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NSA collects millions of e-mail address books globally — The National Security Agency is harvesting hundreds of millions of contact lists from personal e-mail and instant messaging accounts around the world, many of them belonging to Americans, according to senior intelligence officials …
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The NSA's problem? Too much data. — The National Security Agency's Special Source Operations branch manages “partnerships” in which U.S. and foreign telecommunications companies allow the NSA to use their facilities to intercept phone calls, e-mails and other data.
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Google readying ‘Mobile Meter’ app that offers rewards for tracking mobile usage — Google already knows better than most how we use the internet. Now it wants to dig a little deeper and monitor your app usage as well. Engadget has learned that the company is readying a new mobile service … | Adam Zeis / CrackBerry.com: |
Message from BlackBerry: You can still count on us — The headlines for BlackBerry have been a bit of a jumbled mess lately, and for those BlackBerry users that don't dive deeper into the articles, things could seem a bit all over the place right now. — Tomorrow, October 15th …
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The South Korea Report: Device and App Trends in The First Saturated Device Market — In August of this year Flurry Analytics measured 33,527,534 active smartphones and tablets in South Korea. While that was only 2.8% of the entire worldwide connected device installed base Flurry measures …
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| James Temple / The Technology Chronicles: |
Google-backed startup seeks clearer economic signals through better, faster, stronger data — David Soloff, CEO of Premise Data Corp., at the company's San Francisco offices. — In the spring of 2009, entrepreneur David Soloff noticed his daily reality diverging from the headlines.| Vlad Savov / The Verge: |
HTC One max: an awkwardly large One variant with a poorly implemented fingerprint scanner — HTC One max review: a lot more of the same — The power button is on the side — Homer's two great works, The Iliad and The Odyssey, are technically poems. In the exact same way that an inch-thick tome … | Serena Ng / Wall Street Journal: |
Amazon cuts costs by shipping directly from warehouses of P&G and other key suppliers — Soap Opera: Amazon Moves in With P&G — E-Commerce Giant Sets Up Shop Inside Warehouses of Suppliers TUNKHANNOCK, Pa.—Atop a hill at the end of a road called P&G Warehouse Way sits a warehouse stocked … | The Switch: |
Yahoo Mail switching to HTTPS connections by default in January, four years after GMail — Yahoo to make SSL encryption the default for Webmail users. Finally. — Beginning Jan. 8, Yahoo will enable encryption by default for users logging into its Web-based mail service, the company has told The Washington Post.
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| Amol Sharma / Wall Street Journal: |
Sony Strikes Production Deal With Netflix — Sony SNE +0.02% Pictures Television will become the first big Hollywood studio to produce a new TV show for Netflix Inc., NFLX +8.05% underscoring how the TV industry's elite are starting to view the streaming video service as a launch pad for original series.| Lee Hutchinson / Ars Technica: |
Node.js-based Ghost blogging platform opens to the public — Last month we covered the soft launch of Ghost, a Node.js-based minimalist blogging platform. The application blew through a Kickstarter goal and has been under heavy development; last month, Kickstarter backers were granted early access … | Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Mark Zuckerberg and Bill Gates contributing tutorials to Code.org education initiative — After recruiting Will.i.am to help encourage students to explore the world of code, Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg and Microsoft chairman Bill Gates are preparing to take a more hands-on approach.
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| Lucian Constantin / Computerworld: |
D-Link to padlock router backdoor by end of October — The backdoor lets attackers change a router configuration without authenticating — D-Link will address by the end of October a security issue in some of its routers that could allow attackers to change the device settings without requiring a username and password.
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Twitter lets advertisers schedule organic and Promoted Tweets up to a year in advance — Now available: Scheduled Tweets — Starting today, all marketers using Twitter's Ad Products can schedule organic or Promoted Tweets for specific dates and times up to a year in advance.
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| Richard Lawler / Engadget: |
Lavabit reinstates service briefly so users can download emails, change passwords — Email provider Lavabit shut down in August due to government pressure in the wake the Edward Snowden leaks, but it is apparently re-opening — for a little while. A press release issued by Lavabit indicates …
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| John Paczkowski / AllThingsD: |
iPhone 5s Outselling iPhone 5c Two-to-One — Asked during Apple's last earnings call if he feared the higher end of the smartphone market was nearing saturation, CEO Tim Cook said he did not. “I don't subscribe to the common view that the higher end, if you will, of the smartphone market is at its peak,” Cook said.
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| Pradeep / WMPoweruser: |
How to install the Windows Phone 8 update 3 preview — Windows Phone 8 GDR3 Aka Update 3 Preview Download Available — If you missed the news, Microsoft today detailed the upcoming Windows Phone 8 Update 3 (8.0.10512) which we usually referred as GDR3 update.
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Google-Backed File-Sharing Service Spreads Malware — To the Western public the name Xunlei might not ring any immediate bells, but in China its software is used by hundreds of millions of people every month. — Previously the company's BitTorrent client was crowned the most used BitTorrent software … Sponsor Posts
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