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| Matt Brian / The Next Web: |
Bad day for LinkedIn: 6.5 million hashed passwords reportedly leaked - change yours now — Already in the spotlight over concerns that its iOS app collects full meeting notes and details from a device's calendar and sends them back to the company in plain text, LinkedIn user accounts …
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| Chris Velazco / TechCrunch: |
LinkedIn Confirms Hack And Leak Of “Some” User Passwords — Shortly after it was reported that nearly 6.5 million LinkedIn account passwords were leaked onto the net, LinkedIn leapt into action and mounted their own investigation. — Though most of the morning was spent claiming …
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| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
8 million leaked passwords connected to LinkedIn, dating website (updated) — An unknown hacker posted the lists online and asked for help in cracking them. — A partial list of the 6.5 million passwords leaked by someone identified as dwdm. The list contains strong passwords that were unique …
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| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Google Earth to get radically better 3D images, new UI on iOS and Android — Google has announced its plans to improve 3D maps. It's using “automated technology to extract 3D from aerial images.” The effect is stunning, every building is competely modeled from street to roof.| Bloomberg: |
HTC Said To Be Shut Out Of Next Version Of Windows — HTC Corp. (2498) is being shut out of the introduction of Microsoft (MSFT) Corp.'s next Windows software, people with knowledge of the matter said, cutting off another source of revenue after HTC reduced its second-quarter sales forecast by 13 percent.
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| IDC: |
Android Expected to Reach Its Peak This Year as Mobile Phone Shipments Slow, According IDC — The worldwide mobile phone market is forecast to grow slightly more than 4.0% year over year in 2012, the lowest annual growth rate since 2009, due to a sharp decline in the feature phone market and sluggish global economic conditions.
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| Lucian Constantin / PC Advisor: |
LinkedIn stops collecting calendar meeting notes through its mobile apps — LinkedIn updated its Android and iOS apps to no longer send calendar meeting notes back to its servers when calendar integration is enabled — LinkedIn has confirmed researcher claims that the calendar integration feature …
| Joff Redfern / Linkedin Blog: |
More about our mobile calendar feature — You may have seen a few press stories highlighting concerns about how your data is used in the opt-in calendar feature of our mobile phone apps. We deeply care about our members trust so I want to provide clarity around what we do, don't do …
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| Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch: |
How Much Would The Average Person Pay For A Standalone HBO GO Subscription? About $12 A Month — Two years ago, HBO introduced HBO GO, giving fans a way to access all of their favorite programming online, on tablets and mobile devices, and increasingly on connected TV platforms.
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| Seth Weintraub / 9to5Mac: |
New Mac spec sheet leaks out, WWDC launch pricing and naming included — . — The image above represents the full pricing matrix for new devices expected to unveil in a few days at the Worldwide Developers Conference. You will notice the Mac Pros, Retina MacBook Pros, MacBook Airs, and iMacs that we discussed before at length.
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| John Flowers / McSweeney's: |
Prospectus for Silicon Valley's Next Hot Tech IPO, Where Nothing Could Possibly Go Wrong — Form S-1 — Registration Statement — Under — The Securities Act of 1933 — Ponzify, Inc. — LETTER FROM THE FOUNDERS — Forget Facebook. Forget Groupon. Forget everything you know about Silicon Valley.
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| Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web: |
Airfoil Speakers Touch back in App Store minus new feature, Apple apologizes for poor handling — After being pulled from the App Store late last month, without warning, AirFoil Speakers Touch is back in, but minus one feature. The app's developers, Rogue Amoeba, had to remove …
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| Josh Lowensohn / CNET: |
Apple wants to keep Samsung's Galaxy S3 out of U.S. — Samsung's Galaxy S3 smartphone. — (Credit: Brian Bennett/CNET) — Excited shoppers weren't the only ones buying Samsung's latest flagship smartphone, the Galaxy S3, when it went on sale in the U.K. last month.
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| Aaron Ricadela / Bloomberg: |
Oracle Introduces Corporate Cloud To Challenge Salesforce — Oracle Corp. (ORCL), the world's largest database maker, has introduced a cloud-computing service to let corporate customers access data over the Internet, stepping up competition with Salesforce.com Inc. (CRM) and Workday Inc.
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| Chris Dannen / Fast Company: |
How Airbnb Earned Me $20,000 And A Restraining Order From My Landlord — For a heady year, cash and friendly faces flowed into my apartment, paying my rent while I scraped together money to build a startup I had dreamed about for months. My apartment photographed well and tourists love Brooklyn …
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| Doug Bowman / Twitter Blog: |
Taking flight: #Twitterbird — Over the past six years, the world has become familiar with a little blue bird. The bird is everywhere, constantly associated with Twitter the service, and Twitter the company. — Starting today you'll begin to notice a simplified Twitter bird.| Matthew Humphries / Geek.com: |
Germany increases USB flash drive tax by over 2000 percent — Blank media tax was first introduced when the audio cassette became popular. It was arguedthat such media would have a negative impact on sales of commercial recordings, and so a secondary tax alongside sales tax was required … | Evelyn M. Rusli / DealBook: |
True Ventures Raises $205 Million Fund — While Facebook's sagging stock price may have chilled investors' appetite for rising technology start-ups, some venture capital firms continue to collect new money. — True Ventures, an early stage venture capital firm with investments in Automattic …
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| Liz Gannes / AllThingsD: |
A Big Venture Round for Crowdfunding: Indiegogo Raises $15M — Kickstarter may be the best-known brand in crowdfunding, but Indiegogo now has the biggest war chest. In a new round announced today, Indiegogo now has the backing of Insight Venture Partners and Khosla Ventures.| Agam Shah / Computerworld: |
Google TV box gets movie streams from Android 4.0 smartphones, tablets — An upcoming Google TV box based on Android 4.0 OS and an ARM processor will come closer to smartphones and tablets with the capability to play direct movie streams from Android 4.0 mobile devices …
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