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The Xbox One: Hardware Analysis & Comparison to PlayStation 4 — It's that time of decade again. Time for a new Xbox. It took four years for Microsoft to go from the original Xbox to the Xbox 360. The transition from Xbox 360 to the newly announced Xbox One will take right around 8 years …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Xbox One confusion: Microsoft leaves used games and ‘always-online’ requirement unclear — Microsoft's Xbox One unveil was concentrated on the hardware, entertainment, and gaming, but a controversial aspect to the new console — a rumored always-online requirement — has been left floating amid a sea of confusion.
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| Chris Ziegler / The Verge: |
HTC in disarray: staff departures, ‘disastrous’ First, and production problems cloud company's future — Internal upheaval comes at a bad time for the struggling phone maker — The Verge has learned that HTC's Chief Product Officer, Kouji Kodera, left the company last week.| Aloysius Low / CNET: |
HTC Asia CEO Lennard Hoornik leaves company — Earlier today, it was reported on the Verge that HTC's chief product officer, Kouji Kodera had left the company alongside other high-level employees. Product strategy manager Eric Lin even had a strongly worded warning for remaining employees …
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Google's Impressive “Conversational Search” Goes Live On Chrome — The “conversational search” that Google demonstrated at last week's Google I/O conference is now available to users of its Chrome browser, and it's a significant leap in how we use search engines.
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| Brad Stone / Businessweek: |
Inside Google's Secret Lab — Last February, Astro Teller, the director of Google's (GOOG) secretive research lab, Google X, went to seek approval from Chief Executive Officer Larry Page for an unlikely acquisition. Teller was proposing that Google buy Makani Power, a startup …
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| Connie Guglielmo / Forbes: |
Longtime Tech Industry Analyst Michael Gartenberg Joins Apple — Michael Gartenberg, a longtime industry analyst known for covering digital media technologies and companies including Microsoft and Apple , has left his post as an analyst at Gartner Inc. to take a job with Apple.
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| Florian Mueller / FOSS Patents: |
Apple identifies certain patents allegedly infringed by Samsung Galaxy S4 and Google Now app — Last week Apple informed the court that it intended to amend its infringement contentions in the second California patent litigation with Samsung to target the Galaxy S4 (instead of some other product …
| Mitali Pattnaik / Twitter Advertising: |
Capture user interest with the Lead Generation Card — Marketers regularly talk to us about their goals, and for many it boils down to one major theme: generating leads, and ultimately driving purchases. — With those goals in mind, today there's a new addition to our suite of Twitter Cards … | Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft updates its YouTube Windows Phone app with some concessions to Google — Summary: The Microsoft-Google feud continues, with Microsoft meeting some — but not all — of Google's terms-of-service demands around the Microsoft's recently developed YouTube app.
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| John Paczkowski / AllThingsD: |
Apple's Made-in-USA Mac Will Be Built in Texas … When Apple announced its intention to manufacture one of its existing Mac lines exclusively in the U.S. last December, the company didn't say which line, or where in the country it planned to build it. Now, some five months later …
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| Zachary M. Seward / Quartz: |
The Steve Jobs emails that show how to win a hard-nosed negotiation — The US government's price-fixing lawsuit against Apple goes to trial next month in New York. Ahead of its court date, the US released emails that purport to show Apple was the “ringleader” in a scheme … | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Adobe Acqui-hires Thumb Labs To Make Mobile Apps For Behance And Its New Creative Cloud — Another step for Adobe in its bid to become the go-to place in the cloud for those working in design and other creative industries: it is acquiring Thumb Labs, a bootstrapped, New York-based mobile app design agency.
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Twitter Ups Web Security With Two-Factor Authentication Via SMS, But Shared Accounts May Still Be In Danger — After scores of accounts were potentially compromised a few months ago, Twitter today launched two-factor authentication through SMS to protect people from hacks and phishing scams on the web.| Anton Troianovski / Wall Street Journal: |
Phone Firms Sell Data on Customers — Big phone companies have begun to sell the vast troves of data they gather about their subscribers' locations, travels and Web-browsing habits. — The information provides a powerful tool for marketers but raises new privacy concerns.
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| Sarah Silbert / Engadget: |
Qualcomm demos next-gen 2,560 x 1,440 Mirasol display (hands-on video) — We haven't heard about Mirasol for a while now, but Qualcomm's reflective display tech showed up in a few proof-of-concepts on the SID Display Week floor. We got a look at a previously announced 1.5-inch panel embedded …
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Digital Trends, GigaOM, Ubergizmo, Electronista and Mobile Magazine
| Rachel King / ZDNet: |
HP's Whitman reiterates ‘multi-year journey’ amid Q2 revenue miss — Summary: Wall Street was expecting earnings of 81 cents a share on revenue of $28.08 billion for the second quarter. — Leading up to Hewlett-Packard's second quarter earnings report after the bell on Wednesday, analysts were expecting a mixed bag.Sponsor Posts
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