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Taiwan fines Apple $667K for influencing carriers' iPhone pricing, can face additional $1.6m if it fails to comply — Taiwan Fines Apple for iPhone Price-Plan Meddling — Island's fair-trade body says Apple told mobile-service providers how to charge for handsets
| Dan Rowinski / ReadWrite: |
The Majority Of Porn In The United States Is Viewed On Smartphones — If you needed any more evidence that the era of ubiquitous computing is upon us, here is one stat that shows us how prevalent smartphones and tablets have become to the daily lives of people everywhere …
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Online retailers mine transaction data to discourage returns, a growing problem — Rampant Returns Plague E-Retailers — Sellers Suggest Sizes and Redirect Discounts to Break Bad Habits — Free shipping and lenient return policies have given online retailing a huge boost.| Shelly Banjo / Wall Street Journal: |
| Adam Harrington / CBS New York: |
Target Denies Report That PINs Were Stolen In Data Breach — NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — Target on Tuesday denied a report claiming that personal identification numbers were also stolen in a data breach that affected up to 40 million credit cards. — A Reuters report Tuesday quoted … | Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: |
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Dogewallet announces Dogecoin theft, a dubious milestone for the new cryptocurrency that started as a joke — Millions Of Dogecoins Stolen In Apparent Heist — Much robbery, so anger, etc. Users of the functional joke currency are reporting emptied wallets.
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Tweets: @daweiner, @cshirky, @fmanjoo, @tmfbiggles, @dcbigjohn, @samir and @russellbrandom
| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Google punishes Rap Genius in search ranking for SEO practices, founders seek resolution — Google Destroys Rap Genius' Search Rankings As Punishment For SEO Spam, But Resolution In Progress — Google hit back hard today after it learned lyrics site Rap Genius had been using dubious SEO tricks to attain top spots in search results.
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Tweets: @dannysullivan, @levie, @mikeisaac, @startupljackson and @qthrul
See also Mediagazer| Steven Sinofsky / Learning by Shipping: |
Designing for exponential trends of 2014 — Rather than predict anything that will suddenly appear at the end of 2014, this post offers some trends that are likely to double by some measure this next year. — This will turn out to be an exponential year in many technologies …
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| Rich Calder / New York Post: |
Silk Road's Ulbricht claims that bitcoins are not subject to seizure by federal law — Feds stole my $33M bitcoins booty: Silk Road ‘pirate’ — The Internet “pirate” accused of running the notorious illegal-drug-peddling Web site Silk Road claims that the feds are the real buccaneers …
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Analysis: In telecom merger mania, skeptical eye from Obama administration — (Reuters) - A pair of potentially transformative U.S. telecoms and cable deals could run afoul of Obama administration regulators who worry that mergers among market leaders would hurt consumers.| Liana B. Baker / Reuters: |
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| Farhad Manjoo / Wall Street Journal: |
The Internet doesn't necessarily have to keep our digital effluvia around forever. Do we want it to be erasable? — The Internet doesn't necessarily have to keep our digital effluvia around forever, and Snapchat has proved it. Do we want an erasable Internet?| Nate Anderson / Ars Technica: |
The decade-long quest to stop “Spamford” Wallace — The federal courthouse in Las Vegas, where Wallace was questioned about his money. — Wikimedia Commons — On a warm April morning in 2007, one of the world's most notorious spammers walked through the doors of the Lloyd D. George Federal Courthouse in Las Vegas.
Tweets: @arstechnica
| Violet Blue / ZDNet: |
Researchers publish Snapchat code allowing phone number matching after exploit disclosures ignored — Summary: Snapchat's previously undocumented API and code for two exploits have been published, allowing mass name/phone number matching, and mass creation of bogus accounts. — Violet BlueSponsor Posts
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