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Independent review board says NSA phone data program is illegal and should end — An independent executive branch board has concluded that the National Security Agency's long-running program to collect billions of Americans' phone records is illegal and should end.
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| Charlie Savage / New York Times: |
Watchdog Report Says N.S.A. Program Is Illegal and Should End — WASHINGTON — An independent federal privacy watchdog has concluded that the National Security Agency's program to collect bulk phone call records has provided only “minimal” benefits in counterterrorism efforts, is illegal and should be shut down.
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| Adario Strange / Mashable: |
Apple Promises to Fix iOS 7 ‘White Screen of Death’ — Since Apple released iOS 7, its completely revamped operating system for the iPhone, reviews have been mixed but mostly positive. However, a glitch that has quietly plagued iPhone users — the “white/black screen of death,” …
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| Kara Swisher / Re/code: |
AOL Buys Personalization Startup Gravity for $90 Million in Cash — In a bid to add another publishing and advertising tool to its offerings, AOL has acquired personalization startup Gravity for about $90 million in cash. — As part of the deal, which is expected to close in the first quarter …
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Lenovo to Buy IBM Server Unit For $2.3 Billion Amid PC Slump — Lenovo Group Ltd., the world's largest maker of personal computers, will buy International Business Machines Corp.'s server business for $2.3 billion. — The deal price includes about $2 billion of cash and the rest in Lenovo stock …
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| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
Nokia Says Lumia & Other Phone Sales Declined In Q4 As It Prepares To Sell Division To Microsoft — In what is likely to be Nokia's last quarterly earnings before it hands off its mobile phone making business to Microsoft, the Finnish mobile maker has reported lower sales of Lumia devices in its Q4.
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| Larry Dignan / ZDNet: |
eBay CEO Donahoe gives Icahn e-commerce tutorial over PayPal plan — Summary: eBay CEO John Donahoe: Why in an era of big data and e-commerce innovation would you separate eBay, PayPal and their network effects? — eBay CEO John Donahoe elaborated on why PayPal should remain part … | Reuters: |
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| Steven Hickson / Steves Computer Vision Blog: |
Hacking Snapchat's people verification in less than 100 lines — I woke up this morning and saw this article detailing Snapchat's new people verification system. You may have seen it but if not I will summarize it for you. They basically have you choose each image with the Snapchat ghost to prove you are a person.
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| John Biggs / TechCrunch: |
Google Glass User Detained By Feds Talks About Ordeal — While some businesses are banning the high-tech wearable device Google Glass, a theatre owner in Columbus, Ohio, saw enough of a threat to call the Department of Homeland Security. The manager called in unnamed Homeland Security agents …
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| Roberto Baldwin / Wired: |
Tivo Lays Off Most of Its Design Team as It Transitions to the Cloud — Update: Tivo says it will continue to use third-party designers for hardware going forward. The article has been updated to reflect this fact. — Tivo has been bullish lately about releasing new software products beyond its core DVR boxes.
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PC Magazine, TIME, The Verge, Business Insider, Ars Technica, Pocket-lint, Gigaom, Engadget, SlashGear, Electronista and ParisLemon. Thanks:@strngwys. See also Mediagazer
| Cyrus Farivar / Ars Technica: |
Protesters show up at the doorstep of Google self-driving car engineer — Protests against tech giants and their impact on the San Francisco Bay Area economy just got personal. — According to an anonymous submission on local news site Indybay, an unknown group of protesters targeted …
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| Florian Mueller / FOSS Patents: |
Huawei settles with Rockstar Consortium, will pay for Android's infringement of ex-Nortel patents — The Google-led group of Android device makers sued on Halloween 2013 over former Nortel patents fails to present a united front to the Rockstar Consortium, a patent holding firm jointly owned by Apple …
| Chris Kohler / Wired: |
Instead of porting its games to other mobile platforms, Nintendo should run its own platform — Everything You're Thinking About Nintendo Is Totally Wrong — The entire internet has weighed in with what it believes is the answer to Nintendo's financial woes: Go mobile, immediately.| Jack Clark / The Register: |
Amazon's lack of public involvement in open source may cause talent attrition, say insiders — Amazon's ‘schizophrenic’ open source selfishness scares off potential talent, say insiders — Moles blame Bezos for paltry code sharing — Exclusive Amazon is one of the most technically … | Marco Arment / Marco.org: |
Apparently It's OK For iOS Apps To Ask For Your Apple ID And Password — Apple's currently featuring the Sunrise app in the App Store. — Upon first launch, Sunrise invites you to create an account, then asks you to add a calendar. The first option, “iCloud Calendar” …
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| Ernesto / TorrentFreak: |
Judge: IP-Address Does Not Prove Copyright Infringement — Mass-BitTorrent lawsuits have been dragging on for years in the US, involving hundreds of thousands of alleged downloaders. — The copyright holders who start these cases generally provide nothing more than an IP address as evidence.
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| John Cook / GeekWire: |
Early stakeholders in Scout Analytics claim venture capitalists engaged in ‘self dealing, corporate waste’ prior to $32M acquisition — Not everyone is happy about today's $32 million acquisition of Scout Analytics by ServiceSource. A group of series A preferred stockholders filed suit … | Catherine Shu / TechCrunch: |
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| David de Jong / Bloomberg: |
Sheryl Sandberg Becomes One of Youngest U.S. Billionaires — Sheryl Sandberg's fortune surpassed $1 billion today after Facebook Inc. (FB) closed at a record high. — The chief operating officer of the world's most popular social-networking service owns about 12.3 million shares of the Menlo Park … | Janko Roettgers / Gigaom: |
Lively raises $2 million as live concert space heats up — Seattle-based digital music startup Lively has raised close to $2 million in new funding, according to an SEC filing. Lively offers artists an easy way to record their concerts, and then sell them to concert-goers and other fans immediately after the show.| JP Mangalindan / Fortune: |
Prim: Anatomy of a folded startup — The YCombinator-backed laundry pick-up and delivery business barely lasted 7 months. One of its founders walks Fortune through the post-mortem. — FORTUNE - Can technology disrupt even the most mundane chores? — That's the question Yin Yin Wu … | Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
iPhone 5s Owners Gobbling “Unprecedented” Levels Of Data, Study Finds — Users of flagship smartphones such as Apple's iPhone 5s and Samsung's Galaxy S4 are continuing to suck down more data than their tablet-wielding counterparts, according to a large-scale survey of mobile data consumption …
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Lucrative Role as Middleman Puts Amazon in Tough Spot — While Business Is Key to Growth, Conflicts Arise Over Counterfeit, Unsafe Products — Last spring, Amazon.com Inc. moved to end its relationship with one of its biggest third-party sellers, saying that company had offered products that were illegal or otherwise prohibited.
Tweets: @shiraovide and @wsj
| Shira Ovide / Digits: |
The Holes in Microsoft's Data Protection Pledge — Microsoft says it can keep its customers' data from the prying eyes of U.S. spies and cops. But the company may not be able to honor its pledge. — Brad Smith, Microsoft's general counsel, said the company would allow its foreign customers …
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