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Samsung's rushed replacement of Galaxy Note7 before finding the root cause of fires doomed the smartphone — On the verge of challenging Apple's mobile phone dominance, the South Korean company made a rushed decision, based on incomplete evidence, that later forced it to kill the model.
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| AT&T: |
AT&T announces a half-stock, half-cash deal to acquire Time Warner, valuing the company at $85.4B — - New company with complementary strengths to lead the next wave of innovation in converging media and communications industry. —Combination unlike any other …
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See also Mediagazer| Kara Swisher / Recode: |
Resistance from Time Warner execs like Jeff Bewkes, head of HBO at the time, doomed the AOL merger, which raises questions about the prospects of the AT&T deal — The 2000 merger with AOL made Time Warner CEO Jeff Bewkes nauseated, so what's different now? — In the end, I guess you could finally say Steve Case was right.
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See also Mediagazer| New York Times: |
AT&T-Time Warner deal will likely face tougher regulatory scrutiny and higher political hurdles than earlier Comcast-NBCUniversal deal — A cable and internet provider decides to buy an entertainment conglomerate. — The merger is met with skepticism by industry analysts and outrage …
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See also Mediagazer| Brendan I. Koerner / Wired: |
Inside the discovery, investigation, and attempted mitigation of the devastating OPM breach last year — The US OFFICE of Personnel Management doesn't radiate much glamour. As the human resources department for the federal government, the agency oversees the legal minutiae of how federal employees … | Michael Kan / PCWorld: |
Xiongmai admits its products were part of Mirai botnet, says it patched the flaws in September 2015 but older devices still vulnerable — Botnets created from the Mirai malware were involved in Friday's cyber attack. — A Chinese electronics component manufacturer says its products inadvertently played …
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Computerworld, Dyn Content Hub, Macworld, Xconomy, InfoWorld, Bloomberg, Tech Times, O'Grady's PowerPage, Reuters and NBC News. Tweets: @nicoleperlroth
| David Henry / Reuters: |
19 US banks to offer a money-transfer app Zelle with instant deposits by early next year, to compete against PayPal, Venmo, and Square Cash — By the end of December some U.S. bank customers may begin to notice features of the new Zelle instant payments network appearing on their mobile phone …
| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Researchers demonstrate exploiting the Rowhammer hardware flaw from app with no special user permissions, rooting devices from LG, Motorola, Samsung, OnePlus — Permission-less apps take only seconds to root phones from LG, Samsung and Motorola. — Researchers have devised an attack …
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Inquirer, Wired, Tech Times, NDTV Gadgets 360 and The Hacker News
| Jessica Guynn / USA Today: |
Study: share of women in the US computing workforce on pace to decline from 24% to 22% by 2025 if nothing is done — SAN FRANCISCO — New research warns that the number of women in the computing workforce will decline to 22% from 24% by 2025 if nothing is done to encourage more of them to study computer science.
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Mashable, channelweb.co.uk, Fox Business, Latest, CNET, Business Wire, The Register, Quartz, Forbes, Fortune and CNET. Tweets: @sumaya
| Kevin Marks / Backchannel: |
How a design trend to reduce the contrast between text and its background, driven by Apple's and Google's guidelines, is making text harder to read online — I thought my eyesight was beginning to go. It turns out, I'm suffering from design. — It's been getting harder for me to read things on my phone and my laptop.
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Telegraph. Tweets: @leonardcheshire, @gerrymcgovern, @jaycuthrell, @benriga, @aardrian, @fheinz, @edd and @katebevan
| Marshall Honorof / Tom's Guide: |
Roku Ultra review: the best streaming media player thanks to unparalleled 3,500 channel selection, 4K, HDR, Dolby Digital audio support, USB connectivity, more — The Roku Ultra claims to have it all, and the device really delivers. You want 4K resolution, HDR support, digital audio …
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HD Report, PC Magazine, Pocket-lint and HD Guru
| Scott Moritz / Bloomberg: |
T-Mobile Q3 earnings beats estimates with revenue up 18% to $9.2B, 969K new postpaid customers, net income up to $366M from $138M a year earlier — Unlimited data, Binge On attracts 969,000 monthly users — Carrier driving profits despite price cuts, giveaway promos
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