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Android's Hugo Barra Departs Google for China's Xiaomi — One of Google's top Android executives is leaving the company. — Hugo Barra, whose official title is vice president of product management for Android, has been one of the more public faces of the mobile operating system …
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| Hugo Barra / Google+: |
A new Android chapter — After nearly 5½ years at Google and almost 3 years as a member of the Android team — the most amazing group of people I've ever worked with in my life — I have decided to start a new career chapter. In a few weeks, I'll be joining the Xiaomi team in China …
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| Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch: |
Google Exec Departs Amidst Rumors Of Tangled Love Quadrangle — We've confirmed a report today that Android VP Hugo Barra is leaving Google for “Apple of China” Xiaomi. — The report was timed to coincide with another story about the dissolution of Google co-founder Sergey Brin's marriage to 23andMe co-founder Anne Wojcicki.| Om Malik / GigaOM: |
Why Twitter's new Conversations view is a big deal and why it matters for its IPO — No one in Silicon Valley has any doubt that San Francisco-based Twitter is on a road to a public offering. Given its current valuation — estimated at around or over $10 billion — and the amount of money it has raised …
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| Matthew Panzarino / TechCrunch: |
| Wall Street Journal: |
Amazon's Push to the Cloud Adds to Server-Market Woes — To understand the challenges facing makers of server systems, look to health-care staffing firm Schumacher Group. — The Lafayette, La., company, has been shifting a growing proportion of its computing chores to computers operated …
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| Quentin Hardy / NYT Bits: |
The ‘Other’ Server Makers Are Gaining Ground — This quarter's market-share reports on computer server shipments and sales from Gartner and IDC are an unusually eloquent statement about the world's transition to cloud computing and commodity machines that don't command a big profit margin.| Mike Isaac / AllThingsD: |
Twitter Acquires Social TV Tracker Trendrr — Twitter has acquired Trendrr, a social tracking TV service that until today competed with Twitter's own in-house analytics products. — After Wednesday's acquisition, the three dominant, stand-alone players in the social TV chatter space are gone.
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| David Beren / TmoNews: |
T-Mobile Scheduling Employee Blackout Dates For September 20th-22nd? — I do love a good rumor and this one should make all you iPhone fans happy as I'm hearing whispers T-Mobile is planning blackout dates between September 20th and 22nd. Like all good rumors, we should take this with the standard … | Leo Kelion / BBC: |
Skype confirms 3D video calls are under development — Skype said that limitations with current 3D technologies had stopped it launching the feature — Skype has confirmed it has developed 3D video calls. — The news was revealed by a senior executive in an exclusive interview with the BBC to mark Skype's tenth anniversary.
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| Dante D'Orazio / The Verge: |
Instapaper gets complete redesign after Betaworks purchase, new mobile apps soon — Instapaper is in the midsts of an overhaul. After being purchased by Betaworks this past April, the first major changes to the read-it-later service since creator Marco Arment gave up control of the app are here.
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| Liz Gannes / AllThingsD: |
Google Co-Founder Sergey Brin and 23andMe Co-Founder Anne Wojcicki Have Split — Brin and Wojcicki on Gavin Newsom's interview show in 2012. — Google co-founder Sergey Brin and 23andMe co-founder Anne Wojcicki, one of Silicon Valley's most high-profile couples, are living apart.
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| Ben Woods / The Next Web: |
Three finally unveils 4G rollout plans: The stage is now set for UK's 4G future — Mobile operator Three has finally unveiled its rollout schedule and pricing details for its impending 4G launch, setting the stage for the real 4G battle in the UK to begin. — The operator announced …
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sales of BlackBerry's Q10 Keyboard Phone Fall Flat — Carrier Executives and Retailers Report Dismal Sales and Returns — When BlackBerry Ltd. Chief Executive Thorsten Heins was asked why he decided to start selling the company's new keyboard-equipped smartphone months after a new touch-screen device …
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| Charles Arthur / Guardian: |
Facebook spam: a $200m business in links alone — Italian researchers uncover price lists for posting third-party links to Facebook fan pages - and calculate that they earn substantial amounts for most popular ones — Spammers posting links on Facebook fan pages to send people …
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| Philip Dorling / Sydney Morning Herald: |
Australian spies in global deal to tap undersea cables — Underwater paths of the world's information. — The nation's electronic espionage agency, the Australian Signals Directorate, is in a partnership with British, American and Singaporean intelligence agencies to tap undersea fibre … | David Kravets / Wired: |
White House Copyright Czar Jumps to Industry Anti-Piracy Group — Victoria Espinel, the nation's copyright czar until two weeks ago, has been named president of an anti-piracy trade group that lobbies governments on behalf of the software industry. — Espinel resigned earlier this month … | Greg Kumparak / TechCrunch: |
Unity Game Engine To Get Official 2D Game Support And A Built-In Ad Solution — Unity, the increasingly popular “build once, run anywhere” 3D game engine, is going 2D. — At the company's UNITE conference in Vancouver this morning, CEO David Helgason announced three things …
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Unity Technologies Blog, AllThingsD, PC Magazine, Engadget and Gamasutra. Tweets: @eeen. Thanks:@grg
| Tom Simonite / MIT Technology Review: |
Copy Protection for 3-D Printing Aims to Prevent a Piracy Plague — Streaming designs to 3-D printers like Netflix does movies could prevent unauthorized copying. — WHY IT MATTERS — The surge of companies springing up around 3-D printing could be slowed if digital designs are commonly copied without permission.
| Joe Mullin / Ars Technica: |
In historic vote, New Zealand bans software patents — A major new patent bill, passed in a 117-4 vote by New Zealand's Parliament after five years of debate, has banned software patents. — The relevant clause of the patent bill actually states that a computer program is “not an invention.”
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Tweets: @nzpaulm, @videolan and @davewiner
| Wall Street Journal: |
Verizon and Vodafone Rekindle Talks on $100 Billion-Plus Deal — Verizon Communications Inc. and Vodafone Group PLC have rekindled talks over a buyout of the U.K. company's stake in their U.S. wireless joint venture, people familiar with the matter said, an acquisition that would likely cost Verizon well over $100 billion.
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Tweets: @dkberman, @sharonterlep and @qz
See also Mediagazer| Paresh Dave / Los Angeles Times: |
New York Times outage traced to phishing email to Melbourne IT partner — Melbourne IT, an Australian firm that allows website owners to buy addresses such as latimes.com, said the downtime suffered by the New York Times website Tuesday began when hackers gained access to the user name … Sponsor Posts
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