| Apple's U.S. Smartphone Market Share Rises to 35 Percent | | ComScore's new U.S. smartphone market share numbers are in, and the trend that's been going on for years hasn't changed: Google's Android and Apple's iOS are gaining, while everyone else is losing. In the three-month period ending November 2012, Google had a 53.7% market share, up from 52.6% in August.
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| jOBS: The Dumbest Movie Name in History? | | By now, thankfully, most Apple watchers have stopped making wild product-based pronouncements about the company that begin with the words "Steve Jobs would." As in: Steve Jobs would have nixed Apple Maps; Steve Jobs would never have allowed Siri to launch in such a disappointing form; Steve Jobs would have annihilated Android already.
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| Teens Without Internet Are 'Educationally Disadvantaged' | | Thursday, January 03, 2013 11:11 PM | Neha Prakash |
| The Internet has received more than its share of criticism from parents who condemn it as unsafe or addictive. But it's starting to seem more likely that not having the Internet is the worse option. new study by Oxford University's department of education has shown that teenagers without web access are actually at a serious disadvantage educationally and socially.
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| Meet Tumblr's First Artist in Residence | | Thursday, January 03, 2013 10:36 PM | The Daily Dot |
| For more than 100 years, artist-in-residence programs at colleges, museums and municipalities have allowed artists to immerse themselves in a new community to create original works and build their portfolios. In September, that opportunity was offered to Roger Biersborn by one of the biggest art communities in the world: Tumblr.
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| Cats Get Their Own Social Network | | Thursday, January 03, 2013 9:55 PM | Chris Taylor |
| Fellow cat owners: ever caught your feline stealing jealous glances at your laptop? Wonder why they keep walking all over your keyboard? Turns out they're not trying to catch your attention or steal your lap heat. They just want you to get off Facebook so they can have their turn. OK, not really -- but the world's smartest pets are long overdue for their own social network.
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| What Couples Fight About Most: the Remote | | Thursday, January 03, 2013 9:31 PM | Charlie White |
| Everybody knows that the biggest thing couples fight about is money, right? Wrong. Okay, so they fight most about who's doing what work around the house. Nope, that's not it either. It's the remote. According to 60 Minutes and Vanity Fair, 36% of couples fight over the TV remote control, arguing about which show they'll be watching next. It's not just an educated guess, either.
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| Facebook Starts Sending Out Notices for Sponsored Stories Settlement | | Thursday, January 03, 2013 8:24 PM | Christina Warren |
| If you receive a message purporting to be from Facebook with the subject "LEGAL NOTICE OF SETTLEMENT OF CLASS ACTION" -- don't worry, it's legitimate. Facebook is sending proposed settlement notices to members of a class-action lawsuit against the company's use of Sponsored Stories. Facebook's offer of $20 million to settle the case was granted preliminary approval by the courts in December.
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| See the 5 Finalists For Doritos' Crowdsourced Super Bowl Ads | | Thursday, January 03, 2013 8:11 PM | Todd Wasserman |
| It's that time of year again. While there have been drips and drabs of Super Bowl announcements over the past few weeks and months, the season has begun in earnest with the airing of Doritos' "Crash the Super Bowl" contest. For the sixth year in a row, the PepsiCo brand is crowdsourcing its ads in the big game. After casting for entries from Oct. 8 to Nov. 16, the brand has settled on the five finalists above.
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| Blogger Makes $333,000 Online in One Day | | Thursday, January 03, 2013 8:02 PM | Chris Taylor |
| It may sound like the first line of a particularly fiendish piece of spam. But a blogger has now in fact brought in a third of a million dollars in roughly 24 hours -- all while working from home, presumably at some point in his PJs. Of course, it helps that the blogger in question was Andrew Sullivan, commentator extraordinaire.
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| Nyan Cat Art Worth Meowing About | | Thursday, January 03, 2013 7:40 PM | Annie Colbert |
| Mona Lisa. Venus and her shell. Nyan Cat. What do those three things have in common? If you said "subjects of famous paintings," you hit the brush on the canvas. Nyan Cat might not have reached the same level of fame as da Vinci and Botticelli's famous ladies, but a recent art show starring the Internet famous feline could land the Pop Tart kitty at the Louvre.
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| What Does 2013 Hold for a Gaming Industry in Flux? | | Thursday, January 03, 2013 6:44 PM | Chelsea Stark |
| The last year was a turbulent and exciting one in gaming. After Double Fine's record-breaking Kickstarter, a gold rush began as indies funded their dreams with the masses. Facebook reported 235 million of its users play games each month. Nintendo launched a console that faced "second-screen" entertainment head on. A live-action series about Halo was watched millions of times on YouTube.
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| This Was the Best Thing That Happened on Twitter Today | | Thursday, January 03, 2013 6:22 PM | Alex Fitzpatrick |
| Today on Twitter, William Shatner -- a.k.a. Captain James Tiberius Kirk of the Starship Enterprise -- tweeted at real astronaut Chris Hadfield. The response was pretty great, and by far the best thing that happened on Twitter during the hours of Tuesday, Jan. 3, 2013. Live long and prosper. [View the story "The Best Thing That Happened on Twitter Today" on Storify] Photo courtesy of Flickr, Keith McDuffee.
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| Bill Clinton to Attend Samsung Keynote at CES | | Thursday, January 03, 2013 6:13 PM | Samantha Murphy |
| President Bill Clinton is among the notable guests making an appearance at the 2013 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas next week.
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| Watch G-Form Drop Its New Xtreme iPhone 5 Case From Space | | Thursday, January 03, 2013 6:09 PM | Emily Price |
| Case maker G-Form demonstrated its new durable line of cases Thursday with a video dropping its new iPhone 5 case from the stratosphere, 100,000 feet in the air. To make the fall happen, the company tied one end of the case to a weather balloon, and sent an iPod touch 5 -- which can also fit inside the iPhone 5 case -- into space.
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| Never-Before-Seen Stage of Planet Birth Revealed | | Thursday, January 03, 2013 6:00 PM | Space.com |
| Astronomers studying a newborn star have caught a detailed glimpse of planets forming around it, revealing a never-before seen stage of planetary evolution. Large gas giant planets appear to be clearing a gap in the disk of material surrounding the star, and using gravity to channel material across the gap to the interior, helping the star to grow.
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| Mom Tricks Son Into Thinking He Bought a $50,000 Car on eBay | | Thursday, January 03, 2013 5:41 PM | Kate Freeman |
| An 8-year-old boy just wanted a look at a Mustang for sale on eBay, but almost purchased the $50,000 car on the auction site. To teach him in lesson, his mother pretended he accidentally bought it and it couldn't be returned. She recorded the incident and posted it to YouTube. In the video, the mom tricks her son by telling him he bought the car, adding that his family would have to sell everything.
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| This Is What the OUYA Kickstarter Console Looks Like | | Thursday, January 03, 2013 5:37 PM | Chelsea Stark |
| The $99 hackable Android-based gaming console OUYA is fulfilling its orders for Kickstarter backers by sending the first units out to developers. Backers began receiving their OUYA consoles as early as last Friday. According to the OUYA blog, 1,200 consoles have been sent out to developers.
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| Facebook Adds Voice Messaging to Its Messenger App | | Thursday, January 03, 2013 5:09 PM | Emily Price |
| Facebook added the ability to send voice messages to its Messenger app for iOS and Android Thursday. To send a voice message, tap the + button beside where you traditionally type a message in the Messenger app. Then select Record, holding the button down to speak. When you release the Record button, your voice message will be sent to your recipient. Along with today's update, Facebook has also started testing VoIP functionality in Canada.
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| Online Holiday Spending Tops $40 Billion for First Time Ever | | Thursday, January 03, 2013 4:55 PM | Seth Fiegerman |
| U.S. consumers spent $42.3 billion online during the holiday season, the first time online spending has ever topped $40 billion for that time period, according to comScore's latest shopping data for November and December. While online sales grew by about 14% from the previous holiday season's total of $37.2 billion, sales still fell short of the $43.4 billion (or 16% growth) that comScore had forecasted.
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| Watch Local TV Royally Fail at Live NYE Broadcast | | Thursday, January 03, 2013 4:45 PM | Neha Prakash |
| Somewhere, the spirit of Dick Clark is shaking his head while watching this local TV station destroy New Year's celebrations. This poor Los Angeles station was simply over having to follow Eastern Standard Time rules and ring in the new year three hours early. So KDOC decided they could one up Times Square with Jamie Kennedy and its own bash.
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| Compare Cities Instantly With VERSUS IO | | Thursday, January 03, 2013 4:42 PM | Eric Larson |
| Good news, travelers. VERSUS IO, a new comparison engine, lets you instantly view side-by-side pros and cons of more than 240 cities worldwide.
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| Steve Jobs Film Coming in April | | Thursday, January 03, 2013 4:34 PM | Brian Anthony Hernandez |
| "jOBS," the indie film about former Apple CEO Steve Jobs, will arrive in theaters in April, the movie's distributors announced. It stars Ashton Kutcher.
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| Only 3 of the 79 New Congress Members Don't Have Twitter Accounts | | Thursday, January 03, 2013 4:06 PM | Alex Fitzpatrick |
| Call it the "Social Class" -- all but three of the 79 new lawmakers who entered the halls of Congress on Thursday have public Twitter accounts. Some, such as Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren and Texas Senator Ted Cruz, might even qualify for elite Twitter status with 72,600 and 39,000 followers respectively as well as verified accounts.
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| NASA May Give the Moon a Smaller Moon of Its Own | | Thursday, January 03, 2013 4:01 PM | Geekosystem |
| One of 2012′s oddest and most interesting ideas in space exploration may be getting a renewed lease on life in 2013. According to New Scientist, NASA is "mulling over" a proposal from researchers at the Keck Institute for Space Studies (KISS) to give the moon a moon of its own.
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| Pebble Kickstarter Watch Will Be At CES | | Thursday, January 03, 2013 3:48 PM | Christina Warren |
| Pebble, the smartphone-friendly watch that raised over $10 million on Kickstarter -- $500,000 in the first day alone -- will be at CES 2013. The Pebble is the most successful Kickstarter project of all-time, with nearly 69,000 backers -- myself included. Users were drawn to the promise of the product, a wrist watch that syncs with your iPhone or Android smartphone.
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