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Apple Aiming at PrimeSense Acquisition, but Deal Is Not Yet Done — Several sources confirm that Apple is in talks to buy 3-D sensing company PrimeSense, following a report in the Israeli publication Calcalist. However, those sources stressed that the deal is not yet done …
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| Chris Davies / SlashGear: |
Apple reportedly acquires PrimeSense, company behind original Kinect 3D sensor tech, for $345 million — Apple reportedly buys Kinect tech-creator PrimeSense — Apple has reportedly acquired PrimeSense, the motion-tracking company responsible for the technology in the original Xbox 360 Kinect …
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| Farhad Manjoo / Wall Street Journal: |
Young people aren't reliable predictors of tech trends. So where does that leave Snapchat? — We all tend to assume that young people are on the technological vanguard, knowing what ‘the next big thing’ will be. But they are often wrong.
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Rejected bid for Snapchat underscores difficulties Facebook has in keeping its cachet — Facebook, Still Dominant, Strives to Keep Cachet — When Evan Spiegel peered into a crystal ball to divine a future for his company, Snapchat, he did not see Facebook.
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| Alex Williams / TechCrunch: |
Salesforce.com Launches Salesforce1, A New CRM Platform For Connecting Apps, Services Like Dropbox And the Internet of Things — Salesforce.com is launching Salesforce1, its next-generation CRM platform that it has designed for developers, independent software vendors and customers to connect apps … | Max Raskin / Bloomberg: |
DOJ and SEC to note legitmate uses for Bitcoin in Senate hearing — U.S. Agencies to say Bitcoins Offer Legitimate Benefits — The Department of Justice and Securities and Exchange Commission are telling a U.S. Senate committee that Bitcoins are legitimate financial instruments … | Jon Matonis / CoinDesk: |
US has Already Ceded Dominance in Bitcoin Trading — Expertise and dominance in a particular industry sector doesn't come about by decree. It is achieved over years through repeated practice and creative experimentation. — During the first three-and-a-half years of bitcoin's development … | Danny Sullivan / Marketing Land: |
Google's Broken Promises & Who's Running The Search Engine? — For two years in a row now, Google has gone back on major promises it made about search. The about-faces are easy fodder for anyone who wants to poke fun at Google for not keeping to its word.
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Dare Obasanjo's weblog and Erik McClure. Tweets: @nilofer, @felixsalmon and @owenthomas. Thanks:@sidharthdassani
| Violet Blue / ZDNet: |
Forced Google Plus integration on YouTube backfires, petition hits 112,000 — Summary: The backlash against Google forcing YouTube commenters to use Google Plus is now too big to ignore. But will Google listen? OPINION. — Violet Blue — Google's war on anonymity during its involvement …
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Hank's Tumblr, Adrian Holovaty, Andi S - Google+, Edward Morbius, Rocket Jump, howto.cnet.com, The Switch, Search Engine Watch, CNET, WebProNews and TIME
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| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
Apple Stores to implement iBeacon location technology to improve service, boost sales — iOS 7's flashy launch earlier this year with an entirely new design and streaming music functionality overshadowed a breakthrough new feature: iBeacons, a location-based technology with profound implications for industries such as retail.
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iMore, iPhone Hacks, iPhone in Canada Blog, Redmond Pie, CNET, App Advice, iDownloadBlog.com, I4U News, iClarified and MacRumors
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PlayStation 4 Sales Surpass 1 Million Units In North America In 24 Hours — Gamers Immerse Themselves In a New Era of Gaming and Entertainment Only Available on the PS4 system—Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. (SCE) today announced that the highly anticipated launch of the PlayStation®4 …
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| Adario Strange / Mashable: |
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| Agam Shah / PC World: |
Dell's Sputnik 3 touchscreen laptop has Ubuntu Linux, Intel's Haswell — Dell has started selling a thin and light touchscreen laptop called the XPS 13 Developer Edition, which will have Ubuntu Linux OS and Intel's fourth-generation Core processors, code-named Haswell.
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Maximum PC, Liliputing, HotHardware.com News, The Register and SlashGear
| James Chapman / Daily Mail: |
Google and Microsoft to improve filtering of results for child porn queries — Google block on child porn: At last! Internet giant axes links to vile sex-abuse websites in stunning victory for Mail campaign — Internet search results linked to child abuse are to be blocked across the world in a stunning U-turn by Google.
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