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Google Maps for iOS and Android revamped with Material Design, restaurant booking through OpenTable, Uber ride estimates — Google Maps: Your best accessory this season — Bold colors and textures are in—and Google Maps is on trend, with a slick new style to make traveling with Maps even easier.
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| Nicole Perlroth / New York Times: |
New WireLurker malware targets Apple devices in China, attacks iOS, including non-jailbroken phones, through OS X via USB — Malicious Software Campaign Targets Apple Users in China — Researchers at a Silicon Valley security company said on Wednesday that they had found a new manner in which hackers can infect Apple products.
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| Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch: |
Lyft Accuses Former COO Of Stealing Confidential Documents Before Joining Uber — On-demand rides startup Lyft is taking its former COO Travis VanderZanden to court for breach of his confidentiality agreement and fiduciary duty weeks after the executive joined arch-rival Uber.
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| John Cook / GeekWire: |
Shippable raises $8 million to help companies accelerate software development — Shippable founder Avi Cavale wasn't looking for cash. But investors just kept calling, especially after they learned how quickly the company's user base was growing. Those calls have resulted in new cash …
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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
AppleCare for Enterprise With On-Site Support From IBM Now Live — Earlier this year, Apple and IBM announced a major enterprise mobility partnership that would see IBM selling iOS devices to its corporate customers, creating industry-specific native apps, providing iOS-optimized cloud services …
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| Rachel Barton / Google Drive Blog: |
Google launches Chrome extension letting you open files from Google Drive with desktop apps like Adobe Reader or Photoshop — Launch desktop applications from Google Drive in Chrome — Browsers are pretty amazing things. Before, if you wanted to do any serious computing, you'd have to install software onto your computer.| Dan Ackerman / CNET: |
Dell announces refreshed Venue 11 Pro 7000 tablet with fanless Core M processor — Dell adds Core M to the Venue 11 Pro tablet — Dell has a new version of its Venue 11 Pro 7000 tablet, making the switch from Intel's Atom line of low-power CPUs to the just-launched Core M.
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| Daniel Sommermann / Facebook Code: |
Facebook open sources Proxygen, a collection of C++ HTTP libraries including a HTTP server — Introducing Proxygen, Facebook's C++ HTTP framework — We are excited to announce the release of Proxygen, a collection of C++ HTTP libraries, including an easy-to-use HTTP server.
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| Darryl K. Taft / eWeek: |
Tableau Software Quarterly Revenue Tops $100M for First Time — Tableau Software today reported record results for its third quarter ended September 30, 2014. The big data and business intelligence (BI) software provider surpassed $100 million in revenue for the first time last quarter.
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| Stephen Shankland / CNET: |
Nest offering free thermostat with 2-year contract with utility in Ireland, part of a new sales strategy the company plans to roll out to other countries — Nest's new sales tack: Free thermostats — A deal with Electric Ireland opens a new channel for the Google-owned company's networked thermostats.| Abhimanyu Ghoshal / The Next Web: |
Mozilla and GSMA partner to bring local content, training, and affordable smartphones to emerging markets — Mozilla and GSMA partner to bring the mobile Web and content creation tools to the next 4 billion — Mozilla has announced today that it is entering a partnership with the GSMA …
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| Gerry Shih / Reuters: |
Lenovo Q2 profit rises 19%, beats earnings estimates with $262M; Jerry Yang joins board — Lenovo second-quarter net profit climbs 19 percent as PC market share grows — (Reuters) - Lenovo Group Ltd, the world's biggest maker of personal computers (PCs), said net income jumped 19 percent …
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Axel Springer, Germany's top publisher, grants Google license to index its news stories despite “Google Tax”, citing 80% drop in Google News traffic — Germany's top publisher bows to Google in news licensing row — (Reuters) - Germany's biggest news publisher Axel Springer …
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Audience's software lets PCs process your voice without special chips — Previously, Audience's sound processing tricks have required a dedicated chip, limiting where you would see it; you're more likely to get clever noise cancelling in your phone than in a PC.
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