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| Arik Hesseldahl / AllThingsD: |
FBI Says AntiSec Hackers Lied About List of iPhone ID Numbers — The FBI has shot down today's claim by the AntiSec hacking group that it breached an agency-owned computer and stole a database said to contains some 12 million unique ID numbers for iPhones and iPads around the world.
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Wired, Betabeat, The Verge, TechCrunch, The Next Web, 9to5Mac, MacRumors and SlashGear
| Josh Ong / The Next Web: |
AntiSec hackers leak 1,000,001 Apple device IDs allegedly obtained from FBI breach — The AntiSec hacking group claims to have released a set of more than 1 million Apple Unique Device Identifiers (UDIDs) obtained from breaching the FBI. The group claims to have over 12 million IDs …
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| Aldo Cortesi: |
The UDID leak is a privacy catastrophe — 04 September 2012 — Something I've been worrying about for a long time has just happened: Antisec has leaked a database with more than a million UDIDs. The UDID issue has been a bit of a white whale of mine - I've written many blog posts …
| Mark Cuban / blog maverick: |
Facebook Handled their IPO Exactly Right — Andrews Ross Sorkin wrote a piece for the NY Times that was just ridiculous. He put the blame squarely on the back of the CFO of FB. Talk about getting it 180 degrees wrong. — Have you ever been to an auction where the selling party told …
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| Andrew Ross Sorkin / DealBook: |
David Ebersman, the Man Behind Facebook's I.P.O. Debacle — It is David Ebersman's fault. There is just no way around it. — Mr. Ebersman is Facebook's well-liked, boyish-looking 41-year-old chief financial officer. He's not as well known as Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook's founder and chief executive … | Alexandra Scaggs / Wall Street Journal: |
Prominent Facebook Underwriters Cut Their Price Targets — Analysts with the two biggest underwriters for Facebook Inc.'s initial public offering cut their price targets on the stock, helping to push the shares to new lows. — Scott Devitt, an analyst with lead Facebook underwriter Morgan Stanley …
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| Jim Dalrymple / The Loop: |
Apple announces special event for September 12 — Apple on Tuesday sent out invites for an upcoming event happening in San Francisco on September 12, 2012. The invitation I received says the event will take place at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts at 10:00 am.
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Daring Fireball, MacRumors, The Next Web, SplatF, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Engadget, Gizmodo, PC World, RazorianFly, Inquirer, Business Insider, Pulse2 Technology …, The Verge, Mashable!, BGR, CNET, 9to5Mac, IntoMobile, TUAW, PhoneArena, iPhone BlogiPhone Blog, blog.chron.com, MobileSyrup.com and NBC Bay Area. Tweets: @viticci
| Perry Chen / Kickstarter Blog: |
Accountability on Kickstarter — Yesterday, NPR's “All Things Considered” asked, “When a Kickstarter campaign fails, does anyone get their money back?” The story questioned what would happen if a Kickstarter project failed to follow through on its promises.
| Aarti Shahani / NPR: |
When A Kickstarter Campaign Fails, Does Anyone Get Their Money Back? — Crowd funding began as a way to support the arts on the Internet. Artists could go online to pitch a new album, for example, in the hope that thousands would give small amounts. But now it's expanded to entrepreneurs, and the rules aren't quite as clear.
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| Neil Hughes / AppleInsider: |
Galaxy S III passes Apple's iPhone 4S, becomes top selling US smartphone — For the first time since it launched last October, Apple's iPhone 4S was not the top selling smartphone in the U.S., as the newly released Samsung Galaxy S III took the top spot in the month of August.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Windows Phone 8 to include ‘Rooms’ group chat with calendar, photos, and notes sharing — Microsoft's Windows Phone 8 operating system will include a new Rooms feature that will allow friends and family to chat in a virtual room and share data. Sources close to Microsoft's Windows Phone 8 plans … | Paul Marks / New Scientist: |
Honeytrap reveals mass monitoring of downloaders — Anyone who has downloaded pirated music, video or ebooks using a BitTorrent client has probably had their IP address logged by copyright-enforcement authorities within 3 hours of doing so. So say computer scientists who placed …
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Ars Technica, BBC, TorrentFreak, TechSpot, Inquirer, The Next Web, SECURECOMM 2012 and Softpedia News
| Roger Yu / USA Today: |
Voice mail in decline with rise of text, loss of patience — Technology's ceaseless pursuit of efficiency appear to be claiming another victim: voice mail. — With the rise of texting, instant chat and transcription apps, more people are ditching the venerable tool that once revolutionized …
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| Enigmax / TorrentFreak: |
Pirate Bay Founder Will Be Deported, Cambodian Authorities Confirm — Last week, police arrested Pirate Bay co-founder Gottfrid Svartholm in the Cambodian capital Phnom Penh. — Svartholm was arrested in his $750 per month rented apartment above the Cadillac Bar on the riverfront.
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| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Windows Server 2012 launches as cornerstone of Microsoft's ‘Cloud OS’ — Summary: Microsoft is making available the final Windows Server 2012 bits for test and/or purchase as of September 4. — Microsoft launched Windows Server 2012 on September 4, making the final, released … | Peter Kafka / AllThingsD: |
Amazon Gets Epix Movies as Netflix Exclusive Expires — In the last year Netflix lost its digital distribution deals with Sony and Disney. Which means if you're watching a newish movie on the streaming service right now, there's a very good chance it came from Epix, a pay movie channel …
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Amazon.com, VentureBeat, CNET, Reuters, 9to5Google, GigaOM, Deadline.com and TechSpot
| Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web: |
How much does an artist make from a single stream of a song on iTunes Match and Spotify? — Streaming, subscription-based music is the future. We've been hearing that claim for years now although it always seems to be right on the cusp of happening. It's a dream for consumers, really …
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| Seth Weintraub / 9to5Mac: |
Nano-SIMs begin arriving at telcos ahead of new iPhone launch — iFun got its hands on a Telekom (T-Mobile) NanoSIM, which first started arriving at the carrier this week, and the following message (translated) came along with the package: … The new iPhone is generally thought …
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| David Goldman / CNNMoney.com: |
Malware attacks on the rise — NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — The bad guys are winning the war on cybercrime: Computer viruses, trojans and web attacks are soaring at their fastest pace in four years. — In its quarterly “Threats Report,” Intel ( INTC, Fortune 500) subsidiary McAfee said that it had found …
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| Reuters: |
Sony eschews cheap tablets as it pursues Samsung — (Reuters) - Sony Corp on Tuesday said it won't be drawn into price competition on tablet PCs amid a plethora of cheap models from other makers as it pursues Android rival Samsung Electronics with a new tablet out this month.
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GadgeTell and The Register
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Play It Again, Sam? Nokia Launches Free Music Streaming Service In U.S. — Nokia didn't fare so well with its mobile music service called Ovi Music, later rebranded to Nokia Music. Now it's remixing that track and launching a free music streaming service in the U.S. as part of its redoubled strategy to go for more users in America.
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