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Google Is Developing Android Game Console — Google Inc. is developing a videogame console and digital wrist watch powered by its Android operating system, according to people familiar with the matter, as the Internet company seeks to spread the software's domination beyond smartphones …
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| Phillip Molnar / Monterey County Herald: |
Restricted web access to The Guardian is Armywide, officials say — The Army admitted Thursday to not only restricting access to The Guardian news website at the Presidio of Monterey, as reported in Thursday's Herald, but Armywide. — Presidio employees said the site had been blocked since …
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See also Mediagazer| Ragavan Srinivasan / Facebook: |
Introducing the Facebook for Android Beta Testing Program — Android's openness, reach, and diversity create enormous opportunities for developers. At Facebook, we've been able to utilize Android's flexibility to innovate in ways that aren't possible on other platforms, like building the first version of Home.
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| Sharif Sakr / Engadget: |
BlackBerry ships 6.8 million smartphones but loses $84 million in Q1 2014 — Every quarter is pivotal for BlackBerry right now, but the one covered by today's earnings report (Q1 2014, in fiscal terms) is especially important. It's the first full period of Z10 availability and also the first quarter …
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| Michael Isikoff / NBC News Investigations: |
Ex-Pentagon general target of leak investigation, sources say — Retired Marine Gen. James “Hoss” Cartwright was the second-highest ranking member of the U.S. military, and a key Obama adviser who served as the vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Legal sources tell NBC News Cartwright … | Michael J. Miller / PC Magazine: |
Microsoft Pushes Cloud Service at Build — Today's keynote at Microsoft's Build conference focused on cloud services, with lots of enhancements to the company's Azure Web services. I was impressed not only by how much Microsoft is trying to compete with Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud Platform …
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Leaked Details Of Facebook's New Chat Rooms Feature — Facebook has built a new feature codenamed “Host Chat” that lets people set up chat rooms their friends can join without an invitation, a source familiar with the feature tells us. I've contacted Facebook and it confirms it has begun testing this feature in the wild.| Aaron Souppouris / The Verge: |
British Airways launching wireless luggage tag with e-paper display — British Airways will introduce reusable luggage tags with Kindle-like e-paper displays next year. After checking in online, passengers will be able to use the BA app to create a luggage tag for their journey.
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| Amy Chozick / New York Times: |
Jimmy Wales Is Not an Internet Billionaire — According to Wikipedia, the Tampa International Airport is a public airport six miles west of downtown Tampa, in Hillsborough County, Florida. It's also where Jimmy Wales flies in and out of a couple times a month, in coach … | Want China Times: |
Hon Hai reveals iPhone-compatible smartwatch — Taiwan's Hon Hai Precision Industry — the main manufacturer of Apple's iPhones and iPads, better known by its trading name Foxconn — showcased a smartwatch on Wednesday that can be connected wirelessly to an iPhone, which the company hopes … | Xbox Wire: |
Xbox Announces Landmark Deal with Time Warner Cable to Bring More Live TV to Xbox 360 — In a landmark deal announcement for Xbox 360 and Time Warner Cable customers, we're excited to share a new partnership that will deliver up to 300 of the most popular live TV channels to Xbox 360 for Xbox Live Gold members.
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| Brian Proffitt / ReadWrite: |
Oracle And Salesforce Bury The Hatchet—Surprisingly, Not In The Others' Back — What caused the kumbaya? Oracle's fear of NoSQL and other new but increasingly popular database-related technologies. Say this for Larry Ellison. He can sometimes shoot off his mouth and piss people off …
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| Grant Gross / PC World: |
FCC moves to auction spectrum in 1900MHz band — The Federal Communications Commission has voted to open up 10 megahertz of spectrum in the 1900MHz band for commercial mobile services. — Thursday's vote would allow an auction of the 1915-1920MHz and 1995-2000MHz spectrum, called the H block, as soon as early 2014.
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| Andy / TorrentFreak: |
UK Government Announces New Intellectual Property Crime Unit — Earlier this month it became evident that UK police were becoming more involved in the music and movie industries' fight against unauthorized online sharing. — The National Fraud Intelligence Bureau (NFIB) …
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| Brittany Hillen / SlashGear: |
Intel CTO Justin Rattner resigning with temporary leave, will return “at a later date” — Intel has announced that its Chief Technology Officer, Justin Rattner, will be resigning from his role as the company's CTO. His stepping down is to meet a corporate bylaw in Intel which states … | Dina Bass / Bloomberg: |
Microsoft Seeks End to Dinosaur-Era Software Upgrade Cycle: Tech — Microsoft Corp (MSFT)., which for decades has refreshed its popular Office corporate software just once about every three years, says it will soon switch to weekly updates. — It's a radical shift as Microsoft overhauls …
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| Emil Protalinski / The Next Web: |
Google starts letting organizations borrow its Street View Trekker to record imagery for Maps — Google today announced it is kicking off a new Google Maps pilot program that lets third-party organizations borrow the Street View Trekker and contribute imagery back to the service.
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| Carl Franzen / The Verge: |
US Defense Department developing secure 4G network and updating rules for cyberwarfare — The US military is in the process of building its own secure 4G wireless network and is also updating its rules of engagement — the guidelines that combat personnel are required to follow when deciding …
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CNET, Engadget, American Forces Press Service, TechEye and Softpedia News. Tweets: @brookingsfp
| Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch: |
Personal Assistant App Donna Goes Live, With Better Battery Performance And Instant Uber Requests — Personal assistant app Donna is ready to help simplify users' lives, and is being launched on the Apple App Store today to do just that. With the general release also comes a few new features …
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