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LivingSocial Hacked — More Than 50 Million Customer Names, Emails, Birthdates and Encrypted Passwords Accessed — LivingSocial, the daily deals site owned in part by Amazon, has suffered a massive cyber-attack on its computer systems, which an email — just sent to employees and obtained …
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| John Paczkowski / AllThingsD: |
Android's Leaky Bucket: Loyalty Gives Apple the Edge Over Time — So, Android's seemingly inexorable ascension over the iPhone? Not quite so inexorable anymore. Apple's smartphone continues to gain share over devices running Google's mobile OS in the U.S.; so much so that … | IDC: |
More Smartphones Were Shipped in Q1 2013 Than Feature Phones, An Industry First According to IDC — The worldwide mobile phone market grew 4% year over year in the seasonally slow first quarter of 2013 (1Q13) as smartphones outshipped feature phones for the first time.
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| Curt Woodward / Xconomy: |
Schmidt: Google Glass Critics “Afraid of Change,” Society Will Adapt — Google Glass is just getting into the hands of developers, and you're still many months away from seeing consumers walking around with the voice-activated computer display/camera devices on their faces.| Aaron Pressman / Reuters: |
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| Aaron Souppouris / The Verge: |
Google closes Facebook's loophole, bans non-Play store app updates in Android — After Facebook was found to be updating its Android app without using the Google Play store's update mechanisms, Google has clarified its terms and conditions to ensure no other developers attempt to circumvent its store.| iFixit: |
Samsung Galaxy S4 Teardown — What are we all searching for in life? Happiness? Money? Bobby Fischer? Samsung sets out to answer that question with their newest in the Galaxy S line. What we all need is no more than a life companion. So ditch the real-life social interactions …
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| Dr. Raymond M. Soneira / DisplayMate: |
Galaxy S4 Display Technology Shoot-Out — Samsung Galaxy S III - Samsung Galaxy S4 - Apple iPhone 5 Introduction The Samsung Galaxy S Smartphones are by far the most popular Android Smartphones and are flagship products for Samsung to show off its latest and greatest OLED display technology.
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| Will Connors / Wall Street Journal: |
Samsung Plans ‘Rugged’ Version of Galaxy S 4 Phone — Samsung Electronics Co. is planning to launch a new eight-inch tablet and a new smartphone built to withstand harsh environments this summer, boosting the company's large roster of products with several devices designed to appeal to business and government clients.
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| Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica: |
Google Glass developer digs into its guts, finds 2011's phone chips — Yesterday's smartphones become today's futuristic face accessory. — Google — Earlier this month, Google announced some of the key specs for its Google Glass headset: 16GB of flash memory, a 5MP camera, a …
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| Mike Isaac / AllThingsD: |
Please Welcome Bill Gates, Steve Ballmer, Brad Smith and Sean Parker to the ZuckerPAC — Mr. Zuckerberg isn't the only tech titan scaling Capitol Hill this year — he brought friends. — The Facebook CEO adds a few more impressive names to the roster of his D.C. political advocacy group on Friday …
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| Eric Slivka / MacRumors: |
Apple Backtracks on Planned Changes to VPN On Demand Behavior on iOS Devices — Earlier this month, we reported that Apple had announced upcoming changes to the behavior of VPN On Demand for devices running iOS 6.1 or later. The changes, which were planned to be deployed in a software update later …
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| Shara Tibken / CNET: |
Android notebooks? Yep, Intel says, and they'll only cost $200 — Dadi Perlmutter, Intel's chief product officer, also tells CNET that devices running Intel's mainstream Core line of processors could sell for as low as $399 to $499. — Notebook prices should soon hit $200 … | Liz Gannes / AllThingsD: |
Wavii Shuts Down as It's Officially Acquired by Google — Wavii, which aggregated and summarized news, has been bought by Google. — News of the impending deal and its price ("more than $30 million") had already been widely discussed following Business Insider and TechCrunch reports …
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| Brian Womack / Bloomberg: |
Google Spent $291 Million on Acquisitions First Quarter — Google Inc. (GOOG), owner of the world's most popular search engine, spent $291 million on acquisitions and assets during the first quarter as the company looked to bolster revenue and user growth. — Among the eight deals last quarter …
| Adrianne Jeffries / The Verge: |
After long battle, Uber becomes first taxi app to get approved in New York City — Looks like New York City isn't going to hold a grudge against Uber for attempting to launch its taxi-hailing service without permission last summer. The San Francisco startup just became the first company …
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| Alexander C. Kaufman / FishbowlNY: |
AOL Music Shuttered, Staff Laid Off [Updated] — AOL has shuttered its AOL Music division and laid off its staff, according to pink-slipped employees on Twitter. — Spinner.com, a rock-music news site under the AOL Music banner, announced suddenly on Thursday afternoon that it was shutting down.
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Dutch Suspect Sven Olaf Kamphuis Arrested for Biggest Cyber Attack in Internet History — A suspect, believed to be Dutchman Sven Olaf Kamphuis, has been arrested in Spain in relation to the cyber-attack on Spamhaus, which has been called the biggest in the history of the internet.
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Ars Technica, Krebs on Security, BBC, PC Magazine, CNET, The Verge, Computerworld and SocialTimes
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Tax-Free Web Shopping Nears End — Online shoppers, beware. Freedom from sales taxes is on the way out. Late Thursday afternoon, in a 63-to-30 procedural vote, the Senate cleared the way for passage of a bill to effectively end tax-free shopping online.
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| Steven Millward / Tech in Asia: |
North Korea Sees Huge Growth in 3G Users, Now at 2 Million Subscribers — North Korea's sole 3G mobile telco, KoryoLink, has seen amazing growth in user numbers recently. The NorthKoreaTech blog has spotted that KoryoLink's 3G user-base has doubled in the past 15 months …
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