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Mailbox Takes Its Email App To iPad, With Android Waiting In The Wings — What has Mailbox founder Gentry Underwood and his team been up to since selling the email-app maker to Dropbox for a reported $100 million in March? — Mostly working on new versions of the product …
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| Bryan Bishop / The Verge: |
Samsung Galaxy S4 hits 10 million units shipped, new colors coming this summer — Samsung has announced the Galaxy S4 has reached 10 million global channel sales less than a month after its commercial launch. The figure sets a new record for Samsung's line of smartphones …
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| Edward Wong / New York Times: |
In China, Hacking Has Widespread Acceptance — BEIJING — Name a target anywhere in China, an official at a state-owned company boasted recently, and his crack staff will break into that person's computer, download the contents of the hard drive, record the keystrokes, and monitor cellphone communications, too.
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| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
HP redesigns Envy and Pavilion laptops for 2013, including one with a 3200 x 1800 screen — Last year, Hewlett-Packard decided to unify the design of every thin and light laptop it sold, applying the same basic curves across every keyboard, touchpad, hinge, lid, and frame.
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| Jon Russell / The Next Web: |
Jack Dorsey's digital payments company Square expands beyond North America, landing in Japan first — Red hot payments startup Square is invading Asia after it announced that its service has launched in Japan, which becomes its third market worldwide in addition to the US and Canada.
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| Bloomberg: |
Lenovo Quarterly Profit Rises 90% on Market Share Gains — Lenovo Group Ltd. (992), the world's second-biggest maker of personal computers, reported a 90 percent gain in fourth-quarter profit after increasing its market share and boosting smartphone sales. — Net income climbed to $126.9 million …
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| Sam Byford / The Verge: |
Kim Dotcom accuses Google, Facebook, and Twitter of violating his two-step security patent — Hours after Twitter rolled out support for two-step verification, Kim Dotcom has claimed credit for inventing the security feature. In a series of tweets, the embattled Megaupload founder points …
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Chrome 27 for Android is out: Fullscreen on phones, simplified searching, tab history on tablets, and more — Just a day after releasing Chrome 27 on the desktop, Google on Wednesday announced the release of Chrome 27 for Android, adding fullscreen support on phones and a tab history option on tablets.| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
The third screen: Will all Windows 8 apps run on Microsoft's Xbox One? — Summary: MS CRM on your Xbox One? Will any and all Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 apps be allowed to run on the just-announced Xbox One? — Is it really so crazy to think that users will be able to run Microsoft CRM …
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Corning Pits Gorilla Glass 3 Against Sapphire, Plans Reflection Reduction and Antimicrobial Technology — Following Apple's adoption of sapphire crystal as a strong and durable covering for the rear cameras on the iPhone 5 and fifth-generation iPod touch late last year … | Wall Street Journal: |
Wary of China, U.S. Steps Into Sprint's Board — SoftBank Corp. is readying a plan to allow the U.S. government an unusual level of influence over the operations of Sprint Nextel Corp., a concession to ease security concerns raised by the proposed cross-border takeover.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft recruits Siri to bad-mouth the iPad in new Windows 8 tablet ad — Whatever era you call it, post-PC or simply PC plus, the Mac vs. PC war has ignited once again today. In a fresh Windows 8 ad, Microsoft is directly attacking Apple's iPad on price, an approach it took during the early Vista days with low-priced laptops.
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| Nancy Trejos / USA Today: |
Tablet use soars among U.S. airline passengers — Passengers are increasingly relying on their tablets and other personal electronic devices for entertainment and work on U.S. domestic flights, despite a ban on their use during takeoff and landing, a study to be released Wednesday concludes.
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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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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Amazon Takes Kindle Fire HD Tablets To 170 Countries As It Ramps Up Its Appstore To Nearly 200 Markets — No, we still don't have any word from Amazon on where it stands with a smartphone, but it's definitely making its mobile ambitions clear anyway. Today, the e-commerce giant took …
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| Sharif Sakr / Engadget: |
Facebook won't bring HTC First smartphone to the UK after all (update: due to bad feedback in the US) — After a series of rumors about the HTC First not selling too well in the States, we've now heard that the customized Facebook / Android handset won't be coming to the UK.
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| Bloomberg: |
Microsoft to Add Several Thousand Workers in China, Ballmer Says — Microsoft Corp. (MSFT), the largest software maker, will hire several thousand workers in China to support new cloud computing services and smartphones using its Windows operating system, Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer said.
| Peter Bright / Ars Technica: |
Surprise! Mozilla can produce near-native performance on the Web — In a bid to make JavaScript run ever faster, Mozilla has developed asm.js. It's a limited, stripped down subset of JavaScript that the company claims will offer performance that's within a factor of two of native … | Jon Fingas / Engadget: |
AMD details Elite Mobility and mainstream APUs, we run early tests (hands-on) — AMD has been willing to tease its 2013 ultra-mobile APU (accelerated processing unit) strategy through PCs like the Acer Aspire V5, but today it's spilling the beans in earnest.
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