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| New York Times: |
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: @gaberivera, @antderosa, @larsonchristina, @tim, @sacca and @pkafka
| 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.
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Business Insider, WorldViews, Washington Post, The H Security, Forbes, Tech in Asia and TG Daily. Tweets: @nikcub. Thanks:@epro
| 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 … | Joseph Volpe / Engadget: |
HTC One unveiled: 4.7-inch 1080p display, 1.7GHz quad-core Snapdragon 600, UltraPixel camera, Android 4.1.2 with Sense 5 — Despite the abundant fanfare and critical acclaim, HTC's One X just couldn't quite mark the spot in 2012. No wonder, then, that the company's lopped off that extraneous letter …
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Tweets: @dannysullivan and @tomwarren
| Brian Klug / AnandTech: |
Hands on and Impressions from the HTC One - Formerly M7 — HTC is in an interesting position as a result of this last product cycle. While the previous HTC One series' industrial design and performance was top notch, other OEMs still managed to eclipse the One series in terms of market adoption and consumer perception.
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| Sharif Sakr / Engadget: |
Ubuntu for tablets revealed with split screen multi-tasking, preview for Nexus slates coming this week — Here it is: the fourth and final piece of the Ubuntu puzzle. We've seen the OS on smartphones, on TVs and of course on desktops, but the tablet version has spent a little longer in its dressing room.| 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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MacRumors, iPhone, TUAW and WebProNews
| C. Custer / Tech in Asia: |
A Shocking Expose of China's Black PR Industry Implicates Government Officials, is Quickly Deleted from the Web — Almost everyone knows about the public relations industry, but fewer people know about what in China is referred to as Black PR, the underground internet industry that has evolved with the spread of web 2.0 through China.| 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 … | Dana Wollman / Engadget: |
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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.
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VentureBeat, PC World, Washington Post, digitaltrends.com, Telegraph, TG Daily, Gizmodo and Mashable!
| 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
| 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.| 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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The Verge, TheStreet.com, BGR, PhoneArena, IntoMobile, Quartz, Daring Fireball, Ubergizmo, Hillicon Valley, 9to5Google and Engadget
| Peter Kafka / AllThingsD: |
Taboola Raises $15 Million So It Can Suggest More Stories You Might Click On — Content recommendation service Taboola tells Web surfers where to go, 1.5 billion times a day. And it thinks that activity could turn into a really big business one day. — Hence the company's new $15 million round …
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PR Newswire, TechCrunch, The Next Web, paidContent, VideoNuze Analysis, Fortune and FinSMEs
| 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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Business Insider, Search Engine Land and WebProNews
| 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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| Associated Press: |
Google stock price reaches $800 for first time — SAN FRANCISCO — Google's (GOOG) stock price topped $800 for the first time Monday amid renewed confidence in the company's ability to reap steadily higher profits from its dominance of Internet search and prominence in the increasingly important mobile device market.
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9to5Google, Marketing Land and Mashable!
| 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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PC Magazine, CNET, BuzzFeed, iPhone, Guardian, TIME, Slate, GigaOM, BetaNews and The Next Web
Tweets: @mcdonalds, @burgerking and @amyrosebrown
| 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.
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The Register, digitaltrends.com, InfoWorld, DailyTech, CNET, Softpedia News and Neowin
| Leena Rao / TechCrunch: |
Enterprise And Open Source Data Search And Analytics Startup Elasticsearch Raises $24M From Index Ventures, Benchmark And SV Angel — Elasticsearch, a real-time, enterprise data search and analytics startup and open source project, has raised $24 million in Series B financing led by Mike Volpi
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The Next Web, GigaOM, PandoDaily and ElasticSearchElasticSearch
| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
Mac Pro no longer available from European Apple Online Stores ahead of March 1 discontinuation — In January, we reported that Apple will stop selling its current generation Mac Pro in Europe on March 1st over new product regulatory standards. Today, Apple's Mac Pro desktop computer is showing as …
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CNET, Ars Technica, MacRumors, T3 News, App Advice, Apple Bitch and Macgasm. Thanks:@allegrotechie
| T.C. Sottek / The Verge: |
NASA loses communication with International Space Station during software update — NASA says it lost communication with the International Space Station at 9:45AM ET this morning while flight controllers in Houston were working on updating the software for the flight computers onboard the ISS.
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