 3D virtual model for a malicious user to browse — The power of modern smartphones is one of the technological wonders of our age.
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| Jordan Weissmann / The Atlantic Online: |
The Case for Abolishing Patents (Yes, All of Them) — Our patent system is a mess. It's a fount of expensive litigation that allows aging companies to linger around by bullying their more innovative competitors in court. — Critics have suggested plenty of reasonable reforms …
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Hard Drive Shipments Rebound to Record Level in 2012 — A year after the Thailand flooding disaster partially derailed production, the global hard disk drive (HDD) industry has fully recovered, with shipments to the computer market expected to hit a record level this year … | Stephen Lawson / Computerworld: |
LightSquared asks to share weather-balloon spectrum for its LTE network — The carrier would give up part of the spectrum where GPS interference led the FCC to shoot down its LTE plans — Embattled satellite carrier LightSquared proposed on Friday that the government let it share spectrum …
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