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| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Major security hole allows Apple passwords to be reset with only email address, date of birth (update) — Apple yesterday rolled out two-step verification, a security measure that promises to further shield Apple ID and iCloud accounts from being hijacked. Unfortunately, today a new exploit …
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| Ina Fried / AllThingsD: |
Apple Blocks iForgot Password System to Deal With Security Flaw — Apple has temporarily taken its iForgot password system offline to prevent against a security flaw that could let someone reset another person's Apple ID by knowing only their email and birthdate.
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| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft expected to update its full suite of built-in Windows 8 apps — Summary: Microsoft appears ready to roll out the set of expected updates to its full set of core, Microsoft-developed Windows 8 applications, as rumored earlier this month. — It looks like Microsoft is …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Ad-Tech Specialist Marin Software Raises $105M In IPO As Shares Pop 40%, But Now Under $18 — The first ad tech IPO of 2013 hit the NYSE today: Marin Software priced its 7.5 million shares at $14 each, raising $105 million at a valuation of $425 million. Trading under the symbol MRIN … | Edward Wyatt / New York Times: |
F.C.C. Chairman Announces Resignation — Julius Genachowski, the Federal Communications Commission chairman since June 2009, who set out ambitious plans to expand broadband Internet service throughout the country and to free up additional airwaves for sale to mobile phone companies … | Susan Decker / Bloomberg: |
Microsoft Cleared of Infringing Google Patents With Xbox — Microsoft Corp.'s Xbox video-gaming system doesn't violate the patent rights of Google Inc. (GOOG)'s Motorola Mobility unit, a U.S. trade judge said today. — In a one-paragraph notice, U.S. International Trade Commission Judge David Shaw sided with Microsoft in the case.
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| Bogdan Petrovan / Android Authority: |
LG joins the fray, making a smartwatch and a Glass-like device — LG is joining the wearable computing race with a smartwatch of its own, and even a device that is similar to Google's Project Glass. — Coincidence or not, we've been hearing a lot of buzz lately about various companies …
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| Jeff Blagdon / The Verge: |
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| Austin Carr / Fast Company: |
Facebook Turns Off Website Internally To Force Mobile Development — Just how important is mobile to Facebook? According to Facebook product manager Josh Williams, the former CEO of Gowalla, the social network's push toward mobility is crucial enough to its strategy to turn off Facebook's website internally.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Elop throws an iPhone on Finnish TV, refuses to answer Lumia 928 questions — Nokia CEO Stephen Elop faced some tough questions from a Finnish TV presenter this week, focusing on the upcoming Lumia 928 handset. In a show aired on commercial TV station MTV3 in Finland …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft defends Windows RT, fails to answer criticisms — Microsoft is facing growing criticism over its Windows RT operating system. Performance issues with the OS were apparent from the very first Microsoft shipment of the ARM-based Surface RT hardware.
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GeekWire, SuperSite for Windows, CITEworld, Business Insider, PandoDaily, Computerworld, DailyTech and Neowin
| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
‘Lemme Tweet That For You’ generates fake tweets that look (almost) just like real ones — Despite our suspicion of Photoshopping and fakery, the screencapped tweet has become a way to preserve embarrassing or noteworthy moments in case they're deleted. But as “Lemme Tweet That For You” …
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Poynter, Social News Daily, The Huffington Post, Yahoo! News, AllThingsD and AllTwitter
| Matt Rosoff / CITEworld: |
Box and Evernote execs: Don't ignore Microsoft's platforms — Evernote CTO Dave Engberg has noticed something funny: Just because a lot of people own a particular type of smartphone, that doesn't mean they actually download apps for it. — Speaking today at Business Insider's IGNITION Mobile conference … | Quentin Hardy / New York Times: |
Lockheed Martin Harnesses Quantum Technology — VANCOUVER, British Columbia — Our digital age is all about bits, those precise ones and zeros that are the stuff of modern computer code. — But a powerful new type of computer that is about to be commercially deployed by a major American military contractor …
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GigaOM and dailywireless.org
| Jack Clark / The Register: |
Ubuntu tapped by China for national operating system — Canonical to help government add “Chinese specific” features to OS — Ubuntu is going to become the reference architecture for a Linux distribution, backed and developed by the Chinese government. — The news means Ubuntu-stewards Canonical …
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BBC, ZDNet, TechCrunch, digitaltrends.com, SiliconANGLE, Geek.com, The Verge, TechEye, CNET, ExtremeTech, OSDir.com and Softpedia News
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Decide.com Raises $8M Series C For Its Price Predictions Engine; Will Expand To More Categories, Improve Data Mining & Mobile Apps — Shopping and comparison engine Decide.com, which offers suggestions as to not just what to buy but also when, is announcing today that it has raised $8 million …
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VatorNews, VentureBeat, Xconomy, The Next Web and internetretailer.com
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Google Reader Who? Feedly Became Top News App On iPhone, iPad & Android This Week; New App Now Awaiting Approval — Where are the users headed following news of Google Reader's shutdown? To Feedly, it seems. We already heard the company announce it had passed half a million users …
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| Jordan Kahn / 9to5Mac: |
Apple adds ‘offers in-app purchases’ warning in iTunes following class action lawsuit — After settling a class action lawsuit brought on by parents arguing the iOS freemium model, i.e. in-app purchases, allowed children to easily rack up thousands of dollars, Apple has made a subtle change … | Joanna Stern / ABC News: |
BlackBerry Testing Phone-Powered Tablets, Laptops — BlackBerry finally launches today its first BlackBerry 10 phone in the United States, the BlackBerry Z10. After sitting on the sidelines during Apple, Google and Microsoft's smartphone war, the new software platform has the features …
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TechCrunch, ABCNEWS, The Verge, Neowin and PhoneArena
| Nick Summers / The Next Web: |
Barnes & Noble is prepared to give you a free e-reader if it means you'll buy the NOOK HD+ tablet — Barnes & Noble is so desperate to sell its flagship NOOK HD+ tablet, that it's now prepared to throw in a NOOK Simple Touch e-reader for free. — The company, which is known for its chain … | Daniel Cooper / Engadget: |
Samsung mulls sale of Dutch e-ink display business to Amazon — It's not often that we hear of Samsung suffering from buyer's remorse, but it looks like it should have kept e-ink manufacturer Liquavista's receipt in the box-file marked “Important.” Bloomberg's Person Familiar With The Matter …
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