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Chris Foresman / Ars Technica:
Apple to announce tools, platform to “digitally destroy” textbook publishing — Apple is slated to announce the fruits of its labor on improving the use of technology in education at its special media event on Thursday, January 19. While speculation has so far centered on digital textbooks …
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Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune:
Apple's education event is getting seriously over-hyped
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Jordan Kahn / 9to5Mac:
Apple working with McGraw-Hill on education announcement slated for Jan.19 at Guggenheim
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BGR and Wall Street Journal
Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune:
Scott Forstall is Apple's ‘CEO-in-waiting’ says new book — The senior VP's chief weakness, writes Fortune's Adam Lashinsky, is his naked ambition — Jobs and Forstall. Source: AppLecture.com — He's young (43). Comfortable on stage (played Sweeney Todd in high school).
Rafael Rivera / Within Windows:
Windows 8 Secrets: PC and Device Requirements — Last month, Microsoft released its hardware requirement documentation for Windows 8 logo certification. This documentation contains Microsoft's guidelines for designing systems which successfully meet Windows performance, quality …
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The Verge, Business Insider, Softpedia News, WinBeta, Neowin.net, TechEye and bit-tech.net, Thanks:theromit
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Peter Bright / Ars Technica:
Windows 8's locked bootloaders: much ado about nothing, or the end of the world as we know it? — Microsoft has published the hardware requirements that manufacturers must follow if they want to slap a “Designed for Windows 8” sticker onto their systems. In among many innocuous requirements …
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Tech Europe, Electronista and OStatic blogs
Liz Gannes / AllThingsD:
Facebook Open Graph Actions Are Coming This Wednesday — Facebook will on Wednesday launch the Open Graph applications it first debuted last September, sources told AllThingsD. These are the apps made by outside developers that “frictionlessly” and continuously share users' actions …
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ReadWriteWeb, The Verge, The Next Web, SlashGear, Mashable!, Marketing Pilgrim and WebProNews
Sarah Lacy / PandoDaily:
OK, Gawker, We'll Engage in Your Link Bait for Just One Post — The water cooler chatter from early this morning in PandoDaily's virtual offices (aka email): — Sarah: “We don't want to reference ‘accusers’ before we have them.” — Trevor: “Well by the afternoon, we will have them!”
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Karin Matussek / Bloomberg:
Apple Files German Design Lawsuit Against Ten Samsung Smartphone Models — Apple Inc. (AAPL) filed another suit in Germany, seeking to ban sales of Samsung Electronics (005930) Co.'s smartphone models, including the Galaxy S Plus and the S II. — The suit targeting 10 smartphones was filed …
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Engadget, MacRumors, GigaOM, AppleInsider, DailyTech, Android Phone Fans, MobileBurn.com, Electronista and WebProNews
Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
Troubling Google Contractor Allegedly Caught Vandalizing Open Street Map — The official blog of Open Street Map reports tonight that someone at a range of Google IP addresses in India has been editing the collaboratively made map of the world in some very unhelpful ways …
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Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
CloudFlare Builds ‘Stop Censorship’ App, Lets Sites Easily “Black Out” Against SOPA — Whatever position you may take on SOPA, or on whether or not sites should black out against SOPA (Yes it has come to this), the issue has reached a boiling point today with sites like Wikipedia and Reddit pledging …
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Emma Barnett / Telegraph:
Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales defends SOPA protest blackout
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VentureBeat, Wikimedia Foundation, Gov 2.0, Search Engine Roundtable, Gizmodo UK, T3 News and The Next Web, more at Mediagazer »
Steven Sinofsky / MSDN Blogs:
Building the next generation file system for Windows: ReFS … In this blog post I'd like to talk about a new file system for Windows. This file system, which we call ReFS, has been designed from the ground up to meet a broad set of customer requirements, both today's and tomorrow's …
Ben Grubb / The Age:
Aussie wunderkind gets $US250k for technology that could revolutionise web — He is 16, an Australian living in London and recently scored $US250,000 in investment from a billionaire for a technology that could change the way we read emails, news articles or any other text on our computers.
Monica Chen / DigiTimes:
AMD to launch ultrabook platform with lower cost — As Intel is ready to launch its next-generation Ivy Bridge platform for ultrabooks in April, hoping to bring down the average price of ultrabooks to US$799-999 with enhanced performance, AMD is also set to launch its Trinity-based platform …
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PC World, WebProNews, SlashGear, TechEye, Softpedia News and Electronista
Miyoung Kim / Reuters:
Samsung Group plans record $41 billion investment in 2012 — (Reuters) - Samsung Group, which includes Samsung Electronics Co, said on Tuesday it is raising its 2012 investment to a record $41.4 billion, underscoring the widening gulf between the dominant South Korean conglomerate and its faltering competitors.
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The Verge, BBC, Wall Street Journal, The Next Web, Bloomberg, PhoneArena, Electronista and TechEye
Daniel Frankel / paidContent:
Netflix Hit With Class-Action Suit By Angry Investors — Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) has been hit with a class-action suit by a group of disgruntled investors who claim the online movie-rental chain withheld information from them prior to its steep stock-price plunge over the late summer and fall.
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VentureBeat, Between the Lines Blog, The Wrap, Fast Company and The Next Web
Ian Paul / PC World:
Log into Gmail on a PC via Your Smartphone — Google recently introduced a fun (and more secure) way to log into your Google account from a public terminal without entering your password into the PC, and instead using your smartphone and a QR code. — The method is similar to how Google sets …
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Frederic Lardinois / SiliconFilter:
Google: That QR Login Page is Just an Experiment, “We're Already Working on Something Better”
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Softpedia News and Pulse2
Zach Epstein / BGR:
America's first Nokia Windows Phone already free on contract — Nokia's first Windows Phone-powered smartphone to launch in the United States is already available for free on contract. Nokia and T-Mobile unveiled the Nokia Lumia 710 last month and confirmed that while the handset is certainly …
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CNET, Softpedia News, IntoMobile and Phones Review
