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Apple’s iPhone 5 Scores Well, With a Quibble - Review - NYTimes.com
Apple’s iPhone 5 Scores Well, With a Quibble - Review - NYTimes.com
If you have an iPhone 4S, getting an iPhone 5 would mean breaking your two-year carrier contract and paying a painful penalty; maybe not worth it for the 5’s collection of nips and tucks. But if you’ve had the discipline to sit out a couple of iPhone generations — wow, are you in for a treat. It’s just too bad about that connector change. Doesn’t Apple worry about losing customer loyalty and sales? Actually, Apple has a long history of killing off technologies, inconveniently and expensively, that the public had come to love — even those that Apple had originally developed and promoted. Somehow, life goes on, and Apple gets even bigger.
·nytimes.com·
Apple’s iPhone 5 Scores Well, With a Quibble - Review - NYTimes.com
U.S. Internet Giants Form New Lobbying Association
U.S. Internet Giants Form New Lobbying Association
A group of 14 Internet juggernauts such as Facebook, Google, eBay, Amazon.com, Zynga, Yahoo and others have formed a brand new lobbying group in the United States called The Internet Association to counter efforts by federal regulators to strap new rules to their sector.
·thenextweb.com·
U.S. Internet Giants Form New Lobbying Association
Google reveals Spanner, the database tech that can span the planet | ZDNet
Google reveals Spanner, the database tech that can span the planet | ZDNet
In simple terms, Google has managed to design an information store that spans its fleet of datacentres around the world and lets applications read (and, to a lesser extent write) data without being crushed by huge latencies. Software using the system can replicate data across countries and continents, while having extremely fast read times.
·zdnet.com·
Google reveals Spanner, the database tech that can span the planet | ZDNet
Twitch Raises $15 Million to Be the YouTube of the Videogame World - Tricia Duryee - Commerce - AllThingsD
Twitch Raises $15 Million to Be the YouTube of the Videogame World - Tricia Duryee - Commerce - AllThingsD
The videos run on Twitch’s own platform, rather than on a third-party site like YouTube, allowing it to exclusively target the hardcore gamer. Twitch said it now has more than 20 million viewers, who tune in every month to watch different channels based on games like World of Warcraft, Diablo III, Starcraft and Borderlands 2. As part of the experience, commentators provide feedback in real time.
·allthingsd.com·
Twitch Raises $15 Million to Be the YouTube of the Videogame World - Tricia Duryee - Commerce - AllThingsD
The Verizon iPhone 5 is GSM unlocked, tested with AT&T
The Verizon iPhone 5 is GSM unlocked, tested with AT&T
I can confirm that the Verizon iPhone 5 is indeed GSM unlocked. Even though I bought an iPhone 5 from Verizon under contract, I was able to cut down my AT&T Micro SIM, and use it in my Verizon iPhone 5 to pick up an AT&T signal. By doing so, I was able to hop onto AT&T’s HPSA+ network, or “4G” as they so ridiculously name it.
·idownloadblog.com·
The Verizon iPhone 5 is GSM unlocked, tested with AT&T
TomTom: Apple Maps - Business Insider
TomTom: Apple Maps - Business Insider
To underscore the idea that it's not TomTom's fault people are unhappy with Apple Maps, in its press release it says, "TomTom’s map data is the foundation of our own smartphone application, which consistently gets high consumer ratings in the iTunes App Store."
·businessinsider.com·
TomTom: Apple Maps - Business Insider
IPhone Fever? Don’t Count Samsung Out - NYTimes.com
IPhone Fever? Don’t Count Samsung Out - NYTimes.com
By many measures, Samsung Electronics should be on the ropes. Last month, it lost an important patent battle with its rival Apple after a jury in the United States ruled that Samsung had illegally copied aspects of Apple’s groundbreaking iPhone. Apple introduced its newest model, the iPhone 5, to enthusiastic reviews and a worldwide consumer frenzy, with customers lining up to buy the new model days before it arrived in stores on Friday. This week, Apple shares hit a record high and cracked the $700 threshold.
·nytimes.com·
IPhone Fever? Don’t Count Samsung Out - NYTimes.com
Iran readies domestic Internet system, blocks Google | Reuters
Iran readies domestic Internet system, blocks Google | Reuters
(Reuters) - Iran plans to switch its citizens onto a domestic Internet network in what officials say is a bid to improve cyber security but which many Iranians fear is the latest way to control their access to the web.
·reuters.com·
Iran readies domestic Internet system, blocks Google | Reuters