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U.S. intelligence mining data from nine U.S. Internet companies in broad secret program — The National Security Agency and the FBI are tapping directly into the central servers of nine leading U.S. Internet companies, extracting audio, video, photographs, e-mails, documents and connection logs …
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NSA slides explain the PRISM data-collection program — Through a Top-Secret program authorized by federal judges working under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), the U.S. intelligence community can gain access to the servers of nine internet companies for a wide range of digital data.
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| Nick Hopkins / Guardian: |
UK gathering secret intelligence via covert NSA operation — Exclusive: UK security agency GCHQ gaining information from world's biggest internet firms through US-run Prism programme — The UK's electronic eavesdropping and security agency, GCHQ, has been secretly gathering intelligence …
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www.idigitaltimes.co.uk, Forbes, Boing Boing and Quartz
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Anti-Surveillance Activist Is at Center of New Leak — After writing intensely, even obsessively, for years about government surveillance and the prosecution of journalists, Glenn Greenwald has suddenly put himself directly at the intersection of those two issues, and perhaps in the cross hairs of federal prosecutors.
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President Obama's Dragnet — Within hours of the disclosure that the federal authorities routinely collect data on phone calls Americans make, regardless of whether they have any bearing on a counterterrorism investigation, the Obama administration issued the same platitude it has offered every …
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| Jared A. Favole / Wall Street Journal: |
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| Mark Felsenthal / Reuters: |
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Apple Signs Sony Up for iRadio, Now Has All Three Major Music Labels On Board — Sony Music has signed on to Apple's forthcoming iRadio service, according to a person familiar with negotiations between the two companies. — The deal means Apple now has agreements with all three major music labels.
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| Miyoung Kim / Reuters: |
Samsung Electronics loses $12 billion market value on smartphone worries — (Reuters) - Samsung Electronics Co lost $12 billion in market value on Friday, hit by brokerage downgrades that have underscored concerns about slowing sales of its flagship Galaxy S4 smartphone.
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| Jordan Kahn / 9to5Mac: |
Android game console GamePop does the unthinkable, brings iOS games to TV with ‘Looking Glass’ — In case you hadn't heard: BlueStacks, the company with around 10M+ using its technology that brings Android games to PC and Mac, has recently been working on a new dedicated Android gaming console …
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MacRumors, Business Insider, CNET, The Verge, AllThingsD, TechCrunch, VentureBeat, The Next Web, Touch Arcade and SlashGear
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Windows 8.1 Start button demonstrated fully in new video — Microsoft demonstrated a number of new features in Windows 8.1 earlier this week, but the company briefly showed the return of the Start button and avoided any details on how it visually works. During Computex this week the company took …
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ZDNet, Softpedia News, Neowin, BetaNews, Electronista and The Tech Report
| Jordan Crook / TechCrunch: |
YouTube Founders Hurley And Chen Have Released An Asian Clone Of Vine — AVOS Systems, the company founded by YouTube founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen, has just launched a new app that appears to be a Chinese version of Twitter's popular six-second video-sharing app, Vine.
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memeburn, Tech in Asia, The Verge and Valleywag
| Peter Burrows / Bloomberg: |
Apple Said to Start iPhone Trade-In Program in Stores — Apple Inc. (AAPL) is starting an iPhone trade-in program this month aimed at getting users to upgrade to the iPhone 5 and turn in older models, people with knowledge of the plans said. — Apple has teamed up with Brightstar Corp. …
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Examiner, Computerworld, Digital Trends, The VAR Guy, Yahoo! News, AppleInsider, WebProNews, Phones Review, T3 News, ABCNEWS and PhoneArena
| Brian Klug / AnandTech: |
Apple Not Throttling iPhone or iPad Cellular Throughput via Carrier Bundles — Yesterday there were some allegations made about whether Apple is intentionally throttling cellular data throughput on iPhones and iPads via some files used for network provisioning.
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Gotta Be Mobile, Electronista, iPhone, AppleInsider, iDownloadBlog.com and iPhone Hacks
| Mary Ellen Gordon, PhD / The Flurry Blog: |
The iOS and Android Two-Horse Race: A Deeper Look into Market Share — Over the past four years, Apple's iOS and Google's Android have been locked into a two horse race for mobile OS ownership. In the past year, there has been a lot of focus on the rise of Android and its lead in device market share.
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iPhone Hacks, Android Beat and AdExchanger
| Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent: |
Amazon, Google execs clash with Apple lawyers in ebook pricing trial — On the fourth day of the federal government's ebook pricing trial against Apple, Amazon and Google executives offered testimony in hearings that were often fraught and occasionally funny — but still introduced little evidence …
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Chinese hacked Obama, McCain campaigns, took internal documents, officials say — Cyberattacks linked to the Chinese government will be at the top of the U.S. agenda when President Obama meets with Chinese president Xi Jinping Friday in California. Chinese officials deny any role in the cyberattacks …
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| Paul Sawers / The Next Web: |
Any.DO debuts Cal, a new smart iOS Calendar and first in a suite of standalone apps — To-do list startup Any.DO is spinning out a brand new calendar app called Cal, which represents the “first in a suite” of standalone apps from the Israel-based company. — This news falls less than a month …
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