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Snowden: NSA should re-prioritize cyber warfare goals and focus more on defensive measures given US's dependence on high-tech — Exclusive: Edward Snowden on Cyber Warfare — Cyber warfare used to be the stuff of sci-fi movies and military exercises. But with the advent of the Stuxnet worm …
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Two “Cluetrain Manifesto” authors present 121 “New Clues” to take on threats to the Internet of 2015 — New Clues — Hear, O Internet. It has been sixteen years since our previous communication. In that time the People of the Internet — you and me and all our friends …
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Boing Boing, Doc Searls WeblogDoc …, BetaBoston and Scripting News
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Twitter's native video product launching within weeks, may have 20-second time limit — Twitter's New Video Feature Is Only a Few Weeks Away — Twitter is planning to unveil its new video product in the next few weeks, according to sources familiar with the company's plans.| AppleInsider: |
Minimum iOS App Store price rises to $1.19 in Canada, £0.79 in the UK, and €0.99 in the EU — Minimum iOS App Store price rises to $1.19 in Canada, ? 0.79 in the UK, and ? 0.99 in the EU — Minimum iOS App Store price rises to $1.19 in Canada, £0.79 in the UK, and €0.99 in the EU
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9to5Mac, Engadget, MacRumors, Gigaom, iMore, iDownloadBlog.com, iPhone in Canada Blog and The Verge
| Abhijeet M. / SamMobile: |
Samsung Galaxy A3 and A5 coming soon to Europe, firmware now online — The Galaxy A3 (SM-A300) and Galaxy A5 (SM-A500) are mid-range devices that Samsung is hoping will attract consumers with their metallic designs, but both devices have been in limited supply due to production issues …
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| Amrutha Gayathri / Reuters: |
Box seeks to raise up to $162.5M in IPO at $11 to $13 per share at a valuation of up to $1.55B — Data storage company Box expected to be valued at up to $1.55 billion — (Reuters) - Online data storage provider Box Inc (IPO-BOX.N) expects its initial public offering to be priced at $11-$13 per share …
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| Arik Hesseldahl / Re/code: |
Apple Hires HP Veteran to Head Corporate Sales — Apple has hired a longtime Hewlett-Packard executive to run sales of its products to large corporations, and he may take on a role involving international sales of the forthcoming Apple Watch. — Via LinkedIn John Solomon| Brent Dirks / App Advice: |
Evernote releases free mobile scanning app Scannable for iOS 8 devices — Evernote's new Scannable app wants to put paper in its place — Evernote wants to help tame that paper mess that many of us deal with on a daily basis. The new Scannable app is a quick and easy way to digitize pretty much any important document.| CoinDesk: |
State of Bitcoin 2015: Ecosystem Grows Despite Price Decline — CoinDesk is pleased to announce the latest quarterly State of Bitcoin report, featuring a 2014 Year in Review, an in-depth analysis of data and events from the fourth quarter of 2014 and a look ahead to what 2015 might bring.| Lester Victor Marks / AppleInsider: |
Griffin's Lightning cables with reversible USB plug coming in March for $29.99 — Griffin shows off $30 Lightning cable with reversible USB plug, coming in March — At CES this week, Griffin Technology took the wraps off a new USB-to-Lightning cable with a twist — the USB Type A plug …
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Geeky Gadgets, MacNN and iPhone in Canada Blog
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Samsung unveils PCIe SSD with data speeds of up to 2.15GB/sec and low power consumption of two milliwatts in standby mode — Samsung's SUPER-speedy SSD is a real power-sipper — 512GB drive draws a TINY 2mW: Yes, that's two milliwatts — Samsung's latest small form factor PCIe flash drive shunts data …
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Techgage, Gizmodo, BetaNews, TechRadar.com, Geeky Gadgets, Engadget, ITworld.com, Computer Dealer News, The Mac Observer, GSMArena Blog and TechSpot. Tweets: @reghardware
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
The EFF's New App Is Android-Only, As Organization Calls Out Apple For “Outrageous” Developer Terms — Non-profit digital rights organization EFF rolled out a new mobile application this morning, which allows users to more easily access the group's “action center” from their smartphone.
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Electronic Frontier Foundation, Android Police, The Next Web, WebProNews, Quora, BetaNews, MacNN, iPhone Hacks and 9to5Mac. Tweets: @jilliancyork
| Conor Dougherty / New York Times: |
Google may launch an auto insurance comparison shopping site in US as early as Q1 this year — New Clues on Google's Plans for Insurance — The insurance industry takes it for granted that Google will soon introduce its Google Compare auto insurance shopping site, which has been in Britain for two years, in the United States.
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Forrester Blogs, Wall Street Journal, The Verge, TheDomains.com, Gizmodo, CNET, Electronista and 9to5Google
| Carmel DeAmicis / Gigaom: |
Uber cuts prices for riders and guarantees earnings for drivers in 48 cities starting Friday — Uber just cut prices in 48 markets — This hasn't happened in awhile. Uber just slashed its cost in 48 of its US markets. The last time it started giving such big discounts was half a year ago, at the start of summer.
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Uber Blog, Business Insider, VentureBeat, Tech Times, TechCrunch, Consumerist, Digital Trends, Gizmodo, Electronista, The Verge and The Next Web. Tweets: @rsarver
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Sources: Windows 10's Spartan browser will feature Cortana integration, stylus support for annotating webpages — Windows 10's new browser will have the most advanced features ever — Microsoft is planning to radically overhaul its web browser in Windows 10.
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Business Insider, PC World, Inquirer, SiliconANGLE, CNET, TechnoBuffalo, VG247, Geeky Gadgets, TechSpot, Electronista, Engadget, Mashable, Neowin, USA Today, Business 2 Community, Windows Phone Central, Ubergizmo, Gizmodo, WMPoweruser and Web Browser. Tweets: @mgsiegler
| Cory Bennett / The Hill: |
Senior Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee will reintroduce controversial cybersecurity information sharing bill, CISPA, on Friday — House Dem revives major cyber bill — A senior Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee on Friday will reintroduce a controversial bill …
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PandoDaily, PC World, Electronic Frontier Foundation, The Verge, Engadget, Sputnik US, MacNN, Gizmodo, Consumerist and GamePolitics blogs
Tweets: @privacytoday, @justinbrookman and @cory_bennett
| Brian Womack / Bloomberg: |
In the last year Google's share of US search traffic fell 4.1% to 75.2% in biggest drop since 2009; Yahoo's share grew 4% to 10.4% — Google Loses Most U.S. Search Share Since 2009 While Yahoo Gains — Google Inc. (GOOG)'s dominance of the U.S. Internet search market slipped last month …
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Business Insider, Computerworld, GeekWire, SiliconANGLE, Search Engine Land, Geeky Gadgets, GSMArena Blog, PC Magazine, Marketing Pilgrim, 9to5Google, TechSpot, Nextgov, Wired, SlashGear, Forbes, Ubergizmo, Beyond Search, BGR and SiliconBeat. Tweets: @dannysullivan
| Jordan Novet / VentureBeat: |
Microsoft's Azure cloud adds G-Series virtual machines & a key management tool — Microsoft is moving right along in its efforts to maintain a leading position in the public cloud market. Today the company is announcing a public preview for a new service for storing cryptographic keys in the Azure cloud …
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