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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 …
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| Walter S. Mossberg / AllThingsD: |
Windows 8 Review — Microsoft is giving Windows its most radical overhaul since 1995 and even its most devoted users won't recognize the venerable computer operating system in this new incarnation, called Windows 8, when it appears Oct. 26. — [ See post to watch video ]
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| 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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| 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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| Dhanya Skariachan / Reuters: |
Best Buy to price its own Android tablet at $239-$259 -source — (Reuters) - Best Buy Co Inc is planning to price its own Android tablet “Insignia Flex” at $239 to $259, a source familiar with the matter told Reuters on Tuesday. — The tablet will compete with Apple's iPad and Amazon's Kindle.| Steven Musil / CNET: |
| 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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| Ryan Gavin / The Windows Blog: |
IE Comes to the Living Room with Xbox — Today the Xbox team announced an update to the Xbox 360 dashboard that marks the beginning of some exciting stuff on the biggest screen in the house. Internet Explorer has come to Xbox 360. — Starting today Internet Explorer will begin being rolled …
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| Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land: |
Google Launches Disavow Links Tool — Google has launched a new and widely anticipated “disavow links” tool. The tool was announced by the head of Google's web spam team Matt Cutts, when speaking during a keynote at the Pubcon conference today. — The tool is live and can be found here.| Graham Spencer / MacStories: |
Mapping The Entertainment Ecosystems of Apple, Microsoft, Google & Amazon — The choice of what phone or tablet to buy is one that often involves many considerations, chief amongst those is the physical device and the operating system that it runs. But I think there is a third fundamental consideration …
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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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EU gives Google four months to amend privacy policy — (Reuters) - Google has four months to make its privacy policy comply with requests from European Union data protection watchdogs or start facing the possibility of disciplinary action at a national level.
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Email from Phil Schiller explains lack of ambient light sensor in 5th gen iPod touch — Yesterday we emphasized the lack of an ambient light sensor in the 5th generation iPod touch after initially highlighting the omission in our iPod touch 5th gen review. — Now a reader claims …
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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.| 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.| Jeffrey Grubb / VentureBeat: |
Going once; going twice: News Corp. to auction off IGN Entertainment — Multimedia conglomerate News Corporation teamed with investment bank Allen & Co. to sell off its IGN Entertainment division. — IGN is a network of websites primarily focused on video games and pop culture.| John Cook / GeekWire: |
Romotive unveils new $150 smartphone-controlled robot, lands $5M from Sequoia, others — Romotive today is unveiling its next-generation smartphone-controlled robot, a $150 device that the company says is faster and “more sleekly designed” than earlier versions.
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| Arik Hesseldahl / AllThingsD: |
Intel's Q3 Beats Street's Lowered Expectations — Chipmaker Intel just reported its earnings for the third quarter, and given the fact that it warned of declining sales last month, it could have been worse. — Per-share earnings were 60 cents on sales of $13.5 billion.| 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.| Scott Guthrie / ScottGu's Blog: |
Windows Azure Mobile Services: New support for iOS apps, Facebook/Twitter/Google identity, Emails, SMS, Blobs, Service Bus and more — A few weeks ago I blogged about Windows Azure Mobile Services - a new capability in Windows Azure that makes it incredibly easy to connect your client …
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| Josh Lowensohn / CNET: |
ITC to investigate VirnetX patent complaint against Apple — The International Trade Commission says it will look into whether iPhones, iPads, and Macs infringe on a security company's patent. — The U.S. International Trade Commission announced today that its members have voted to begin …
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| Jason Del Rey / AdAge: |
Yahoo Chief Revenue Officer Michael Barrett to Exit — Leaves in Wake of Appointment of Google Exec Henrique de Castro As COO — Yahoo Chief Revenue Officer Michael Barrett is on his way out at Yahoo, according to a person familiar with the situation. Mr. Barrett is in the process of negotiating his exit, this person said.Sponsor Posts
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