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Forced Exposure — The owner of Lavabit tells us that he's stopped using email and if we knew what he knew, we'd stop too. — There is no way to do Groklaw without email. Therein lies the conundrum. — What to do? — What to do? I've spent the last couple of weeks trying to figure it out.
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| John McDermott / AdAge: |
iTunes Radio to Debut in September With McDonald's, Nissan, P&G, Pepsi — Launch Partners Sign 12-Month Deals Worth Tens of Millions of Dollars — iTunes Radio, Apple's answer to Pandora, is set to debut next month with a handful of high-profile brand partners including McDonald's, Nissan …
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See also Mediagazer| Terrence O'Brien / Engadget: |
PlayStation 4 hitting shelves on November 15th in the US for $399, November 29th in Europe and Latin America — There isn't much we don't know about the PlayStation 4 at this point. Sony has let the details slip out in drips and drabs, dragging out the mystery as long as possible.
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| Kyle Orland / Ars Technica: |
Sony officially drops price of Wi-Fi PlayStation Vita to $199 — System is now 199 euros as well, memory cards pricing. — At Sony's Gamescom press conference today, Sony announced the price of the Wi-Fi PlayStation Vita would be dropping to $199 in the US and 199 Euros in Europe.
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| Liz Gannes / AllThingsD: |
Google and Waze Start Mixing Their Maps for the First Time — Google today is introducing the first integrations between its homegrown Google Maps for mobile and its newly owned Waze. — Google adds Waze — The traffic tab on Google Maps for iOS and Android will now include accidents …
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| Julian Borger / Guardian: |
NSA files: why the Guardian in London destroyed hard drives of leaked files — A threat of legal action by the government that could have stopped reporting on the files leaked by Edward Snowden led to a symbolic act at the Guardian's offices in London — Guardian editors on Tuesday revealed …
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See also Mediagazer| Laura Hazard Owen / GigaOM: |
Barnes & Noble totally reverses strategy in train wreck of an investor call — Want to know what Barnes & Noble's plan is for the future? In that case, it would be wise to ignore pretty much everything the company has said it was going to do in recent months. — Getting out of the tablet business?| Laura Hazard Owen / GigaOM: |
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See also Mediagazer| Adrianne Jeffries / The Verge: |
Not OK, Cupid: dating site email security gaffe leaves your account wide open — Users may be exposing themselves without realizing it — A friend who recently started using OKCupid just forwarded me an email she got from the site, containing a funny message from a prospective suitor: “You seem nice.
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| Joan E. Solsman / CNET: |
Netflix inks exclusive deal for first-run Weinstein films — The Internet's biggest on-demand video service will stream movies from the indie film studio before any other pay-TV providers starting in 2016, the same year it kicks off a similar Disney deal. — Follow @@joan_e| Larry Dignan / ZDNet: |
Best Buy: Can stores be asset vs. Amazon? — Best Buy is working hard to make sure price matching with Amazon and the competition is just table stakes to close a sale. And its master plan is to use its stores as a front-end and back-end weapon to grow revenue. bestbuystore Following …
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google's Updated YouTube App With In-App Multitasking Launches On iOS — Just yesterday, Google unexpectedly announced the new YouTube app for Android, but it wouldn't say when it would bring these updates, including the ability to multitask in the app by minimizing videos while searching for that next glorious cat video, to iOS.
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| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
TiVo Roamio Pro review: this is the ultimate cable box — But it comes at a price — There is nothing more instantly dangerous to the average relationship than screwing up the TV. — It's just a fact, crystallized in 50 years of jokes about remote controls: who's holding it, how complicated it is, how many there are.| Matthew Panzarino / TechCrunch: |
Instagram Cracks Down On Connected Apps Using “Insta” And “Gram” — Instagram has updated its brand guidelines to ban apps that feature either the word ‘Insta’ or ‘Gram’ in their names, and it has begun sending emails to existing apps requesting that they change those components ‘within a reasonable period’.| Danielle Kucera / Bloomberg: |
Amazon Ramps Up $13.9 Billion Warehouse Building Spree — Amazon.com Inc. (AMZN) is stepping up a warehouse building spree, signaling the urgency of getting products to customers more quickly amid rising competition from EBay Inc. (EBAY) and Wal-Mart (WMT) Stores Inc.| Gregg Keizer / Computerworld: |
Security expert kick-starts fund to pay Facebook bug finder a $10K bounty — Khalil Shreateh, who was rebuffed by Facebook, says, ‘Thank you so much’ — After a Palestinian researcher was denied a bug bounty by Facebook, Marc Maiffret, CTO of BeyondTrust, kicked off a crowd-sourced fund yesterday to come up with a reward.
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Birst Raises Another $38M Led By Sequoia To Expand Its Cloud-Based Business Intelligence Solutions — Rack up one more win for companies looking to overturn legacy enterprise IT with cloud-based services. Birst, a San Francisco-based startup using the software-as-a-service model …
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