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Evasi0n Is The Most Popular Jailbreak Ever: Nearly Seven Million iOS Devices Hacked In Four Days — Over the last half a week, Apple has been hit with the largest mass-hacking incident in its history. And the perpetrators were the company's own users. — Nearly seven million iPhone … | Omar Shahine / The Windows Blog: |
A billion Office documents on SkyDrive, now with easier collaboration … For those of you who have tried the new Office, you'll know we made it easy to quickly save your documents to SkyDrive and get a link to share with others—earlier today we made it even easier for people to share … | Daniel Trotta / Reuters: |
U.S. Secret Service investigates Bush email hacking — (Reuters) - The U.S. Secret Service is investigating whether former President George H.W. Bush's email was hacked along with other family members and friends, the agency said on Friday. — That probe comes in response to reports … | Henry Blodget / Business Insider: |
AOL's Dial-Up Subscription Business Produces More Than All Of The Company's Profit — AOL just released quasi-profit numbers for each of its divisions for the first time. — As expected, AOL's dial-up subscription business—the business that powered AOL to astounding global success in the 1990s … | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
AOL Q4 2012 Beats The Street On Revenues Of $600M, Showing Its First Revenue Growth In 8 Years — AOL (owner of TechCrunch) has just reported earnings for Q4 2012 of $600 million on earnings of 41 cents per share. That matches analysts expectaions on EPS but beats on revenues of $573.1 million.
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Google Drive's Create menu now lets you add and access third-party, Drive-enabled apps — Google on Friday announced a new feature for its Drive service: a significantly revamped Create menu featuring third-party apps. For consumers, the change means Drive-connected apps are easier to access … | Ellis Hamburger / The Verge: |
4chan creator Chris Poole draws a future where anyone can make art — 4chan creator Chris “moot” Poole spent two years building and refining Canvas, a family-friendly version of the massively successful 4chan, when he realized something was off. “90 percent of our users didn't feel …
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Some iPhone users are seeing battery drain and overheating issues after upgrading to iOS 6.1 (Updated) — We have started seeing an increase in iPhone issues related to battery life and overheating. All of them seem to be related to users upgrading their devices to iOS 6.1.
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Google's Schmidt to sell roughly 42 percent of stake — (Reuters) - Google Inc Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt is selling roughly 42 percent of his stake in the Internet search company over the coming year, Google announced on Friday. — Schmidt will sell 3.2 million shares of Class …
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Yandex Just Passed Bing to Become 4th Largest Global Search Engine — Yandex surpassed Microsoft on the number of monthly search queries worldwide in November and December 2012, according to a recently released comScore qSearch report. Microsoft sites processed 4.477 billion queries and Yandex did 4.844 billion.| Ernesto / TorrentFreak: |
TPB AFK: Watch and Download The Pirate Bay Documentary NOW — The Pirate Bay is one of the best known file-sharing brands and the site has a well-earned place in Internet history. — The BitTorrent site and its founders have been targeted by several court cases over the years … | Ben Worthen / Wall Street Journal: |
Big Dell Holder to Vote Against Buyout — Dell Inc.'s largest outside investor on Friday said it would vote against the proposed $24.4 billion deal to take the computer maker private. — The shareholder, Southeastern Asset Management Inc., which says it owns approximately 8.5% …
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Apple hires AMOLED TV Application Expert James (Jueng-Gil) Lee from LG — According to reports originating from OLED-A.org (via OLED-Info), Apple has hired OLED expert Dr. James (Jueng-Gil) Lee. He was previously a senior researcher on LG Display's R&D team and worked on printed AMOLED TVs.
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| Don Clark / Digits: |
Intel Bets on New-wave Networking with Big Switch — For people who equip and run computer rooms, a trend called software-defined networking has been widely identified as a very big deal. Intel is helping to fund the movement. — The chip giant's venture capital arm on Friday is announcing …
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Big Switch Networks, Inc., AllThingsD, VatorNews, TechCrunch, ZDNet, ITworld.com and GigaOM
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Orange & Alcatel Lucent lay down the fastest internet connection (400G/sec) from Paris to Lyon — This past week, a joint effort between French telecom company Orange and Alcatel Lucent has led to the fastest internet connection in the world, a 400 gigabyte/second connection, being set up between Paris and Lyon (450km or 275 miles).
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google Now Uses Its Own WebP Format Instead Of PNGs In The Chrome Web Store — Google loves everything that makes the web faster. Given that images typically account for more than half of a web page's size, it has now been working on its own WebP image format for a few years.
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5.5" LG Optimus G Pro picture and specs sheet are in: Full HD screen, 3140 mAh battery and microSD — While LG's current flagship, the Optimus G, has been selling in the US for a while, and hitting Europe and China, we've been hearing about an upcoming upgrade, the Optimus G Pro, for a while now … | Romain Dillet / TechCrunch: |
LinkedIn Shares Soar 19.2% In The Wake Of Impressive Earnings — Right after yesterday's earnings, LinkedIn shares (NYSE:LNKD) have popped 19.16 percent to 147.86. It is clearly linked to the company's earnings. Revenue is up 81 percent to $304 million and net profit is following the same trend.| Jennifer Van Grove / CNET: |
| Alex Wilhelm / The Next Web: |
Bing teams with Fox News to build ‘largest live online poll’ ever for the State of the Union address — Today Bing announced that it would be rolling out several new products and features for the coming State of the Union address by President Obama next week.
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