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To counter competition, Microsoft will charge manufacturers $15 instead of $50 to install Windows on devices under $250 — Microsoft Said to Cut Windows Price 70% to Counter Rivals — Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) is cutting the price of Windows 8.1 by 70 percent for makers of low-cost computers …
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Tweets: @mattrosoff, @tomwarren, @mattrosoff, @parislemon, @tculpan, @dinabass and @tomkrazit
| Juro Osawa / Digits: |
Q&A: Line Executive on WhatsApp and the Power of Messaging — All eyes are on smartphone messaging apps now that Facebook has announced a deal to pay $19 billion for WhatsApp. — While WhatsApp is a giant and one of the pioneers in smartphone messaging, Asia has been the hub for the evolution … | Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch: |
WhatsApp Was Valued At ~$1.5B In Final Round Before Sale — WhatsApp did a great job of being surreptitious about its funding while growing into a messaging monster. But as they say, the truth always comes out. — In this case, the truth is that the company had three rounds of financing, with Sequoia as the sole investor.
| Alex Radocea / CrowdStrike: |
Details about Apple SSL vulnerability and iOS 7.0.6 patch — On February 21st, 2014 Apple pushed out an emergency SSL security update for iOS (7.0.6). — John Costello, CrowdStrike's Sr. SDET Engineer, and myself reverse engineered the binary patches in order to analyze the vulnerability and its full impact.| Chris Williams / The Register: |
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| Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
Netflix packets being dropped every day because Verizon wants more money — Verizon wants to be paid by consumers and Cogent, but Cogent refuses to pay. — The battle over who should pay to carry Netflix traffic is heating up again, and one of the main players blames Verizon's greed …
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| Seth Weintraub / 9to5Google: |
New Samsung Gear 2 / Neo Smartwatches (Gold is Best!) shown in leaks — We're expecting to see Samsung unveil an update to their Galaxy Gear Smartwatches in Barcelona next week and of course that means electronics leaker @evleaks has them for us this week. It seems that these won't be branded Galaxy and will be called Gear 2 and Neo.
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| Florian Mueller / FOSS Patents: |
Apple, Samsung confirm failure of settlement effort in early February but keep talking — In January, Apple and Samsung informed Judge Lucy Koh, the federal district judge presiding over two patent infringement cases between them in the Northern District of California, that they were going …
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook Tests Mobile “Highlights”, A Cheat Sheet To Your Friends' Lives — Facebook said there were just big fixes in its 7.0 iOS update it released yesterday, but actually there's a big new feature it's testing called Highlights. Inside the People tab you'll see Highlights including friends' Life Events …
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Goldman Sachs gives early assessment of Bitcoin, noting opportunities and potential issues — Goldman Sachs Takes On Bitcoin — The eye of big finance is finally turning towards cryptocurrency. Responding to requests from clients, Goldman Sachs has put out an early assessment of Bitcoin … | Loretta Chao / Wall Street Journal: |
Twitter, Other Apps Disrupted in Venezuela Amid Protests — The Venezuelan government, besieged by nationwide protests, appears to have stepped up its censorship of Internet services used by demonstrators and sites that have criticized the government response to the unrest, technology firms and researchers said.| Matthew Panzarino / TechCrunch: |
Here's An Actual 3D Indoor Map Of A Room Captured With Google's Project Tango Phone — We broke the news yesterday that Google was producing a prototype 3D sensing smartphone called Project Tango. We also broke down the capabilities of the vision processor inside the device and talked about what it means for the future of phones.
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UnleashThePhones, Droid Life, Digital Photography Review, IntoMobile, SlashGear, Engadget and The Verge. Tweets: @notpatrick
| Lucian Constantin / Computerworld: |
Source code for Android iBanking bot surfaces on underground forum — Leaked source code could lead to a larger number of attacks using the mobile malware, security researchers from RSA said — The source code for an Android mobile banking Trojan app was released on an underground forum …
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