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| Joe Belfiore / Windows Phone Blog: |
Cortana (yes!) and Many, Many Other Great Features coming in Windows Phone 8.1 — Whew, what a day! What a week! I've just gotten off the stage at Build in front of 5,000 of our beloved developers talking about the future of the Windows platform. And now I'm here to tell YOU about the stuff we've …
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| Emil Protalinski / The Next Web: |
Microsoft unveils Windows Phone 8.1 with personal assistant Cortana, Action Center, customizable lockscreens — At its Build 2014 conference today, Microsoft unveiled Windows Phone 8.1. Among the new features is a personal digital assistant named Cortana, a new Action Center … | Emil Protalinski / The Next Web: |
Microsoft announces universal Windows apps, which work across PCs, phones, tablets and Xbox One — At its Build 2014 conference today, Microsoft announced universal Windows apps, which work across PCs, phones, tablets and even the Xbox One. In other words, the Windows runtime in Windows 8.1 Update 1 …
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TechCrunch, LAPTOP Magazine, The Verge, BetaNews, Engadget, PC World, Gizmodo, The Verge, BGR, Softpedia News, SlashGear and Electronista. Tweets: @maryjofoley
| Josh Lowensohn / The Verge: |
Microsoft making Windows free on devices with screens under nine inches — Microsoft today said it plans to make Microsoft free of charge for phones and tablets with screens smaller than nine inches, a move designed to help boost the company's market share.| The Verge: |
Live from Microsoft's Build 2014 keynote — In San Francisco, at 8:30AM PT on Wednesday, April 2nd, Microsoft will kick off its Build developer conference for 2014. Microsoft's new CEO Satya Nadella is expected to take the stage and unveil Windows Phone 8.1, a big update to Microsoft's mobile OS.
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| Jordan Novet / VentureBeat: |
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| Amazon.com: |
Amazon Fire TV ships today with Netflix, Prime Instant Video, Hulu Plus, YouTube, WatchESPN, and more — Introducing Amazon Fire TV: The Easiest Way to Watch Netflix, Prime Instant Video, Hulu Plus, WatchESPN, and More on Your Big-Screen TV — Powerful performance with 3x the processing power …
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See also Mediagazer| Terrence O'Brien / Engadget: |
Amazon launches Fire TV, an Android-powered streaming and gaming set-top box for $99 — We've been waiting for it for quite sometime, but now Amazon is finally ready to make its play for the living room. Fire TV is not a barebones device like the Chromecast, it's a powerful Android-driven platform … | Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Amazon Fire TV hands-on: Prime comes to your living room — Amazon has just unveiled Fire TV, its first attempt at a set-top box for streaming movies, television shows, photos, games, and more straight to your TV. The Fire TV is all black and consists of a small, square box that connects … | Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
Amazon's Fire TV billed as low-cost game console for titles like Minecraft and Asphalt 8, separate controller available for $40 — Amazon's FireTV set top box is also a gaming console — Amazon's FireTV set-top box will also act as a home console. The FireTV is billed not as a competitor …
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| Dana Wollman / Engadget: |
Windows 8.1 update aims to win over mouse-and-keyboard users, arrives April 8th as an automatic download — The whole point of Windows 8 was to make Microsoft's aging OS easier to use on touchscreen devices. Mission accomplished, we'd say (more or less). But now the folks in Redmond … | Alex Wilhelm / TechCrunch: |
Microsoft Demos Its Touch-Focused Office Suite For Windows — This morning at its Build developer conference in San Francisco, Microsoft showed off the coming touch-friendly build of its Office suite coming for the Windows platform. The software, Microsoft assured us, is not done.
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
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| Yuichiro Kanematsu / Nikkei: |
Report: Apple in talks to buy 55% stake in Renesas SP display chip design unit for $479M — Apple looking to buy Japanese chipmaker — SILICON VALLEY — Apple is in talks with Japan's Renesas Electronics to take over a unit that designs chips for smartphone displays …
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SiliconANGLE, Gigaom, ZDNet, Geek.com, SlashGear, Gotta Be Mobile, Inquirer, I4U News and Softpedia News
| Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch: |
Lyft Raises $250 Million From Coatue, Alibaba, And Third Point To Expand Internationally — Lyft has officially closed a huge, $250 million round of funding that it will use to aggressively expand its on-demand ride-sharing service in the U.S. and internationally.
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| Terrence O'Brien / Engadget: |
Spotify's new design is cleaner, darker and puts the focus on content — If you're using Spotify on the web, desktop or iOS you should notice a pretty massive change starting today. (The new look should be coming to Android “near future.") The company is launching its most dramatic overhaul since its launch in 2008.
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The Next Web, TechCrunch, BetaNews, Guardian, Spotify Press, PC Magazine, The Verge, Softpedia News, Geeky Gadgets, Electronista, CNET, iDownloadBlog.com, MacRumors, Gizmodo, NEWS.com.au, Geek News Central, App Advice, iPhone and Inquirer. Tweets: @zseward. See also Mediagazer
| Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
Box wants to let businesses control cloud encryption keys “this year” — Box CEO Aaron Levie told Ars last September that the cloud storage company is trying to build a service that would let customers store data in Box data centers but would keep encryption keys in-house.| Harrison Weber / VentureBeat: |
Ubuntu to shut down Dropbox competitor Ubuntu One as storage wars heat up — Canonical, owner of the popular Linux operating system Ubuntu, today announced that it is shutting down its file-storing service Ubuntu One. — Aside from being a distraction, Canonical says the service is being shut down because …
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Canonical Blog, BetaNews, Gigaom, TechCrunch, Inquirer, The Next Web, Softpedia News and Liliputing. Thanks:@harrisonweber
| Greg Bensinger / Wall Street Journal: |
Amazon Will Now Allow Returns Using Lockers — Amazon.com has quietly rolled out a new service to let customers return unwanted merchandise using large metal lockers it has installed for deliveries in garages, convenience and grocery stores in major metropolitan areas.
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VentureBeat, GeekWire, I4U News, Geek.com, Gizmodo, Geeky Gadgets and SlashGear
| Kevin Poulsen / Wired: |
Google Takes Wi-Fi Snooping Scandal to the Supreme Court — The biggest U.S. internet wiretapping program outside the NSA may be headed to the Supreme Court. — Google is asking the high court to rule on the legality of the company's past sniffing of unencrypted Wi-Fi traffic …
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PC World, Marketing Land, DSLreports, Fox News, PandoDaily, SiliconBeat, Ars Technica, The Switch, TechEye and bizjournals
| Charles Arthur / Guardian: |
Wearables: one-third of consumers abandoning devices — Hundreds of Galaxy Gear smartwatches are listed on eBay barely six months after launch. Why isn't the wearable tech market taking off? — The advert was blunt: a second-hand Samsung Galaxy Gear smartwatch for sale, priced at “£100 ONO”.| Jennifer Van Grove / CNET: |
Apple praised, Amazon shamed in Greenpeace report on clean energy — In a report that looks at the energy footprint of top IT companies, the nonprofit calls out Amazon for being among the last to embrace clean energy sources like wind and solar. — Facebook's data center in Sweden.
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| Tom Hals / Reuters: |
Judge orders Mt Gox CEO to U.S. for questions on failed bitcoin exchange — (Reuters) - The chief executive of Japan's Mt. Gox, once the world's leading bitcoin exchange, was ordered to the United States to answer questions related to its U.S. bankruptcy case, filed after the company lost $400 million of customers' digital currency.| Vlad Savov / The Verge: |
Reversible USB 3.1 Type-C connector shown in renderings, will be finalized in July — This is the reversible USB cable that will end your frustrations — The most abundant connector standard in technology, the Universal Serial Bus, is getting ready for its most revolutionary change yet … | Agam Shah / PC World: |
Newton is the first MIPS-based mini-computer for wearables — A Chinese company has released a computer about the size of an SD card that can run a full version of Android and should make it easier to build wearable devices. — Called the Newton, the computer was developed …
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