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Nokia Lumia 2520 review: a good Windows tablet, not the best for typing — The Lumia 2520 is Nokia's first Windows tablet — and it may well be its last. By the time Nokia is ready to design a follow-up product, the Finnish firm might officially be a part of Microsoft.
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| Preston Gralla / Computerworld: |
Dell Venue 8 Pro review: A Windows 8.1 tablet for the rest of us — Dell's new 8-in. tablet offers a fine display and good features at a price that most Windows users can afford. — With the new Dell Venue 8 Pro, we're finally seeing a full-blown Windows 8.1 tablet for the masses.| Justin Edmund / Oh, How Pinteresting!: |
Introducing Place Pins, for the explorer in all of us — About a year ago, we noticed Pinners creating more and more boards around the vacations they're planning, special places near where they live and sites they want to see someday. In fact, every day people Pin about 1.5 million places …
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| Alex Wilhelm / TechCrunch: |
Windows Phone Now Sees 10M Transactions And 500 New Apps Daily, Has Served 3B Total Downloads — Today Instagram and Waze came to the Windows Phone platform, bringing two applications to Microsoft's smartphone venture that it has long lacked. — Microsoft also released a set of numbers …
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| Vlad Savov / The Verge: |
Acer founder steps in to save company as CEO and president resign — Acer's been on a quest to reinvent itself pretty much since the sunset of the netbook era — which both fuelled the Taiwanese company's rapid growth and left it floundering when consumers moved on to other devices.| Alyson Shontell / Business Insider: |
EXCLUSIVE: Leaked Videos Show Snapchat CEO Saying Ousted Co-Founder ‘May Deserve Something’ For Role At Company — Reggie Brown, Bobby Murphy and Evan Spiegel attended Stanford University together and joined the same fraternity, Kappa Sigma. — Now the three are tangled in a lawsuit over equity in today's hottest startup, Snapchat.
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| Ina Fried / AllThingsD: |
Southwest to Be First With Gate-to-Gate Wi-Fi Service — Frequent fliers have been quick to note which airlines are allowing passengers to use their electronics during takeoff and landing, but Southwest Airlines is upping the ante. — In addition to already allowing use of the gadgets themselves … | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Apple's iBeacon Comes To Retailers Via Shopkick's ShopBeacon — When Apple, with much fanfare, announced iOS 7 in June, it also quietly confirmed a new feature called iBeacons, which uses Bluetooth Low Energy signalling to enable micro-location services and to trigger actions within apps.| Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch: |
How Plain Vanilla Games, Maker Of Hit App QuizUp, Took Two Years To Create An Overnight Success — Stop me if you've heard this story before: A mobile game studio toils in obscurity for several years creating apps that no one seems to care about, and then one day it introduces its new project to the world …
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| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Self-driving vehicles still a decade away, experts tell Congress — Truly autonomous vehicles won't arrive until at least 2020 and likely later, according to a panel of car company executives and researchers that spoke to Congress this week. Mike Robinson, vice president of sustainability …
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| Mike Orcutt / MIT Technology Review: |
Inkjet Printing Could Be the Key to Next-Generation OLED Displays — Kateeva says its new manufacturing equipment can produce affordable OLED displays, rigid and flexible. — Color-rich, energy-efficient, and flexible organic light-emitting diode (OLED) displays could soon be churned out more economically on giant inkjet printers.
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| Nitasha Tiku / Valleywag: |
Jay Z and Ashton Kutcher-Backed “Uber For Planes” Grinds to a Halt — Of all the “Uber for __” propositions, the splashiest by far was Blackjet, the app that purports to help wealthy users book seats on private jets (for a $2,500 annual membership fee). When it launched last October …
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Microsoft Now Sells T-Shirts That Claim Google's Chrome Steals Your Data — Microsoft has started to sell t-shirts, hats, mugs, and sweatshirts that bear slogans from its Scroogled campaign that needles Google as bad on privacy. I confirmed with the company that the clothing line was released today.| Deborah Schoeneman / New York Times: |
What's He Really Like? Check the Lulu App — Not long ago, after Alexandra Amin, an assistant at Warner Brothers, broke up with an agent she had been dating for a year, her friend told her about a new, free, female-friendly social networking app that lets women anonymously review men who are their Facebook friends.
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mndaily.com. Tweets: @tomgara, @mikeisaac, @felixsalmon, @anildash, @joshgreenman, @amandahess and @spencerchen
| Rebecca Grant / VentureBeat: |
Is the tide turning? Women filled 60% of tech jobs created this year — Could America finally be making progress towards getting more women into the tech industry? — New data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics suggests we might be. — Of the 39,000 jobs created in tech this year, 60 percent of them were filled by women.
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Android/ARM has become a new de facto platform for any piece of smart connected electronics — The meaning of really cheap Android — One of the big puzzles in trying to understand the tablet market is data. Apple is pretty much the only large manufacturer giving unit sales … | Chris Strohm / Bloomberg: |
Google's Schmidt Sees Encryption Killing Censorship — Protecting Internet traffic with hard-to-crack code may prevent governments from censoring their populations' communications within a decade, Google Inc. (GOOG) Chairman Eric Schmidt said. — Schmidt described the coming of a …
| Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
Google's chief internet evangelist says ‘privacy may actually be an anomaly’ — Google's chief internet evangelist, Vint Cerf, suggests that privacy is a fairly new development that may not be sustainable. “Privacy may actually be an anomaly,” Cerf said at an FTC event yesterday while taking questions.| Kellex / Droid Life: |
Google Wallet Card is Official, Wallet Users Can Sign Up Now for Physical Cards — A few months back, rumors of a physical Google Wallet card surfaced, suggesting that Google would give you a credit/debit card that could access your Google Wallet balance and be used for purchasing goods.| TechCrunch: |
Dropbox-Rival Box Is Raising $100M In New Funding At A $2B Valuation — Enterprise cloud file storage firm Box is raising an additional $100 million in capital at a valuation of around $2 billion. A filing with the State of Delaware was first noticed by VC Experts.
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| Emil Protalinski / The Next Web: |
Google's Nexus 5 and Nexus 7 now available at T-Mobile locations in the US — Google today announced that both its Nexus 5 smartphone and its Nexus 7 tablet are available in T-Mobile locations across the US. If you prefer to see them online before you head to a store, the links you're looking for are here: Nexus 5 and Nexus 7.
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| James Ball / Guardian: |
US and UK struck secret data pact — • 2007 deal allows NSA to store previously restricted material — • UK citizens not suspected of wrongdoing caught up in dragnet — • Separate draft memo proposes US spying on ‘Five-Eyes’ allies — The phone, internet and email records …
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