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Google earns far more from iPhone than from Android, figures suggest
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Oracle's damages claim prompts revelation that Android made less than $550m for search company up to the end of 2011Android generated less than $550m in revenues for Google between 2008 and the end of 2011, if figures provided by the search giant as part of a settlement offer with Oracle...
How Much Would The Average Person Pay For A Standalone HBO Go Subscription? About $12 A Month
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Two years ago, HBO introduced HBO Go, giving fans a way to access all of their favorite programming online, on tablets and mobile devices, and increasingly on connected TV platforms. For those of us who have had a chance to use it, HBO Go is nothing short of a revelation,...
Unnamed Samsung exec says quad-core Exynos inside Galaxy S III, LTE on-chip
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An unnamed Samsung exec hinted to the Korea Times that its upcoming flagship, the Galaxy S III, will include a next-gen quad-core Exynos chip that will incorporate LTE and WCDMA radios. Of course, such a revelation shouldn't come as too much of a surprise since both its predecessors were...
BSkyB announces Now TV, offering pay-as-you-go Internet TV to the masses
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The Next Web is at the Guardian Changing Media Summit this week, a conference promising to deliver insights from the organisations and individuals capitalising on disruption within the digital content space. You can monitor all our coverage here. Jeremy Darroch, CEO of BSkyB, was the first keynote of the two-day...
Microsoft: The Method to Its New Meanness
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Much of Microsoft's 30-year history is a tale of bulldozing the rest of the world into doing what's best for Redmond. Although the company has taken a gentler tack in recent years, its Surface tablet augurs a return to ruthlessness. This time, though, the erstwhile PC leader has good...
Twitter Is The Latest Company To Admit It Uploads Your Address Book
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Twitter has joined the list of companies making sheepish confessions that it uploads your smartphone's address book when you install its app. Last week Path made a similar dicslosure, which was followed by changes by photo app Instagram to give users more privacy controls. And that led to a bit...
What Lies Beyond The Check-In: Foursquare To Launch Big New Redesign Next Week
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If you’re following Foursquare on Twitter, you’ve probably noticed that the check-in champions have been teasing the release of the “all new Foursquare” app for the last few days, dropping hints that it was coming soon to app stores near you. Continuing to use the hashtag #allnew4sq, Foursquare last night...
Path Apologizes For Privacy Mistake. Do You Accept?
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After an enterprising hacker discovered a privacy problem in beloved new social app Path yesterday, its creators have issued an update and an apology. "We commit to you that we will continue to be transparent and always serve you our users, first," CEO Dave Morin writes. Path was uploading iPhone...
Apple has a 7.85-inch iPad prototype in its labs, according to John Gruber
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Apple has been working on a smaller version of the iPad in its Cupertino labs, according to Daring Fireball's John Gruber. On an episode of The Talk Show podcast, Gruber said that he's heard details of a 7.85-inch prototype that runs at the same 1024 x 768 resolution as...
TNW Conference 2012: TNW readers tend to be more affluent and better educated than average [Video]
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As The Next Web Conference 2012 kicked off this morning, Piet Hein van Dam, CEO of website data startup Wakoopa (disclosure: The Next Web Holding BV owns shares in Wakoopa) presented a snapshot of ‘The State of the Interwebs’ in 2012. Among his findings was the revelation that readers of The Next...
AT&T announces Samsung Galaxy S III plans, preorders begin June 6th starting at $200
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Sure, it's late to the Galaxy S III announcement party, but we suppose AT&T is letting the other carriers duke it out for the attention first before it came out with its own revelation. Now that it has the platform all to itself, AT&T has now officially made its...
WSJ: AT&T and Verizon will sell LTE iPads
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Citing sources "familiar with the matter," the Wall Street Journal is now stating rather unequivocally that both AT&T and Verizon Wireless are set to begin selling LTE versions of Apple's iPad. The latest revelation is hardly a leap of faith, as rumors to this effect have been swirling for...
Google Music users granted de-authentication reprieve as company retools activation system
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Google Music users learned of a frightful new policy this morning that dictates a user may de-authorize only four devices in a year, out of ten total activations. While the policy is likely to go unnoticed by the majority of consumers, it instantly created a great pain for those...
Windows on a stick: hands-on with Windows 8's "Windows to Go"
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Microsoft's Windows 8 Consumer Preview is called that for a reason—there isn't a lot on the surface that looks very compelling about the new operating system to business users. The revelation that Microsoft would not support domains or other administrative features on Windows 8 for ARM devices dumped cold water...
RIM's first BlackBerry 10 device may come as early as October
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It's no secret that there's currently a sense of urgency in Waterloo, but if a recent report from N4BB is accurate, it seems that both consumers and enterprise are bound to benefit. According to the site's confidential source, Research in Motion is preparing to reveal its first BlackBerry 10...
26 Books You Should Read If You Want To Succeed As An Entrepreneur
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We go through hundreds of books each year here at Business Insider's War Room. Many aren't worth a second glance, but there are some every business owner should read. So, we've put together a list of the best books for entrepreneurs — either from our own recommendations or touted by big-time...
Google Confirms It’s Working on Chrome for Windows 8
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Google says it’s working on a version of Chrome that will run in the Metro environment of Windows 8. The news follows the revelation that Mozilla is building Firefox for Metro as well. A Google spokesperson told Mashable that the new version of Chrome would be based on the...
The dirty secret behind the incubator boom
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“It’s people. Soylent Green is made out of people. They’re making our food out of people. Next thing they’ll be breeding us like cattle for food.” Detective Thorn, Soylent Green By its very nature, entrepreneurship involves a certain amount of throwing spaghetti against a wall. Our “spaghetti” is called...
Google updates Chrome Web Store with offline badges, subcategories and trending apps
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With Google tasking itself to organize all of the world's information, you'd think its own Chrome Web Store would be a bit easier to navigate. Apparently this revelation dawned on someone at the company, because it's just introduced several enhancements that should help users find new and useful extensions...
When GIFs become art: a trip to the Museum of the Moving Image
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I was at the Museum of the Moving Image in Queens the other day, and got a chance to talk to Jason Eppink, who is assistant curator. While most of the museum's installations revolve around film, the culture of film, and the behind-the-scenes of film, Eppink's latest score is...
Steve Jobs was 'closely' involved in upcoming iPhone redesign, says Bloomberg
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The next iPhone will have a larger screen than the 3.5-inch form factor that has characterized Apple's smartphone through all five of its iterations so far — that's what The Wall Street Journal told us two days ago, Reuters affirmed yesterday, and Bloomberg is reiterating today. An extra bit...
A Dozen Questions for Oracle President Mark Hurd
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Not everyone fully understands what the software giant Oracle does, but there’s no mistaking the fact that it’s doing it pretty well. Earlier this month, the company surprised analysts by reporting quarterly results that were better than anyone expected, and with the revelation that Oracle is now the second-largest provider...
LinkedIn’s Reid Hoffman Gives Kiva $1 Million To “Empower Everyone”
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“How you build the future is you motivate people to pay attention and act, to improve their circumstances and run their own lives”, LinkedIn co-founder and philanthropist Reid Hoffman tells me. That’s why his support of microlending platform Kiva’s kiva.org/free program has a double positive impact. He put up $1 million so 40,000...
Anonymous revives LulzSec for new campaign of hacks and attacks
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With the arrest of its members and the revelation that its leader was an FBI informant, one might have thought that LulzSec would fade into history. Apparently not. A YouTube video posted at the weekend has announced that LulzSec will return. On April 1st the group will be back,...
Higgs boson revelation set for July 4: Fireworks, or dud?
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Physicists in Europe are ready to offer up their latest findings on a mysterious subatomic particle known as the Higgs boson. And the universe may never be the same. [Read more]...
Ordering "Windows to Go": how to create a bootable Windows 8 USB thumb drive
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Microsoft's Windows 8 Consumer Preview is called that for a reason—there isn't a lot on the surface that looks very compelling about the new operating system to business users. The revelation that Microsoft would not support domains or other administrative features on Windows 8 for ARM devices dumped cold water...
iPad 3 Front Glass Reveals No Significant Changes: Round Home Button, Camera and Sensor Holes
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While a number of alleged iPad 3 parts have leaked in recent weeks, one piece that has so far remained unseen is the device's front panel. But now Apple.pro points to a posting (registration required) on Chinese microblogging site Sina weibo showing what is claimed to be the front glass...
Times editor embarrassed by having to issue hacking apologies
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Times editor James Harding cut a sorry figure at the Leveson inquiry today.He had to admit that he had paid "insufficient attention" to an instance of illegal email hacking carried out by one of his paper's former reporters.It was embarrassing to watch him field persistent questions over the incident as...
Surprise! Windows 8 for ARM Will Come with 'Office 15' Apps
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Microsoft's Steven Sinofsky revealed great detail of Windows 8 on ARM (WOA), including the revelation that it will come with "Office 15" built in....
Sony teases new Xperia phone unveiling within days, wants you to speed it up on Facebook
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As much as we're used to companies offering big teasers for their future devices, it's still rare that they put the revelation itself under our control. Sony's trying just that: its mobile division's Facebook page is promising a new Xperia phone whose unveiling date is contingent on how many...
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