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Nintendo President Satoru Iwata Dies At 55 — Nintendo has just issued a short statement announcing that president Satoru Iwata has passed away at the age of 55. — The statement reads: … Iwata was forced to skip last year's E3 due to his poor health, and shortly afterwards underwent surgery to remove the bile duct growth.
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| Takashi Mochizuki / Wall Street Journal: |
Nintendo has no plans yet for who will replace Iwata, Genyo Takeda and Shigeru Miyamoto to continue as representative directors — Shigeru Miyamoto Seen as Possible Nintendo Successor — Nintendo Co. has had only two presidents in its modern era—Hiroshi Yamauchi from 1949 to 2002 … | Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft plans multi-million Windows 10 ad and marketing campaign, fan-focused launch — Microsoft plans a fan-focused Windows 10 launch kick-off — Microsoft's multi-million-dollar Windows 10 ad and marketing campaign will be focused on ‘upgrading the world’ to the coming operating system release.| Emily Steel / New York Times: |
Comcast announces Stream, a $15/month web TV add-on for its internet subscribers with broadcast networks and HBO, available in select markets later this year — Comcast Offers Its Alternative to Cable TV, Using the Web — Comcast, the country's largest cable operator …
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Two major pharmaceutical companies, GlaxoSmithKline and Purdue Pharma, are considering Apple's ResearchKit for drug R&D — Big Pharma Eyes iPhone For Drug R&D — Pharmaceutical giants like GlaxoSmithKline and Purdue Pharma are considering Apple's ResearchKit platform for gathering medical research data.
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| Blake Ross / Medium: |
Wealthfront markets itself as the anti-Wall Street, but still charges a 0.25% compound fee, far worse than Vanguard VTI's 0.05% fee — Silicon Valley Tech at Wall Street Prices — Somewhere in the Bay Area, a developer teeters on the edge of insanity. — For the last 60 hours … | Steve Ragan / CSO Online Steve Ragan: |
Development of anti-surveillance device ProxyHam and its DEF Con talk mysteriously cancelled, existing units destroyed — Privacy talk at DEF CON canceled under questionable circumstances — Anti-surveillance tool ProxyHam will never see the light of day
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| Graham Cluley / HOTforSecurity: |
Facebook's security chief Alex Stamos says it's time for Adobe to announce the end-of-life date for Flash — Facebook's security chief calls for Adobe Flash to be killed off — Poor old Adobe Flash. Hardly anybody seems to love it. — And this isn't a new phenomenon.| Edward-Isaac Dovere / Politico: |
Many Obama campaign and administration alumni are moving to Silicon Valley to join tech firms — The city on the hill(s) for Obama alums — San Francisco and its tech firms are a prime destination for aides leaving the administration. — Getty — SAN FRANCISCO — Sipping a cup of cold-pressed coffee.
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| Arik Hesseldahl / Re/code: |
China's Tianhe-2 Supercomputer Is Still the World's Most Powerful — Sorry, America, but the most powerful computer on the face of the planet still resides in China. — That's the pronouncement of researchers who assembled the twice-a-year Top500 list of the world's top supercomputers …
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Microsoft to expand Surface distributor count from ‘couple hundred’ to a few thousand — Microsoft is opening up its Surface distribution channel to help prime the pump for its Surface tablets ahead of the start of the Windows 10 rollout. — Microsoft is continuing to gradually expand … | Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Comcast's Gigabit Pro 2Gbps internet will cost $300 a month, up to $1000 in installation and activation fees; early promo rate of $159 a month on 2 yr contract — Comcast's 2Gbps internet costs $300 per month with huge install fees — Comcast's faster-than-Google Fiber internet was always … Sponsor Posts
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