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Mozilla exec at internal event: “we're going to get Firefox on iOS” — Firefox Could Soon Come To iOS — For a year now, Mozilla has categorically stated that it wouldn't release a version of Firefox for iOS because Apple won't let it use its own web engine on its platform.
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| Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
Google's new reCAPTCHA often requires just a single click, detects bots by analyzing IPs, cookies, and mouse movements; can still fall back to puzzles — Google Can Now Tell You're Not a Robot With Just One Click — When Alan Turing first conceived of the Turing Test in 1947 …
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| Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
FCC commmissioner Ajit Pai accuses Netflix of creating its own proprietary fast lanes on ISP networks — Netflix accused of creating fast lanes “at the expense of competitors” — Ajit Pai of the Federal Communications Commission today accused Netflix of “secur[ing] ‘fast lanes’ for its own content” …
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See also Mediagazer| Vlad Savov / The Verge: |
UK announces a ‘Google tax’ to stop companies diverting profits overseas — Chancellor promises a 25 percent levy on any profits diverted overseas, but implementation will be key — The British Chancellor of the Exchequer, responsible for setting the UK's budget, today announced plans … | Arik Hesseldahl / Re/code: |
Sony to Officially Name North Korea as Source of Hack Attack — Sony Pictures will today officially name North Korea as the source of a hacking attack that has exposed sensitive files and brought down its corporate network last week, two sources close to the investigation tell Re/code.| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Skype Co-Founder Backs Wire, A New Communications App Launching Today On iOS, Android And Mac — Skype co-founder Janus Friis is backing a new communications app called Wire, out now for iOS, Android and Mac OS X. The app itself is the reimagining of how a communications tool like Skype should operate had it been built today.
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| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Google Drive now lets you edit Microsoft Office attachments right from Gmail — Google today announced a very useful new addition to Gmail: editing Microsoft Office documents that arrive as email attachments. A new Google Drive edit icon has been added to Gmail attachments that you can click … | Jon Russell / TechCrunch: |
Indiegogo Is Testing Optional Insurance Fees For Crowdfunded Products — This year has been a tricky one for crowdfunding site Indiegogo, thanks to a number of campaigns using its service to raise money for dubious projects (though there have been some cool uses).
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| Howard Blume / Los Angeles Times: |
FBI seizes L.A. Unified School District documents in iPad investigation; superintendent shelves original iPad contract — Ex-LAUSD chief says he knows nothing about FBI iPad investigation — Former L.A. schools Supt. John Deasy said Tuesday that he didn't know anything about an FBI investigation …
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| Kara Swisher / Re/code: |
Demand Founder Raises $20 Million at a $100 Million Valuation for Legal TV-Clipping Startup Whipclip — Longtime Los Angeles entrepreneur Richard Rosenblatt is launching a startup called Whipclip in private beta today, striking a series of deals with big media companies and attracting a roster … | Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica: |
New Bluetooth 4.2 spec brings IPv6, better privacy, and increased speed — Almost exactly a year ago, the Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) announced Bluetooth 4.1, an update that improved speed for bulk data transfers, reduced the likelihood of LTE interference, and made it easier for various … | Don Reisinger / CNET: |
Roku remains most popular streaming-media device, Chromecast takes second place from Apple TV as sales keep rising — Roku still tops as sales of streaming-media players rise — Ten percent of US households with a broadband connection purchased a streaming-media device in the first nine months …
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Parks Associates, PC Magazine, Business Insider, Android Authority, Ubergizmo, Wall Street Journal, PC World, TechnoBuffalo, TechSpot, 9to5Google, DSLreports, MacRumors, AppleInsider, Neowin and SlashGear. Tweets: @dannysullivan
| Ian Sherr / CNET: |
Battery tech stagnant and unlikely to advance for years; manufacturers skirt constraints by improving software, saving energy, and shrinking parts — It's 2014. Why is my battery stuck in the '90s? — The devices we all rely on continue to evolve radically. So why has the battery industry failed?| Alex Wilhelm / TechCrunch: |
Sen. Al Franken Questions Lyft On Its Privacy Practices — Senator Al Franken today sent a letter to Lyft asking it to detail its privacy practices. — Sen. Franken's questions come in 10 parts, and hit on predictable points: which employees can access customer data …
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| Rachel King / ZDNet: |
Facebook forges partnership with IT security vendor ESET — Summary: The goal of the alliance is to prevent malicious links from populating Facebook user News Feeds and Messages. — Facebook is well-known for home grown efforts in building its own data and IT infrastructures …
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| Ben Grubb / Sydney Morning Herald: |
Apple loses appeal to trademark ‘app store’ in Australia — In a blow to Apple, Australia's Federal Court has rejected an appeal by the technology giant to trademark the term “app store”. — The Registrar of Trade Marks refused registration of Apple's “app store” trademark in March last year because it was too descriptive.Sponsor Posts
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