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| Brian McCullough / Internet History Podcast: |
The History of the iPhone, On Its 10th Anniversary — So... Three things: A widescreen iPod with touch controls. A revolutionary mobile phone. And a breakthrough internet communications device. An iPod... a phone... and an internet communicator... An iPod, a phone... are you getting it?
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| Sonny Dickson: |
Video shows early iPhone prototype with an iPod-like interface and a software click wheel — While it has always been known that Apple considered a variety of ideas when they were deciding to enter the mobile phone market (with ex employees discussing it behind closed doors …
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The Verge, Computerworld, 9to5Mac, Wired, MacRumors, Tech Times, 9to5Mac, SlashGear, CNNMoney, Daring Fireball, TechSpot, iPhone in Canada Blog, Gizmodo, iMore, Redmond Pie, TechnoBuffalo, Forbes, InvestorPlace, MobileSyrup.com, Ubergizmo, BGR, Neowin, The Mac Observer, Cult of Mac, iDownloadBlog.com, and AppleInsider. Tweets: @tfadell
| Alex Konrad / Forbes: |
Atlassian acquires popular team productivity app Trello for $425M, with $360M in cash and remainder in stock, in its largest acquisition to date — Australian software maker Atlassian has taken one of the leading independent players in collaboration software off the board as it looks …
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Thanks:@alexrkonrad| Andrew J . Hawkins / The Verge: |
Waymo says it is now producing all self-driving tech in house, with big cost savings, will deploy Chrysler minivans this month in Mountain View and Phoenix — Now with all-new tech produced in-house — Waymo, the self-driving car startup spun-off from Google late last year …
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| Washington Post: |
Uber launches Movement, a website to share its aggregated travel times data for cities, starting with Washington, Boston, Manila, and Sydney — SAN FRANCISCO — The combative ride-hailing giant Uber is extending an olive branch to cities — in the form of data that transit wonks have coveted for years.
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Tweets: @conormyhrvold, @mikeisaac, and @lizzadwoskin
| Matthew Strauss / Pitchfork: |
Nielsen: US on-demand music streaming up 76% to 250B+ streams in 2016, becoming the dominant form of music consumption with 38% of the market — Streaming consumption beat digital sales for the first time in history, according to new Nielsen report — It's official: according … | Jon Fingas / Engadget: |
Samsung launches Gear S and Gear Fit apps on iOS, allowing Gear S3, Gear S2, and Gear Fit 2 wearables to work with iPhones — Did you sigh wistfully at Samsung's Gear S3, knowing you couldn't use it because you have an iPhone? Relax. Samsung has launched new Gear S and Gear Fit apps …
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| Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica: |
LG threatens to put Wi-Fi in every appliance it introduces in 2017 — You can also use a camera to save you the trouble of opening your fridge. — In the past few years, products at CES have increasingly focused on putting the Internet in everything, no matter how “dumb” the device in question is by nature.
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@internetofs**t, The Next Web, Boing Boing, and Quartz
Tweets: @erratarob, @arstechnica, @arstechnica, and @annarussett
| New York Times: |
Russian regulator told Apple and Google to remove LinkedIn app from App Store and Google Play; app is no longer available for download in Russia — WASHINGTON — Smartphone users in Russia can no longer download the LinkedIn app on iPhone or Android devices, following a similar move in China to block The New York Times app on iPhones.
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Inquirer, Silicon Republic, Ubergizmo, Fortune, Engadget, Softpedia News, Tech Times, MSPoweruser, Recode, Digital Trends, On MSFT, Neowin, iPhone in Canada Blog, The Verge, iPhone Hacks, AppleInsider, MacRumors, 9to5Mac, and Salon
Tweets: @davidbyttow, @hunterwalk, and @rprose
| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
10K+ poorly secured MongoDB installations deleted by attackers demanding hefty ransoms — Poorly secured MongoDB installations deleted and held for ransom. — More than 10,000 website databases have been taken hostage in recent days by attackers who are demanding hefty ransoms for the data …
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Google Docs, BleepingComputer.com, ZDNet, TechSpot, The Hacker News, The Next Web, The Register, MongoDB | Blog, Office of Inadequate Security, Digital Trends, BleepingComputer.com, Threatpost, NEWSBTC, BBC, eWeek, and PCWorld
Tweets: @abhishek_pc, @coates, @ovidperl, and @troyhunt
| Christopher Zara / Backchannel: |
How the “safe harbor” provision of the 1996 Telecommunications Act allowed the modern internet to flourish, and why it's under attack — How “safe harbor” turned into a protector of privilege. — For Airbnb, suing American cities had become something of a monthly ritual.
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The Guardian and Memex 1.1. Tweets: @vogelelaw, @backchnnl, @backchnnl, @backchnnl, @backchnnl, and @ma_franks
| Steve Ragan / CSO: |
Esports community ESEA hacked, as 1.5M records, including users' names, phone numbers, and PSN/Xbox/Steam IDs, leak after alleged attempt to extort $50K failed — More than a million players have been affected by this incident — E-Sports Entertainment Association (ESEA) …
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