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4½", 5" screen iPhones expected in second half of year, smaller one further along in development, to feature metal casing, plastic casing scrapped — Apple iPhones to Come Out With Bigger Screens — Facing competition from rivals offering smartphones with bigger screens …
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Tweets: @fmanjoo, @javi, @bryfitz and @stratechery
| Microsoft: |
Microsoft Reports Record Revenue of $24.52 Billion in Second Quarter — Double-digit growth in Commercial and Devices and Consumer segments drives record revenue. — REDMOND, Wash. — January 23, 2014 — Microsoft Corp. today announced revenue of $24.52 billion for the quarter ended December 31, 2013.
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Tweets: @jowens510 and @fxshaw
| Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
Microsoft beats earnings, ships 7.4 million Xboxes, doubles Surface revenue — Microsoft posts record revenue of $24.5B, beats earnings expectations in holiday quarter — Microsoft just announced revenue of $24.5 billion for the December quarter, up 14 percent from the same quarter a year ago … | Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
Sources say new Apple TV box likely coming soon, App/Game Store possible — We've learned that Apple is making progress on its development of a successor to the current Apple TV and that the device is well into testing. We are led to believe that the new device, which is said to be a set-top box rather … | Phil Dzikiy / iLounge: |
Apple TV may get game support with Bluetooth controllers and direct game downloads by March — Reports: Apple TV to add games in coming update — iLounge has heard from reliable industry sources that Apple TV will soon be getting proper game support in an update, likely to come in March or earlier.
| Jason Snell / Macworld: |
Interview with Schiller, Federighi and Tribble on the future of the Mac on its 30th birthday — Apple executives on the Mac at 30: ‘The Mac keeps going forever.’ — Thirty years ago, Apple introduced the Macintosh, and we all learned why 1984 wasn't going to be like 1984.
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Tweets: @mattrosoff, @rosa and @fraserspeirs
Thanks:@jsnell| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
Tim Cook interview with ABC about the Mac's 30th anniversary airing tomorrow — ABC News has announced that it has interviewed Apple CEO Tim Cook regarding the 30th anniversary of the Mac. The interview will air tomorrow night on World News with Diane Sawyer at 6:30 PM EST. A small portion …
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| Ellen Nakashima / Washington Post: |
Independent review board says NSA phone data program is illegal and should end — An independent executive branch board has concluded that the National Security Agency's long-running program to collect billions of Americans' phone records is illegal and should end.
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| Jessica Roy / TIME: |
Revenge-Porn King Hunter Moore Indicted by U.S. Attorney — Moore and an alleged accomplice Charles “Gary” Evens are indicted on 15 counts, including conspiracy, seven counts of unauthorized access to a protected computer to obtain information and seven counts of aggravated identity theft
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| Dan Seifert / The Verge: |
Pentagon says ‘absolutely no new orders have been placed’ for BlackBerry phones — Stock surges on news of a big win that never was — Last week, a press release from the Department of Defense announced the launch of a new mobile network within the agency that will utilize unclassified mobile devices … | Samuel Gibbs / Guardian: |
Google charges Android device vendors for apps like Gmail and Maps, Play Store access — How Google controls Android's open-source software — Basic Android software may be free, but it doesn't include the apps that make up Google's mobile services — The idea that Google's Android mobile software … | Horace Dediu / asymco.com: |
What if it's Apple, and not Google, that's invulnerable? — Invulnerable — On a recent podcast I noted that Google was perceived as invulnerable. In contrast, Apple is seen as temporarily enjoying a stay of execution. [1] This is not necessarily a bad thing for Apple.
Tweets: @alexjamesfitz, @angeljimenez, @michelletripp, @gsiemens and @caseynewton
| Kara Swisher / Re/code: |
AOL Buys Personalization Startup Gravity for $90 Million in Cash — In a bid to add another publishing and advertising tool to its offerings, AOL has acquired personalization startup Gravity for about $90 million in cash. — As part of the deal, which is expected to close in the first quarter …
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Tweets: @bgarlinghouse, @alexia, @ibarguen and @davidhornik
See also Mediagazer| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
iPhone 5s Owners Gobbling “Unprecedented” Levels Of Data, Study Finds — Users of flagship smartphones such as Apple's iPhone 5s and Samsung's Galaxy S4 are continuing to suck down more data than their tablet-wielding counterparts, according to a large-scale survey of mobile data consumption …
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9to5Mac, CNET, BGR, MacRumors, ZDNet, SammyToday, LAPTOP Magazine, iPhone in Canada Blog, TUAW, eWeek, MacDailyNews, iDownloadBlog.com, SlashGear, App Advice and Softpedia News. Tweets: @pkedrosky
| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Twitter Launches Card Analytics To Let Publishers Monitor Impressions, Clicks And More — In a move that could give brands and publishers more insight into what to tweet, today Twitter is rolling out Analytics For Twitter Cards. The dashboard shows impressions, URL clicks …
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Twitter Developers, Re/code, CNET, ReadWrite, ZDNet, The Next Web, Marketing Land, SlashGear and WebProNews. Tweets: @joshconstine. See also Mediagazer
| Jung Ha-Won / AFP: |
S. Korea to spend $1.5 bn on 5G ‘movie-in-a-second’ service — Seoul — South Korea, already one of the most wired countries on earth, Wednesday announced a 1.6 trillion won ($1.5 billion) plan to roll out a next-generation 5G wireless service quick enough to download full-length films in a second.| Dune Lawrence / Businessweek: |
Tor Anonymity Software vs. the National Security Agency — Last year, Edward Snowden turned over to the Guardian, a British newspaper, some 58,000 classified U.S. government documents. Just a fraction of the files have been made public, but they outline the National Security Agency's massive information-collection system.
Tweets: @matthewkeyslive, @nytimesbits, @sheelahk, @libertylynx and @jpaskin
| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook Hilariously Debunks Princeton Study Saying It Will Lose 80% Of Users — Posted 25 seconds ago by Josh Constine (@joshconstine) — Last week Princeton researchers released a widely covered study saying Facebook would lose 80% of its users by 2015-2017.| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Watch Out Tumblr, Pinterest Now Supports GIFs — Earlier this week, some Pinterest users noticed that the company was experimenting with support for animated GIFs on its site - the popular, moving images that, until recently, defaulted to static photos when pinned.
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| Mark Ames / PandoDaily: |
The Techtopus: How Silicon Valley's most celebrated CEOs conspired to drive down 100,000 tech engineers' wages — In early 2005, as demand for Silicon Valley engineers began booming, Apple's Steve Jobs sealed a secret and illegal pact with Google's Eric Schmidt to artificially push …
Tweets: @markamesexiled, @rbranson and @zedshaw
| Chris Kohler / Wired: |
Instead of porting its games to other mobile platforms, Nintendo should run its own platform — Everything You're Thinking About Nintendo Is Totally Wrong — The entire internet has weighed in with what it believes is the answer to Nintendo's financial woes: Go mobile, immediately.| Matthew Panzarino / TechCrunch: |
Biz Stone's Jelly Raises Series B Led By Greylock, And Josh Elman Joins The Board — Twitter co-founder Biz Stone has raised a Series B round of investment led by Greylock Partners, with Spark Capital participating. The raise comes just under a year after it raised a Series A round from Spark …
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Greylock VC, Jelly Blog, VentureBeat and Re/code
| Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: |
Pixelmator 3.1 brings 16-bit image support for Mac Pro, integrated photo printing and more — Pixelmator have released the latest version of their app today, version 3.1. As usual, it is available exclusively in the Mac App Store for $29.99. Codenamed Marble, this update brings several enhancements …
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Pixelmator - Blog, Digital Trends, Macworld, AppleInsider, MacDailyNews, iMore, iDownloadBlog.com, MacRumors and MacNN
| Dennis Berman / Wall Street Journal: |
Wal-Mart aims to match Amazon's service offerings in two years, continues warehouse build out — Wal-Mart Aims To Match Amazon's Service Offerings — Wal-Mart Will Continue To Build Out New Distribution Centers for Online Delivery — The head of Wal-Mart Stores Inc. 's e-commerce efforts predicted …
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