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December 3, 2012, 5:50 PM
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News Corp. Shutters The Daily iPad App — The Daily, News Corp.'s attempt to create a newspaper for the iPad era, is shutting down after less than two years. — The media giant, which also owns this Web site, said it will “cease standalone publication” of the app on Dec. 15.
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See also Mediagazer| Liz Gannes / AllThingsD: |
No, Facebook's Not Buying WhatsApp (But Keep an Eye on It) — WhatsApp hit the tech news circuit today because of a somewhat speculative article in TechCrunch asserting that Facebook has been sniffing around the mobile messaging company. — But the Facebook acquisition talks aren't happening, said multiple sources.| Adrian Chen / Gawker: |
Hackers Behind Tumblr Worm Say They Warned Tumblr of Vulnerability Weeks Ago — Tumblr has been flooded by a worm that's spamming thousands of user's feeds with an anti-Tumblr rant. In an interview, a spokesman for the group that's apparently behind the hack claims they warned Tumblr weeks ago …
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| Alex Wilhelm / The Next Web: |
Vice leaves metadata in photo of John McAfee, pinpointing him to a location in Guatemala — Oops. Vice, an online magazine known for in-depth pieces on often salacious topics today bragged that it is with the embattled technologist John McAfee, keeping tabs with his him during his time on the run.| Fred Wilson / A VC: |
Nobody Is Crying For You When You Are Worth Billions — I did a talk with Bill Werde at Billboard's FutureSound conference a few weeks ago. The entire talk is online (in two parts) here. If you go to 7:45 minutes in on the first video (embedded below) you will get to a conversation …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
iTunes Event Taking Place In Moscow On Dec 4: Is Russia Finally Getting Apple's Music Service? — At long last, Apple appears to be approaching a launch date for iTunes in Russia — and it could come as soon as tomorrow. A tipster has forwarded us an email, in Russian …
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| Brooke Crothers / CNET: |
Intel to slash power consumption on Ivy Bridge chip — Chip giant plans to make Ivy Bridge more power efficient than the versions that are currently used in the MacBook Air and Windows 8 ultrabooks. — Intel is on a mission to cut the power consumption of its chips. But that's not only future silicon.
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| Declan McCullagh / CNET: |
Cops to Congress: We need logs of Americans' text messages — State and local law enforcement want wireless providers to store detailed information about your SMS messages for at least two years — in case they're needed for future criminal investigations. — AT&T, Verizon Wireless …
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Firefox Gets Social with Facebook — Today, we're excited to announce that Firefox is getting social with Facebook Messenger for Firefox, which is built on a new Social API for the Web. — Firefox is the Web browser of choice for hundreds of millions of people worldwide and as social sites …
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| Joe Mullin / Ars Technica: |
New filing: Apple knew almost nothing about jury foreman in Samsung case — There have been many, many post-trial machinations following this summer's $1.05 billion patent infringement verdict in Apple v. Samsung. But the most provocative is surely Samsung's theory that the jury pool …
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Texting SMS pioneer Matti Makkonen 20 years on — In a world first, on 3 December 1992, an engineer sent the message “Merry Christmas” from a PC to a mobile device using Vodafone's UK network. — But the origins of the idea date back further to Matti Makkonen.
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook Users Have 7 Days Starting Now To Vote On Clarified Policy Changes And If They'll Keep Voting — Facebook has integrated feedback from regulators and users into a clarified set of site governance and privacy policy changes, and starting now users will have seven days to vote for or against them.| Matt Brian / The Next Web: |
Apple announces iPhone 5 hitting South Korea on Dec. 7, 50 additional markets across December — Following its Chinese iPad announcements last week, Apple has announced that it will launch the iPhone 5 in South Korea on Friday, December 7, releasing the smartphone in more than 50 additional countries across December.
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| Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web: |
Google launches new Maps API with better tablet maps, Google Play services, new layers and more — Google has today launched v2 of its Google Maps API, bringing along better support for maps on tablets, integration with Google Play services, new information layers and more.
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| Ina Fried / AllThingsD: |
Verizon Shutting Down the Mobile Video Service It Launched in 2005 — Verizon Wireless is pushing the “off” button on the pioneering mobile video service once known as Vcast Video. — The service, which launched in 2005, will go dark on Dec. 15, although the carrier will continue …
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| John Paczkowski / AllThingsD: |
Legacy iPhones Biting Apple in the ASP — The launch of Apple's iPhone 5 was unquestionably a successful one. The company sold more than five million units during the device's first three days of availability, setting a new opening-weekend sales record. Yet, by some metrics …
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| John Koetsier / VentureBeat: |
Alibaba reaches 1 trillion RMB ($157B) in sales to become biggest e-commerce company in the world — Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba sold one trillion RMB worth of goods in 2012, the company announced today. That's $157 billion U.S. in gross merchandise volume (GMV) …
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| Jeremy Kirk / Computerworld: |
Instagram vulnerability on iPhone allows for account takeover — A security researcher has found a vulnerability in Instagram involving how it handles cookies — A security researcher published on Friday another attack on Facebook's Instagram photo-sharing service that could allow a hacker to seize control of a victim's account.
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SiliconANGLE, digitaltrends.com, iPhone Hacks, IntoMobile, Pocketnow and SlashGear
| Casey Newton / CNET: |
Eric Schmidt's book on the future to be released April 23 — Alfred A. Knopf says it will print a first run of 150,000 copies for “The New Digital Age,” co-written with Google Ideas director Jared Cohen. — Eric Schmidt's treatise on the future will soon be hitting bookshelves.
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| Tricia Duryee / AllThingsD: |
On the Facebook Menu at Zuckerberg's Recent Dinner With Game Developers: Sushi and a Sliding Pay Scale — As mobile gaming gets hotter, Facebook is trying hard to keep more game developers, beyond Zynga, interested in its platform. — Last week, Facebook let its longtime dominant gaming partner Zynga …
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AllFacebook, CNET, WebProNews and ValueWalk
| Kim-Mai Cutler / TechCrunch: |
OMGPOP's Chief Revenue Officer Wilson Kriegel Becomes President, COO of Video Chat Startup Paltalk — Another one of Zynga's recent departures has landed. — Wilson Kriegel, who was OMGPOP's chief revenue officer until the Draw Something maker was acquired for $210 million in cash and retention …
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| Jason Del Rey / AdAge: |
AOL Eliminates CMO Position in Another Corporate Restructuring — PR Chief Caroline Campbell Also Slated to Leave Company — Jolie Hunt, AOL's CMO and head of communications, is leaving the company in a corporate restructuring less than five months after the company hired her.| Nathan Ingraham / The Verge: |
Gmail update for Android 4.0 and 4.1 users adds resizable messages and swipe to archive feature — Gmail received a few nice updates when Android 4.2 Jelly Bean launched — at long last, emails resized to fit your device, and you could swipe a message to automatically archive it.
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