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iPhone’s Lost Week (Comic)

Here is the latest comic from our Joy of Tech friends at Geek Culture, Nitrozac and Snaggy. Joy of Tech appears three times a week in the Voices section of this site.
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Flextronics CEO Sees Hope for U.S. Tech Production

The CEO of Flextronics International Ltd., a Singapore-based company that helped hundreds of firms move manufacturing of electronic parts and products to Asia, says it is getting “easier to justify” production in the U.S.

Best Buy Claims It Lost $65,000 in a Day Matching Walmart’s iPhone 5 Discount

A case of the price-matching wars gone bad.
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IBM Services Chief Michael Daniels to Retire

International Business Machines Corp. announced a leadership change in its gargantuan services division, as the company said Senior Vice President and Services head Michael E. Daniels will retire on March 31 after a 36-year career with the technology giant.

Let Jason Kilar Take a Bow

You can ding the departing Hulu CEO for all sorts of stuff. But admit it: No one thought this thing would last as long, or as well, as it has.
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Eight Percent of Amazon’s Sales Are Coming From Mobile

That’s really not all that great.
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Why Al Jazeera’s Cable Move Could Cost Much More Than $500 Million

The news channel’s new pay TV partners are paying up, for now. What happens if that changes? We may find out.
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Six Podcasting Predictions for 2013

No matter how busy Adam Carolla gets, he still does his podcast every week.

RCA Looks to Make Mark in Tablet Market With Free Live TV

Looks like we’ve got another entrant into the tablet market.
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Twilio Names New Chief Revenue Officer

Another new hire to round out Twilio’s C-suite.
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HTC Vows to Step Up Innovation

The head of HTC Corp. said the beleaguered Taiwanese smartphone maker didn’t market their products aggressively enough last year, but vowed to win consumers back by developing more innovative products.

Welcome to CES: A Trade Show, Not a Tastemaker

CES hasn’t exactly been a Magic 8 Ball for the “next big thing” — nor should anyone expect this year’s show to be.
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ITC Investigates Samsung Over Standards-Essential Patents

2013 is going to be a busy year for Samsung legal.
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Game On! Xbox Bosses Mehdi, Tellem Come to Dive Into Media.

The Xbox is a Web TV player that also happens to work for games. Meet the people in charge of making it an even bigger deal in the media world.
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What Happens Now on Standards-Essential Patents?

Google promised that it won’t seek injunctions against willing SEP licensees. But what does that actually mean?
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Spotify Stops Selling Downloads

Never Tell Him the Odds (Comic)