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| Phil Goldstein / FierceWireless: |
RIM to hit multiple price points with range of BlackBerry 10 devices — LAS VEGAS—While all eyes are on the first two BlackBerry 10 devices Research In Motion (NASDAQ:RIMM) will introduce later this month, RIM plans to eventually hit a range of price points at the high …
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| Jeff Blagdon / The Verge: |
Samsung announces 8-core Exynos 5 Octa mobile processor — For 2013, Samsung is announcing a new 8-core processor that it says provides twice the 3D performance of any previous mobile processor, including the company's Exynos 4 Quad. It's called the Exynos 5 Octa, and it uses ARM's new Big Little processor technology.
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| Miyoung Kim / Reuters: |
Samsung seeks broader chip base as Apple cuts loose — (Reuters) - Samsung Electronics Co is looking to supply chips to more Chinese and other emerging smartphone makers, the head of its system chip business said, to counter any fall-off in demand from Apple Inc, which is weaning itself off Samsung chips used in its iPhones and iPads.
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| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Pebble smartwatch finally shipping January 23rd, we talk to CEO about its future — From Kickstarter to the biggest tech show on earth, and soon on your wrist — The Pebble smartwatch is best-known for being a smash hit on Kickstarter. It broke records and leapt to a total of 85,000 orders by the time the campaign ended.
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| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
The Pebble smartwatch keeps it simple (hands-on) — Light on features, but heavy on design — Now that Pebble has announced it's shipping to Kickstarter backers on January 23rd, the company is finally ready to show off the final hardware and software on its smartwatch.
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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Apple Now Locking Screenshots for Submitted Apps, Shutting Down Popular Scam Tactic — Apple today announced on its Developer Portal that screenshots added to app descriptions will be locked in place once an app has been approved. … This small but important update shuts down a widely used scam tactic …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Surface Pro: an in-depth look at Microsoft's super tablet — Microsoft might not be at CES this year, but that hasn't stopped the company's CEO jumping on stage to pass the annual keynote responsibility over to Qualcomm. While its OEMs are out in force with crazy Windows 8 designs and unreleased hardware …
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| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
Apple slashes price on Thunderbolt cable, releases additional shorter model — Apple has reduced the price of its 2.0 m Thunderbolt cable from $49 to $39. The Thunderbolt cable, which can be used for data transfers and for display attachment purposes, was originally released in mid-2011.| Peter Kafka / AllThingsD: |
Reddit Raising $1 Million At a $400 Million Valuation — If you have a year like the one Reddit had last year — the kind of year where the President of the United States stops to by to court your audience - it makes perfect sense to follow that up by raising money.| Dante D'Orazio / The Verge: |
Samsung flexible OLED phone prototype (hands-on) — Samsung gave us a brief glimpse during it keynote today of its first phone using a flexible display, and now we've just had the opportunity to handle the device for ourselves. The phone, which is a nameless prototype …
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| Horace Dediu / asymco: |
A more complete picture of the iTunes economy — As it did yesterday, on occasion Apple reports the cumulative total downloads and payments to developers. Since this is done in variable time intervals, it makes analysis of the value of the app store difficult. — But not impossible.
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| Sean Ludwig / VentureBeat: |
Redbox Instant by Verizon launching out of beta in March — Streaming movie service Redbox Instant by Verizon will fully launch to the public before the end of the first quarter, the venture's CEO said today at a CES 2013 breakfast. — As we've mentioned before, Redbox Instant by Verizon …
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Dell creates sub-$500 Latitude 10 essentials Windows 8 slate — Budget tablet loses Wacom active digitizer, removable battery — Dell has created a budget version of its Latitude 10 Windows 8 tablet for more price-conscious customers. The new essentials level offers a configuration …
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| Kara Swisher / AllThingsD: |
Mayer's 10X Challenge: Yahoo's Homepage, Mail and Search Traffic Show Significant Year-Over-Year Declines — This week in Las Vegas, the new management team running Yahoo — including CEO Marissa Mayer — are at International CES to schmooze with big advertisers and convince them that Yahoo …
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| Sinead Carew / Reuters: |
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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| Tricia Duryee / AllThingsD: |
eBay Reorganizes Its Mobile Group and Releases New Apps — With a reorganization of its mobile team complete, eBay released a number of updates to its iPhone and iPad apps today. — When the company posts its Q4 results next week, we'll know exactly how much mobile contributed to eBay's revenue in 2012 … | Dan Graziano / BGR: |
Polaroid's Jelly Bean tablets could give Google a run for its money — Polaroid isn't typically a name that comes to mind when people think of Android. While the company has released a few Android-powered cameras, it has never fully embrace the operating system.| Drew Olanoff / TechCrunch: |
Google+ Photos Get Pan And Zoom Functionality, Letting You Really Explore High-Res Photos — Google+ came out of its holiday slumber today with an addition to its Photo section of the service. The team has added pan and zoom functionality to let you explore small areas of high-resolution photographs.
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| Brooke Crothers / CNET: |
Intel responds to cooked power efficiency claims — The company's claims about power efficiency for its new Ivy Bridge chips involved some fancy marketing footwork. — LAS VEGAS—Intel came clean today about the power efficiency for the new Ivy Bridge chips announced at CES on Monday.
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dailywireless.org and Ars Technica
| Sean Buckley / Engadget: |
FCC working to expand WiFi spectrum, wants to avoid wireless ‘traffic jam’ — Ever suffer through the painfully slow bottleneck of public WiFi? Sure you have — Airports, coffee shops, even your neighbors unprotected home network are limited by the current WiFi spectrum.
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| Amol Sharma / Wall Street Journal: |
India: Tech Import Restrictions Are for Security — NEW DELHI—India's proposal to restrict imports of an array of high-tech products, a move that Western companies fear could significantly undermine their business plans in the country, is aimed at protecting the nation's security while encouraging …
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| Michael McWhertor / Polygon: |
Kinect tech demo turns your entire living room into a video game — Microsoft may not have an official presence at CES 2013, but the company just showed some new Kinect-powered technology that expands video game graphics beyond the boundaries of the television.
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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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| Joe Mullin / Ars Technica: |
Senator Wyden lays out “digital freedom” agenda — “The door outside Senator Ron Wyden's office says, ‘The Senator from Oregon,’” said the speaker who introduced him at a packed morning CES discussion. “It should also say, ‘The Senator from the Internet!’” Cheers abound.
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