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Google Will Pay $22.5 Million to Settle FTC Charges it Misrepresented Privacy Assurances to Users of Apple's Safari Internet Browser — Privacy Settlement is the Largest FTC Penalty Ever for Violation of a Commission Order — Google Inc. has agreed to pay a record $22.5 million civil penalty …
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Apple Retail Stores Begin Price Matching iPhone Discounts from Carriers and Major Retailers — With a number of retailers and carriers beginning to drop prices on the iPhone as the introduction of Apple's next-generation hardware approaches, Apple has officially continued to maintain standard … | Kim Zetter / Wired: |
Flame and Stuxnet Cousin Targets Lebanese Bank Customers, Carries Mysterious Payload — A newly uncovered espionage tool, apparently designed by the same people behind the state-sponsored Flame malware that infiltrated machines in Iran, has been found infecting systems in other countries in the Middle East, according to researchers.
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| Cyrus Farivar / Ars Technica: |
Burner wants to help you temporarily obfuscate your phone number — “Burning” a communication device has been a mainstay of those interested in privacy, from the IMF (you know, from Mission: Impossible), the corner boys on The Wire, and everyone in between.| Ernesto / TorrentFreak: |
New Data Exposes BitTorrent Throttling ISPs — Hundreds of ISPs all over the world limit and restrict BitTorrent traffic on their networks. Unfortunately, most companies are not very open about their network management solutions. — Thanks to data collected by Measurement Lab (M-Lab) …
Tweets: @piecritic and @mylespeterson
| Joe Pollicino / Engadget: |
OUYA's Kickstarter funding is complete: over $8.59 million raised, starts shipping in March — It's a wrap! Suffice it to say, it's a been a relatively short, yet astoundingly fruitful — and initially record-breaking — funding run for OUYA, the hackable, Android-based gaming console.| Amir Efrati / Wall Street Journal: |
Borrowing from Google, Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer Begins Makeover — Yahoo Inc.'s rookie chief executive Marissa Mayer has made one thing clear to employees at the outset of her bid to revive the Internet company: Product comes first. — Since taking over Yahoo three weeks ago … | Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Pulse Comes To The Web (With A Little Help From Microsoft) — Pulse, the popular news reading app for iOS and Android, is finally available on the web. The service, which launched two years ago and now has over 15 million users, only focused on mobile platforms until now.
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| Kasper Jade / AppleInsider: |
Apple suppliers see best July on record as they prepare for ‘largest launch in history’ — A basket of Apple suppliers responsible for delivering parts for the iPhone maker's future products witnessed their best monthly sales jump last month, a trend financial experts are attributing to the ramp …
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Amazon Confirms Cloud Player, Its Would-Be iTunes Killer, Now Works On Sonos, More Devices Coming Later This Year — At the end of July, Amazon updated its Cloud Player to be in fighting form as an iTunes killer, with a load of new audio features like Scan and Match technology and licensing deals with a number of labels.
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Google Translate app gets weighty update, will translate signs through your smartphone camera — Google's multi-lingual translation app decided that (online) words were not enough. Beyond digital text, a new update to Translate will let Google's bots translate what you're looking at … | Robin Wauters / The Next Web: |
A win for RIM: Mformation patent ruling overturned, BlackBerry maker doesn't have to pay $147.5m after all — Remember when BlackBerry maker Research In Motion (RIM) was ordered to cough up $147.2 million after a company called Mformation succesfully won a patent lawsuit against the smartphone and tablet maker in a U.S. court?| Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web: |
The long-delayed TextMate 2 text editor has been open-sourced under GPL 3 — The long-delayed TextMate 2 text editor has been open-sourced under the GPL 3 license, says its creator Allan Odgaard. The editor, after being announced years ago, was released as an alpha in December of last year.| BBC: |
Anonymous vows Demonoid revenge — The US suggested Demonoid used to be one of the 300 most visited websites in the States — Members of the Anonymous hacktivist community have attacked websites belonging to the Ukrainian authorities after Demonoid was forced offline.
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| Cade Metz / Wired: |
If Xerox PARC Invented the PC, Google Invented the Internet — The truth about Jeff Dean appeared on April Fool's Day 2007. — Somewhere inside Google, a private website served up a list of facts about Dean, one of Google's earliest employees and one of the main reasons the web giant handles … | Robin Wauters / The Next Web: |
Mobile tech firm Vringo to sell $31.2m worth of stock to buy over 500 Nokia patents for (at least) $22m — Vringo, a publicly-listed mobile technology company that's really mostly about ‘protecting’ the intellectual property its owns in that space, this morning announced that it will raise $31.2 million …
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| Sharif Sakr / Engadget: |
Galaxy Tab 2 7.0 Student Edition expected at Best Buy: $249 with bundled keyboard and USB adapter — If you're looking for something — anything — to lessen the burden of summertime studies, then a trip to Best Buy may soon be in order. We've just heard from a helpful tipster … | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Competition Weighs On T-Mobile USA: Q2 Sales Down To $4.9B, Customer Figures ‘Continue To Present Challenge’ — With parent company Deutsche Telekom posting its quarterly earnings today, T-Mobile USA has reported its Q2 operating results. Despite moves it is making to ramp up its network …
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Apple's ‘Wi-Fi Plus Cellular’ option in iOS 6 to keep apps syncing when WiFi networks choke — If you've ever jumped onto a WiFi hotspot from your iPhone to grab a faster connection only to see it bog down and grind to a halt moments later, Apple feels your pain.
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Inside Mobile Apps, GigaOM, The Verge, Gizmodo and Gotta Be Mobile
| Jon Fingas / Engadget: |
Akamai: peak internet speeds jumped 25 percent year-to-year in Q1, Germany tops the mobile world — If you thought world internet access speeds were facing a large-scale slowdown, you can stop fretting for now. Data from Akamai suggests that average speeds were just 2.6Mbps …
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DSLreports, TechSpot, PC World, Akamai and TechCrunch
| Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch: |
Zachary Bogue And Matt Ocko Launch Data Collective, An Early Stage Fund For Big Data Startups — Founders Den co-founder and angel investor Zachary Bogue has joined forces with seasoned big data VC Matt Ocko, Metamarkets founder Michael Driscoll and Prismatic CEO Bradford Cross to launch Data Collective … | Paul Sawers / The Next Web: |
Foursquare fans rejoice: ‘Nearby Friends’ is back on iOS and BlackBerry, Android to follow — There was a minor omission from Foursquare's recent redesign, with Crowley & Co. opting to erase the popular ‘Nearby Friends’ view. — But fret not, the location-based social network has reintroduced …
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Betabeat, Foursquare Blog and VentureBeat
| Joanna Stern / ABCNEWS: |
ThinkPad Celebrates 20 Years, Announces Windows 8 ThinkPad Tablet 2 — 1992 was a big year. Bill Clinton was elected president. Price Charles and Diana separated. And the first ThinkPad laptop was released by IBM. — Twenty years have passed now and a lot has changed.| Nathan Ingraham / The Verge: |
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