HBO Go and WatchESPN Come to Apple TV

Apple: Apple today announced that HBO GO and WatchESPN are now available directly on Apple TV joining the great lineup of programming offered to customers. iTunes users have downloaded more than one billion TV episodes and 380 million movies from iTunes to date, and they are purchasing over 800,000 TV episodes and over 350,000 movies per day.

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As Fab Raises Another $150 Million at a $1 Billion Valuation, E-Commerce Industry Looks On Warily

Here’s an interesting exercise I tried recently when talking with entrepreneurs and venture capitalists involved in e-commerce: “I say ‘Fab’; you say?” “Inspiring.” “Ballsy.” “Ambitious.” And then … “A creation of the tech press.” “Another Groupon.” “Bankrupt within five years.” There’s something about the two-year-old commerce company — and its brash CEO Jason Goldberg — that turns people into full-on Fab believers or never-gonna-convince-me haters.

Jason Del Rey allthingsd.com 18 Hours Ago Read more at allthingsd.com
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Facebook adding ability to post images in comments

Facebook comment threads are about to get quite a bit more crazy. A new camera button is rolling out that allows users to reply to posts with a picture.

Dante D'Orazio theverge.com 4 Hours Ago Read more at theverge.com
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Dart: Faster Editor and more

Today's release of the Dart SDK and Editor is the first beta release, and contains performance and productivity improvements across the platform. This latest release helps Dart developers automate code evolution, produce smaller JavaScript code and deploy Dart web apps.

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Apple patent chief departs amid major ongoing IP lawsuits

The intellectual property expert who has served as Apple's head of Patent Licensing & Strategy, and who played a key role in its patent infringement suit against Samsung, has departed the company.

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Steve Jobs talks about his legacy in new video from 1994

The Silicon Valley Historical Association has released a short video clip of Steve Jobs from 1994, part of a 20-minute interview he gave while at NeXT.

Michael Grothaus tuaw.com 8 Hours Ago Read more at tuaw.com
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Popular apps come to Windows 8

Hey Steve Guggenheimer here, Chief Evangelist for Windows and your host for the Build conference next week. We’re only one week until Build and we’re really looking forward to getting together with developers in San Francisco to talk apps, code, industry trends, and of course have some fun.

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Apple Wins $30 Million iPad Contract From L.A. Unified School District

Here’s one school district that won’t be availing itself of Microsoft’s “Surface for education limited-time offer”: L.A. Unified. On Tuesday evening, the Los Angeles Unified School District awarded Apple a $30 million contract to provide its students with iPads.

John Paczkowski allthingsd.com 15 Hours Ago Read more at allthingsd.com
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WSJ: Microsoft Was Close to Acquiring Nokia’s Mobile Phone Business

Sharon Terlep, Dennis Berman, and Shira Ovide, reporting for the WSJ: Microsoft Corp. was recently in advanced discussions with Nokia Corp. about a purchase of the Finnish company’s device business, according to people familiar with the matter, in a marriage that could have reshaped the mobile-phone industry.

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Apple seeds first OS X Mountain Lion 10.8.5 beta to developers, Retail

Following the public release of OS X Mountain Lion version 10.8.4 and the first Developer Preview of OS X 10.9 Mavericks, Apple has seeded the first beta of OS X Mountain Lion 10.8.5 to developers.

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FBI admits to using surveillance drones over US soil

Robert Mueller tells Congress bureau uses drones in a 'very, very minimal way' as senators describe 'burgeoning concern' The FBI has admitted it sometimes uses aerial surveillance drones over US soil, and suggested further political debate and legislation to govern their domestic use may be necessary.

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