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| Steve Dent / Engadget: |
BlackBerry teams up with Foxconn for budget smartphones as sales continue to plunge — Blackberry's new interim chief John Chen has got a rude awakening to his new job: it sold only 1.9 million smartphones in Q1 compared to 3.7 million last quarter and lost $4.4 billion.
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| Sean Silcoff / Globe and Mail: |
BlackBerry posts massive $4.4-billion quarterly loss, revenue plunges — BlackBerry Ltd. reported a massive $4.4-billion (U.S.) third-quarter loss Friday as the company, led by new interim chief executive John Chen, revealed that revenue had fallen even more sharply than market observers had expected.| Fred Vogelstein / The Atlantic Online: |
The Day Google Had to ‘Start Over’ on Android — Google was building a secret mobile product to fend off chief rival Microsoft. Then Apple announced the iPhone, and everything changed. — In 2005, on Google's sprawling, college-like campus, the most secret and ambitious of many …
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| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
Trouble in Austin: Apple repeats last year's iMac holiday shortage with the Mac Pro — The December supply of Mac Pros? — The new Mac Pro is an awesome machine for those with several thousand dollars to spend on a computer and a need for all the power that comes with that thermal core …
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EU says Google concessions in antitrust case not acceptable — Google's revised proposals to settle an antitrust case are not acceptable, European Union competition commissioner Joaquin Almunia said on Friday. — “The latest offer as submitted by Google in October … | Mikey Campbell / AppleInsider: |
Apple hints at future Maps app in ‘layered map’ patent filing — The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office on Thursday published an Apple patent application that takes the company's existing mapping apps and extends them to new levels of interactivity with data-rich layered viewing modes. — Source: USPTO| Libby Jacobson / Verizon Public Policy: |
Verizon to Publish Transparency Report Disclosing Law Enforcement Requests for Customer Information — NEW YORK — Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE, Nasdaq: VZ) today announced plans to publish an online report that will provide data on the number of law enforcement requests for customer information …
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| Gregory Ferenstein / TechCrunch: |
Tim Draper Wants To Split California Into Pieces And Turn Silicon Valley Into Its Own State — TechCrunch has learned about noted technology investor Tim Draper's plan to split California into six separate states, including a Northern California slice appropriately named “Silicon Valley.”
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| Walter Frick / HBR: |
The Danger of Turning Cynical About Silicon Valley — Silicon Valley is losing its luster, at least among elite opinion-makers. An increasing number of critiques have been mounted in publications as diverse as The New Republic, The Weekly Standard, and Wired (to name only a few) …
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| Seth Weintraub / 9to5Google: |
After recall, Google releases updated HP Chromebook 11 with newly-designed power adapter — Google recalled the power adapters to its popular little HP Chromebook 11 last week after an investigation by the US Consumer Product Safety Commission said that some of the AC adapters were overheating and could be dangerous.
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| U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission: |
SEC Charges Microsoft Senior Manager and Friend With Insider Trading in Advance of Company News — The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged a senior portfolio manager at Microsoft Corporation and his friend and business partner with insider trading ahead of company announcements.
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| Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: |
AOL Finalizing Talks To Sell Winamp And Shoutcast, No Shutdown Expected On Dec. 20 — AOL is finalizing negotiations to sell off Winamp and Shoutcast in a deal that would allow both products to live on, according to a source with knowledge of the discussions.
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SlashGear, The Atlantic Online, Softpedia News and Boing Boing
| Arik Hesseldahl / AllThingsD: |
Calxeda, Chipmaker That Sought to Bring ARM Chips to Servers, Has Shut Down — Depending on whom you ask, the coming year is supposed to be the one during which server chips based on the ARM architecture that is now so popular in smartphones and tablets start appearing in servers.
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| Michael Davidson / Xconomy: |
Techstars CEO David Cohen to Raise $150M Fund — Techstars co-founder and CEO David Cohen has begun the process of raising a $150 million fund, according to an SEC filing made earlier today. — While Cohen is best known as the head of Boulder, CO-based Techstars, he's also an active investor … | Dan Seifert / The Verge: |
Motorola releases Android 4.4 update for Moto G ahead of schedule — The inexpensive, yet surprisingly good, Motorola Moto G has only been on the market for a couple of weeks, but it's already getting its first major software update. Motorola announced today that Android 4.4.2 KitKat … | iFixit: |
Steam Machine Teardown — If last month's round of next-gen console launches left you in a fog, prepare yourself for the incoming Steam Machine. Valve has released only 300 beta kits into the wild, so grab your companion cube and hold tight—we're about to open one up.
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| Jon Fingas / Engadget: |
Shazam for iPhone can now listen for songs and shows in the background — Ever rush to identify a song with Shazam with your phone, only to be frustrated as the tune ends before you've even reached into your pocket? That won't be a concern with the latest update to Shazam's iPhone app.
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Gigaom, App Advice, Cult of Mac, everythingiCafe, The Next Web, TechRadar.com, Multichannel.com, Fast Company, Consumerist, Ubergizmo, TUAW, Electronista, iDownloadBlog.com and Pocket-lint. Tweets: @qthrul
| Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
BitTorrent serverless chat replaces usernames with crypto keys — BitTorrent, Inc. is developing a serverless instant messaging system that relies on public key encryption to protect the privacy of communications, identifying users not with traditional usernames but with cryptographic key pairs.| Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: |
Final Cut Pro updated to version 10.1, 4K monitoring, Mac Pro optimisations and more — Alongside the release of the new Mac Pro, Apple has updated Final Cut Pro in the Mac App Store to take advantage of the machine's immense raw processing power. Specifically, Apple says that playback … | Devindra Hardawar / VentureBeat: |
Latest mobile dev trends: Facebook's mobile API & Javascript are hot; HTML5 & old web architecture are not — For mobile developers, a lot has changed in the past year. — Facebook has now swiftly become the most popular social service for devs to connect their apps to …
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