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Amazon's working on storefront called Unlocked to offer paid apps for free; no launch date set — Amazon ‘Unlocked’ Will Give Away Paid Apps For Free — Amazon has been working hard to build up the popularity of its Android-based Appstore with consumers and developers … | David Ruddock / Android Police: |
New “On-Body Detection” Smart Lock Mode In Android Seems To Be Hitting Some Devices — If a tipster's screenshots are to be believed (and I think in this case, they are to be believed), Google is testing and / or rolling out a new smart lock mode called on-body detection.
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Sources: Meerkat raises a $12M Series B led by Greylock at a $40M pre-money valuation — LIVE NOW| Meerkat Raises $12M From Greylock At A $40M Valuation — If you're reading TechCrunch right now (you are, by the way), chances are you have at least heard of Meerkat.| John Paczkowski / BuzzFeed: |
Apple to launch new Apple TV set top box at WWDC with A8 chip, increased storage, enabling App Store, Siri, and HomeKit integration — New Apple TV Set Top Will Debut This Summer With App Store, Siri — Apple intends to show the device off at its annual World Wide Developers Conference in June
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Chrome extension Ugly Mail identifies which of your Gmail emails are being monitored using pixel tracking — A Clever Way to Tell Which of Your Emails Are Being Tracked — While you've likely never heard of companies like Yeswear, Bananatag, and Streak, they almost certainly know a good deal about you.| David Ruddock / Android Police: |
Facebook testing app that provides info on callers and automatically blocks calls from commonly blocked numbers on Android — Facebook Appears To Be Testing A Dialer And Caller ID App For Android, And It's Called... Phone — Facebook, that company that is constantly trying to confuse … | ABC News: |
Apple provides a peek into its Watch fitness testing facility, reveals it collected more than 18K hours of health and fitness data in testing — Transcript for Inside Apple's Top Secret Health Lab for Apple Watch — You're about to get an exclusive look at a lab in one of the most famously secretive companies on Earth, apple.| Peter Bright / Ars Technica: |
Windows 10 to make the Secure Boot alt-OS lock out a reality — Windows 10 hardware must support Secure Boot and won't have to let you turn it off. — Those of you with long memories will recall a barrage of complaints in the run up to Windows 8's launch that concerned the ability to install … | Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Apple Stops Supporting Windows 7 in Boot Camp on New MacBook Pro, MacBook Air Models — Apple's newly refreshed MacBook Air and 13-inch MacBook Pro models no longer support running Windows 7 with Boot Camp, according to Apple's Boot Camp support document. Boot Camp on the new notebooks …
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Market saturation, rising monthly fees, lack of innovation, and broadband expansion make cable TV's decline inevitable in the US — Peak Cable — Paying for TV has been a curious consumer phenomenon. There was a time when TV was free to consumers. It was delivered as a broadcast … | Sean Michael Kerner / eWeek: |
At Pwn2Own, researchers exploit fully patched versions of Firefox, Chrome, IE 11, and Safari, while payouts total $557K — HP Awards $240K for Firefox, IE, Chrome and Safari Exploits — On March 19, the second day of the Hewlett-Packard Zero Day Initiative (ZDI) sponsored Pwn2Own hacking challenge …
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Pebble pledges $1 million to crowdfund development of Pebble Time smartstraps … Closing in on US$20 million (£13.5 million) with more than a week left to go, the Kickstarter campaign for the Pebble Time is still going strong. And Pebble hopes to push a little more interest by spending … Sponsor Posts
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