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XKeyscore: NSA tool collects ‘nearly everything a user does on the internet’ — A top secret National Security Agency program allows analysts to search with no prior authorization through vast databases containing emails, online chats and the browsing histories of millions of individuals …
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See also Mediagazer| Andy Greenberg / Forbes: |
NSA Director Heckled At Conference As He Asks For Security Community's Understanding — When NSA Director Keith Alexander appeared at the Las Vegas security conference Black Hat Wednesday morning, he hoped to mend the NSA's reputation in the eyes of thousands of the conference's hackers and security professionals.
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XKeyscore presentation from 2008 - read in full — Training materials for the NSA's XKeyscore program detail how analysts can use it and other systems to mine enormous agency databases and develop intelligence from the internet
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The Register and Washington Post. Tweets: @kevinmitnick, @kashhill, @strngwys and @rj_gallagher
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft forced to rename SkyDrive following trademark case with broadcaster — A UK court recently ruled that Microsoft's SkyDrive name infringed on a trademark owned by British Sky Broadcasting Group (BSkyB), and the software maker has agreed to change the name of its cloud-based service worldwide as a result.
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LiveSide.net, The Next Web, GeekWire, TechCrunch, PC World, My Nokia Blog, ZDNet, LAPTOP Magazine, Engadget, Ars Technica, MobileSyrup.com, Gizmodo, TechSpot, Business Insider and TechnoBuffalo. Tweets: @tomwarren
| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
Apple has A6-based iPad mini without Retina display in the works — Apple is testing a new iPad mini that includes a faster processor but not a Retina display, according to references in the iOS 7 SDK sent to us by a developer. — The references were located inside of a hidden file …
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| Christopher Mims / Quartz: |
Google is testing a local news product for Google Now — Google has hatched a plan to boost the visibility of its existing local news product, and in the process is testing a whole new way to get people to pay attention to the news that is geographically most relevant to them.| App Annie Blog: |
App Annie Index - Market Q2 2013: Google Play Exceeds iOS App Store in App Downloads by 10% in Q2 2013 — Welcome to the App Annie Market Index, where at the end of each quarter, we review the latest download and revenue insights by stores, countries and categories.| Mike Isaac / AllThingsD: |
Toward a More Public Social Network: Facebook Rolls Out Embedded Posts — The world's premier social network is beginning to learn the value of publicness. — Facebook announced on Wednesday that it will roll out embedded posts, giving users the ability to stick their status updates in pages across the Web, and outside of Facebook.| Esat Dedezade / Stuff: |
EXCLUSIVE: UK Government to outlaw Google Glass for drivers — The Department for Transport has acted to ban drivers from using Google Glass - even before Google's smart eyewear launches to the general public. Stuff has learned that the government department is concerned about the potential …
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Update on GPU Optimizations in Galaxy S 4 — Yesterday we posted our analysis of the Exynos 5 Octa's behavior in international versions of the Galaxy S 4 in certain benchmarks first discovered by Beyond3D user @Andreif7. Samsung addressed issue on their blog earlier today:| Aaron Souppouris / The Verge: |
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Introducing Quip — Today, we are extremely excited to launch Quip. Quip is a modern word processor that enables you to create beautiful documents on any device — phones, tablets and the desktop. If you haven't already, download Quip to try it out. — Why Quip?| Jordan Kahn / 9to5Google: |
Google gives AT&T the boot, will supply 7000 US Starbucks locations with WiFi starting next month — After a brief announcement back in June that it had partnered with Starbucks to offer free, unlimited music through its new Google Play All Access streaming service, Google today announced … | Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Yahoo Acquires Lexity, Will Keep E-Commerce App Platform Running But Rebrand It — Yahoo has just acquired e-commerce app platform Lexity, a startup founded by former employee Amit Kumar. Lexity says all services will remain running, but it will eventually be renamed with Yahoo branding.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft Office for Android now available, but not for tablets — Microsoft is extending its Office mobile software to Android this week, bringing basic editing to smartphones running Android 4.0 or higher. Following the release of Office for iPhone, the Android variant is almost identical in what it provides and its requirements.| Liz Gannes / AllThingsD: |
Dropcam Snaps Up $30M for Connected Video Cameras — A recent generation of Web-connected hardware startups — Withings, Fitbit (unofficial), and now Dropcam — have in the past few months raised $30 million each to scale their businesses. Funnily enough, it seems to be a magic number for the cohort …
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Apple CEO met China Mobile head, discussed cooperation — (Reuters) - Apple Inc CEO Tim Cook on Tuesday met with the head of China Mobile Ltd, the world's largest mobile carrier by subscribers and the only Chinese carrier that doesn't offer iPhones and iPads.| Mark Collins / GSM Insider: |
Moto X To Use Nano-SIM Card, SIM Tray Leaks In Hong Kong — Moto X leaks again and again. This time is about the Nano-SIM tray of the Moto X. It was leaked earlier in an Asian country, Hong Kong. It looks like Moto X is available in different parts of the world.
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Engadget, Droid Life, Phones Review and 9to5Google
| Jason Del Rey / AllThingsD: |
Yelp Easily Beats Street Estimates in Q2 With Revenue Rising 69 Percent to $55 Million — Yelp's second-quarter earnings are in, and Wall Street is giving it a solid review. — The online reviews site beat the Street's expectations with losses of one cent per share on revenue of $55 million …
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VentureBeat, Tech Trader Daily, Yelp, Reuters, MarketWatch and Wall Street Journal
| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google Launches New Ad Unit For Responsive Sites — Google today launched a new responsive AdSense unit in beta that is specifically designed to run on sites that automatically adapt to different screen sizes. Now that responsive design has moved from being just a buzzword to something …
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Inside AdSense, support.google.com and Marketing Land
| Kevin Fitchard / GigaOM: |
Apigee raises $35M to wrestle with old-school APIs — Apigee, a Silicon Valley startup that develops and manages mobile application programming interfaces for the mobile carriers and other industries, has raised a $35 million in late round funding. The round was led by a fund managed …
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VentureBeat, ProgrammableWeb, VatorNews and TechCrunch
| Karl Bode / DSLreports: |
Google Fiber Server ‘Neutrality Violation’ Being Overblown — The other day I noted that an individual by the name of Douglas McClendon had filed a complaint with the FCC, claiming that the company's TOS language blocking the use of servers is a network neutrality violation.
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