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Apple apologizes for Error 53, says it was designed to be a factory test, releases iOS update that restores bricked phones but doesn't re-enable Touch ID — Apple Apologizes And Updates iOS To Restore iPhones Disabled By Error 53 — Earlier this month, a Guardian report flagged …
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| Jessica Guynn / USA Today: |
Facebook pledges to fight against demands to weaken system security, Twitter adds its support to Apple in San Bernadino iPhone case — Facebook sides with Apple in iPhone fight — SAN FRANCISCO — Facebook sided with Apple in the public spat with the Obama administration over its refusal …
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| Edvard Pettersson / Bloomberg Business: |
Sources: Apple given until February 26 to respond to court order in San Bernadino iPhone case — Apple Said to Get More Time to Fight Order to Unlock IPhone — Deadline for Apple to respond to court order is Feb. 26 — FBI pushing Apple to help access California shooter's phone
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Leaked document: Facebook will launch ads on Messenger in Q2, enabling brands to send message ads to customers who have previously initiated chats — Facebook Plans To Put Ads In Messenger — A leaked document Facebook sent to some of its biggest advertisers reveals that Facebook will launch ads within Messenger in Q2 2016.
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| Shara Tibken / CNET: |
Apple's Trade Up With Installments program lets you trade in your old phone and pay a reduced monthly fee for a newer model — Apple wants you to ditch your old iPhone with this new payment plan — The Trade Up With Installments program lets you unload an old phone and get a new model for an outlay of less than about $35 a month.| Nate Swanner / The Next Web: |
Google Play Games is ditching Google+ tie-in for new Gamer ID profiles — Google Play Games is changing, and it may affect how you interact on the platform. Starting today, you'll no longer need a Google+ account to have a profile on Play Games. — Instead, the company is launching Gamer ID … | Bloomberg Business: |
Profile of Johny Srouji, Apple's SVP for hardware technologies, who is leading the development of company's chips — The Most Important Apple Executive You've Never Heard Of — A visit with Cupertino's chief chipmaker, Johny Srouji. — A little over a year ago, Apple had a problem: The iPad Pro was behind schedule.
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Thanks:@ravichandrans25| James Vincent / The Verge: |
GSMA announces new eSIM specification for smartwatches, fitness trackers, and tablets; Samsung's Gear S2 Classic 3G will be first device to use the new standard — Samsung's Gear S2 has the first certified eSIM that lets you choose carriers — The day the physical SIM card disappears is slowly getting closer.| Colin Lecher / The Verge: |
FCC votes 3-2 to proceed with plan to give customers more choice over cable TV set-top boxes; proposal now moves into comment period — The FCC just took the first big step toward changing the cable box business — In a three-to-two vote, the FCC has decided to move ahead with a proposal …
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Microsoft Translator adds OCR capabilities to its iOS app, offline translations on Android — Microsoft's Translator app plays catch-up with Google — The version for iPhones now lets you use the device's camera to translate signs, menus and the like, while the version for Android devices can work offline.| Connie Loizos / TechCrunch: |
Several secondary buyers say unicorn shareholders are now much more interested in selling common stock — Secondary Shops Flooded With Unicorn Sellers — Until recently, shares of some of the highest-flying unicorn companies have been so hard to come by that secondary buyers have battled each other … | Skype Blogs: |
Skype starts rolling out group video calling for iOS and Android, beginning with North America and Western Europe today, with worldwide availability in March — Announcing group video calling for mobile phones and tablets — Just a few weeks ago, we announced the next evolution of Skype … | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
PayPal launches overhauled iOS and Android apps with cleaner design, quicker access to sending and receiving money, more — PayPal Overhauls Its Mobile App — PayPal's mobile app is getting a massive overhaul today, representing the first time in the history that the company has rebuilt its app from scratch.
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| Dan Seifert / The Verge: |
Karma cancels Neverstop unlimited plan, replaces it with tiered subscription plan Pulse, priced at $40, $75, or $140/month with $15 per GB overage per month — Karma cancels its unlimited data plan, introduces new tiered subscriptions — Just three months after launch … | Cyrus Farivar / Ars Technica: |
Bitcoin startup Butterfly Labs settles with FTC for $38.6M but that sum will be suspended after company pays $15K and co-founder pays $4K — Bitcoin startup Butterfly Labs settles with FTC for $38.6M, but it can't pay — Lawsuit will be dropped against two execs, but case remains against CEO.
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Report: Smartwatches outsold Swiss watches for the first time in Q4 2015 with 8.1M shipments, Apple accounted for 63% of smartwatches with 5.1M units — Apple Watch Sales Estimated at 5.1 Million in Holiday Quarter, Swiss Watch Sales in Trouble — The latest data from Strategy Analytics reveals …
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| Ian Cairns / The Twitter Blog: |
In customer service push, Twitter now lets businesses add a “send a private message” button to tweets, attach feedback forms to direct messages — Making customer service even better on Twitter — Today, we're excited to announce two new tools to help businesses provide even better customer service on Twitter.
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| Ram Ramanathan / Google Cloud Platform Blog: |
Google Cloud Vision API, which detects the contents of images, enters public beta — Google Cloud Vision API enters Beta, open to all to try! — Today, we're announcing the beta release of Google Cloud Vision API. Now anyone can submit their images to the Cloud Vision API to understand …
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