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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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Tweets: @adrianchen, @linkedin, @codinghorror, @jgamet and @linkedin
| Nicole Perlroth / Bits: |
That Was Fast: Criminals Exploit LinkedIn Breach For Phishing Attacks — After hackers posted millions of encoded LinkedIn passwords to a Russian hacker site on Wednesday, criminals used news of the breach to trick unsuspecting users into downloading malware that can be used to extract financial gain.
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ESET ThreatBlog, VentureBeat and Neowin
| Chris Velazco / TechCrunch: |
LinkedIn Confirms Hack And Leak Of “Some” User Passwords — Shortly after it was reported that nearly 6.5 million LinkedIn account passwords were leaked onto the net, LinkedIn leapt into action and mounted their own investigation. — Though most of the morning was spent claiming …
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Chris Shiflett, PC World, eWeek, Search Engine Watch, msnbc.com, Naked Security, CNET, Linkedin Blog, ZDNet, The Verge and Engadget
| Salvador Rodriguez / Los Angeles Times: |
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Tweets: @csoghoian and @csoghoian
| Bloomberg: |
HTC Said To Be Shut Out Of Next Version Of Windows — HTC Corp. (2498) is being shut out of the introduction of Microsoft (MSFT) Corp.'s next Windows software, people with knowledge of the matter said, cutting off another source of revenue after HTC reduced its second-quarter sales forecast by 13 percent.| Larry Dignan / ZDNet: |
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| 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.
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eWeek, The Register, Wall Street Journal, CNET, Pulse2 Technology …, iDownloadBlog.com, MobileSyrup.com, BetaNews, Bits, iPhone in Canada Blog, Inquirer, Guardian, ABCNEWS, The Next Web and Webomatica. Tweets: @dannysullivan
| Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web: |
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Tweets: @mxfh, @parislemon and @dcseifert
| Drew Olanoff / The Next Web: |
The all new foursquare launches to cash in on “making the real world easier to use” — Foursquare has been teasing the fact that it was about to launch a brand new version this week, and we've been following all of the clues on what it might potentially entail.
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Tweets: @devindra, @davidlee and @antderosa
| 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.
| Eric Savitz / The Tech Trade: |
Windows Phone To Top iOS Market Share By 2016, IDC Says — Peaking? — Now here's a bold prediction. — By the end of 2016, according to International Data Corp., Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 will inch ahead of Apple's iOS to become the world's #2 mobile operating system.
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| 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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eWeek, AppleInsider, Pulse2 Technology …, iPhone, Redmond Pie, WebProNews, BGR, MacRumors, The Verge, Los Angeles Times and The Register
| Ryan Singel / Wired: |
IE 10′s ‘Do-Not-Track’ Default Dies Quick Death — Well, that didn't take long. — The latest proposed draft of the Do Not Track specification published Wednesday requires that users must choose to turn on the anti-behavioral tracking feature in their browsers and software.| 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.| Brian Stelter / Media Decoder: |
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Wired, VentureBeat, Doc Searls Weblog, CNET, TechCrunch and Daily Dot. Tweets: @hbo. See also Mediagazer
| Clare Jim / Reuters: |
HTC says devices in compliance with U.S. ruling — (Reuters) - Taiwanese smartphone maker HTC Corp said on Thursday its new models are in compliance with the International Trade Commission's ruling, in response to Apple Inc's latest patent lawsuit brought against HTC.| Susan Decker / Bloomberg: |
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SlashGear, FOSS Patents, The Verge, Android Phone Fans and CNET
| Jesus Diaz / Gizmodo: |
This Beautiful Device Turns Your iPhone and Android Into an Ultra-Thin Laptop — This is the ClamBook, a super-sleek, airier-that-Air thingamajig that has a 16:9 widescreen, a keyboard, and a battery. It will turn your iPhone or Android cell into a beautiful, ultra-thin laptop.
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The Verge and Liliputing
| 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 …
| Chris Dannen / Fast Company: |
How Airbnb Earned Me $20,000 And A Restraining Order From My Landlord — For a heady year, cash and friendly faces flowed into my apartment, paying my rent while I scraped together money to build a startup I had dreamed about for months. My apartment photographed well and tourists love Brooklyn …
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| Josh Lowensohn / CNET: |
Apple wants to keep Samsung's Galaxy S3 out of U.S. — Samsung's Galaxy S3 smartphone. — (Credit: Brian Bennett/CNET) — Excited shoppers weren't the only ones buying Samsung's latest flagship smartphone, the Galaxy S3, when it went on sale in the U.K. last month.
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Examiner, TechCrunch, FOSS Patents, Reuters, MobileBurn.com, AllThingsD, Pocketnow, iDownloadBlog.com, BGR, TechCrunch and PC Magazine
| 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.
| Sam Byford / The Verge: |
Acer reveals sub-$200 7-inch quad-core Iconia Tab A110 — Android's had a quiet showing here at Computex Taipei, but Acer just snuck out a new product that could well represent a breakthrough for the platform at large. The Iconia Tab A110 is at the company's booth without much fanfare … | Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web: |
Airfoil Speakers Touch back in App Store minus new feature, Apple apologizes for poor handling — After being pulled from the App Store late last month, without warning, AirFoil Speakers Touch is back in, but minus one feature. The app's developers, Rogue Amoeba, had to remove … | Aaron Ricadela / Bloomberg: |
Oracle Introduces Corporate Cloud To Challenge Salesforce — Oracle Corp. (ORCL), the world's largest database maker, has introduced a cloud-computing service to let corporate customers access data over the Internet, stepping up competition with Salesforce.com Inc. (CRM) and Workday Inc.
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