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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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Facebook to start limiting the number of non-ad “promotional Page posts” in the News Feed in January — News Feed FYI: Reducing Overly Promotional Page Posts in News Feed — One of the main reasons people come to Facebook is to see what's happening in their News Feeds.
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Google Glass's future clouded as consumer launch slips to 2015, key employees depart, and many developers abandon projects on the platform — Google Glass future clouded as some early believers lose faith — (Reuters) - After two years of popping up at high-profile events sporting Google Glass …
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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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| 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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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.| Yoree Koh / Wall Street Journal: |
Measuring Twitter Remains a Conundrum as ‘Timeline Views’ Metric Is Likely Discarded — Figuring out how to measure Twitter's size and usage hasn't been an easy task. On Wednesday, company executives underscored that challenge as they gingerly introduced a new metric and said another one is likely on the way out.| 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 … | Amy Schatz / Re/code: |
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