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July 12, 2012, 2:20 PM
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| Dave Kennedy / TrustedSec: |
Yahoo! Voices 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.
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Yahoo Confirms, Apologizes For The Email Hack, Says Still Fixing. Plus, Check If You Were Impacted (Non-Yahoo Accounts Apply) — There are still a lot of questions about this alleged Yahoo Voices data breach — including whether there was a reason behind the breach in the first place … | 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 …
| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
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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.| Phone Arena: |
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.| Paul Sawers / The Next Web: |
IMDb announces 40m app downloads, as it introduces check-ins and new discovery features — The Internet Movie Database (IMDb) feels like it has been around since the dawn of the Web. And you may be surprised to learn that it has in fact been around since the advent of the modern Internet era …
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| 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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| 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.| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Square Issues Cease And Desist On Mobile Payment Competitor mPowa: Hands Off Our Hands Picture — They say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, but Square is definitely feeling insulted right now. The well-funded and popular mobile-payments startup has issued a cease and desist letter … | Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Nexus 7 arrives: here's where you can buy it right now — With little in the way of fanfare, Google has made good on its mid-July availability estimate for the Nexus 7: the Asus-manufactured tablet is now on sale at a variety of retailers. Ebuyer was the first to officially launch …
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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.| 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 … | Matt Brian / The Next Web: |
Moving beyond Angry Birds, Rovio launches Amazing Alex for iOS and Android — Rovio has proved there is life beyond Angry Birds by today launching its new puzzle-based games series Amazing Alex on iOS and Android devices, challenging gamers to complete 100 levels using 35 fully interactive objects.
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| Jenna Wortham / Bits: |
Brewster, a Mobile App, Wants to Transform Your Address Book — On average, how many contacts do you have in your phone? How about on Facebook? On Twitter? — Steve Greenwood, an entrepreneur in New York, is willing to bet that the average person is juggling at least a thousand contacts and could use a little help.
| 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.
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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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| Erin Bury / BetaKit: |
Twitpic Founder Launches Helpmint to Simplify Customer Service — This week Twitpic founder Noah Everett launched his new startup, Charleston, SC-based Helpmint, to create simple conversation streams out of all a company's email, SMS and Twitter support requests.
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| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
Google shows developers how to make iOS app links open in Chrome — There's plenty of demand for Chrome on iOS, but most third-party apps still only let users directly open a link in Safari. Now, Google hopes to change this by laying out exactly how to add Chrome support to an app in iOS.
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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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Ars Technica, Venture Capital Dispatch, Mashable!, Uber Blog, Fast Company, Laughing Squid, Pulse2 Technology … and digitaltrends.com. Thanks:@bxchen
| Christina Chaey / Fast Company: |
LevelUp Will End Your Business' Credit Card Processing Fees. Really. — Merchants shell out $50 billion a year to the companies that process your credit card payments. One company, LevelUp, is dropping its fees altogether. Here's how they're getting away with it.| Colleen Taylor / TechCrunch: |
Hashable, The App That Aimed To Replace Business Cards, To Shut Down On July 25 — Seems it's not time to throw out those business cards just yet. — Hashable, the startup that launched back in fall 2010 with the aim of replacing business cards with mobile and web apps that helped people meet …
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Betabeat, Business Insider, Hack Education and Mashable!
| Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web: |
Twitter launches app for Nokia Series 40 feature phones in continuing effort to target developing markets — Twitter has today announced that people using Nokia's Series 40 ‘feature phones’ will now have their very own Twitter app. — The app is available today and allows you to sign up for Twitter …
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Engadget, Twitter Blog, Nokiapoweruser, Nokia Conversations and GigaOM
| Rip Empson / TechCrunch: |
Now Powering Music Intelligence For Spotify, VEVO & More, Echo Nest Nabs $17M To Go Big Abroad — There's a good chance that you've never heard of The Echo Nest. As a self-professed music intelligence company, Echo Nest is at its best when running quietly behind the scenes, methodically mining … | Eric Slivka / MacRumors: |
Chinese Vendors Already Taking Orders for ‘iPhone 5’ as New Physical Mockup Photos Surface — Reuters reports on the growing number of Chinese vendors that have already begun taking orders for the “iPhone 5”, despite the fact that Apple has made no announcement about the next-generation iPhone's specs or availability.| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Another Windows Phone Director joins Amazon ahead of rumored smartphone debut — Robert Williams, Microsoft's former Senior Director of Windows Phone business development, has joined Amazon this month. Williams' lists his new role as Amazon's App Store director in his LinkedIn profile and a tweet … | 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 …
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Xconomy, Help Net Security, Softpedia News, The Register, ZDNet, msnbc.com and ESET ThreatBlog. Tweets: @0xroot
| Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: |
Greystripe Founders Michael Chang And Andy Choi Join Digitization Company YesVideo, Invest $5M — Michael Chang and Andy Choi, the founders of mobile ad network Greystripe, are taking the reins at a new company. However, it's not the hot new startup you might be expecting.
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