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Mapgate Is Over. Apple Won. Customers Won. Google, Not So Much. — In a single succinct, sincere, and brilliant note, Tim Cook has put Apple's Maps fiasco to bed. It was a beautiful thing. He offered a clear assessment of the problem ("we fell short"), and took full responsibility for it.| David Talbot / Technology Review: |
Hey, Apple: Mapping Takes More Work than You Think — Apple's apology suggests it may underestimate how much effort is needed to build a great map app. — In response to scathing criticism over its new Maps app for mobile devices, Apple CEO Tim Cook last week apologized and admitted that the company …
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Facebook Lays Out All Of Its New Targeting Techniques In One Easy-To-Read Blog Post — In the last few months, Facebook has made significant changes to the way advertising works on its site. As some predicted, Facebook's going public and needing to drum up more revenue has resulted …
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Facebook's new pitch to brand advertisers: forget about clicks — (Reuters) - Facebook Inc, stung by doubts that advertising on the social network delivers enough bang for the buck, is preparing to unveil data to counter its critics and show that “clicks,” the current metric of choice, tell only half the story.
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| Claire Cain Miller / NYT Bits: |
Square Acquires a New York Design Firm — Tech companies, in a high-stakes competition for engineers, are also chasing another highly prized kind of employee: designers. — Square, the popular mobile payments company, has proved just how important designers are by making a surprising acquisition.
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| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
New, touch-optimized MSN portal to showcase Windows 8, IE 10 this fall — Summary: Microsoft will launch a revamped MSN portal on October 26, the day Windows 8 and Windows RT PCs and tablets go on sale. Here's what to expect. — Microsoft plans to make a touch-optimized version …
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Is Apple clamping down on third-party app promotion services? — Guidelines point to promo app update block — Product: — Manufacturer: — Media attention may have been focused on the launches of iPhone 5 and iOS6 - including the subsequent ‘MapGate’ and ‘ScuffGate’ backlashes … | Tim Mak / Politico: |
White House confirms cyberattack — The White House confirmed but sought to downplay a report by a conservative website on Sunday that it had been the victim of a cyberattack, volunteering to POLITICO that no harm had been done. — The Washington Free Beacon reported that Chinese hackers … | Joshua Topolsky / The Verge: |
Kindle Paperwhite review — Amazon's fastest, most feature-packed e-reader hits a crowded market with a few new moves under its belt — I was looking forward to the review of the Kindle Paperwhite for one simple reason: I would finally have an excuse to read more.
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| Seth Weintraub / 9to5Mac: |
Verizon iPhone 5 update eliminates carrier data usage while connected to a Wifi Network — An update is going to Verizon iPhone 5 owners this evening that resolves an issue where, under certain circumstances, the iPhone 5 may use Verizon cellular data while connected to a Wi-Fi network.
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| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft takes the wraps off TypeScript, a superset of JavaScript — Summary: Microsoft is launching a preview of a new programming language known as TypeScript, which aims to make JavaScript development scale beyond the client. — As of today, we now know more about the formerly secret …
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| Brian Womack / Bloomberg: |
Google Passes Microsoft's Market Value as PC Loses to Web — Google Inc. (GOOG) has surpassed Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) to become the world's second-largest technology company, in another sign of the expanding ability of the Internet to facilitate computing tasks once completed on desktop machines.
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| Julie Bort / Business Insider: |
Larry Ellison Just Took On Amazon With A New Cloud Service — Larry Ellison just announced that Oracle was launching a brand new cloud computing service. — Oracle will now be offering “infrastructure as a service” as the industry calls it, or “hardware as a service” as Ellison dubbed it tonight.| Quentin Hardy / NYT Bits: |
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| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
Apple CEO Tim Cook thanks employees for an ‘incredibly successful’ 2012, Thanksgiving vacation to be extended — Apple CEO Tim Cook has announced in an email to employees that this year's Thanksgiving vacation will be extended with pay. Cook also thanks all employees for an amazing 2012.
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| Bloomberg: |
Intel Software Snag Said to Hamper Windows Apple Response — Intel Corp. (INTC)'s delayed delivery of software that conserves computer battery life is holding up development of some tablets running the latest version of Microsoft Corp. (MSFT)'s Windows operating system, a person with knowledge of the matter said.
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| Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web: |
Ex-Apple CEO John Sculley tells the story of ARM and Newton at the start of Apple as a mobile giant — One of Apple's first forays into the arena that we think of today as ‘mobile’ computing was the Newton MessagePad. As a pocketable, hand-sized device that was meant to be a a personal organizer …
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| Dana Wollman / Engadget: |
HP announces the ElitePad 900, a business-friendly Windows 8 tablet arriving in January — Remember those hazy days of summer when HP ran an ad during the Olympics, slipped in a a shot of an unannounced tablet and thought we wouldn't notice? (P'shaw!) Well, you can finally lay your speculation … | Agence France Presse: |
Iran unblocks access to Gmail — TEHRAN — Iran on Monday removed online blocks on Gmail but a government Internet filtering committee official said other, additional censorship was being prepared against YouTube, according to reports. — Internet users in Iran found themselves able … | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Google Wants To Make Your Site a Little Bit Faster With Its New Tag Manager For Analytics And Marketing Tags — One counterpoint to all of Google's spring cleaning: it's also moving ahead with launching new features. Tag Manager, out today, is aimed at help websites speed up their load times …
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The Next Web, Marketing Land, Google Analytics Blog and WebProNews
| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
AT&T announces Sony Xperia TL with 4.6-inch 720p display, 13-megapixel camera, Android 4.0 — We had a feeling that AT&T would be one of Sony's carrier partners for the new flagship Xperia T, and now it's official. AT&T today announced that it plans to carry the high-end Xperia …
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| John Herrman / BuzzFeed: |
Security Flaw Lets Hackers Steal Twitter Accounts — “People should be changing their passwords,” says a victim whose account was hacked — and even put up for sale. — On Saturday, multimedia producer and Twitter user Daniel Dennis Jones — @blanket, at the time — received a notification that his Twitter password had been reset.
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Workday sets IPO terms valuing company at up to $3.85 billion — (Reuters) - Workday Inc, which provides cloud-based human resource software, said it plans to price its initial public offering of Class A shares at between $21 and $24 each, valuing the Silicon Valley company at up to $3.85 billion.
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Yandex Gives Google A One-Two Punch In Russia: A New Browser And App Store For The Local Search Giant — Yandex today is doubling down in its ongoing battle to make sure that Google doesn't eat away its market share in Russia, with the launch of two products that aim directly … | Robin Wauters / The Next Web: |
Netflix brings the “Just for Kids” user interface to the iPad, Android tablet support forthcoming — Video streaming giant Netflix today announced that it is bringing its “Just for Kids” viewing experience to the two latest versions of the iPad, with support for the original iPad and Android tablets coming ‘later this year’.Sponsor Posts
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