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| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Hackers expose 453,000 credentials allegedly taken from Yahoo service — Hackers posted what appear to be login credentials for more than 453,000 user accounts that they said they retrieved in plaintext from an unidentified service on Yahoo. — The dump, posted on a public website …
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VentureBeat, The Firewall, Gizmodo, The Verge, ZDNet, ESET ThreatBlog, SlashGear, memeburn, Electronista, Mashable!, The Next Web and Boing Boing
| Dave Kennedy / TrustedSec: |
Yahoo! Voice Website Breached 400,000+ Compromised — Few details are known at this point however, a recent post over 400,000 plus accounts that have clear text passwords were posted online. The passwords contained a wide variety of email addresses including those from yahoo.com, gmail.com, aol.com, and much more.
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Guardian, Business Insider, CNET, Softpedia News, TechnoBuffalo, Techie Buzz, Ubergizmo and TECHGEEK.com.au
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Court rules live TV can be sent to Apple iPhone and Apple iPad in New York City — U.S. District Judge Alison Nathan ruled on Wednesday that Aereo, a start up firm that relays live, over-the-air television to Apple iPhone and Apple iPad users for $12 a month, can continue to send live television to those devices in New York City.
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Fast Company, TUAW and Associated Press
| Farhad Manjoo / Slate: |
I Want It Today — How Amazon's ambitious new push for same-day delivery will destroy local retail. — How Amazon's ambitious new push for same-day delivery will destroy local retail. — Amazon has long enjoyed an unbeatable price advantage over its physical rivals.
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The Verge and About Mobility
| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
Apple's upgrade page confirms older Macs can't run Mountain Lion — When Apple released the developer build of Mac OS X 10.8, owners of older machines weren't able to run it. Now, it looks like the final version of Mountain Lion will have the same compatibility limits.
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AppleInsider, Computerworld and Softpedia News
| Chris Foresman / Ars Technica: |
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Pocket-lint, MacNN, Softpedia News, eWeek, Computerworld, CIO Network, TUAW, Engadget, The TechBlock, dailywireless.org and Gizmodo
| David Ruddock / Android Police: |
The Nexus 7 Has One More Trick Up Its Sleeve: A Magnetic Smart Cover Sensor — You thought you knew everything there was to know about the Nexus 7? Well, you thought wrong. A curious owner of the device started doing what any totally rational person does with a brand-new tablet: expose it to magnetic forces.| Rich Karlgaard / Forbes: |
Microsoft's Steve Ballmer Talks About Windows 8, Bill Gates and Steve Jobs — and Why Microsoft's Lost Decade Is A Myth. — On July 9th, I did an onstage interview with Microsoft CEO, Steve Ballmer, at Microsoft's annual Worldwide Partner Conference. The venue was Toronto's Air Canada Centre …
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| Mark Jardine / Tapbots: |
Tweetbot for Mac — It's finally here! (sort of) — Tweetbot for Mac is finally available! However it may not be quite as you had hoped. Developing for the Mac is no easy task, especially a full-featured Twitter client. However, we've gotten to a point where while not complete, it is useable.
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CNET, PandoDaily, GigaOM, MacStories, PC Magazine, TechnoBuffalo, Marco.org, Computerworld, App Advice, Engadget, BGR, Macgasm, Current Editorials, The Mac Observer, TUAW, TechCrunch, Lifehacker, admin.imore.com, Apple Bitch, parislemon, iDownloadBlog.com, MacRumors, 9to5Mac, The Verge, everythingiCafe, The Next Web and Business Insider. Tweets: @parislemon
| Greg Sandoval / CNET: |
Netflix's lost year: The inside story of the price-hike train wreck — Before he angered customers by raising prices, before he became the butt of Saturday Night Live satire for his Qwikster schemes, Netflix CEO Red Hastings alienated some of his key executives.
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Guardian, The Verge, Hacking NetFlix, ZDNet and Webomatica
| Ryan Kim / GigaOM: |
New York starts turning payphones into free Wi-fi hotspots — Payphones, those relics of the pre-cellphone era, may just get a new lease on life in New York. The city is testing a pilot program in which it installs free Wi-Fi on select payphone kiosks. — The hotspots are initially coming … | Aaron Souppouris / The Verge: |
Dropbox gifts early users free premium subscriptions — Dropbox is thanking its most loyal customers by no longer charging them for their premium subscriptions. It started emailing its “earliest Dropbox users” recently to inform them of the news: … It seems that a small group of early users …
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Engadget, Softpedia News and Macgasm
| Coleen Baik / Twitter Blog: |
Overhauling mobile.twitter.com from the ground up — Twitter is all about making real-time information available to everyone, everywhere. In order to reach every person on the planet we recently released an update to mobile.twitter.com for feature phones and older browsers.
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CNET, TechCrunch, Marketing Land, 9to5Mac and WebProNews
| Brad Linder / Liliputing: |
Android 4.1 Jelly Bean ported to the Kindle Fire — The Amazon Kindle Fire ships with a custom version of Android 2.3 Gingerbread designed to run apps and access digital media from Amazon's content store. But users have been hacking the Kindle Fire since the day it was released …
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Gizmodo, Electricpig.co.uk, BGR, CNET, Pocketnow, PhoneArena, Android Phone Fans, Droid Life, Engadget and TechCrunch
| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook Finally Redesigns Events, Adds Calendar and List Views So You Don't Miss Birthdays — Facebook has finally redesigned Events so you don't miss another party, birthday, or cool get-together your friends are going to. Today the site launches the Events Calendar so you can see what coming …
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CNET, VentureBeat, VatorNews, Inside Facebook, The Next Web, AllFacebook, Gizmodo, Mashable!, The Verge and Pulse2 Technology …
| Claire Atkinson / New York Post: |
Apple CEO Tim Cook makes surprise appearance at Sun Valley retreat — Apple CEO Tim Cook surprised the crowd in Sun Valley, Idaho, this morning by showing up at the Allen & Co. annual retreat to attend a session called “Iran vs. Israel.” — This was Cook's first time at the high-powered event that draws media and tech moguls.| Stacey Higginbotham / GigaOM: |
Who's afraid of Google fiber? Time Warner for starters. — Apparently, Time Warner Cable and I have something in common — we both want to figure out the details on Google's fiber-to-the-home deployment in Kansas City. Time Warner Cable, one of the ISPs providing broadband access in Kansas City … | Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook Groups Start Showing Exactly Who Saw Each Post — No need to wonder if your family saw that reminder about dinner or if co-workers noticed you uploaded a PowerPoint, as Facebook Groups will soon display a count and a list of names of who saw each post. For example: “Seen by 2″, and when hovered “Josh Constine || BBC: |
O2 network problems stretch into second day — O2 says users in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland have been affected — The network problems that hit thousands of O2 customers have continued into a second day. — However the company said its 2G network had now been restored …
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CNET, The Register, Telegraph, Guardian, Sky News, Reuters, Phones Review, The Verge, ZDNet and Telegraph
| Tiernan Ray / Tech Trader Daily: |
HP Q2 PC Share Tumbles; Gartner, IDC Diverge on Apple Results — Gartner this afternoon reported that Q2 PC sales fell 0.1%, year over year, to 87.5 million units, and that Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) maintained the top spot in the world even as its total shipments fell by 12%.
| Brian X. Chen / Bits: |
Uber to Experiment With Ice Cream on Demand in 7 Cities — Uber, the San Francisco start-up that offers a smartphone app for summoning cars, is expanding its service to ice cream trucks in seven cities for a one-day test on Friday. — Customers will be able to use the Uber app to request … | Amazon Appstore Developer Blog: |
Announcing Amazon GameCircle - A New Gaming Experience for Kindle Fire — Announcing Amazon GameCircle, a new set of services designed to make it easier for you to create more engaging gaming experiences and grow your business on Kindle Fire. — GameCircle will make achievements …
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AppleInsider, Joystiq, Android Phone Fans, BGR, TUAW, VG247, IntoMobile, CNET, The Register, Droid Life, SlashGear, App Advice, Business Wire, iDownloadBlog.com, MacRumors, Forbes, Gaming Examiner, Engadget, PandoDaily, The Next Web, Business Insider, Inside Mobile Apps, PadGadget and 9to5Google
| Zach Epstein / BGR: |
New service offers wireless data to European travelers for just $5 per day — Staying connected while traveling abroad is a painful endeavor, at best. Roaming with your U.S.-based wireless device can cost hundreds or even thousands of dollars, and sourcing local handsets or foreign SIMs for an unlocked phone is often a hassle.
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IntoMobile, GadgeTell and The Verge
| Erin Griffith / PandoDaily: |
uBeam Raises 750K from FF Angel, Andreessen Horowitz, CrunchFund, and Angels — Buzzy wireless electricity startup uBeam has raised its first round of capital from an A-list group of investors, according to founder Meredith Perry. The round is worth $750,000 and includes commitments from FF Angel …
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| Élyse Betters / 9to5Mac: |
Parallels Desktop 7 for Mac and Parallels Mobile now support Retina Display [Video] — Parallels announced that its Parallels Desktop 7 for Mac and Parallels Mobile now support Apple's Retina display. — “We are proud to announce that both Parallels Desktop 7 for Mac and Parallels Mobile …
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Consumer Tech Blog, SlashGear, CNET, Lifehacker, TUAW, The Verge, Ubergizmo and StackSocial
| Élyse Betters / 9to5Google: |
Sustrans and Google Maps launch cycling routes in UK [Video] — Sustrans, a British charity promoting sustainable transport, just announced that it partnered with Google to bring cycling routes to United Kingdom-based Google Maps users. — Greener-minded Americans are quite familiar …
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Sustrans and Softpedia News
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Defrag Tools: WPT - Command Line — Andrew Richards, Chad Beeder, and Larry Larsen continue walking you through the Windows Performance Toolkit (WPT).
Defrag Tools: WPT - Command Line — Andrew Richards, Chad Beeder, and Larry Larsen continue walking you through the Windows Performance Toolkit (WPT).
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Static.com Adds Hadoop Support for Cloud Foundry — In this guest post, Jake Farrell, CTO for Static.com, explains how the major shift in the hosting industry towards platforms for high developer productivity …
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An Army Is Forming To Battle Patent Trolls — For the past several months, we've exposed the flaws in the patent system and how they're being exploited by opportunistic patent trolls looking to extort a quick buck …
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Hadoop, Hadoop, Hurrah! HDP for Windows is Now GA! — Today we are very excited to announce that Hortonworks Data Platform for Windows (HDP for Windows) is now generally available and ready to support the most demanding production workloads.
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“Yammer sucks” — Not to be mean to Yammer, or anything — it's a very good tool for some use cases — but that's what a customer told me recently (and others feel the same way).
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