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Blackberry announces 4,500 layoffs, quarterly $950M loss, new enterprise focus — BlackBerry announces preliminary second quarter fiscal 2014 results and provides business update — Company expects GAAP net operating loss of approximately $950 million to $995 million …
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Lawsuit alleges LinkedIn breaks in to external email accounts to collect email addresses — LinkedIn Customers Allege Company Hacked E-Mail Addresses — LinkedIn Corp. (LNKD), owner of the world's most popular professional-networking website, was sued by customers alleging it appropriated …
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Another iOS 7 Bug Lets Anyone Make Calls From Locked iPhones—And This One Has No Quick Fix — Apple has yet to fix one nasty bug in the lockscreen of iOS 7, and the next one has already appeared. — On Friday, Karam Daoud, a 27-year old Palestinian living in the West Bank city of Ramallah …
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Apple TV 6.0 released with iTunes Radio, AirPlay from iCloud, iTunes Music Store, more — Everyone's favorite hockey puck “hobby” has received a huge software update today. Apple TV 6.0, which has been in beta testing since June, brings with it iTunes Radio, AirPlay from iCloud …
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| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Senator Al Franken voices privacy concerns over Apple's Touch ID in letter to Tim Cook — Apple has gone out of its way to emphasize the secure, locked down nature of its Touch ID fingerprint scanning system, but Senator Al Franken still believes the technology “raises substantial privacy questions.”| Ina Fried / AllThingsD: |
Apple: Demand for New iPhones Has Been “Incredible” — Apple said that Friday that it is sold out of some iPhone 5s models amid what it described as “incredible” demand. — “Demand for the new iPhones has been incredible and we are currently sold out or have limited supply of certain iPhone 5s models …
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| Mike Isaac / AllThingsD: |
Facebook Engineering and Products VP Greg Badros to Leave Company — Greg Badros, Facebook's vice president of engineering and products, plans to soon leave the company, AllThingsD has learned. — Facebook confirmed Badros's departure in a brief statement: “Greg was a valuable member of Facebook's team …
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| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Vevo Will Block YouTube's Offline-Video Viewing Feature — Music video service Vevo, which is one of YouTube's top content suppliers, will not be allowing users to watch its videos through YouTube's mobile apps if they're not connected to the Internet. — A new feature for YouTube mobile apps … | Wall Street Journal: |
Google's plan to replace browser cookies causes concern for the digital advertising industry — Advertisers Worry About Changes to ‘Cookies’ — As Google Considers New System, Madison Ave. Wrings Its Hands — The possibility that Google Inc. could stop using “cookies” …
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| Christopher Mims / Quartz: |
Siri is just the start; Multipath TCP will improve connection reliability for more apps over time — Apple's iOS 7 includes a surprise: a ticket to the next generation of the internet — For five years, researchers have toiled over an obscure bit of fundamental internet infrastructure …
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Olivier Bonaventure, Electronista, AppleInsider, iPhone in Canada Blog, Olivier Bonaventure, iMore and Softpedia News
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| Cyrus Farivar / Ars Technica: |
Spain passes new anti-piracy laws, raises maximum penalty to six years — Nearly six months ago, we reported that Spain was under heavy pressure from the United States to strengthen its anti-piracy laws. (That, of course, comes after Spain enacted an anti-piracy law in 2011.)| Tom Simonite / MIT Technology Review: |
Facebook Launches Advanced AI Effort to Find Meaning in Your Posts — Facebook Launches Advanced AI Effort to Find Meaning in Your Posts — A technique called deep learning could help Facebook understand its users and their data better. — WHY IT MATTERS
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| Nathan Vardi / Forbes: |
The Return Of The Hot IPO: FireEye and Rocket Fuel Shares Explode — The initial public offerings of FireEye and Rocket Fuel exploded on Friday as investors seemingly transported back to 1999 and furiously bid up the shares of of the two companies. — Shares of FireEye …
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| Jordan Golson / MacRumors: |
Apple CEO Tim Cook Joins Twitter, First Tweet About Visiting Palo Alto Apple Retail Stores — Apple CEO Tim Cook has apparently joined Twitter with the username @tim_cook, with fellow Apple executive Phil Schiller retweeting him as a means of verification. The account was first created back in July, but today saw Cook's first tweet.
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