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| John Shriver-Blake / Google Fiber Blog: |
Google announces Fiber Phone, a Google Voice-like home telephone service with unlimited local and nationwide calling, for $10/month — Introducing Fiber Phone — Whether it's calling mom or ordering take-out, we rely on our phones to help reach the people and things that matter.
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| Instagram Blog: |
Instagram increases video length limit for users from 15 seconds up to 60 seconds — Coming Soon: Longer Video on Instagram … We want to bring you fun, flexible and creative ways to create and watch video on Instagram. As part of our continued commitment, you'll soon have the flexibility …
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See also Mediagazer| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Snapchat's “Chat 2.0” update adds auto-advancing stories, stickers, video/audio notes and calls, and more — Snapchat seamlessly combines video, audio, GIFs, stickers in “Chat 2.0” — Say what you want, how you want. That's how Snapchat's reps say CEO Evan Spiegel describes Chat 2.0 …
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| Greg Duffy: |
Dropcam founder Greg Duffy defends his former team after slight by Tony Fadell, assails Fadell's management style and accomplishments — The Dropcam Team — You may have seen Reed Albergotti's recent article. In it, Tony Fadell says “a lot of the employees were not as good as we hoped …
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| Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: |
Apple acknowledges iOS 9 crashing bugs when tapping links, fix coming ‘soon’ with a software update — Since posting our original story, we have heard from a lot of readers that are affected by iOS 9 crashes or app hangs when tapping links, spanning multiple iOS versions (not just 9.3) and devices.
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| Todd Kloots / The Twitter Blog: |
Twitter now lets users add descriptive text to images in its mobile apps to improve accessibility — Accessible images for everyone — Photos have been at the center of some of the biggest moments on Twitter. As a core part of the Twitter experience, it's important that images shared … | Valentina Palladino / Ars Technica: |
Acer launches 14-inch Chromebook with an all-aluminum chassis and 12 hours of battery life for $299.99 — Acer's new, premium Chromebook offers up to 14 hours of battery life — Acer's first all-aluminum Chrome OS notebook features a 14-inch IPS display.
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| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Waze rolls out speed alerts to tell you when you're driving too fast — Google-owned GPS driving app Waze is making it easier to avoid speeding tickets with the launch today of a new speed alert feature. — Now when you're driving on unfamiliar roads, or perhaps find yourself somewhere … | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
SoundCloud launches SoundCloud Go music subscription service for $9.99/month in US — It's Go time for SoundCloud: $9.99 tier aims to rival Spotify with millions of premium music tracks — SoundCloud is often billed as the “YouTube for audio” because of its huge trove of user-generated music …
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SoundCloud, The Verge, PR Newswire, Wired, AppleInsider, Digital Trends, The Next Web, PCWorld, Business Insider, Variety, Consequence of Sound, Music Ally, SiliconBeat, Neowin, TIME, RAIN News, Tech Insider, New York Times, Tech Times, MacNN, 9to5Mac, Consumerist, Android Central, FACT Magazine, USA Today, iDownloadBlog.com, VentureBeat, Business Insider, Engadget, Re/code and Gizmodo. Tweets: @jank0. See also Mediagazer
| Dan Rys / Billboard: |
Tidal claims 3M paying global subs, with 1.35M on the hi-fidelity $20/month tier, and Kanye West's last album surpassed 250M streams within 10 days of debut — Tidal Claims Three Million Global Subscribers, Finally Releases Kanye's ‘Pablo’ Stream Numbers — EMAIL ME
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PR Newswire, Business Insider, The Verge, Digital Music News, Consequence of Sound, FACT Magazine, The FADER and The Source
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See also Mediagazer| Wall Street Journal: |
Proposed rules in China would block ISPs from allowing access to domains registered outside the country — China Seeks More Legal Muscle to Block Foreign Websites — Proposed rules would prohibit service providers from allowing access to sites with domains registered outside China
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| Cody Toombs / Android Police: |
APK teardown reveals Google plans to end support for its physical Wallet card June 30 — Google Is Preparing To Drop Support For The Physical Wallet Card On June 30th — The first signs of the Google Wallet Card were discovered during an APK Teardown, so it only seems fitting that its death should also be foretold the same way.| Noah Kulwin / Re/code: |
Genius adds “report abuse” button and says the web annotation tool does not enable abuse, in response to controversy and letter from US Rep. Katherine Clark — Genius responds to Congresswoman Katherine Clark's letter on preventing abuse — Over the past few days … Sponsor Posts
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