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Microsoft Surface Pro 3 Teardown — It has finally come: Microsoft's all-new Surface Pro 3—all-new in the sense that it's third in a trilogy of devices. Where the second was actually just a rehashing of the original, the third is showing some promise of striking out on its own. Good for you, Surface Pro 3!| Anand Lal Shimpi / AnandTech: |
Surface Pro 3 review: much better than predecessors, software now needs more work than hardware — Microsoft Surface Pro 3 Review — I can't believe it's only been sixteen months since I published our review of the original Microsoft Surface Pro. It feels like longer but that's likely …
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| Ron / WinBeta: |
Microsoft wants you to buy a Surface Pro 3, offers up to $650 in Store credit for your old MacBook Air — Microsoft has been touting the Surface Pro 3 as the tablet that can replace your laptop. Microsoft has even compared the Surface Pro 3 with the Apple MacBook Air, during the Surface Pro 3 reveal in May.
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| JR Raphael / Computerworld: |
Verizon stops providing free data for Chromebook Pixel buyers one year into 2-3 year agreement — Broken promises: Verizon, Google, and the Chromebook data debacle — When a company promises two years of free mobile data service with a device, you expect them to deliver.| Josh Ong / The Next Web: |
Google begins testing a domain registration service — Google today revealed that it is building a domain registration service called Google Domains. The product is still an early work in progress, so it's in invite-only beta for now. — Google's small business-facing division decided … | Wall Street Journal: |
Oracle Agrees to Buy Micros Systems for $5.3 Billion — Oracle Corp. agreed to buy Micros Systems Inc. for about $5.3 billion. — The deal is the biggest for Oracle, a serial acquirer, since its $7.4 billion acquisition of Sun Microsystems Inc. in 2010. — Micros sells software used by retailers and hospitality providers.
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| Mike Billings / Wall Street Journal: |
San Francisco sends cease-and-desist letter to MonkeyParking, warns similar parking services — San Francisco Tells Parking Startup to Stop Operations, Warns Two Others — Several parking startups that want to make it easier to find a parking spot in busy cities are facing a legal gauntlet … | Nick Summers / The Next Web: |
Google Glass finally arrives in the UK, the first country outside the US — Google Glass, the head-mounted wearable computer unveiled more than two years ago, is finally available outside the US. After appearing in a support page linked to hardware availability, Google has launched the long-awaited device in the UK.
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| Suzanne Vranica / Wall Street Journal: |
How Marissa Mayer Fell Asleep and Kept Ad Executives Waiting For Hours … For media companies, the Cannes advertising festival is all about getting face time with top media buyers and advertisers. Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer missed a golden opportunity to do just that last week.
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Business Insider, Mashable and Valleywag
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| Chance Miller / 9to5Google: |
Sprint and Samsung announce fitness-focused Galaxy S5 Sport, coming July 25 — Sprint and Samsung have just announced the Galaxy S5 Sport. Similar to the Galaxy S5 Active, available on AT&T, the Galaxy S5 Sport is IP67 water and dust resistance and has a textured casing to give it a more rugged and sturdy feel.
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| Sean Gallagher / Ars Technica: |
“Free” Wi-Fi from Xfinity and AT&T also frees you to be hacked — Ars tests how easy it is to spoof big broadband providers to grab data. — If you've traveled and tried to get on the Internet, you've probably seen some pretty suspicious looking Wi-Fi networks with names like “Free Wi-Fi” and “Totally Free Internet.”
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DSLreports, Consumerist, The Register and We Live Security
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Amazon Brings Free, Ad-Supported TV Episodes To iOS, Plus HBO Content — Amazon may have denied earlier reports that it would launch a free, advertising-supported TV and music video service, as a departure from Prime Instant Video, but it has at least begun dipping its toe in to the waters of ad-supported TV, it seems.
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9to5Mac, Re/code, Business Insider, Cult of Mac, The Next Web, TechnoBuffalo, TUAW and iMore
| Ellis Hamburger / The Verge: |
Yahoo's Aviate intelligent home screen app leaves beta, gains useful new features — One-touch access to friends, conference calls, and directions — Aviate, the Android app that caters your home screen to the time of day and where you are, is finally opening its doors to the world.
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| Liz Gannes / Re/code: |
Cruise Automation previews $10,000 highway autopilot kit for specific Audi models — Tiny Startup Cruise Beats Google to Offer Self-Driving Car Tech to Consumers (Video) — Neither Google nor the big car manufacturers will likely be the first to put the keys to self-driving car technology in consumers' hands.
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The Verge, TechCrunch, Engadget, Wall Street Journal, PandoDaily, Business Insider, Brad Ideas, Yahoo Tech and Connectedly
Tweets: @sama, @alexismadrigal and @dannysullivan
| Dana Wollman / Engadget: |
Microsoft giving away 15GB of OneDrive storage, 1TB for Office 365 users — More free storage? Lower prices? It's all good news from Microsoft today: The company just announced that it will begin offering 15GB of free storage to OneDrive users, up from 7GB.| Peter Bright / Ars Technica: |
Mozilla puts a development environment into the browser with WebIDE — Nightly Firefox builds can develop, deploy, and debug apps all in the browser. — Browsers have long contained development tools to help debug and diagnose problems when authoring Web content, but Mozilla is taking Firefox to the next level.| James Kanter / New York Times: |
Letter from EU competition commissioner suggests new antitrust investigations await Google — Google's European Antitrust Woes Are Far From Over — BRUSSELS — Google has struggled for years to settle an antitrust investigation in the European Union, to avoid a huge fine and the stigma that would come with breaking the law.| David Pierce / The Verge: |
Withings introduces Activité, a $390 watch with analog face and accelerometer to monitor your steps and sleep — The Withings Activité hides a fitness tracker inside a gorgeous watch — It's not just a screen on your wrist — it's a fashion statement — The Withings Activité isn't a smartwatch.
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| Julianne Pepitone / NBC News: |
Why ISIS' Social Media Campaign is ‘Even More Brutal’ Than Most — With a reported $2 billion war chest, ISIS is unusually well funded. Its relatively large force of 10,000 relies on more foreign fighters than most. And, perhaps most infamously, the group is too extreme even for Al-Qaeda.| Telis Demos / Wall Street Journal: |
Etsy buys French handmade goods marketplace A Little Market, its biggest acquisition to date — Etsy Acquires French Market in Biggest Deal Yet — Online marketplace Etsy is making its biggest acquisition yet, buying Paris-based A Little Market, a French website for handmade goods, foods, and wine.
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Etsy News Blog and Re/code
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