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Facebook's Home On Android Could Give You A Sixth Sense For Your Social Life — Constant, close contact with your friends. That's the promise of a “Facebook phone.” The modified Android OS and mobile homescreen replacement that sources tell us Facebook will unveil April 4th pushes …
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The “Facebook Phone” Lives — Nice scoop by Josh Constine of TechCrunch: … Others have since backed this up as well. — I was a few months off, but this is basically what I had heard back in January as well. — There seems to be some disagreement over whether or not this would constitute a “fork” of Android.
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Bitcoin Hits $1 Billion — Bitcoin, the world's first open source cryptographic currency, which has been on a tear since the beginning of this year, set a new record for itself yesterday afternoon as the price listed on the largest online exchange rose past US $92.
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Hot Gaming Startup Supercell Is Closing A Round Above $100M At Valuation Around $800M — Supercell is a very quiet, humble mobile gaming company out of the very quiet and humble city of Helsinki, Finland. Unlike their brasher, Angry Birds-making brethren a 15-minute drive away in Espoo … | Edward Felten / Slate: |
DMCA chilling effects: How copyright law hurts security research — The outdated copyright law doesn't just hurt consumers—it cripples researchers. — Stacked CDs — It was hard to believe, but the student insisted it was true. He had discovered that compact discs from a major record company … | Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web: |
iMessage denial of service ‘prank’ spams users rapidly with messages, crashes iOS Messages app — Over the last couple of days, a group of iOS developers has been targeted with a series of rapid-fire texts sent over Apple's iMessage system. The messages, likely transmitted via …
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| Don Clark / Wall Street Journal: |
Demand Surges for Supercomputers — Demand is suddenly surging for the largest scientific computers, driven by technology changes seen in two powerful systems unveiled this week. — The supercomputers, installed in Illinois and Texas—each requiring about the space of a basketball court … | Greg Sandoval / The Verge: |
Biting the hand that feeds you: why are record labels fighting Pandora? — Labels want streaming and web radio to grow the pie, but want their share too — A few years ago, leaders from the major record companies planted the seeds from which they hoped would spring the next generation of music distributors.
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| Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune: |
Why is China's state-run media targeting Apple? Five theories — Consumer protection? Negative marketing? Negotiating ploy? Payback? Squeeze? — The drumbeat hasn't stopped. Not only has China's Central TV been running regular follow ups to its March 15 expose on Apple's (AAPL) … | Jacqui Cheng / Ars Technica: |
Frustrated with iCloud, Apple's developer community speaks up en masse — Apple's iCloud is marketed to us end users as a convenient and centralized way to manage data on all of our Macs and iOS devices: sync contacts and bookmarks, re-download music and apps, back up iOS devices …
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| Megha Rajagopalan / Reuters: |
China “resolutely opposes” U.S. curbs on IT imports: state media — (Reuters) - China expressed “resolute opposition” and “strong dissatisfaction” with a new U.S. cyber-espionage rule limiting imports of Chinese-made information technology products, state media reported on Saturday.
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| Kara Swisher / AllThingsD: |
Actually, Amazon Paid About $150 Million for Goodreads — According to sources, Amazon paid about $150 million for Goodreads, the popular books recommendation service. But that number could close in on $200 million, if certain performance metrics are met.
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