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Samsung refines winning formula with Galaxy S5, maintains distinct Galaxy software, plans April 11 launch alongside new Gear models — Samsung's Galaxy S5 is here with more power, more pixels, and a refined design — This year's flagship doesn't mess with a winning formula
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| Samsung Mobile Press: |
Samsung unveils Galaxy S5 to focus on what matters most to consumers — The company's 5th generation Galaxy S redefines how technology innovation enhances our lives — Barcelona, Spain, February 24, 2014 - Samsung Electronics today announced the fifth generation of the Galaxy S series … | Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
Samsung's Dust- And Water Resistant Galaxy S5 Gets Official With Heart Rate Monitor, Fingerprint Scanner — The Samsung Galaxy S5 is here, and now we know everything about the 2014 flagship from the Korean smartphone maker. It's pushing into phablet territory with a 5.1-inch …
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| Bonnie Cha / Re/code: |
Samsung Tries On Another Wearable With Fitness-Focused Gear Fit — Perhaps you thought Samsung was done with its wearable news when it announced the Tizen-based Gear 2 and Gear 2 Neo smartwatches over the weekend. But turns out the company had one last trick up its sleeve (no pun intended).| Brian X. Chen / NYT Bits: |
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Messaging Giant WhatsApp, With 465M Users, Will Add Voice Services In Q2 Of This Year — Today Jan Koum, the CEO of WhatsApp — acquired by Facebook last week for $19 billion — announced that the messaging giant is finally moving into voice — a move announced at MWC, the conference …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
WhatsApp Is Actually Worth More Than $19B, Says Facebook's Zuckerberg, And It Was Internet.org That Sealed The Deal — More than a few people were surprised when Facebook said it would pay $19 billion for messaging app startup WhatsApp, but today Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said that he believed it was actually worth more.
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| Ellis Hamburger / The Verge: |
Facebook retires its troubled @facebook.com email service — Facebook is retiring its email service, and has begun notifying users that all email sent to their @facebook.com address will soon be forwarded to their primary email address on file. Facebook users can turn off the forwarding feature, which is on by default.
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| Erin Griffith / Fortune: |
Dropbox raises $350 million — Dropbox has another $350 million in the bank, and more may be on the way. — FORTUNE — Last month, reports surfaced that Dropbox had raised $250 million from Blackrock (BLK) in its final round of private funding before embarking on its highly-anticipated IPO.
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| Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
Microsoft devices chief Julie Larson-Green takes on new role, will be replaced by Nokia's Stephen Elop — Julie Larson-Green, the former Windows executive who most recently led Microsoft hardware development as the top executive in the company's Devices and Studios Group …
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| Glenn Greenwald / First Look Media: |
How Covert Agents Infiltrate the Internet to Manipulate, Deceive, and Destroy Reputations — A page from a GCHQ top secret document prepared by its secretive JTRIG unit — One of the many pressing stories that remains to be told from the Snowden archive is how western intelligence agencies …
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| Ian Delaney / Nokia Conversations: |
Nokia announces X, X+, and XL low-cost Android phones “to appeal to new smartphone users” outside North America — Xtraordinarily xcellent: the Nokia X family — Today Nokia introduces a brand new family of smartphones, the Nokia X family, a range of handsets that combines Nokia design …
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| Zach Miners / PC World: |
Gmail adding prominent ‘Unsubscribe’ option to marketing emails — Gmail users who get frustrated trying to find the “unsubscribe” link that's often buried in small type at the bottom of promotional emails may instead start seeing it before they even open the message.
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| Russell Brandom / The Verge: |
HTC launches new project donating processor power to scientific research — Today at Mobile World Congress, HTC announced an ambitious distributed computing project that would use spare computing cycles to further scientific research. Partnering with the Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing …
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NEWS.com.au, Re/code, TechCrunch, HTC Source and CNET
| The Coinbase Blog: |
Joint Statement Regarding the Insolvency of Mt.Gox — The purpose of this document is to summarize a joint statement to the Bitcoin community regarding the insolvency of Mt.Gox. This tragic violation of the trust of users of Mt.Gox was the result of one company's actions and does not reflect …
| Jeff Morganteen / CNBC: |
Verizon CEO: We expect a deal with Netflix — Verizon CEO: I would expect deal with Netflix — Netflix has agreed to pay Comcast for faster broadband service. Lowell McAdam, Verizon Communications President & CEO, weighs in on the deal and discusses Google's fiber plans.
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| Andrew Wallenstein / Variety: |
Facebook Hires Ryan Seacrest's Digital Chief as Head of Entertainment Partnerships (Exclusive) — Sibyl Goldman tapped to lead Hollywood outreach efforts — Facebook has recruited Ryan Seacrest's digital guru for a new role leading an expanded effort to court Hollywood.| Janko Roettgers / Gigaom: |
A look behind the curtain: how Netflix redesigned and rebuilt its television experience — The Onion joked recently that Netflix was going to introduce a new Browse Endlessly plan. For $5, it would offer consumers a way to scroll through its entire library without ever deciding on a single title.| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Broadcom packs high-speed 5G Wi-Fi into a single chip for smartphones — Broadcom, the multibillion-dollar communications chip maker, wants to elbow its way into smartphones. And it is planning to do so by announcing the first advanced 5G Wi-Fi combination chips for smartphones.
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Broadcom, The Register, 9to5Mac, MacRumors, Electronista and iPhone Hacks
| Jordan Golson / MacRumors: |
ReSound LiNX Launches as World's First ‘Made for iPhone’ Hearing Aid — A new hearing aid launched today connects directly to iPhones and other iOS devices, allowing wearers to talk on the phone or listen to music, by GN ReSound, a Danish hearing aid manufacturer.| Ryan Joe / AdExchanger: |
Oracle To Buy BlueKai For Estimated $350M to $400M, Deal Presents Big Challenges — Oracle will acquire data services and technology company BlueKai for an estimated $350 to $400 million, bringing together one of the largest enterprise software companies with a market leading data management platform (DMP).
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| Vlad Savov / The Verge: |
In less than a decade, phone memory cards have grown from 128MB to 128GB — Emerging in 2005 out of the need for a memory card small enough to fit inside a mobile phone, microSD cards have rapidly matured to their current status of global ubiquity and adoption.
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TechCrunch, The Register, Gigaom, CNET and ITworld.com
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SoftBank Said to Seek Stake in Naver's Line Mobile-Message Unit — SoftBank Corp. (9984) is seeking to buy a stake in Line Corp., the mobile-messaging service controlled by South Korea's Naver Corp., people with knowledge of the matter said. — Line has received at least one other offer … | Brooks Barnes / New York Times: |
Moviefone Is Hanging Up, but Its App Will Go On — LOS ANGELES — Mr. Moviefone's lines are going dead. — For 25 years, residents of America's biggest cities have been able to call 777-FILM to receive movie listing information and buy tickets. The service's goofily booming greeting became … | Darlene Storm / Computerworld: |
98% of mobile malware targets Android platform — If you consider all the hot new mobile products coming out of Mobile World Congress 2014, it's clear that the world as a whole is crazy about mobile devices. While it's no wonder that cyber crooks are also hot to follow the mobile trend …
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Securelist and ZDNet
| Mike Isaac / Re/code: |
LinkedIn Launches a Chinese-Language Site — But Government Censorship Looms — LinkedIn announced that it will launch a simplified Chinese language version of its site, making it easier for native Chinese speakers to use the social business network. — The company's services have previously …
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