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| Matt Brian / The Next Web: |
Bad day for LinkedIn: 6.5 million hashed passwords reportedly leaked - change yours now — Already in the spotlight over concerns that its iOS app collects full meeting notes and details from a device's calendar and sends them back to the company in plain text, LinkedIn user accounts …
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| Chris Velazco / TechCrunch: |
LinkedIn Confirms Hack And Leak Of “Some” User Passwords" — Shortly after reports that nearly 6.5 million LinkedIn account passwords were leaked onto the net, LinkedIn leapt into action and mounted an investigation. Though most of the morning was spent claiming that they could not confirm …
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| Doug Bowman / Twitter Blog: |
Taking flight: #Twitterbird — Over the past six years, the world has become familiar with a little blue bird. The bird is everywhere, constantly associated with Twitter the service, and Twitter the company. — Starting today you'll begin to notice a simplified Twitter bird.| Lucian Constantin / PC Advisor: |
LinkedIn stops collecting calendar meeting notes through its mobile apps — LinkedIn updated its Android and iOS apps to no longer send calendar meeting notes back to its servers when calendar integration is enabled — LinkedIn has confirmed researcher claims that the calendar integration feature …
| Joff Redfern / Linkedin Blog: |
More about our mobile calendar feature — You may have seen a few press stories highlighting concerns about how your data is used in the opt-in calendar feature of our mobile phone apps. We deeply care about our members trust so I want to provide clarity around what we do, don't do …
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| Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web: |
| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Google Earth to get radically better 3D images, new UI on iOS and Android — Google has announced its plans to improve 3D maps. It's using “automated technology to extract 3D from aerial images.” The effect is stunning, every building is competely modeled from street to roof.| IDC: |
Android Expected to Reach Its Peak This Year as Mobile Phone Shipments Slow, According IDC — The worldwide mobile phone market is forecast to grow slightly more than 4.0% year over year in 2012, the lowest annual growth rate since 2009, due to a sharp decline in the feature phone market and sluggish global economic conditions.
| Seth Weintraub / 9to5Mac: |
New Mac spec sheet leaks out, WWDC launch pricing and naming included — . — The image above represents the full pricing matrix for new devices expected to unveil in a few days at the Worldwide Developers Conference. You will notice the Mac Pros, Retina MacBook Pros, MacBook Airs, and iMacs that we discussed before at length.
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| Brian Stelter / Media Decoder: |
HBO Says No, for Now, to Fans Who Want a Web-Only Option — HBO doesn't want your money, Web-only television viewers. — The premium cable channel on Wednesday acknowledged a fan campaign called “Take My Money, HBO!” with a Twitter message that said, in effect, thanks but no thanks.
| Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch: |
How Much Would The Average Person Pay For A Standalone HBO GO Subscription? About $12 A Month — Two years ago, HBO introduced HBO GO, giving fans a way to access all of their favorite programming online, on tablets and mobile devices, and increasingly on connected TV platforms.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft has now sold over 600 million licenses of Windows 7 — Microsoft announced today that the company has now sold over 600 million licenses of Windows 7 since its introduction in October 2009. Speaking at Computex 2012, Microsoft's Steve Guggenheimer revealed the number while demonstrating some of the latest Windows 7 devices.| Avram Piltch / LAPTOP Magazine: |
| Agam Shah / Computerworld: |
Google TV box gets movie streams from Android 4.0 smartphones, tablets — An upcoming Google TV box based on Android 4.0 OS and an ARM processor will come closer to smartphones and tablets with the capability to play direct movie streams from Android 4.0 mobile devices …
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| Arik Hesseldahl / AllThingsD: |
Hewlett-Packard CEO Meg Whitman Has a Lot to Say (Interview) — Today I had my first in-person sit-down interview with Hewlett-Packard CEO Meg Whitman. Over the course of 30 minutes we talked about a lot of things, and quite frankly she had a lot to say. — For one thing …
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| Evelyn M. Rusli / DealBook: |
True Ventures Raises $205 Million Fund — While Facebook's sagging stock price may have chilled investors' appetite for rising technology start-ups, some venture capital firms continue to collect new money. — True Ventures, an early stage venture capital firm with investments in Automattic …
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| David Pierce / The Verge: |
Sparrow teases iPad app: ‘we are preparing something bigger’ — Evidently iOS is treating Sparrow well: the company only recently launched a version of its email app designed for the iPhone, and now it's teasing that there's an iPad-optimized version in the works too.| John Flowers / McSweeney's: |
Prospectus for Silicon Valley's Next Hot Tech IPO, Where Nothing Could Possibly Go Wrong — Form S-1 — Registration Statement — Under — The Securities Act of 1933 — Ponzify, Inc. — LETTER FROM THE FOUNDERS — Forget Facebook. Forget Groupon. Forget everything you know about Silicon Valley.
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| Darrell Etherington / BetaKit: |
Ebook Community Wattpad Raises $17.3M, Claims Higher Engagement Than Pinterest — Toronto-based Wattpad, an online community revolving around the creation and sharing of free ebooks,today announced a new Series B round of funding that weighs in at $17.3 million.| Matt Peckham / Techland: |
IPv6 Day: Only the Biggest Change to the Internet Since Its Inception — It's only the most significant architectural development in the history of the Internet, and presto, it transpired last night at 00:01 GMT. Did you notice? — I'm betting not, and that you probably …
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| Dana Wollman / Engadget: |
Lenovo demos ThinkPad tablet running Windows 8, we go hands-on — Yes, another Windows 8 tablet. After getting hands-on with some new devices from Acer, ASUS and Samsung, you might already having trouble telling one device from the other. You might even say the same about Lenovo …
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Softpedia News, Windows 8 Beta, The Verge, LAPTOP Magazine, WinBeta, CNET, VR-Zone and Windows 8 Beta
| Jolie O'Dell / VentureBeat: |
Big data + cloud computing = $25M from Silicon Valley's biggest VCs — Delphix, a startup that exists at the boring-to-consumers-but-otherwise-a- total-goldmine intersection between cloud computing and big data, has just dried the ink on a healthy funding deal — one that brings tech heavyweights …
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