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Poornima Gupta / Reuters:
Exclusive: Made in Texas: Apple's A5 iPhone chip — SAN FRANCISCO - Apple Inc is famous for relying on low-cost Asian manufacturers to both source and assemble its popular gadgets, but the consumer device giant recently started receiving a critical component in its iPad and iPhones from closer to home - Texas.
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Bryce Roberts / Bryce Dot VC:
SOPA Casts Light on the Growing Technology Divide — Two articles grabbed my attention yesterday that touched on a growing concern I've been wrestling with far longer than SOPA/PIPA or any individual bill has been bouncing around; namely, that the people making decisions about legislating …
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Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
SOPA Markup Day 1: We Don't Understand This Bill, It Might Do Terrible Things, But Dammit, We're Passing It Now — So, if you weren't paying attention, yesterday was a marathon session of SOPA amendments... It ran for 11.5 hours, with just one tiny break, and it looks like they didn't even get through half of the amendments.
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Declan McCullagh / CNET News:
SOPA votes derailed by politician's ‘offensive’ tweet
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John Eggerton / Broadcasting & Cable:
House Judiciary Committee Has More Work to do With SOPA Markup
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Alexandra Petri / Washington Post:
The nightmarish SOPA hearings
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Max Wang / DigiTimes:
Apple to launch 7.85-inch iPad in 2012, say sources — Apple is likely to launch a 7.85-inch iPad prior to the fourth quarter of 2012 in addition to a new iPad scheduled to be released at the end of the first quarter, according to sources in the supply chain.
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Jake Smith / 9to5Mac:
Digitimes: Apple to begin producing 7.85-inch iPads in Q2 2012
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Alex Heath / Cult of Mac:
Apple Makes Siri iPhone 4 Port Legally Possible With Today's iOS 5.0.1 Update — Siri is by far the iPhone 4S's most-desired feature, and many non-4S users have been clamoring for hackers to make the voice assistant available on older iOS devices. While Siri ports have been demoed to the public before …
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Chris Burns / SlashGear:
iPhone 4S gets new iOS 5.0.1 build, file system now accessible by PC
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Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Zynga Shares Pop 10 Percent To $11 On First Trade, Valued At $7.7 Billion — Zynga has finally hit the public markets today, marking the largest technology IPO since Google. Yesterday, the social gaming giant priced its IPO at $10 a share, which was on the higher end of the $8.50 …
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Matt Lynley / Business Insider:
INSIDE ZYNGA: Meet The Man Charged With Helping The Company Grow Up
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Tricia Duryee / AllThingsD:
Zynga Confirms Its Billion Dollar Public Offering
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Tom Krazit / paidContent:
Why RIM Needed To Fire Its Co-CEOs Months, If Not Years Ago — The two Waterloo Wallys running Research in Motion (NSDQ: RIMM) have presided over the incredible destruction of shareholder wealth in 2011 by misleading the public again and again about its ability to compete in mobile.
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Brian Barrett / Gizmodo:
The PlayBook Is Killing RIM
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Zachary Lutz / Engadget:
RIM: BlackBerry 10 smartphones won't arrive until end of 2012
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Timothy B. Lee / Ars Technica:
UMG claims “right to block or remove” YouTube videos it doesn't own — Universal Music Group has responded to Megaupload's request for a temporary restraining order barring the music giant from further interference with the distribution of its “Mega Song.” UMG insists that it had a right …
Ben Elowitz / AllThingsD:
With Siri TV, Apple Will Dismantle the TV Networks — Steve Jobs died without fully transforming television, but the day before he passed away, Apple unveiled Siri, its natural language interface. Though it's currently only embedded in the new iPhone 4S, Siri could eventually change the face of the TV industry.
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Mike / Cydia Blog:
New iPad 3 Internal Replacement Part Appears, hints Major Redesign — As any new Apple product launch gets nearer, the frequency of leaks of supposed parts, and components increases. A new replacement part for iPad 3 Microphone Mic Flex Cable Ribbon has just been surfaced on a Chinese iPhone parts reseller website, TVC-Mall.
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Hunter Walk / Elapsed Time:
“I'd love if tech writing as a whole held itself to a higher standard:” What notable journalists are thinking about their craft — There's an old expression that we get the politicians we deserve — ie if you don't like it, don't vote them into office. Over the past few months I've …
Christian Science Monitor:
Exclusive: Iran hijacked US drone, says Iranian engineer — In an exclusive interview, an engineer working to unlock the secrets of the captured RQ-170 Sentinel says they exploited a known vulnerability and tricked the US drone into landing in Iran. — ISTANBUL, TURKEY
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Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
‘For Dummies’ Publisher Sues BitTorrent Users to “Educate and Settle” — During October, John Wiley and Sons became the first book publisher to go after BitTorrent users in the US. With this lawsuit the company followed mostly in the footsteps of movie studios, who together have sued …
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Liz Gannes / AllThingsD:
Yelp, YouTube and 23andMe Co-Founders All Working on New Start-Ups — In recent weeks, I've stumbled onto a few fresh new start-ups from the departed co-founders of current influential tech companies. None of them are talking about what they're doing yet, but I thought I'd see what I could find out.
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Julie Bort / Business Insider:
This Is Like The Third Reorg Since Cisco Hit The Panic Button Last Year — Cisco has been poaching executives from other companies and has now given them the authority to run some major business units. — In yet another reorg, recently added talent from rival Juniper and partner VMware …
Gregg Keizer / Computerworld:
Chrome 15 puts IE8 in rear-view mirror, takes No. 1 spot — First time in years that a non-Microsoft browser has been top dog — Google's Chrome 15 has jumped into the number one spot, replacing Microsoft's Internet Explorer 8 (IE8) as the world's most popular browser edition.
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Joanna Stern / The Verge:
Dell quits netbooks, says 'thin and powerful is where it's at' — While very few are still buying netbooks, many manufacturers have continued to release the small Intel Atom-powered computers (see Asus, Toshiba, etc.). However, Dell isn't going to be one of those companies.
Richard Lawler / Engadget:
Roku's official iPhone remote app is available, has gesture control and channel selection for all — Directly on the heels of an update for its newest media streamers, Roku has released its official iPhone remote app. Apparently “inspired by user feedback”, it allows users to launch or rate channels …
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