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One standard to sync them all: AllSeen Alliance forms to accelerate Internet of Things adoption — Eighteen months ago, Qualcomm SVP Rob Chandok succinctly explained how the internet of things had failed. Instead of working together, manufacturers designed their smart televisions and appliances … | Ben Thompson / stratechery: |
Promotion in the App Store — Two interesting articles last week, better together. — First came TheInformation's1 maiden piece about How Apple Gives Some Apps an Edge (subscription required): … The next day came news that Cut the Rope 2 was launching in two weeks, and that it would be exclusive to iOS.
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Google barge on ‘hiatus’ amid scrutiny from two agencies — Whether it's a Google Glass store or a showroom for all things Google X, one thing is clear: No one will be visiting Google Barge anytime soon. — The once-mysterious barge, currently sitting idle alongside a pier at Treasure Island … | Matthew Panzarino / TechCrunch: |
How Does Apple Really Feel About Bitcoin? — Over the past couple of months, there have been a few Bitcoin app rejections by Apple that have made some waves. First, the venture-backed startup Coinbase had its app removed entirely from the App Store. Today, a blog post from peer … | Mike Beasley / 9to5Mac: |
Apple launches 2013 “12 Days of Gifts” app on iTunes, available in U.S. for the first time — Apple has just launched its annual 12 Days of Gifts campaign for 2013. In previous years, this campaign was available only in a few select countries, but not in the United States.
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How Foursquare used its massive check-in database to make passive notifications work — The Brilliant Hack That Brought Foursquare Back From the Dead — Dennis Crowley thought his 13-year dream might never come true. — Crowley is the founder of Foursquare, the seminal social networking service … | Ken Yeung / The Next Web: |
Google now lets you create your own Street View maps using Photo Sphere or your dSLR camera — Google has unveiled a new way to allow anyone to create their own personalized Street View map of their location. The company states in a blog post that a Street View experience can be created …
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Yahoo acquires QuikIO, yet another startup to add to its video team — Early this morning, the creators of a little known but excellent cross-platform video streaming app called QuikIO sent a farewell note to its users. After December 31, the “FedEx of media files” would be shut down, the email said.| Kyle VanHemert / Wired: |
How Apple's Lightning-Plug Guru Reinvented Square's Card Reader — Square also developed a new custom read head—the piece that swipes data from the card itself. The two rectangles here draw from two different data bands hidden in the card's magnetic stripe. Photo: Josh Valcarcel/WIRED
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Pandora for iOS gets an alarm clock for waking up to your favorite station and new design for iOS 7 — Pandora today updated its iOS app with a new alarm clock feature and a design just for iOS 7. You can download the new version now directly from Apple's App Store.| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Amazon's Kindle FreeTime Becomes An Even Better Babysitter, With New Educational Feature That Tells Kids To “Learn First,” Play Later — Kindle FreeTime, Amazon's parental control software built into its line of Kindle Fire devices, is being upgraded ahead of the holidays …
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DARPA makes games of finding software vulnerabilities — DARPA creates a set of games that covertly search for software vulnerabilities — The U.S. Department of Defense may have found a new way to scan millions of lines of software code for vulnerabilities, by turning the practice … | Jim Finkle / Reuters: |
Chinese hackers spied on Europeans before G20 meeting: researcher — (Reuters) - Chinese hackers eavesdropped on the computers of five European foreign ministries before last September's G20 Summit, which was dominated by the Syrian crisis, according to research by computer security firm FireEye Inc
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Google Bus: Max Bell Alper Is the Boy Who Cried Gentrification — Max Bell Alper has befouled his own well. He's soiled his own bed. You can use Google to hunt down other apropos analogies. Busloads of employees roll out of San Francisco every day to make it so.| Mikey Campbell / AppleInsider: |
Apple patents tech for making curved touch surfaces, displays — The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office on Tuesday awarded Apple a patent that describes a method for forming curved touch sensors with high structural rigidity, suggesting the company is experimenting with curved iOS device displays.
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Samsung has shipped 10 million Galaxy Note 3 devices since its launch 2 months ago — Samsung announced today that the Galaxy Note 3, its latest large-screen so-called ‘phablet’ device that follows on from the successful Note and Note II, has just surpassed 10 million units in shipments since … | Associated Press: |
EU warns Nokia not to become ‘patent troll’ … AMSTERDAM (AP) — Europe's top regulator has warned Nokia not to try to become a “patent troll” after the Finnish company sold most of its cellphone-making business to Microsoft Corp. this year but retained its patent portfolio.
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Justice Department Investigating Dell Sales to Syria — The U.S. Department of Justice has been investigating possible sales of Dell computers to the Syrian government, the company said in documents released Monday. — In the July letter to the Securities and Exchange Commission released Monday …
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| Derrick Harris / Gigaom: |
Netflix open sources its data traffic cop, Suro — Netflix is open sourcing a tool called Suro that the company uses to direct data from its source to its destination in real time. More than just serving a key role in the Netflix data pipeline, though, it's also a great example of the impressive …
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The Biggest Social Network No One Is Talking About: Gamers — The NSA is spying on gamers for the same reason it wants to spy on your Facebook account. It's a clear map of your relationships. — The easy reaction to today's revelation in the Guardian that the National Security Agency spied … | Kevin C. Tofel / Gigaom: |
Step aside iBeacon, Qualcomm has low-cost Gimbal Proximity Beacons — Apple's iBeacon is already tracking where you are in Apple Stores in order to present a more personalized experience. It's not the only game in town though. Qualcomm's Gimbal Proxmity Beacons are now available for as low … Sponsor Posts
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