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FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler signals split with Obama on net neutrality: “I am an independent agency” — The FCC weighs breaking with Obama over the future of the Internet — President Barack Obama shakes hands with then-nominee for Federal Communications Commission, Tom Wheeler …
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YouTube announces YouTube Music Key subscription service; free invite-only beta starts Monday, will cost $7.99/month after 6 months — YouTube announces plans for a subscription music service — Ad-free music and music videos starting at $7.99 a month — After spending months on revisions …
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| Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
Microsoft shocker: Open-source .NET, free Visual Studio, support for Linux, Mac, Android and iOS … In a major strategy change designed to expand its horizons in the cloud, Microsoft will take its key software development technologies into areas that the company has long considered enemy territory …
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Thanks:@johnhcook| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Microsoft debuts Visual Studio 2015 and .NET 2015 previews, free Visual Studio Community 2013 — In addition to announcing that .NET is going open source and cross-platform, Microsoft today also unleashed a torrent of Visual Studio news at its Connect() developer event in New York City.
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AWS: With more than 1 million active customers, we're your stack — Summary: Andy Jassy, senior vice president of Amazon Web Services, positioned the company's cloud as a feature rich stack instead of a commodity infrastructure play. — LAS VEGAS — Amazon Web Services … | Amazon Web Services (AWS): |
Amazon Aurora - New Cost-Effective MySQL-Compatible Database Engine for Amazon RDS — We launched the Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) service way back in 2009 to help you to set up, operate, and scale a MySQL database in the cloud. Since that time, we have added a multitude …
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91% of US adults say consumers have lost control over how their personal info is collected and used by companies — Public Perceptions of Privacy and Security in the Post-Snowden Era — Summary of Findings — Privacy evokes a constellation of concepts for Americans …
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Top Yahoo shareholders, unhappy with Marissa Mayer, make direct plea to AOL CEO Tim Armstrong to explore merger — Exclusive: Some unhappy Yahoo investors asking AOL for rescue — (Reuters) - At least two top-10 Yahoo Inc shareholders are so unhappy with Chief Executive Marissa Mayer's turnaround efforts …
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Samsung unveils Project Beyond, a 3D-capturing camera for Gear VR — Samsung has just unveiled a sneak preview of a new camera called Project Beyond, which is a 3D-capturing 360-degree camera designed to capture videos designed to be displayed on the Gear VR.| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Samsung launching Gear VR ‘Innovator Edition’ in early December — You'll be able to get your hands on Samsung's Gear VR in early December. Today the company announced that it will launch the Gear VR Innovator Edition — essentially what amounts to developer preview hardware … | Cameron Ewing / Facebook: |
Facebook launches Say Thanks, a tool for creating personalized video cards for your friends — Introducing Say Thanks — Millions of people use Facebook every day to connect with the people and things that matter to them most. Your friends are at the core of your Facebook experience …
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Google's ad server suffers global failure, causing millions of ads to disappear from web — An unusual glitch struck Google's ad serving tool on Wednesday morning, causing blanks spaces to appear in place of advertisements on websites like BuzzFeed, Time, Forbes and VentureBeat.| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Twitter Will Onboard Users With “Instant Timeline”, Inject Top Tweets From “While You Were Away” — Twitter has 500 million logged out users it's trying to squeeze value out of, but now it has a plan to fix its growth problem, which is really a new user retention problem.
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| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
Beats Debuts $300 Solo2 Wireless Headphones, First New Product Since Apple Deal Closed — Beats by Dre is launching a new pair of headphones today, a Bluetooth-powered wireless version of the Solo2 headset it introduced back in June this year. The wireless edition was tipped by an FCC document last week …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Square Eschews Free, Starts $29 Pre-Orders For Chip-Based Card Readers — Mobile payments company Square is today kicking off pre-orders for its new chip-based card readers, which were first announced earlier this year and intended to replace the current devices that read cards' magnetic stripes.
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| Mark Sullivan / VentureBeat: |
Samsung releases its SAMI health SDK to developers and unveils new Simband wearable — SAN FRANCISCO — Samsung Electronics today announced the release of its SAMI consumer health SDK and unveiled its Simband health wearable device to an audience of developers.
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Nexus 6 review: great display, top-of-the-line processor, more unwieldy than other big phones — Prepare to pay for the biggest Android Lollipop powerhouse — The Good The Google Nexus 6 has a razor-sharp and expansive display, a top-of-the-line Snapdragon 805 processor … | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Amid M&A Reports, FreedomPop Adds International Calls To Its Free Mobile Service — FreedomPop — the U.S. startup disrupting the carrier world with free mobile and broadband services, and now apparently catching the attention of carriers that want to buy it — has added two more international features …
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Samsung Flow takes on Continuity for use across devices — Your phone, a tablet, even a TV — all screens, and all doing their own thing. What if they didn't operate in silos, though? What if your TV could relay info from your smartphone, and your tablet could pick up a task right from your computer?
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| Ry Crist / CNET: |
SmartThings to control Samsung's smart appliances — The Korean conglomerate is putting its newest smart home acquisition to work, integrating its line of connected appliances into the SmartThings ecosystem. — Tyler Lizenby/CNET — The home automation platform SmartThings debuted …
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