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T-Mobile CEO confirms the iPhone and the death of phone subsidies — T-Mobile USA CEO John Legere confirmed that the iPhone will be among the Apple products that T-Mobile sells next year, but he said that T-Mo will sell it in a far different way than other carriers.| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
T-Mobile finally gets aggressive: ‘You love your iPhone, but you hate AT&T’ — 2013's lineup boasts LTE, a merger with MetroPCS, new value plans, and a little thing called the iPhone — T-Mobile has just wrapped an analyst presentation that was full of more aggressive forecasts for the company …
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| Ronnie Polidoro / Rock Center with Brian Williams: |
Apple CEO Tim Cook announces plans to manufacture Mac computers in USA — Apple CEO Tim Cook revealed that one of the existing Mac lines will be manufactured exclusively in the United States next year, making the comments during an exclusive interview with Brian Williams airing tonight at 10pm/9c on NBC's “Rock Center.”
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| Amir Efrati / Wall Street Journal: |
Google To Rein In Free Version Of Software — Google Inc. said it stopped offering its suite of Web-based software for businesses—known as Google Apps—free of charge to groups of 10 or fewer users, as it moves to generate revenue from previously free services.
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| Robert McMillan / Wired: |
Apple Hires Hacker Who Helped Save Windows From Security Hell — Apple has hired a noted computer security researcher who helped Microsoft lock down its Windows operating system. — Kristin Paget — formerly known as Chris Paget — now works on Apple's security team.
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| Ellis Hamburger / The Verge: |
Spotify debuts new Discovery engine, Collection, and Follow, which lets users follow friends and celebrities — At an event in New York City today, Spotify announced a new Discover section to help users find new music on the service. Ek admitted that users say Spotify is great …
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| Jay Yarow / Business Insider: |
Netflix CEO Gets A Warning From The SEC Over A Facebook Post — Netflix CEO Reed Hastings got a Wells notice from the SEC. — A Wells notice comes when the SEC is giving a company a heads-up that it's likely to bring some sort of action against it. — In this case, the Wells notice relates …
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| Nicholas Carlson / Business Insider: |
Facebook And Microsoft Are Working On A Deal, And It Could Change Everything About Advertising — Facebook and Microsoft are working on a deal that, if completed, would put Facebook one huge step closer to launching an ad network that could rival Google's in size, and change the way advertising is done online forever.
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No more blind refreshes: Techmeme now alerts you to new headlines — Are you the kind of Techmeme reader who reloads all day to check for new headlines? Well, we have good news: you can stop refreshing blindly, because Techmeme now automatically reports when there are new headlines … | Arik Hesseldahl / AllThingsD: |
Exclusive: Cloudera Closes Massive $65 Million Funding Round at $700 Million Valuation — Whenever you hear the phrase “big data” these days, and depending on whom you're talking to, the word Hadoop usually isn't far behind. When companies and large organizations seek to tackle the biggest …
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| Jennifer Martinez / Hillicon Valley: |
FCC to FAA: Allow ‘greater use’ of electronic devices during flights — The head of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on Thursday pushed for wider in-flight use of electronic portable devices during airplane flights. — FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski called …
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Bids for Google's Motorola Set-Top Box Business Due Soon — Google Inc. is wrapping up an auction of Motorola's set-top box business, according to people involved in the deal, as it continues downsizing the hardware unit. — The Mountain View, Calif., company had set a deadline of Friday …
| Mat Smith / Engadget: |
Nokia Lumia 620 hands-on: $249 for Windows Phone 8 (video) — Surprising a few of us, Nokia yesterday revealed a brand new Windows Phone 8 device, the 3.8-inch Lumia 620, in an explosion of colors. As its naming convention goes, and at just $249, this is the cheapest device running Microsoft's newly christened mobile OS so far.
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| Paul Elias / Associated Press: |
Judge May Trim Apple's $1 Billion Patent Verdict — SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — A federal judge on Thursday appeared ready to reduce a $1.05 billion jury verdict Apple Inc. won over Samsung Electronics. — During a hearing in a San Jose federal courtroom, U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh told lawyers …
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| Keach Hagey / Wall Street Journal: |
Washington Post Plans a Paywall — The Washington Post, one of the last holdouts against the trend of charging readers for online access to newspaper articles, is likely to reverse that decision in 2013, according to people familiar with the matter. — While details are being finished …
| Tom Bergin / Reuters: |
Special Report: Amazon's billion-dollar tax shield — (Reuters) - In 2005, Amazon rented a historic five-storey building in Luxembourg's Grund quarter, right at the bottom of a steep rock-walled valley below the old town. — By setting up in Luxembourg, and channelling sales through its units there … | Emil Protalinski / The Next Web: |
BitTorrent and uTorrent mobile apps on Android, iOS, and Windows Phone pass 10 million downloads — On Thursday, BitTorrent announced an impressive milestone: 10,000,000 mobile downloads, and counting, for its Android, iOS, and Windows Phone apps. This is impressive if you keep in mind … | Dan Rayburn / StreamingMediaBlog.com: |
AT&T Finally Gives Up On Their In-House CDN: Will Resell Akamai's CDN Services — In August I reported that AT&T was planning to shut down their in-house CDN and re-sell CDN services from Akamai or Limelight Networks and that Akamai would probably win the deal since they were willing …
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| Brandon Bailey / Mercury News: |
California attorney general sues Delta Air Lines over smartphone app privacy policy — California Attorney General Kamala Harris filed suit Thursday against Delta Air Lines in her first enforcement action since she promised to crack down on companies that don't inform consumers about their policies …
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| Liz Gannes / AllThingsD: |
Pinterest Cuts Off Spammers (Hey Instagram, Hope You're Next) — Pinterest today is undertaking a cleansing of spammy and fake accounts. It plans to delete them. — The site already has a spam reporting system for pins and comments. It tries to take care of bad behavior …
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