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Samsung to release two versions of 5.1" Galaxy flagship with all-metal bodies, one with a 3-sided display next month — Samsung Said to Plan 3-Sided Screen in New Galaxy Smartphone — Don't Miss Out — (Bloomberg) — Samsung Electronics Co. plans to release two new versions …
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| Sharon Bernstein / Reuters: |
iPhone kill switch reduced thefts by 40% in San Francisco, 25% in New York city, and 50% in London — Smartphone theft drops in London, two U.S. cities as anti-theft ‘kill switches’ installed — (Reuters) - Thefts involving smartphones have declined dramatically in three major cities …
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| Janko Roettgers / Gigaom: |
Samsung TVs start inserting ads into your movies — Thought you could watch that video on your local hard drive without ads? Think again: A number of owners of Samsung's smart TVs are reporting this week that their TV sets started to interrupt their movie viewing with Pepsi ads …
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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Apple Confirms Aperture to Be Removed From Mac App Store After Launch of Photos for OS X — Shortly after last week's deployment of OS X 10.10.3 to developers, Apple updated its official Aperture page on its website, adding a notice stating that Aperture will be removed from the Mac App Store when the Photos for OS X app launches.| Dan Seifert / The Verge: |
Report: in response to Apple Pay, Square is working on an Android tablet; Google testing Plaso, a mobile payment system that allows you use your initals to pay — Square working to rely less on Apple's iPad, claims report — Square, the mobile payments service found in countless coffee shops across … | Eric Slivka / MacRumors: |
Tim Cook talks about Apple Watch, international growth, commitment to privacy, and more in a wide-ranging Goldman Sachs interview — Apple CEO Tim Cook Speaking Live at 2015 Goldman Sachs Technology Conference — Apple CEO Tim Cook is speaking at the Goldman Sachs Technology … | Shara Tibken / CNET: |
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| Se Young Lee / Reuters: |
Samsung Display to invest $3.6 billion in new OLED production line — The company logo is displayed at the Samsung news conference at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas January 7, 2013. — (Reuters) - Samsung Display, a subsidiary of South Korean tech giant Samsung Electronics Co Ltd …
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| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Facebook launches ThreatExchange, an API-based platform that lets companies share security threat info — Facebook today launched ThreatExchange, described as “an API-based clearinghouse for security threat information.” It's really a social platform, which Facebook naturally excels at building …
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| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
Microsoft Confirms Sunrise Acquisition, Adds Depth To Its Mobile Productivity Offerings — Microsoft is buying the mobile productivity reputation it seemed disinclined to build for itself for so many years, and the latest addition to the roster is Sunrise, the calendar app that managed …
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| Kim Zetter / Wired: |
To track illegal activity, DARPA is developing a dark web search engine that indexes Tor Hidden Services pages, sites accessible only through the Tor browser — Darpa Is Developing a Search Engine for the Dark Web — A new search engine being developed by Darpa aims to shine a light …
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| Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
Starting today, wireless carriers have to unlock your phone — Once you've paid off your contract, carriers can't say no. — Major wireless carriers in the US have promised to unlock customers' phones or tablets once they've paid off their contracts, beginning today.
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IBM security finds over 60% of Android dating apps are open to hacks, risking corporate data — Majority of dating apps are open to hacks — IBM Security found that over 60% of leading Android dating mobile apps they studied are potentially vulnerable to a variety of cyber-attacks … | Cyrus Farivar / Ars Technica: |
FBI tries to prevent disclosure of information about use of fake “stingray” cell towers by local police — FBI really doesn't want anyone to know about “stingray” use by local cops — Memo: cops must tell FBI about all public records requests on fake cell towers.
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
AOL Stock Drops 11% On Q4 Miss Of $710.3M In Sales, As It Pushes Ahead On Programmatic — On the heels of a plan to restructure its business to focus more on programmatic advertising and its bigger content brands, today AOL reported its Q4 earnings that show it still has some way to go on that front.| Natalie Gagliordi / ZDNet: |
App marketplace maker AppDirect raises $50 million from Peter Thiel's Mithril Capital — Summary:The San Francisco-based startup makes a white-label app marketplace that allows businesses to sell software-as-a-service applications to other businesses. — AppDirect has closed … | Jon Fingas / Engadget: |
Study says phones are just as good as wearables at tracking fitness — Think you have to wear a dedicated fitness tracker to get accurate data? Don't worry — you may have a good excuse to skip the wristband. The University of Pennsylvania has published a study showing that smartphone apps' step counts … | Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: |
Reserve Raises $15M To Help With Your Restaurant Reservations And Payments — Reserve, the app promising to serve as your “personal dining concierge,” is announcing that it has raised $15 million in Series A funding. — The company was incubated at Expa, the startup studio created by StumbleUpon and Uber co-founder Garrett Camp.| Alyson Shontell / Business Insider: |
Dating app The League with a $2.1M seed round and a 75,000 person waitlist aims to be a more “selective” Tinder — There are already 75,000 people trying (and failing) to join The League, a Tinder for the elite — The League, a new dating app that launched in January, has a waitlist that's already 75,000 people long.| Larry Dignan / ZDNet: |
Dell extends its ProSupport Plus predictive monitoring service to laptops, desktops, and tablets — Dell launches ProSupport Plus for tablets, PCs — Summary:Dell is extending its ProSupport Plus effort from data centers to laptops, desktops and tablets.
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Court backs NSA on internet spying as Obama ducks call for reform — U.S. President Barack Obama speaks to the nation about normalizing diplomatic relations the Cuba in the Cabinet Room of the White House on December 17, 2014 in Washington, DC. — U.S. President Barack Obama speaks … Sponsor Posts
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