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| Kevin Lo / Google Fiber: |
Google Fiber—On the Silicon Prairie, the Silicon Hills, and now the Silicon Slopes — Today the Google Fiber team is in Provo, Utah, where Mayor John Curtis just announced that we intend to make Provo our third Google Fiber City. — Utah is already home to hundreds of tech companies and startups …
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| Cyrus Farivar / Ars Technica: |
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| Wired: |
Google Is Forbidding Users From Selling, Loaning Glass Eyewear — Google is barring anyone deemed worthy of a pair of its $1,500 Google Glass computer eyewear from selling or even loaning out the highly coveted gadget. — The company's terms of service on the limited-edition wearable …
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| Alexis Santos / Engadget: |
Glass Explorer Edition gets unboxed, photographed (video) — We already know what Page and Co. will be packing along with Glass, but now that participants of the Explorer program have begun picking up the spectacles, we're getting a second-hand unboxing experience.
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TechCrunch, Gizmodo Australia, Android Community, SlashGear, Selfscreens, MyTechSkool and PC Pro. Tweets: @scobleizer
| Owen Thomas / ReadWrite: |
Intel Is Buying Mashery To Get Deeper Inside The Data Center — Intel, the chip giant, is buying Mashery, a seven-year-old company in San Francisco that specializes in linking together Web-based software and services, a company spokesperson confirmed to ReadWrite.
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| Karsten Strauss / Forbes: |
Is This The Fastest-Growing Game Company Ever? — ILKKA PAANANEN says the best way to make money in mobile gaming is to stop thinking about making money. Think about fun instead. Fighting a mild case of flu and jet lag from a San Francisco flight back home to Helsinki …
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| Mark Spoonauer / LAPTOP Magazine: |
Toshiba Kirabook Challenges MacBook Air with Retina-Like Display (Video) — The Kirabook isn't just another laptop for Toshiba; it's the first product in a new luxury brand designed to go toe-to-toe with Apple at the high end of the market. Priced at a fairly steep $1,599 …
| Mike Butcher / TechCrunch: |
Sources Say Amazon Acquired Siri-Like Evi App For $26M - Is A Smartphone Coming? — When Siri arrived on the iPhone 4S it seemed like a magic piece of software. The future had arrived. But it wasn't alone. True Knowledge, a British startup with a natural language search engine developed …
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| Brooke Crothers / CNET: |
Windows 8 touch devices to drop to $200, says Intel CEO — Prices of Windows 8 touch devices based on future Intel chips are set to drop like a rock. — Windows 8 touch devices will dive in price, according to Intel executives. — The price of Windows 8 touch devices will sink … | Jay Alabaster / PC World: |
Evernote CEO: We want to build hardware — The CEO of archiving service Evernote said his company will soon release branded hardware with partners, as it moves toward creating its own devices. — “We won't actually do the manufacturing, but we'll do the co-design together,” said Phil Libin …
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| Peter Kafka / AllThingsD: |
Twitter Tries to Make Its Ad Pitch More Googley, With Keyword Targeting — Twitter has already been showing users ads based on what they read. Now it's trying to target them based on what they type. — Twitter is giving advertisers the ability to show users ads based on the content of their tweets … | Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web: |
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft's Xbox team testing smartwatch prototypes with a Surface connector — Microsoft is prototyping its own wrist-worn device. A reliable source familiar with Microsoft's Xbox plans has revealed to The Verge that the company has been developing a wrist-worm device for just over a year.
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| Jessica E. Lessin / Wall Street Journal: |
Expenses Mount for App Launches — Some Games Cost $5 Million to Get off the Ground; ZeptoLab Lines Up Burger King — Mobile-game maker ZeptoLab UK on Thursday will release “Cut the Rope: Time Travel,” its first major title in the popular “Cut the Rope” series since 2011. The launch won't be a quiet one.| Steven Musil / CNET: |
Bitcoin exchange BitFloor halts operations, shuts down — Exchange specializing in the virtual currency announces it's ceasing all trading operations and plans to return funds to its users. — The recent Bitcoin rollercoaster ride has come to an end for one exchange.
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| Harry McCracken / TIME: |
Who's Winning, iOS or Android? All the Numbers, All in One Place — Who's winning the mobile platform wars, Apple's iOS or Google's Android? It's one of the blogosphere's favorite tech topics. Every new nugget of competitive information is fodder for an avalanche of coverage.| Tracy Seipel / San Jose Mercury News: |
Google's airport dreams take off: San Jose private terminal approved — In a move that benefits Google executives and other corporate high-flyers, the City Council on Tuesday night approved an elite corporate jet center at San Jose's airport, without adding an extra curfew provision that had been omitted in the bidding process.
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| Ronald Grover / Reuters: |
Exclusive: Guggenheim advises on Hulu sale, may also bid - sources — (Reuters) - Hulu has hired Guggenheim Partners to advise on a sale of the company, even as the financial services firm is considering making its own bid for the video streaming service, three sources with knowledge of the matter told Reuters.
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| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft rolling out two-factor authentication across its product line — Summary: Microsoft is joining the two-factor authentication ranks, adding support for this security mechanism across its products and services accessible via a Microsoft Account. — There have been hints …
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