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Apple vs. Samsung Trial Forces Companies to Open Up the Books — Everyone knows Apple and Samsung sell a lot of phones. Thanks to earnings reports there is even a pretty good sense of how many both companies sell in total each quarter. — However, the Apple-Samsung trial is providing …
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| Dan Levine / Reuters: |
Courtroom tension boils in Apple-Samsung showdown — (Reuters) - It was the end of a long week in court in the Apple-Samsung legal war, and Samsung attorney John Quinn was trying to block his adversary, Apple attorney Bill Lee, from showing the jury a document.
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| Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune: |
Apple sold 5.7 million tablets in the U.S. last quarter, court documents show. Samsung sold 37,000 — Reports of Galaxy Tab sales, like Mark Twain's death, have been greatly exaggerated — FORTUNE — In early December 2010, dozens of reporters happily repeated Samsung's claim …
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How Google's stealth support is buoying Samsung in Apple fight — The company has been quietly providing support to several Android partners, CNET has learned. — Google may have kept a low profile amid the legal clashing between Samsung Electronics and Apple, but the company hasn't abandoned its Android partners.| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
Photos of purported next-gen iPhone's thinner, higher capacity battery: 3.8V, 1440 mAh — As the launch of the next iPhone approaches, lots of parts have been leaking out and we've been able to put the pieces together almost like a reverse iFixit teardown.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft now using ‘Modern UI Style’ to refer to Windows 8 ‘Metro Style’ apps — Microsoft may have nixed its “Metro” branding for the new tile-based design in Windows 8 and Windows Phone, but the company appears to be split over its replacement naming. Earlier this week it was reported … | Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
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RIM Said To Draw Interest From IBM Over Enterprise-Services Unit — Research In Motion Ltd. (RIMM)'s enterprise- services unit has attracted the interest of International Business Machines Corp. (IBM), according to two people familiar with the situation. — IBM made an informal approach …
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| Brian Barrett / Gizmodo: |
$110 Says All the New Kindles Are Coming Next Week — If you want to know if Amazon's new Kindles are coming out—and what they'll be—don't listen to analysts or supply chains or, yes, blogs. One trip to Amazon today will tell you nearly everything you need to know about when, and what, Amazon's about to unleash on the world.
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| Kara Swisher / AllThingsD: |
Exclusive: Yahoo's Mayer Eyeing Twitter's Stanton for Big Media Role — Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer has been trying to recruit Katie Jacobs Stanton, Twitter's head of international markets, to take a major job on the media side of the Silicon Valley Internet giant, according to multiple sources close to the situation.| Tricia Duryee / AllThingsD: |
DowninthedumpsVille: Morale Sinking at Zynga Along With Stock Drop — Will more Zynga employees be on their way out the door, as the company continues to struggle after going public only eight months ago? — Yes, indeed, if morale at the San Francisco-based social games company continues to sink as quickly as its stock has been.| Douglas MacMillan / Bloomberg: |
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| Daniel Eran Dilger / AppleInsider: |
Apple files hint at re-engineered iMac and Mac Pro models, potentially without optical drives — Internal configuration files in Mountain Lion make apparent references to yet-unreleased new generations of Apple's iMac (iMac13,) and Mac Pro (MacPro6,), both in the context of USB booting options … | Evan Rodgers / The Verge: |
Samsung Exynos 5 Dual detailed: DirectX 11 and USB 3.0 in a 32nm SOC — Samsung has released all the details about the Exynos 5 Dual, the company's upcoming dual-core 1.7GHz mobile CPU based on ARM Cortex-A15 architecture, as reported by Android Authority. The 32nm Exynos 5 Dual … | Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
Google to begin punishing pirate sites in search results — Google constantly tweaks how its search engine delivers results to people, but it's rolling out a major new change next week: it'll start generally downranking sites that receive a high volume of copyright infringement notices from copyright holders.
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| Mike Beasley / 9to5Mac: |
WordPress iOS app gets interface overhaul, new power-user features, performance boost — Today, WordPress has released a major new update for its iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch application. The app is completely redesigned from the ground up, using a new sliding pane interface.
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| Meghan Casserly / Forbes: |
Here's What Happens To Google Employees When They Die — Google employee benefits last into the afterlife — It's no surprise that the employee benefits of Google are among the best in the land—free haircuts, gourmet food, on-site doctors and high-tech “cleansing” toilets are among the most talked-about … | Shara Tibken / Wall Street Journal: |
Nvidia Partnering With Lenovo on Windows RT Device - Sources — Nvidia Corp. (NVDA) will supply chips to Lenovo Group Ltd. (LNVGY, 0992.HK) on a device running Microsoft Corp.'s (MSFT) Windows RT operating system, people familiar with the matter said, giving Nvidia another partner in its push into mobile devices.
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| Drew Olanoff / The Next Web: |
Airbnb had a record 60,000 bookings last Saturday, 75% of them were from new users to the site — Staying in someone else's house or apartment instead of in a hotel room may still seem like a foreign concept to some, but that isn't slowing Airbnb, which is on a tear with the premise as of late.| Nick Bilton / NYT Bits: |
How to Make a Dead Cat Bounce on Twitter — I've been told that in the olden days, reporters would write articles on these things called “typewriters.” And get this: These machines weren't even connected to the Internet! — The tools have since changed. We have blogs, smartphones, digital cameras and Wi-Fi.| Danny Sullivan / Marketing Land: |
Study — Perhaps Flawed — Finds Sharing Much Higher On Twitter & Facebook, But Why Google+ Is Still Worth The Time — How popular is Google+? We could have the debate over active users again, but we've been there, done that. Instead, a new study is out that tries something different …
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