Tuesday, November 6, 2012

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RPT-Apple's Cook fields his A-team before a wary Street - Reuters
SAN FRANCISCO Oct 31 (Reuters) – Apple Inc Chief Executive Tim Cook's new go-to management team of mostly familiar faces failed to drum up much excitement on Wall Street, driving its shares to a three-month low on Wednesday. The world's most …


Acer Delaying Windows RT Plans to See How Surface Does - Tom's Hardware Guide
Acer says we won't see its RT line until at least Q2 2013. When Microsoft announced the Surface, many wondered what kind of effect it would have on Redmond's partners. After all, computer companies are used to Microsoft being a software partner, not a …


Apple ordered to re-write 'inaccurate' Samsung statement - BBC News
Apple has 48 hours to re-write a statement on its website relating to its design rights dispute with Samsung, UK judges have ruled. Apple was forced on 18 October to publish a message making it clear that Samsung had not infringed the iPad's registered …


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Boxee And Wal-Mart Set To Stick It To Apple TV - Forbes
October was not a kind month to Apple. There has been a big management shakeup, the Street does not like the price of the iPad mini, iPhone 5 is experiencing supply issues, and earnings-as well as projections-were below expectations. As if Apple needed …


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Testing Boxee TV: First impressions, screenshots and unboxing video - GigaOM
Boxee's new Boxee TV device officially went on sale on Thursday, but we got our hands on one of the units early. Check out our first impressions, as well as some screenshots of the Boxee TV UI and an unboxing video. BoxeeTV-perspective. Boxee's new …


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MegaUpload will be reborn as Me.ga in January - CNET
DotCom told Reuters today that he will launch Mega, the son of MegaUpload, near the first anniversary of the police raid on his home and the shutting shut down of MegaUpload, a storage service accused of hosting millions of pirated movies, music and other …


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AT&T, T-Mobile team up to curb smartphone theft - CNET
AT&T and T-Mobile, the two GSM carriers in the U.S., have turned on a database designed to cut back on smartphone theft. The database went live yesterday, and allows either AT&T or T-Mobile to block a device from being used on either network. In order to …


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Look inside the iPad mini with iFixit's teardown - The Verge
The iPad mini may look like a tiny version of the iPad, but what's going on inside? Over at iFixit, the team is tearing down Apple's new tablet. The mini shares some features with its larger counterpart, and taking it apart seems to be roughly as difficult: it's held …


Daily Report: Apple Shake-Up May Lead to Design Shift - New York Times (blog)
Steven P. Jobs, the Apple chief executive who died a year ago, pushed the company's software designers to use virtual doodads that mimic the appearance and behavior of real-world things, like wooden shelves for organizing newspapers and the …


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Apple Leaves UK Judge at 'Loss' Over Samsung Web Posts - Bloomberg
Apple Inc. (AAPL) was criticized by U.K. judges in a patent lawsuit with Samsung Electronics Co. (005930) for posting a notice on its website that was "untrue" and "incorrect." The U.K. Court of Appeal in London ordered Apple to remove the statement within …


Apple's Samsung statement reprimanded by court of appeal - The Guardian
The UK court of appeal has reprimanded Apple over the wording of the statement on its website acknowledging that Samsung did not infringe the iPad tablet's registered design, and ordered it to put an altered statement on its homepage - rather than tucked …


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Uh-oh! Kim Dotcom is back with a brand new Megaupload site - Register
The new Mega will kick off in the new year just before the brazen web tycoon, who lives in New Zealand, is due to appear at an extradition hearing that will determine whether or not he'll be flown out to the US to face charges of online piracy, fraud and money …


Verizon's New Ad Campaign Is a Load of Half-Truths - E-Commerce Times
Verizon's New Ad Campaign Is a Load of Half-Truths. Verizon's New Ad Campaign Is a Load of Half-Truths. By Jeff Kagan E-Commerce Times 11/01/12 5:00 AM PT. No carrier offers high-speed to all customers in all locations. The industry is undergoing a …


Taking the Windows 8 Plunge - TechNewsWorld
Taking the Windows 8 Plunge. Taking the Windows 8 Plunge. By Patrick Nelson TechNewsWorld 11/01/12 5:00 AM PT. Windows RT is only available pre-installed on ARM-processor tablets and PCs. Choose Windows 8 Pro if you want an OS oriented to data …


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Pentagon drops RIM exclusivity; eyes up iPhones, Android phones - ZDNet
Pentagon drops RIM exclusivity; eyes up iPhones, Android phones. Summary: RIM has lost yet another exclusive major government client: this time around it's the U.S. Department of Defense that is looking to pitch iPhones to its employee base, dropping the …


Hurricane Sandy onslaught means 25% of US base stations are offline in ... - TeleGeography
Around a quarter of mobile network base stations in the United States have been damaged by Hurricane Sandy, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has revealed. Citing internal figures from the country's mobile network operators, FCC chairman …


Apple to Moto: Your Wireless Patents Are Worth $1 Per iPhone, Tops - Gizmodo
Apple to Moto: Your Wireless Patents Are Worth $1 Per iPhone, Tops. By Jamie Condliffe. Ahead of a contract trial due to happen next week, Apple has declared that it's willing to pay Motorola for a license to its wireless patents. It is, however, only prepared to …


Kim Dotcom reveals Mega to replace Megaupload file-sharing site - BBC News
Kim Dotcom has announced plans for Mega, a service to replace his banned file-sharing website Megaupload. Mega is expected to use encryption methods which will mean only users will know what they are uploading. It will be decided in March whether Mr …


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Bend Windows 8 to your will with these free tools - PCWorld (blog)
Suggesting that reviews of Windows 8 have been mixed is a bit of an understatement, but you don't have to take my word for it; Microsoft's bold new operating system is available right now, and if you spend some time with it I wager there are elements of the …


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Samsung Galaxy S III Mini UK launch date unveiled - SlashGear
Several weeks ago Samsung announced that it would be launching a smaller version of its insanely popular Galaxy S III smartphone in Europe. The phone will be called the Galaxy S III Mini. The specifications for the device were rather disappointing to a lot of …


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Apple's Cook fields his A-team before a wary Wall Street - Hindustan Times
It only takes a few minutes playing with the iPad Mini to realize the scaled-down tablet computer will be a sure-fire hit with longtime Apple disciples and potential converts who've been looking for a more affordable entree… iPad Mini. Sony Xperia ion …


How do you get the best deal on a Windows 8 Pro upgrade? - ZDNet
How do you get the best deal on a Windows 8 Pro upgrade? Summary: You can get a smoking deal on an upgrade to Windows 8 Pro if you're ready to make that purchase before January 31, 2013. But there are some gotchas, and one inexplicable and unfair …