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Netflix agrees to pay Comcast to improve its streaming speeds — Deal Ends Standoff Over Streaming, Would Give Netflix Direct Access to Comcast Systems — Netflix Inc. has agreed to pay Comcast Corp. to ensure Netflix movies and TV shows stream smoothly to Comcast customers …
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Netflix and Comcast Solve Their Web Traffic Problem With a Long-Term Deal — Comcast and Netflix have hammered out a deal designed to remove a bottleneck slowing the video service's streams for the cable company's broadband customers. — The deal focuses on the intersection between … | Timothy B. Lee / The Switch: |
Comcast's deal with Netflix makes network neutrality obsolete — For the past two decades, the Internet has operated as an unregulated, competitive free market. Given the tendency of networked industries to lapse into monopoly—think of AT&T's 70-year hold over telephone service, for example—that's a minor miracle.
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| Joe Belfiore / Windows Phone Blog: |
Scaling Windows Phone, evolving Windows 8 — A lot of you folks know me as “the Windows Phone guy.” Over the past five years I've been co-managing the Windows Phone product team on a mission to make Windows Phone a delightful and successful platform. Recently my job changed to focus …
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Huawei announces TalkBand B1 smart watch with 1.4 inch flexible OLED display and removable earpiece — Huawei's first smartband has a pop-out earpiece for voice calls — Huawei hasn't exactly been keeping quiet about its very own wearable device, so today's announcement of its TalkBand B1 should be no surprise to anyone.| Katie Collins / Wired.co.uk: |
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Mozilla's Partners Launch New Firefox OS Phones As It Looks To Expand To New Markets In 2014 — Just ahead of the start of the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Mozilla today announced a number of new Firefox OS smartphones from partners like ZTE, Huawei and Alcatel, as well as a $25 reference design from Spreadtrum.
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Facebook Price for Having No Phone OS? $19 Billion. A Must-Have Apps Play? Priceless. — Everyone in a room I was in today dropped their jaws in disbelief when I told them the news that Facebook had forked over $19 billion to buy the global mobile messaging service WhatsApp.| Nicholas Carlson / Business Insider: |
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Apple's ‘Gotofail’ Security Mess Extends To Mail, Twitter, iMessage, Facetime And More — First, Apple revealed a critical bug in its implementation of encryption in iOS, requiring an emergency patch. Then researchers found the same bug is also included in Apple's desktop OSX operating system …
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| Raphael Minder / New York Times: |
In a First for Spain, a Woman Is Convicted of Inciting Terror Over Twitter — MADRID — The line between youthful rebelliousness and something more dangerous is not always clear. But in her angry musings on Twitter, Alba González Camacho, 21, who describes herself as a “very normal girl,” sailed across it.| Wall Street Journal: |
Allen & Co. Flourishes as a Tech Deal Maker — Facebook's WhatsApp Purchase Highlights Allen & Co.'s Rise in the Technology Sector — Allen & Co. has long been a big player in media and entertainment deals. Facebook Inc. 's $19 billion acquisition of WhatsApp Inc. highlights …
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| Jeff Bercovici / Playboy: |
The Playboy Interview: A Candid Conversation with Gawker's Nick Denton — Manti Te'o had a fake girlfriend. Rob Ford smoked crack. Brett Favre texted photos of his junk to a young woman. That these and countless other onetime secrets are now public knowledge is thanks to Nick Denton … | Eric Franklin / CNET: |
Lenovo tries again with the Yoga Tablet 10 HD+ with improved specs, coming in April for $349 (hands-on) — CNET Editors' Take — The best thing about the Lenovo Yoga Tablet 8 and 10 were their impressively long-lasting batteries. As for performance and value, well let's … Sponsor Posts
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