Daily Archives: December 19, 2012

U.S. Invalidates Apple’s ‘Pinch-To-Zoom’ Patent For Touchscreen Devices (AAPL)

December 19, 2012
U.S. Invalidates Apple’s ‘Pinch-To-Zoom’ Patent For Touchscreen Devices (AAPL)

Justin Sullivan / Getty Images Apple CEO Tim Cook. See Also Now Apple Wants Samsung To Pay More Than $1.5 Billion In Damages For Patent Infringement CHART OF THE DAY: The Story Of Samsung’s Great Year In A Subtle Chart MOSSBERG: Stop Using Apple Maps The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has invalidated Apple’s...

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Brazilian Company Launches Android ‘iPhones’ After Winning Right To Name

December 19, 2012
Brazilian Company Launches Android ‘iPhones’ After Winning Right To Name

Gradiente SAO PAULO (AP) — It’s not your Apple’s iPhone. A Brazilian company has begun selling smartphones with the iPhone brand after winning the legal right to use the name in Latin America’s biggest country. Adding insult to Apple Inc.’s injury, the phone runs on the archrival Android operating system. Gradiente SA says in...

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Best Buy’s Digital Chief Has Abruptly Resigned, And Management Didn’t See It Coming

December 19, 2012
Best Buy’s Digital Chief Has Abruptly Resigned, And Management Didn’t See It Coming

seanaes via flickr See Also American Giant CEO Explains Why US Manufacturing Isn’t Dead Valentine’s Day Is Out Of Control Here’s What A Toys ‘R’ Us Catalog Looked Like In 1996 Best Buy digital chief Stephen Gillett has resigned after just nine months at the embattled consumer electronics retailer.  He’ll be joining Symantec as its...

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Is your Gmail app for iOS sending out duplicate emails? Google says it’s working on a fix

December 19, 2012
Is your Gmail app for iOS sending out duplicate emails? Google says it’s working on a fix

There’s something fishy going on with the Gmail app for iOS – it’s sending duplicate emails out hours, sometimes days, after the original message goes out. Google says it is aware the issue is happening to some users and is working on a fix for it. TNW’s own Robin Wauters recently began receiving replies from...

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Steam opens its Linux beta to the public two months after its closed launch

December 19, 2012

There’s good news for Linux-based gamers and further evidence that Steam’s Linux beta program is…gathering steam, after the project was opened to the public two months after its closed launch. It was back in September that the company announced plans to bring its hugely popular platform to Linux and, after opening the beta up...

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Executive reshuffle at Twitter sees Ali Rowghani shift to COO, Zynga’s Mike Gupta is new CFO

December 19, 2012

Twitter CEO Dick Costolo has confirmed an executive leadership shuffle, with the appointment of Ali Rowghani as the company’s new Chief Operating Officer and Mike Gupta as CFO. Congratulations to @rowghani on his new role as COO and to @mgupta on his new role as CFO. — dick costolo (@dickc) December 20, 2012  ...

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Top 10 Mobile Devices Of 2012

December 19, 2012
Top 10 Mobile Devices Of 2012

2012 was a big year in mobile. We have never seen a year like this where there were so many quality devices from so many disparate suppliers all competing for the interest of consumers and enterprises. What were the best of the best? We rank the top 10 smartphones and tablets below: 1. Samsung...

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Forget The Cynicism, Mark Zuckerberg Is Making The World A Better Place

December 19, 2012
Forget The Cynicism, Mark Zuckerberg Is Making The World A Better Place

I don’t like to admit this, but I’m a cynic. So when I see that Mark Zuckerberg has given away a half billion dollars in stock and announced it on his Facebook page, there’s a part of me that wants to point out that this munificent gesture is conveniently timed to offset the recent...

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The Greed-Heads At Facebook Just Keep Making Life Easier For Google’s Vic Gundotra

December 19, 2012
The Greed-Heads At Facebook Just Keep Making Life Easier For Google’s Vic Gundotra

A friend of mine who worked at Microsoft during its glory days once confided to me that Microsoft’s success in the 1990s came in part because Microsoft had been blessed with such wonderful enemies. It’s not that Microsoft was so brilliant, he said, but that everyone else was just so incredibly awful. Same goes today...

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Carriers put the finishing touches on their 2012 LTE rollouts

December 19, 2012
Carriers put the finishing touches on their 2012 LTE rollouts

As the final weeks of the year dwindle away, Verizon Wireless, ATT and Sprint are tweaking their 4G footprints one final time before wrapping up their 2012 LTE network rollouts. Verizon will launch LTE in in 29 small cities on Thursday, while ATT and Sprint each lit up a half dozen new markets each...

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