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| Daniel Graf / The Official Google Blog: |
Google Maps is now available for iPhone — People around the world have been asking for Google Maps on iPhone. Starting today, we're pleased to announce that Google Maps is here—rolling out across the world in the Apple App Store. It's designed from the ground up to combine the comprehensiveness …
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Daring Fireball, ProgrammableWeb, digitaltrends.com, The Verge, Inside Mobile Apps, SuperSite for Windows, 9to5Mac, Gizmodo, SachaGreif.com, Open IT Strategies, VatorNews, BGR, CNET, GeekWire, GadgeTell, SocialTimes, TPM IdeaLab, SiliconANGLE, The Tech Report, Fortune, ZDNet, Global Nerdy, Guardian, Pocket-lint, Lifehacker and Laughing Squid
| Alexis C. Madrigal / The Atlantic Online: |
Why Google Maps Is Better Than Apple Maps — There's a simple answer: people. — For all of Google's reputation as a data-data-data company, the company's famed mapping product, which arrived on iOS early this morning, is good for a different reason: people.| David Pogue / New York Times: |
Google Maps App for iPhone Goes in the Right Direction - Review — It was one of the biggest tech headlines of the year: in September, Apple dropped its contract with Google, which had always supplied the data for the iPhone's Maps app. For various strategic reasons, Apple preferred to write a new app … | Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook Speeds Up Android App By Ditching HTML5 And Rebuilding It Natively Just Like The iOS Version — Facebook's HTML5 app nightmare is over. Later today it's releasing Facebook for Android 2., which replaces the hybrid native/webview code with an all-native infrastructure to answer years … | Anil Dash: |
The Web We Lost — The tech industry and its press have treated the rise of billion-scale social networks and ubiquitous smartphone apps as an unadulterated win for regular people, a triumph of usability and empowerment. They seldom talk about what we've lost along the way in this transition …
| Jessica Leber / MIT Technology Review: |
Meet Young Sohn, the Man Charged with Revamping Samsung's Technology Strategy from Silicon Valley — Samsung chief strategy officer Young Sohn explains why he still uses Apple devices at home—and what his company needs to do to stay ahead. — Why It Matters
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| Jordan Crook / TechCrunch: |
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| Cornelius Rahn / Bloomberg: |
Sprint Seeks to Buy Rest of Clearwire for About $2.1 Billion — Sprint Nextel Corp. (S) proposed to acquire shares in wireless partner Clearwire Corp. it doesn't already own in a deal that the third-largest U.S. carrier says would cost about $2.1 billion. — Sprint, which owns …
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| Stacey Higginbotham / GigaOM: |
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| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
Apple releases iTunes 11.0.1, adds duplicate item finding, includes iCloud, AirPlay fixes — Approximately two weeks following the launch of the revamped iTunes 11 application, Apple has released iTunes 11.0.1 via the Mac App Store Software Update tab to users. … The update is generally a bug fix release.
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| Allen Huang / Google Mobile Ads Blog: |
Combating accidental clicks in mobile ads — Ads on smartphones are effective, but many of us have at some point clicked on an ad by accident, which ultimately is a bad experience for the user, the publisher, and the advertiser who pays for clicks that may not be valuable.| Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web: |
Apple rolls out new, far more detailed, status page for general Services, Stores and iCloud systems — Apple has today launched a new status page for its iCloud, store and general services that provides far more detail about status and uptimes of its various cloud and backend components.
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TechCrunch, The Register, GigaOM, CNET, MacRumors, Engadget, 9to5Mac, iPhone Hacks and MacStories. Thanks:@bradmccarty
| Jean-Baptiste Su / Forbes: |
Dell Quits Smartphone Business Globally, Drops Android — Dell is definitely pulling the plug on the smartphone business, globally. A tough decision, leaving a market that is expected to reach $150.3 billion in 2014, according to MarketsandMarkets. However, Jeff Clarke … | BBC: |
US, UK and Canada refuse to sign UN internet treaty — The UN's communication treaty will not be ratified by the US, UK or Canada — The US, UK and Canada say they will not sign an international communications treaty under discussion in Dubai. — The three countries had objected to calls …
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| Ellis Hamburger / The Verge: |
Mailbox for iPhone: a next-generation email app inspired by Sparrow and Clear — Cloud to-do list company Orchestra today announced Mailbox, an email client for the iPhone it's been building for the last year. I've been testing Mailbox for the last few weeks and it's nothing short of spectactular.
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TechCrunch, MacRumors, iPhone Hacks, creativebits™, iDownloadBlog.com, Business Insider, parislemon, iClarified, everythingiCafe and SocialTimes. Tweets: @qthrul
| Darren Murph / Engadget: |
Windows Phone web store opens in 37 new countries, adds universal search, and supports installing apps via SD card — If you had any doubts about Microsoft's efforts to actually make an impact with Windows Phone 8, let this address them. After announcing that it'd be maintaining a full staff …
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| Eric Eldon / TechCrunch: |
Silicon Valley Entrepreneur Legend Max Levchin Joins Yahoo Board, Intuit's Smith And Weather Channels's Kenny Leave — Max Levchin has been many things in his long run in Silicon Valley — PayPal cofounder, Slide founder, angel investor, etc. etc. — but now he's trying on something more traditional.
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| Eric Slivka / MacRumors: |
Apple Quickly Updates Malware Definitions to Detect New SMS Scam Trojan — Earlier this week, Russian security firm Dr. Web published a blog post announcing the discovery of a new OS X trojan horse known as “Trojan.SMSSend.3666”. The malware masquerades as an installer for various software titles …
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| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
Amazon Puts Instant Video On iPhone And iPod Touch, Cloud Player Music On Roku And Samsung Smart TVs — Amazon has announced a number of new platform expansions for its streaming media services today, including Cloud Player apps for Samsung Smart TVs and Roku set top boxes … | Kim Yoo-chul / The Korea Times: |
Samsung to reduce investment in LCD — Samsung Electronics is moving to reduce investment in its liquid crystal display (LCD) unit as the firm has shifted the focus of its screen business to organic light-emitting diode (OLED) and plastic-based flexible displays.
| Ernesto / TorrentFreak: |
Google Starts Reporting False DMCA Takedown Requests — Ever since Google started publishing a transparency report for the DMCA requests it receives, the number of notices being sent have shot through the roof. — During the past month copyright holders asked Google to remove 12,045,130 webpages from its search.
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| Jeff John Roberts / paidContent: |
Did Google pay Belgian newspapers a $6M copyright fee? Sure looks like it — Europeans have been trying for years to force Google to prop up the continent's' struggling news publishers. A new deal in Belgium suggests they have finally succeeded. — In a blog post on Wednesday … | Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web: |
US court rules Apple's iPhone infringes on three patents held by Sony and Nokia owned MobileMedia — A US court has ruled that Apple's iPhone infringes on three patents held by MobileMeda, a company many consider to be a ‘classic patent troll’. The report, via a Bloomberg tweet, has yet to be fleshed out with details.
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Bloomberg, The Verge, LAPTOP Magazine, Computerworld, Wired, Ars Technica, iDownloadBlog.com, InfoWorld, Gizmodo, AppleInsider, SlashGear and CNET
| Brad Molen / Engadget: |
Verizon pushing Android 4.1 update to Samsung Galaxy S III tomorrow — Verizon seems to be late to the update party, but Android 4.1 Jelly Bean will be pushed out to its version of the Samsung Galaxy S III “in phases” as an OTA update beginning December 14th.
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Verizon Wireless, Computerworld, BGR, Ars Technica, CNET, Gizmodo, Examiner, WebProNews and Electronista
| Martin Bryant / The Next Web: |
Last.fm Radio to be killed off in most countries next month, going paid-for in the US, UK and Germany — Reflecting the general consensus that it's currently too expensive to run online radio services, Last.fm has announced that it is withdrawing Radio in almost all countries …
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last.fm, digitaltrends.com, SlashGear, SocialTimes, VentureBeat, paidContent and Engadget
| Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web: |
Apple Best of 2012 rates iTunes, iBooks and App Store, names ‘Action Movie FX’, ‘Paper’ leading apps — Apple has launched its Best of 2012 section for the year, listing the top apps, iBooks, movies, music and TV Shows for the year. The section is an annual event that features …
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Digits, Los Angeles Times, Engadget, IntoMobile, TUAW, VentureBeat and Business Insider
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Nokia Says Class Action Lawsuit Over Windows Phone Is Now Dismissed, No Compensation Paid — Nokia may be struggling to reach a critical mass of users to adopt its Windows Phone-based smartphones instead of Android or iPhone devices, but today it got a little light relief in its bigger battle …
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