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India's $35 tablet faces backlash after quality complaints
Plans by India's government to roll out the $35 Aakash tablet were thrown into turmoil Wednesday after the country's Human Resource Development Ministry cast doubts on whether the Android device would survive the second wave of adoption. Despite hopes of providing a rough equivalent to the iPad for education, contracted supplier DataWind was no longer guaranteed to move on to a second phase of production after a research institution raised major complaints about the Aakash's quality. Early users complained about low battery life, sluggish performance, and an unwork...
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Tim Cook appears on, vanishes from invitees to cancer event
Apple CEO Tim Cook was briefly listed as an invitee at a National Comprehensive Cancer Network conference, scheduled for March 14th to the 18th, reports note. Cook had been invited to a morning roundtable on the 15th moderated by ABC anchor Sam Donaldson, entitled "Cancer and Corporate America: Business as Usual?" A check of the listings now shows no mention of Cook....
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Adobe roadmap for desktop Flash shows GPU boost, 2013 revamp
Adobe on Wednesday published a roadmap (PDF) giving a peek at the long-term future of Flash. Having dropped the mobile version, it's now focusing on games and video on the desktop and now agrees that HTML5 and other web standards are more suited for animation. Accordingly, the imminent 11.2 update would improve hardware graphics acceleration, multi-core video processing, and support for right clicks when using mice....
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iTunes Japan gets ringtones, 3G shopping, other features
The Japanese iTunes Store has gained several other features in addition to iTunes in the Cloud, Apple has announced. This includes access to ringtones, downloading music over 3G instead of just Wi-Fi, and the Complete My Album option. All music on the store is now in iTunes Plus quality, meaning DRM-free, 256kbps AAC files. In some cases, tracks have been specifically mastered for iTunes....
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Verizon faces 3G/4G outage, again denies 3G issue
Verizon's data growth problems resurfaced on Wednesday after it confirmed another nationwide outage. Officially, only 4G LTE access is down and preventing the fastest possible data. It didn't yet have an estimate for when 4G would be restored....
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Foxconn hid underage workers before FLA tour, group says
Underage Foxconn workers were transferred to other departments or not scheduled to work overtime in advance of inspections by the Fair Labor Association, an activist group tells AppleInsider. Students & Scholars Against Corporate Misbehavior project officer Debby Sze Wan Chan says that last week, she heard from two Foxconn workers in Zhenghou who said the company prepared itself before the FLA arrived. "All underage workers, between 16-17 years old, were not assigned any overtime work and some of them were even sent to other departments," Chan claims....
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Nike+ Basketball, Training venture past running
Nike expanded its Nike+ mix Wednesday with two combinations of shoes and apps that go beyond its traditional focus on running. Both Nike+ Basketball and Nike+ Training can track jump height and other factors besides horizontal distance. A new Pressure Sensor integrated into the shoes themselves contributes to the existing motion tracking to reveal details that were previously impossible to follow in the Nike+ system....
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SanDisk claims smallest ever 128-gigabit flash chip
SanDisk's NAND flash lineup may have set a record Wednesday after the company claimed to have the world's smallest 128-gigabit (16GB) memory chip. The 19 nanometer, three-bit-per-cell storage has a footprint of about 170mm square (0.26in square), or less than that of a penny. It's also relatively quick for its capacity and size at 144Mbps (18MB) per second....
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Microsoft joins Apple in EU complaints over Motorola patents
Microsoft Deputy General Counsel Dave Heiner in a posting confirmed company was echoing Apple's strategy and filing a formal complaint against Motorola with the European Commission. The new dispute, like Apple's, alleges that Motorola is abusing standards-based patents by trying to charge unreasonable rates to license technology. Microsoft's case centered around elements like the H.264 video codec and Wi-Fi that are at the heart of Motorola's lawsuits both in Europe and the US....
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Apple, Proview trade barbs during Shanghai trial
Lawyers for Apple and Proview exchanged heated words today in a Shanghai court hearing, according to reports from the Associated Press and Reuters. Proview is seeking a ban on iPad sales in the city as a part of its ongoing trademark dispute with Apple. "Apple has no right to sell iPads under that name," said a lawyer for Proview Shenzhen, Xie Xianghui. Proview once sold a product called the IPAD, or Internet Personal Access Device....
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Hitachi intros first 7mm, 7,200RPM 500GB notebook drive
Hitachi staked out a claim as the top builder of thin hard drives on Wednesday through a 500GB version of the Travelstar Z7K500. The drive is the first to hit a half-terabyte at the slimmer 7mm height while keeping a full 7,200RPM spin speed and just one drive platter. Along with being the first to have both a 6Gbps SATA3 connection and a 32MB buffer, it's billed as being not just faster than other 7mm drives but faster than many regular 9mm drives as well....
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The Beatles offer ringtones for first time through iTunes
Apple took advantage of its current exclusive on The Beatles (iTunes Store) with the first-ever availability of ringtones from the band on iTunes. The initial batch involves ringtones cut from the singles highlight album 1. Picks range from the very earliest songs, such as "Love Me Do," to "The Ballad of John and Yoko" and the very tail end of the band's career....
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Facebook improves app distribution on iOS
Facebook's native iOS client app controls are being reworked to allow developers of iOS apps more options on ways to link "click points" in Facebook back to either their own iOS app, the App Store page for the app, or an intermediate web page that asks the user if they'd prefer the "mobile" or "full" version of the web page. In addition, links can now take users to specific sub-pages of a site rather than the opening page....
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FontGear announces FontPad Server for web fonts
Enterprise font software maker FontGear has debuted FontPad Server, an internet server that both manages and protects web fonts used on web pages. The software allows users to specify what domains or pages are allowed to use which fonts, and then serves encrypted font data that prevents viewers from copying the commercially-licensed fonts used. The program gives designers the freedom to use custom fonts without worry....
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Apple confirms plans to build data center in Oregon
Previously known by a code name "Project Maverick," Apple has confirmed public documents that show it is planning to build another data center on a 160-acre parcel of land it has purchased from local authorities near Prineville, Oregon, KTVZ reports. The land will be located near a large data center owned by Facebook -- which, local officials say, worked with Apple to bring the tech giant to the community....
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Apple hiring 'Technical Recruiter' in Israel
Apple is currently seeking someone who can lead an effort to recruit tech workers in Israel, perhaps signalling that the company is preparing to bring in a significant number of people for the projected research and development center in Haifa. Apple says the recruiter will be responsible for obtaining "world-class" candidates, Al-Monitor reports. The site says Apple's Israel offices may open within weeks....
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Intel may drop Ivy Bridge chip prices by $70 to drive sales
Intel may make up for its Ivy Bridge processor delay by selling at substantially lower prices. New rumors from part suppliers claimed to Digitimes that processor prices would typically be $60 to $70 lower, presumably relative to the current-generation Sandy Bridge-era chips. The move could lead to faster processors at similar prices or, more likely, less expensive systems overall....
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Lenovo leads reliability ratings, Apple drops to fourth
Lenovo has climbed to the top of Rescuecom's computer reliability ratings for the beginning of 2012, achieving a significantly higher score than its competitors. Apple has fallen to fourth in the lineup, despite maintaining a stronger rating in past years and achieving a surge in overall market share, with a score that is just over half of Lenovo's rating....
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Twitter updates iOS, Android clients to return lost features
Social networking service Twitter has updated its client for iOS and for Android to return the much-requested "swipe shortcut" that allowed users to swipe a tweet and be offered options including reply, re-tweet, mark it as a favorite, share it or view the posting user's profile without leaving the user's own timeline. Those on iOS can now change font size among other features, and the Android version now supports more devices....
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Microsoft to clarify Office for iPad info in "coming weeks"
After rejecting details in a recent leak surrounding Office for iPad, Microsoft suggests that the issue will be clarified soon. In a Twitter post from the official Microsoft News account, the company reiterates its stance that someone gave The Daily "bad info," but hints that evidence supporting its accusation will become "clear in the coming weeks."...
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