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| Abby Ohlheiser / Washington Post: |
Xbox Live is back, but PlayStation Network is still down after Lizard Squad takes credit for Christmas outage — PlayStation and Xbox's networks are still recovering from a Christmas Day outage — Revelers opening brand-new PlayStation 4 or Xbox One video game consoles on Christmas …
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Tweets: @askplaystation, @lizardmafia, @lizardmafia, @bdsams, @boogie2988, @avalanchetwitch and @totalbiscuit
| David Lerman / Bloomberg: |
NSA reports show agency may have violated laws by unauthorized surveillance of Americans for over a decade — U.S. Spy Agency Reports Improper Surveillance of Americans — The National Security Agency today released reports on intelligence collection that may have violated the law …
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| Ernesto / TorrentFreak: |
The Interview is a pirate hit with over 750K estimated torrent downloads; restricted availability outside the US a possible driving factor — The Interview Is A Pirate Hit With 200k Downloads (Updated) — Facing a “terrorist” threat theaters all around the U.S. backed away from showing The Interview last week.
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See also Mediagazer| Harrison Weber / VentureBeat: |
Amazon added 10M new Prime subscribers over the holidays, could make up to $1B in annual revenue — Amazon today announced it's added over 10 million new subscribers to Prime — the company's $99 annual subscription to all things Amazon — over the holidays this year.
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Amazon.com, Wall Street Journal, GeekWire, The Verge, Business Insider, SlashGear and Electronista
Tweets: @mdudas and @harrisonweber
| Eric Meyer / Thoughts From Eric: |
Facebook's Year in Review suggestions may in some cases be inadvertently tactless, hurtful — Inadvertent Algorithmic Cruelty — I didn't go looking for grief this afternoon, but it found me anyway, and I have designers and programmers to thank for it. In this case, the designers and programmers are somewhere at Facebook.
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Washington Post, PC Magazine and TechCrunch
Tweets: @marginalutility, @katecrawford, @meyerweb, @cascio, @jeremybowers, @fraying, @evanselinger, @uxnoah, @dsilverman, @cstross, @mathowie, @om, @howardlindzon, @janetdchuang, @robtruman, @fet, @warrenm, @meyerweb, @laprice and @cliffseal
| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
Withings Activité review: too expensive for mass market at $450, but will appeal to watch enthusiasts — Withings Activité Fitness Tracking Watch Review — Wearable tech has seemed on a fairly straightforward path throughout the course of its initial development …
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| Gerry Shih / Reuters: |
Huawei's low cost Honor smartphone unit sales up to 20M from 1M in one year after replicating Xiaomi's online strategy — Huawei's smartphone sales shoot up after copying Xiaomi's online strategy — (Reuters) - China's Huawei Technologies Co Ltd [HWT.UL] has taken sales of its low-price Honor brand … | Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
IBM: mobile made up 34.8% of total Christmas Day online sales, an increase of 20.4% YoY; iOS accounted for 27%, nearly 4x Android — IBM: Christmas online sales up 8.3%, iOS numbers nearly quadruple Android's — Christmas is a religious and cultural celebration for billions of people … | John Timmer / Ars Technica: |
Judge denies Facebook's request to dismiss class action lawsuit over private message scanning to target ads — Suit over Facebook's practice of scanning users' messages to go forward — Company's TOC “does not establish that users consented” to the practice, court rules.
| Mike Shields / Wall Street Journal: |
NFL to post game highlights and other video clips on Facebook with Verizon Wireless ads, share ad revenues with Facebook — Facebook Scores NFL Video Clips With Ads From Verizon — Facebook has scored a big partner as it ramps up its online video ambitions: the National Football League.| Robin Sinha / NDTV Gadgets: |
Mozilla and Japan's KDDI launch Fx0, the first Firefox OS phone with 4G LTE, NFC; made by LG, costs about $420 — LG Fx0 Firefox OS 2.0 Smartphone With Transparent Body Launched — LG, Mozilla and KDDI have launched Japan's first Firefox OS smartphone, the Fx0, which will go on sale Thursday.| Natasha Singer / New York Times: |
FTC charges data broker LeapLab with selling consumers' financial details to fraudsters — Data Broker Is Charged With Selling Consumers' Financial Details to ‘Fraudsters’ — Federal regulators are cracking down on information resellers who hawk personal details about consumers to companies …
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Krebs on Security, Wall Street Journal, CBS News and ConsumerAffairs.com
Tweets: @philipbstark, @timoelliott and @stevelohr
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