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Samsung to Fight Apple Smartphone Trial Verdict: Lawyer — Samsung Electronics Co. (005930) will challenge a jury's $120 million award to Apple Inc. in a patent-infringement verdict that was “unsupported by evidence,” a lawyer for the Suwon, South Korea-based company said.
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| Ina Fried / Re/code: |
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| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
Microsoft will hold a ‘small’ Surface event on May 20th — Microsoft has reportedly been working on a miniature version of its Surface tablet for nearly two years, but the wait may be over. The company has just sent out invitations to a Microsoft Surface event on May 20th, with the tagline “Join us for a small gathering.”| Brad Sams / Neowin: |
Surface Mini: 8in, ARM, pen support and coming in June — Microsoft's Surface mini has been a bit of an elusive tablet; having been rumored for over a year and then not arriving in the fall when many expected it to show up on retail shelves, we finally have a press event for the new device.| Jenna Wortham / New York Times: |
VSCO, a Digital Photography Company, Raises $40 Million From Accel Partners — Chances are, if you have used Instagram, you have come across the hashtag #VSCO or #VSCOCam. — Both refer to a feature-rich camera application developed by a Bay Area start-up, Visual Supply Company …
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| Jeffrey Hightower / Google LatLong: |
Google Maps apps add lane directions, ability to save maps for offline use, Uber support, more — Get on the road, go off the grid, or plan the perfect weekend with the Google Maps app — When your life is moving fast, you need tools to keep up with your pace.| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google Wallet Is Coming To Glass — Google Wallet is coming to Glass soon. According to a source close to the company, Google is currently testing a way for Glass users to send money to their friends through Wallet by simply using their voices to ask Glass to “send money.”| Graham Cluley: |
Dropbox fixes one of two vulnerabilities that allowed users to accidentally leak shared file URLs to third parties — Dropbox users leak tax returns, mortgage applications and more — If you are using file-sharing systems like Dropbox and Box without proper care and attention … | Reed Albergotti / Wall Street Journal: |
After Facebook Deal, Moves App Changes Privacy Policy — Moves, the fitness-tracking app recently acquired by Facebook, has changed its privacy policy to allow broader sharing of user data, including with Facebook. — As recently as Friday, Moves's privacy policy said the company did not …
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| Mike Shields / Wall Street Journal: |
Google to Acquire Online Attribution Firm Adometry — Google wants to help advertisers get a better sense of how their online ad campaigns work collectively. So the company is acquiring Adometry, an Austin-Tx.-based firm that specializes in online ad attribution-i.e. the science …
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| Larry Seltzer / ZDNet: |
Google experimenting with hiding URLs in Chrome — Summary: In an effort to make phishing attacks more evident to the user, Chrome Canary is taking a tip from iOS Safari, emphasizing the domain and hiding the rest of the URL. — Jake Archibald, a “developer advocate” for Chrome at Google …
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| Brian Fagioli / BetaNews: |
Lenovo announces two new 11.6-inch Chromebooks: the N20 for $279 and the N20p starting at $329 — Lenovo announces N20 and N20p Chromebooks — I think it safe to say that the Chromebook movement has exceeded all expectations. What first seemed like a silly Google experiment has blossomed into a legit Windows threat.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
@WalmartLabs Buys Adtech Startup Adchemy, Its Biggest Talent Deal Yet — @WalmartLabs, the retailer's Silicon Valley-based innovation lab and R&D center, has now made its twelfth acquisition with the purchase of e-commerce technology company Adchemy, its biggest deal yet in terms of people.
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Walmart Labs, Search Engine Land, Re/code, internetretailer.com, bizjournals, ZDNet, AdExchanger and Wall Street Journal. Tweets: @nicolastorzec
| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Infecting DVRs with Bitcoin-mining malware even easier than you suspected — The dialog that appears when users want to manually change the default password on their EPCOM Hikvision S04 DVR. — Sans Institute — It took just one day for a low-end, Internet-connected digital video recorder …
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| Tim Cushing / Techdirt: |
US government begins testing national online ID system in Michigan and Pennsylvania — US Government Begins Rollout Of Its 'Driver's License For The Internet' — An idea the government has been kicking around since 2011 is finally making its debut. Calling this move ill-timed would be the most gracious way of putting it.
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Twitter shares fall over 10% to all-time low as lock-up period for 470M shares expires — Twitter shares fall as stock lock-up expires — (Reuters) - Shares of Twitter Inc (TWTR.N) fell more than 10 percent in early trading on Tuesday after the expiration of a six-month “lock-up” … | Sarah Silbert / Engadget: |
Google discusses security with the NSA, but don't draw any wild conclusions — Following Snowden's PRISM leaks last year, companies such as Apple, Google and Microsoft sought to distance themselves from the NSA and claimed to be unaware of some government surveillance activities.
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| Joshua Ho / AnandTech: |
Pros and cons of three key materials used to make smartphones: plastic, glass, and metal — A Discussion on Material Choices in Mobile — Within the past four years, the smartphone market has changed drastically. Displays have dramatically increased in quality. Battery life has increased.
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| Harrison Weber / VentureBeat: |
Tumblr rolls out in-app themes, finally becomes a mobile company — What's next in mobile? Find out at MobileBeat, VentureBeat's 7th annual event on the future of mobile, on July 8-9 in San Francisco. Register now and save $400! — “It's not just our mobile app any more. It is Tumblr.”
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| Rene Ritchie / iMore: |
Apple is aware of iOS 7 mail attachment bug, working on a fix — A bug has been discovered in iOS 7 that causes email attachments to not be encrypted. Before anyone panics, however, in order for an attacker to exploit the bug they'd need to a) steal your device and, b) …
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