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Introducing IE11: The Best Way to Experience the Web on Modern Touch Devices — As part of today's Windows 8.1 Preview, Internet Explorer 11 (IE11) Preview is now also available. Fast, fluid and perfect for touch, IE11 continues our vision of providing the best Web experience across … | Dana Wollman / Engadget: |
Windows 8.1 in-depth hands-on: features, apps, impressions and screenshots — The last time we wrote about Windows 8.1, we had lots to talk about, but very little to share in the way of hands-on impressions. You see, though Microsoft unveiled loads of new features, apps and UI tweaks …
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What does Windows 8.1 offer to desktop die-hards? — Many parts of the Windows 8 user interface have been given some love in Windows 8.1. Some of these changes focus on the Metro side of the fence. But that doesn't mean that Microsoft forgot about desktop users—Windows 8.1 includes …
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Apple Spells Out iTunes Radio Terms for Record Labels — Ahead of its launch of an online radio service, Apple circulated terms to independent record labels last week, many of them more generous to the music companies than what rival Pandora Media currently pays.
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iOS 7 includes the ability to control your iPhone or iPad using head movements [video] — Discovered by an anonymous tipster, iOS 7′s “Accessibility” section now includes a feature that allows you to control your iPhone or iPad with left or right head movements.
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| Tim Westergren / Pandora Blog: |
Pandora and Royalties — (Warning: This is long, but I'd really like to fully articulate Pandora's perspective on royalties, which is simply impossible to do in just a few sentences.) — Over 13 years ago when I started this company, we set out with a singular mission …
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Apple Can't Add Galaxy S4 to Samsung Patent Lawsuit — Apple Inc. (AAPL) lost its bid in a lawsuit to add Samsung Electronics (005930) Co.'s Galaxy S4 smartphone to a list of products it alleges to infringe its patents. — The decision yesterday by U.S. Magistrate Judge Paul S. Grewal …
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Digg Reader Now Available On Digg's iOS App — Digg Reader, Digg's alternative for the RSS aggregation addicts who will be bereft when Google Reader finally shuts down on July 1, is now available on the Digg iOS app. An Android app is expected to make its debut in the next three to four weeks.| Kyle Orland / Ars Technica: |
Microsoft: Kinect for Xbox One will not work on PCs — This Kinect is designed to only work on an Xbox One. You'll need a different one to plug in to your PC. — When Microsoft announced a special next-generation Kinect for Windows pre-release developer program earlier today …
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Sony Sacrificed the PlayStation 4 Camera to Beat Microsoft on Price — How the camera was cut last minute and left with an uncertain future. — When Sony announced that PlayStation 4 would be priced at $399 to an uproar of applause from the audience at its E3 press conference, it secured a critical edge over the Xbox One.
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Aiming At Small Business And Headed By Ex-Yahoo Head, NumberFour De-Cloaks In Berlin With A $38M Series A, Europe's Biggest In Two Years — NumberFour, founded in 2009 by former senior Yahoo executive Marco Boerries in Berlin to re-engineer small business processes, has secured an enormous $38 million … | Haris Ramic / Google LatLong: |
Google Earth 7.1 for Android and iOS, now with Street View — Whether you're on foot looking for the best sushi place in a new neighborhood or you'd like to do some virtual archaeology around Pompeii, we're all explorers of the world around us in our own way.
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
LinkedIn Gets A Little More Watchful, Now Tells You Who's Viewed Your Updates, And Where You've Been Looking — LinkedIn, the social network used by people for job hunting and making other business connections, is adding two more enhancements to its homepage that highlight one of its creepier …
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SSL: Intercepted today, decrypted tomorrow — Millions of websites and billions of people rely on SSL to protect the transmission of sensitive information such as passwords, credit card details, and personal information with the expectation that encryption guarantees privacy.
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Cisco teases Insieme launch but instead announces a new switch and fabric — Cisco on Wednesday put executives from its spin out Insieme onstage and billed it as a launch for the secretive engineering effort, but instead of providing hard details on that effort, they delivered … | Mike Williams / GamesIndustry International: |
PS4 and Xbox One high volumes no problem for AMD — AMD's Saeid Moshkelani on his company's next-gen “clean sweep” and high-end PCs driving innovation — AMD owns the next-generation of consoles. In the past, game consoles were more custom and piecemeal: a little IBM here, some AMD there, a tiny bit of Nvidia.
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Recon Jet is Google Glass for athletes and professionals, now available for preorder at $499 — Google Glass is for walking around and getting directions to a cafe with perfect espresso. Recon Jet is for kicking your performance into the ultimate high gear and — yes — even saving lives.
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EU to Cut Mobile Phone Roaming Charges by Up to 36% Next Week — The European Union will cut the price mobile carriers such as Vodafone Group Plc (VOD) and France Telecom SA (FTE) can charge customers for checking e-mail and watching videos while traveling by 36 percent next week.
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Nokia JobLens: Experience augmented reality job hunting on your Lumia — Summary: Nokia just released a new Windows Phone application that uses their LiveSight augmented reality technology to help you find the perfect job. Salary data, neighborhood info, contact relations, and more are used to help your job search.
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windowsphone.com, Engadget, Softpedia News, MobileSyrup.com, Neowin, The Next Web and BetaNews
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Developers Can Skip Process Of Registering Apps With Facebook When Creating Mobile App Install Ads — Facebook's advertising-simplification process is running at full throttle, as the social network followed up its announcement earlier Wednesday of updates to reports from its Ads Manager …
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Amazon AutoRip arrives in the UK, offers free MP3 versions for over 350,000 CDs — American Amazon shoppers have been offered free MP3 versions of their back catalog of music purchases since January and now Brits are getting the same deal, with vinyl tracks thrown in for good measure.| Julie Bort / Business Insider: |
Marc Andreessen, Richard Stallman, And Aaron Swartz Were Just Inducted Into The Internet Hall Of Fame — It's hard to imagine life without the Internet. But it didn't spring into existence on its own. A whole lot of people made it happen. — The Internet Society just released its list …
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This is Motorola Mobility's new logo — Motorola Mobility is making changes to its well-known brand this week, switching to a new, all-lower-case typeface that's both thinner and softer than the classic bold and italic “MOTOROLA” that has been used for decades.
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