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Apple Releases OS X Mountain Lion Developer Preview with Over 100 New Features — Apple® today released a developer preview of OS X® Mountain Lion, the ninth major release of the world's most advanced operating system, which brings popular apps and features from iPad® to the Mac® …
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Hands on with Apple's new OS X: Mountain Lion — Summer 2012 release continues to bring iOS features “back to the Mac” — Apple updates its iOS mobile operating system once a year. But why should the iPhone and iPad have all the fun? On Thursday Apple announced that it will release …
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| Steven Frank / Panic Blog: |
About Gatekeeper — Today's Mountain Lion announcement introduces an important new security feature, called Gatekeeper, in addition to the “sandboxing” feature that premiered in Lion. I'd like to talk a little bit about it, and why it's important to all Mac users. — Malware is out of control.| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
Apple officially renames Mac OS X to OS X, drops the ‘Mac’ — Apple's making a big deal out of Mountain Lion today, but there's an equally big change quietly afoot: the “Mac” in “Mac OS X” is no more. Instead, Apple's desktop operating system is now simply called OS X. We confirmed …
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| Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
Google Drive in the wild? Screenshot and possible logo — Google appears to be getting closer to the launch of its online storage service: A GeekWire reader says Google Drive has been enabled in his Google Account — as shown in the screenshot above, which has been redacted for the sake of his privacy.| Rhoda Alexander / iSuppli®: |
Apple's Toughest Competition in the Fourth-Quarter Tablet Market Was...Apple — Although soaring sales of Amazon's Kindle Fire and other low-priced tablets trimmed Apple Inc.'s media tablet market share in the fourth-quarter, it was Apple's own newly introduced iPhone 4S that proved … | Monica Chen / DigiTimes: |
Google may launch Android 5.0 in 2Q12, say Taiwan makers — Viewing that the adoption of Android 4. has fallen short of original expectations and Microsoft will launch Windows 8 in the third quarter of 2012, Google is likely to launch Android 5. (Jelly Bean) in the second quarter and appeal …
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| Florian Mueller / FOSS Patents: |
Apple wins German injunction against most of Motorola's slide-to-unlock implementations — I just returned from the Munich I Regional Court, where Presiding Judge Dr. Peter Guntz publicly announced a decision in Apple's favor: most of Motorola Mobility's products were found to infringe …
| Nielsen Wire: |
American Families See Tablets as Playmate, Teacher and Babysitter — The rise of gadgets is ushering in a new generation of kids who are growing up digital. According to a Nielsen survey of adults with children under 12 in tablet-owning households, in Q4 2011 seven out of every 10 children …
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| Jay Yarow / Business Insider: |
Groupon Is Testing A New $30 Per Year VIP Service — Groupon is offering a new “VIP” service that costs $30 a year. — A reader forwarded us the email below, and we've confirmed that it's real with Groupon. — What do you get for $30 a year? Early access to deals, and ability to buy old deals …
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PC Magazine, TechCrunch, the Econsultancy blog, VentureBeat and SocialTimes.com
| Ernesto / TorrentFreak: |
Music Industry Mulls Suing Google Over “Pirate” Search Results — It's no secret that the entertainment industries believe search engines are not delivering enough when it comes to protecting copyright works. — Two months ago the RIAA and IFPI accused Google of massively profiting …
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Digital Trends, Techdirt, WebProNews and The Next Web
| Monica Chen / DigiTimes: |
Intel to postpone mass shipments of Ivy Bridge processors — Intel recently notified its partners about plans to postpone mass shipments of its upcoming Ivy Bridge processors. Despite that the company will still announce the new products and ship a small volume of the processors in early April …
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PC World, VR-Zone and VentureBeat
| Horace Dediu / asymco: |
Apple sold more iOS devices in 2011 than all the Macs sold it in 28 years — Tim Cook on the 55 million iPads sold to date: … via Transcript: Apple CEO Tim Cook at Goldman Sachs - Apple 2.0 - Fortune Tech. — That gave me an idea. Here is a plot of each major computing product Apple sold throughout …
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Between the Lines Blog, Gizmodo, MacRumors and parislemon
| Eric Pryne / Seattle Times: |
Amazon to buy Denny Triangle property; plans 3 big office towers — In one of Seattle's biggest real-estate deals in years, Amazon.com has agreed to buy three blocks from Clise Properties and plans to build a 1 million-square-foot office tower on each. — In one of Seattle's biggest real-estate deals …
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PC Magazine, VentureBeat and GeekWire
| Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
Microsoft launches msnNOW, tracking trends using data from Facebook, Twitter, Bing — Microsoft's MSN is launching a new site called msnNOW, serving up the latest buzzworthy stories using technology that analyzes Twitter, Facebook, Bing and BreakingNews.com to identify trending topics by the minute.| John Paczkowski / AllThingsD: |
Take a Look at Some of Apple's Evidence in Proview iPad Dispute — You've seen the text of the Chinese court decision that sided with Apple in its dispute with Proview Technology over rights to the iPad trademark in China. Now, here's some of the supporting documentation.
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| Lizette Chapman / Venture Capital Dispatch: |
Lady Gaga, Then The World: Top Investors Join Social Media Site Backplane — The architects behind Lady Gaga's social media campaign have raised around $4.5 million to scale The Backplane and accelerate its goal to become the world's home page. … The infusion was not entirely needed …
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Business Insider, TechCrunch, the Econsultancy blog and The Next Web
| Deborah Gage / Venture Capital Dispatch: |
Rackspace Buys Up SharePoint911 To Gird For Cloud Fight — Rackspace US has acquired SharePoint911, one of the leading consultants on Microsoft SharePoint, and will add SharePoint hosting and consulting services to its cloud, VentureWire has learned.
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The Register, VentureBeat and GigaOM
| Vishay Nihalani / Inside AdSense: |
Mobile becomes a core component of AdSense — We launched AdSense for mobile content before the smartphone revolution when everyone had a flip phone. Our goal was to help pioneering publishers monetize their mobile content. Since then, we've seen mobile technology advance and an increasing number …
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mocoNews and Google Mobile Ads Blog
| Ben Popper / VentureBeat: |
Memory grand master Ed Cooke gets $1M to teach his tricks at new startup, Memrise — There is nothing extraordinary about Ed Cooke's brain. Sure he can memorize a 1000 digit number in less than an hour, but so can you, he believes. — “It's not like I was born with special cognitive abilities.
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TechCrunch and GigaOM
| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
The Daily Show, 12 More News Outlets Join Facebook's Media App Virality Bonanza — There's a referral traffic goldmine on Facebook, and today 13 more news outlets are staking their claim. The Daily Show, MSNBC, Buzzfeed, and The Huffington Post are launching Facebook Open Graph reader … | Bloomberg: |
Zynga Plans Promotions to Curb Facebook Need — Zynga Inc. (ZNGA), the online game site that sold shares to the public in December, plans to unveil a set of services designed to promote other developers and lessen its dependence on Facebook Inc. (FB), two people with knowledge of the matter said.| Ryan Paul / Ars Technica: |
First look: Mozilla's Boot2Gecko mobile platform and Gaia UI — Mozilla launched a new project last year called Boot2Gecko (B2G) with the aim of developing a mobile operating system. The platform's user interface and application stack will be built entirely with standards-based Web technologies …
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Engadget, CNET, SlashGear, MobileBurn.com and Electronista
| Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: |
With Clik, Your Smartphone Can Control Screens Everywhere — You've probably heard of Kik Messenger, a phone messaging app with the backing of Union Sqaure Ventures and RRE. It turns out Kik was just the beginning of the company's plans — today it's launching Clik, which is even more impressive.
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The Verge, Gizmodo, Digital Trends, AllThingsD, App Advice, LAPTOP Magazine and VentureBeat
| John Cook / GeekWire: |
Nathan Myhrvold's Intellectual Ventures slaps AT&T, T-Mobile and Sprint with patent lawsuit — Intellectual Ventures, the patent holding firm operated by former Microsoft chief technology officer Nathan Myhrvold, has filed a lawsuit against AT&T, Sprint and T-Mobile alleging patent infringement.
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intven.com, TechFlash, CNET, mocoNews, Reuters, Light Reading and VentureBeat. Thanks:@toddbishop
| Sharif Sakr / Engadget: |
Fujitsu roadmap hints at Windows 8 arrival in Q4, reveals Ultrabooks and slates too — This slide was reportedly displayed at a press conference yesterday, but perhaps it gives away a little bit more than Fujitsu — or at least Microsoft — would have intended.Sponsor Posts
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