Activations of Apple devices grew by 2.3 times on Christmas Day - The rate of device activations for Apple more than doubled on Christmas Day this year, though the real winner was Amazon, whose low-margin Kindle devices saw a 24-fold surge in new devices for the single day.
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Apple releases videos, slides from iOS 7 Tech Talks developer conferences - The iOS 7 Tech Talks are small developer conferences that give app creators a deeper understanding of the new core technologies available in Apple's latest mobile operating system.
Google's reaction to Apple's iPhone unveiling: 'We're going to have to start over' on Android - "I will spend my last dying breath if I need to, and I will spend every penny of Apple's $40 billion in the bank, to right this wrong," Jobs told biographer Walter Isaacson. "I'm going to destroy Android, because it's a stolen product. I'm willing to go thermonuclear war on this."
Distimo Stat Show 2013 Was a Huge Year for Android Gaming - Eric Johnson - Mobile - AllThingsD - Google Play as a source of revenue leads in South Korea and Japan, two of the three fastest-growing markets worldwide.
iPhones Dominate Sales at All Four Major U.S. Carriers - John Paczkowski - Mobile - AllThingsD - Prior to the launch of the iPhone 5s and 5c, the iPhone 5 was Apple’s sole Top 3 entrant at the big four carriers, and it held the top spot at AT&T alone; it was the second-most-popular handset at Verizon, Sprint and T-Mobile, where Samsung’s Galaxy S4 led the pack.
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Apple pulls another anti-censorship app from China's iOS App Store - The app, called FreeWeibo, bypasses government restrictions on the Twitter-like Chinese microblogging site Sina Weibo and was pulled from the App Store on Friday, according to a report from Agence France-Presse.
Apple partner ARM acquires graphics software firm Geomerics - Geomerics — based, like ARM, in Cambridge, England — is the maker of Enlighten, a product that game companies can integrate into a game's rendering engine to provide dynamic radiosity calculation.
Apple's iPad Air, iPad mini take 6 of Japan's top 10 tablet sales spots - During its first month on the market, Apple's iPad Air has taken four of Japan's top ten tablet slots while iPad mini has taken two additional spots, giving Apple 60 percent of the sales charts.
How Minecraft Creator Persson Almost Took a Job at Valve - Eric Johnson - General - AllThingsD - This chapter from “Minecraft: The Unlikely Tale of Markus ‘Notch’ Persson and the Game that Changed Everything,” excerpted with permission of the authors, tells the tale.
Sony Plans a 4K Fest for CES - Ina Fried - News - AllThingsD - Sony may not use the term “4K” 4,000 times during its CES press conference and keynote. But it will surely come close. The electronics giant is betting heavily on the next big-screen technology to help reestablish Sony’s name as the kind of brand that consumers aspire to buy.
Here's a first look at the Tesla statue in Palo Alto | VentureBeat | Business | by J. O'Dell - Tesla memorial statues also have been erected in Croatia, the inventor’s birthplace; Long Island, the site of his laboratory; and Niagara Falls. Here’s a slideshow of Tesla monuments around the world:
Microsoft Takes Action Against Alleged Ad-Fraud 'Botnet' ZeroAccess - WSJ.com - Microsoft doesn't know precisely who is behind ZeroAccess, nicknamed after code in the malware, but suspects the operators are based in Eastern Europe.
Calling Overseas on Wi-Fi - Walt Mossberg - Mossberg's Mailbox - AllThingsD - The Motorola Moto X sold by Republic is a modified version that defaults to making calls and sending texts via Wi-Fi and only relies on cellular networks in the U.S. when Wi-Fi is too weak or unavailable.
Samsung's #Galaxy11 viral ad fumbles when Franz Beckenbauer tweets from iPhone - A global ad campaign to promote Samsung devices, involving soccer stars and an alien invasion story, instead revealed that the fantasy campaign's star manager Franz Beckenbauer tweets from his iPhone, not a Galaxy device.
China sending its 'Jade Rabbit' rover to the moon this weekend | VentureBeat | Business | by Tom Cheredar - the first mission to the Moon’s surface since the Russians did it 37 years ago.
