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| Donny Halliwell / Inside BlackBerry: |
New BlackBerry Q5 Announced Today at BlackBerry Live for Select Markets — As the BlackBerry Live keynote news keeps flowing in I'm happy to introduce you to the youthful and fun BlackBerry Q5 smartphone, running BlackBerry 10. With a QWERTY keyboard and a confident design …
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| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
BlackBerry bringing BBM to Android and iOS this summer — BlackBerry has just announced that its hugely popular BBM messaging service is going multi-platform: it will be released for Android and iOS as a free app this summer. BBM will support iOS hardware running iOS 6 and above …
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| Greg Sandoval / The Verge: |
Exclusive: Google readies its Spotify competitor with Universal and Sony now on board — By signing the three largest record labels, it's likely we'll see Google roll out its new subscription music services at I /O — Odds are increasing that Google will give us a peek tomorrow during … | Leena Rao / TechCrunch: |
Square Debuts Its Latest Hardware, Stand, A $299 Card Swiper For iPad Registers — At an event in San Francisco at Blue Bottle Coffee, Square debuted a stand built specifically for the iPad, which turns the device into a card-swiping register. — Hardware has always been a part …
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| Terrence O'Brien / Engadget: |
Microsoft drops the Blue codename, confirms Windows 8.1 will be a free upgrade available ‘later’ this year — One of the worst kept secrets rattling around Microsoft's campus is Windows Blue, the forthcoming update to Windows 8 that addresses users' bugbears about the OS.
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| Brad Stone / Businessweek: |
Larry Page Explains What Happened to His Voice — For the first time in nearly a year, Google (GOOG) Chief Executive Officer Larry Page is publicly addressing a question about his personal health: why he lost his voice and continues to speak more hoarsely than is normal.| Douglas Pearce / The Microsoft Office Blog: |
Outlook.com now lets you chat with Google friends - one more reason to make the switch — The last three months since Outlook.com came out of preview have been filled with releases to help make you more productive and your experience more personal. These were often based on your feedback.
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| Jessica Roy / Betabeat: |
Department of Homeland Security Shuts Down Dwolla Payments to and From Mt. Gox — The Department of Homeland Security appears to have shut down the ability to use Dwolla, a mobile payment service, to withdraw and deposit money into Mt. Gox, a Bitcoin trading platform. A Dwolla representative confirmed the move to Betabeat.| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Tim Cook Coffee Auction Ends with $610,000 Bid — The CharityBuzz auction for coffee with Apple CEO Tim Cook has just ended, with a final bid driving the price up to $610,000. Previously, the auction had stagnated at $605,000, where it remained until 30 minutes before the bidding closed.
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| Moxie Marlinspike: |
A Saudi Arabia Telecom's Surveillance Pitch — Last week I was contacted by an agent of Mobily, one of two telecoms operating in Saudi Arabia, about a surveillance project that they're working on in that country. Having published two reasonably popular MITM tools, it's not uncommon …
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| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
Nvidia Shield gaming handheld priced at $349, pre-orders begin on May 20th (preview) — The biggest surprise at the 2013 Consumer Electronics Show is about to go on sale. The Nvidia Shield, a five-inch portable Android game console that can also stream PC games from a nearby gaming computer …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Nearly 75% Of All Smartphones Sold In Q1 Were Android, With Samsung At 30%; Mobile Sales Overall Nearly Flat: Gartner — Gartner has just released its Q1 figures for mobile handset sales, and the key takeaway is that Android continues to steal the show, led by handset maker Samsung.| Associated Press: |
German court says Google must act if autocomplete makes defamatory suggestions — BERLIN — Google Inc. must respect requests to remove autocomplete entries from its search bar in Germany if they are defamatory, a German court ruled Tuesday. — The Federal Court of Justice upheld a complaint …
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| Peter Kafka / AllThingsD: |
Netflix Still Eats a Third of the Web Every Night; Amazon, HBO and Hulu Trail Behind — For the last three years, Netflix has accounted for a third of the Internet traffic zipping into North American homes every night. — But Web video competitors like Amazon, HBO and Hulu all say they're seeing significant growth.| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
PayPal's Cash For Registers Tries To Outdo Square And Groupon With Its Own Bid To Rule The Register — PayPal today announced Cash for Registers to encourage merchants to switch to PayPal-powered point-of-sale solutions. The program is part of the payment giant's bid to be the kingpin among …
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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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| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft shares details about its next Windows Phone 8 update — Summary: Microsoft is starting to detail features coming in this summer's GDR2 update to the Windows Phone 8 operating system. — Microsoft is starting to open up a bit on what Windows Phone 8 users can expect with the next version … | Sean Ludwig / VentureBeat: |
Database-as-a-service Cloudant nabs $12M from Devonshire, Rackspace, & more — Hot database-as-a-service startup Cloudant has raised $12 million in its second round of funding, the company announced today. — Boston-based Cloudant was initially founded in Cambridge, Mas. in 2008 by three MIT physicists.
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