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| Jay Freeman / The Realm of the Avatar: |
Exploiting a Bug in Google's Glass — A few days ago, I posted to Twitter a picture I took of a Google Glass unit running software that I had modified. I did this while in the Bay Area after picking it up from Google's headquarters in Mountain View. I was unable to provide many more details …
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ZDNet, Forbes, The Register, SlashGear and Selfscreens
Tweets: @saurik, @saurik and @teawithcarl
| Tim Stevens / Engadget: |
Google Glass review (Explorer Edition) — Stand in a line of people in just about any major metropolitan area in the world and you'll see the same thing: slouched shoulders and down-turned faces staring glumly at smartphone screens. Some people never look away, completely immersed in whatever …
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SlashGear and Business Insider
| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
Google gets people ready for Glass with new how-to video — Google's Project Glass is still exotic, futuristic, and distant — it's available only for extremely early adopters, including “creative individuals” who were let in through a Twitter and Google+ contest.
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YouTube, Gizmodo, Engadget, CNET, Selfscreens, PhoneArena, Business Insider and 9to5Google. Tweets: @chris_ciaccia
| Electronic Frontier Foundation: |
Who Has Your Back? 2013 — When you use the Internet, you entrust your conversations, thoughts, experiences, locations, photos, and more to companies like Google, AT&T and Facebook. But what do these companies do when the government demands your private information? Do they stand with you?| Adam Satariano / Bloomberg: |
Apple's Ive Seen Risking IOS 7 Delay on Software Overhaul: Tech — Jonathan Ive, six months into an expanded role as Apple Inc. (AAPL)'s top product visionary, has embarked on a sweeping software overhaul that leaves the company at risk of falling behind on a new version of the operating system …
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The Verge, Business Insider and iDownloadBlog.com
| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
| Tom Bergin / Reuters: |
Exclusive: Britain to quiz Google and auditor again on tax — (Reuters) - Executives from Google Inc. and its auditor Ernst & Young will be called again to a British parliament committee to testify on tax, after a Reuters investigation highlighted inconsistencies in the way Google portrays …
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The Register, Inquirer, Guardian, The Next Web, SlashGear and Softpedia News
| Stephen Kenwright / Branded3: |
The antisocial network: Path texts my entire phonebook at 6am — Last night I went to bed blissfully unaware of the catastrophic faux pas I made earlier in the day - I signed up to Path, the social network/private messaging service. — For anybody who hasn't used it before …
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TechCrunch, Engadget, GigaOM, The Droid Guy, Macgasm, Valleywag, Digital Trends, App Advice, iPhone Hacks, AppleInsider, TechHive, iDownloadBlog.com and Daring Fireball
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| AllThingsD: |
Apple's Tim Cook Returns to D Stage to Open 11th Annual Conference — Although we are only about a month out from our 11th D: All Things Digital conference, we still have a few big speakers to announce, not the least of which is Apple CEO Tim Cook. — Cook, who made his debut at D10 … | Steven Musil / CNET: |
Google releases schedule for 2013 I/O conference — Annual developers conference will feature more than 120 sessions on Android and Chrome, as well as a single three-hour keynote event. — Google has published the schedule for its 2013 Google I/O conference, which features more than 120 sessions …
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AllThingsD, PhoneArena, Phones Review, Android Police, Android Beat, SlashGear, IntoMobile and 9to5Google. Tweets: @fredericl
| Scott Moritz / Bloomberg: |
T-Mobile USA to Debut on New York Stock Exchange Today — T-Mobile USA, the fourth-biggest U.S. wireless company, will debut this morning on the New York Stock Exchange after completing its combination with MetroPCS Communications Inc. (PCS), a smaller rival.
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| Nancy Gohring / CITEworld: |
With acquisition, Jive now embraces email — Jive has been talking a lot about the death of email. But until email dies, the company apparently intends to embrace it. — During its earnings report this week, Jive revealed that it has made two acquisitions, including one of a company called StreamOnce.| Derek Khanna / Forbes: |
Craigslist's Allegations Of “Copyright” Violations Thrown Out — Craiglist has been recognized for a failure to innovate and having among the internet's worst terms of service's. And instead of innovating, it has chosen to go after new market participants that have wanted to use Craigslist's data on classified postings.| Alex Williams / TechCrunch: |
AWS Launches Certification Program, Shows How Much It Wants Enterprise Customers — Amazon Web Services (AWS) has launched a certification program to designate people who have the technical skills for building secure and reliable apps using AWS technology. — The new Amazon Web Services … | Evelyn M. Rusli / Digits: |
What to Expect from Facebook's Earnings — Facebook Inc. reports first-quarter earnings after the closing bell on Wednesday. So what are the key elements to watch for? Here's a primer: — Mobile Advertising: — As Facebook adapts to a landscape where more users are accessing …
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CNET, TechCrunch, Forbes, Forbes, Bloomberg, CNNMoney.com and AllFacebook
| Emil Protalinski / The Next Web: |
Digg finds over 40% of respondents are willing to pay for a Google Reader replacement, beta coming in June — Digg on Tuesday released the results of its second Google Reader survey, which it conducted last week. In the process, the company revealed what sharing and “Read later” … | Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google Makes It Easier To Turn Its Chromebooks Into Public Internet Kiosks — Google always said that its Chromebooks were “for sharing,” but even though they always had a guest mode, they weren't necessarily set up to be used as public Internet kiosks. Today, Google is changing …
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Google Enterprise Blog, ZDNet, CNET, Engadget, SlashGear, 9to5Google and Softpedia News
| Chris Velazco / TechCrunch: |
Enigma Makes Unearthing And Sifting Through Public Data A Breeze — There's a sea of interesting public data out there just waiting to be tapped into, but there's a problem — most people have no earthly idea how to access it. And even if they're able to make some headway …
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The Next Web, TechSpot and Adotas
| Dustin Curtis: |
What a stupid idea — For some cruel reason, I keep finding myself in the position of being introduced to things in their infancy (often before they are even launched), dismissing them as stupid, and then watching them become unbelievably popular. This has happened to me at least four times.
| Rachel King / ZDNet: |
Cisco jumps on gigabit Internet craze with new wireless offerings — Summary: With AT&T and Google (among others) warming up for a gigabit Internet war, Cisco is jumping in the fray with some new products to support the speedy connections. — The words “gigabit Internet” …
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Cisco, eWeek, Information Management, The Register, DTV USA Forum and dailywireless.org
| Ronald Grover / Reuters: |
First legal online poker site goes live in Nevada — (Reuters) - Already home to the Las Vegas strip with its casinos and high-stakes games, Nevada on Tuesday became the first state where residents can legally play poker online for money. — Station Casinos went live with UltimatePoker.com …
| Terrence O'Brien / Engadget: |
Log In with PayPal simplifies shopping, uses your account on merchant sites — There's no shortage of single sign-on solutions out there. But where as Facebook, Twitter and Google all have a heavy focus on social (obviously), PayPal's take on the field is built around commerce and privacy.
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TechCrunch, VentureBeat, The Next Web, PayPal: Forward, Softpedia News and Softpedia News. Tweets: @robinwauters
| Wall Street Journal: |
Yahoo Scraps Deal for French Video Site — By SAM SCHECHNER in Paris and AMIR EFRATI in San Francisco — Dailymotion was on track to be the first big acquisition for Yahoo Inc. Chief Executive Marissa Mayer, after her company signed a provisional deal to buy control of the online-video website from France Télécom SA.
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VatorNews, ZDNet, Reuters, Computerworld, Quartz, Rude Baguette and VentureBeat
| Joab Jackson / PC World: |
Novell offers mobile file sharing for the enterprise — In an effort to help enterprises get a handle on the Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) trend, Novell has released enterprise file sharing software that it claims is as easy to use as commercial cloud storage services such as Dropbox, Microsoft Skydrive, and Google Drive.
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ZDNet, AllThingsD, InfoWorld and Computerworld UK Applications
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