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Google Will Pay $22.5 Million to Settle FTC Charges it Misrepresented Privacy Assurances to Users of Apple's Safari Internet Browser — Privacy Settlement is the Largest FTC Penalty Ever for Violation of a Commission Order — Google Inc. has agreed to pay a record $22.5 million civil penalty …
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Borrowing from Google, Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer Begins Makeover — Yahoo Inc.'s rookie chief executive Marissa Mayer has made one thing clear to employees at the outset of her bid to revive the Internet company: Product comes first. — Since taking over Yahoo three weeks ago … | Joe Pollicino / Engadget: |
OUYA's Kickstarter funding is complete: over $8.59 million raised, starts shipping in March — It's a wrap! Suffice it to say, it's a been a relatively short, yet astoundingly fruitful — and initially record-breaking — funding run for OUYA, the hackable, Android-based gaming console.
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Burner wants to help you temporarily obfuscate your phone number — “Burning” a communication device has been a mainstay of those interested in privacy, from the IMF (you know, from Mission: Impossible), the corner boys on The Wire, and everyone in between.| Cade Metz / Wired: |
If Xerox PARC Invented the PC, Google Invented the Internet — The truth about Jeff Dean appeared on April Fool's Day 2007. — Somewhere inside Google, a private website served up a list of facts about Dean, one of Google's earliest employees and one of the main reasons the web giant handles … | Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Pulse Comes To The Web (With A Little Help From Microsoft) — Pulse, the popular news reading app for iOS and Android, is finally available on the web. The service, which launched two years ago and now has over 15 million users, only focused on mobile platforms until now.
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ThinkPad Celebrates 20 Years, Announces Windows 8 ThinkPad Tablet 2 — 1992 was a big year. Bill Clinton was elected president. Price Charles and Diana separated. And the first ThinkPad laptop was released by IBM. — Twenty years have passed now and a lot has changed.| Nathan Ingraham / The Verge: |
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Mobile tech firm Vringo to sell $31.2m worth of stock to buy over 500 Nokia patents for (at least) $22m — Vringo, a publicly-listed mobile technology company that's really mostly about ‘protecting’ the intellectual property its owns in that space, this morning announced that it will raise $31.2 million …
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PayPal parts company with major China partner — Payments giant on lookout for fresh blood — Global payments behemoth PayPal could be in for a spot of bother in Asia after a much heralded partnership with Chinese e-commerce platform DHGate.com, its biggest in the region, ended this week.
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Digia to acquire Qt business from Nokia, port it to Android and iOS — Up to 125 Qt personnel at Nokia will join Digia to continue Qt development. — Finnish software company Digia announced today that it is acquiring the Qt software business from Nokia.
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A win for RIM: Mformation patent ruling overturned, BlackBerry maker doesn't have to pay $147.5m after all — Remember when BlackBerry maker Research In Motion (RIM) was ordered to cough up $147.2 million after a company called Mformation succesfully won a patent lawsuit against the smartphone and tablet maker in a U.S. court?| Liz Gannes / AllThingsD: |
Google Adds Personal Gmail Results Into Search — In a major move to integrate personal search and Web search, Google is adding some users' Gmail into their search results as a “limited field trial,” it said today. — So when participating users search for “Amazon,” information … | Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web: |
The long-delayed TextMate 2 text editor has been open-sourced under GPL 3 — The long-delayed TextMate 2 text editor has been open-sourced under the GPL 3 license, says its creator Allan Odgaard. The editor, after being announced years ago, was released as an alpha in December of last year.
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Amid Lawsuits From Publishers, Boundless Launches A Free, Open Alternative To Textbooks — Since it first appeared earlier this year, Boston-based educational startup Boundless has been on a mission to ensure that college students have a free alternative to the pricey and bulky world of physical textbooks.
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Hack Education, BostInno, GigaOM and Xconomy
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Competition Weighs On T-Mobile USA: Q2 Sales Down To $4.9B, Customer Figures ‘Continue To Present Challenge’ — With parent company Deutsche Telekom posting its quarterly earnings today, T-Mobile USA has reported its Q2 operating results. Despite moves it is making to ramp up its network …
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Google Translate app gets weighty update, will translate signs through your smartphone camera — Google's multi-lingual translation app decided that (online) words were not enough. Beyond digital text, a new update to Translate will let Google's bots translate what you're looking at …
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Zynga's COO John Schappert Steps Down, Effective Immediately — Zynga has announced that the company's COO John Schappert has stepped down from the company and its board of directors, effective immediately. — This comes as perhaps no surprise given that last week it leaked … | Jon Fingas / Engadget: |
Akamai: peak internet speeds jumped 25 percent year-to-year in Q1, Germany tops the mobile world — If you thought world internet access speeds were facing a large-scale slowdown, you can stop fretting for now. Data from Akamai suggests that average speeds were just 2.6Mbps …
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Pinterest Finally Ditches Invitations, Now Lets Anyone Sign Up — Calling all chefs, wedding planners, stylists, and crafty-types: Pinterest has just opened registration to the public after two years of requiring an invite to join. Anyone can now sign up with Twitter, Facebook, or just an email address.
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Introducing new Skype Cards in Mexico — Skype is always working towards more and more ways to bring people together whenever they are apart. At Skype today we are happy to introduce a new payment option for the Mexico market, Skype Cards. — Skype users in Mexico will now have all the benefits …
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U.S. will not challenge computer fraud case to high court — (Reuters) - The government has decided not to ask the U.S. Supreme Court to review a divided appeals court ruling in a criminal case that drew attention to a 28-year-old computer hacking law that critics argue is being used too broadly.
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Samsung Galaxy S III Usage Growing Significantly Since its Release — Available to consumers for just over a month, the Samsung Galaxy S III has emerged as one of the hottest Android phones on the market, boasting positive reviews along with impressive sales figures.
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