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| Jordan Crook / TechCrunch: |
Instagram Video Vs. Vine: What's The Difference? — Instagram just launched video functionality. Glorious, 15-second, editable video functionality. Complete with image stabilization. — So what does this mean for Vine? In the end, the competition should give users plenty to be excited about …
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| John Herrman / BuzzFeed: |
Facebook Announces That It's Out Of Ideas — How the internet's most powerful company became a clone mill. — Via: Macey J. Foronda/Buzzfeed — The most important thing to understand about Facebook is that it can't lose. It has, and it will, and sometimes it should. But it can't.| Kevin Systrom / Instagram Blog: |
Introducing Video on Instagram — Over the past two and a half years, Instagram has become a community where you can capture and share the world's moments simply and beautifully. Some moments, however, need more than a static image to come to life. Until now these stories have been missing from Instagram.
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| Christopher Mims / Quartz: |
It's no accident Facebook made Instagram's new videos exactly as long as a television commercial — Facebook is going to get us all watching television ads again. — Instagram, the photo-sharing app that Facebook acquired last year, just added the ability to share videos, as well.| Mathew Ingram / GigaOM: |
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Revealed: the top secret rules that allow NSA to use US data without a warrant — Fisa court submissions show broad scope of procedures governing NSA's surveillance of Americans' communication — • Document one: procedures used by NSA to target non-US persons
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| Nobuhiro Kubo / Reuters: |
Tokyo court says Samsung infringed on Apple “bounce-back” patent — (Reuters) - A Tokyo court ruled on Friday that Samsung Electronics Co Ltd had infringed on rival Apple Inc's patent for a “bounce-back” feature on earlier models of its popular smartphones.
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| John Paczkowski / AllThingsD: |
Here's Apple's Closing Slide Deck in E-Book Case, and the DOJ's, Too — After three weeks of arguments in U.S. District Court in Manhattan, the U.S. Department of Justice's e-books price-fixing case against Apple concluded today with final summations. As part of its presentation …
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| Daniel Eran Dilger / AppleInsider: |
Apple now charting App Store iOS fragmentation just like Google's Android — After first announcing that 93 percent of App Store customers are using the latest iOS 6 at WWDC last week, Apple has added the chart to its public developer site, mirroring Google's reporting of Android users in Google Play.
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| Edward C. Baig / USA Today: |
Best Buy relaunching trade-in offer for ‘free’ iPhone 5 — Best Buy says it had the biggest day ever for its four-year old trade-in program on June 1. That's when the electronics retailer gave customers the opportunity to trade in iPhone 4 and 4S models and get a “free” iPhone 5 in return.
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| Aaron Souppouris / The Verge: |
UK regulator warns Google to delete Street View snooping data or risk criminal action — After re-opening an investigation into Google's Street View privacy violations last year, UK officials have let Google off with a slap on the wrist. The case related to Google accidentally collecting data …
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| Nicholas Vinocur / Reuters: |
France to seek ban on Amazon bundled discounts, free delivery — (Reuters) - France's Socialist government aims to introduce a law preventing online retailer Amazon from offering both discounts and free delivery for books in France, the culture minister said, arguing this amounts to unfair competition.
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How HTC Lost Its Way With Smartphones — TAIPEI—After product fumbles and two years of share price declines, HTC Corp. Chief Executive Peter Chou knows the inevitable question is coming. — “I know you guys want to ask, will I quit,” Mr. Chou says in an interview at the Taiwanese smartphone …
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| Greg Sandoval / The Verge: |
The reason it took so long for HBO to get on Apple TV: cable companies — HBO built the Apple TV app in-house for the first time ever — To some, Apple TV seems like a laggard. — The web TV box that Apple has referred to for years as a “hobby” is only now offering access to shows …
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| Seth Weintraub / 9to5Mac: |
iPhone 5 coming to Virgin Mobile next Friday for $549.99 with unlimited plans starting at $30/month — We've just received word that Virgin Mobile will be carrying the iPhone 5 next week on its Beyond Talk plans with unlimited 3G/4G LTE data and messaging starting at $35/month (with $5 discount for auto-payments).| Wall Street Journal: |
Microsoft Explored Plans to Build Amazon Rival — Microsoft Corp. recently explored rolling out an e-commerce marketplace aimed at taking on heavyweights Amazon.com Inc. and eBay Inc., according to people briefed on the company's plans. — The software giant held discussions with retailers …
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| Chris Kanaracus / Computerworld: |
Oracle's Ellison spills beans on upcoming SAP HANA competitor and Database 12c plans — Database 12c.1 will focus on in-memory computing, according to Ellison — Oracle hasn't even officially released its 12c database yet, but CEO Larry Ellison has already revealed plans for the version that will follow …
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| Stuart Dredge / Guardian: |
Soundwave hopes to shake up music discovery on iPhone and Android — Irish startup's app faces competition from Twitter #Music and others, but has Steve Wozniak and Stephen Fry in its corner — Soundwave is the latest music discovery app to be released for smartphones …
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| Wired: |
Introducing Aaron's Law, a Desperately Needed Reform of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act — The Internet is up for grabs. — Foreign countries want to control it. Military regimes use it to spy, to oppress, and to attack public and private institutions. ‘Big Content’ sought to censor it and dismantle its architecture.
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New MacBook Airs may suffer from Wi-Fi connectivity issues — The 2013 MacBook Air seems to have trouble playing well with others. — Jacqui Cheng — The latest MacBook Airs may be having some issues with their Wi-Fi connections, per Gizmodo's reading of the Apple discussion forums.
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| Andy Pasztor / Wall Street Journal: |
FAA to Relax Rules for Gadgets in Flight — Airline passengers irritated at having to turn off their devices could soon see some reprieve, with regulators set to allow wider use of gadgets in flight. — The Federal Aviation Administration is expected to relax the ban on using some types …
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| Rolfe Winkler / Digits: |
WhatsApp Surpasses 250 Million Active Users — WhatsApp tells The Wall Street Journal it has more than 250 million monthly active users, the first time it has revealed the scope of its popular smartphone messaging app. — The figure is impressive for a company that launched its app …
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| Ashlee Vance / Businessweek: |
GitHub Got Silly Rich. Next Step: ‘Make More Awesome’ — Four years into its journey as a company, GitHub remained something of an independent. The startup, which helps companies and developers build software, rebuffed the repeated advances of venture capitalists.
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| Charlie Osborne / ZDNet: |
Intel joins Samsung, Qualcomm in Alliance for Wireless Power — Summary: Intel is now part of the Alliance for Wireless Power (A4WP) Board of Directors, joining firms including Qualcomm, Samsung and Broadcom. — Charlie Osborne — The Alliance for Wireless Power (A4WP) has added Intel to its portfolio of members.
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| Victoria Ho / TechCrunch: |
Tencent, Naspers JV Ibibo Buys Redbus To Grow Its Online Travel Empire In India — China's internet giant Tencent and South Africa's media powerhouse Naspers are doubling down on tech in India. TechCrunch has just found out that Ibibo, their domestic joint venture, has acquired redBus.in … Sponsor Posts
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