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| Aaron Souppouris / The Verge: |
iPhone lockscreen can be bypassed with new iOS 6.1 trick — A security flaw in Apple's iOS 6.1 lets anyone bypass your iPhone password lock and access your phone app, view or modify contacts, check your voicemail, and look through your photos (by attempting to add a photo to a contact).
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| Rebecca Greenfield / The Atlantic Wire: |
Elon Musk's Data Doesn't Back Up His Claims of New York Times Fakery — Elon Musk's long-awaited blog post take-down has arrived with what he claims is the data to prove New York Times John M. Broder reporter committed some sort of journalistic malpractice to run a bad review of the Tesla Model S's range capability.| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
Elon Musk Lays Out His Evidence That New York Times Tesla Model S Test Drive Was “Fake” — Tesla Motors CEO and founder Elon Musk definitely isn't the best guy to try to pull a fast one on. The visionary entrepreneur set Twitter a titter when he claimed earlier this week …
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Tesla vs. The New York Times: Everyone's A Media Company Now — This post was first published at LinkedIn. Please follow me there for more commentary. — Tesla CEO Elon Musk shreds the New York Times review of his Model S, using data to argue the writer is telling the wrong story.
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| Roger Cheng / CNET: |
Ex-BlackBerry co-CEO Jim Balsillie dumps entire stake — A year ago, Balsillie owned 26.8 million shares of BlackBerry stock. Now he's down to zero. — Jim Balsillie, the former co-CEO of BlackBerry, sold off his entire stake in the company, according to a regulatory filing.| Perry Chen / Kickstarter Blog: |
Introducing the Kickstarter App for iPhone and iPod Touch — We're excited to announce that the first official Kickstarter app launched in the iTunes Store this morning! It's available for iPhone and iPod Touch, it's free, and you can download it here. — The app is a whole new way to experience Kickstarter.| Businessweek: |
A Chinese Hacker's Identity Unmasked — Joe Stewart's day starts at 6:30 a.m. in Myrtle Beach, S.C., with a peanut butter sandwich, a sugar-free Red Bull, and 50,000 or so pieces of malware waiting in his e-mail in-box. Stewart, 42, is the director of malware research at Dell SecureWorks … | Jolie O'Dell / VentureBeat: |
You can now Bump any files from any device, computer or PC, with a single tap — “No one has never said, ‘Boy, I sure do love emailing myself files.’” — Truer words were never spoken. The ones above come from the mouth of Dave Lieb, Bump's CEO. His app makes it easy to share contact information …
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| Brian Klug / AnandTech: |
Nexus 4 JDQ39 4.2.2 OTA Update Removes Unofficial LTE on Band 4 — Just after it launched, we discussed how the Nexus 4 included undocumented support for LTE on Band 4 (AWS) which could be enabled simply by choosing the appropriate RAT (Radio Access Technology) under Phone Info (by dialing *#*#4636#*#* - INFO).| Aaron Souppouris / The Verge: |
Adobe CEO shows how to dodge price-gouging questions — Adobe is in hot water in Australia over the high pricing of its Creative Suite applications in the country. Recently, the company has been asked to justify the disparities — which have left Australians better off flying to America … | IDC: |
Android and iOS Combine for 91.1% of the Worldwide Smartphone OS Market in 4Q12 and 87.6% for the Year, According to IDC — Android and iOS, the number one and number two ranked smartphone operating systems (OS) worldwide, combined for 91.1% of all smartphone shipments during the fourth quarter of 2012 (4Q12).
| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Thanks, Adobe. Protection for critical zero-day exploit not on by default — The recently discovered zero-day attacks targeting critical vulnerabilities in Adobe's ubiquitous Reader application are able to bypass recently added security defenses unless end users manually make changes to default settings, company officials said.| Scott Hanselman / Scott Hanselman's Blog: |
I'd like to use the web my way, thank you very much Quora. — I was browsing the web today, as I often do, with my iPhone on the can. (Yeah, you do it too, don't front.) — A link to an interesting Q&A on Quora came along, so I clicked. — And got this. — Wow. This is bold, even for Quora.
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| Bill Rigby / Reuters: |
No “Plan B” for Microsoft's mobile ambitions: CFO — (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp has not made much of a dent in Apple Inc's and Google Inc's domination of mobile computing, but a top executive hinted on Wednesday that it will not stop trying and does not have an alternative strategy.
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| Tom Simonite / MIT Technology Review: |
Welcome to the Malware-Industrial Complex — The U.S. government is developing new computer weapons and driving a black market in “zero-day” bugs. The result could be a more dangerous Web for everyone. — Why It Matters — Governments, contractors, and researchers are developing cyber-weapons …
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| Kevin Fitchard / GigaOM: |
Sweden boasts the world's fastest 4G speeds; US ranks a lowly 8th — Sweden was the first country to launch an LTE network, and it retains plenty of bragging rights. According to a study by U.K. network-testing firm OpenSignal, Sweden has the fastest 4G networks in the world, averaging download speeds of 22.1 Mbps.
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| Ernesto / TorrentFreak: |
Anti-Piracy Group Rips Off Pirate Bay Website, Faces Lawsuit — Finnish anti-piracy group CIAPC, known worldwide for tracking down a 9 year-old “pirate girl” and having her Winnie The Pooh laptop confiscated, launched a controversial campaign yesterday. — The group copied The Pirate Bay's design …
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Apple challenges loss of iPhone trademark in Brazil — (Reuters) - Apple Inc, which lost the rights to its iPhone trademark in Brazil on Wednesday, is challenging the ruling by Brazil's copyright regulator to prevent local firm Gradiente Eletronica SA from using the “iphone” brand name.| Harrison Weber / The Next Web: |
Adobe launches responsive design app Reflow, updates Dreamweaver, Edge Animate and Edge Code — Adobe has today announced a number of noteworthy updates only for Creative Cloud subscribers, including new Edge Web Fonts support in Dreamweaver, added CSS functionality in Edge Animate and code hinting in Edge Code.
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| Sean Ludwig / VentureBeat: |
Vimeo acquires GIF-making app Echograph to challenge Vine & Cinemagram — Popular video-sharing service Vimeo has acquired iOS GIF-making application Echograph in a bid to counter the buzz of hot video-sharing apps Vine and Cinemagram. — Echograph is an app that lets you create a GIF … | Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
Nvidia CEO: ‘I believe in tablets wholeheartedly,’ but smartphones will take a little longer — Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang sure loves his slates. “Yes, I believe in tablets. I believe in tablets wholeheartedly,” he told investors this afternoon. The company co-founder has good reason to say so …
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| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Mailbox for iPhone suffers downtime even with slow rollout — In rolling out their popular new email client, the developers behind Mailbox played it about as safe as anyone possibly could. A long waiting list stands between iPhone owners and access to the sleek, innovative app.
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| Ken Yeung / The Next Web: |
QuickBooks Online gets an iPad app to help small businesses do their books on the go — Intuit has released an iPad app for its QuickBooks Online service in a move that will help small businesses be more productive when they're on the go, no matter where they are.
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| Ken Yeung / The Next Web: |
YC alumnus Virool raises record $6.62m seed round to grow its video ad platform that has 30k users — Self-service video advertising platform Virool has announced it raised a $6.62 million seed round from a slew of investors, including Thomvest Ventures, Menlo Ventures, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, the #DominateFund, FundersClub, and more.| Emily Maltby / Wall Street Journal: |
A New Push for Entrepreneur Visas — Rutul Davé, a native of India, had an H1-B visa, which tied him to a specific firm. He couldn't start his own U.S. company until he got a green card. — Fabien Beckers of San Francisco is one of dozens of entrepreneurs traveling to Washington …
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