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| Patrick Gray / Wired: |
Tech Companies and Government May Soon Go to War Over Surveillance — Everyone assumes that technology companies like Apple, Facebook, and Google don't care that their customers are being spied on. I don't believe that's true. — On the very day the media dropped detailed documents … | Andrea Peterson / The Switch: |
The NSA has its own team of elite hackers — Our Post colleagues have had a busy day. First, they released documents revealing the U.S. intelligence budget from National Security Agency (NSA) leaker Edward Snowden. Then they recounted exactly how the hunt for Osama bin Laden went down.
| Brian Fung / The Switch: |
Obama's intelligence czar vows to release his own transparency report — Director of National Intelligence James Clapper will begin releasing annual reports about the National Security Agency's surveillance activity in the coming months, a spokesperson for the Office of the Director of National Intelligence has confirmed.
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| Kelli B. Grant / CNBC: |
Apple's iPhone trade-in program to add consumer choice — Apple is poised to start offering an in-store trade-in program, but consumers already have plenty of options to turn their old iPhone into cash—enough, in some cases, to get their next one for free.
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| Kevin Fitchard / GigaOM: |
Nokia unveils its connected car platform: Here Auto — After years of being the auto industry's mapmaker, Nokia on Friday announced its intention to become a much bigger technological force in the vehicle. Nokia took the wraps off of Here Auto, an embedded infotainment and connected car system …
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| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft makes latest Surface price cuts permanent — Summary: Microsoft is cutting prices on Surface Pro, Surface RT and touch covers and making those cuts permanent, rather than promotional. — Microsoft has made previously temporary price-cut promotions for its Surface devices permanent.| Kevin C. Tofel / GigaOM: |
More Galaxy Gear details leak: 10 hour battery life, two storage options — We've already heard most of the details on Samsung's smartwatch, the Galaxy Gear, but there's still room (and time) for some more information. The latest leaks from AmongTech confirm what our sources have told us but with the addition of a few more tidibts.| Jordan Kahn / 9to5Google: |
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| Michael Steeber / 9to5Mac: |
Gold, Graphite iPhone 5S shells shown on video, structure compared to iPhone 5 — In what seems to be a never-ending string of “gold” iPhone 5S part leaks, new high-quality videos analyze what appear to be legitimate rear shells for the upcoming iPhone 5S...| Dan Farber / CNET: |
A vote for Bill Gates as interim Microsoft CEO — “There is no clear candidate with the visionary skills to turn company around other than Bill Gates,” says Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff. — The evaluations of Steve Ballmer's 33 years at Microsoft are winding down …
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Inquirer, bizjournals, GeekWire, Business Insider, Computerworld, ValueWalk and TechCrunch
| Joanna Stern / ABC News: |
Twitter Conversations New Blue Line Causing Many Twitter Users to Feel Blue … Twitter made some updates on Wednesday to its apps and its website, as it does from time to time. The biggest change was intended to make it easier to keep up with conversations on the social network.
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Bijan Sabet, CNET, Softpedia News, The Atlantic Wire, Wired.co.uk, CNN, Fortune and AllTwitter
Tweets: @hunterwalk, @_theblueline, @parislemon, @zpower, @jbrodkin, @zpower, @parislemon, @gaberivera, @mat, @levie and @mattbuchanan
| Harry Brignull / The Verge: |
Dark Patterns: inside the interfaces designed to trick you — These carefully crafted elements are built to misdirect and confuse — Harry Brignull is a London, UK-based independent user experience designer with a PhD in cognitive science. He is also the founder of Dark Patterns …
Tweets: @skybondsor and @gt
| Liam Tung / ZDNet: |
Microsoft rolls out 50GB mailboxes for Exchange Online, Office 365 — Summary: Microsoft doubles its cloud email storage capacity for users and streaks ahead of Google Apps. — Liam Tung — After tripling file storage capacity on SkyDrive Pro this week, Microsoft has announced it's doubling …
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The Microsoft Office Blog, VentureBeat, WebProNews, MSDN Blogs, The Register and TechNet Blogs. Tweets: @maryjofoley
| Bloomberg: |
Carl Icahn Increases Nuance Stake, May Seek Board Seat — Billionaire investor Carl Icahn boosted his stake in Nuance Communications Inc. (NUAN) and may seek to put a representative on the board of the speech-recognition software maker. — Funds controlled by Icahn, including Icahn Partners LP …
| BBC: |
Amazon to alter pricing policy for traders — Online retailer Amazon is to alter its pricing policy for third-party traders amid investigations in the UK and Germany. — It will drop a clause banning traders signed up to its Marketplace platform from offering products elsewhere for cheaper.
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Bloomberg, Telegraph, Wall Street Journal, Geek.com, The Equity Kicker and Guardian. Tweets: @victoriastrauss
| Jeff Blagdon / The Verge: |
AT&T's no-contract Aio Wireless available nationwide in September — AT&T is taking its T-Mobile competitor Aio Wireless nationwide. The no-contract prepaid service is currently only available in Florida, Texas, Metro-Atlanta, and Chicago, but beginning in mid-September …
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AT&T, VentureBeat, MacRumors, DSLreports, AllThingsD, Gotta Be Mobile, iPhone, Engadget, SlashGear and TmoNews
| Florian Mueller / FOSS Patents: |
Follow-up on New Zealand: patent offices and judges don't interpret patent law like geeks do — My tale-of-caution post on yesterday's adoption of a patent reform bill in New Zealand has been one of my most popular writings this month — popular in terms of the interest it has drawn …
| Alexander C. Kaufman / International Business Times: |
Exclusive: Aereo To Launch On Android In September, Says CEO — Aereo uses tiny antennas to pick up over-the-air signals and beam them to subscribers' iPads and computers. Courtesy of Aereo — Aereo, the upstart television streaming service, plans to launch its product on Android devices in September …
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CNET, The Next Web, Digital Trends, Softpedia News, GadgeTell, Engadget, The Verge and GigaOM
| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Unpatched Mac bug gives attackers “super user” status by going back in time — Researchers have made it easier to exploit a five-month-old security flaw that allows penetration testers and less-ethical hackers to gain nearly unfettered “root” access to Macs over which they already have limited control.
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SiliconANGLE, ZDNet, SlashGear, Macworld, Naked Security and Threatpost
| Kaylene Hong / The Next Web: |
Forget 1TB, China's Tencent is giving away 10TB worth of free cloud storage — Yesterday we reported that Chinese tech giants Baidu and Qihoo 360 are currently courting users with 1TB of free space, putting the free space given by Dropbox, Box and Microsoft to shame.
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Engadget, memeburn and Softpedia News
| Bloomberg: |
Microsoft Is Said to Be in Talks to Invest in Foursquare — Microsoft is in talks with Foursquare about a potential investment in the social-media company, according to people with knowledge of the discussions. The talks are at an advanced stage, said two of the people … | Sarah Frier / Bloomberg: |
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Inc.com, GigaOM, GeekWire, Business Insider and ValueWalk. Tweets: @sarahfrier. Thanks:@mattlynley
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