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Germany wants a German Internet as spying scandal rankles — (Reuters) - As a diplomatic row rages between the United States and Europe over spying accusations, state-backed Deutsche Telekom wants German communications companies to cooperate to shield local internet traffic from foreign intelligence services.
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DSLreports, Gizmodo, Hillicon Valley, SlashGear, Softpedia News, dailywireless.org and I4U News. Tweets: @froomkin
| Abby Ohlheiser / The Atlantic Wire: |
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Foreign Policy, The Verge, European Parliament, Bloomberg, Softpedia News, PC World, Guardian, TechCrunch and Reuters
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Tweets: @jamesrbuk, @jamesrbuk and @jamesrbuk
See also Mediagazer| iFixit: |
MacBook Pro 15" Retina Display Late 2013 Teardown — We took apart the new 15" Retina MacBook Pro with the hopes that Apple made it more repair-friendly than the debut Mid 2012 model. Unfortunately, things didn't really work out in our favor; in fact, they took a turn for the (slightly) worse.
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MacBook Pro 13" Retina Display Late 2013 Teardown — It's a teardown-o-rama! We're on teardown Round 3 this week, and we just won't stop. Our next contender: the newcomer MacBook Pro 13" Retina Display. This year's edition is a lightweight, but we're sure it'll pack a punch.
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Ars Technica, Macworld and dailywireless.org
| Tom Simonite / MIT Technology Review: |
The Decline of Wikipedia: Even As More People Than Ever Rely on It, Fewer People Create It — The sixth most widely used website in the world is not run anything like the others in the top 10. It is not operated by a sophisticated corporation but by a leaderless collection of volunteers …
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Why the Government Never Gets Tech Right — MILLIONS of Americans negotiating America's health care system know all too well what the waiting room of a doctor's office looks like. Now, thanks to HealthCare.gov, they know what a “virtual waiting room” looks like, too.
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| Michael Arrington / Uncrunched: |
Google Should Buy Twitter Before The IPO — A few years ago Google had the opportunity to buy Twitter but passed on the opportunity because they were developing Google+ and didn't think they needed it. — Today Google+ is supposedly the no. 2 social network after Facebook, but I don't buy it.
| Matthew Panzarino / TechCrunch: |
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| Emil Protalinski / The Next Web: |
BlackBerry does ‘not approve of or condone’ the fishy BBM for Android reviews, denies any involvement — BlackBerry recently came under fire for a slew of suspicious reviews with five-star ratings on Google Play for its recently launched BBM for Android app.
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| Bryan Bishop / The Verge: |
Samsung announces $9.56 billion profit in latest record-breaking quarter — Samsung was predicting record revenue for the third fiscal quarter of 2013, and as usual it didn't disappoint. The company has announced 59.08 trillion won (approximately $55.59 billion) in revenue … | Carmel DeAmicis / PandoDaily: |
Uh oh, Los Angeles School District's $30 million iPad program falls flat — Last week, I wrote about how one-to-one tablet programs in Missouri and Texas K-12 schools had hit some road bumps. In North Carolina when 73,000 Amplify tablets arrived — from Robert Murdoch's edtech company … | Jenny Hollander / Bustle: |
What Are Instagram's Rules For Photos? Gun, Drug Sales Good; Bikini Line Bad — The White House has picked a bad week to partner up with Instagram. The photo-sharing application, populated by more than 80 million users, is under fire for nixing a user's account after she posted a photograph …
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| J. Glenn Künzler / MacTrast: |
The Truth About ‘Free’ Mac App Store Software Upgrades in OS X Mavericks — There have been a number of reports lately revealing that OS X Mavericks seems to be allowing users to “upgrade illegal or trial version” Apple software obtained outside the Mac App Store.
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Cult of Mac, Geeky Gadgets, Softpedia News, iPhone, SiliconANGLE, Ubergizmo, iPhone Hacks, TUAW, iMore and iClarified
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Thanks:@jgkunzler| Reed Albergotti / Digits: |
LinkedIn On Defensive About Security of ‘Intro’ — LinkedIn on Thursday faced criticism from security experts and confusion from members over Intro, a new software product that embeds public LinkedIn profiles into emails received by iPhone users. — In response, the online professional network published …
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NYT Bits, Bishop Fox and The Verge
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Windows Phone users report excessive data use, built-in Twitter feature to blame — Microsoft has confirmed that there's an issue with its built-in Twitter feature that could result in unexpected data usage. The issue stems from a Twitter backend change that has caused Windows Phones …
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PC World, SlashGear, PhoneArena, WPDang, Electronista, pocketnow.com, TechnoBuffalo, WMPoweruser and Engadget
| Karl Bode / DSLreports: |
Source: Comcast Launching HBO Broadband Bundle Aimed at Netflix — An insider familiar with Comcast's promotional plans tells DSLreports that the company is preparing a new broadband and HBO streaming bundle aimed squarely at Netflix. The new promotion will be called “Internet Plus,” … | Derrick Harris / Gigaom: |
Facebook's answer to serving 700TB of graph search data is lots of SSDs — Facebook's graph search feature requires finding and serving the right data fast, and from a database that currently houses more than a trillion posts and 700 terabytes of data overall.
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Search Engine Watch, Facebook, AllFacebook, Search Engine Land, ZDNet, WebProNews, SlashGear, The Register and The Next Web. Tweets: @derrickharris
| Ben Woods / The Next Web: |
Mozilla's Lightbeam for Firefox add-on lets users visualize how sites are tracking them and why — Mozilla, makers of the Firefox browser, has released an add-on called Lightbeam for Firefox which presents a visualization of your browsing history and analyzes which applications are tracking … | Blair Hanley Frank / GeekWire: |
Amazon reports quarterly net loss of $41M, sales above $17B, exceeding expectations — Amazon just posted another unprofitable quarter. But the company did manage to beat Wall Street's expectations. — The company reported a quarterly net loss of $41 million, or 9 cents per share.Sponsor Posts
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