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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Windows 8.1 is officially finished, but everyone has to wait until October 18th — Microsoft is confirming today, after recent reports, that the company has completed Windows 8.1 and is releasing it to manufacturing (RTM). The finalization of the Windows 8 update means that hardware partners …
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| Fortune: |
AllThingsD nears split with Dow Jones — The future of influential tech website All Things Digital is close to being decided. Reuters reported in February that AllThingsD co-executive editors Kara Swisher and Walt Mossberg had begun discussions with owner Dow Jones, a subsidiary of News Corp. …
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| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
Apple TV updated with Vevo, Disney Channel, Disney XD, Weather Channel, Smithsonian apps — Today, Apple has issued an over-the-air update to the Apple TV that brings several new content apps. Notably, in line with expectations, an app for the Vevo Music Video service has arrived.
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See also Mediagazer| Matthew Panzarino / TechCrunch: |
Apple's iPhone Trade-in Program Is Already Being Piloted, Here's How It Works — Apple is about to introduce an iPhone trade-in program that will allow users to walk into a Retail store and trade up from an old model to a new one. We've heard some interesting details about the way that the program … | Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
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| Facebook: |
Global Government Requests Report — Transparency and trust are core values at Facebook. We strive to embody them in all aspects of our services, including our approach to responding to government data requests. We want to make sure that the people who use our service understand the nature …
| John Tozzi / Businessweek: |
Jack Dorsey's Plan to Save America's Struggling Cities — Square co-founder (and Twitter chairman) Jack Dorsey started hosting events to bring together local business owners in California earlier this year. This fall he's taking the idea to places normally off the tech world's radar …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
ARM Acquires Internet Of Things Startup Sensinode To Move Beyond Tablets And Phones — As more reports of ARM-based Windows and Apple devices continue to fill the airwaves — the latest being reports of a Surface 2 and Nokia's first Windows tablet, along with upcoming iPhone handsets …
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| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
“thereisnofatebutwhatwemake” — Turbo-charged cracking comes to long passwords — For the first time, the freely available password cracker ocl-Hashcat-plus is able to tackle passcodes with as many as 55 characters. It's an improvement that comes as more and more people are relying … | Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
Apple launches more intuitive AppleCare support website, 24/7 chat — Earlier this month, we reported that Apple would soon introduce significant changes to its online AppleCare support portals. In line with our report, Apple has begun rolling out a redesigned AppleCare website to provide support …
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| Justine Sharrock / BuzzFeed: |
The Rise And Fall Of A Startup Mansion — Startups, pizza, ego, beer, filth. The collapse of a hacker house and the battle for Silicon Valley's soul. — a1.muscache.com — When William Hsu first moved to San Francisco to work in startups, he got a one-bedroom apartment.| Stefan Constantinescu / Android Beat: |
Samsung Exec confirms Note III and Galaxy Gear launch for September 4th (next week!) — Lee Young-hee, executive vice president of Samsung's mobile business, told The Korea Times that Samsung will be unveiling the Galaxy Note III and Galaxy Gear smartwatch on September 4th.| Catherine Ho / Washington Post: |
Patent seller Intellectual Ventures sets up its own lobbying effort in D.C. — As the White House and federal regulators work to crack down on so-called patent trolls, one company that's found success relying on a business model of licensing patents is building a new in-house lobbying team in Washington.
| Will Connors / Wall Street Journal: |
BlackBerry Weighs Messenger Spinoff — Move Signals Firm Is Trying to Position BBM as a Valuable Asset Ahead of Potential Sale — BlackBerry Ltd. is considering spinning off its messaging service into a subsidiary that would operate with more independence, according to people familiar with the matter.| Cory Gunther / Android Community: |
Hangouts update brings support for AT&T video calling — Back in May Google announced their new messaging service to replace Google Talk, and hopefully one day Google Voice. That being their new Hangouts app. It was revealed at Google I/O, and since has been updated with a slew of new features, smiley faces and more.| Dan Levine / Reuters: |
U.S. judge approves Facebook privacy settlement over ads — (Reuters) - A U.S. judge on Monday granted final approval to Facebook's $20 million settlement of a lawsuit over targeted advertising despite objections that the deal did not go far enough to protect children's privacy.| Mike Isaac / AllThingsD: |
Amazon Aims to Court Developers With In-App Merch Deals — It's hard out there for an app store. If you aren't Apple or Google, you're trying to court users to your platform. You're trying to promote your storefront. And, above all else, you want to keep your developers happy.
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| Om Malik / GigaOM: |
Instagram now offers a little thing that matters: the ability to straighten photos — As a long time Instagram member, one of the lessons I have learned is that people like photos that are straight and aren't at some awkward angles. Why, I can't tell you, but good framing …
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Instagram Engineering, The Next Web, The Verge, Macgasm, PC Magazine and ReadWrite. Tweets: @om
| Kurt Wagner / Mashable: |
Facebook Unveils Shared Photo Albums — A picture's worth a thousand words, and now Facebook is letting others add to your conversation. — The world's largest social network announced shared photo albums on Monday, a new feature that allows multiple users to upload images to the same album.
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CNN, PandoDaily, The Register, TechSpot, VentureBeat, Softpedia News, memeburn, BGR India, www.idigitaltimes.co.uk, TechnoBuffalo, I4U News, Hunter Walk, PetaPixel, SlashGear, iDownloadBlog.com, VatorNews, TUAW, AllThingsD, Digits, NBC Bay Area, PC Magazine, TechHive, bub.blicio.us, TechCrunch, Ubergizmo, The Next Web, Engadget, AllFacebook, The Verge, iClarified, Macgasm and WebProNews. Tweets: @tvnewslab
| Issie Lapowsky / Inc.com: |
Paul Graham on Building Companies for Fast Growth — Graham's tech accelerator, Y Combinator, has minted many big hits, including Dropbox, Reddit, and Airbnb. Here's a conversation with the start-up guru. — Paul Graham's appetite for small talk is waning. “Are we starting yet?
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| NBC News: |
How Snowden did it — When Edward Snowden stole the crown jewels of the National Security Agency, he didn't need to use any sophisticated devices or software or go around any computer firewall. — All he needed, said multiple intelligence community sources, was a few thumb drives …
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| Om Malik / GigaOM: |
Vine gets better with age: How screens, speed and networks are changing the future of online video — Earlier this morning when sitting in the San Diego Airport while waiting for my flight, I did what most people do these days in those situations — I peered into my phone and cycled through my various social media applications.
Tweets: @om
| Julian Assange / The Stringer: |
Google and the NSA: Who's holding the ‘s**t-bag’ now? — It has been revealed today, thanks to Edward Snowden, that Google and other US tech companies received millions of dollars from the NSA for their compliance with the PRISM mass surveillance system. — So just how close is Google to the US securitocracy?
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