02/08/8472 Redbox pays $100 million for NCR's Blockbuster Express
Netflix snubs DVDs while Redbox doubles down on movie discs. Redbox gets more than 10,000 Blockbuster Express kiosks.
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02/08/6511 Hollywood's gentler post-SOPA strategy: A charm offensive
In a new charm offensive, Paramount Pictures says it's "humbled" by last month's protests over the Stop Online Piracy Act and Protect IP--and wants to talk.
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02/08/5391 Halliburton to drop BlackBerry in favor of Apple's iOS
According to a report from AppleInsider, oil field services provider Halliburton has decided to drop Research In Motion's BlackBerry platform in favor of Apple's iOS for its workforce.
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02/08/3666 Google secretly testing pair of connected devices
Could Google be working on the "Project Tungsten" hardware first demonstrated at Google IO last year?
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02/08/3570 Guns, body armor, and raids: The piracy fight gets dangerous
Police raid the home of MegaUpload's Kim DotCom wielding automatic weapons. Anonymous publishes the Social Security number of a sports promoter who disagrees with them. Are both sides hurting their causes by turning to increasingly tougher tactics?
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02/08/3466 Appeals court denies Google bid to keep email out of Oracle trial
Google has failed in its latest attempt to keep a potentially damaging email out of the lawsuit Oracle filed against it over alleged Java intellectual-property violations in the Android mobile OS. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit on Monday denied Google's petition over the...
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02/08/2602 Android nabbing more than half of new smartphone buyers
Apple sold the most smartphones in Q4 2011, but Android might win the race as it is attracting more first-time buyers than iOS, according to NPD research.
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02/08/2574 Apple knocks IBM off top of Davis brands list
Apple unseated IBM as the top brand of 2011, according to a new study by Davis Brand Capital. The popular gadget maker came in seventh place in last year's tally.
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02/08/0525 Java tops C in language popularity assessment -- but not by much
Java is barely hanging on to its ranking as the most popular programming language, edging out C in this month's Tiobe index of programming language popularity.
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02/08/8089 Mobile device management: Understanding Apple's extra requirement
Anyone wanting to buy mobile device management (MDM) software to manage Apple iOS devices need a special digital certificate from Apple to activate it, a requirement that doesn't apply to the same MDM software when used to manage Google Android devices, for instance.
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02/08/7929 European activists meet with Facebook to discuss privacy concerns
Facebook meets with student activists in Europe regarding concerns over how it handles users' personal information.
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02/08/6904 The point after: Apple's China problem, U.S. copyright conundrums, and more
It's been a while since I dipped into the reader mailbag and pulled out a few choice nuggets. Today, the unofficial federal holiday known as "Super Bowl Monday Hangover," seems as good a time as any to look back with amusement and ibuprofen at what riles up the residents of Cringeville.
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02/08/6277 Google set to give a little backbone to Kansas City high-speed Net
It's been two years since Google announced the 1-gigabit-per-second Google Fiber project. Now it's ready to start building it.
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02/08/5715 Starbucks' augmented reality app gets all lovey dovey
Starbucks expands the usefulness--if you can call it that--of its augmented-reality app beyond the holidays to Valentine's Day.
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02/08/5517 Andy Rachleff: With Facebook, Valley unearths lost art of IPO
Too many entrepreneurs start companies with the goal of selling them. Former VC Andy Rachleff is hoping Facebook inspires people in Silicon Valley to think bigger.
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