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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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| Joel Rosenblatt / Bloomberg: |
Apple Can't Duck Giving Documents in Privacy Lawsuit — Apple Inc. (AAPL) must show in detail how it's complying with court orders to turn over evidence in a privacy lawsuit, a judge ruled, saying he can no longer rely on what the company tells him in the case.
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| David Streitfeld / New York Times: |
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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| Mikey Campbell / AppleInsider: |
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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| Seth Weintraub / 9to5Mac: |
Apple unlikely to introduce wireless charging iPhones this year despite rumors to the contrary — Digitimes is out today with a report that states Apple and Samsung are set to introduce wireless charging flagship phones this year. At least with Apple, this is unlikely.| Hugo Miller / Bloomberg: |
BlackBerry's Heins Says He Won't Sell $50 Phones — BlackBerry (BBRY), the Canadian smartphone maker, said it's readying less expensive devices for emerging markets like India, though it has no plans to compete with lower-cost Asian rivals at the $50 to $60 level.
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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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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.
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HTC Facebook Phone Specs Leak, Outlining A Solid Mid-Range Device With FB And Instagram Pre-Loaded — Question: How do you attract a key youth, mobile-first demographic to your social network and get them to increase engagement? Answer: Partner with an OEM handset manufacturer to create … | Jenna Wortham / New York Times: |
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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| 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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| Billy Gallagher / TechCrunch: |
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 … | Florian Mueller / FOSS Patents: |
German court dismisses two Nokia patent lawsuits against HTC, one of them over Google Play — This morning the Mannheim Regional Court announced decisions relating to three smartphone patent cases: two Nokia v. HTC lawsuits and one Samsung v. Apple case (I'll blog about that one in the subsequent post).
| Alex Howard / O'Reilly Radar: |
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.| Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune: |
5 Apples for every Android on Gogo Inflight Wi-Fi networks — iPads are the most popular aircraft device. Then laptops. Then iPhones. — FORTUNE — “Apple devices are still reigning above the clouds,” according to Gogo Inflight, the largest U.S. provider of in-air online connectivity …
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| Ryan Tate / Wired: |
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.| Rebecca Greenfield / The Atlantic Wire: |
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