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Skype launches Skype for Web beta to enable instant messaging, voice, and video calls in a browser — Please welcome Skype for Web (Beta) — Skype has been breaking down barriers to communication for more than a decade by being at the forefront of real-time voice and video.
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| Nathan Layne / Reuters: |
Wal-Mart told store managers to match online prices with Amazon — Wal-Mart Stores Inc has informed managers of its roughly 5,000 stores across the United States that they can match prices with Amazon.com Inc and other online retailers, the head of the company's U.S. business said on Thursday.
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| Neil Hughes / AppleInsider: |
iPhone 6 accounts for 68% of all iPhone sales in first 30 days of availability in US, iPhone 6 Plus takes around 24% — iPhone 6 outselling iPhone 6 Plus by 3-to-1 margin in US - report — Though Apple doesn't break down sales figures for specific iPhone models, a new study suggests …
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| Julia Angwin / ProPublica: |
AT&T says it's no longer inserting phone-tracking IDs in web traffic, which was only a test, but may still sell the resulting data — AT&T Stops Using Undeletable Phone Tracking IDs — AT&T says it has stopped its controversial practice of adding a hidden, undeletable tracking number to its mobile customers' Internet activity.
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Facebook deploys next-generation data center architecture as new facility comes online in Altoona, Iowa — Facebook's Newest Data Center Is Now Online In Altoona, Iowa — Facebook today announced that its newest data center in Altoona, Iowa, is now open for business.
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| Ian Hardy / MobileSyrup: |
Blackberry Classic available for preorders now, launches December 17 for $499 — BlackBerry Classic to launch on December 17th, pre-orders now live — At BlackBerry's BES 12 Event today the company unveiled a number of new products and partnerships. Most notedly was the addition … | Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
For a year, gang operating rogue Tor node infected Windows executables — A flowchart of the infection process used by a malicious Tor exit node. — F-Secure — Three weeks ago, a security researcher uncovered a Tor exit node that added malware to uncompressed Windows executables passing through it.| Jeremy C. Owens / Mercury News: |
Apple downplays Masque threat, ‘not aware’ of any users affected — CUPERTINO — In Apple's first statement since a vulnerability in its popular mobile devices was described by security specialists, the company said Thursday that it was unaware of any user actually being hacked through the “Masque Attack” technique.
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| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
Kindle Software Update Lets You Share Your Amazon Library With A Partner And More — Kindle has a new update rolling out to its Kindle e-reader device hardware, which includes new features for the latest Kindle, Kindle Voyage and Kindle Paperwhite devices. The update includes …
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| Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
Verizon Wireless extends full price of early termination fees to eight months into new contracts — Verizon Wireless makes canceling contracts up to $70 more expensive — Verizon Wireless just made it more expensive to cancel service by delaying monthly reductions in early termination fees …
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| Stephen Hall / 9to5Google: |
Google says Play Music subscribers automatically get access to YouTube Music Key starting next week — When YouTube Music Key was announced earlier this week, we were left with many details about the service unexplained. Of these, was the question of whether or not current Google Play Music subscribers … | Ilya Khrennikov / Bloomberg: |
Mail.ru acquires crowdsourced map app Maps.Me to accelerate international expansion — Mail.ru Buys Crowdsourced Maps App to Push Beyond Russia — Mail.ru Group Ltd. (MAIL), Russian billionaire Alisher Usmanov's Internet company, acquired maps and navigation service Maps.Me to accelerate its international expansion.
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