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Former Steam boss Jason Holtman lands at Microsoft — Valve veteran will be focused on “making Windows a great platform for gaming” — Jason Holtman, who spearheaded Valve's Steam business for eight years before leaving the company in February, has a new job.
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| Jon Fingas / Engadget: |
Lenovo posts Q1 earnings, reveals that its mobile sales have overtaken PCs — Don't look now, but Lenovo just became an industry bellwether. While reporting strong first quarter results that include a record $8.8 billion in revenue and $170 million in profit, the tech giant revealed …
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| Scott Buscemi / 9to5Mac: |
iCloud.com beta updated with iOS 7 design — The beta.icloud.com website has been redesigned to match the design of iOS 7. Removing the linen and other Forstall-era design elements, this is the first display of Apple bringing iOS 7 design elements to the web.
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| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
Yes, Gmail users have an expectation of privacy — Sending email to Gmail users means you expect Google's servers will process it — Consumer groups are up in arms today over a motion Google made in June to dismiss a class-action lawsuit alleging that Gmail violates federal …
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Thanks:@mattlynley| Alex Colon / GigaOM: |
Samsung announces the Hennessy, a dual-screen, quad-core Android flip phone — When you think of smartphones, the image of a sleek, minimalist slab is probably what comes to mind. But how about a flip phone? Now there's a form factor you don't see everyday - at least, not on any phone that's powered by Google.
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| Dara Kerr / CNET: |
Microsoft's ‘touch screen’ for any surface goes on sale — Prototype technology that turns any surface — a wall, table, or floor — into an interactive touch screen has been years in the making. Now, anyone can get their hands on the software. — Screengrab from Ubi's video …
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| Derrick Harris / GigaOM: |
Facebook's trillion-edge, Hadoop-based and open source graph-processing engine — People following the open source Giraph project likely know that Facebook was experimenting with it, and on Wednesday the company detailed just how heavily it's leaning on Giraph.
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| Alex Konrad / Forbes: |
The Creepy Ad Firm That's Charging Top Brands For YouTube Ads That Aren't Supposed To Exist — YouTube viewers with a penchant for downloading what they watch have been unwittingly participating in a sketchy advertising cycle that shows them ads in places YouTube and Google never meant for an ad to exist.
| Ken Yeung / The Next Web: |
eBay launches “My Gadgets”, an easy way to catalog, value and one day sell your gadgets — Today, online auction marketplace eBay launched a new product called “My Gadgets” that it says will let users catalog the tech devices they have and appraise them should they wish to sell any later.| Andy Greenberg / Forbes: |
Meet The Dread Pirate Roberts, The Man Behind Booming Black Market Drug Website Silk Road — An entrepreneur as professionally careful as the Dread Pirate Roberts doesn't trust instant messaging services. Forget phones or Skype. At one point during our eight-month preinterview courtship …
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| Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: |
Ad-Free Social Platform App.net Raises Another $2.5M From Andreessen Horowitz — App.net, the social platform created in response to the ad-driven consumer social networks (specifically Twitter), just announced that it has raised $2.5 million in new funding.| John Paczkowski / AllThingsD: |
BlackBerry Patent Portfolio Worth $2 Billion to $3 Billion — BlackBerry's continuing decline has left it with comparatively little to offer a potential acquirer. There's a crumbling smartphone business, a too-late-to-market operating system that has failed to capture the imagination … | Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Google confirms critical Android crypto flaw used in $5,700 Bitcoin heist — Google developers have confirmed a cryptographic vulnerability in the Android operating system that researchers say could generate serious security glitches on hundreds of thousands of end user apps, many of them used to make Bitcoin transactions.
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| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
They don't make Windows like they used to — Summary: Microsoft is making the Windows sausage differently these days. And that impacts everything from how products are tested, to how they're launched and updated. — Microsoft announced on August 14 that it will be launching Windows 8.1 on October 18, 2013.| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
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| Andy Greenberg / Forbes: |
How A ‘Deviant’ Philosopher Built Palantir, A CIA-Funded Data-Mining Juggernaut — Since rumors began to spread that a startup called Palantir helped to kill Osama bin Laden, Alex Karp hasn't had much time to himself. — On one sun-baked July morning in Silicon Valley Palantir's lean 45 … | Dina Bass / Bloomberg: |
Microsoft's First Chip Brings Tank-Finding Design to Xbox — Microsoft Corp. (MSFT), seeking to fend off competition for its Xbox game console by souping up the Kinect motion sensor, is tapping a new semiconductor developer: itself. — For the first time, the company will build its own processors based on an in-house design.| Alex Wilhelm / TechCrunch: |
Microsoft Adds Business Vendors For Its Surface Project In 18 Countries Across Two Continents — The Surface project is far from over. Today Microsoft announced that it is adding several international resellers and distributors of the Surface RT and Pro tablet hybrids.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Amazon's Silk Web Browser Gets A Whole New Look — Amazon's Silk web browser, which comes built into Kindle Fire devices, has received its first major upgrade since September 2012, the company announced today. Though there have been steady under-the-hood improvements over time …
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