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BT dumps Yahoo! email after hacking claims — BT has dumped Yahoo! as email provider to its six million broadband customers following months of customer complaints over hacking. — Marissa Mayer is battling to restore Yahoo!'s reputation for technological competence| AppleInsider: |
Apple's iPhone sales reportedly up 400% in India thanks to aggressive pricing strategies — The institution of installment payment plans and deep discounts in India has netted Apple up to a fourfold boost in iPhone sales over the past four months, said investment firm Credit Suisse … | Declan McCullagh / CNET: |
Judge orders Google to comply with FBI's secret NSL demands — San Francisco federal judge tells Mountain View company to comply with FBI's warrantless National Security Letter requests for user details, despite ongoing concerns about law's constitutionality.| Xbox Wire: |
The Beauty of Xbox One: A New Approach to Design — “Xbox has always had something to say. It's always been bold with a strong personality,” said Carl Ledbetter, Creative Director, Industrial Design. “Xbox One needs to serve our most loyal gaming fans and deliver unique entertainment experiences …
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| Naomi Tajitsu / Reuters: |
Megaupload founder wins access to evidence seized in raid — (Reuters) - A New Zealand court granted Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom access on Friday to all evidence seized by police in a 2012 raid, bolstering the Internet entrepreneur's fight against extradition to the United States to face online piracy charges.
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| Kyle Wagner / Gizmodo: |
Nokia Lumia 928 Review: Flawed Beauty, Best Camera — The nicest thing you can say about any gadget is that it changed the way you use that type of gear for the better. The 928 did that for me with smartphone cameras. It will for you, too, probably. It's just a shame that the phone … | Marguerite Reardon / CNET: |
Google exec sees Google Fiber as a ‘moneymaker’ — Google Fiber head Milo Medin says the company is not just conducting an expensive research project in Kansas City and other places getting the technology. He expects the gigabit fiber networks to make money.
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DSLreports, 9to5Google, ftthcouncil.org and Business Insider
| Tim Peterson / AdAge: |
Twitter Prepping Ad-Retargeting Exchange to Rival Facebook's — FBX Partners, Brands To Hold Seats On Retargeting Platform — Facebook waited until after its public offering to go after the digital ad dollars tied up in display retargeting with last summer's launch of Facebook Exchange (FBX).
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Business Insider, WebProNews, CNET, VentureBeat, AdExchanger, Marketing Land, Mobile Marketing Watch and Adotas. Tweets: @pkafka
| Cade Metz / Wired: |
Ex-YouTube Man Builds Graphics Card for Entire Internet — At Google, Chris Zacharias spent his “20 percent time” building a new version of YouTube just for places with slow internet connections. It was called Feather, and the basic idea was to build a YouTube page that contained … | Charlie / GreatFire.org: |
Sina testing subtle censorship ahead of Tiananmen anniversary — What happened? — On May 31, 2013 at 7am, we observed that searching for keywords that are normally blocked, for example, "" (June 4th incident), surprisingly returned some results and no censorship notice.
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| Nate Raymond / Reuters: |
Microsoft to settle Vringo lawsuit over search-related patents — (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp(MSFT.O) has agreed to settle a lawsuit accusing it of infringing patents that enable Internet search engines to place advertisements most effectively. — Vringo Inc(VRNG.O), whose …
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| James Niccolai / PC World: |
Computer scientists oppose Oracle's bid to copyright Java APIs — Nearly three dozen computer scientists have signed off on a court brief opposing Oracle's effort to copyright its Java APIs, a move they say would hold back the computer industry and deny affordable technology to end users.
| Andy Greenberg / Forbes: |
Not So Anonymous: Bitcoin Exchange Mt. Gox Tightens Identity Requirement — Since the crypto-currency Bitcoin hit the limelight, many libertarians and privacy advocates have heralded it as anonymous, digital cash. But the world's biggest Bitcoin exchange-and the U.S. regulators breathing down its neck-see things differently.
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| Joshua Green / Businessweek: |
Google's Eric Schmidt Invests in Obama's Big Data Brains — During the 2012 campaign, Barack Obama's reelection team had an underappreciated asset: Google's (GOOG) executive chairman, Eric Schmidt. He helped recruit talent, choose technology, and coach the campaign manager, Jim Messina …
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| Devon Glenn / SocialTimes: |
Wall Street Journal Plans To Launch a Social Network — News Corporation, the parent company of the Wall Street Journal, is poised to launch a new social network. — Described in The Times of London as a “platform for ‘like-minded people’ to meet online and share ideas,” …
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| Clare Jim / Reuters: |
Hon Hai sets up display R&D company in Japan — (Reuters) - Taiwan's Hon Hai Precision Industry Co Ltd, said it set up a research and development company in Japan for displays and touch panels, its latest effort to strengthen its display business. — The world's largest contract electronics manufacturer … | Sayantani Ghosh / Reuters: |
Dell urges shareholders to vote for CEO's offer — (Reuters) - Dell Inc urged shareholders on Friday to vote for the $24.4 billion buyout offer led by founder and Chief Executive Michael Dell at a special meeting on July 18, saying the bid was superior to other strategic options.| Charlie Osborne / ZDNet: |
Global deal to eliminate tech product duty fast approaching — Summary: According to U.S. tech firms, a deal between nations worldwide to eliminate duty on new tech products is on the horizon. — Charlie Osborne — A deal between China, Europe, the U.S. and a dozen other countries …
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| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Fan TV revealed: is this the set-top box we've been waiting for? — Built in secret, Fanhattan is finally showing off its Yves Behar-designed device to the world. — In June 2011, a Silicon Valley startup released a well received iOS app named Fanhattan to serve as a central place for finding streaming video.| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Sony CEO plays down ‘media hub’ and says PlayStation 4 is for gamers — Sony chief executive Kazuo Hirai said today that the PlayStation 4 will differ from Microsoft's Xbox One, which is being pitched as an all-in-one entertainment box in the living room. — “I fundamentally believe …
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AllThingsD, AllThingsD, The Verge, www.idigitaltimes.co.uk, Gearburn, Neowin and CNET
| Caleb Garling / The Technology Chronicles: |
Feds authorize sales of American communication technologies to Iran — Iranians have long demanded more human rights from the country's government. (Image: daniellinphoto/Flickr) — The United States has lifted portions of two-decades-old sanctions against Iran in an effort …
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U.S. Department …, BBC, InfoWorld, Mashable, CNET, National Iranian …, Ars Technica, Guardian and Quartz. Thanks:@calebgarling
| Chris Reidy / The Boston Globe: |
Proposed $80m Nuance deal would extend its reach in voice-recognition products for cars — Nuance Communications Inc., a Burlington technology company known for such voice-recognition software products as Dragon NaturallySpeaking, said Thursday that it has agreed to acquire the Tweddle Connect business …
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| Michael Gorman / Engadget: |
Atheer Labs unveils 3D augmented reality mobile platform and a natural human UI (hands-on) — With the advent of Google Glass and the continued development of platforms like the Epson Moverio and Vuzix Smart Glasses, head-mounted wearables are getting a lot of attention these days.
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AllThingsD, AllThingsD, CNET, GigaOM and VentureBeat
| Leena Rao / TechCrunch: |
SuccessFactors Founder And SAP Exec Lars Dalgaard Joins Andreessen Horowitz As General Partner — Andreessen Horowitz is boosting its investing team today with the addition of SuccessFactors Founder and SAP exec Lars Dalgaard as general partner. — Dalgaard founded human capital management … Sponsor Posts
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