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| Alistair Barr / USA Today: |
Google working on 10 gigabit Internet speeds — Project to develop ‘next generation’ of the Internet is part of Google's broader obsession with speed, CFO says — SAN FRANCISCO - Google is working on technology that will provide data transfer speeds over the Internet that are many times faster …
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Facebook Opens Up LGBTQ-Friendly Gender Identity And Pronoun Options — Facebook has just updated to let users choose the gender pronoun they associate with. Aside from the usual “male” and “female” options, users can choose up to 10 different gender definitions to describe themselves …
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| Lisa Jennings / Nation's Restaurant News: |
Taco Bell testing mobile ordering for in-store pickup, will roll out nationally this year — Taco Bell to offer mobile ordering nationwide — Taco Bell is preparing to roll out mobile ordering nationwide later this year, a move that will likely fuel a trend expected to shake up the quick-service world.| Andy Greenberg / Forbes: |
Silk Road 2.0 ‘Hack’ Blamed On Bitcoin Bug, All Funds Stolen — The same bug that has plagued several of the biggest players in the Bitcoin economy may have just bitten the Silk Road. — On Thursday, one of the recently-reincarnated drug-selling black market site's administrators posted …
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| Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica: |
New Android OEM licensing terms leak; “Open” comes with a lot of restrictions — The least understood area of the Android ecosystem has always been the highly secretive Google Play Apps licensing process. While Android is open source, the Google applications, like the Play Store, Gmail …
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| Amy Schatz / Re/code: |
Peering could replace net neutrality as one of the key issues in Comcast-Time Warner review — Sleeper Issue Peers Around the Corner of Comcast-Time Warner Deal — Comcast executives scored big points three years ago with the Federal Communications Commission by volunteering to abide … | Michael Isikoff / NBC News: |
Exclusive: Snowden Swiped Password From NSA Coworker — A civilian NSA employee recently resigned after being stripped of his security clearance for allowing former agency contractor Edward Snowden to use his pers...
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| Farhad Manjoo / New York Times: |
To avoid obsolescence, buy Apple's hardware, use Google's services, and buy Amazon's media — How to Survive the Next Wave of Technology Extinction — Don't mock the beleaguered Nook owner. That could have been you. — Five years ago, when the nation's largest chain of bookstores released … | Jay Yarow / Business Insider: |
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| Kim-Mai Cutler / TechCrunch: |
Yahoo Acquires Technical Recruiting Startup Distill — Yahoo just acquired a San Francisco-based startup called Distill, which was working on a way to make technical recruiting easier by pairing video interviews and programming challenges. They had raised $1.3 million in funding … | Bloomberg: |
Lenovo Projects End to Motorola Losses With China Phone — Lenovo Group Ltd. (992), which posted a 29 percent surge in profit today, expects to end losses at Motorola Mobility within quarters of completing a deal as it reintroduces the smartphone brand to China.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Windows 8 passes 200 million license sales — Microsoft has been rather quiet about its risky Windows 8 bet. The company passed 100 million license sales of Windows 8 after around six months, but a year on the market came and went without any real update on its progress.| Elizabeth Dwoskin / Wall Street Journal: |
Pandora to let advertisers target listeners based on its sense of their political leanings starting next week — Internet Radio Service Builds Profiles of Its Audience — Pandora Hopes to Build Ad Revenue by Pinpointing Likely Voting Preferences — Next time you listen to a Bob Marley channel … | Mikey Campbell / AppleInsider: |
Apple wants to stop, track down spammers with automated disposable email addresses — The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office on Thursday published an Apple patent application describing a system that thwarts spam mail by automatically generating and handling “disposable” email addresses, all while being transparent to the end user.| Ina Fried / Re/code: |
Nathan Myhrvold's Intellectual Ventures Cutting Five Percent of Workforce — Intellectual Ventures, the invention house and patent consolidator run by former Microsoft executive Nathan Myhrvold, is cutting five percent of its workforce. — “We continue to refine our business and in doing …
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| Neil Hughes / AppleInsider: |
Apple set to discontinue legacy, non-Retina iPad 2 — After nearly three years on the market, Apple's second-generation iPad, which sports an A5 processor and non-Retina display, is now on the chopping block, and is expected to be discontinued in the near future, AppleInsider has learned.| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft signs Android patent deal with Voxx Electronics — Summary: Microsoft has added Voxx Electronics to its list of Android patent licensees. — Microsoft may be considering ways to entice Android developers and handset makers to join the Windows world, but that isn't stopping …
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| Jason Clampet / Skift: |
Study indicates 2/3 of Airbnb's 19.5K NYC listings have offsite owners, violating city law — Airbnb in NYC: The Real Numbers Behind the Sharing Story — The five biggest neighborhoods for Airbnb are in parts of Brooklyn and Manhattan with few hotels. Skift / Mapbox
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| Josh Ong / The Next Web: |
PlayStation 4 beat Xbox One for January console sales, but Xbox One sold more games — Sony and Microsoft are both trumpeting market share wins from NPD's January US gaming data. Sony declared its PlayStation 4 the top-selling console last month, while Microsoft took credit for selling the most games.| Martyn Williams / Computerworld: |
Phil Schiller up again in next round of Apple-Samsung battle — The Apple executive is one of a handful of people Samsung said it will call to the court — Apple marketing chief Phil Schiller is among the witnesses that lawyers for Samsung plan to call when the two companies return to court in California in late March.
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| Alex Konrad / Forbes: |
Wireless access point maker Aerohive Networks files for $75M IPO — Breaking: Wireless Company Aerohive Networks Publicly Files For IPO — Aerohive Networks is going public. — The wireless access point maker based in Sunnyvale, CA submitted a public S-1 form to the Securities and Exchange Commission Thursday.
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| Mariella Moon / Engadget: |
Open source OS Tizen gains 15 more allies; Sprint rejoins the list — In the world of mobile platforms, Tizen's but a new entry that's been through some tough times since its inception. The circle of 36 companies (aptly called the Tizen Association) backing up the open source OS is putting up a good fight … | Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Asian gaming giant Nexon announces Owen Mahoney as successor to CEO — Don't look now, but a foreign guy will become the boss at one of Asia's biggest game companies. Free-to-play online gaming giant Nexon has announced Owen Mahoney's appointment as the successor for the top executive post at Nexon.
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| Sam Biddle / Valleywag: |
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