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Microsoft concedes that it won't have Windows 10 installed on 1B devices by mid-2018, as previously projected — Microsoft isn't going to make its self-imposed deadline of having Windows 10 installed on 1 billion devices by mid-2018, company officials have conceded.
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| Vlad Savov / The Verge: |
Kantar: Samsung's Galaxy S7 outsold Apple's iPhone 6s in the US between March and May 2016 — The iPhone showed its first decline in sales numbers earlier this year, which has today been reiterated by the latest US mobile market data from Kantar Worldpanel.
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
US pledges $400M over the next 7 years for 5G research led by National Science Foundation — As President Obama approaches the end of his tenure in the White House, his team is launching a wireless networking research project that it hopes could be part of his wider legacy in the world of tech.
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| New York Times: |
Sources: final bids for Yahoo are due on Monday, with the board set to make a decision soon afterward — SAN FRANCISCO — The gavel is finally poised to drop in the drawn-out auction for Yahoo's core internet business. — Final bids for the services, which include Yahoo's search, email …
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| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Nvidia launches its first game, VR Funhouse, for HTC Vive VR on Steam, will release it as open source later this summer — Virtual reality could be a big driver for gamer PCs with powerful graphics cards. That's why Nvidia wants it to succeed. And to boost VR hardware sales … | Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
BitTorrent Now officially launches on iOS and Apple TV — Earlier this year, BitTorrent announced a new BitTorrent Now app that allows users to stream a variety of content including videos and music. At the time, the app was Android-only, but now the app has officially come to iOS and Apple TV.| Aaron Pressman / Fortune: |
T-Mobile Is Giving Customers a Year of Free Data to Play Pokemon Go — There are few executives in telecommunications—or most other industries for that matter—who are better masters of free publicity than T-Mobile CEO John Legere. — And so, with the popularity of the Nintendo smartphone game Pokemon …
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| Dawn Chmielewski / Recode: |
Chamath Palihapitiya's Rama drops out of a spectrum auction, updated bidder list FCC released today shows — The firm, backed by investor Chamath Palihapitiya, had hoped to challenge U.S. carriers. — The small firm backed by investor Chamath Palihapitiya has dropped …
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| Julian Chokkattu / Digital Trends: |
Mastercard expands Masterpass to include in-store payments, first arriving on Android devices in the US this month, unveils API for banks and other partners — MasterCard is now Mastercard, or even mastercard in some cases. Sometimes you won't even see the name at all — instead you'll see the iconic red and yellow Venn diagram.
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AdExchanger, Global Hub, Finextra Research, ARC, Global Hub, Engadget, Wall Street Journal and The Verge. Tweets: @brianroemmele
| Adam Banks / Ars Technica UK: |
Apple's Swift Playgrounds for iPad is designed for kids but still requires coding, doesn't generate standalone apps — For all Apple's obsessive secrecy, even its senior managers acknowledge with an on-stage wink that much of what they announce these days has already been predicted.
Tweets: @jamiebullock
| Vlad Savov / The Verge: |
Razer introduces low-profile, detachable mechanical keyboard for 12.9-inch iPad Pro, connects via Bluetooth, available today for $170 — Razer today announces a whole new ultra-low-profile mechanical switch, designed for and making its debut in the company's first mechanical keyboard case for the iPad Pro.| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Amazon's AWS buys Cloud9 to add more development tools to its web services stack — Amazon Web Services has made an acquisition to continue building out the services that it offers around and on its cloud storage platform. It has bought Cloud9, a San Francisco-based startup that has built …
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