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| Nicole Perlroth / New York Times: |
Hackers in China Attacked The Times for Last 4 Months — SAN FRANCISCO — For the last four months, Chinese hackers have persistently attacked The New York Times, infiltrating its computer systems and getting passwords for its reporters and other employees.
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| Andy Greenberg / Forbes: |
Symantec Gets A Black Eye In Chinese Hack Of The New York Times — Having your email hacked and malicious software spread on your servers for months may be embarrassing. But being outed as the antivirus vendor that failed to catch the vast majority of that malware is likely more humiliating still.| John Herrman / BuzzFeed: |
| Ben Blanchard / Reuters: |
| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
Apple to discontinue Mac Pro in Europe March 1st over new regulatory standards — Apple will stop selling its current Mac Pro professional desktop computer in Europe on March 1st, according to our sources. — While the Mac Pro has been seen as an Apple product nearing discontinuation …
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MacRumors, Macworld UK, The Verge, The Register, CNET, GigaOM, The Next Web, PandoDaily, Engadget, The Loop, Ars Technica, AppleInsider, TechCrunch, iDownloadBlog.com, Apple Bitch, InvestorPlace and Electronista. Tweets: @stroughtonsmith. Thanks:@ebetters
| Tim Carmody / The Verge: |
CNET loses CES awards following Dish Hopper controversy; DVR named ‘Best In Show’ — The Hopper with Sling will be named co-winner of ‘Best In Show’ alongside official CNET choice the Razer Edge — The Consumer Electronics Association has issued a press release awarding the Dish Hopper …
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Microsoft Surface sales well below shipments, says iSuppli — Microsoft's Surface RT sales weren't big, at least not initially, according to the market research firm. — Sales of Microsoft's first Surface tablet fell well short of the 1 million mark, while return rates were high, IHS iSuppli told CNET.
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| Ellis Hamburger / The Verge: |
‘The Facebook Card’ takes the social network's Gifts initiative offline — Hot on the heels of its fourth quarter earnings report yesterday afternoon, Facebook has announced The Facebook Card, a new part of its online Gifts platform intended to be yet another revenue stream for the social network.
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Facebook Newsroom, TechCrunch, Business Insider, The Next Web, Inside Facebook, AllFacebook, Gizmodo, AllThingsD, VentureBeat, Engadget, The Consumerist, WebProNews, SlashGear and Mashable!. Tweets: @jonfortt
| Mario Aguilar / Gizmodo: |
BlackBerry Z10 Camera: The Worst Low-Light Performance We've Seen in a Long Time — For the old BlackBerry, a handset's camera was an ancillary feature. But the new hip BlackBerry is supposed to be tuned into how regular people—not just suits—use their phones.
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| Brian Lam / The Wirecutter: |
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| Emil Protalinski / The Next Web: |
IDC: Apple's iPad dropped to 43.6% tablet share in Q4, Samsung took second with 15.1%, Amazon third with 11.5% — The latest tablet market share estimates are out, and the last quarter of 2012 was unsurprisingly another record one, with a total of 52.5 million units shipped worldwide.
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| Kevin C. Tofel / GigaOM: |
| Nick Summers / The Next Web: |
Google to add a new Notification Center to Chrome, paving the way for Google Now integration — Chromium, the open source web browser project that shares much of the same code and features as Google Chrome, has been updated for Windows to include a new notification center.
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Google+, TechCrunch, LAPTOP Magazine, Engadget, CNET, Gizmodo, Gotta Be Mobile, The Verge, WebProNews and Softpedia News
| Brian Caulfield / NVIDIA: |
How Project SHIELD Got Built — It's 9 o'clock at night. Aaron Gilroy has been working 14-hour days nonstop for months. The tireless program manager's latest task: hauling a dozen greasy bags of Kentucky Fried Chicken to a building in a scruffy light-industrial neighborhood in Silicon Valley.
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CNET, IntoMobile, The Tech Report, TechSpot, AndroidGuys, Inquirer, HotHardware.com News and Engadget. Thanks:@nvidia
| Griffin McElroy / Polygon: |
Gabe Newell: Steam Box's biggest threat isn't consoles, it's Apple — The biggest danger facing the success of Steam Box or any other PC ecosystem hoping to find space in the living room is Apple, according to a lecture given by Valve co-founder Gabe Newell to a class at the University of Texas' LBJ School of Public Affairs.| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Microsoft Launches Modern.IE To Help Developers Test Their Web Apps For Legacy And Modern Versions Of IE — Even though Microsoft itself would prefer to change this, many users still rely on older versions of Internet Explorer. For developers, this means spending hours on testing their web apps … | Jon Russell / The Next Web: |
Evernote takes Penultimate free, integrates it with its core service, but gives users an opt-out — Online note-taking service Evernote has given Penultimate, the hugely-popular handwriting app for the iPad that it acquired last year, a significant overhaul after making it free to download … | Steve Stecklow / Reuters: |
Exclusive: Huawei CFO linked to firm that offered HP gear to Iran — (Reuters) - A Hong Kong-based firm that attempted to sell embargoed Hewlett-Packard computer equipment to Iran's largest mobile-phone operator has much closer ties to China's Huawei Technologies than was previously known, corporate records show.
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CNET, AllThingsD, ZDNet and The Verge
| Dan Seifert / The Verge: |
Amazon's online services appear to be down, mobile apps unaffected — Amazon appears to be having some reliability issues today, as the company's website has been down for some time for a large number of users. Amazon.com has been giving visitors “service unavailable” …
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| Shara Tibken / CNET: |
Verizon Wireless to sell Square's credit card reader for $9.97 — Buyers of the device will also receive a $10 Square account rebate. — Verizon Wireless today became the latest company to sell Square's credit card reader, giving business owners another way to obtain the mobile gadget for credit card processing.| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook Tries Letting You Share Emoticons Of Exactly What You're Feeling, Reading Or Eating — Facebook is poised to get a lot more expressive. Today it began tests of a new status composer that lets you say “what are you doing?” by selecting from different categories to share activities such as feeling, reading, or eating.
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| Megan Geuss / Ars Technica: |
Wait for it... select files from Mega now indexed on third-party site — Looking to share some files with the general public? Whether those files are of the legal or illegal kind, a website has cropped up to index files on Kim Dotcom's brand new cloud-storage site. Mega.co.nz, meet Mega-search.me.| Leena Rao / TechCrunch: |
Facebook Will Grow Headcount Quickly In 2013 To Develop Money-Making Products, Total Expenses Will Jump By 50 Percent — On Facebook's earnings call today, CEO Mark Zuckerberg made a strong statement about the company's further investment in product development, especially those products that are making money for the company.
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