Steve Jobs biopic to begin filming in garage where Apple was born

It was announced on Friday that the made for TV movie “jOBS,” which will chronicle the life of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, will begin principal photography in the original garage where the world’s most valuable tech company was created.

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Sprint offers $100 trade-in credit for iPhones from competing carriers

In an effort to drum up subscribership and advertise its unlimited data plan for the iPhone 4S, Sprint revealed on Friday that it will begin offering a $100 credit to any customer who trades in an iPhone from another carrier.

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More regional carriers debut iPhone 4S

Continuing with a string of recent arrivals on US regional carriers, the iPhone has arrived to two news that cover northwest Oklahoma and Puerto Rico, respectively. Open Mobile, the Puerto Rico carrier, may be the first exclusively no-contract carrier in the US to offer iPhones. Oklahoma-based Pioneer Cellular is carrying only the iPhone 4S, while Open Mobile has both the 4 and 4S at various capacities….

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Remains of the Day: Jobs report

One report says Steve Jobs was intimately involved with the four-inch iPhone, while another says he was working on creating the best car ever. Only one person can set the record straight for a major motion picture event.

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Apple sends out sandbox deadline reminder email to developers

With Apple set to flip the switch on its Mac App Store sandboxing system, the company sent out an email to registered developers on Friday reminding them that enforcement of the new rules will being on June 1, 2012.

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Rumor: Apple in talks to build Russian R&D facility

Apple and a handful of other tech companies are said to be in talks with Russia’s Skolkovo Innovation Centre about building research facilities in the organization’s “Technopark,” which is at the heart of a larger initiative looking to bring high-tech innovators into the country.

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Facebook IPO: Why your data is worth $104 billion

Investors will pressure Facebook, the public company, to find new ways of making money from users’ personal data. If times get hard, can Facebook do that without endangering user privacy?

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News: DataMan update adds per-app data usage tracking

XVision has released an update to DataMan, its real-time data usage tracking app for iOS devices. DataMan allows iPhone users to keep track of their Wi-Fi and cellular data usage. Users can view usage by date and time and location and even plot usage on a chart or a map and set alerts to be notified when data usage exceeds certain daily, weekly or monthly thresholds. Version 5.2 adds a new “App Watch” feature that allows users to track…

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Rumor: Amazon to launch 10.1-inch Fire, delay 8.9-inch plans

Amazon may delay the rumored 8.9-inch Kindle Fire and launch a 10.1-inch model instead. According to DigiTimes, sources speculate that the larger screen will help compete with the iPad, whereas the 8.9-inch variant was said to be designed to go against the Samsung Galaxy Note….

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Ex-Apple iAd exec new Foursquare revenue chief

Location tracking and check-in service Foursquare has hired its first Revenue Chief. Ex-Apple iAd executive Steven Rosenblatt has been hired to fill the newly created position. Foursquare’s former head of business development, Tristan Walker, filled the role of revenue chief before leaving early this month….

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