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Hackers expose 453,000 credentials allegedly taken from Yahoo service — Hackers posted what appear to be login credentials for more than 453,000 user accounts that they said they retrieved in plaintext from an unidentified service on Yahoo. — The dump, posted on a public website …
| Dave Kennedy / TrustedSec: |
Yahoo! Voice Website Breached 400,000+ Compromised — Few details are known at this point however, a recent post over 400,000 plus accounts that have clear text passwords were posted online. The passwords contained a wide variety of email addresses including those from yahoo.com, gmail.com, aol.com, and much more.| Anders Nilsson / Säkerhetsbloggen: |
Statistics about Yahoo leak of 450.000 plain-text accounts — Recently, Ars Technica reported about a leak by “D33ds Company” of more than 450.000 plain-text accounts from a Yahoo service, which is suspected to be Yahoo Voice. — Since all the accounts are in plain-text …
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Court rules live TV can be sent to Apple iPhone and Apple iPad in New York City — U.S. District Judge Alison Nathan ruled on Wednesday that Aereo, a start up firm that relays live, over-the-air television to Apple iPhone and Apple iPad users for $12 a month, can continue to send live television to those devices in New York City.
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| Farhad Manjoo / Slate: |
I Want It Today — How Amazon's ambitious new push for same-day delivery will destroy local retail. — How Amazon's ambitious new push for same-day delivery will destroy local retail. — Amazon has long enjoyed an unbeatable price advantage over its physical rivals.| Emily Glazer / Wall Street Journal: |
The Eyes Have It: Marketers Now Track Shoppers' Retinas — More Accurate Technology Helps Firms Discern What Draws Consumers — Consumer-products companies are turning to new technology to overcome the biggest obstacle to learning what shoppers really think: what the shoppers say.| Kara Swisher / AllThingsD: |
Ross Still Not the Boss (Yet): Yahoo CEO Selection Now Likely to Take Longer Than Many Expect — According to multiple sources close to the situation, the selection of a CEO of Yahoo will not be announced today at its annual meeting, as many anticipate. — In fact, sources said …
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| Richard Lawler / Engadget: |
Chrome OS version 20 hits stable release channel, brings Google Drive and Aura UI for Cr-48s along — If you're a Chrome OS user who doesn't live on the bleeding edge, it's finally time to experience the latest version 20, which most notably adds support for its Drive cloud storage.
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| Jamal Abdi / New York Times: |
Why Is Apple Discriminating Against Iranian-Americans? — IMAGINE if your ethnicity determined which products you were able to buy. Or if sales clerks required you to divulge your ancestry before swiping your credit card. — Some of us don't have to imagine.| Rich Karlgaard / Forbes: |
Microsoft's Steve Ballmer Talks About Windows 8, Bill Gates and Steve Jobs — and Why Microsoft's Lost Decade Is A Myth. — On July 9th, I did an onstage interview with Microsoft CEO, Steve Ballmer, at Microsoft's annual Worldwide Partner Conference. The venue was Toronto's Air Canada Centre …
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| Brian X. Chen / Bits: |
Uber to Experiment With Ice Cream on Demand in 7 Cities — Uber, the San Francisco start-up that offers a smartphone app for summoning cars, is expanding its service to ice cream trucks in seven cities for a one-day test on Friday. — Customers will be able to use the Uber app to request …
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Venture Capital Dispatch, digitaltrends.com, Uber Blog, Mashable! and GeekWire. Thanks:@bxchen
| David Ruddock / Android Police: |
The Nexus 7 Has One More Trick Up Its Sleeve: A Magnetic Smart Cover Sensor — You thought you knew everything there was to know about the Nexus 7? Well, you thought wrong. A curious owner of the device started doing what any totally rational person does with a brand-new tablet: expose it to magnetic forces.| Tiernan Ray / Tech Trader Daily: |
HP Q2 PC Share Tumbles; Gartner, IDC Diverge on Apple Results — Gartner this afternoon reported that Q2 PC sales fell 0.1%, year over year, to 87.5 million units, and that Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) maintained the top spot in the world even as its total shipments fell by 12%.
| Alex Williams / TechCrunch: |
Cloudability Raises $8.7 Million From Foundry Group For Service To Track Cloud Spending — Portland-based Cloudability has raised $8.7 million from the Foundry Group in a Series A round for its service that tracks cloud costs and gives better visbility into spending for online services that often go unmonitored.
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VentureBeat, The Next Web, GigaOM, Oregonian, pevc.dowjones.com, peHUB, The Diversity Blog and FullContact
| Cyrus Farivar / Ars Technica: |
SOPA architect now pushing for “IP Attaché” legislation — Ars has previously opposed overly draconian IP laws, such as SOPA. — Ars Technica — Another week, another controversial intellectual property enforcement bill hits Capitol Hill. This time, it's called the IP Attaché Act … | Ryan Kim / GigaOM: |
New York starts turning payphones into free Wi-fi hotspots — Payphones, those relics of the pre-cellphone era, may just get a new lease on life in New York. The city is testing a pilot program in which it installs free Wi-Fi on select payphone kiosks. — The hotspots are initially coming … | Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook Finally Redesigns Events, Adds Calendar and List Views So You Don't Miss Birthdays — Facebook has finally redesigned Events so you don't miss another party, birthday, or cool get-together your friends are going to. Today the site launches the Events Calendar so you can see what coming … | Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Possible Instagram security vulnerability reportedly revealed; update: Instagram says bug fixed, no private data made public — Security researcher Sebastián Guerrero has posted some details on an apparent security vulnerability within Instagram. Guerrero claims to have discovered … | Brad Linder / Liliputing: |
Android 4.1 Jelly Bean ported to the Kindle Fire — The Amazon Kindle Fire ships with a custom version of Android 2.3 Gingerbread designed to run apps and access digital media from Amazon's content store. But users have been hacking the Kindle Fire since the day it was released …
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Gizmodo, Electricpig.co.uk, BGR, CNET, PhoneArena, Pocketnow, Android Phone Fans, Droid Life, Engadget, TechCrunch and The Verge
| Aaron Souppouris / The Verge: |
Dropbox gifts early users free premium subscriptions — Dropbox is thanking its most loyal customers by no longer charging them for their premium subscriptions. It started emailing its “earliest Dropbox users” recently to inform them of the news: … It seems that a small group of early users …
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Softpedia News, Macgasm and Engadget
| Colleen Taylor / TechCrunch: |
Copious Raises $5 Million Series A To Build Out The eBay With A Social Backbone — Copious, a San Francisco startup that makes an online marketplace where people can buy and sell things, has raised $5 million in Series A funding. — The new round was led by Foundation Capital …
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| Élyse Betters / 9to5Mac: |
Parallels Desktop 7 for Mac and Parallels Mobile now support Retina Display [Video] — Parallels announced that its Parallels Desktop 7 for Mac and Parallels Mobile now support Apple's Retina display. — “We are proud to announce that both Parallels Desktop 7 for Mac and Parallels Mobile …
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ReadWriteWeb, CNET, Consumer Tech Blog, TUAW, Lifehacker, SlashGear, The Verge, Ubergizmo and StackSocial
| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
Apple's upgrade page confirms older Macs can't run Mountain Lion — When Apple released the developer build of Mac OS X 10.8, owners of older machines weren't able to run it. Now, it looks like the final version of Mountain Lion will have the same compatibility limits.
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MacNN, AppleInsider, eWeek, Ars Technica, Pocket-lint, Softpedia News, CIO Network and Inquirer
| Stacey Higginbotham / GigaOM: |
Who's afraid of Google fiber? Time Warner for starters. — Apparently, Time Warner Cable and I have something in common — we both want to figure out the details on Google's fiber-to-the-home deployment in Kansas City. Time Warner Cable, one of the ISPs providing broadband access in Kansas City … | Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook Groups Start Showing Exactly Who Saw Each Post — No need to wonder if your family saw that reminder about dinner or if co-workers noticed you uploaded a PowerPoint, as Facebook Groups will soon display a count and a list of names of who saw each post. For example: “Seen by 2″, and when hovered “Josh Constine || Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch: |
With 50,000 Videographers, PopTent Raises $5.5 Million From MK Capital To CrowdSource Ads — High-quality video ads can be expensive to produce, running in the hundreds of thousands, if not millions of dollars, depending on the ad format. But rather than hire a production agency to do their dirty work …
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