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Apple asks manufacturers to supply between 70M-80M 4.7-inch and 5.5-inch iPhones by December 30 — Next iPhone Will Offer Bigger Screens — Apple Tells Suppliers to Gear Up for 4.7-inch and 5.5-Inch Screen Sizes — Apple Inc. is preparing for its largest initial production run of iPhones …
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| Scott Burke / Yahoo: |
Yahoo to Acquire Flurry to Strengthen Mobile Products — Over the past couple of years, Yahoo has been focused on re-imagining our users' daily habits, and mobile is at the center of everything we do. Today, I'm excited to announce the next step in our vision, that we have reached …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Source: Yahoo is paying $200M-$300M for Flurry — Yahoo Buys Mobile Analytics Firm Flurry For North Of $200M — Yahoo has made no secret of its ambitions and advances in mobile, earlier this month reporting 450 million monthly active users and search and display mobile ad revenues growing 100%.
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Nvidia's Shield Tablet And Shield Controller Look To Offer No-Compromise Mobile Gaming — The Nvidia Shield was a first attempt by graphics chip- and card-maker Nvidia, but it gave the company a taste for building gadgets that wouldn't go away, so now they're back with the Shield Tablet …
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| Julia Angwin / ProPublica: |
AddThis tests canvas fingerprinting, a powerful cookie alternative for online tracking, on thousands of sites — Meet the Online Tracking Device That is Virtually Impossible to Block — This story was co-published with Mashable. — A new, extremely persistent type of online tracking …
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| Roger Cheng / CNET: |
Verizon tops Q2 expectations as tablet demand drives growth — The company added 1.15 million new tablets in the period, offsetting a slowdown in smartphone growth. — Verizon CEO Lowell McAdam. — Verizon's customer growth bounced back in the second quarter, thanks to a pickup in tablet and smartphone demand in the period.
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| Nick Wingfield / New York Times: |
Profile of Brad Smith, Microsoft's general counsel and chief official on public policy matters — Microsoft's Top Lawyer Is the Tech World's Envoy — REDMOND, Wash. — Bradford L. Smith, Microsoft's general counsel, was in Berlin meeting with government officials this spring when a case kept popping up unexpectedly.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Leaked ‘Windows 9’ screenshots offer a closer look at the new Start Menu — An early look at Microsoft's next version of Windows — Microsoft provided an early look at its new Start Menu for a future version of Windows earlier this year, but freshly leaked screenshots are offering … | Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica: |
Explaining Continuity: The tech tying iOS 8 and OS X Yosemite together — Continuity changes how your iPhones, iPads, and Macs interact with one another. Let's look at the technology underneath all these features. — Apple — Apple wants you to buy Apple devices.| Kana Inagaki / Wall Street Journal: |
$700 Sony Walkman with 128GB of storage for “high-resolution audio” finds niche in Japan — Sony's Walkman Makes Comeback — New $700 Device Is Aimed at Upscale Users — TOKYO—Thirty five years after its debut, Sony Corp.'s Walkman is enjoying a little comeback.| Hillary Reinsberg / BuzzFeed: |
One of the most-viewed YouTube channels worldwide is a woman unboxing toys for toddlers — YouTube's Biggest Star Is An Unknown Toy-Reviewing Toddler Whisperer — Is it possible an unknown, one-woman toy-reviewing YouTuber called “Disney Collector” is making more money than most CEOs?| Peter Kafka / Re/code: |
Aereo had 77,596 subscribers across 10 cities at the end of 2013 — Here's How Many Subscribers Aereo Had Last Year — Aereo generated lots of attention from the media world in the run-up to its Supreme Court case this spring. — Consumers may have been less interested …
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| Zach Miners / PC World: |
EFF's snoop-stopping, ad-smashing Privacy Badger plugin hits beta — The Electronic Frontier Foundation, a digital privacy rights group, has released a downloadable plugin for Chrome and Firefox designed to stop third parties from tracking people's Web browsing.| Danilo Masoni / Reuters: |
Italy gives Google 18 months to change data use practices — (Reuters) - Italy's data protection regulator has given Google 18 months to change the way it treats and stores user data, bringing to an end an investigation that is part of a European drive to reform the internet giant's privacy practices.
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| Timothy Stenovec / The Huffington Post: |
Netflix Is Going To Start Selling Gift Cards In Stores — You may soon be able to get a Netflix subscription at your neighborhood grocery store. — The streaming video service announced in a letter to investors Monday that it's going to start selling physical gift cards in “select stores” …
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| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
iOS 8 beta 4 includes new Tips app with quick feature tutorials (Gallery) — iOS 8 beta 4 brings a new app to the iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch called Tips. The application, as the name implies, provides quick tips and tutorials about iOS features. The app will be updated on a regular basis with new ways to use iOS device features.
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| Ryan Faughnder / Los Angeles Times: |
Time Warner Cable promises one-gigabit Internet for L.A. in 2016 — Time Warner Cable says it can greatly increase its Internet speeds in Los Angeles, in response to the city's effort to match major metropolitan areas where the technology has already raced ahead.
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