I’m A New York Times Subscriber, So Where’s My Tote Bag?

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The New York Times released its latest earnings report earlier this week, spurring another round of discussion about the newspaper’s paywall, which was near the beginning of this year . The consensus: Early signs are positive, but it’s not doing well enough to offset plummeting print ad revenue. What’s the solution

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Siri Makes For a Terrible Fitness Coach [Video]

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So by now we've realized that Siri isn't the end all of personal assistants that Apple claimed it would be. In fact, as Nick Douglas discovered, she's particularly unhelpful when it comes to assisting with your morning exercise routine

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How Windows Phone 8 ‘Apollo’ Would Stack Up Against iOS 5, Android 4

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Hands eagerly pawed all over Windows Phones at CES 2012. Photo: Jon Snyder/Wired.com Microsoft’s Windows Phone OS is often criticized for lagging far behind iOS and Android, the other major operating systems in the mobile space. But on Thursday, a leaked description of Microsoft’s next big mobile OS, Windows Phone 8, came to light, revealing how the operating system will improve.

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Motorola Tablet Snafu Exposes Some Users to Privacy Risks

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Photo: Jon Snyder/Wired.com At Gadget Lab we’re system-wiping fools. With new smartphones and tablets coming through the office every week, we’re religious about doing complete system security resets whenever we send products back to manufacturers. It’s not just common courtesy.

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Xbox co-creator brings together Atari ‘dream team’ for mobile gaming startup

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A new mobile gaming startup that's yet to release a single game isn't the sort of thing we'd normally cover 'round here, but the story behind Los Angeles-based Innovative Leisure is anything but ordinary.

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How Apple conceived the iPhone

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Former iPhone marketing manager Bob Borchers tells students how Steve Jobs originally approached the iPhone team with the challenge of building the iPhone, a device that to date has sold 183 million units in less than five years.

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Apple Now the World’s Third Largest Cellphone Maker, IDC Says

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Apple's iPhone 4S helped boost it up the ladder of mobile-phone market share.

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comScore: As U.S. Smartphone Usage Grows, Android Nears 50 Percent Market Share

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comScore just released its monthly mobile numbers, which charts smartphone usage from U.S. consumers for the three month period ending in December 2011. For the period, 234 million Americans age 13 and older used mobile devices, which is in line with the previous period’s usage

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You Can Also Spy On Someone’s iPhone If You Kidnap Them And Lock Them In Your Basement

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Yesterday, Gizmodo ran a story about a supposed bug in iOS, specifically related to iMessage. The title:  The Apple Bug That Let Us Spy on a Total Stranger’s iPhone . Essentially, Gizmodo got ahold of an iPhone that was receiving iMessages not intended for that phone.

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Apple jumps to third place in worldwide mobile phone shipments

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Apple’s huge iPhone sales numbers from its latest quarterly results and the overall success of its iPhone 4S helped it grow its mobile phone business by 128.4 percent year-over-year in the fourth quarter of 2011, according to a new IDC report . That was good enough to help the company climb to third place overall in worldwide smartphone shipments, leapfrogging both ZTE and LG Electronics.

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