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DOJ: We don't need warrants for e-mail, Facebook chats — An FBI investigation manual updated last year, obtained by the ACLU, says it's possible to warrantlessly obtain Americans' e-mail “without running afoul of” the Fourth Amendment. — U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder| Charlie Savage / New York Times: |
Obama May Back F.B.I. Plan to Wiretap Web Users — WASHINGTON — The Obama administration, resolving years of internal debate, is on the verge of backing a Federal Bureau of Investigation plan for a sweeping overhaul of surveillance laws that would make it easier to wiretap people … | Chris Chavez / Android Phone Fans: |
Google Glass Explorer Edition now receiving XE5 software update, brings loads of new features and enhancements — We see it happen all the time. A not quite commercially available Android product receives an over-the-air update before it's even released. Guess you could add Glass … | Joel Rosenblatt / Bloomberg: |
Apple Seeks Android Source Code Records in Samsung Suit — Apple Inc. (AAPL), taking its patent fight to Google Inc. (GOOG) through its infringement litigation against Samsung Electronics Co. (005930), is asking a judge to force Google to turn over documents related to its Android operating system.| Ashby Jones / Wall Street Journal: |
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T-Mobile Says Has Sold 500,000 iPhones, Q1 Revenue Dipped 7 Percent — T-Mobile released full first quarter financials late Tuesday evening, reporting a 7 percent dip in revenue from a year earlier. — Adjusted earnings, excluding interest, tax, depreciation and amortization of $1.2 billion … | Douglas MacMillan / Bloomberg: |
Yahoo's Mayer Plans Search Revamp to Narrow Google Lead — Yahoo! Inc. (YHOO) Chief Executive Officer Marissa Mayer plans to unveil tools for Internet search, including making it easier to find information on mobile devices, stepping up efforts to nab share from Google Inc. (GOOG)| Randall Smith / DealBook: |
Kleiner Perkins Shifts Strategy After a Rough Decade — During the dot-com boom, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, the venture capital investment firm, all but minted money, making prescient early investments in Netscape Communications, Amazon.com and Google and delivering astonishing returns to investors.| Emil Protalinski / The Next Web: |
Internet in Syria has been restored after being disconnected for over 19 hours — Internet in Syria has been restored on Wednesday at 14:13 UTC. The country went offline on Tuesday at around 18:45 UTC as Internet connectivity was completely cut across the nation.| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
Trulia Acquires Market Leader For $355M To Take Its Business Beyond Listings And Into SaaS For Real Estate Professionals — Online real estate company Trulia has announced it plans to acquire real estate SaaS CRM provider Market Leader for approximately $355 million. The SEC filing is here.| Dina Bass / Bloomberg: |
Microsoft CFO Search Said to Pit Reller Against Hood — Microsoft Corp. (MSFT)'s search for a new chief financial officer is pitting Tami Reller and Amy Hood — the top finance executives at the company's two most profitable divisions — against each other, two people with knowledge of the matter said.| Ronnie Cohen / Reuters: |
San Francisco surrenders in fight over cell phone warnings — (Reuters) - San Francisco city leaders, after losing a key round in court against the cell phone industry, have agreed to revoke an ordinance that would have been the first in the United States to require retailers to warn consumers … | Alex Chitu / Google Operating System: |
New Google Maps Interface — Google is about to launch a new interface for Google Maps. The update will remove the sidebar and will display everything on top of the full-screen map. One of the new features lets you restrict local search results to places recommended by top reviews or your Google+ circles.| Jordan Crook / TechCrunch: |
Dots, Betaworks' New Super Addictive iOS Game, Nabs 1 Million Downloads In One Week — Dots, a game launched just last week out of betaworks, has reached over 1 million downloads in just one week of availability. — According to a blog post, the app hit number 1 in eight countries … | Ionut Arghire / Softpedia News: |
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The Man Behind the Google Brain: Andrew Ng and the Quest for the New AI — There's a theory that human intelligence stems from a single algorithm. — The idea arises from experiments suggesting that the portion of your brain dedicated to processing sound from your ears could also handle sight for your eyes.| Jeff Blagdon / The Verge: |
Nokia video compares Lumia 928 camera against GS III and iPhone 5 — The first footage from the PureView camera aboard Nokia's Lumia 928 is up on the phone's official landing page, showing how it compares against the iPhone 5 and Samsung's Galaxy S III at shooting video on a New York rollercoaster.| Wall Street Journal: |
Samsung's Enviable Challenge: What to Do With Its Growing Cash Pile — Having grabbed a big chunk of the profitable smartphone business from Apple Inc. and others, Samsung Electronics Co. now faces a new, enviable Apple-like challenge: a mammoth pile of unspent, accumulated cash.| Peter Kafka / AllThingsD: |
AOL's Earnings Are Light, but Revenue and Ad Sales Are on Track — This looks like a pretty good performance from AOL: Tim Armstrong's Internet company came in a couple pennies light on earnings in its Q1, but hit its revenue marks. — As important: Its underlying numbers look pretty good.| Emil Protalinski / The Next Web: |
Google adds notification center to Chromium for Mac in preparation for porting Google Now to OS X — Over the last few months, the Chrome OS notification center was ported to Chromium and then to Chrome Canary, but the feature was limited to just Windows. Now it looks like the first attempts … | Juliette Garside / Guardian: |
Hewlett-Packard faces $1bn lawsuit from shareholders over Autonomy deal — HP accused of ignoring evidence on ‘vastly overvalued’ acquisition while Autonomy founder denies financial impropriety — Hewlett-Packard tried to pull out of its $11bn (£7bn) takeover of British software firm Autonomy … | Colleen Taylor / TechCrunch: |
Path Inks Partnership With Sprint To Be Featured App On Three New Devices — Path hasn't had a particularly smooth road in terms of PR lately, but today brings some good news from the social networking app. — Path will announce today that its app will be built in for one-touch downloading …
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