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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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| Farhad Manjoo / PandoDaily: |
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.| John Paczkowski / AllThingsD: |
Apple's Map Mess Won't Slow iPhone Sales — It's great that Apple apologized for releasing a new Maps app that disappointed its customers. But it didn't have to. Demand for the iPhone 5 continues to surge, and according to a number of observers, Apple's Maps app debacle hasn't slowed it at all.
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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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| Kashmir Hill / Forbes: |
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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| Alexei Oreskovic / Reuters: |
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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| Keith Andrew / Pocket Gamer.biz: |
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 … | 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.| 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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| 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 … | 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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| 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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| 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 … | 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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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 … | 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 … | Alexei Oreskovic / Reuters: |
Yahoo CEO to return to office one-two weeks after birth of first baby — (Reuters) - Yahoo Inc Chief Executive Marissa Mayer, three months into a nascent effort to revamp the struggling Web company, could be back in the office in one week, following the birth of her first child on Sunday.
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| Brad Chacos / LAPTOP Magazine: |
IHS iSuppli Cuts 2012 Ultrabook Sales Estimates In Half — With 2012 entering its closing quarter, the Ultrabook phenomenon hasn't performed quite as phenomenally as expected. Even though Intel's brain trust has stuck closely to its prediction that the new class of notebook will claim …
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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 … | 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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| 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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AllThingsD, Ars Technica, AT&T, LAPTOP Magazine, BGR, 9to5Google, WebProNews, Droid Life, CNET, Engadget, TechCrunch and PhoneArena
| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook Acqhires Founders Of Carsabi Who Will Sell Off Their Car Price Comparison Site — Facebook's has just closed a deal to hire Dwight Crow and Christopher Berner, the two founders and only teammates of Y Combinator car price comparison site Carsabi. The founders meanwhile are now looking …
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AllThingsD and Carsabi
| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google Catalogs Comes To The Web, Now Integrated With Google Shopping — Google Catalogs launched as an iPad and Android app in August 2011. Just ahead of the holiday shopping season, Google is now also making this service available on the web. Google Catalogs on the web will feature brochures …
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CNET, 9to5Google, Search Engine Land, The Next Web, Google Commerce and WebProNews
| 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’.| Aman Shah / Reuters: |
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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| Arnold Kim / MacRumors: |
Apple's Ping Social Network Officially Closes — Apple has officially shut down its failed social network Ping. Reports in June signaled that Apple's social iTunes network would be removed from the next version of iTunes. Apple has since been advertising the fact that the service would shut down as of last night, September 30th.
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