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Exclusive: Cisco cuts ties to China's ZTE after Iran probe — (Reuters) - Cisco Systems Inc. has ended a longstanding sales partnership with ZTE Corp after an internal investigation into allegations that the Chinese telecommunications equipment maker sold Cisco networking gear to Iran.
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Statement regarding HPSCI's report — The United States is a country ruled by law, where all charges and allegations should be based on solid evidence and facts. The report conducted by the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (the Committee), which took 11 months to complete …
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Lawmakers seek to block China's Huawei, ZTE inroads in U.S. — (Reuters) - U.S. telecommunications operators should not do business with China's top telecom gear makers because potential Chinese state influence on the companies poses a security threat, the U.S. House of Representatives Intelligence Committee said in a report on Monday.
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U.S. Lawmakers Say Huawei Poses Security Threat — Congressional Probe Says Huawei Poses National-Security Threat to the U.S. — WASHINGTON—A Chinese telecommunications giant that has been attempting to expand in the U.S. poses a national-security threat and may have violated U.S. laws, according to a congressional investigation.| John Paczkowski / AllThingsD: |
iPad Mini Design “Could Outshine the New iPad” — More grist for the rumor mill ahead of the so-called iPad mini's expected debut later this month. — Chatter from Apple's overseas supply chain indicates that the company has not been cutting corners in its efforts to keep … | Steven Musil / CNET: |
| Eric Slivka / MacRumors: |
Apple's Lightning to 30-Pin Adapter Begins Shipping — Apple has just begun notifying the first wave of customers who ordered the company's new Lightning to 30-pin Adapter that their orders are now shipping. MacRumors has received word from several readers located in Australia that their orders … | Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft Points phased out in favor of cash in Windows 8 — Is this the end of Microsoft's controversial virtual currency? — Microsoft has started to remove its Points payments system as the default way to pay for music downloads and movie rentals or purchases in Windows 8.
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In Technology Wars, Using the Patent as a Sword — When Apple announced last year that all iPhones would come with a voice-activated assistant named Siri, capable of answering spoken questions, Michael Phillips's heart sank. — For three decades, Mr. Phillips had focused on writing software …
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| Matt Brian / The Next Web: |
Apple, Facebook, Google, Microsoft and others join forces to launch new Web standards resource — In an attempt to create the “definitive resource” for all open Web technologies, Apple, Adobe, Facebook, Google, HP, Microsoft, Mozilla, Nokia, and Opera have joined the W3C to launch a new website called ‘Web Platform’| Romain Dillet / TechCrunch: |
Sprint Voice & Data Down In Minnesota, Washington, Oregon. Alaska Airlines Flights Delayed. — The telecom company Sprint is currently experiencing issues with its network. We first heard reports of the outage on Twitter but a recording message from Sprint's support line confirmed the issue.| Lisa Miller / New York Magazine: |
Can Marissa Mayer Really Have It All? — There comes a moment in every very ambitious person's life when she sees with perfect clarity that the path before her is blocked. For Marissa Mayer, Google employee No. 20 and Silicon Valley's reigning “geek queen,” this moment occurred last year …
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Microsoft DMCA Notice ‘Mistakenly’ Targets BBC, Techcrunch, Wikipedia and U.S. Govt — In recent months the number of DMCA takedown requests sent out by copyright holders has increased dramatically, and it's starting to turn the Internet into a big mess. — One of the problems …
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook Collections Lets Retailers Augment Posts With “Want/Collect” Buttons That Save Products To Pinteresque Profile Sections — Facebook has just begun testing “Collections” — a new feature it says is “unrelated” to Pinterest but could be a competitor.
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Sprint Customers Can Get Their Own Vanity Number — If They Want to Pony Up $3 a Month — Sprint will be the first carrier to offer customers the option to get their own StarStar Me vanity number. — For $3 a month, Sprint customers can pick a combination of numbers to spell out their name … | Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
Google TV starts adding movie, music, and TV purchases from Google Play — Google TV owners rejoice: a new update means you'll be able to buy and rent movies, music and TV shows from Google Play and watch them on your Google TV device. Yes, it's a little hard to believe that Google TV … | Ina Fried / AllThingsD: |
T-Mobile to Get Its Hands on Nokia's Windows Phone 8-based Lumia 810 — T-Mobile said on Monday that it will have exclusive dibs on the Lumia 810, a new midrange Windows Phone 8 smartphone. — Nokia last month announced two other Windows Phone 8 devices, the Lumia 920 and Lumia 820.| Matt McGee / Search Engine Land: |
Twitter's New SEO Play: A Profile Directory Of All User Accounts — Twitter has quietly launched a user profile directory that it hopes will bring it more search engine traffic. — It's Twitter's second SEO play in recent weeks, coming on the heels of a change in its robots.txt file.
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| Chris Matyszczyk / CNET: |
So it looks like Samsung might not have tried to copy the iPhone — Previously redacted documents presented in the Apple-Samsung case seem not to offer actual evidence that Samsung told its designers to copy the iPhone. — You remember the recent court case in which a vast amount of money was awarded to Apple?
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Yahoo's Mayer Urged to Repurchase Stock With Alibaba Gain — Yahoo! Inc. (YHOO) investors put off by a stock price that has barely budged this year are urging Chief Executive Officer Marissa Mayer to buy back shares rather than pay a dividend with the $3 billion raised from selling a stake in Alibaba Group Holding Ltd.
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For Better or Worse, Emirates Passengers Can Now Yammer on Their Cellphones in Flight — Dubai-based Emirates said Monday that it will start letting passengers on its A380 aircraft talk using their cellphones while in flight. — The service works with standard phones in conjunction with OnAir … | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Secondhand Clothing Marketplace Twice Is Putting Up $1M To Acquire YC, TechStars Or 500 Startups-Backed Companies — Twice, a secondhand clothing marketplace with $4 million in funding, has come up with a creative way to hire new talent. The company is now putting up $1 million to acquire any Y Combinator …
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HTC sees $2.397 billion revenue and 79% profit drop in Q3, only just meeting forecasts — Taiwanese mobile phone maker HTC this morning released (PDF) its final results for the third quarter of this year, reporting revenue of $2.397 billion (NT$70.2 billion) for the three month period.
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| Edgar Alvarez / Engadget: |
Purported Nexus 7 with 32GB of storage gets accidentally delivered in Japan — Back when Google ecstatically unveiled its 7-inch Nexus tablet a few months ago, the company decided to keep things simple by only introducing 8GB and 16GB models — much to the dismay of folks who prefer a device with a bit more storage space.
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