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BlackBerry Z10 Said to Hit AT&T Stores on March 22 to Reach U.S. — BlackBerry's new Z10 device will go on sale with AT&T Inc. (T) on March 22 as the Canadian smartphone maker seeks a sales recovery in its biggest market, according to two people familiar with the plan.| Amir Efrati / Wall Street Journal: |
Google's Motorola Unit to Cut 10% of Workforce — Google Inc.'s Motorola Mobility hardware unit has begun laying off about 1,200 employees, or more than 10% of its headcount, according to a company email reviewed by The Wall Street Journal, as the smartphone maker continues trying to return to profitability.
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Revolution in Resale of Digital Books and Music — The prospect of online stores that sell used e-books and digital music has heartened consumer advocates, but publishers and artists are worried.
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Apple's digital content resale and loan system could allow DRM transfers between end users — The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office on Thursday published details of an exhaustive Apple invention covering the resale and loan of owned digital content like e-books, music and movies, possibly portending an upcoming addition to iTunes.| Vernon Silver / Businessweek: |
Skype's Been Hijacked in China, and Microsoft Is O.K. With It — Jeffrey Knockel is an unlikely candidate to expose the inner workings of Skype's role in China's online surveillance apparatus. The 27-year-old computer-science graduate student at the University of New Mexico …
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With News Feed Overhaul, Facebook Delivers Your ‘Personalized Newspaper’ — Facebook redesigned its News Feed with bolder images and special sections for friends, photos, and music, saying the activity stream will become more like a “personalized newspaper” that fits better with people's mobile lifestyles.| Facebook Newsroom: |
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At an Annual Tech Show, It's Hardware's Turn in the Spotlight — AUSTIN, Tex. — Each year, thousands of tech enthusiasts flock to South by Southwest, the technology, music and film conference here, hoping to be among the first to find the next big thing in social networking and mobile apps.
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Bill limiting cities' ability to create broadband networks fails — Sponsored Links — The House on Thursday vote down an effort to limit local governments' ability to create their own broadband Internet networks, an effort to spur greater private sector competition.
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Google about to lose patent spat with Microsoft: German court inclined to ban Google Maps — [BREAKING NEWS during break at Munich patent trial; may still add more detail later] — Judge Dr. Matthias Zigann of the Munich I Regional Court just told Google and its Motorola Mobility subsidiary …
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If followers can sponsor updates on Facebook, social advertising has a new horizon — This week, I found that one of my Facebook updates received significantly more attention that others I've posted. On the one hand, it was a share of an important New York Times story focusing on the first time a baby was cured of HIV.| Mike Shields / Adweek: |
Facebook Plotting Major Video Push Look for Timeline videos, group social production, more pre-rolls By Mike Shields, Tim Peterson — Video is soon going to take center stage at Facebook. — As part of Facebook's redesigned News Feed (which will be announced today), it's expected that users …
| Frank Catalano / GeekWire: |
Bill Gates at SXSWedu: The future of education is data — Bill Gates at the SXSWedu conference. Photos via Brandon Phenix. — If there was a single nerdy subtext that Bill Gates brought to his closing keynote at the SXSWedu conference in Austin, it was the importance of data. — Useful data.
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The Snapchat Lawsuit, Or How To Lose Your Best Friend Over $70 Million — “This is a case of partners betraying a fellow partner.” — One week ago, Reggie Brown filed a lawsuit alleging that he is a co-founder of Snapchat, a red-hot impermanent photo messaging app, and is entitled … | Zack Whittaker / CNET: |
European Parliament blocks citizen e-mails protesting EU ‘porn ban’ — After European citizens began to complain en masse over a report proposing that porn should be banned in the 27-member state bloc, European politicians blew the whistle on their own IT department.
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Exclusive: CDW owners plan IPO after $7.3 billion buyout - sources — (Reuters) - Technology products retailer CDW, which was taken private by Madison Dearborn Partners LLC and Providence Equity Partners for $7.3 billion in 2007, has hired banks for an initial public offering later this year, people familiar with the matter said.| John C. Dvorak / PC Magazine: |
Apple Maps Leads the Way in Navigation — On Monday I had a meeting at Apple with podcaster Leo LaPorte, TWiT CEO Lisa Kentzell, and marketing guy Glenn Rubenstein. We were in three separate cars, each with a different navigation system, and we had several places to stop … | Zachary M. Seward / Quartz: |
The history of Facebook as told through its ever-expanding list of profile fields — The Facebook profile in 2005, 2006, and 2007 — An interesting new study (PDF) out of Carnegie Mellon University examines how students there, who first joined Facebook in 2005, have changed their privacy settings on the service over time.
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Pandora Shares Jump 18% After Better-Than-Expected Earnings, Mobile Revenue Up 111% To $80.3M — Veteran streaming radio platform Pandora released its fourth quarter earnings today, in which it saw its fiscal 2013 revenue of $427.1 million, representing a 56 percent year-over-year increase … Sponsor Posts
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