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Chinese Army Unit Is Seen as Tied to Hacking Against U.S. — On the outskirts of Shanghai, in a run-down neighborhood dominated by a 12-story white office tower, sits a People's Liberation Army base for China's growing corps of cyberwarriors. — The building off Datong Road …
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Tweets: @larsonchristina, @pkafka, @gaberivera, @sacca, @antderosa and @tim
| Josh Ong / The Next Web: |
Security firm releases screen capture video of alleged Chinese military hackers at work — Security firm Mandiant has released a damning report offering unprecedented evidence, including screen capture video, of the actions of an alleged Chinese military-backed hacking group.| Associated Press: |
China calls US hacking allegations ‘groundless’ — BEIJING (AP) — China has dismissed as “groundless” detailed allegations pointing to a Chinese military unit in Shanghai as the source of massive computer hacking of U.S. targets. — Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei was responding … | David Law / The Microsoft Office Blog: |
Outlook.com leaves preview as the world's fastest growing email service going from 0 to 60 million in just 6 months — Last summer, we released a preview of Outlook.com, a new modern email service from Microsoft. Since then, we've been humbled by the fast pace of adoption …
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Mashable!, 9to5Google, Guardian, BGR, ZDNet, digitaltrends.com, InfoWorld, The Official Microsoft Blog, SlashGear, Neowin, Techie Buzz, LiveSide.net and WinBeta. Thanks:@ryanburk
| Dana Wollman / Engadget: |
Outlook.com exits preview with 60 million active users, Hotmail UI to be retired this summer — It's been so long since Microsoft launched Outlook.com that we forgot it was technically in preview mode. Well, that ended today, at 12:01AM ET on the dot. The company just announced …
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Microsoft, The Next Web, The Verge, Bloomberg, Inquirer, CNET, BetaNews, Electronista, TechCrunch, memeburn, GeekWire and WebProNews. Tweets: @theromit
| Gregg Keizer / Computerworld: |
Microsoft quietly raises prices of Mac Office by up to 17% — Dumps multi-license packages, all to make Office 365's subscription pricing more attractive — Microsoft has quietly raised prices of Office for the Mac as much as 17% and stopped selling multi-license packages of the application suite.| Chris Ziegler / The Verge: |
Galaxy S IV will ‘definitely’ be announced on March 14th: sources — Expect it to take design cues from the Galaxy Note 8.0, which doesn't look like the leaks — Earlier today, mobile-review's Eldar Murtazin suggested on Twitter that March 14th would see a “big announcement,” …
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| Katherine Rushton / Telegraph: |
Google looks to cut funds to illegal sites — Google is in discussions with payment companies including Visa, Mastercard and PayPal to put illegal download websites out of existence by cutting off their funding. — If Google goes ahead with the radical move, it would not mark … | Emil Protalinski / The Next Web: |
You can download Firefox 19 for Windows, Mac, and Linux right now; official launch tomorrow — Firefox 19 for desktop is due to officially launch on Tuesday, with long-anticipated built-in PDF viwer, but the latest version is already available for Windows, Mac, and Linux.
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| Joseph Stromberg / Surprising Science: |
Any Two Pages on the Web Are Connected By 19 Clicks or Less — The Opte Project creates visualizations of the 14 billion pages that make up the network of the web. Image via Opte Project — No one knows for sure how many individual pages are on the web, but right now, it's estimated that there are more than 14 billion.| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
U.K.'s First 4G Network Not Overrun With LTE Early Adopters — Just 201k Total 3G & 4G Postpaid Adds In Q4 — Being first to 4G may not be quite the advantage EE may have hoped. The U.K.'s first 4G network was up and running at the end of October last year but EE, the joint venture combining … | Amir Efrati / Wall Street Journal: |
Google Works on Launching Retail Stores — U.S. Outlets Would Likely Sell Internet Giant's Branded Devices, but Plans Remain Unclear; Studying Apple's Playbook — Google Inc. has been developing plans to launch retail stores in the U.S., said people familiar with the matter …
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BGR, TheStreet.com, Ubergizmo, Quartz, Hillicon Valley, Engadget and 9to5Google
| Kara Swisher / AllThingsD: |
Exclusive: In Yet Another Internal Hire, Yahoo's Mayer Makes Mann Search Head — Longtime Yahoo techie Laurence “Laurie” Mann, who has recently been SVP of engineering operations at the Silicon Valley Internet giant, has been given the new job of heading its search efforts, according to sources inside the company.
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| Steve Lohr / NYT Bits: |
Software Assistants for Doctors Are Making Progress — Doctors have long been in the high-stakes information management business. They must quickly sort through a patient's symptoms, comments, test results, records and history to come up with a diagnosis.
| AnandTech: |
NVIDIA Announces Tegra 4i, Formerly Project Grey, With Integrated LTE and Phoenix Reference Design — It has been a while since we've heard anything about Project Grey, the first NVIDIA SoC with an integrated digital baseband, and the result of NVIDIA's acquisition of soft-modem manufacturer Icera.
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AllThingsD, The Verge, VentureBeat, Engadget, ZDNet, TechCrunch, GigaOM, Digits, Pocket-lint and IntoMobile
| Jon Russell / The Next Web: |
Amazon introduces lnstant Video links to the IMDb iOS app — Amazon has made it easy for users of the IMDb iOS app to go from reading about a film to watching it, after it added Amazon Instant Video links to the app for the movie database that it bought in 2008.
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| Tim Carmody / The Verge: |
Why Intel could be the company to finally crack internet TV — Everyone else has tried, now it's the chipmaker's turn — Intel? Really? There were rumors and reports for months that Intel was mounting a play for internet TV, but there was always an element of implausibility to them.| Chris O'Brien / Los Angeles Times: |
Samsung embarking on an aggressive expansion in Silicon Valley — South Korean tech giant Samsung's move to broaden its footprint in Silicon Valley signals an escalation of its rivalry with Apple. — A rendering shows Samsung's new campus for its semiconductor division in San Jose.Thanks:@vulsai
| Associated Press: |
Burger King Twitter account back up after Monday afternoon hacking; company apologizes — Associated Press - This frame grab taken Monday, Feb. 18, 2013, shows what appears to be Burger King's Twitter account after it was apparently hacked. Starting just after noon Eastern time on Monday …
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Gizmodo, CNET, BuzzFeed, The Atlantic Wire, TIME, Slate, BetaNews, The Next Web, Guardian, ABCNEWS, Reuters, Digiday, Business Insider, TG Daily, Business Insider, Business Insider, Zennie62, GigaOM, SiliconBeat, The Raw Story, Mashable!, NBC Bay Area, Geekosystem, Digits, memeburn, ReadWrite and AllThingsD
Tweets: @mcdonalds, @burgerking, @amyrosebrown, @davepell, @samfbiddle, @drew, @fwd and @ischafer
| Lee Hutchinson / Ars Technica: |
Dell's Linux Ultrabook gets more pixels, European availability — We last reported on Dell's Ubuntu-powered XPS-13 Developer Edition at the tail end of November 2012, when the laptop was released. Comments from the Ars community on the device were generally positive, though …
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Barton's Blog, CNET, ZDNet, The H Open Source, Dell and DisplayBlog
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Fujitsu Finally Enters Europe's Smartphone Market With A Senior-Focused Android Device With France Telecom, Starting In June — It was exactly a year ago that news began to surface of Fujitsu's intention to come to Europe with its Android-based smartphones.
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Fugitsu, Engadget, ZDNet, CNET, GigaOM, digitaltrends.com, Gotta Be Mobile, Electronista, Phones Review, The Verge and Softpedia News
| Antonio Regalado / MIT Technology Review: |
Miguel Nicolelis Says the Brain is Not Computable, Bashes Kurzweil's Singularity — A leading neuroscientist says Kurzweil's Singularity isn't going to happen. Instead, humans will assimilate machines. — Miguel Nicolelis, a top neuroscientist at Duke University, says computers …
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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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