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Google Tracked iPhones, Bypassing Apple Browser Privacy Settings — Web Giant, Others Bypassed Apple Browser Settings for Guarding Privacy — Google Inc. and other advertising companies have been bypassing the privacy settings of millions of people using Apple Inc.'s Web browser …
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A Sad State of Internet Affairs: The Journal on Google, Apple, and “Privacy” — The news alert from the Wall St. Journal hit my phone about an hour ago, pulling me away from tasting “Texas Bourbon” in San Antonio to sit down and grok this headline: Google's iPhone Tracking.| Matt Brian / The Next Web: |
Microsoft blasts Google over iPhone browser tracking, pushes IE9 while it's at it — With Google acknowledging that it utilised features in its services to bypass Apple's built-in security measures in its Safari mobile browser to track users, Microsoft has taken the opportunity to join the debate …
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Mountain Lion drops support for several older Mac models (Updated) — Every new version of OS X comes with harsh news for owners of older Macs: “Your Mac is too old. You're stuck with your current OS. Forever.” For Mac OS X Leopard in 2007, anyone who owned a Mac with a processor slower than 867 MHz was stuck with Tiger.| Om Malik / GigaOM: |
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| Charles Duhigg / New York Times: |
How Companies Learn Your Secrets — Andrew Pole had just started working as a statistician for Target in 2002, when two colleagues from the marketing department stopped by his desk to ask an odd question: “If we wanted to figure out if a customer is pregnant, even if she didn't want us to know, can you do that? ”
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| Dan Graziano / BGR: |
Chinese firm may sue Apple for $2 billion in U.S. over iPad name — On Friday, the Chinese company that claims to hold the trademark on the “iPad” name, threatened to sue Apple in the U.S. for $2 billion dollars, reports the AFP. Proview Technology claims it owns the Chinese rights …
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Netflix Is Bringing DVD-Only Rentals Back — Since the whole Qwikster debacle, Netflix has tried to distance itself from DVD rentals in favor of its streaming service. But red envelopes will soon be popping through mail slots again now that Netflix has reintroduced DVD rentals.
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| Leena Rao / TechCrunch: |
Brightcove Shares Pop Over 30 Percent On First Trade; Valued At Nearly $400M — Online video service Brightcove has just made its public debut on the NASDAQ under the symbol ‘BCOV’, with an opening trade of $14.50. This is up over 30 percent from the company's original pricing of $11 per share …
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| Steven Greenhouse / New York Times: |
Early Praise in Inspection at Foxconn Brings Doubt — The president of a nonprofit group hired by Apple to inspect its suppliers' factories has begun praising the Chinese plants of Foxconn, Apple's largest supplier, just days after his group began inspections there.
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BuiltWith Reveals The Tech Used By The 130 Million Web Sites That Matter Most — Search engines like Google scour the web to figure out how to rank content. Measurement firms like comScore sample users to estimate traffic to web sites. But what if you want to know which of some 2000 technologies a web site is using?| Mark Hachman / PC Magazine: |
Nevada Approves Rules for Self-Driving Cars — In a statement, the Nevada Department of Motor Vehicles said that its Legislative Commission today approved regulations allowing for the operation of self-driving vehicles on the state's roadways. Nevada's rules are the next step in a process began last June … | 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.| Caterina Fake / Caterina.net: |
Pinwheel! In Private Beta — I'm happy we're about to start inviting people into the thing we've been working on!! It's called Pinwheel, and it's a way to find and leave notes all around the world. — We're opening it up in private beta on the web and mobile web. An iOS version is coming next.
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| Jack Purcher / Patently Apple: |
Google Patent Reveals Future Unlock Features for Android Devices — Back in October 2011 we reported that Apple's “Slide to Unlock” patent stirred up a hornet's nest in Taiwan and we now see that Apple has filed another patent infringement lawsuit against Samsung over this feature.
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CNET, TechCrunch, SlashGear, Engadget, Android Phone Fans, Gotta Be Mobile, Android Community, PhoneArena, Gizmodo and WebProNews
| Horace Dediu / asymco: |
Apple sold more iOS devices in 2011 than all the Macs it sold 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 … | Erik Wemple / Washington Post: |
Apple and the New York Times not meshing — The Wall Street Journal's Jessica Vascellaro scores the access coup of the week, maybe month. An exclusive interview with Apple Chief Executive Tim Cook yields insight on how the company is migrating iPhone functionality to boxes.
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Twitter Opens Up Self-Serve Ad Platform to 10,000 Small Businesses — American Express Cardmembers and Merchants Are Eligible to Register for Platform Starting Tonight — Twitter is rolling out the self-serve ad platform it's been testing to 10,000 small and midsize businesses next month through … | Kukil Bora / International Business Times: |
Anonymous Hacks U.S. Government Consumer and Trade Commission Web Sites, Posts Anti-ACTA Video … By KUKIL BORA: Subscribe to Kukil's RSS feed — The hacker group Anonymous took down a number of U.S. government websites early Friday in a fresh protest against the looming Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, or ACTA.
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Apple's iPhone loses China market share — (Reuters) - Apple Inc's share of China's booming smartphone market slipped for a second straight quarter in October-December, as it lost ground to cheaper local brands and as some shoppers held off until after the iPhone 4S launch last month.
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OpenXC: Ford Launches an Open-Source Platform for In-Car Connectivity and Apps — Cars and the Internet are slowly getting closer, but it's still hard for developers to get their apps into cars without being invited by the automobile industry. Given the security and especially safety concerns involved … | Kevin C. Tofel / GigaOM: |
Swype hits Android 4.0 with Dragon Go! integration — Nuance added support for Ice Cream Sandwich, or Android 4.0, in the latest beta of its Swype software keyboard on Thursday. The new version has a limited audience base since so few handsets and tablets currently run Google's … Sponsor Posts
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