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| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Major security hole allows Apple ID passwords to be reset with only email address, date of birth — Apple yesterday rolled out two-step verification, a security measure that promises to further shield Apple ID and iCloud accounts from being hijacked. Unfortunately, today a new exploit …
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| Jeff Blagdon / The Verge: |
Google's Android unit reportedly building a smartwatch — According to a recent report from The Financial Times, Google might also be getting into the smartwatch game. And unlike Glass, which was developed in the company's experimental X Lab, the watch (not pictured above) …
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Los Angeles Times, SiliconBeat, Computerworld, Examiner, Ars Technica, AppleInsider, iMore, Android Central, Mobile Magazine, iPhone in Canada Blog, Macgasm, PC Magazine, TechCrunch, TechHive, HotHardware.com News, Android and Me, ValueWalk, MacRumors, Gearburn, Geek.com, MobileBurn.com, Neowin, VentureBeat, Forbes, Inquirer, digitaltrends.com, ZDNet, App Advice, Ubergizmo, BGR, MobileSyrup.com, Gizmodo, iPhone Hacks, Pocket-lint, AndroidOS.in, TechRadar.com and Android Beat. Tweets: @ldignan
| Bogdan Petrovan / Android Authority: |
LG joins the fray, making a smartwatch and a Glass-like device — LG is joining the wearable computing race with a smartwatch of its own, and even a device that is similar to Google's Project Glass. — Coincidence or not, we've been hearing a lot of buzz lately about various companies …
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| Edward Wyatt / New York Times: |
F.C.C. Chairman Announces Resignation — Julius Genachowski, the Federal Communications Commission chairman since June 2009, who set out ambitious plans to expand broadband Internet service throughout the country and to free up additional airwaves for sale to mobile phone companies … | New York Times: |
IPhone Contracts With Carriers Under Scrutiny in Europe — European Union regulators are examining the contracts Apple strikes with cellphone carriers that sell its iPhone for possible antitrust violations after several carriers complained that the deals throttled competition.
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Ad-Tech Specialist Marin Software Raises $105M In IPO As Shares Pop 40%, But Now Under $18 — The first ad tech IPO of 2013 hit the NYSE today: Marin Software priced its 7.5 million shares at $14 each, raising $105 million at a valuation of $425 million. Trading under the symbol MRIN … | Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft expected to update its full suite of built-in Windows 8 apps — Summary: Microsoft appears ready to roll out the set of expected updates to its full set of core, Microsoft-developed Windows 8 applications, as rumored earlier this month. — It looks like Microsoft is …
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| Quentin Hardy / New York Times: |
Lockheed Martin Harnesses Quantum Technology — VANCOUVER, British Columbia — Our digital age is all about bits, those precise ones and zeros that are the stuff of modern computer code. — But a powerful new type of computer that is about to be commercially deployed by a major American military contractor …
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| Matt Rosoff / CITEworld: |
Box and Evernote execs: Don't ignore Microsoft's platforms — Evernote CTO Dave Engberg has noticed something funny: Just because a lot of people own a particular type of smartphone, that doesn't mean they actually download apps for it. — Speaking today at Business Insider's IGNITION Mobile conference … | Charles Arthur / Guardian: |
Surprise! Google chairman Eric Schmidt uses.. a BlackBerry — He likes the keyboard - even though Android alternatives are available. Schmidt also spoke on whether Android and ChromeOS will merge: ‘not for a long time’ — Who's the person you'd least expect to discover is a BlackBerry user?
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| Ina Fried / AllThingsD: |
BlackBerry Hoping Long-Awaited U.S. Launch Pays Off — BlackBerry officials say they are pleased with the early response in the two dozen or so countries where the company's all-new phones have launched. — However, the Canadian company's comeback effort will face a key test Friday …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Elop throws an iPhone on Finnish TV, refuses to answer Lumia 928 questions — Nokia CEO Stephen Elop faced some tough questions from a Finnish TV presenter this week, focusing on the upcoming Lumia 928 handset. In a show aired on commercial TV station MTV3 in Finland …
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WMPoweruser, Digits, TechCrunch, Gizmodo, GeekWire, CNET, Wired, 9to5Mac, Inquirer, PhoneArena, Gotta Be Mobile, Windows Phone Central, ValueWalk, Neowin and TodaysiPhone.com
| Robin Wauters / The Next Web: |
“An historic moment”: 888 first online gambling company to win US license — 888, a London, UK-listed operator of online casino, bingo and poker games, today announced that it has gained a license to operate in the United States. — The online gaming giant, which is headquartered … | Mat Smith / Engadget: |
Google applies for another Glass patent, thinks about controlling your garage door and fridge — In case you hadn't noticed, the people over at Mountain View continue to work pretty hard on bringing yet more functionality to its Google Glass. During our patent application trawling this week …
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PC Magazine, Ars Technica, 9.blog, WebProNews and SiliconANGLE
| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
HTC One Landing In U.K., Germany & Taiwan Next Week, Heading To North America, Asia-Pac & Across Europe Before End Of April — HTC's new flagship smartphone, the HTC One, will go on sale in the U.K., Germany and the company's home market of Taiwan next week, HTC has confirmed today.
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Engadget, The Verge, AllThingsD, Inquirer and Neowin
| Jack Clark / The Register: |
Ubuntu tapped by China for national operating system — Canonical to help government add “Chinese specific” features to OS — Ubuntu is going to become the reference architecture for a Linux distribution, backed and developed by the Chinese government. — The news means Ubuntu-stewards Canonical …
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BBC, Canonical, ZDNet, TechCrunch, CNET, ExtremeTech, SiliconANGLE, Geek.com, The Verge, TechEye, OSDir.com, Softpedia News and dailywireless.org
| Jon Russell / The Next Web: |
500 Startups is now using AngelList to raise investment for its latest fund — 500 Startups is a big fan of AngelList, the social network-like platform for young businesses. Back in January, the US incubator and VC adopted AngelList as the sole platform for applications to its Spring 2013 batch …
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| Paul Sawers / The Next Web: |
OpenSignal data suggests T-Mobile is testing LTE on the SGS3 & SGS4 in NYC, Vegas and 6 other US cities — T-Mobile is the last of the four major mobile networks in the USA to flip the switch on high-speed LTE. While we've known for a while it had big plans on this front …
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GigaOM, GeekWire, CNET, TechCrunch, IntoMobile, Electronista and Softpedia News
| Jordan Crook / TechCrunch: |
Andrew ‘weev’ Auernheimer Obtains New Lawyer, Files Appeal — According to his brand new lawyer, Andrew “weev” Auernheimer, otherwise known as the AT&T hacker, will appeal his sentence of 41 months in prison, three years probation, and restitution of $73,000 owed to AT&T. Orin Kerr … | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Decide.com Raises $8M Series C For Its Price Predictions Engine; Will Expand To More Categories, Improve Data Mining & Mobile Apps — Shopping and comparison engine Decide.com, which offers suggestions as to not just what to buy but also when, is announcing today that it has raised $8 million …
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VatorNews, VentureBeat, Xconomy and The Next Web
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Samsung Covets Low-End Of Smartphone Market, Too — Samsung Electronics Co.'s quest for dominance in the cellphone market is expanding beyond its high-profile, high-end devices: It now wants to own the bottom of the market too. — Despite the buzz surrounding its Galaxy smartphones …
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| Emil Protalinski / The Next Web: |
Google alters AdWords rules to charge for phone number clicks, will ban workarounds starting in April — Google has quietly announced a change in its AdWords rules that means businesses can no longer include their phone number in the advertisement's text starting next month.| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Firefox Nightly Now Includes OdinMonkey, Brings JavaScript Closer To Running At Native Speeds — Browsers today are able to execute JavaScript code significantly faster than just a few years ago, but even as our web apps now look more like desktop apps, JavaScript performance is still a far cry …
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