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Samsung Plans Galaxy S5 by April With Possible Eye-Scan Security — Samsung Electronics Co. (005930) will release its Galaxy S5 smartphone by April and is considering using iris scanning technology for the first time as it readies the new high-end handset to compete with Apple Inc. (AAPL)'s latest iPhones.| Edwin Chan / Reuters: |
Apple, Samsung CEOs agree to mediation in U.S. patent fight: court filing — (Reuters) - Apple Inc and Samsung Electronics have agreed to attend a mediation session to be held on or before February 19, as they prepare to clash in court in March over smartphone patents.
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T-Mobile CEO: “This industry blows,” biggest carriers offer “horsesh**” — T-Mobile US CEO John Legere has had an eventful week at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. He was thrown out of AT&T's CES party Monday night after the company detected his presence.| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
T-Mobile will now pay $350 for you to leave AT&T, Sprint, or Verizon — Just as predicted, T-Mobile's latest hyped-up new plan to change the cellular industry is this: the company will pay your early termination fee if you agree to switch. While T-Mobile CEO John Legere hasn't yet announced it onstage …
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| Alex Hern / Guardian: |
Yahoo malware turned European computers into bitcoin slaves — Search firm remains silent on how its ad servers infected Windows PCs of visitors to homepage — As many as two million European users of Yahoo may have received PC malware from virus-laden ads served by its homepage over a four-day period last week.
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| Sam Schechner / Wall Street Journal: |
Online Privacy Could Spark U.S.-EU Trade Rift — French, Spanish Fines Against Google Are Latest Flare-Ups in Trans-Atlantic Disagreement … PARIS—Knowing what Europeans like Rémi Boulle bought for Christmas could spark the next trans-Atlantic trade battle.
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In interview with David Pogue, Nick D'Aloisio touts positive Yahoo News Digest reviews likely written by Yahoo employees — The Curious Case Of Yahoo's App Reviews — Summly founder Nick D'Aloisio, in an interview with Yahoo's David Pogue, touted his new app's positive reviews. But who's writing them?
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First look: iOS-connected smart watches, health trackers, home automation from Archos — Archos is hitting the wearable devices market hard in 2014, with a new range of products showcased at the Consumer Electronics Show capable of connecting to Apple's iOS mobile platform via Bluetooth Low Energy.
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IBM Struggles to Turn Watson Computer Into Big Business — Revenue Is Far From Company's Ambitious Targets … Three years after International Business Machines Corp. began trying to turn its “Jeopardy"-winning computer into a big business, revenue from Watson is far from the company's ambitious targets.
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| Alexis C. Madrigal / The Atlantic Online: |
From Stephen Colbert to Obama: the origin and evolution of Reddit's AMA — AMA: How a Weird Internet Thing Became a Mainstream Delight — Reddit's question-and-answer format imports the aspirational norms of honesty and authenticity from pseudonymous Internet forums into mainstream interviews.| Ben Fritz / Wall Street Journal: |
Digital movie sales up 47% in 2013 as studios allow digital purchases before rental, physical — Sales of Online Movies Jumps; DVDs Continue to Decline — Delaying Availability of DVDs, Rentals Nudged Consumers … After years of trying to convince consumers to buy movies online … | Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols / ZDNet: |
1 PC, 2 operating systems: Intel introduces Dual OS, AMD adds Android apps to Windows — Summary: Intel and partners are going to be bringing us PCs that run both Android and Windows 8.1. Meanwhile, AMD and its partner BlueStacks will enable users to run Android and its apps on Windows.
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The Most In-Demand Tech Skills: Why Java And The Classics Ruled 2013 — If you're a Java developer, chances are you did pretty well for yourself in 2013. — At least, that's according to statistics from Stack Overflow. Thousands of companies use the website's Careers 2. search in order … | Jonathan Shieber / TechCrunch: |
Tech Angels Cross The $1 Billion Mark In 2013 — Buoyed by a stronger economy, angel investors companies worldwide poured a record amount of cash into early-stage technology and life-sciences companies, according to data from CrunchBase. — Angel investments have been climbing steadily since 2008 … | Jeff John Roberts / Gigaom: |
Confide: an app for execs who want sensitive messages to vanish Snapchat-style — Many people associate “disappear” apps like Snapchat with young people who want to send each other bong or boob shots. But kids are hardly the only ones who want to relay sensitive or silly messages without leaving a permanent trace on the internet.
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The evolution of memes on Facebook — A meme is an idea that is readily transmitted from person to person. But we humans are not perfect transmitters. While sometimes we repeat the idea exactly, often we change the meme, either unintentionally, or to embellish or improve it. — Take for example, the meme:
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| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
DoS attacks that took down big game sites abused Web's time-sync protocol — 69 percent of all DDoS attack traffic by bit volume in the first week of January was the result of NTP reflection. — Black Lotus — Miscreants who earlier this week took down servers for League of Legends … Sponsor Posts
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