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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Nokia's aluminum Lumia 925 is the best Windows Phone yet, but that's not enough (hands-on) — Nokia just unveiled its Lumia 925 at an event in London, and I've managed to take an early look at the handset ahead of its release in June. Nokia has swapped out a unibody polycarbonate look and feel for metal.
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| Mat Smith / Engadget: |
Nokia announces the Lumia 925: a thinner, lighter aluminum body coming June for 469 euros — Nokia's second announcement for May is arguably a more notable progression from the Lumia 920 than the US-only Lumia 928. This is the Lumia 925. It's another flagship, but this one's setting its sights on the rest of the world.
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| Joseph Volpe / Engadget: |
Nokia Lumia 928 for Verizon hands-on — The Lumia 928 isn't the first of Nokia's Windows Phone 8 handsets to hit Verizon — that distinction goes to the 822 — but for all intents and purposes, it's the first true flagship Lumia to bear Big Red's branding. From the jump, you'll note …
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| Ina Fried / AllThingsD: |
Nokia's Latest, the Aluminum-Clad Lumia 925, Heads for T-Mobile USA and Vodafone — At a press event in London on Tuesday, Nokia is showing off the Lumia 925, a new variant of its flagship Windows Phone. — The aluminum-clad phone is similar to the Lumia 920 that has been sold for months … | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
With Oggl From Hipstamatic, Vyclone And More, Nokia Focuses Camera Features (But Still No Instagram In Sight) — Nokia is going big on the camera features in its new 925 and 928 Lumia devices, continuing on in its PureView legacy first introduced back when it was still making Symbian devices.
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| Mike Isaac / AllThingsD: |
No Nexus Q News at Google's I/O This Year — Nearly one year ago, at its I/O developer conference, Google unveiled its Android-powered Nexus Q media player product to much fanfare. Little more than a month after the big reveal, Google suspended the launch of the Q indefinitely.| DealBook: |
Hedge Fund Manager Loeb Targets Sony for a Breakup — Updated — An American hedge fund billionaire known for starting big fights has called for a breakup of the entertainment and electronic colossus Sony, according to people briefed on the matter, possibly setting off a battle …
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| Nate Hoffelder / The Digital Reader: |
Confirmed: Amazon Bought Liquavista - Color Kindle to Follow? — For the past four months I have been saying that Amazon was in the market to buy Samsung's screen tech company Liquavista, and today I do believe the rumors have come true. — New filings from the Netherlands Chamber … | Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook Kills Social Roulette, The App With A 1/6 Chance Of Deleting Your Facebook Account — If you want a digital detox, you're going to have to pull the trigger yourself. Social Roulette is an app that would delete one in six users' Facebook account data, but its founder confirms it's …
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| Shaunacy Ferro / Popular Science: |
How Facebook Used Science To Design More Emotional Emoticons — With the help of a psychology professor and a Pixar illustrator, Facebook is trying to make our messages a little more emotional. — Surprise Matt Jones / Facebook — In 1872, Charles Darwin published The Expression …
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| Casey Johnston / Ars Technica: |
Facebook Home flagship phone, HTC First, may be discontinued — Facebook's HTC First, the smartphone herald of Facebook Home, will be discontinued by carrier partner AT&T, according a report from BGR Monday. The phones, released just over a month ago, will be returned as unsold inventory to HTC …
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| Assaf Gilad / Ynetnews: |
Facebook, Waze at odds over liquidation — Social network giant insists on relocating some of Israeli navigation company's employees to its San Francisco headquarters, while Waze executives are adamant about leaving development center in Israel — The chasm between Facebook and Waze … | Wall Street Journal: |
ESPN, Twitter Expand Collaboration — ESPN and Twitter Inc. are announcing a major expansion of their collaboration to post sports-related videos on the short-messaging service, part of a growing wave of tie-ups as TV networks and Twitter hunt for new advertising revenue.
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Twitter Acquires Big Data Visualization Startup Lucky Sort, Service To Shutter In Months Ahead — Lucky Sort, a Portland, Oregon-based startup behind a visualization and navigation engine called TopicWatch that helped to discover patterns in live data streams, has been acquired by Twitter.| Adrianne Jeffries / The Verge: |
Cyber caper: behind the scenes of the $45 million global ATM heist — Hackers coordinated with cells on the ground to carry out a precise, sophisticated attack — Defendants Elvis Rafael Rodriguez and Emir Yasser Yeje posing with approximately $40,000 with cash. Source: US Attorney, Eastern District of New York
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| Sinead Carew / Reuters: |
Verizon Wireless to pay parents surprise $7 billion dividend — (Reuters) - Verizon Wireless, the biggest U.S. mobile service provider, said on Monday it would pay its parents Verizon Communications and Vodafone Group Plc a dividend of $7 billion in June, surprising some analysts who had not expected a big payout.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Routing Around Apple's Restrictions, AppCertain & Others Bring Enterprise-Level Control To Consumers In The Interest Of Child Safety — In the interest of protecting children, a new iOS application called AppCertain has debuted a monitoring application aimed at parents.| Lauren Indvik / Mashable: |
Amazon Cloud Player Launches PC App — As part of its mission to bring its music service “everywhere,” Amazon announced the release of a dedicated Cloud Player app for desktop PCs Monday. The release comes less than a week after Amazon announced iOS compatibility with Ford Sync-enabled vehicles.
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| Matthew Dalton / Wall Street Journal: |
EU Closer to China Telecom Probe — BRUSSELS—The European Union's trade chief will ask for backing this week from senior members of the bloc's executive arm to start investigations into alleged unfair trade practices by Chinese network-equipment suppliers Huawei Technologies Co. and ZTE Corp. …
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| Reiji Murai / Reuters: |
Sharp to seek Samsung edge for survival as Apple sales lose steam — (Reuters) - Japanese display maker Sharp Corp, a supplier to Apple Inc, will aim to boost sales to the iPhone maker's chief rival Samsung Electronics Co under a three-year rehabilitation roadmap to secure its survival.
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| Drew Olanoff / TechCrunch: |
Google Unifies Its Free And Paid Storage Options, Gives You 15GB To Share Between Drive, Gmail And Google+ Photos — Until now, you've had to track your free storage on Google products separately. It was just another thing that Google hadn't brought together to make it easier on users.| Pete Norman / Sky News: |
Twitter Boss Quits UK Role Post TweetDeck — Twitter CEO Dick Costolo has resigned as director of its UK arm — The American boss of Twitter has resigned as director of its UK arm, two days after the business regulator struck off its other British firm for failure to file accounts.
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| Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch: |
RelayRides Acquires Wheelz To Boost Inventory And Improve Hardware For Its Peer-To-Peer Car Rentals — There's consolidation afoot in the peer-to-peer car rental space. San Francisco-based RelayRides, which launched about five years ago and is now available nationwide, has gobbled up fledgling competitor Wheelz.Sponsor Posts
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