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Two new Apple iOS apps to be announced today: Organize.app and…
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Fox News’ Clayton Morris today tweeted that he’s got word that there will be two new iOS apps revealed today: Just as a teaser, here are some things I expect today. Multiple sources tell me we’ll see at least two new native iOS apps from Apple.— Clayton Morris (@ClaytonMorris) June 11, 2012...
Apple March 7th iPad event Liveblog
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We’ll be posting news as it happens today. We’re expecting a faster Retina Display iPad with improved cameras as well as an updated AppleTV and maybe a few surprises, particularly in the area of software. Bookmark this page and come back often for updated info....
We're live from CeBIT 2012 in Hannover, Germany!
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Where is Hannover, you ask? Well it's definitely in Germany -- of that much we're sure. This town certainly isn't a tourist haven, save for a week in March when tech pros from every continent arrive and grow the city beyond its typical community of 500,000, but CeBIT is...
'Nightline' report on Apple production line shows iPhone is basically handmade
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ABC's Nightline special episode on Apple's production line offered an inside look at the company's supply chain but revealed few surprises, though it did show that the iPhone, with 141 separate steps that go into its production, is practically a handmade device....
Facebook Tops 900 Million Users, But Penetration Rate Slows
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The biggest takeaway from Facebook's updated filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission is that the company will not be able to rely on adding new users at breakneck speed as a way of boosting revenue. It's a fact that Facebook readily concedes. "Historically, our user growth has been...
Apple’s next iPad will be unveiled tomorrow – here’s what to expect
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Apple will unveil its next-generation iPad on Wednesday during a press conference in San Francisco. While the Cupertino, California-based company may have a few surprises in store for us, Apple’s supply chain has been leaking like a sieve over the past few months. The result is what should be...
Foxconn doors swung open to visitor, but few surprises await
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Rob Schmitz will be sharing his experiences at Foxconn throughout the week, and this first report reveals much of what has already been revealed about the company. [Read more]...
What does it mean to love something on the Internet?
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Fish: A Tap Essay, is an intriguing free app for the iPhone that asks an important question: “What does it mean to love something on the Internet?” With all the ramped liking and fave-ing and thumbs-ups going around these days, these gestures have become all but meaningless. When you like something,...
RIAA: Digital beats out physical for first time in 2011, streaming services gain 300,000 subscribers
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The RIAA has released its statistics on digital and physical music sales for 2011, and it has confirmed that downloads have beat out physical for the first time, eeking just over the 50 percent mark. Total US music shipments were up for the first time since 2004, with a...
RIAA: Digital beats out physical for first time in 2011, streaming services gain 300,000 subscribers
The Next iPhone Probably Won't Have A Name, Either (AAPL)
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One of the few surprises in today's Apple event was the name of the main product it was announcing. It's the iPad. This is the third generation iPad, and it's quite a bit better than the iPad 2. But Apple didn't give it a name like iPad 3 or...
LIVE: Day 2 Of Google's Big Announcements (GOOGLE)
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SAN FRANCISCO – Google is about to kick off the second day of its I/O developers conference with yet another big keynote. Most of the big news happened yesterday, but we're expecting to hear a bit more about Google's services and apps such as Chrome and Google Drive. We briefly...
Fed driver distraction guidelines make navigation unusable
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The recently issued National Highway Transportation Safety Agency guidelines for automakers to minimize distraction for in-vehicle electronics included few surprises, except for the proposal to freeze maps on navigation systems. [Read more]...
BlackBerry World Roundup: What to Know About RIM's '12 Show
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RIM held its annual BlackBerry World conference in Orlando this week, where the Canadian company made a number of significant announcements and unveiled a few surprises....
The Circuit: Sprint-LightSquared, Google Play, Apple faces South Korean lawsuit
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Apple introduces the new iPad: There were few surprises from Apple on Wednesday when it unveiled its latest iPad tablet, which the company hopes will maintain its hold on the tablet market and keep its gathering rivals at bay. Read full article >>...
Computex 2012 wrap-up
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After getting our hands on more than three dozen Ultrabooks, tablets and plenty of other miscellany over an intense gadget-fueled week in Taipei, Computex is finally winding down, and we're packing our bags for the 24-hour journey back to New York. There's no question that Windows 8 stole the...
Microsoft switches to File Explorer name in Windows 8, bids farewell to Windows Explorer
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Microsoft wasn't kidding when it said there would be a few surprises for the Release to Manufacturing (RTM) version of Windows 8. While Aero is being killed off, the company has only dropped hints that there would be further changes to the final version of Windows 8. Win8china has...
Design firm's video offers a glimpse of the touchscreen webOS phone that never was
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Well, it looks like there's still a few surprises left from HP's brief foray into webOS hardware. As webOS Nation has discovered, the design firm Transparent House posted a brief clip of a device described as "WindsorNot" some eight months ago, which is very clearly a touchscreen-only webOS smartphone....
Fred Wilson, Ron Conway, Dennis Crowley, Keith Rabois and Roelof Botha Are All Ready to Disrupt
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Who’s coming to Disrupt NYC this year, you may ask? Well, we aren’t going to reveal all of the fun surprises we have in store quite yet, but we are excited to announce a couple key speakers who will be joining us this year. This year’s lineup kicks off with...
Comscore Data: Samsung, Android tops, Apple iOS gaining
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Comscore's quarterly report on mobile marketshare was released today, and holds few surprises. More than 107 million people in the US owned smartphones in the period ending April 12, up six percent since January. In excess of 234 million Americans aged 13 and over used mobile devices of some type,...
The Secret Lives of Professors
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Shared by Bud Accurate. I came to Harvard 7 years ago with a fairly romantic notion of what it meant to be a professor -- I imagined unstructured days spent mentoring students over long cups of coffee, strolling through the verdant campus, writing code, pondering the infinite. I never really considered...
Facebook IPO: Who are Facebook’s shareholders?
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There were few surprises in the list of shareholders released in Facebook’s S-1 filing. Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg, unsurprisingly, topped the list of the biggest shareholders. Zuckerberg has 56.9 percent of the voting shares, followed by Accel Partners with 11.4 percent, James Breyer with 11.4 percent, co-founder Dustin Moskovitz with...
More tasty treats
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As promised we’ve just pushed live a few more changes that we’ve wanted to give you for a number of months. There are loads of minor UI and performance tweaks that most of you won’t notice, but there are some small things you might notice. Some of the minor changes include...
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