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Thank you, and we're listening — Yesterday we introduced a new version of our Privacy Policy and Terms of Service that will take effect in thirty days. These two documents help communicate as clearly as possible our relationship with the users of Instagram so you understand how your data will be used …
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National Geographic stops posting Instagram photos in response to new terms of service — National Geographic has announced that it will stop posting pictures to Instagram. The move comes after the photo-sharing social network introduced a controversial new terms of service agreement …
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| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
No, Instagram can't sell your photos: what the new terms of service really mean — Turns out no one really trusts Facebook after all — You agree that a business may pay Instagram to display your photos in connection with paid or sponsored content or promotions without any compensation to you.
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| Stilgherrian / Crikey: |
Users snap over Instagram, but should have seen it coming — The online world was abuzz with Instagram's hardline terms of use changes. But users should know what they're getting themselves in for when using social media platforms. — A frantic fart of fear frothed forth over changes …
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Samsung Displaces Nokia as Top Cellphone Brand in 2012 and Takes Decisive Smartphone Lead Over Apple — For the first time in 14 years, wireless communications giant Nokia will not sit atop the global cellphone business on an annual basis at the end of 2012—with Samsung set to seize the mobile handset market's top rank.| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
iOS 6 Adoption Grows 29% Over The Weekend As People Finally Update After Google Maps Arrives — Apple Maps was so bad that people refused to upgrade to iOS 6 until they could get Google Maps, says data from massive mobile ad exchange MoPub. The 12,000 apps it supports saw a 29 percent increase …
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| Susan Decker / Bloomberg: |
Apple Wins Ruling in Motorola Mobility Patent Case at ITC — Apple Inc. (AAPL)'s iPhone didn't violate patent rights owned by Google Inc. (GOOG)'s Motorola Mobility for a sensor that prevents accidental hang-ups, a U.S. International Trade Commission judge said today.
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| Sara Forden / Bloomberg: |
Google Antitrust Decision by FTC Delayed Until Next Year — The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) will delay a final decision on how to resolve its 20-month antitrust investigation of Google Inc. (GOOG) until next year, said two people familiar with the situation who asked not to be named because the talks aren't public.
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| Graeme Philipson / ITWire.com: |
.com is so 20th century - Welcome to ICANN's great domain name auction — ICANN (the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) has held its lottery draw for 1,930 new sponsored global top level domains (gTLDs). — Successful bidders will be able to use gTLDs like .christmas and .sport …
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| Jason Del Rey / AdAge: |
Facebook Prepares to Bring Video Ads to News Feed, Aims for TV Dollars — But Will TV Ads Disrupt Social Experience? — Facebook is set to unveil a new video-ad product in the first half of next year in its largest attempt to date to attract big swaths of ad dollars from TV advertisers …
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| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
How spyware on rental PCs captured users' most intimate moments — Enlarge / As Brian Byrd played poker using a PC purchased from an Aaron's rent-to-own store, PC Rental Agent surreptitiously captured this screen shot. It is one of hundreds of thousands of images siphoned by the software.
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| Steven Musil / CNET: |
Fab nabs ‘seven-figure’ investment from Times of India — With investment from Times Internet, the fast-growing e-commerce site will increase its focus on India. — Fast-growing e-commerce site Fab plans to expand its focus on India after taking a “seven-figure investment” from Times Internet …
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| Bryan Bishop / The Verge: |
London ‘crime unit’ to target downloaders as part of UK copyright and patent initiatives — Vince Cable, the United Kingdom's Business Secretary, announced a set of new intellectual property initiatives yesterday aimed at improving the way IP is approved and protected in the UK.| Russ Garland / Venture Capital Dispatch: |
Venture Financing Forecast for 2013: Partly Cloudy With Lower Chance of Success — Concerns that Series A rounds will be hard to come by in 2013 are widespread in the venture business, according to a survey being released today. — Forty-five percent of venture capitalists …
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| John Herrman / BuzzFeed: |
No, Let's Talk About Video Game Violence — Gaming's soul is sick. And gamers hate talking about it. — Adam Lanza was a gamer. — This fact has been reported, re-reported, and rehashed to the extent that it's now part of the killer's capsule bio: Young. White. Male. Asperger's.
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| David Meyer / GigaOM: |
Wunderlist 2 finally appears, with features pointing to a more collaborative future — Fans of Wunderlist will want to click on ‘update’ - two years after it first delivered for the web and iPhone, Berlin-based 6Wunderkinder has finally rolled out version 2 of the service for iPhone, Mac, Android, Windows and the web.
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| Ernesto / TorrentFreak: |
Pirate Party Shuts Down Pirate Bay Proxy After Legal Threats — After expensive court action earlier this year, a group of music labels achieved their aim of having The Pirate Bay website blocked by ISPs in the UK. — With the official site inaccessible via direct means, many Pirate Bay users switched over to proxy services.| Janko Roettgers / GigaOM: |
To stream everywhere, Netflix encodes each movie 120 times — Xboxes, iPads, connected TVs: Netflix streams to a lot of different devices. More than 900, to be precise. And many of them have different screen sizes, bitrate requirements and codec support.
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| Nate Anderson / Ars Technica: |
Report: data caps just a “cash cow” for Internet providers — Why do so many Americans now live with Internet data caps—and what are these caps doing to the future of broadband? Those are the questions posed by a new paper from the New America Foundation, which wants to shake up the lethargy …
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| Ron / WinBeta: |
Microsoft doubles the language support with Windows Phone 8, doubles speech recognition too — In a new blog post, Microsoft is touting Windows Phone 8 as the most fluent mobile operating system ever with 50 different display languages supported. This is up from 22 languages supported in the last Windows Phone release.
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| Jordan Golson / MacRumors: |
Firm Launches ‘IPHONE’ Brand of Android Phones, Touts Trademark Ownership in Brazil — Brazilian electronics maker IGB Electronica SA has announced a new line of Android phones under the IPHONE brand, a trademark that was originally applied for in Brazil in 2000. — From Reuters:
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| Pete Kasperowicz / Hillicon Valley: |
House vote updates Bork-era video rental privacy law — The House approved a bill Tuesday that would make it easier for people to share their favorite movie and television show rentals online. — By voice vote, members approved H.R. 6671, which would allow video rental companies …
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| Alex Howard / O'Reilly Radar: |
DARPA and Defense Department look to a more open source future — As the United States military marches further into the age of networked warfare, data networks and the mobile platforms to distribute and access them will become even more important. — This fall, the (retired) … Sponsor Posts
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