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| Aaron Souppouris / The Verge: |
iPhone lockscreen can be bypassed with new iOS 6.1 trick — A security flaw in Apple's iOS 6.1 lets anyone bypass your iPhone password lock and access your phone app, view or modify contacts, check your voicemail, and look through your photos (by attempting to add a photo to a contact).
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| Zack Whittaker / ZDNet: |
iOS 6.1 lock-screen bypass fumble highlights BYOD fragility — Summary: Apple's latest fumble led to users being able to bypass the iOS 6.1 lock screen. In spite of strong back-end mobile device management and security policies, most of the time your enterprise is still at the mercy of the mobile maker not screwing up.
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| Roger Cheng / CNET: |
Ex-BlackBerry co-CEO Jim Balsillie dumps entire stake — A year ago, Balsillie owned 26.8 million shares of BlackBerry stock. Now he's down to zero. — Jim Balsillie, the former co-CEO of BlackBerry, sold off his entire stake in the company, according to a regulatory filing.| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
Elon Musk Lays Out His Evidence That New York Times Tesla Model S Test Drive Was “Fake” — Tesla Motors CEO and founder Elon Musk definitely isn't the best guy to try to pull a fast one on. The visionary entrepreneur set Twitter a titter when he claimed earlier this week …
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Tesla vs. The New York Times: Everyone's A Media Company Now — This post was first published at LinkedIn. Please follow me there for more commentary. — Tesla CEO Elon Musk shreds the New York Times review of his Model S, using data to argue the writer is telling the wrong story.
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Tesla Motors, ExtremeTech, Washington Post, The Next Web, VentureBeat, PC Magazine, Wired, CNET, ValueWalk, Engadget, HotHardware.com News, Business Insider, Jalopnik and The Verge. Tweets: @mat. See also Mediagazer
| Perry Chen / Kickstarter Blog: |
Introducing the Kickstarter App for iPhone and iPod Touch — We're excited to announce that the first official Kickstarter app launched in the iTunes Store this morning! It's available for iPhone and iPod Touch, it's free, and you can download it here. — The app is a whole new way to experience Kickstarter.
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| Businessweek: |
A Chinese Hacker's Identity Unmasked — Joe Stewart's day starts at 6:30 a.m. in Myrtle Beach, S.C., with a peanut butter sandwich, a sugar-free Red Bull, and 50,000 or so pieces of malware waiting in his e-mail in-box. Stewart, 42, is the director of malware research at Dell SecureWorks … | Brian Klug / AnandTech: |
Nexus 4 JDQ39 4.2.2 OTA Update Removes Unofficial LTE on Band 4 — Just after it launched, we discussed how the Nexus 4 included undocumented support for LTE on Band 4 (AWS) which could be enabled simply by choosing the appropriate RAT (Radio Access Technology) under Phone Info (by dialing *#*#4636#*#* - INFO).| Stephen Shankland / CNET: |
JavaScript expert: WebKit, get your bug-ridden house in order — Dave Methvin, a leader of the influential jQuery programming tool, says WebKit is plagued with old bugs. He's not optimistic Opera will help improve the situation. — It was a good day for WebKit browser engine yesterday … | Stephen Shankland / CNET: |
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| Scott Hanselman / Scott Hanselman's Blog: |
I'd like to use the web my way, thank you very much Quora. — I was browsing the web today, as I often do, with my iPhone on the can. (Yeah, you do it too, don't front.) — A link to an interesting Q&A on Quora came along, so I clicked. — And got this. — Wow. This is bold, even for Quora.
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| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Thanks, Adobe. Protection for critical zero-day exploit not on by default — The recently discovered zero-day attacks targeting critical vulnerabilities in Adobe's ubiquitous Reader application are able to bypass recently added security defenses unless end users manually make changes to default settings, company officials said.| Taylor Wimberly / ReadWrite: |
HP To Adopt Android For Upcoming Mobile Devices — Having failed to carve out a place for itself in the post-PC era, Hewlett-Packard is now taking drastic measures — by adopting Google's Android operating system to run a series of upcoming mobile devices. — It's a bit of a Hail Mary pass for HP …
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| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
| Bill Rigby / Reuters: |
No “Plan B” for Microsoft's mobile ambitions: CFO — (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp has not made much of a dent in Apple Inc's and Google Inc's domination of mobile computing, but a top executive hinted on Wednesday that it will not stop trying and does not have an alternative strategy.
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| Tom Simonite / MIT Technology Review: |
Welcome to the Malware-Industrial Complex — The U.S. government is developing new computer weapons and driving a black market in “zero-day” bugs. The result could be a more dangerous Web for everyone. — Why It Matters — Governments, contractors, and researchers are developing cyber-weapons …
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TechEye and Softpedia News
| Kevin Fitchard / GigaOM: |
Sweden boasts the world's fastest 4G speeds; US ranks a lowly 8th — Sweden was the first country to launch an LTE network, and it retains plenty of bragging rights. According to a study by U.K. network-testing firm OpenSignal, Sweden has the fastest 4G networks in the world, averaging download speeds of 22.1 Mbps.
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| Erin Geiger Smith / Reuters: |
Instragram asks court to throw out lawsuit over service terms — (Reuters) - Facebook's Instagram photo sharing service asked a federal court on Wednesday to throw out a lawsuit filed against the popular app over changes to its terms of service. — The proposed class action lawsuit was filed …
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| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
Nvidia CEO: ‘I believe in tablets wholeheartedly,’ but smartphones will take a little longer — Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang sure loves his slates. “Yes, I believe in tablets. I believe in tablets wholeheartedly,” he told investors this afternoon. The company co-founder has good reason to say so …
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| Emily Maltby / Wall Street Journal: |
A New Push for Entrepreneur Visas — Rutul Davé, a native of India, had an H1-B visa, which tied him to a specific firm. He couldn't start his own U.S. company until he got a green card. — Fabien Beckers of San Francisco is one of dozens of entrepreneurs traveling to Washington …
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| Sam Byford / The Verge: |
Apple says a fix is coming for iOS 6.1 Exchange bug — After an issue with Exchange syncing led Microsoft to suggest IT administrators block iOS 6.1 devices, Apple says it has identified the problem. The company updated its support page to say that the fix will come in an upcoming software update …
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| Juliana Schincariol / Reuters: |
Apple challenges loss of iPhone trademark in Brazil — (Reuters) - Apple Inc, which lost the rights to its iPhone trademark in Brazil on Wednesday, is challenging the ruling by Brazil's copyright regulator to prevent local firm Gradiente Eletronica SA from using the “iphone” brand name.| Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch: |
SideCar Acquires Austin-Based Ride-Sharing Startup Heyride, Will Soon Launch In 7 New Markets — Ride-sharing startup SideCar is getting serious about expanding into new cities throughout the U.S. The company just acquired Austin, Texas-based Heyride to help it improve its product …
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Forbes, VentureBeat, The Verge, App Advice and Pulse2
| Ernesto / TorrentFreak: |
Anti-Piracy Group Rips Off Pirate Bay Website, Faces Lawsuit — Finnish anti-piracy group CIAPC, known worldwide for tracking down a 9 year-old “pirate girl” and having her Winnie The Pooh laptop confiscated, launched a controversial campaign yesterday. — The group copied The Pirate Bay's design …
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| Tej Sapru / Reuters: |
Barnes & Noble sees Nook unit loss increasing in 2013 — (Reuters) - Barnes & Noble Inc said on Wednesday it expects its Nook business to post an increased full-year loss in fiscal 2013, as the top U.S. bookstore chain struggles with slower sales of e-readers and e-books and rising costs.| Sean Ludwig / VentureBeat: |
Vimeo acquires GIF-making app Echograph to challenge Vine & Cinemagram — Popular video-sharing service Vimeo has acquired iOS GIF-making application Echograph in a bid to counter the buzz of hot video-sharing apps Vine and Cinemagram. — Echograph is an app that lets you create a GIF … | Bloomberg: |
Zuckerberg's Christie Fundraiser Draws Fans, Protesters — Mark Zuckerberg, the billionaire co- founder of Facebook Inc., welcomed New Jersey Governor Chris Christie to his California home, holding his first political fundraiser as demonstrators outside protested the Republican's stance on women's health funding.
| Wall Street Journal: |
China's Internet ‘Wall’ Hits Business — BEIJING—Fredrik Bergman ran into a problem when a client in Sweden tried to transfer files to his firm's headquarters here: Each time, the firm lost its Web connection for an hour or so. — After several weeks of multiple outages a day, he says … Sponsor Posts
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