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Arthur Frommer takes brand back from Google, will keep guidebooks going

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As reported on Engadget. By Richard Lawler The tale of Google and Frommer’s famed travel guides has taken another twist this evening. Associated Press writer Beth Harpaz reports Arthur Frommer confirmed over the phone that he has retaken control of the brand from Google, and plans to continue publishing them in e-book and print formats, as well as maintaining the Frommers.com website. This comes after Google acquired the brand from publisher Wiley in 2012, followed by Skift.com’s revelation last month that it apparently intended…

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Angry Birds Friends coming to Android and iOS, brings the franchise full circle

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As reported on Engadget. By Jon Fingas You may not have realized it if you were heads-down with your smartphone, but one of the most popular Angry Birds games is on Facebook: its social network adaptation,Angry Birds Friends, has racked up about 15 million active users. It’s only appropriate, then, that Rovio complete the cycle with new plans to bring Angry Birds Friends to mobile. While details are slim, the company vows that the upcoming Android and iOS ports will maintain Facebook integration…

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HTC First pictured ahead of Thursday’s Facebook event (update: now with more colors) Mobile

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As reported on Engadget. By Brad Molen The mysterious Facebook event is quickly approaching , and as luck would have it,@evleaks is hooking us up with an image of the device that we’ll be introduced to on Thursday, known as the HTC first. If this is indeed accurate, the press render you see above is what was previously known as the HTC Myst (as well as the Opera and Buffy, if you go back in time far enough). We still don’t…

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Inside the War Machine: New Documentary Maps an Epic Photo Career

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As reported on Wired. BY JAKOB SCHILLER Tim Hetherington. Photo: Courtesy of HBO   Tim Hetherington is trying to explain why he documents war. He launches into a cliché about violence and the “human experience” but quickly stops, laughs and says, “No, that sounds too fucking bullshit.” It’s the opening scene from HBO’s new documentary about Hetherington called Which Way Is the Front Line From Here? The Life and Times of Tim Hetherington. The film, which airs April…

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Here’s What Makes NO Sense About Goldman Sachs’ Downgrade Of Apple

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As reported on Businessinsider.com by Sam Ro Glassdoor On Tuesday, Goldman Sachs downgraded Apple by removing the stock from its exclusive “Americas Conviction Buy List.”  And this is causing tons of  confusion about how Goldman really feels about the iPhone maker. Here’s the key excerpt from their note: Despite our optimism on this front, we believe the stock’s outperformance over the next 12 months will be more closely tied to whether or not the company’s next product cycles can reinvigorate market share momentum and installed base growth.…

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Explainer: What’s Aereo, why does it matter, and will it kill cable?

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As reported on The Verge. By Greg Sandova With an important court decision in its favor, here’s how Aereo could change the future of live TV Aereo is trying to make live TV available over the Internet and yesterday the company got a step closer. The United States Second Circuit Court of Appeals declined a request by some of the country’s largest television networks to issue a preliminary injunction against Aereo, which would have closed the service…

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Come and get it: how sperm became one of America’s hottest exports

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As reported on The Verge. By Brooke Jarvis I’d been friends with Chris for years when he mentioned, casually, that he’s a father. Or probably is — as a sperm donor, he has no way of knowing when a woman decides to buy what he has to offer, much less where she is, whether she actually got pregnant, or whether her pregnancy was successful. His only information about the status of his paternity comes when he…

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Apple Ramping Up Production For Next iPhone Beginning In Q2, WSJ Reports

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As reported on TechCrunch. by DARRELL ETHERINGTON Apple is looking to start production of a new iPhone of “similar” design to the current one during the second quarter of 2013, according to a new report from the Wall Street Journal. The production ramp-up is designed to set the stage for a summer launch of a new flagship iPhone, the report claims, which agrees with information we’ve heard from our own sources recently. John reported last Thursday that Apple’s…

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Baidu Eye is no joke, aims to be a Google Glass competitor

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As reported on Engadget. By Richard Lai We all know that Chinese search giant Baidu is notorious for receiving much inspiration from its US counterpart, Google, and according to the above IM screenshot published on April Fools’ Day (now bear with us here), the former is apparently already working on its own version of Glass. This claim is seemingly supported by a couple of articles from Tencent Tech and Sina Tech, who said that the spectacles feature a tiny LCD, image recognition…

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It’s been 40 years since the world’s first mobile phone call Mobile

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As reported on Engadget. By Mat Smith On April 3rd 1973, Martin Cooper made the first mobile call on the nine-inch (and 28-ounce) Motorola DynaTAC. Dialing up a rival at AT&T, he apparently said that he was ringing “to see if my call sounds good at your end.” While briefcase-size models had come before it, it’s Motorola’s truly mobile phone that became the go-to power accessory for the likes of Gordon Gekko, Zack Morris and, er, American Psycho‘s Patrick Bateman.…

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