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Disruptions: Apple Is Said to Be Developing a Curved-Glass Smart Watch — Dick Tracy and James Bond had watches that served as computers. Tim Cook of Apple wears a Nike FuelBand, which tracks his physical activity. — Dick Tracy had one. As did Inspector Gadget and James Bond.
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| Jessica E. Lessin / Wall Street Journal: |
Apple Is Testing Watch-Like Device — Apple Inc. is experimenting with designs for a watch-like device that would perform some functions of a smartphone, according to people briefed on the effort. — The company has discussed such a device with its major manufacturing partner …
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Insight: Apple and Samsung, frenemies for life — (Reuters) - It was the late Steve Jobs' worst nightmare. — A powerful Asian manufacturer, Samsung Electronics Co Ltd, uses Google Inc's Android software to create smartphones and tablets that closely resemble the iPhone and the iPad.| Seth Weintraub / 9to5Mac: |
| Mark Serrels / Kotaku Australia: |
Apple And Microsoft Summonsed To Explain Price Disparities In Australia — In the midst of the IT pricing inquiry major offenders Apple, Microsoft and Adobe have been reluctant to speak to the Committee handling the inquiry to explain themselves. As a result of this all three companies … | Derrick Harris / GigaOM: |
The man behind Google Docs is now trying to reinvent the web app at Box — When Sam Schillace first crossed paths with Box Founder and CEO Aaron Levie in 2006, it didn't exactly go how Levie expected. Box wanted to buy Schillace's document-collaboration startup called Writely …
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| Jake Smith / Pocket-lint: |
Google airs Nexus 4 commercial showing off Google Now during the Grammys — During the Grammys award show Sunday night, Google aired a new commercial highlighting the Nexus 4 and its Google Now found within Jelly Bean.? — Mountain View's Google Now voice-assistant has? …
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The computing deployment phase — Technological revolutions happen in two main phases: the installation phase and the deployment phase. Here's a chart (from this excellent book by Carlota Perez via Fred Wilson) showing the four previous technological revolutions and the first part of the current one:
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| Sam Biddle / Gizmodo: |
Beat By Dre: The Exclusive Inside Story of How Monster Lost the World — There's never been anything like Beats By Dre. The bulky rainbow headphones are a gaudy staple of malls, planes, clubs, and sidewalks everywhere: as mammoth, beloved, and expensive as their namesake.
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Closed gTLD debate threatens Google and Amazon — Howls of criticism about Google, Amazon and others' plans to grab huge swathes of new gTLD real estate and keep it to themselves seem to have spurred ICANN into action. — A public comment period opened this week seeks community feedback …
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| Kara Swisher / AllThingsD: |
Menlo Ventures' Pishevar and Goldman's Stanford to Found Sherpa, a Startup Aimed at Making New Startups — Well-known Silicon Valley investor and entrepreneur Shervin Pishevar of Menlo Ventures and Goldman Sachs tech banker Scott Stanford are starting a new company that will focus on formulating a new model of how startups are created.| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft's Surface Pro launch marred by supply shortages — Summary: Microsoft is touting ‘amazing’ customer response to its new Surface Pro. But customers are saying they couldn't get their hands on devices due to lack of supply. — What if they threw a product launch and potential customers came — but the product didn't?
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| David Meyer / GigaOM: |
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