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Foxconn, Apple, and the Fair Labor Association Respond to ABC News' Exclusive Report — On Monday, ABC News' Bill Weir exclusively reported on the conditions inside Apple's main Chinese manufacturer — Foxconn. For the first time ever, Apple allowed a journalist onto its production line … | Zach Epstein / BGR: |
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iPhone, VatorNews, iDownloadBlog.com, Forbes, GigaOM, 9to5Mac, The TechBlock and Mike Daisey. Thanks:@zacharye
| Horace Dediu / asymco: |
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| Elinor Mills / CNET: |
Obama unveils Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights — President promises privacy legislation and says Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, and AOL are committed to working with Do Not Track technology in browsers. — The Obama administration plans to work with Congress to enact legislation …
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Tweets: @dannysullivan and @ashk4n
| Julia Angwin / Wall Street Journal: |
Web Firms to Adopt ‘No Track’ Button — A coalition of Internet giants including Google Inc. has agreed to support a do-not-track button to be embedded in most Web browsers—a move that the industry had been resisting for more than a year. — The reversal is being announced as part …
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Guardian, Gizmodo, The Next Web, CNET and MediaPost
| David Pogue / New York Times: |
State of the Art: OnLive Desktop Plus Puts Windows 7 on the iPad in Blazing Speed — You're probably paying something like $60 a month for high-speed Internet. I'm paying $5 a month, and my connection is 1,000 times faster. — Your iPad can't play Flash videos on the Web. Mine can.
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| Yang Jie / Wall Street Journal: |
Chinese Court Rejects Injunction Against Apple's iPad — SHANGHAI—A Shanghai court rejected a Chinese company's effort to get a preliminary injunction against the sale of Apple Inc.'s iPad there over a trademark dispute and postponed the hearings pending the results of another case in a Chinese court.
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| Jon Russell / The Next Web: |
Proview creditor Bank of China may push to settle with Apple over iPad trademark — Apple's fight for the rights to the iPad trademark in China saw a new development today as Proview revealed that the Bank of China is one creditor that is currently managing the firm.
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| Robert Scoble / Scobleizer: |
Scoble: hit man of Silicon Valley? — Today a “journalist” (Dan Lyons) says I have been hitting up VCs to start my own fund. — Really? I didn't know that! — For the record, I'm not raising a fund. This article is NOT accurate. — But, it sure comes up in conversation a lot.
| Michael Arrington / Uncrunched: |
| Dan Frommer / SplatF: |
iPad + Office + Apple + Microsoft: Why It All Makes Sense — In case you missed the craziness this week, Microsoft appears to be making some Office apps for the iPad. Or maybe it's not. Or whatever. MG Siegler has a good wrapup of the nonsense here. — Office for the iPad makes total sense, though.
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9to5Mac, parislemon, Daring Fireball, Business Insider and MacStories
| Ina Fried / AllThingsD: |
T-Mobile USA Reports Huge Customer Defections, Says to Launch LTE in 2013 — Deutsche Telekom said on Thursday that T-Mobile USA will launch high-speed LTE service sometime next year. — The company is the last major U.S. carrier to announce LTE plans and it has been questioned whether … | Bob Brewin / Nextgov.com: |
Air Force Special Operations cancels iPad buy — The Air Force Special Operations Command canceled its planned acquisition of Apple iPad tablet computers last week, two days after receiving a query from Nextgov about the inclusion of Russian-developed security and documents reader software specified in procurement documents.| Richard Lawler / Engadget: |
LG Optimus 4X HD unveiled: Quad-core Tegra 3, Ice Cream Sandwich, 4.7-inch display — If LG failed to impress so far with the slew of Android 2.3 phones it's shown off in the run up to MWC 2012, perhaps the Optimus 4X HD can make up for it. This 4.7-inch beast is its first to feature … | Leena Rao / TechCrunch: |
Ahead Of Funding News, Boku Debuts NFC-Enabled Mobile Payments Platform For Carriers, Merchants And Consumers — Boku is debuting a brand new mobile payments platform today, that aims to disrupt the current way that consumers pay for goods via their mobile phones or credit cards.| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
Pinterest's uneasy relationship with copyright law: what happens next — Pinterest is unquestionably among today's hottest new startups — the social networking service lets users “pin” images they like on the web to boards they can share with friends and publish to the world at large.| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Report: Video Accounts For Half Of All Mobile Traffic; Android Biggest For Mobile Ads — Mobile video now accounts for half of all mobile traffic; and on some networks, that number is as high as 69 percent — a testament to the rise of smartphones and tablets as the mobile devices of choice for consumers … | Kashmir Hill / The Not-So Private Parts: |
Facebook's Top Cop: Joe Sullivan — Facebook chief of security Joe Sullivan, sitting in front of a display of the bad guys his team has taken down (Photo Credit:Timothy Archibald) — This story appears in the March 12, 2012 issue of Forbes magazine. — If Facebook were a country … | Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch: |
Scan Gets $1.7M From Google Ventures And Shervin Pishevar To Make QR Codes Actually Useful — The most impressive thing about Scan is that it, as a humble QR code app, has raised over $1.7 million in seed funding from, wait for it, Shervin Pishevar via Menlo Ventures, Google Ventures …
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VentureBeat, peHUB, VatorNews, BetaKit, The Next Web and bub.blicio.us
| Richard Lawler / Engadget: |
Samsung's Galaxy S II celebrates 20 million sold, just in time for MWC — After crossing the 10 million units moved threshold back in September, Samsung has joyously announced ahead of MWC 2012 that its Galaxy S II family of phones has sold 20 million since launching in April.
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9to5Google, MobileSyrup.com, Electronista, The Verge, The Next Web, Pocket-lint, PhoneArena, IntoMobile and BGR
| Antti Vilpponen / ArcticStartup: |
Rovio Ownership Structure Revealed — The Finnish Arvopaperi magazine has announced the ownership structure of Rovio, the creators of Angry Birds. The information has not come up in any IPO filing, but through public information in the Finnish governmental registry.
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| Ryan Paul / Ars Technica: |
“Unethical” HTML video copy protection proposal draws criticism from W3C reps — A proposal to put HTML video behind bars is making FIrefox sad — A new Web standard proposal authored by Google, Microsoft, and Netflix seeks to bring copy protection mechanisms to the Web.
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TechEye, Betabeat and Boing Boing
| Eliot Van Buskirk / Wired: |
Tomahawk, the Most Important Music App Nobody's Talking About — In order for a technology to take off these days, it has to be simple. Twitter, Facebook, iTunes, Spotify — each can be summed up in a sentence or so and readily understood from the very first time you use it.
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| Chris Foresman / Ars Technica: |
Feature: Mastered for iTunes: how audio engineers tweak music for the iPod age — In an age when Apple has become the top music retailer without selling a single physical disc, audio engineers are increasingly creating specially mastered versions of songs and albums designed to counteract the audio degradation caused by compression.
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PR Newswire, PC Magazine, MacRumors, 9to5Mac and Softpedia News
| Garett Sloane / New York Post: |
Google ready to launch pilot pay-TV program in Kansas City — Call him Larry the Cable Guy. — Google CEO Larry Page is ready to launch a pilot pay-TV program to rival Time Warner Cable in Kansas City, Mo., The Post has confirmed. — Last week, the Internet giant filed for a video franchise license … Sponsor Posts
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