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Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 announced, a low-end 7-inch tablet that makes calls — Today, Samsung is announcing a new 7-inch tablet called the Galaxy Tab 3, but to our eyes, it doesn't look much different from the current 7-inch Tab 2. It swaps the previous Tab's 1 GHz dual-core processor for a 1.2GHz chip … | Ken Yeung / The Next Web: |
Google is retiring its Meebo Bar publishing tool on June 6 to focus on Google+ and Google+ Sign-In — Google has announced that it will be retiring its Meebo Bar publishing tool on June 6 in order to divert more resources towards its Google+ Sign-In service and other plug-ins for its social network.
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| Eric Slivka / MacRumors: |
Notebook Refresh to Be Highlight of WWDC, Non-Retina MacBook Pro to Continue? — KGI Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo has issued a new report forecasting that the product highlight of Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC), which kicks off on June 10, will be the introduction of new models …
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| Gerry Smith / The Huffington Post: |
Undercover Police Stings Target Front Lines Of Stolen iPhone Market — SAN FRANCISCO — On a cloudy afternoon in the Tenderloin district, a man in a hooded sweatshirt walks slowly along Market Street, stopping to engage people he encounters along the way. He offers a peek at the wares inside … | Nick Bilton / NYT Bits: |
Disruptions: Brain Computer Interfaces Inch Closer to Mainstream — Last week, engineers sniffing around the programming code for Google Glass found hidden examples of ways that people might interact with the wearable computers without having to say a word. Among them, a user could nod to turn the glasses on or off.
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| David Meyer / GigaOM: |
Chat apps have overtaken SMS by message volume, but how big a disaster is that for carriers? — There's a reason why mobile carriers are scared of third-party messaging apps such as WhatsApp, and here it is: people are now sending more messages over these services than they are text messages.
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| Myles Recny: |
Twitter Should Shut Me Down. — In August of 2012 I left my job at a startup in New York City. I was 24. I enrolled in a graduate program at NYU, wanting to study Computer Science and Biology. Two weeks in, one of my professors assigned a homework project that would rapidly turn into a profitable business.
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Bing, Skype, and Xbox rebranding revealed in Microsoft design presentation — At a recent design day event in Norway, Windows Phone design studio general manager Albert Shum and Todd Simmons, creative director at Wolff Olins, held a talk about “re-imagining” Microsoft.
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| Ernesto / TorrentFreak: |
Pirate Party Enters Iceland's National Parliament After Historic Election Win — Founded in 2006, the Pirate party movement has scored some big and small victories over the years. — Their biggest success came in 2009 when the party won two seats at the European Parliament.| Matt Richtel / New York Times: |
How Big Data Is Playing Recruiter for Specialized Workers — WHEN the e-mail came out of the blue last summer, offering a shot as a programmer at a San Francisco start-up, Jade Dominguez, 26, was living off credit card debt in a rental in South Pasadena, Calif., while he taught himself programming.| Leena Rao / TechCrunch: |
Square Updates Its Register iPad App With Kitchen Tickets, Ordering Features To Better Serve Restaurants — Square's point-of-sale technology and iPad-powered register, Square Register is getting a big update today targeted at better serving restaurants. New features in the release include …
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| Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web: |
Tumblr Play: The secret microblog version of Twitter #Music that never was — Last week, Twitter launched its new social music discovery app #Music. A lot of us thought that this was a long time coming, as musicians are a big component of Twitter's celebrity users, and many of them follow other musicians …
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| Brian Crecente / Polygon: |
The next Xbox rethinks DRM, Achievements and Xbox Live friends, our sources say — The next Xbox, set to be unveiled during a May 21 event on Microsoft's Redmond-based Xbox campus, will bring with it not just new hardware, but a slew of tweaks to the social aspects of Microsoft's console.
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