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Apple's Secret Weapon: the iPhone 4 — Three-Year-Old Smartphone Propels Company's Sales in Price-Conscious Markets — Apple Inc. is known for drawing crowds with its latest and greatest technology. But one of its most potent weapons in some markets came out three years ago.
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Six years later, how Apple keeps the iPhone chugging along — Between March and June, Apple's iPad shipments dipped 14 percent. The Mac is dropping along with the rest of the PC industry, and the iPod has declined so much it barely merits a mention from the company anymore.
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Why Chromecast is such a big deal for Google, and a threat to Apple — Google officially launched its next big idea for the living room Wednesday, and the cast of people presenting the new product dubbed Chromecast at the company's breakfast event in San Francisco looked awfully familiar … | Eliot Van Buskirk / Evolver.fm: |
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OpenStack's Future Depends on Embracing Amazon. Now. — An Open Letter to the OpenStack Community: — Our Future Depends on Embracing Amazon — Dear Stackers, — For three years, elements of the OpenStack community have arbitrarily and unfairly positioned OpenStack against incumbents …
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BlackBerry Lays Off 250 Employees From Its New Product Testing And R&D Department — Layoffs at Waterloo-based smartphone industry pioneer BlackBerry cut deep last year, with around 5,000 employees being let go. Those cuts continue into 2013 as BlackBerry undergoes what CEO Thorsten Heins called a …
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Meet Helpouts, Google's Secret Project That Turns Hangouts Into A Commerce Platform — While its roots lie in search, today, Google wears many hats. From self-driving cars and wearable technology to social networking and mobile operating systems, there are few industries where the search …
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Facebook Stock Opens Up 26% After Last Night's Big Earnings Beat — Facebook's stock is up 31% in off-hours trading as of this writing following a glowing earnings report from the company yesterday. — Most importantly, Facebook showed significant revenue growth in mobile ads …
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Microsoft to allow indie self-publishing on Xbox One, retail consoles will double as debug units (updated) — Microsoft's Xbox One is getting decidedly more indie-friendly with today's confirmation from Microsoft that its forthcoming game console will double as a developer debug unit.
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Microsoft rolls out developer preview of IE11 on Windows 7 — Summary: Microsoft is making available for download immediately a test build of its IE11 browser for Windows 7, along with various new dev tools and discounts. — At Microsoft's Build conference, the IE team confirmed that Internet Explorer 11 …
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Yandex Co-Founder Ilya Segalovich on Life Support — Yandex NV (YNDX), Russia's largest search engine, said co-founder and Chief Technology Officer Ilya Segalovich suddenly died at age 48. — “Mr. Segalovich had been diagnosed with a treatable form of cancer and was responding well to treatment …
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Geeksphone Peak+ up for preorder at €149 with FirefoxOS 1.1, 1GB RAM — Interested in jumping on the Geeksphone Firefox OS bandwagon? Its first consumer-oriented device, the Peak+, is up for pre-order and we now know a lot more about it. It doubles up the RAM to 1GB over its Peak …
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The six most memorable startups from 500 Startups sixth class — MOUNTAIN VIEW, CALIF — The always-entertaining Dave McClure kicked off the 500 Startups Demo Day today with a video about Sharknado, otherwise known as “the best worst movie ever.” — “We hope our startups go as viral as Sharknado did,” McClure said.
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Hackers Reveal Nasty New Car Attacks—With Me Behind The Wheel (Video) — Stomping on the brakes of a 3,500-pound Ford Escape that refuses to stop-or even slow down-produces a unique feeling of anxiety. In this case it also produces a deep groaning sound, like an angry water buffalo bellowing somewhere under the SUV's chassis.| Liz Gannes / AllThingsD: |
Fast Car: Uber Funding Auction Could Reach a $3.5B Valuation — Uber, the ride-logistics startup, could be valued at up to $3.5 billion in a new funding round led by TPG Capital, said multiple sources close to the discussions, which are ongoing but advanced. We had first reported that Uber was seeking the round in June.
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Big Companies Mine Silicon Valley's Culture — By - RACHAEL KING and - STEVEN ROSENBUSH — In roughly the past two years, Target Corp., General Electric Co., Ford Motor Co., Johnson & Johnson and other big companies have opened outposts in or near Silicon Valley in search of ideas … | Donna Cassata / Associated Press: |
House Narrowly Rejects Effort To Halt NSA Program — WASHINGTON (AP) — The House has voted to continue the collection of hundreds of millions of Americans' phone records in the fight against terrorism. The House rejected a measure to end the program's authority. The vote was 217-205 on Wednesday.
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Google's new Nexus 7 with Android 4.3 hands-on — The new Nexus 7 is in our hands and as you'd expect, it's an improvement over last year's model in every appreciable way. The big show here is obviously the 1920 x 1200 screen, which Google claims has the highest pixel density of any tablet at 323ppi.| Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica: |
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