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T-Mobile USA to soon sell iPhones, cut subsidies: CEO — (Reuters) - Deutsche Telekom AG (DTEGn.DE) unit T-Mobile USA will start selling the Apple Inc (AAPL.O) iPhone in about three to four months and will enforce its plan to get rid of cellphone subsidies in a similar timeframe, according to Chief Executive John Legere.
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| Jessica E. Lessin / Wall Street Journal: |
Apple Working On a Less-Expensive iPhone — Apple Inc. is working on a lower-end iPhone, according to people briefed on the matter, a big shift in strategy as its supremacy in smartphones has slipped. — While Apple has explored such a device for years, the plan has been progressing …
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Business Insider, DigiTimes, Reuters, SiliconANGLE, GigaOM, Washington Post, The Next Web, ZDNet, Betabeat, InvestorPlace, Apple Bitch, Telegraph, iPhone Hacks, App Advice, PhoneArena, TheStreet.com, Edible Apple, Mobile Magazine, Mobile Geeks, GamesIndustry International, I4U News, Expert Reviews, Mobile Industry Review, App Advice, Ubergizmo, iDownloadBlog.com, iPhone, iPhone in Canada Blog and VentureBreak. Tweets: @stevekovach
| Brian Barrett / Gizmodo: |
Bloomberg: That Cheaper iPhone Would Cost $100-$150 — Piling on the Wall Street Journal's cheap iPhone rumor resurrection, Bloomberg is reporting that the budget-friendly device Apple is working on will cost in the $100-$150 range. It would debut, at the very earliest, at the end of this year.
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| Emil Protalinski / The Next Web: |
Microsoft confirms Messenger will be retired and users migrated to Skype on March 15 — Microsoft on Tuesday mass emailed its 100 million+ Messenger users to let them know that the service is officially being retired on March 15, 2013. On that date, all users will be migrated to Skype …
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Onlike Banking Attacks Were Work of Iran, U.S. Officials Say — SAN FRANCISCO — The attackers hit one American bank after the next. As in so many previous attacks, dozens of online banking sites slowed, hiccupped or ground to a halt before recovering several minutes later.
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Exclusive interview: Valve's Gabe Newell on Steam Box, biometrics, and the future of gaming — A rare and candid talk with Valve's boss — We just sat down for a rare and wide-ranging interview with Valve CEO Gabe Newell, who opened up to The Verge with details about the company's upcoming …
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| Poornima Gupta / Reuters: |
Samsung's big push for 2013: content, corporates — (Reuters) - Samsung Electronics, the global leader in consumer smartphones, is planning two major thrusts in 2013: bulking up mobile content and moving faster into the corporate market dominated by Research in Motion.| Liz Gannes / AllThingsD: |
Google Withdraws Patent Claims Against Microsoft — Google today filed with the U.S. International Trade Commission to terminate its attempt to stop Microsoft from using video-compression technology on the Xbox. — Microsoft wants to license two standards-essential patents for H.264 that Google controls … | Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Pebble smartwatch finally shipping January 23rd, we talk to CEO about its future — From Kickstarter to the biggest tech show on earth, and soon on your wrist — The Pebble smartwatch is best-known for being a smash hit on Kickstarter. It broke records and leapt to a total of 85,000 orders by the time the campaign ended.
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It's official: 3D is dead — The tech industry's annual hot air balloon show is dead, and the world's better for it — There's something about 2013's Consumer Electronics Show that's different from every other iteration this decade. You might not realize it immediately …
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| David Kravets / Wired: |
Student Suspended for Refusing to Wear RFID Tracker Loses Lawsuit — A Texas high school student who claimed her student identification was the “Mark of the Beast” because it was implanted with a radio-frequency identification chip has lost her federal court bid Tuesday challenging her suspension …
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Dropbox to be included on all Samsung flagship phones and camera — Users get 50GB of cloud capacity for two years for free — LAS VEGAS — Dropbox on Wednesday announced tighter integration of its cloud storage and file-sharing service with Samsung products, from smartphones to televisions.
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LinkedIn Hits 200 Million Users Worldwide — Adding New Users At Rate Of Two Per Second — LinkedIn has announced it has reached 200 million user registrations worldwide — with new users being added at an average rate of two per second (or 172,800 per day).| Diane Bartz / Reuters: |
Justice Department against most sales bans for infringing key patents — (Reuters) - Companies that own a key patent, such as those that ensure mobile and other electronic devices work together, should be allowed to win sales bans as a punishment for infringement only in rare, very specific cases …
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| Richard Sandomir / New York Times: |
Baseball Dumping Dugout-to-Bullpen Landlines — The reserve clause is dead. And so are wool uniforms. There are no longer eight teams in each league. And the Houston Astros have departed the National League. — Major League Baseball is now about to disconnect the landlines that link dugouts to bullpens.
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T-Mobile News, CNET, FierceMobileContent News, ESPN, WebProNews, Electronista and GeekWire. Thanks:@justwalden
| Daniel Cooper / Engadget: |
Panasonic launches two new Toughpads, offers a choice of Windows or Android — Panasonic's launching a pair of Toughpads that'll take none of your nonsense — no matter what you throw at it. The FZ-G1 is a 10-inch version that runs Windows 8 Pro, while the seven-inch JT-B1 runs Ice Cream Sandwich.
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ZDNet, LAPTOP Magazine, The Seattle Times, Inquirer, Pocketnow, Mashable! and Ubergizmo
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Facebook Removes Instagram User Counts From Developer API After Holiday Traffic Confusion — In the aftermath of a controversial story claiming Instagram's traffic numbers were down, the data that was the source of the story has now disappeared altogether. — Instagram was in the spotlight …
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Verizon: 9.8 million activations during Q4 — Summary: In its latest regulatory filing, Verizon says it will see record activations during the fourth quarter, driven mostly by the iPhone. — Zack Whittaker — Following AT&T's move yesterday to dish out the latest details on the state of its affairs …
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AppleInsider, The Verge, ReadWrite, The Next Web and Edible Apple
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Microsoft account enables Sina Weibo connection, integrates into Windows Phone, Windows 8, SkyDrive, and more — We reported as early as February last year that Microsoft is working on connecting Chinese micro-blogging service Sina Weibo to Microsoft account.
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Market Wire, Engadget, WMPoweruser and All About Windows Phone
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Samsung announces eight-core Exynos 5 ‘Octa’ chip at CES — Samsung's second keynote, and the news keeps coming. The mobile giant has just annouced a new Exynos 5 Octa chip, based on the ARM big.LITTLE / Cortex A15 architecture. Designed to be a low powered, high performance mobile processor.| Ryan Gallagher / Slate: |
U.S. Spy Law Authorizes Mass Surveillance of European Citizens: Report — Participants work at their laptops at the annual Chaos Computer Club computer hackers' congress in Hamburg, Germany. They probably would not be pleased with FISA. — Europeans, take note: The U.S. government … | Ernesto / TorrentFreak: |
Certified BitTorrent Box Brings uTorrent to Your TV — With a quarter billion active users a month BitTorrent is without a doubt the most used file-sharing platform. — The vast majority of these BitTorrent users download video files, but despite these staggering statistics it can still …
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