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| Lorraine Luk / Digits: |
iPhone 5S Wait Time Drops as Foxconn Boosts Production — The waiting time for iPhone 5Ss has shortened significantly as major assembler Hon Hai Precision Industry Co. has been running its factories around the clock, adding more workers to its production lines.
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Tweets: @applespotlight and @scottmaustin
| Ciwrl / CyanogenMod: |
CyanogenMod Installer Application Removed from Play Store — Today, we were contacted by the Google Play Support team to say that our CyanogenMod Installer application is in violation of Google Play's developer terms. — They advised us to voluntarily remove the application, or they would be forced to remove it administratively.
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| Adrian Chen / New York Times: |
Much Ado About Bitcoin — FOR the obsessive followers of the volatile virtual currency bitcoin, the price of a single bitcoin at the time their fixation began holds undue significance. I know one bitcoin cost around $9 when I first stumbled on it in the summer of 2011.
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| Emil Protalinski / The Next Web: |
Bitcoin passes $1,000 mark for the first time, up over 62% in a week — Bitcoin hit a new milestone today, passing the $1,000 mark for the first time. The virtual currency is currently trading above the four-digit figure, with its highest at $1,030 on Mt. Gox, one of the largest exchanges.
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Tweets: @ibogost, @startupljackson, @alex, @levie and @mulligan
| Rob Wile / Business Insider: |
There Are Dozens Of Digital Currencies That Are All Going Insane Right Now — In the past week, Bitcoin prices have climbed as much as 80%. — We just told you why another cryptocurrency, Litecoin, has been able to ride Bitcoin's digital coattails to a 400% gain over the same period.| The Huffington Post: |
Top-Secret Document Reveals NSA Spied On Porn Habits As Part Of Plan To Discredit ‘Radicalizers’ — WASHINGTON — The National Security Agency has been gathering records of online sexual activity and evidence of visits to pornographic websites as part of a proposed plan to harm the reputations …
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[APK Teardown] YouTube 5.3 Reveals Upcoming ‘Music Pass’ With Uninterrupted Music: Millions Of Songs With No Ads, Offline Playback, And Background Listening — There's a new version of YouTube out, and as usual, hidden inside its chocolaty center are hints at upcoming features and capabilities.| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Xbox Video launches on the web ahead of Windows Phone version — Microsoft is unveiling its Xbox Video web service today, ahead of a planned app release for Windows Phone. The web version, available at video.xbox.com, provides the same access to TV shows and movies as the existing Xbox Video app … | Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Xbox, pause: Microsoft waits to discuss Xbox One apps — Developers are eager but details are scarce — Over a million Xbox One consoles already sit underneath TVs across the world, and hundreds of thousands more will make their way into living rooms over the holidays.| Serdar Yegulalp / InfoWorld: |
Latest release of application-virtualization technology Docker runs on all major Linux distros — Docker unleashed: App portability gets a boost — Popular application-virtualization system for Linux no longer needs custom kernel, adds portability and connectivity features
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Betaworks Is Closing On $20 Million, Its First Raise In Over Three Years — New York City-based technology studio, betaworks, home to Digg, Instapaper, Dots, Bitly, Chartbeat, and many other products and services, is raising $20 million in new capital - news that betaworks CEO John Borthwick … | Sam Sabri / Windows Phone Central: |
Lumia 520 continues to dominate Windows Phone, while Nokia crosses 90% threshold — Latest data from AdDuplex shows the Lumia 520 continuing to dominate. While at the same time Windows Phone 7.x concedes more market share to Windows Phone 8. Nokia finally reaches 90% dominance with Windows Phone.
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| Jon Russell / The Next Web: |
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H-P Will Replace Verizon in Hosting HealthCare.gov Website — U.S. Government Won't Renew Contract With Verizon's Terremark Unit — The Department of Health and Human Services will replace Verizon Communications Inc. 's Terremark subsidiary as its web-hosting provider …
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| Ian Traynor / Guardian: |
NSA surveillance: Europe threatens to freeze US data-sharing arrangements — After Edward Snowden revelations, EU executive underlines US compliance with European law and ‘how things have gone badly’ — The EU executive is threatening to freeze crucial data-sharing arrangements with the US …
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