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Microsoft Announces New Surface Details — Microsoft Corp. today released new details about its highly anticipated Microsoft Surface, a tablet PC designed to be the ultimate stage for Windows. In addition to pricing and market availability, the company announced a special limited-quantity pre-order … | Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
Microsoft Surface RT Priced: 32GB For $499 Without Touch Cover, $599 With; 64GB For $699 — Microsoft today detailed pricing for its Surface tablets, at least those running the scaled down RT version of its upcoming Windows 8 operating system designed for use on low-power processors.
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| David Pierce / The Verge: |
Microsoft's Surface available for pre-order in eight countries, shipping October 26th — We've been hearing about the Surface for the better part of six months, but in all that time Microsoft has kept secret what might be the tablet's most important feature: its price.| Anand Lal Shimpi / AnandTech: |
| Jim Dalrymple / The Loop: |
Apple announces special event for Oct. 23 — Apple on Tuesday announced a special event to be held on October 23, 2012 in San Jose. The event is scheduled to take place at 10:00 am PT. — Unlike other recent events that have been held at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco …
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| Jordan Kahn / 9to5Mac: |
Apple to launch 24 new iPad models, comprised of iPad minis and perhaps Lightning iPad 3 — 9to5Mac received the above list of iPad mini SKUs today that shows Apple could be set to launch 24 models of the new device. According to the list that shows four variants (P101, P103, P105, and P107) …
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| Eric Slivka / MacRumors: |
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| Travis Kalanick / Uber Blog: |
UberTAXI in NYC Shutting Down for Now - NO CHANGES to UberNYC Black Car Service — We want to thank all of New York's UberFaithful for giving our NYC TAXI beta a shot over the last month. It was pretty exciting - for the first time in 30 years, New Yorkers could get a cab without going to the street and putting your arm out.
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| Adrianne Jeffries / The Verge: |
Uber quietly shutting down taxis in New York after fight with regulators (update: Uber confirms) — The startup is stopping its taxi service after just over a month — Uber's “damn the man” strategy may have backfired. The San Francisco-based startup took a chance when it launched …
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| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
Can Boxee reinvent cable with the help of a TV antenna? — The new Boxee TV offers unlimited recording, Netflix, and movies for $99 — Input one. It is the most valuable connector on the back of the average American television — and by extension, the most valuable connector in the average American home.| Janko Roettgers / GigaOM: |
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| Drew Olanoff / TechCrunch: |
LinkedIn Announces Massive Update To Its “Pillar Product”, The Profile — After CEO Jeff Weiner discussed the mission of LinkedIn, Senior VP of Products and User Experience, Deep Nishar, discussed the company approach to design and iteration, which is extremely interesting.
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| Eugene Kaspersky / Nota Bene: |
Kaspersky Lab Developing Its Own Operating System? We Confirm the Rumors, and End the Speculation! — Hi all! — Today I'd like to talk about the future. About a not-so-glamorous future of mass cyber-attacks on things like nuclear power stations, energy supply and transportation control facilities …
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| Kyle Wiens / Wired: |
Greenwashing the Retina MacBook Pro — Apple's latest unsustainable design was just greenlighted by the Electronic Product Environmental Assessment Tool registry (EPEAT). And it's a clear case of greenwashing. — Apple's Retina MacBook Pro - the least repairable, least recyclable computer …
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| Nicole Perlroth / New York Times: |
Quick, Hide the BlackBerry, It's Too Uncool — Rachel Crosby speaks about her BlackBerry phone the way someone might speak of an embarrassing relative. — “I'm ashamed of it,” said Ms. Crosby, a Los Angeles sales representative who said she had stopped pulling out her BlackBerry at cocktail parties and conferences.| Jon Russell / The Next Web: |
Foxconn admits it breached Chinese labor laws by hiring 14-year-old interns — Apple supplier Foxconn has admitted that it did take on intern students as young as 14 years old at its factories after the Taiwanese manufacturing giant published the findings of a report that followed media reports from September.
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| Declan McCullagh / CNET: |
Verizon draws fire for monitoring app usage, browsing habits — “We're able to view just everything that they do,” Verizon Wireless exec has boasted. Privacy groups say the initiative — including linking databases showing whether customers own pets — may violate wiretap law.
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Mobile Marketing Watch and Verizon Popup
| Sherri L. Smith / LAPTOP Magazine: |
Samsung Windows 8 PCs Will Have Start Menu After All — Itís a case of now you see it, now you don't and now you do again over at Samsung. When we first reported on Samsung's first Windows 8 devices, notably the Series 5 and Series 7 Slate, they featured S Launcher … | Sean Ludwig / VentureBeat: |
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google Releases The First Stable SDK For Its Dart JavaScript Alternative — Google launched Dart, its class-based object-oriented language for writing complex web apps, exactly year ago and to celebrate its birthday, the Dart team is launching the first stable version of the Dart software development kit (SDK) today.
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The Next Web and Chromium Blog
| Serena Saitto / Bloomberg: |
Sprint Said Not to Plan Clearwire Takeover After Softbank Deal — Sprint Nextel Corp. (S), which agreed to sell a 70 percent stake to Softbank Corp. (9984) for $20.1 billion, has no immediate plans to take over Clearwire Corp. (CLWR), said people with direct knowledge of the situation.
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| Carav / Chipworks: |
Inside the Apple Lightning Cable — We couldn't help but notice that there is a lot of speculation and discussion (and frankly, a few wild guesses) concerning the functions of the Apple's new lightning connectors. We don't normally give (a total of five blogs!) this much attention …
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| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft acquires cloud-storage appliance vendor StorSimple — Summary: Microsoft is taking its new ‘devices and services company’ mission to heart on the enterprise side of the house, too. It just bought a storage-appliance vendor. — It looks like Microsoft isn't limiting its …
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VentureBeat, The Next Web, MSDN Blogs, Microsoft and Seattle Times
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Twitter Acqui-Hires Mobile App Development Platform Cabana, Shuts Its Down — Twitter has made another acquisition to expand its platform development operation. It has bought Cabana, a platform for making mobile apps. Terms of the deal have not been disclosed, but the team behind the app …
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CNET, GigaOM, AllThingsD, CNET, cabanaapp.com, Techie Buzz, WebProNews and The Next Web
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
European Data Regulators Slam Google Over Privacy Policy: “Too Large” And Users Need More Control (But Not Illegal) — Authorities in Europe today kicked off a fresh wave of scrutiny over Google's privacy policy and called for changes to be made in how Google manages user data, describing Google's scope as “too large”.
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