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| Brandon LeBlanc / The Windows Blog: |
The Windows 8.1 Preview is here! — A couple of weeks ago, Antoine Leblond talked about continuing the Windows 8 vision with Windows 8.1. It continues to push ahead with our bet that the PC industry is going through a shift that is driven by mobility. We previously announced that Windows 8.1 …
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Thanks:@brandonleblanc| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Microsoft Launches Windows 8.1 Preview With Start Button, Deep SkyDrive Integration, Smarter Search Tool & More — Microsoft today officially launched Windows 8.1 Preview, the first public beta of its flagship operating system's next version, at its Build developer conference in San Francisco today.
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| Alex Wilhelm / The Next Web: |
Confirmed: Official Facebook app is coming to Windows 8 — Today at its Build developers conference in San Francisco, Microsoft's CEO Steve Ballmer announced that Facebook will bring an official application to Windows 8 in the future. A timeframe was not specified. — Gathered developers managed applause at the news.
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Introducing IE11: The Best Way to Experience the Web on Modern Touch Devices — As part of today's Windows 8.1 Preview, Internet Explorer 11 (IE11) Preview is now also available. Fast, fluid and perfect for touch, IE11 continues our vision of providing the best Web experience across … | Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
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| Chris Ziegler / The Verge: |
This is Motorola Mobility's new logo — Motorola Mobility is making changes to its well-known brand this week, switching to a new, all-lower-case typeface that's both thinner and softer than the classic bold and italic “MOTOROLA” that has been used for decades.
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| Chris Velazco / TechCrunch: |
Google Play Edition Samsung Galaxy S4 And HTC One Now Available, Will Start Shipping By July 9 — Despite plenty of rumors that attested to the contrary, Google didn't show off any new Nexus phones at its I/O developer conference. Instead it trotted out a version of the Samsung Galaxy S4 …
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Microsoft Also Challenges Government Surveillance Gag Order — Microsoft cited the First Amendment in its legal filing to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, and challenged what the company says are U.S. government restrictions on how much it can reveal publicly about secret orders …
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| Scott Lowe / IGN: |
Sony Sacrificed the PlayStation 4 Camera to Beat Microsoft on Price — How the camera was cut last minute and left with an uncertain future. — When Sony announced that PlayStation 4 would be priced at $399 to an uproar of applause from the audience at its E3 press conference, it secured a critical edge over the Xbox One.
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| Scott Buscemi / 9to5Mac: |
iOS 7 includes the ability to control your iPhone or iPad using head movements — Discovered by an anonymous tipster, iOS 7′s “Accessibility” section now includes a feature that allows you to control your iPhone or iPad with left or right head movements.| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
Facebook, Apple, Microsoft, Skype & Yahoo Hit With Prism Data Protection Complaints In Europe — The European data protection activists behind the Europe v Facebook (evf) campaign group, that has long been a thorn in Facebook's side in Europe, have filed new complaints under regional data …
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| Aaron Souppouris / The Verge: |
Xbox One's Kinect now ready for $399 Windows developer pre-order — Microsoft is opening up pre-orders for development kits of its next-generation Kinect for Windows. The new peripheral, which was unveiled at the Xbox One launch in May, features a vastly improved sensor set and microphone array … | Dante D'Orazio / The Verge: |
Dish withdraws bid for Clearwire following Sprint's latest offer — The Sprint, Dish, Clearwire, and SoftBank acquisition saga may be close to over. Dish has withdrawn its offer to purchase Clearwire, according to a press release pushed across the wire this afternoon.
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| Alex Byers / Politico: |
NSA takes surveillance fact sheets off website — Following a complaint from two senators, the National Security Agency has removed from its website two fact sheets designed to shed light on and defend a pair of surveillance programs. Users now trying to access the documents detailing …
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| Jonny Evans / Computerworld: |
The guy who sold an unreleased Apple iPhone 4 to Gizmodo wouldn't do it again — and says he didn't get paid — Kudos to TheNextWeb for picking up on a story on Reddit today, in which Brian Hogan, the man who found and sold the 2010 Apple [AAPL] iPhone prototype tells us everything …
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| Eric Franklin / CNET: |
Nvidia delays Shield to July, due to 11th-hour dilemma — Nvidia discovers last minute “mechanical issue” with Shield and promptly delays it to July. — Just when you thought it was out, they pull it back in. Nvidia has delayed its Shield portable gaming console just one day before its original June 27 … | Jordan Novet / GigaOM: |
Hadoop hype spawns $8M for DataTorrent, product opportunities for Splunk, Teradata — Data scientists and business analysts have found lots of ways to get new hunches about what their employers should do by managing and processing data inside Hadoop — not to mention making a little money for themselves.
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| Arik Hesseldahl / AllThingsD: |
Juniper Study Finds Mobile Malware Grew 600 Percent, Targets Android Most — Careful what you install on your smartphone. The number of malware programs masquerading as legitimate mobile apps grew by more than 600 percent in 2012, according to a new survey by the networking company Juniper.| Barb Darrow / GigaOM: |
Heroku taps industry vet Tod Nielsen as new CEO — Tod Nielsen, who helped lead the charge on VMware's Cloud Foundry platform-as a service, has switched PaaS providers, joining Heroku as CEO. — The last we heard in January, Nielsen was on his way from VMware to its Pivotal spinoff, where he reported to CEO Paul Maritz.
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| Declan McCullagh / CNET: |
Data, meet spies: The unfinished state of Web crypto — Many large Web companies have failed to adopt a decades-old encryption technology to safeguard confidential user communications. Google is a rare exception, and Facebook is about to follow suit. — One of Facebook's data centers.
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