| Today's Top 3 Stories | | #1 | Report: Apple to Launch 12" Retina MacBook Air, 4K Desktop Product Later this Year
| | | When it comes to the battle of ultraportables Microsoft Corp.'s (MSFT) 12-inch, $799 USD Surface Pro 3 (2160x1440 pixels) stacks up reasonably well against Apple, Inc.'s (AAPL) current 11- and 13-inch MacBook Air notebooks, which start at $899 and $999 USD, respectively. (Daily Tech)
Why This Is Important: Apple isn't going to make it easy for Microsoft to convince consumers they can ditch their Macbooks for Surfaces. The new laptops are expected to come in time for the holiday selling season.
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| | #2 | Apple Seen Inching Closer To A Mobile-Payment Service
| | | Apple may introduce a new mobile-payment system as soon as the fall, which would add yet another tech giant to a particularly hot trend in mobile. (CNET)
Why This Is Important: Despite its slow entrance into the mobile payment field in 2011, conversations between Apple and such payment companies as Visa are reported to be picking up as Apple looks to launch a "mobile wallet."
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| | #3 | Lenovo Shows Smart Glasses Prototype As It Seeks Hardware Partners
| | | Lenovo showed off a smart glasses prototype on Thursday, part of a push to attract developers and other hardware manufacturers to a new partner program. (Computerworld)
Why This Is Important: Lenovo's introduction of its new smart glasses prototype came hand in hand with its search for partners to help develop a range of products, beyond PCs and smartphones, as part of its "NBD" platform, which offers funding, manufacturing, hardware research, and other support to potential partners.
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"[Apple] literally would rather let the volume decline than get competitive on pricing. Even a year ago nobody thought that iPad sales would tank like this. It really has hit a brick wall." -- Tero Kuittinen, managing director, Frank N. Magid Associates
| | | Blog Post of The Day | The Right To Be Forgotten
By Timothy Lavin
Like a maddening multilingual elephant, the Internet doesn't forget. Youthful political musings are recorded for posterity along with love-sick Facebook posts, mortifying photos, college-police blotters and announcements of ill-fated weddings. That's inspired the formulation of a new fundamental right, one no Enlightenment philosopher ever dreamed of: A right to be forgotten. More » |
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