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Microsoft CEO candidate Stephen Elop may sell Xbox biz, kill Bing, focus on cross-platform Office — Microsoft CEO Candidate Elop Said to Mull Windows Shift — Stephen Elop, a candidate to replace Steve Ballmer as Microsoft Corp.'s chief executive officer, would consider breaking …
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Your new Xbox One won't do much without the day one patch — Imagine it's November 22nd: You've got your shiny new Xbox One from the local games merchant, you've got it home, and it's time to video game. Aw shucks, the internet is out! But that's okay, as you've got yourself a physical game disc ready to go.| Kyle Orland / Ars Technica: |
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Exclusive: BlackBerry board rejected proposals to break up company - sources — (Reuters) - BlackBerry Ltd's board does not believe a break-up of the Canadian smartphone maker is currently in its best interests, even though Microsoft Corp, Apple Inc and Lenovo Group Ltd, among others … | TechCrunch: |
Intel Has Acquired Kno, Will Push Further Into The Education Content Market With Interactive Textbooks — We had a tip about, and have now confirmed, Intel's latest acquisition: Kno, the education startup that started life as a hardware business and later pivoted into software … | Seth Weintraub / 9to5Mac: |
Boost Mobile starts selling the iPhone 5s and 5c today for $200 off for new customers, starting at $349 unsubsidized — From 9to5Toys.com: — As we've noted on a few occasions, Sprint pre-paid subsidiaryBoost Mobile is now carrying the iPhone for the first time in its history.| Nick Summers / The Next Web: |
YouTube co-founder Jawed Karim asks: ‘Why the f*** do I need a Google+ account to comment on a video?’ — YouTube co-founder Jawed Karim has shared his thoughts on the new Google+ commenting system that was introduced to the video-sharing site earlier this week. In short, he's not very impressed.
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Gogo Text & Talk lets you send texts and make calls in-flight, using your own phone number (hands-on) — It's not as if in-flight calling is a novel idea: Numerous airlines have given it a shot, and the US government has emphatically put the kibosh on it. Until now, however … | Reuters: |
Exclusive: Snowden persuaded other NSA workers to give up passwords - sources — (Reuters) - Former U.S. National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden used login credentials and passwords provided unwittingly by colleagues at a spy base in Hawaii to access some of the classified material he leaked to the media, sources said.
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Exclusive: Hot tech start-up Box picks banks for '14 IPO - sources — (Reuters) - Data storage company Box, one of the most highly anticipated IPO candidates in Silicon Valley, has selected banks to lead a proposed initial public offering that could come in the first half of 2014, according to three people familiar with the matter.
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Twitter Launches An “Alpha” Testing Program On Android, Invites Users To Give Feedback And Collaborate Directly — In August, Twitter launched a beta testing program on Android which allows users to opt-in to try out early versions of the Twitter application and other unreleased features … | Kara Swisher / AllThingsD: |
“Because Marissa Said So” — Yahoos Bristle at Mayer's QPR Ranking System and “Silent Layoffs” — According to a multitude of top-ranking posts on an anonymous internal message board used by Yahoo to vent their frustrations to top staff, employees there are becoming increasingly upset …
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Why Apple Bought $578M Worth Of Sapphire In Advance — Apple is building a manufacturing plant in Arizona that will be used by GT Advanced Technologies to make sapphire crystals for use in its products. Apple currently uses sapphire in its home buttons and camera lens covers …
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