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More Smartphones Were Shipped in Q1 2013 Than Feature Phones, An Industry First According to IDC — The worldwide mobile phone market grew 4% year over year in the seasonally slow first quarter of 2013 (1Q13) as smartphones outshipped feature phones for the first time.
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| Dr. Raymond M. Soneira / DisplayMate: |
Galaxy S4 Display Technology Shoot-Out — Samsung Galaxy S III - Samsung Galaxy S4 - Apple iPhone 5 Introduction The Samsung Galaxy S Smartphones are by far the most popular Android Smartphones and are flagship products for Samsung to show off its latest and greatest OLED display technology.
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| Liz Gannes / AllThingsD: |
Wavii Shuts Down as It's Officially Acquired by Google — Wavii, which aggregated and summarized news, has been bought by Google. — News of the impending deal and its price ("more than $30 million") had already been widely discussed following Business Insider and TechCrunch reports …
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| Mike Isaac / AllThingsD: |
Please Welcome Bill Gates, Steve Ballmer, Brad Smith and Sean Parker to the ZuckerPAC — Mr. Zuckerberg isn't the only tech titan scaling Capitol Hill this year — he brought friends. — The Facebook CEO adds a few more impressive names to the roster of his D.C. political advocacy group on Friday …
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| Aaron Pressman / Reuters: |
Google's Schmidt says talking to glasses can be weird, inappropriate — (Reuters) - Google Inc Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt has been playing with his company's new combination glasses and mobile computer and said he finds the experience a little weird. — Talking out loud to control …
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| Aaron Souppouris / The Verge: |
Google closes Facebook's loophole, bans non-Play store app updates in Android — After Facebook was found to be updating its Android app without using the Google Play store's update mechanisms, Google has clarified its terms and conditions to ensure no other developers attempt to circumvent its store.| Shara Tibken / CNET: |
Android notebooks? Yep, Intel says, and they'll only cost $200 — Dadi Perlmutter, Intel's chief product officer, also tells CNET that devices running Intel's mainstream Core line of processors could sell for as low as $399 to $499. — Notebook prices should soon hit $200 …
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| Nicholas Carlson / Business Insider: |
Yahoo's Chairman Is Out Because Marissa Mayer Was Not His First Choice For CEO — Yahoo just announced that chairman Fred Amoroso will step down in June. — We've communicated with three Yahoo sources since the news broke. — Given what they told us, we think this is why Amoroso is out:
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| Debbie Cai / Wall Street Journal: |
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Court Denies Motorola the Billions It Wanted From Microsoft for Standards-Essential Patents — A federal court in Seattle issued a ruling Thursday that could help settle the question of just how much a company can expect to reap from standards-essential patents. — Source: Microsoft| John Paczkowski / AllThingsD: |
Android's Leaky Bucket: Loyalty Gives Apple the Edge Over Time — So, Android's seemingly inexorable ascension over the iPhone? Not quite so inexorable anymore. Apple's smartphone continues to gain share over devices running Google's mobile OS in the U.S.; so much so that …
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Cult of Mac, PhoneArena, MacDailyNews, WMPoweruser, App Advice and SlashGear
| Andy Fixmer / Businessweek: |
Apple's 10-Year-Old iTunes Loses Ground to Streaming — A decade ago, the newly started iTunes Store gave away a song called Over My Head (Cable Car) by an obscure Denver rock group called The Fray. That was, explains lead guitarist Joe King, the band's big break.
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| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Apple returns to plucking heartstrings with new iPhone 5 ad — Apple has released a new, one-minute commercial for the iPhone 5 that puts the focus on the camera. First reported by 9to5Mac, the ad shows people using the iPhone's camera in a variety of situations over the plaintive sounds of a single piano.
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AllThingsD, Daring Fireball, MacStories, TodaysiPhone.com, iDownloadBlog.com, PhoneArena, AppleInsider, MacRumors and App Advice. Tweets: @panzer
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Tax-Free Web Shopping Nears End — Online shoppers, beware. Freedom from sales taxes is on the way out. Late Thursday afternoon, in a 63-to-30 procedural vote, the Senate cleared the way for passage of a bill to effectively end tax-free shopping online.| Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch: |
Digg Owner Betaworks Buys Instapaper To Go Big On Social Reading And Discovery — Last summer, New York-based hybrid investor / incubator / holding company thing Betaworks acquired social news site Digg and relaunched it soon after, hoping to bring back some of its mojo in the process.| Marco Arment / Marco.org: |
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Exclusive: Yahoo's Marissa Mayer Officially Joins Jawbone Board — As I had reported last fall that she might, Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer has officially joined the board of Jawbone, the high-profile wireless gadget maker whose nifty products include Jawbone wireless headsets … | Drew Olanoff / TechCrunch: |
Pinterest Tweaks Its New Look, Improves Search And Brings Features Like Pinned From And Mentions Back — While Pinterest is still rolling out its brand new look to users, it decided to listen to some feedback along the way and make some tweaks. — Since the site relies heavily, or completely …
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WebProNews and TechHive
| Zachary Lutz / Engadget: |
Lumia 521 for T-Mobile arrives early at HSN on April 27th for $149.95, general availability on May 22nd — Wanting to get first dibs on the Lumia 521 for T-Mobile? If so, it looks that you may need to tune into HSN on April 27th, because — strange as it sounds — the television network …
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newsroom.t-mobile.com, ZDNet, The Register, Inquirer, The Nokia Blog and My Nokia Blog
| Jonathan Watts / Guardian: |
Amazon v the Amazon: internet retailer in domain name battle — Brazil and Peru governments say company should not profit from an address that refers to an important geographical area — When you see the word “Amazon”, what's the first thing that springs to mind - the world's biggest forest …
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The Verge, Gizmodo and Softpedia News
| Dan Seifert / The Verge: |
AT&T finally brings its Digital Life home automation service to 15 markets — AT&T has been showing off and talking about its Digital Life home automation service for the better part of a year now, but after missing its March launch target, it's finally making the service available in 15 markets this week.
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AT&T Cell Phones …, NYT Bits, The Register, Engadget, 9to5Mac, Windows Phone Central, SlashGear, Ubergizmo, iPhone, CNET, Reuters and AllThingsD
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Samsung to block access to app store in Iran — You are here — Home » Tehran » Samsung to block access to app store in Iran — Potential customers try out Samsung mobile phone and tablet computer, in a store, in Tehran, Iran, Thursday, April 25, 2013.
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CNET, Ars Technica and The Register
| Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
Amazon beats profit expectations, tops 90,000 employees for first time — Amazon this afternoon reported first-quarter profits of $82 million, or 18 cents a share, a decline of 37 percent from the same quarter a year ago but more than enough to exceed Wall Street's expectations.
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