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Apple Puts New Engineers On Fake Products Until It Can Trust Them — Apple is so obsessed with secrecy, it sometimes puts new hires on fake products until they can be trusted. — Adam Lashinsky reported this tidbit in his new book “Inside Apple,” and a former Apple employee confirmed …
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How Americans used their phones to assist with purchasing decisions this holiday season — Main Findings — How Americans used their phones to assist with purchasing decisions this holiday season — More than half of adult cell phone owners used their cell phones while they were in a store during … | Sean Buckley / Engadget: |
Verizon shared data plans show up in employee training materials, still on track? — Verizon said it was working on a shared data solution for 2012, and according to an anonymous tipster, the new packages could be rolling out soon. We've been told that training material for an update … | Josh Ong / AppleInsider: |
Apple predicted to sell up to 40M iPhones on China Mobile, China Telecom in 2013 — Investment bank Morgan Stanley believes Apple will partner up with both China Telecom and China Mobile “over the next year” to make its iPhone available on all three Chinese carriers, a move … | Christian Zibreg / 9to5Mac: |
Apple combats scalpers with new lottery system for iPhone reservations in Hong Kong — Apple has implemented an interested system to fight those pesky scalpers who spoiled a recent iPhone 4S launch in Mainland China. A newly set up page on the Hong Kong Apple online store has a lottery system … | Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft Blog: |
Microsoft Office 15 technical preview kicks off — Summary: Microsoft is making available to select testers the technical preview of Office 15 client, server and services as of January 30. — Microsoft is kicking off the technical preview for its Office 15 client, servers and cloud services today, January 30.| Sarah Lacy / PandoDaily: |
The Real Story of How Dick Costolo Kicked Investors Off Twitter's Board — The dribs and drabs of news about the shakeup of Twitter's board last year has produced a confusing picture. The message I was hearing from sources while I was out on maternity leave amounted to: “Nothing to see here.| Cory Doctorow / Boing Boing: |
Attorney General set to destroy tens of millions of users' legitimate MegaUpload files — An attorney for MegaUpload — which was shut down by the US government earlier this month, and whose assets have been frozen, following copyright complaints from the entertainment industry …
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Where's the Fire? Kindle Sales Pushing Six Million for the Quarter. — Has anyone seen one of Amazon's new Kindle Fires in the wild? I haven't. But evidently they're everywhere. You just need to know where to look to find them — like Stifel Nicolaus analyst Jordan Rohan.| Leena Rao / TechCrunch: |
The Obama Campaign Is Now Using Mobile Payments Device Square For Fundraising — The latest technology to be adopted by the Obama campaign—Square. The mobile payments device is now being used by the Obama for fundraising, says the company. Staff, fundraisers and others are being equipped …
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Wireless Companies to Face New U.S. Disclosure Rules in Bill — Jan. 30 (Bloomberg) — Mobile carriers such as AT&T Inc. and makers of wireless devices including HTC Corp. would be required to disclose when phones contain monitoring software under draft legislation in the U.S. House.
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AT&T to launch Samsung Galaxy Note on February 19th for $299.99 [video] — AT&T announced Monday that the Samsung Galaxy Note smartphone will be available in stores on February 19th for $299.99 on contact, a day after we recently reported. Pre-orders are set to begin this weekend … | Christopher Williams / Telegraph: |
Twitter could block super-injunction tweets — Twitter could bar British users from reading tweets that break future celebrity super-injunctions, a senior executive from the web firm has told MPs and Lords. — Ryan Giggs was named by tens of thousands of Twitter users as the holder of a super-injunction| Robert Andrews / paidContent: |
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FDA staffers sue agency over surveillance of personal e-mail — The Food and Drug Administration secretly monitored the personal e-mail of a group of its own scientists and doctors after they warned Congress that the agency was approving medical devices that they believed posed unacceptable risks to patients, government documents show.| Cade Metz / Wired Enterprise: |
Meet Bill Gates, the Man Who Changed Open Source Software — The meeting took place a week before Bill Gates retired from Microsoft, and the topic was open source software. — It was the summer of 2008, and for years, the open source community had viewed Microsoft as public enemy number one.| Brad McCarty / The Next Web: |
Facebook: Over 5 billion songs have been shared since September's f8 — Whether you like the idea of “frictionless sharing” or not, Facebook has made a strong case for the service on stage at the Midem conference. Dan Rose, the VP of Partnerships for the company, says that over 5 billion songs … | Alistair Barr / Reuters: |
Amazon unit may be moving into sporting goods — (Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc's Quidsi unit may be getting into sporting goods, challenging retailers in this niche, including Dick's Sporting Goods, Hibbett Sports and Cabela's, analysts at Credit Suisse said Monday.
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SnagFilms Grabs $7 Million to Share Indie Movies Online — It's easy to find blockbusters like “Transformers” online. What about movies like “Casino Jack and the United States of Money”? — That's where SnagFilms comes in. The start-up has distribution rights to more than 3,000 indie movies … | Federico Viticci / MacStories: |
Apple Releases iOS-like AirPort Utility 6.0 for Lion — Earlier today Apple pushed a series of updates for its AirPort Utility software, as well as a firmware update for AirPort Base Station and Time Capsule. — AirPort Utility has been updated to both version 5.6 (latest one was 5.5.3) … | Curt Hopkins / ReadWriteWeb: |
Google Fires Kenya Lead Over Mocality — Google has reportedly fired its Kenya country manager, Olga Arara-Kimani, over a fraudulent use of Mocality's data. — Nairobitech reported: … Sponsor — Nelson Mattos, who had earlier made a statement expressing the company's mortification … | Jim Finkle / Reuters: |
Symantec says pcAnywhere safe, offers free upgrade — (Reuters) - Symantec Corp said it is safe to use its pcAnywhere software for accessing remote PCs after it asked customers last week to disable the product because it put them at greater risk of being hacked.
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Apple Fuels Hiring Amid Bubble 2.0 Concern — Hiring in the technology sector is gaining momentum. — Among U.S. technology companies with a market value of more than $100 million, almost 50 increased employment by more than half in the most recently reported two-year period, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.| Tristan Louis / TNL.net: |
Streaming held back — Over the last couple of weeks, I've looked at availability of movies and TV shows that came out in the past year. But what about movies that came two years ago? Are those more available today than they were a year ago? Let's look at the data. — 2010: Box Office Winners availability
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