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| Vlad Savov / The Verge: |
BlackBerry PlayBook will not be upgraded to BlackBerry 10 — Reneging on a promise it made back in January, BlackBerry has just announced that it will not, in fact, be upgrading its BlackBerry PlayBook tablet to its latest mobile OS, BlackBerry 10. CEO Thorsten Heins revealed the sour news …
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| Sharif Sakr / Engadget: |
BlackBerry ships 6.8 million smartphones but loses $84 million in Q1 2014 — Every quarter is pivotal for BlackBerry right now, but the one covered by today's earnings report (Q1 2014, in fiscal terms) is especially important. It's the first full period of Z10 availability and also the first quarter …
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| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
BlackBerry Shipped Just 2.7M BB10 Handsets In Q1 2014 — BlackBerry didn't break out its individual BB10 device sales in its quarterly earnings report released earlier this morning, but during its conference call to discuss its performance CEO Thorsten Heins revealed that it shipped 2.7 …
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| Amir Efrati / Wall Street Journal: |
Google Is Developing Android Game Console — Google Inc. is developing a videogame console and digital wrist watch powered by its Android operating system, according to people familiar with the matter, as the Internet company seeks to spread the software's domination beyond smartphones …
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| Xbox Wire: |
Xbox Announces Landmark Deal with Time Warner Cable to Bring More Live TV to Xbox 360 — In a landmark deal announcement for Xbox 360 and Time Warner Cable customers, we're excited to share a new partnership that will deliver up to 300 of the most popular live TV channels to Xbox 360 for Xbox Live Gold members.| Eric Johnson / AllThingsD: |
BlueStacks Announces Second Android Gaming Console, Free Forever (With a Software Subscription) — Its first Android gaming console is still only available for preorders, but BlueStacks said today that it's planning to roll out a second device, the hardware component of which will be permanently free.
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| Phillip Molnar / Monterey County Herald: |
Restricted web access to The Guardian is Armywide, officials say — The Army admitted Thursday to not only restricting access to The Guardian news website at the Presidio of Monterey, as reported in Thursday's Herald, but Armywide. — Presidio employees said the site had been blocked since …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Skype built into final Windows 8.1 version, Microsoft drops existing Messaging app — Microsoft is making use of its Skype acquisition for Windows 8.1, opting to bundle it into a final version of the OS. Existing preview versions of Windows 8.1 do not include the traditional built-in Messaging app.
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| Matt McGee / Marketing Land: |
A Week After Instagram's Video Launch, Vine Sharing Tanks On Twitter — It's now been a full week since Instagram added video recording to its popular camera app, and it's already had a dramatic impact on its main competitor: — Vine sharing on Twitter has tanked.| Michael Isikoff / NBC News Investigations: |
Ex-Pentagon general target of leak investigation, sources say — Retired Marine Gen. James “Hoss” Cartwright was the second-highest ranking member of the U.S. military, and a key Obama adviser who served as the vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Legal sources tell NBC News Cartwright … | Joshua Kopstein / The Verge: |
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| Michael J. Miller / PC Magazine: |
Microsoft Pushes Cloud Service at Build — Today's keynote at Microsoft's Build conference focused on cloud services, with lots of enhancements to the company's Azure Web services. I was impressed not only by how much Microsoft is trying to compete with Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud Platform …
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| Amy Chozick / New York Times: |
Jimmy Wales Is Not an Internet Billionaire — According to Wikipedia, the Tampa International Airport is a public airport six miles west of downtown Tampa, in Hillsborough County, Florida. It's also where Jimmy Wales flies in and out of a couple times a month, in coach … | Andy / TorrentFreak: |
UK Government Announces New Intellectual Property Crime Unit — Earlier this month it became evident that UK police were becoming more involved in the music and movie industries' fight against unauthorized online sharing. — The National Fraud Intelligence Bureau (NFIB) …
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Inside Government, Betabeat, The Next Web, VentureBeat, Inquirer and Music Week
| Shara Tibken / CNET: |
T-Mobile forks over $308M for U.S. Cellular spectrum — The deal will boost the carrier's 4G LTE footprint in areas such as St. Louis, New Orleans, and Nashville, Tenn. — T-Mobile's flagship store in midtown Manhattan. — T-Mobile customers in places like St. Louis and New Orleans are about to get a boost in coverage.
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| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Facebook announces Beta Program for its main Android app, ironically uses Google Groups — In a meeting with journalists today, Facebook announced it's offering a Beta Program for its app on Android, allowing users to test upcoming versions. The first beta will be available today.| Brian Proffitt / ReadWrite: |
Oracle And Salesforce Bury The Hatchet—Surprisingly, Not In The Others' Back — What caused the kumbaya? Oracle's fear of NoSQL and other new but increasingly popular database-related technologies. Say this for Larry Ellison. He can sometimes shoot off his mouth and piss people off …
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| Want China Times: |
Hon Hai reveals iPhone-compatible smartwatch — Taiwan's Hon Hai Precision Industry — the main manufacturer of Apple's iPhones and iPads, better known by its trading name Foxconn — showcased a smartwatch on Wednesday that can be connected wirelessly to an iPhone, which the company hopes …
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Examiner, CNET, MacRumors, AppleInsider, Softpedia News, The Next Web, Kindle Review, iLounge, TechnoBuffalo and iPhone Hacks
| Brittany Hillen / SlashGear: |
Intel CTO Justin Rattner resigning with temporary leave, will return “at a later date” — Intel has announced that its Chief Technology Officer, Justin Rattner, will be resigning from his role as the company's CTO. His stepping down is to meet a corporate bylaw in Intel which states … | Aaron Souppouris / The Verge: |
British Airways launching wireless luggage tag with e-paper display — British Airways will introduce reusable luggage tags with Kindle-like e-paper displays next year. After checking in online, passengers will be able to use the BA app to create a luggage tag for their journey.| Grant Gross / PC World: |
FCC moves to auction spectrum in 1900MHz band — The Federal Communications Commission has voted to open up 10 megahertz of spectrum in the 1900MHz band for commercial mobile services. — Thursday's vote would allow an auction of the 1915-1920MHz and 1995-2000MHz spectrum, called the H block, as soon as early 2014.
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Engadget, ZDNet, FierceWireless, Gizmodo, Electronista, Seeking Alpha and Wireless Week
| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
Android 4.3 Available To Test For Adventurous Galaxy S4 Owners — Google's worst-kept secret is the upcoming Android 4.3 update for devices powered by its mobile OS (though a lot more secrets have come to light recently), and we're starting to see that update make its way to the handsets of owners who aren't afraid to experiment.| Jon Russell / The Next Web: |
Uber brings its private car service to Taipei, Taiwan, its second new launch in Asia this week — Uber's foray into Asia continues after the US-headquartered private car hire firm launched in ‘stealth mode’ in Taipei, Taiwan. The rollout is its second new launch in Asia this week …
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Uber Blog, TechCrunch, Web 2.0 Asia Blog and Tech in Asia
| Dina Bass / Bloomberg: |
Microsoft Seeks End to Dinosaur-Era Software Upgrade Cycle: Tech — Microsoft Corp (MSFT)., which for decades has refreshed its popular Office corporate software just once about every three years, says it will soon switch to weekly updates. — It's a radical shift as Microsoft overhauls …
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| Carl Franzen / The Verge: |
US Defense Department developing secure 4G network and updating rules for cyberwarfare — The US military is in the process of building its own secure 4G wireless network and is also updating its rules of engagement — the guidelines that combat personnel are required to follow when deciding …
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Gotta Be Mobile, American Forces Press Service, Engadget and Softpedia News. Tweets: @brookingsfp
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