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Google to launch “YouTube Music Key”, a $10/month, ad-free subscription service with offline support — Exclusive: This Is YouTube Music Key, Google's Upcoming Subscription Service With Offline Support, Background Audio, No Ads, Free Play Music Key — Google has big plans for both YouTube and Google Play Music.
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HTC One M8 with Windows Phone launches exclusively on Verizon today at $99 on-contract — HTC's One M8 now available with Windows Phone, but only on Verizon — In case you've wondered what a flagship Android phone would look like if it ran Windows Phone, it looks like you'll get your chance to find out.
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| Joanna Stern / Wall Street Journal: |
HTC One With Windows Phone: Another Great Phone You Won't Buy — The Best-Designed Android Phone Is Being Released With Windows Phone 8.1 — Windows Phone smartphones have gotten quite good, so why doesn't anyone buy them? Personal Tech columnist Joanna Stern tests the HTC One (M8) with Windows Phone 8.1 to find out.
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Google Is Planning to Offer Accounts to Kids Under 13 — Google plans to offer accounts to children under 13 years old for the first time, a move that will take the world's largest Internet search provider into a controversial and operationally complex new market.
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| Steve Lohr / New York Times: |
Big data scientists spend a lot of their time in cleaning, collecting, and preparing unruly data — For Big-Data Scientists, ‘Janitor Work’ Is Key Hurdle to Insights — Technology revolutions come in measured, sometimes foot-dragging steps. The lab science and marketing enthusiasm tend … | Simon Cohen / VentureBeat: |
Noke Bluetooth app-enabled padlock achieves Kickstarter funding goal of $100K — Noke is a Bluetooth padlock you unlock with your phone — Oh, the ol' padlock. At this time of year it is on the back to school shopping lists of millions of students. — It's also the inspiration behind … | Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
Verizon tops rivals in new RootMetrics wireless report, but T-Mobile gains in cities — Verizon comes out ahead of rivals AT&T, T-Mobile and Sprint in nearly every category of performance — including reliability, data speeds and phone calls — in a new study of the U.S. wireless market by RootMetrics.| Ina Fried / Re/code: |
Sprint Launches New Price War, Debuts $100 Family Plan — Sprint on Monday announced new family rate plans allowing up to 10 lines to share 20GB worth of data for $100 per month. — It's the first move in what is expected to be far more aggressive pricing under newly named CEO Marcelo Claure.| Doug Aamoth / TIME: |
Meet Levi's Stadium, the Most High-Tech Sports Venue Yet — Most people have heard of smartphones, smart cars and smart homes. Say hello to the smart stadium. — More — Intel Promises Faster, Lighter and Thinner with Its New Processor LineQuestions About a 5.5-inch iPhoneWho … | Kaylene Hong / The Next Web: |
Dolphin wants to be more than a window to the Web - it plans to be a channel for all your content — Mobile browsers are solidifying their importance amidst the mobile revolution, as more and more people access the internet via their smartphones and tablets, abandoning the desktop experience in the process.| Daniel Nazer / Electronic Frontier Foundation: |
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of Adam Carolla's Settlement with the Podcasting Troll — Big news from Texas: Adam Carolla has settled with the podcasting patent troll Personal Audio. Although the settlement is confidential, we can guess the terms. This is because Personal Audio sent …
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Activist Investor Blue Harbour Has Roughly 6.5% Stake in Rackspace — Investor Had Disclosed 2.5% Stake in Company in June — Activist investor Blue Harbour Group LP has built up a roughly 6.5% stake in Rackspace Hosting Inc., as the cloud-computing company conducts a review of its strategic options …
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