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March 19, 2013, 11:20 PM
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U.S. Probes Microsoft, Partners Over Bribery Claims — Federal regulators are investigating Microsoft Corp.'s relationship with business partners that allegedly bribed foreign government officials in return for software contracts, according to people familiar with the matter.
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Our Commitment to Compliance — Today, the Wall Street Journal reported that the U.S. government is reviewing allegations that Microsoft business partners in three countries may have engaged in illegal activity, and if they did, whether Microsoft played any role in these alleged incidents.
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| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
Adobe CTO Kevin Lynch to leave Adobe for Apple, report to Bob Mansfield — According to a tweet issued by CNBC, Adobe CTO Kevin Lynch will leave the company this week to join Apple. Neither Apple nor Adobe have confirmed the claim. Update: Adobe has confirmed in an SEC filing that Lynch departed the firm.
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| Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: |
ReadWrite Editor-In-Chief Dan Lyons, A.K.A. Fake Steve Jobs, Is Leaving For Hubspot — Dan Lyons, the editor-in-chief at tech blog ReadWrite, is leaving for a position at marketing software company Hubspot. We heard the news from knowledgeable sources, and the part about Lyons' departure …
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| Jungah Lee / Bloomberg: |
Samsung Preparing Wristwatch as It Races Apple for Sales — Samsung Electronics Co. (005930) is developing a wristwatch as Asia's biggest technology company races against Apple Inc. (AAPL) to create a new industry of wearable devices that perform similar tasks as smartphones.
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Yahoo in Talks to Buy Stake in Video Site Dailymotion — Yahoo Inc. is in talks to buy a controlling stake in France Telecom SA's online-video site Dailymotion, according to people familiar with the talks, in what would be Yahoo Chief Executive Marissa Mayer's first major acquisition since taking over the Internet pioneer last year.
| Ethan Smith / Digits: |
End of an Era for eMusic, Subscription Music Pioneer — eMusic, the online music service that pioneered the subscription approach before Spotify was a glimmer in Daniel Ek's eye, quietly merged Monday with an e-book distributor, in an unusual bit of digital-media consolidation.
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Microsoft tempts Windows developers with $100 cash for new apps — Microsoft wants Windows 8 and Windows Phone developers to create apps for its platforms, and it's tempting them by offering up hard cash. In a new US marketing effort, Microsoft is offering developers $100 per app …
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| Russell Holly / Geek.com: |
Google expected to unify chat under the name Babble — Google's quest to continue unifying their products is about to enter its next phase. According to multiple sources, the company's next step includes unifying their messaging platforms into a single service, which is expected to be called Babble.
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| Shara Tibken / CNET: |
Nvidia CEO unveils next two gens of Tegra, dubbed Logan, Parker — Jen-Hsun Huang says the company's mobile chip will show 100-times improvement from the first generation to the fifth. — Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang today talked up the chipmaker's next two generations of mobile chip … | Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
| Eric Schmidt / Times of India: |
Which internet will India choose? — We are living in an unparalleled time for technological progress. In 10 years, it will be almost impossible to describe to any child in India what life was like before the internet. — Only about two billion of the world's seven billion people …
| Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
The 49ers' plan to build the greatest stadium Wi-Fi network of all time — 49ers CTO Kunal Malik (left) and Senior IT director Dan Williams (right) stand in front of Santa Clara Stadium. — When the San Francisco 49ers' new stadium opens for the 2014 NFL season, it is quite likely …
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| Don Reisinger / CNET: |
What 420,000 insecure devices reveal about Web security — Using a simple technique, a researcher creates a benign botnet to survey the breadth of the Internet, and finds a back door flung wide open and beckoning the bad guys. — A researcher used a simple, binary technique to take control …
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| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
Twitter gets a patent on... Twitter — Although Twitter famously has a pending patent on the familiar “pull-to-refresh” gesture, the company may have just acquired something more valuable: a patent on the Twitter messaging service itself. The new patent issued today with Twitter founders Jack Dorsey … | Frank Konkel / Federal Computer Week: |
Sources: Amazon and CIA ink cloud deal — In a move sure to send ripples through the federal IT community, FCW has learned that the CIA has agreed to a cloud computing contract with electronic commerce giant Amazon, worth up to $600 million over 10 years. — Amazon Web Services will help …
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| Will Connors / Digits: |
BlackBerry Co-Founders Bankroll $100 Million Quantum-Science Fund — The two men who started BlackBerry maker Research In Motion Ltd. some 30 years ago are bankrolling a $100 million investment fund targeting commercial applications for advancements in quantum science.| Brian Cairns / Google Developers Blog: |
Build collaborative apps with Google Drive Realtime API — Google Drive lets users create Docs, Sheets, and Slides, collaborate on them in real time, and have their changes saved automatically. With the new Google Drive Realtime API, you can now easily add some of the same real-time collaboration … | Sean Gallagher / Ars Technica: |
Chameleon botnet steals millions from advertisers with fake mouseclicks — Security researchers have discovered a botnet that is stealing millions of dollars per month from advertisers. The botnet does so by simulating click-throughs on display ads hosted on at least 202 websites.
| Mike Lennon / SecurityWeek: |
Google Implements DNSSEC Validation for Public DNS — Google on Tuesday announced that it now fully supports DNSSEC (Domain Name System Security Extensions) validation on its Google Public DNS resolvers. — Previously, the search giant accepted and forwarded DNSSEC-formatted messages but didn't actually perform validation.| Brian Stelter / New York Times: |
ABC Works on an App for Live Streaming Shows to Mobile Devices — THE WALT DISNEY Company, while sorting out the future of the online video Web site Hulu, has an app in the works that may render Hulu passé for some people. — The app will live stream ABC programming to the phones …
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| Donna Tam / CNET: |
At $236, Galaxy S4 costlier to produce than S3, says report — IHS iSuppli's virtual teardown of the lasted Samsung smartphone shows it's 15 percent more expensive for Samsung to produce than last year's model. — The Samsung Galaxy S4's production costs are 15 percent higher …
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IHS, CITEworld, MobileSyrup.com, Bloomberg, Computerworld and ZDNet
| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Bug in EA's Origin game platform allows attackers to hijack player PCs — One scenario for using EA's Origin service as an attack platform to execute malicious code on end-user computers. — ReVuln — More than 40 million people could be affected by a vulnerability researchers uncovered …
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BBC, SlashGear, IGN, Inquirer, The Verge, digitaltrends.com, SiliconANGLE and Joystiq
| Emil Protalinski / The Next Web: |
Facebook announces lookalike audiences, lets advertisers target potential customers similar to current ones — Facebook on Tuesday announced “Lookalike Audiences,” a new feature for advertisers that is rolling out to power editors this week. Contrary to its name, the new targeting tool …
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Facebook Studio, CNET, Inside Facebook, Marketing Pilgrim, Mashable!, AllFacebook and WebProNews
| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft readies next two CRM updates; acquires analytics vendor Netbreeze — Summary: Microsoft has acquired social-monitioring analytics vendor Netbreeze and is readying the next two updates to its Dynamics CRM platform, officials announced at the Convergence conference.| Drew Olanoff / TechCrunch: |
Google+ Introduces New Hangouts App Called Capture, To Snap Pics Of Special Moments As They Happen — Today, Google introduced a new app for one of its most popular products, Hangouts. While Hangouts let you chat with multiple people over video, there are those moments when someone makes a funny face … Sponsor Posts
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