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Apple's Tim Cook, tech execs meet with Barack Obama to talk surveillance — President Barack Obama hosted Apple CEO Tim Cook, AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson, Google computer scientist Vint Cerf and other tech executives and civil liberties leaders on Thursday for a closed-door meeting about government surveillance, sources tell POLITICO.
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| Laura Hazard Owen / GigaOM: |
In ebook case, Apple wants a stay, and DOJ argues publishers are conspiring again — In advance of a Friday afternoon conference where a federal judge, Apple and the DOJ will meet to discuss Apple's punishment in the ebook pricing case, both sides submitted new filings and Kobo and the Consumer Federation of America jumped in as well.| Josh Lowensohn / CNET: |
Samsung faces sales ban on older devices in U.S. — The U.S. International Trade Commission says Samsung infringes on a pair of Apple patents with some of its older phones. — The U.S. International Trade Commission has ruled in favor of Apple in a decision to ban some of Samsung's phones in the U.S.
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| Terrence O'Brien / Engadget: |
Judge denies Apple's request to suspend e-book antitrust ruling — Apple, in its ongoing battle over an e-book price fixing scandal, has been dealt yet another setback. Last month, Judge Denise Cote ruled that Apple had violated antitrust laws in conspiring with publishers to raise e-book prices.
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NSA loophole allows warrantless search for US citizens' emails and phone calls — Exclusive: Spy agency has secret backdoor permission to search databases for individual Americans' communications — The National Security Agency has a secret backdoor into its vast databases under …
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Thanks:@alex| Russell Holly / Geek.com: |
Asus to manufacture Nexus 10 refresh — The largest of Google's three Nexus devices is soon due for a refresh, and it looks like Asus will be the manufacturer this time around. — Google's Nexus program is something of a bidding war in the planning stages.
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| Chance Miller / 9to5Google: |
Report: Motorola to produce new Nexus device, will be released in Q4 — According to a new Google+ post from Taylor Wimberly, who was spot on with his Moto X Phone leaks, Motorola and Google are planning to team up on the next Nexus device. Wimberly says the device will be released in Q4 … | Reuters: |
Exclusive: BlackBerry open to going private, sources say — (Reuters) - BlackBerry Ltd is warming up to the possibility of going private, as the smartphone maker battles to revive its fortunes, several sources familiar with the situation said. — Chief Executive Thorsten Heins …
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| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
Armstrong Confirms “Hundreds” Of Layoffs At Patch, 400 Sites Shuttered Or Partnered Off, And A New CEO — We reported yesterday that AOL's hyper-local news service would lose hundreds of employees today, and now we have confirmation from a well-placed Patcher privy to the call …
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Rumor: Amazon developing Android console to release this year — Online retail giant Amazon will enter the Android console market later this year, according to Game Informer sources. In a brief report, the site claims people with “knowledge of the in-development hardware” …
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Windows Phone update in testing, includes rotation lock and text syncing to PCs — While Microsoft's latest Windows Phone 8 update is slowly rolling out to existing handsets, the company is prepping new changes that will be made available by the end of the year.
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| Jordan Kahn / 9to5Mac: |
Twitter #music app gets new ways to discover artists, scans iPhone library for personalized recommendations — Twitter updated its Twitter #music iPhone app today with several new ways to discover new artists in addition to personalized recommendations based on the content in your iPhone's music library.| Sharif Sakr / Engadget: |
ASUS pulls out of Windows RT due to financial losses and ‘industry sentiment’ — This isn't a huge shock, given that ASUS has already publicly expressed woes about poor sales of its Windows RT products, but CEO Jerry Shen's latest comments have a surprising edge of finality to them.
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Nervous About Backlash, Facebook Moves Cautiously on Video Ads — CEO Zuckerberg Tries to Find Right Balance for Users and Advertisers — Facebook has been planning for months to dive into the lucrative market for online video ads. The holdup: CEO Mark Zuckerberg doesn't want to annoy its 1.1 billion members.| Phil Nickinson / Android Central: |
Google Wallet pulling support for gift, loyalty cards — A little bit of bad news tonight if you use Google Wallet for gift cards and loyalty cards. According to an e-mail that just went out, support for NFC redemption of gift cards and loyalty cards will end on Aug. 21.
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New Google Nexus 7 having GPS problems — Several owners of the new Google Nexus 7 have resorted to posting on online forums about a problem they are having with their new tablet. The problem has to do with the GPS system on the slate. According to one owner of the new Nexus 7 …
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