Apple Store in Shanghai The fight over whether Apple has the right to sell the iPad in China continued Wednesday in Shanghai, China’s most populous city and one of the most important places for Apple doing business in the country. Chinese manufacturer Proview wants to ban the iPad from all stores in Shanghai over a trademark dispute

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Apple fights for iPad trademark in China’s largest city

At the Mobile World Congress event in Barcelona later this month, LG will introduce the Optimus Max 3D smartphone (PDF). The Google Android 2.3 handset will continue the company’s push towards using 3D technology to differentiate its phones from competitors.

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LG bets again on a niche feature with Optimus Max 3D

Where Turntable.fm offered a new spin on going clubbing, Berlin-based service wahwah.fm is a modern take on the pirate radio concept — with the advantage that it’s more mobile and legal.

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Wahwah.fm offers a social take on pirate radio

Hot Mountain View, Calif., startup BloomReach emerged from stealth mode on Wednesday with a message about how its marketing-optimization engine will help ensure that companies get their web pages noticed above the noise online. Using a potent brew of big data techniques presented as a software-as-a-service application, BloomReach says it can significantly improve the amount of traffic on product web pages by making them more relevant to consumers

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BloomReach wants to save your site traffic with big data

Amazon CTO Werner Vogels Amazon Web Services says its new Simple Workflow Service (SWS) will run applications that are distributed between customer sites and Amazon’s cloud infrastructure, further blurring the line between the customer’s data center and their chosen cloud. Amazon, the leader in public cloud infrastructure, appears intent on erasing the line between applications running in-house and those “out in the cloud.” Orchestrating workflow is an important concern in enterprise applications.

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Amazon queues up new workflow service

One of my favorite startups from the most recent 500 Startups demo day was Tiny Review , which makes a photo-sharing app with a twist. Instead of adding filters and sharing with your social network a la Instagram, Tiny Review makes it easy for users to add up to three short lines of text to their photos

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Tiny Review: Instagram + Yelp + Twitter FTW!

Seemingly all of a sudden Apple is charging ahead with one of the most aggressive clean power projects for a data center in the U.S.

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5 reasons why Apple is embracing clean power for its data center

Google may be getting ready to take augmented reality to the next level: According to a report, an Android-powered pair of glasses will go on sale by the end of 2012. If so, get ready for a new take on the concept of wearable computing. A number of smart gadgets that track your movements and assess your health havemade waves over the last year, but Google Glasses (just my suggested name) would be something unique: a network-connected pair of spectacles with a camera and a display that could record images and video of one’s surroundings and display information from elsewhere on a tiny screen, according to a report in The New York Times .

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Eye of the robot: Google working on Android-powered glasses?

Samsung has reigned supreme in Twitter buzz relating to Mobile World Congress, but one week before the start of the show, HTC has leaped over the Korean handset giant on news of a new “superphone” being unveiled in Barcelona, according to social media number cruncher Anltyk .

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Although the idea of police officers video-recording their encounters with citizens has some claiming a small victory in the quest for better transparency, the issue isn’t that simple. Yes, video could provide invaluable evidence in some situations, but it could also provide evidence without context and fertile ground for privacy invasions. The  New York Times on Tuesday published both a story describing Taser International’s new video system for police officers , a wearable video camera that sends the video to the cloud (Amazon Web Services, to be exact), where it’s then stored.

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Why cops, cameras and the cloud aren’t a panacea for anything