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How we know the NSA had access to internal Google and Yahoo cloud data — The Washington Post reported last Wednesday that the National Security Agency has been tapping into the private links that connect Google and Yahoo data centers around the world. Today we offer additional background …
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Tweets: @wblau, @ioerror, @barjack and @postbaron
| Brendan Sasso / The Hill: |
NSA chief likely to lose cyber war powers — Senior military officials are leaning toward removing the National Security Agency director's authority over U.S. Cyber Command, according to a former high-ranking administration official familiar with internal discussions.| Deborah Kan / Wall Street Journal: |
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CNNMoney.com, SiliconANGLE, SlashGear, Salon, PC Magazine, CNET, Nextgov, The Register, PC World, Tech Trader Daily and China Real Time Report. Tweets: @glynmoody
| Reuters: |
New BlackBerry boss John Chen out to prove skeptics wrong — (Reuters) - John Chen, the man charged with breathing life into struggling BlackBerry Ltd, says he has no intention of killing the money-losing BlackBerry handset as he looks to turn around the smartphone maker.
| Boyd Erman / Globe and Mail: |
BlackBerry-Fairfax takeover dies; Thorsten Heins out — BlackBerry Ltd. is abandoning a plan to find a buyer and will instead raise $1-billion of new funds and replace its chief executive and some directors, sources said. — The Waterloo, Ontario-based smartphone company had spent the past …
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Tweets: @parislemon, @danprimack, @charlesarthur, @jbrodkin, @zacharye and @markruddock
| Steven M. Davidoff / DealBook: |
| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
Apple to build new manufacturing facility in Arizona with solar-power, will create 2000+ jobs — The State of Arizona today announced that Apple is planning to build a new manufacturing facility in the city of Mesa, Arizona. The facility will create 700 jobs for manufacturing …
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GT Advanced Technologies, Pocket-lint, PhoneArena, MacRumors, AllThingsD, TechCrunch, Computerworld, Engadget, Cult of Mac, TechnoBuffalo, MacNN, iMore, myFOXphoenix.com, Associated Press, iPhone Hacks, AppleInsider, The Verge, The Mac Observer, SlashGear, iPhone in Canada Blog, iDownloadBlog.com, Business Insider, Gigaom, Electronista, Daring Fireball and iClarified. Tweets: @azchamber
| Alex Wilhelm / TechCrunch: |
Google Launches Helpouts, Paid Video Chats With Experts To Address Whatever Is Bothering You Right Now — Helpouts, Google's fusion of Google+ Hangouts, Google Wallet, and its identity tools is now live. A ‘Helpout’ is a Hangout-like video chat, but instead of speaking with a friend …
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The Official Google Blog, Search Engine Land, SiliconBeat, Gizmodo, CNET, 9to5Google, Engadget, NYT Bits, Gigaom, VentureBeat, AllThingsD, The Next Web, Android Central, SlashGear and Mashable. Tweets: @howardlindzon
| Daniel Rubino / Windows Phone Central: |
Revealed - The Nokia Lumia 929, Verizon's 5 inch 1080P Windows Phone — Although Nokia had a lot to announce a few weeks ago in Abu Dhabi, one of those devices not mentioned was the Nokia Lumia 929, destined for Verizon. That device is said to be in carrier testing right …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
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| Kashmir Hill / Forbes: |
Parody Twitter account that apparently duped Costolo temporarily suspended without explanation — The Death And Rebirth Of @ProfJeffJarvis, The Best Parody Account On Twitter — For the Internet thinkeratti, @ProfJeffJarvis is a Twitter must-follow. It's a satirical account that takes … | Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
We play with the Steam Machine, Valve's game console of the future — Can the company behind ‘Half-Life’ build hardware worthy of the TV? — Valve Corporation, the video game developer responsible for Half-Life, Portal, Team Fortress , and the digital distribution platform Steam …
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The Seattle Times, Ars Technica, IGN, The Switch, Engadget, The Tech Report, PC Gamer, Engadget, Polygon, Gamasutra, Faster, TechHive, PIXEL ENEMY and Gigaom
| Marvin Ammori / Wired: |
We're About to Lose Net Neutrality — And the Internet as We Know It — Net neutrality is a dead man walking. The execution date isn't set, but it could be days, or months (at best). And since net neutrality is the principle forbidding huge telecommunications companies from treating users … | Tim Worstall / Forbes: |
Even Paul Allen Thinks That Microsoft Should Be Broken Up — This is an interesting intervention into the discussion about what the next CEO should do with Microsoft . The investment house that manages Paul Allen's money, including his stake in Microsoft, is suggesting that they …
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| Jay Yarow / Business Insider: |
Jeff Bezos' Wife Trashes The New Book On Amazon, Gives It 1 Star, Says The Author Got Lots Of Facts Wrong — Jeff Bezos' wife left a devastating review of the big new book about Amazon by Bloomberg Businessweek writer Brad Stone. — On Amazon (naturally) she gave the book 1 star titling her review, “I wanted to like this book.”
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Tweets: @iamjaygreene, @mikeisaac, @fmanjoo and @jackshafer
| Jason Del Rey / AllThingsD: |
LivingSocial's Traffic Is Plummeting — When Amazon reported its third-quarter earnings late last month, it once again shed a bit of light on the troubles at LivingSocial, the deals site in which Amazon holds a 31 percent stake. — After revenue rose a modest six percent at LivingSocial … | Joshua Topolsky / The Verge: |
Nexus 5 review: an excellent flagship smartphone if Google can fix its major camera issues — Nexus 5 review — The ultimate Google Phone? — In this review of the Nexus 5, I will attempt to answer one simple question: is Google capable of making a flagship, best-in-class smartphone it can sell for $349 off-contract?
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Thanks:@sidharthdassani| Andy Greenberg / Forbes: |
3D-Printing ‘Encryption’ App Hides Contraband Objects In Plain Sight — If 3D printing companies and government agencies hope to police the spread of dangerous or pirated shapes, their task is about to get much more complicated. — Late last month Matthew Plummer-Fernandez … Thanks:@thealexknapp
| Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
Amazon does FAA victory lap, offers 1-day Kindle discounts — Amazon was one of the winners in the FAA's decision last week to allow electronic gadgets to be used during all phases of flight. Kindle users will be able to continue reading books during takeoff and landing …
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Amazon.com, CNET, BetaNews, ZDNet, AppleInsider, Digiday, LAPTOP Magazine, Android Authority, AndroidGuys, IntoMobile, Pocket-lint, The Tell, LAPTOP Magazine, Phandroid, Engadget and Gigaom
| Dan Primack / Fortune: |
Justin Bieber invests $1.1m in teen-focused social network “Shots Of Me” launching this week — Exclusive: Justin Bieber invests in new social network — Justin Bieber backs new teen-focused platform from founders of RockLive games. — FORTUNE — A new teen-focused social …
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The Next Web, Valleywag, VentureBeat, TIME and Betabeat
| Josh Ong / The Next Web: |
Full-service selling app Sold shuts down as the team joins Dropbox — The team behind Sold, an app that was supposed to make selling things easier, is closing the service and joining Dropbox. — Beginning today, Sold will no longer accept new items. Users with existing items in the system … | Ben Gilbert / Engadget: |
Nintendo's Wii Mini arrives in the US by ‘the middle of November’ for $100 — Despite discontinuing Wii shipments in both Japan and Europe, Nintendo is apparently charging ahead with Wii sales in the US by offering a $100 Wii Mini this month with MarioKart Wii packed in.
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Twitter News Consumers: Young, Mobile and Educated — Nearly one-in-ten U.S. adults (8%) get news through Twitter, according to a new report by the Pew Research Center, in collaboration with the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. Compared with the 30% of Americans who get news on Facebook …
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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Target Offering $200 Gift Card for iPad Trade-in, Including First Generation — From November 3 to November 9, Target is running an in-store promotion for its trade-in program that provides customers with a gift card worth at least $200 for any iPad, including low value first-generation models. iPads …
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everythingiCafe, iDownloadBlog.com, iPhone Hacks, Lifehacker and TUAW
| Roberta Rampton / Reuters: |
In political messaging wars, White House deploys a Twitter army — (Reuters) - Besieged by unflattering stories about the launch of President Barack Obama's healthcare program, the White House saw a news report that it wanted to swiftly knock down. — It was from NBC, which said that Obama …
Tweets: @dariverzkind
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