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Project Ara: Inside Google's Bold Gambit to Make Smartphones Modular — The two-year quest to create the ultimate customizable phone, inside and out. — On January 29, Google announced that it had agreed to sell Motorola, its phone-manufacturing business, to Chinese electronics giant Lenovo.
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Thanks:@mariedomingo| Bertel King, Jr / Android Police: |
| Fred Wilson / AVC: |
A Letter To Senator Manchin — Senator Joe Manchin wrote a public letter to financial regulators asking them to “take appropriate action to limit the abilities of this highly unstable currency.” The letter in its entirety is here. — What follows is a letter from me to the Senator.
| Andy Greenberg / Forbes: |
Senator Calls For Bitcoin Ban In Letter To Financial Regulators — Since Senator Charles Schumer first called on law enforcement nearly three years ago to shut down the Silk Road and cited the black market's use of Bitcoin for anonymous transactions, the cryptocurrency community has been waiting for the other shoe to drop.
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| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
How Google is turning Mountain View into a company town — Welcome to Googletown — Here's how a city becomes company property — Some days it feels like Google is taking over the world. For the residents of Mountain View, California, that feeling is personal.| Gregg Keizer / Computerworld: |
Apple retires Snow Leopard from support, leaves 1 in 5 Macs vulnerable to attacks — Twice now that Apple's bypassed Snow Leopard when it patched newer editions — Apple on Tuesday made it clear that it will no longer patch OS X 10.6, aka Snow Leopard, when it again declined to offer …
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| Douglas MacMillan / Wall Street Journal: |
Marketing Chief Kathy Savitt's Star Rises at Yahoo — A management shake-up at Yahoo Inc. has conferred more power on Kathy Savitt, a marketing executive who has quickly risen to become one of Chief Executive Marissa Mayer's most prominent and trusted lieutenants.| David Kravets / Wired: |
Feds Refuse to Release Public Comments on NSA Reform — Citing Privacy — The Obama administration has received 28 proposals from corporations with ideas for managing the NSA's massive database of U.S. phone call metadata. But don't expect to see the proposals anytime soon.
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| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
The Fingerprint Scanner On The Samsung Galaxy S5 Will Be Accessible By Developers — Samsung's Galaxy S5 includes a fingerprint scanner embedded in the home button, and that hardware will be made available to third-party devs, the company announced today at a developer-focused event during MWC this year.
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| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
Apple Details Touch ID And The A7′s Secure Enclave In Updated iOS Security Document — Apple has shared some information around how Touch ID and its Secure Enclave keeps information private in an updated security document newly posted to its iPhone in Business microsite.
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| Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica: |
Hands-on with Samsung's Tizen OS: An impressively capable Android clone — BARCELONA, SPAIN—Samsung has such a large presence at Mobile World Congress that it doesn't just have one giant booth; there are also several smaller ones scattered around the show halls.
Tweets: @danieleran
| Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
Boeing's secret ‘Black’ spy phone will detect tampering, self-destruct if cracked open — Nearly two years after word leaked about Boeing's plans to build a secure Android phone, the aerospace giant and defense contractor has quietly filed documents with the FCC for what it's calling the “Black” phone.
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ZDNet, BGR, Myce.com, Reuters, The Next Web, Ubergizmo, CNET, The Verge, Ars Technica, Electronista, Quartz, Gearburn, We Live Security, Android Central, Engadget, AndroidSPIN, Gizmodo and SlashGear. Thanks:@johnhcook
| Matthew Panzarino / TechCrunch: |
Apple Launches Big Improvements For iOS Management Tools For Enterprise And Education — Apple has been busy in the IT department. Today, it released a slew of improvements and alterations to its large-scale deployment tools for education and enterprise customers.
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9to5Mac, App Advice, iDownloadBlog.com …, iPhone Hacks, AppleInsider, MacRumors and The Loop
| Emil Protalinski / The Next Web: |
Facebook Messenger for Windows will shut down on March 3 — Facebook today began prompting Facebook Messenger for Windows users with a message saying the app is shutting down next week. Without much of an explanation, the company plans to kill off Windows support for Facebook Messenger on March 3.| Sam Byford / The Verge: |
Nintendo ending DS and Wii online multiplayer in May — Nintendo has announced that it will end support for its online multiplayer service on the DS and Wii. Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection will shut down on May 20th, meaning that games will no longer work online; offline features, however, will continue to work.| Emil Protalinski / The Next Web: |
Following developer requests, Google delays blocking extensions not in the Chrome Web Store until May 1 — Google today announced it won't be blocking local Chrome for Windows extensions until May 1. The timing change is being made after some developers requested more time to get their extensions in the Chrome Web Store.
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| CoinDesk: |
Exclusive: State of Bitcoin 2014 Report Analyses Emerging Trends — Today CoinDesk is pleased to release its first ever ‘State of Bitcoin’ report. — This report is not intended to be another guide to answer the question ‘what is bitcoin?’, which we cover in detail elsewhere on our site.
Tweets: @laurenlyster and @coindesk
| Derrick Harris / Gigaom: |
IBM is challenging developers to insert Watson into mobile apps — At the Mobile World Congress event today, IBM CEO Ginni Rometty laid down the gauntlet for mobile developers. Over the next three months, IBM will host its Watson Mobile Developer Challenge to find the best ideas for mobile apps …
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| Sharif Sakr / Engadget: |
Wacom lets people share handwritten notes across devices and platforms — Wacom has been pushing into the world of mobile for a while, and its efforts have just culminated in a pretty bold move: A single, cross-platform standard for sharing handwritten notes and sketches between users …
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