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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Google is building Chrome OS straight into Windows 8 — Google unveiled its Chrome Apps initiative recently to launch apps that exist outside of the browser and extend its reach into more of a platform, but it looks like the company has a whole lot more planned.
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Gizmodo, The Next Web, Electronista, AndroidHeadlines.com and 9to5Google
| Byron Acohido / USA Today: |
Fingerprint scanning arriving on Android devices in six months, claims FIDO Alliance president — Android fingerprint sensors 6 months away — SEATTLE — Michael Barrett cringes every time he has to enter a password on his smartphone. — But six months from now Barrett says he will be able …
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The Verge, SlashGear, Engadget, Patently Apple, Pocket-lint and TechnoBuffalo
| Fred Vogelstein / New York Times: |
And Then Steve Said, ‘Let There Be an iPhone’ — The 55 miles from Campbell to San Francisco make for one of the nicest commutes anywhere. The journey mostly zips along the Junipero Serra Freeway, a grand and remarkably empty highway that abuts the east side of the Santa Cruz Mountains.
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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Twitter Quitters And The Unfiltered Feed Problem — At its heart, Twitter is a firehose. Everything you tweet shows up to every one of your followers. It's what makes Twitter feel like the real-time pulse of the world. But it could also be preventing Twitter from growing.| Reuters: |
Exclusive: Cisco, Google, SAP discussing BlackBerry bids - sources — (Reuters) - BlackBerry Ltd, on the block as its smartphone business struggles, is in talks with Cisco Systems, Google Inc and SAP about selling them all or parts of itself, several sources close to the matter said.| Associated Press: |
BlackBerry hit by shareholder lawsuit claiming company misled investors — Class action lawsuit seeks to represent thousands of shareholders who purchased Blackberry stock in the past year — A class action lawsuit has been filed against BlackBerry by a shareholder, claiming …
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Telegraph, Bloomberg, The Huffington Post and Reuters
| Jordan Kahn / 9to5Mac: |
Apple plans to grow in India with 100 ‘standalone’ stores, store-in-store locations in small cities — The Economic Times reports that Apple executives in India recently hosted executives from top retailers in the country and laid out plans to open store-in-store locations and 100 standalone stores in smaller Indian markets:
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Times of India and AppleInsider
| Nick Summers / The Next Web: |
CBS brings its full-episode streaming app to Android and Windows 8, says BB10 app is coming this year — CBS has brought its TV streaming app to Android and Windows 8, offering US viewers full episodes of network shows such as The Big Bang Theory, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation and How I Met Your Mother.| Shane Cole / AppleInsider: |
Apple's iPhone 5s tops sales charts at big 4 US carriers, iPhone 5c close behind — Cupertino's flagship iPhone 5s was the best-selling smartphone for all four major U.S. carriers — AT&T, Sprint, Verizon, and T-mobile — while the new iPhone 5c followed closely behind, according to new tracking data.
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CNET, Gotta Be Mobile, TechnoBuffalo, Internet2Go, iDownloadBlog.com, TUAW, ITworld.com, BGR and iPhone in Canada Blog
| Mike Masnick / Techdirt: |
Patent Troll Intellectual Ventures Running Out Of Cash; Looking For $3 Billion From Investors — It would appear that Intellectual Ventures' grand plans to tax innovators has hit a bit of a roadblock: the company appears to be running out of cash. Reuters has the news that the company …
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Reuters, AllThingsD, Ars Technica, VentureBeat and The Switch
Tweets: @bgurley, @bgurley and @fedcourtjunkie
| Jonathan Stacke / The Genesis Block: |
Analysis of Silk Road's Historical Impact on Bitcoin — Silk Road, the online drug bazaar that has eluded authorities and been ingrained in the bitcoin narrative for years, was shut down yesterday. Ross Ulbricht was named in the court documents outlining Silk Road's activities …
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Currency, social media, Gawker and Wired
| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Shumway, Mozilla's HTML5-Based Flash Player Replacement, Lands In Firefox Nightly — Shumway, Mozilla's technology experiment to build an efficient, web-native renderer for Flash files, has now landed in the latest Firefox Nightly builds. The idea behind this project … | Bruce Schneier / Guardian: |
Attacking Tor: how the NSA targets users' online anonymity — Secret servers and a privileged position on the internet's backbone used to identify users and attack target computers — The online anonymity network Tor is a high-priority target for the National Security Agency.
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Washington Post, The Hacker News, Forbes, InfoWorld, Techdirt, CNET, The Register, Nextgov, emptywheel, The Switch, Threatpost, Vacuum, ReadWrite, eWeek, linux.com, Guardian, Guardian, Guardian and Boing Boing
Tweets: @erikcorry and @binarybits
| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
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IC ON THE RECORD, AllThingsD, TechSpot, ZDNet, Softpedia News, The Register, Techdirt and Hillicon Valley
Tweets: @ashk4n, @ioerror and @trevortimm
| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
Tim Cook reflects on second anniversary of Steve Jobs' passing in letter to employees — On the eve of the second anniversary of the passing of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, Apple CEO Tim Cook has reflected on the moment in a company-wide email. A source has provided a copy:
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Mashable, ValueWalk, ABC News, The Tell, AllThingsD, MacRumors, The Register, Fortune, TechnoBuffalo, The Drum, iDownloadBlog.com, Yahoo! News, Redmond Pie, bizjournals, The Verge, WebProNews, The Switch, Apple News aus Cupertino, The Mac Observer, iPhone in Canada Blog, Softpedia News, Forbes, Business Insider, iMore, App Advice, MacNN, PhoneArena, POPSUGAR and TUAW. Thanks:@deancorp
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