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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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| 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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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 … | Peter Bright / Ars Technica: |
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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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| Scott Buscemi / 9to5Mac: |
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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CNN, The Register, BestTechie, iDownloadBlog.com, Digital Trends, Gizmodo, www.idigitaltimes.co.uk, CNET, AppleTell, PhoneArena, iPhone Hacks, MacRumors, Macgasm, I4U News and Pocket-lint. Thanks:@nsdeltoro
| Greg Sandoval / The Verge: |
Air attack: Aereo CEO talks up his tech, prepares Chicago launch — Armed with his DVRs and tiny antennas, Aereo says the shift in TV has begun — Chet Kanojia, Aereo's founder and CEO, strolls past the rows and rows of DVRs, TV antennas, and transcoders, and smiles when he recalls …
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| Billy Gallagher / TechCrunch: |
Clinkle Raises Celebrity-Filled $25M Round As It Gears Up To Eliminate The Physical Wallet — Clinkle, a mobile payments startup that aims to put your entire wallet on your phone, has raised a $25 million round from over 18 investors. — The company, which has been in stealth mode since …
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| Catherine Shu / TechCrunch: |
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.| 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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NSA collected Americans' email records in bulk for two years under Obama — • Secret program launched by Bush continued ‘until 2011’ — • Fisa court renewed collection order every 90 days — • Current NSA programs still mine US internet metadata| 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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| Ken Yeung / The Next Web: |
Mark Suster's GRP Partners goes big: Announces new $200M fund and rebrands as Upfront Ventures — Venture capitalists GRP Partners announced today that it has closed its fifth fund, bringing in $200 million to help early stage startups grow. With news of the fund the Los Angeles-based firm …
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| Ryan Whitwam / Geek.com: |
Cloudsweeper tells you how much your Gmail is worth to a hacker — The value of your data is the driving force behind much of the malware and malicious behavior on the internet. If an attacker can gain access to a store of information, it can be sold off piece by piece until the evildoer …
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| Scott Lowe / IGN: |
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.| Kevin Fitchard / GigaOM: |
Verizon wraps up LTE rollout; plans all-VoIP phone launch for late 2014 — Verizon Wireless's LTE juggernaut has hit its 500th market, leading the carrier to declare on Thursday its rollout is “substantially complete.” Verizon's 4G network now covers 298 million people and covers 95 percent of the U.S. population.
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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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| Rebecca Jeschke / Electronic Frontier Foundation: |
EFF Sues FBI For Access to Facial-Recognition Records — Lawsuit Seeks Transparency Before Implementation of a ‘Bigger, Faster and Better’ Biometrics System — San Francisco - As the FBI is rushing to build a “bigger, faster and better” biometrics database, it's also dragging its feet …
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| 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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| Grant Gross / Network World: |
FTC commissioner calls for way to ‘reclaim your name’ — Consumers should be able to retake control of data collected by websites and data brokers, Brill says — IDG News Service - U.S. consumers should be able to reclaim control of their personal data from data brokers, websites and other companies … | Stacey Higginbotham / GigaOM: |
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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| Matthew Miller / ZDNet: |
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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| Mike Butcher / TechCrunch: |
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 … | Adrianne Jeffries / The Verge: |
Drug Enforcement Agency seizes 11 Bitcoins from alleged Silk Road dealer — The Drug Enforcement Agency has seized 11.02 Bitcoins worth $814.22 from an accused drug dealer in South Carolina, according to a government press release spotted by Bitcoin bloggers.
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| Peter Kafka / AllThingsD: |
TouchCast Wants You to Watch Web Video With Your Fingers — The problem with most Web video startups is that you've seen them before. Another compilation of cheap clips posing as the next big cable channel. Another solution for nonexistent “discovery” problems. Another “Instagram for video” that won't be.
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TechCrunch and Adweek
| John Koetsier / VentureBeat: |
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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| Amy Thomson / Bloomberg: |
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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| 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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