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Google to announce relaunch of its Android One project in India in coming weeks with a goal of specifying phones that will cost less than $50 — Google set to reboot Android One smartphone project in India — Google is to relaunch its Android One cut-price smartphone project …
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After slower than expected growth, Opera Software considers sale, hires investment bankers to help with strategic review — Norway's Opera warns on growth, says firm may be sold — * Says has interest from a number of parties — * 2015 revenue now forecast lower at $600 mln to $618 mln
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Researchers gain complete control of electric skateboards by hijacking unencrypted Bluetooth communications between the board and the remote — Hackers Can Seize Control of Electric Skateboards and Toss Riders — Richard “Richo” Healey was riding his electric skateboard toward an intersection …
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States compete for burgeoning self-driving car business by loosening regulations, building research centers and testing facilities — Among the States, Self-Driving Cars Have Ignited a Gold Rush — Whether it is fuel savings, safer commutes or freed-up time behind the wheel, drivers have many reasons to embrace self-driving cars.
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Hackers may have accessed personal details of 2.4M Carphone Warehouse customers, along with 90K encrypted credit card records — Carphone Warehouse in customer data breach — Personal details of up to 2.4m Carphone Warehouse customers may have been accessed in a cyber-attack, the mobile phone retailer says.
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Paribus connects to your email, monitors receipts and negotiates refunds when prices drop — Paribus launches an app to fight back against hidden price discrimination — E-commerce has created a world of incredible, even disturbing convenience. The average American living in a major city … | Erica E. Phillips / Wall Street Journal: |
Silicon Valley investors have poured over $1B into freight-forwarding startups since 2014 in hopes of bringing the $160B/year industry online — Freight Startups Attract Silicon Valley's Attention — Investors are funding dozens of startups with plans to take the low-tech business … | Mark Sullivan / VentureBeat: |
Atlanta, Chicago top RootMetrics' list of cities with best mobile network performance in US — Atlanta has the best wireless service in the land, Denver and L.A. among the worst — Atlanta and Chicago have the best wireless service performance in the United States, says a new report from RootMetrics … | Paul Hill / Linux Veda: |
Ubuntu powered BQ Aquarius phones now available for order globally, do not support 4G in US — Ubuntu powered BQ Aquaris available in US — BQ just announced on their Google Plus page that their Aquaris Ubuntu Edition phones will be available ‘wherever you live’, this makes …
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| Mike Isaac / New York Times: |
Dick Costolo plans to step down from Twitter board by end of year or when new CEO is appointed — Dick Costolo Reportedly Plans to Step Down From Twitter's Board — Dick Costolo, the former chief executive of Twitter, plans to leave the company's board of directors by the end of the year …
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Re/code, Bloomberg Business, CNET, Wall Street Journal, Business Insider and Bloomberg Business. Tweets: @jyarow
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Sidecar, trailing behind Uber and Lyft, becomes mainly a delivery service for other businesses — Sidecar Puts Passengers Aside, Pivots To A Mostly-Deliveries Company — The U.S. ride-hailing market may have room for two players, but apparently not for three.
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| Sean Portnoy / ZDNet: |
Intel bringing Xeon to laptops with E3-1500M v5 Skylake processor family — For the first time, the chip giant will be creating its enterprise CPUs in notebook friendly form factors for mobile workstations shipping this fall. — Intel's Xeon processors have powered servers and other enterprise PCs …
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