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T-Mobile USA to soon sell iPhones, cut subsidies: CEO — (Reuters) - Deutsche Telekom AG (DTEGn.DE) unit T-Mobile USA will start selling the Apple Inc (AAPL.O) iPhone in about three to four months and will enforce its plan to get rid of cellphone subsidies in a similar timeframe, according to Chief Executive John Legere.
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| Jessica E. Lessin / Wall Street Journal: |
Apple Working On a Less-Expensive iPhone — Apple Inc. is working on a lower-end iPhone, according to people briefed on the matter, a big shift in strategy as its supremacy in smartphones has slipped. — While Apple has explored such a device for years, the plan has been progressing …
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| Brian Barrett / Gizmodo: |
Bloomberg: That Cheaper iPhone Would Cost $100-$150 — Piling on the Wall Street Journal's cheap iPhone rumor resurrection, Bloomberg is reporting that the budget-friendly device Apple is working on will cost in the $100-$150 range. It would debut, at the very earliest, at the end of this year.
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| Emil Protalinski / The Next Web: |
Microsoft confirms Messenger will be retired and users migrated to Skype on March 15 — Microsoft on Tuesday mass emailed its 100 million+ Messenger users to let them know that the service is officially being retired on March 15, 2013. On that date, all users will be migrated to Skype …
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| New York Times: |
Onlike Banking Attacks Were Work of Iran, U.S. Officials Say — SAN FRANCISCO — The attackers hit one American bank after the next. As in so many previous attacks, dozens of online banking sites slowed, hiccupped or ground to a halt before recovering several minutes later.
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| T.C. Sottek / The Verge: |
Exclusive interview: Valve's Gabe Newell on Steam Box, biometrics, and the future of gaming — A rare and candid talk with Valve's boss — We just sat down for a rare and wide-ranging interview with Valve CEO Gabe Newell, who opened up to The Verge with details about the company's upcoming …
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| Poornima Gupta / Reuters: |
Samsung's big push for 2013: content, corporates — (Reuters) - Samsung Electronics, the global leader in consumer smartphones, is planning two major thrusts in 2013: bulking up mobile content and moving faster into the corporate market dominated by Research in Motion.| Liz Gannes / AllThingsD: |
Google Withdraws Patent Claims Against Microsoft — Google today filed with the U.S. International Trade Commission to terminate its attempt to stop Microsoft from using video-compression technology on the Xbox. — Microsoft wants to license two standards-essential patents for H.264 that Google controls … | Vlad Savov / The Verge: |
It's official: 3D is dead — The tech industry's annual hot air balloon show is dead, and the world's better for it — There's something about 2013's Consumer Electronics Show that's different from every other iteration this decade. You might not realize it immediately …
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| Lucas Mearian / Computerworld: |
Dropbox to be included on all Samsung flagship phones and camera — Users get 50GB of cloud capacity for two years for free — LAS VEGAS — Dropbox on Wednesday announced tighter integration of its cloud storage and file-sharing service with Samsung products, from smartphones to televisions.
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| David Kravets / Wired: |
Student Suspended for Refusing to Wear RFID Tracker Loses Lawsuit — A Texas high school student who claimed her student identification was the “Mark of the Beast” because it was implanted with a radio-frequency identification chip has lost her federal court bid Tuesday challenging her suspension … | Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
LinkedIn Hits 200 Million Users Worldwide — Adding New Users At Rate Of Two Per Second — LinkedIn has announced it has reached 200 million user registrations worldwide — with new users being added at an average rate of two per second (or 172,800 per day).| Daniel Cooper / Engadget: |
Panasonic launches two new Toughpads, offers a choice of Windows or Android — Panasonic's launching a pair of Toughpads that'll take none of your nonsense — no matter what you throw at it. The FZ-G1 is a 10-inch version that runs Windows 8 Pro, while the seven-inch JT-B1 runs Ice Cream Sandwich.
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| Diane Bartz / Reuters: |
Justice Department against most sales bans for infringing key patents — (Reuters) - Companies that own a key patent, such as those that ensure mobile and other electronic devices work together, should be allowed to win sales bans as a punishment for infringement only in rare, very specific cases …
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| Richard Sandomir / New York Times: |
Baseball Dumping Dugout-to-Bullpen Landlines — The reserve clause is dead. And so are wool uniforms. There are no longer eight teams in each league. And the Houston Astros have departed the National League. — Major League Baseball is now about to disconnect the landlines that link dugouts to bullpens.
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| Stephen Shankland / CNET: |
Broadcom chip ushers in H.265 and UltraHD video — The H.265 video standard, aka HEVC or MPEG-5, squeezes more pixels over a network connection to support new high-resolution 4K TVs. Broadcom's chip supports both and is due to arrive in volume next year. — As product names go, BCM7445 is as boring as it gets.| Dan Seifert / The Verge: |
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| Twitter Engineering: |
Improving Twitter search with real-time human computation — One of the magical things about Twitter is that it opens a window to the world in real-time. An event happens, and seconds later, people share it across the planet. — Consider, for example, what happened when Flight 1549 crashed in the Hudson River:
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| Damaster / LiveSide.net: |
Microsoft account enables Sina Weibo connection, integrates into Windows Phone, Windows 8, SkyDrive, and more — We reported as early as February last year that Microsoft is working on connecting Chinese micro-blogging service Sina Weibo to Microsoft account.
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Market Wire, Engadget, WMPoweruser and All About Windows Phone
| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
Europe's Telco Giants In Talks To Create Pan-European Network, Reports FT — Europe's largest mobile network operators are considering pooling their resources to create pan-European network infrastructure, the FT is reporting. Quoting several people familiar with the situation … | Ryan Gallagher / Slate: |
U.S. Spy Law Authorizes Mass Surveillance of European Citizens: Report — Participants work at their laptops at the annual Chaos Computer Club computer hackers' congress in Hamburg, Germany. They probably would not be pleased with FISA. — Europeans, take note: The U.S. government … | Chris Welch / The Verge: |
T-Mobile CEO pokes the bears, calls AT&T's network ‘crap’ and mocks Verizon — T-Mobile's CEO John Legere, who took the helm back in September, pulled no punches in his remarks during the carrier's press conference here at CES tonight. Legere started off earnestly enough …
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