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Apple Announces Changes to Increase Collaboration Across Hardware, Software & Services — Jony Ive, Bob Mansfield, Eddy Cue and Craig Federighi Add Responsibilities to Their Roles — Apple® today announced executive management changes that will encourage even more collaboration between …
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| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
Tim Cook emails employees; thanks Scott Forstall, says Bob Mansfield to stay on for two years — Following Apple's major executive-related news this afternoon, Apple CEO Tim Cook has emailed employees with information on the announced changes. Additionally, Cook has shed light on some new details …
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| John Gruber / Daring Fireball: |
Forstall Out; Ive Up — Blockbuster executive leadership change at Apple; Scott Forstall has been shown the door. Here's the key paragraph: … Forstall has long been a polarizing executive within Apple. Remember this piece by Austin Carr for Fast Company six weeks ago …
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| Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web: |
Apple's Scott Forstall to leave company in 2013, Browett out, Cue, Ive, Fedherighi take on new roles — Apple's Scott Forstall and John Browett will leave the company and the rest of the executive team will take over additional responsibilities, the company has announced. — Here is the announcement:
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| Ryan Block / gdgt: |
Senior VP of iOS Scott Forstall is out at Apple: why, and what it means. — Most people don't know Scott Forstall, but to those who do he's something of a demigod. If the future of mobile is software, and Apple is the company in pole position, then Forstall, Senior VP of iOS, is the guy driving and defining that future.
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| Andy Rubin / The Official Google Blog: |
Nexus: The best of Google, now in three sizes — People increasingly have more than one device, and they switch between them many times a day. Nexus—Google's hardware line for Android devices—gets rid of the hassle. Just sign in with your Google Account and everything is there ready to go …
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| Joshua Topolsky / The Verge: |
The Nexus 4: Google's flagship phone lands November 13th for $299 — An in-depth, hands-on preview of LG's new device for Google — Google's has officially announced the Nexus 4, the latest phone in its Nexus line of flagship Android devices. Built by LG, the phone features … | Jon Fingas / Engadget: |
Nexus 10 vs. the competition: fight! — Google undoubtedly upset the tablet market almost overnight with the Nexus 10: that record-setting 2,560 x 1,600 resolution, Exynos 5 Dual, Android 4.2 and all-important $399 starting price just tilted price-performance balance in a different direction than we'd seen even a week ago.
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| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Nexus 10 available November 13th starting at $399; hands-on photos and video — Will this latest 10-inch Android tablet finally find success? — Google has officially unveiled the new Nexus 10 tablet running Android 4.2. Built by Samsung but clearly designed by Google …
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Microsoft Unveils Windows Phone 8 — Latest smartphones from Nokia, Samsung and HTC go on sale in November. — Microsoft Corp. today debuted Windows Phone 8, the latest version of the company's smartphone operating system. Windows Phone 8 offers a truly personal phone experience … | The Verge: |
Windows Phone 8 review — Microsoft's mobile platform gets hardware muscle and another lease on life — “This is Windows Phone. No, for real this time.” That's what I thought when I started hearing about Windows Phone 8 a few months ago. Just like Windows Phone 7 …
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| Jeff Sonderman / Poynter: |
Instagram users are posting 10 Hurricane Sandy pictures every second — Instagram CEO Kevin Systrom tells us via a spokeswoman: “There are now 10 pictures per second being posted with the hashtag #sandy — most are images of people prepping for the storm and images of scenes outdoors.”
| Gabriel Stricker / Twitter Blog: |
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| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
Android 4.2 adds gesture typing, wireless TV display, multiple user support on tablets, and more — Google adds some extra flavor to Jelly Bean — The new Nexus 4 and Nexus 10 aren't just new Android devices — they're showcases for a new version of Android.
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| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Google Now: behind the predictive future of search — How Google learned to un-fragment itself and create the next big thing — For decades, visions of the future have played with the magical possibilities of computers: they'll know where you are, what you want, and can access all the world's information with a simple voice prompt.| iFixit: |
Microsoft Surface Teardown — We got our hands on Microsoft's new Surface, and to its credit, it lasted a good twenty minutes before we decided to tear it open. EditStep 1 — Microsoft Surface Teardown Is that the display assembly from a PC laptop? Nope, it's the new Microsoft Surface …
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| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Slow down: why Google's new Nexus 4 doesn't have LTE — Sometimes the only winning move is not to play — The Nexus 4 is an impressive smartphone that ticks off every modern spec checkbox you could ask for, save one: LTE. Instead, the Nexus 4 will only come unlocked with HSPA+ radios.| Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web: |
| Ben Sisario / Media Decoder: |
Google Signs Deal With Warner Music Group — Google got one of the key pieces of its digital music puzzle in place over the weekend when it finally signed a deal to bring the catalog of the Warner Music Group — with Green Day, Madonna, Neil Young, the Red Hot Chili Peppers and hundreds of other acts — to its Play store.
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