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Apple negotiates with music labels for streaming licenses that would forego free tier, allow high-profile artists to distribute with Apple first — Big Music Labels Want to Make Free Music Hard to Get, and Apple Says They're Right — Right now it's easy to stream any song you want …
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Oracle now bundles Ask toolbar adware with Java for Mac installations by default — Oracle extends its adware bundling to include Java for Macs — Summary:For years, Oracle has tormented Windows users by bundling adware with its Java installer for Windows PCs.
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Study finds at least 46K Twitter accounts linked to ISIS; from September to December Twitter suspended 1K accounts — ISIS Is Skilled on Twitter, Using Thousands of Accounts, Study Says — The Islamic State, the violent extremist group that espouses a return to a seventh-century caliphate … | Chance Miller / 9to5Google: |
Gmail for iOS updated w/ share sheet support, ability to archive & reply to email via notifications — Google this morning has released a major update for Gmail on iOS. The update bumps the app to version 4.0 and packs a handful of new features. First off, Gmail on iOS now supports …
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| Andrew Webster / The Verge: |
Amazon to bring four of its Game Studios titles to iOS, release date not yet announced — Amazon is bringing its premium mobile games to iPhone and iPad — With some major acquisitions and multiple big games in the works, Amazon clearly has some big ambitions for its in-house gaming division.
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WSJ: Google's carrier experiment could launch this month but only for Nexus 6 — That was quick. — The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Google's experimental foray into becoming a wireless carrier could happen as quickly as the end of this month. But it wont be available for all phones.| Leila Abboud / Reuters: |
Shazam plans to add object recognition capabilities to its music ID app — Music app Shazam to add sights to sounds — (Reuters) - Shazam, the company behind the mobile phone app that enables its 100 million users to recognize music they hear, and buy the recordings …
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| Don Reisinger / CNET: |
Sony has sold 20.2M PlayStation 4 units since November 2013 launch, keeping grip of market — Sony's PlayStation 4 continues to soar with 20M sold — By contrast, Microsoft's most recent public count in November noted Xbox One sales at around 10 million, though that figure is likely … | Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Stop the presses: HTTPS-crippling “FREAK” bug affects Windows after all — Microsoft advisory dramatically raises the number of vulnerable end-user devices. — Computers running all supported versions of Microsoft Windows are vulnerable to “FREAK,” a bug disclosed Monday that for more than a decade …
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| Nathan Ingraham / The Verge: |
Apple, Google, Amazon, Facebook, and hundreds of other companies file an amicus brief in the US Supreme Court for nationwide marriage equality — Apple, Facebook, Comcast, and hundreds of others ask Supreme Court for nationwide marriage equality — Marriage equality is actually good for business, so these companies claim
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UK's National Crime Agency arrests 57 suspected hackers for various cybercrimes — Dozens arrested in cybercrime ‘strike week’ — The UK's National Crime Agency (NCA) has mounted a “strike week” against suspected hackers resulting in 56 arrests. — In total, 25 separate operations were carried out across the UK.
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| Michelle Davis / Bloomberg Business: |
Apple replacing AT&T in the Dow Jones Industrial Average — Apple Will Join the Dow Jones Industrial Average — (Bloomberg) — Apple Inc. will be added to the Dow Jones Industrial Average, replacing AT&T Inc., in the first reshuffling since September 2013.
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| Yash G. / SamMobile: |
Verizon will open pre-order for the Galaxy S6, S6 edge April 1st — You might well be wanting to spend the 1st of April scheming and executing your carefully curated pranks, but that's not exactly how Verizon wants you to spend the day. The US carrier has announced that it will be accepting pre-orders …
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