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| Donny Halliwell / Inside BlackBerry: |
New BlackBerry Q5 Announced Today at BlackBerry Live for Select Markets — As the BlackBerry Live keynote news keeps flowing in I'm happy to introduce you to the youthful and fun BlackBerry Q5 smartphone, running BlackBerry 10. With a QWERTY keyboard and a confident design …
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| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
BlackBerry bringing BBM to Android and iOS this summer — BlackBerry has just announced that its hugely popular BBM messaging service is going multi-platform: it will be released for Android and iOS as a free app this summer. BBM will support iOS hardware running iOS 6 and above …
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| Michael C. / Inside BlackBerry: |
BlackBerry 10.1 Now Available for BlackBerry Z10 — Onstage at the BlackBerry Live conference in Orlando, Thorsten Heins, President and CEO, BlackBerry just announced that all of you BlackBerry Z10 customers are in for a treat. An update to BlackBerry 10 software has been released with new features designed to keep you moving.
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| Douglas Pearce / The Microsoft Office Blog: |
Outlook.com now lets you chat with Google friends - one more reason to make the switch — The last three months since Outlook.com came out of preview have been filled with releases to help make you more productive and your experience more personal. These were often based on your feedback.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Nokia's aluminum Lumia 925 is the best Windows Phone yet, but that's not enough (hands-on) — Nokia just unveiled its Lumia 925 at an event in London, and I've managed to take an early look at the handset ahead of its release in June. Nokia has swapped out a unibody polycarbonate look and feel for metal.
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| Ina Fried / AllThingsD: |
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Hedge Fund Manager Loeb Targets Sony for a Breakup — Updated — An American hedge fund billionaire known for starting big fights has called for a breakup of the entertainment and electronic colossus Sony, according to people briefed on the matter, possibly setting off a battle … | Mike Isaac / AllThingsD: |
No Nexus Q News at Google's I/O This Year — Nearly one year ago, at its I/O developer conference, Google unveiled its Android-powered Nexus Q media player product to much fanfare. Little more than a month after the big reveal, Google suspended the launch of the Q indefinitely.| Drew Olanoff / TechCrunch: |
At I/O, Google Will Be Tracking Things Like Noise Level And Air Quality With Hundreds Of Arduino-Based Sensors — If you're attending Google I/O this week, you will be a part of an experiment from the Google Cloud Platform Developer Relations team. On its blog today, the team outlined … | Terrence O'Brien / Engadget: |
Microsoft drops the Blue codename, confirms Windows 8.1 will be a free upgrade available ‘later’ this year — BlackBerry Live 2013 isn't just about new phones and OS versions, Thorsten Heins has just announced BBM channels, a way for people, companies and brands to provide streams of content in BBM.
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| Jessica E. Lessin / Wall Street Journal: |
Web Browsers Are Reinvented — File-sharing, Apps and Voice Commands Change How Internet Is Used — Mobile phones, wearable devices and self-driving cars are generating buzz as the future of technology. But the old Web browser is being reinvented too, in a trend with implications … | Assaf Gilad / Ynetnews: |
Facebook, Waze at odds over liquidation — Social network giant insists on relocating some of Israeli navigation company's employees to its San Francisco headquarters, while Waze executives are adamant about leaving development center in Israel — The chasm between Facebook and Waze … | Adrianne Jeffries / The Verge: |
Cyber caper: behind the scenes of the $45 million global ATM heist — Hackers coordinated with cells on the ground to carry out a precise, sophisticated attack — Defendants Elvis Rafael Rodriguez and Emir Yasser Yeje posing with approximately $40,000 with cash. Source: US Attorney, Eastern District of New York| Shaunacy Ferro / Popular Science: |
How Facebook Used Science To Design More Emotional Emoticons — With the help of a psychology professor and a Pixar illustrator, Facebook is trying to make our messages a little more emotional. — Surprise Matt Jones / Facebook — In 1872, Charles Darwin published The Expression …
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| Myriam Joire / Engadget: |
Raspberry Pi camera module comes to the UK May 14th, lands early for some (updated) — Remember that Raspberry Pi camera module we wrote about a few months ago? It looks like UK-based electronics retailer CPC / Farnell will start taking orders for the shooter on May 14th.
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Raspberry Pi, ZDNet, Macgasm, Lifehacker, bit-tech.net and Electronista
| Wall Street Journal: |
ESPN, Twitter Expand Collaboration — ESPN and Twitter Inc. are announcing a major expansion of their collaboration to post sports-related videos on the short-messaging service, part of a growing wave of tie-ups as TV networks and Twitter hunt for new advertising revenue.
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Los Angeles Times, PC Magazine, The Droid Guy, GigaOM, The Next Web, CNET, The Verge, Lost Remote and Engadget
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See also Mediagazer| Pete Norman / Sky News: |
Twitter Boss Quits UK Role Post TweetDeck — Twitter CEO Dick Costolo has resigned as director of its UK arm — The American boss of Twitter has resigned as director of its UK arm, two days after the business regulator struck off its other British firm for failure to file accounts.
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| Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch: |
RelayRides Acquires Wheelz To Boost Inventory And Improve Hardware For Its Peer-To-Peer Car Rentals — There's consolidation afoot in the peer-to-peer car rental space. San Francisco-based RelayRides, which launched about five years ago and is now available nationwide, has gobbled up fledgling competitor Wheelz.| Ginny Marvin / Marketing Land: |
Online Sales Tax: Why E-Commerce Companies Are On Both Sides Of The Debate — If passed by the House, the Marketplace Fairness Act, which aims to level the playing field between online retailers and brick-and-mortar businesses, could go into effect as soon as this fall.
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook Kills Social Roulette, The App With A 1/6 Chance Of Deleting Your Facebook Account — If you want a digital detox, you're going to have to pull the trigger yourself. Social Roulette is an app that would delete one in six users' Facebook account data, but its founder confirms it's …
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BBC, SiliconANGLE, Yahoo! News, CNET, The Next Web, SlashGear, AllFacebook, Laughing Squid, The Atlantic Wire and Daily Dot. Thanks:@joshconstine
| Sinead Carew / Reuters: |
Verizon Wireless to pay parents surprise $7 billion dividend — (Reuters) - Verizon Wireless, the biggest U.S. mobile service provider, said on Monday it would pay its parents Verizon Communications and Vodafone Group Plc a dividend of $7 billion in June, surprising some analysts who had not expected a big payout.
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PhoneArena, Bloomberg, Wall Street Journal and Yahoo! News
| Reiji Murai / Reuters: |
Sharp to seek Samsung edge for survival as Apple sales lose steam — (Reuters) - Japanese display maker Sharp Corp, a supplier to Apple Inc, will aim to boost sales to the iPhone maker's chief rival Samsung Electronics Co under a three-year rehabilitation roadmap to secure its survival.
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| Joseph Volpe / Engadget: |
Nokia Lumia 928 for Verizon hands-on — The Lumia 928 isn't the first of Nokia's Windows Phone 8 handsets to hit Verizon — that distinction goes to the 822 — but for all intents and purposes, it's the first true flagship Lumia to bear Big Red's branding. From the jump, you'll note …
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