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| Aaron Souppouris / The Verge: |
Samsung drops Apple injunctions in Europe — Samsung has today announced it will drop its inunction requests against Apple for standards-essential patent infringement in Germany, the UK, France, Italy and the Netherlands. In a statement given to The Verge, the manufacturer said:
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| Florian Mueller / FOSS Patents: |
Judge denies Apple permanent injunction, throws out Samsung's jury misconduct claims — Judge Lucy Koh, the federal judge presiding over the Apple v. Samsung litigation in the Northern District of California, just entered two important post-trial orders. Within minutes of each other …
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Tweets: @jyarow, @fosspatents, @iam_magazine and @iam_magazine
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What Instagram's New Terms of Service Mean for You — Instagram released an updated version of its privacy policy and terms of service on Monday, and they include lengthy stipulations on how photographs uploaded by users may be used by Instagram and its parent company, Facebook.
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Tweets: @chadmumm, @dj100proof, @mikeloukides, @whitneyhess, @nytjim, @drew and @alexgoldmark
See also Mediagazer| Alexis C. Madrigal / The Atlantic Online: |
Why You Should Want to Pay for Software, Instagram Edition — If you want to stop social networking services from exploiting your likeness for advertising, you've got to start paying up. — Instagram is changing its terms of use in January. Included in the new legalese is one section …
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Apple in Preliminary Talks with Foursquare About Data-Sharing Deal — Apple Inc. is in early discussions to integrate local data from Foursquare Labs Inc. into its mapping application, according to people familiar with the talks, as the company continues to build an arsenal of local data to try to take on Google Inc.
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Tweets: @erickschonfeld, @panzer and @pkafka
| Reed Morse / YouTube Blog: |
Film and share videos instantly with YouTube Capture for iPhone and iPod touch — Life moves fast. To speed up recording, enhancing and sharing videos with your friends or the whole world, you can now use the YouTube Capture app on your iPhone or iPod touch. — Making sharing fast and easy
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CNET, Mashable!, SocialTimes, The Appside, 1001 Noisy Cameras, Silicon Republic, BGR India, ITProPortal, digitaltrends.com, iPhone Alley, AppleTell, VentureBeat, Lifehacker, TUAW and iPhone Hacks. Tweets: @theromit. Thanks:@hunterwalk
| Jacqui Cheng / Ars Technica: |
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| Matt Brian / The Next Web: |
Samsung unveils new 5-inch dual-SIM Galaxy Grand, with dual-core 1.2GHz processor and 8MP camera — Adding yet another Galaxy S III (or maybe Note) clone to its collection of Android smartphones, Samsung today launched its new Galaxy Grand handset, offering a dual 1.2 GHz processor … | Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Hands On With Facebook Nearby, A New Local Biz Discovery Feature That Challenges Yelp And Foursquare — Each month 250 million Facebook users tag posts with location. Today that data goes to work for you in a major revamp of Facebook's Nearby feature for its iOS and Android apps.| Sebastian Anthony / ExtremeTech: |
DARPA begins work on 100Gbps wireless tech with 120-mile range — DARPA has begun development of a wireless communications link that is capable of 100 gigabits per second over a range of 200 kilometers (124mi). Officially dubbed “100 Gb/s RF Backbone” (or 100G for short) …
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| Paul Mozur / Wall Street Journal: |
Foxconn Workers Say, ‘Keep Our Overtime’ — SHENZHEN, China—Nets to catch would-be jumpers still sag ominously from Hon Hai Precision Industry Co.'s buildings. — But two years after a spate of suicides at the Apple Inc. supplier's campus here, workers are more concerned …
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HTC M7, successor to the One X, detailed: 4.7-inch 1080p, Sense 5, much more — HTC is once again preparing the launch of a flagship Android handset, according to a previously reliable source, among whose cutting-edge components will reportedly be several industry firsts.
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Gizmodo, Phones Review, SlashPhone, AndroidOS.in, Pocket-lint, Techie Buzz, Softpedia News, Gotta Be Mobile, Engadget, Android and Me, The Verge, Pocketables and PhoneArena. Thanks:@uvstaska
| Loek Essers / ITworld.com: |
German privacy regulator orders Facebook to end its real name policy — Facebook said it would vigorously fight the order — A German privacy regulator ordered Facebook to stop enforcing its real name policy because it violates a German law that gives users the right to use nicknames online.
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| Geoffrey A. Fowler / Wall Street Journal: |
Tor: An Anonymous, And Controversial, Way to Web-Surf — For more than four years, William Weber has helped run a free service called Tor that makes Web surfing anonymous for anyone. — Then on Nov. 28, the police showed up at the 20-year-old's home in Graz, Austria, and accused him of distributing child pornography.| Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web: |
Instagram's latest app update fixed my biggest pet peeve, and people hate it — As a long time user of Instagram, I have come to loathe a certain thing that people do on the service. No, it's not duckface or Throwback Thursdays. It's not even the fact that most people will never … | Federico Viticci / MacStories: |
Letterpress 1.2 Brings HTML5 Replay Feature — Loren Brichter's Letterpress is my favorite iOS game. It's no surprise that the game has been adopted so quickly and listed by Apple as a runner-up for Game of the Year on the “Best of App Store” list for 2012. Letterpress is fun, clever, and incredibly addictive.
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
What The Twitter/Instagram Standoff Has Meant For Traffic To Instagram — When Instagram began to pull its inline previews of photos out of Twitter almost two weeks ago, many did not take that turn of events too well. Consumers like things easy, and clicking out of one app or site to go elsewhere is not always the best experience.
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| Bill Rigby / Reuters: |
Microsoft, Motorola millions apart on royalty payment case — (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp and Google Inc's Motorola phone unit remain millions of dollars apart in their respective valuations of video and wi-fi patents at issue in a pivotal case before a federal judge in Seattle.| Nielsen: |
Nielsen and Twitter Establish Social TV Rating — Nielsen, a leading global provider of information and insights into what consumers watch and buy, and Twitter today announced an exclusive multi-year agreement to create the “Nielsen Twitter TV Rating” for the US market.
| Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web: |
Google Maps for iOS downloaded 10M times in under 48 hours — Google's Jeff Huber has just announced via Google+ that Google Maps for iOS was downloaded 10 million times in under 48 hours from its release last week. — “We're excited for the positive reception of Google Maps for iPhone around the world,” writes Huber.| Taylor Soper / GeekWire: |
Xbox introduces SportsPicks app, new SmartGlass experience for ESPN, NBA — For sports fans, the Xbox was once just a device for scoring touchdowns on Madden or making birdies with Tiger Woods. — But as Microsoft continues to turn the Xbox into an entertainment hub, its sports content is following a similar path.
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| Anthony McCartney / Associated Press: |
Hollywood hacker sentenced to 10 years in prison — LOS ANGELES (AP) — A federal judge on Monday sentenced a hacker to 10 years in prison after he broke into the personal online accounts of Scarlett Johansson, Christina Aguilera and other women and posted revealing photos and other material on the Internet.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
LogMeIn's Dropbox Competitor Cubby Reveals Pricing; Stays Competitive At $7 Per Month For 100 GB — Cubby, the new cloud storage player from LogMeIn which aggressively, if belatedly, entered the market this year to compete alongside Dropbox, Google Drive, Box, SkyDrive and others, is today revealing its pricing and Pro plans.
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| Jon Russell / The Next Web: |
Sony confirms 10 of its Xperia range will get Jelly Bean from February 2013, 4 will miss out — Sony has provided an update on where it stands on providing Android 4.1 (Jelly Bean) updates for its Xperia family of devices, reiterating that most of the smartphones will be upgraded within the first few months of next year.
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| Sencha Blog: |
The Making of Fastbook: An HTML5 Love Story — When we started what became Sencha, we made a bet on the web: a bet that modern application development didn't need anything except the browser, a great set of frameworks and a great set of tools. With those three weapons in hand …
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