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Merrill Lynch: T-Mobile USA may get the iPhone next week — The deal would give Apple access to 33 million more mobile subscribers — FORTUNE — It was only last week that Jim Alling, COO of T-Mobile USA, poured cold water on speculation that his company might finally start selling Apple's (AAPL) iPhones to its 33 million customers.| Leo Kelion / BBC: |
Tony Fadell: From iPod father to thermostat start-up — Father of the iPod — Tony Fadell on changes at Apple, Nest and doubts about Kickstarter
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
NPD: U.S. Windows Device Sales Down 21% On Last Year; Windows 8 Tablet Sales “Almost Non-Existent” — Microsoft earlier this week made a point of noting that there have been 40 million downloads of Windows 8 since it launched a month ago, putting it ahead of where Windows 7 was at the same point in its sales cycle.
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| Ellis Hamburger / The Verge: |
Fantastical: the intelligent iPhone calendar app we've been waiting for is here (hands-on) — Can the best Mac calendar app transition to the small screen? — I'd consistently heard great things about Fantastical for Mac, but I wouldn't buy it. I wasn't ready to pay upwards of fifteen dollars … | Wall Street Journal: |
Dell, Intel in Talks for Stake in Sharp — TOKYO—Sharp Corp. is in discussions with U.S. technology companies to bolster its battered balance sheet and has offered a stake to Dell Inc., among others, in return for a stable supply of breakthrough display technology, according to people familiar with the discussions.
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| Nathan Ingraham / The Verge: |
iTunes 11 finally available for download, features redesigned interface and increased iCloud support — Apple gave a sneak peek at iTunes 11 back at September's iPhone 5 event, and the software will finally make its way to consumers today. The new iTunes features a sleek, streamlined interface …
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| Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web: |
Microsoft's Surface Pro will be $899 for 64GB and $999 for 128GB models, as predicted — Earlier in the year we brought you the news that Microsoft's surface pricing would run in the $999 range. Now, Microsoft has confirmed the pricing in a post by Surface GM Panos Panay.
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| Caitlin McGarry / PC World: |
AT&T still at bottom of Consumer Reports rankings, but boasts best 4G network — AT&T held onto its last place position in Consumer Reports' ranking of the four major U.S. cellphone carriers. But the company can point to one bright spot in the annual ratings published by Consumer Reports Thursday … | Paul Mozur / Digits: |
iPhone 5 Gets China Network Access License — Looks like Apple Inc.'s iPhone 5 may be coming to China soon. — According to a regulatory website, an Apple device resembling the iPhone 5 has received approval for a “network access” license in China. — The phone is compatible … | Arik Hesseldahl / AllThingsD: |
Syria Has Disappeared From The Internet — A few hours ago, Syria, the middle eastern country in the middle of an especially bloody civil war, disappeared from the Internet. — The research firm Renesys, which keeps track of the status and health of the technical underpinnings … | Ken Yeung / The Next Web: |
Google Play's revenue rises by 311%, but Apple's App Store sees 4 times more sales, study says — In the inaugural study released by app analytics firm, App Annie Intelligence, data shows that, worldwide, the Apple store is seeing revenues four times larger than the Google Play store …
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iPhone 5 supply stabilizes in the U.S. for first time since launch — With the lucrative holiday shopping season in full swing, the popular iPhone 5 handset is now readily available in the U.S. at Apple's brick-and-mortar retail stores as the company has apparently overcome supply issues experienced since …
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| Declan McCullagh / CNET: |
Obama opposes Silicon Valley firms on immigration reform — White House announcement before congressional vote on STEM Jobs Act puts president in opposition to many of the Silicon Valley firms and executives who bankrolled his re-election campaign. — President Obama opposes …
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PeopleBrowsr Wins Temporary Restraining Order Compelling Twitter to Provide Firehose Access — PeopleBrowsr and Twitter appeared in San Francisco Superior Court today. PeopleBrowsr won a restraining order compelling Twitter to provide full Firehose access.
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| Lee Hutchinson / Ars Technica: |
Dell releases powerful, well-supported Linux Ultrabook — In our recent ZaReason UltraLap 430 review, Ars alum Ryan Paul lamented that even though putting Linux on laptops is easier today than ever, it's still not perfect. Some things (particularly components like trackpads and Wi-Fi chips) take some fiddling to get working.
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| Alex Wilhelm / The Next Web: |
Microsoft takes on Internet Explorer's haters in yet another biting video — Microsoft has produced a number of videos that highlight persistent negative opinion of its Internet Explorer product among certain groups of technology folks, often with a mocking tone, used to indicate …
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| David Kravets / Wired: |
Senate Committee Approves Bill Requiring Warrants for E-Mail — A Senate committee on Thursday unanimously backed sweeping digital privacy protections requiring the government, for the first time, to get a probable-cause warrant to obtain e-mail and other content stored in the cloud.
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| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Basis Science reveals its health-tracking wristwatch and fitness web service — Fitness tracking devices have invaded our lives, seeking to quench our thirst for data about whether we're healthy or not. But Basis Science is hoping to create the mother of all devices with the unveiling today …
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| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Hack could let browsers use cloud to carry out big attacks on the cheap — Enlarge / An overview of a browser-based exploit that abuses cloud services. — Vasant Tendulkar et al. — Scientists have devised a browser-based exploit that allows them to carry out large-scale computations …
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| Ki Mae Heussner / GigaOM: |
HealthTap buys Q&A site Avvo Health to bulk up its community of online doctors — In a move that will nearly double its network of doctors available to answer patients' questions online, Palo Alto-based HealthTap is acquiring Q&A site Avvo Health. — The acquisition, which is HealthTap's …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
With An Improved Design, Navigation & Social Features, Wavii's Rebuilt iPhone App Is Like A Facebook News Feed For Actual News — Seattle-based Wavii, the news aggregation startup that finally launched into public beta this April after years of stealth mode, is today unveiling an entirely …
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| Tricia Duryee / AllThingsD: |
Confirmed: LivingSocial Slashes 400 Jobs in Attempt at Profitability — LivingSocial, the second-largest daily deals company in the U.S., has confirmed it is laying off 400 employees, or about 10 percent of its workforce, as it tries to turn a profit. — A spokesman confirmed that employees received the news this morning.
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| Paul Mozur / China Real Time Report: |
No VPN? No Problem. A New Way Around China's Great Firewall … A key method for circumventing China's Internet filters, virtual private networks have come into the crosshairs of the government lately. During the 18th Party Congress earlier this month many faced blockages … | Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight: |
In Silicon Valley, Technology Talent Gap Threatens G.O.P. Campaigns — SAN FRANCISCO - I live in Brooklyn, where President Obama won 81 percent of the vote earlier this month. It's hard to find anywhere in the country that is more Democratic-leaning. — But San Francisco qualifies.
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