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Douglas C. Engelbart, Inventor of the Computer Mouse, Dies at 88 — Douglas C. Engelbart, a visionary scientist whose singular epiphany in 1950 about technology's potential to expand human intelligence led to a host of inventions — among them the computer mouse — that became the basis … | GigaOM: |
Doug Engelbart, American inventor and computing legend, passes away. — Douglas “Doug” Engelbart, a legendary American inventor and computing science icon passed away last night, according to family sources. The news of his passing was shared on Professor David Farber's email list.
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| Larry Press / CIS471: |
Doug Engelbart passes away — If you use a mouse, hyperlinks, video conferencing, WYSIWYG word processor, multi-window user interface, shared documents, shared database, documents with images & text, keyword search, instant messaging, synchronous collaboration, asynchronous collaboration — thank Doug Engelbart.
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Moto X Details Revealed: Colors, Wallpapers, Engravings Will Be Customizable at U.S. Factory — Motorola's upcoming phone called the Moto X will allow users to fully customize the look of the device with different colors and an engraving, sources have told ABC News.| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
Tim Cook heralds sweeping iPhone sales push to Apple retail leadership — Apple CEO Tim Cook and his leadership team are moving to implement sweeping changes to the way iPhones are sold and marketed in order to deflect competition from smartphones running Google's Android operating system.
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| Kara Swisher / AllThingsD: |
Yahoo Acquires Xobni for Upward of $30 Million (Like ATD Said, Part 2) — Yahoo said it has bought Xobni, as AllThingsD had previously reported it was planning to do. — According to numerous sources close to the company, Yahoo paid $30 million to $40 million for the maker of address book apps and plugins.
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| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
Streaming Entertainment Startup Boxee Acquired By Samsung For Around $30M — Israeli and NYC-based streaming media and entertainment startup Boxee has been acquired by South Korean electronics giant Samsung, we've been told by reliable sources. The Tel Aviv-based startup launched …
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Twitter Shows The Way Forward With Do Not Track — Twitter today announced a new way of targeting advertisements for its users, including a partnership with three online tracking firms: media6degrees (m6d), Chango, and Adara. This new system will display ads based on your behavior and reading habits …
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| Ernesto / TorrentFreak: |
Mastercard and Visa Start Banning VPN Providers — Payment providers are increasingly taking action against sites and services that are linked to copyright infringement. — There's an unwritten rule that Mastercard and Visa don't accept file-hosting sites that have an affiliate program …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Steven Sinofsky agrees to Microsoft non-compete through 2013, pockets $14 million in shares — Former Microsoft executive Steven Sinofsky has finalized his leaving agreement with the software giant this week. In an SEC filing published on Wednesday, Microsoft notes that the ex Windows chief …
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| Terrence O'Brien / Engadget: |
Samsung to build five new R&D centers in Korea for $4.5 billion — You gotta spend money to make money. Samsung knows that, which is why the Korean powerhouse will be spending about 5 trillion won (roughly $4.5 billion) to build five new R&D centers over the next three years.
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| Peter Kinnaird: |
Algorithmic Privacy versus Personal Privacy — Fifty two percent of Americans believe that US Government officials should not be able to monitor “emails and other online activities” to prevent future terrorist activities, according to a Washington Post poll conducted on June 10 in response to Snowden's leaks.| Jeff John Roberts / GigaOM: |
Boston University sues Apple over 1997 patent, asks for ban on iPhone sales — How do college students feel about this one? The powers that be at Boston University want a federal court to ban the sale of a wide range of Apple products — including the iPhone 5, the iPad and the MacBook Air … | Avishay Bassa / GeekTime: |
Exclusive: Viber testing new business model, hijacking your cellular calls — Last month, Viber announced reaching 200 million users of their service. The company's current growth is particularly impressive, with data showing half a million new users joining the service every day.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
WordPress.org, Reddit, Mozilla & Others Will Participate In Anti-NSA Web Protests On July 4th — A number of high-profile websites will be taking part in an online protest tomorrow against the National Security Agency (NSA)'s surveillance of online activity and phone calls.| Zack Whittaker / ZDNet: |
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| Carl Franzen / The Verge: |
Twitter bans auto-following and bulk following in new developer updates — Twitter just announced a series of updates to its guidelines for third-party developers, and some of the changes should noticeably impact ordinary users. Twitter is now barring third-party apps from forcing users …
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| Eliza Kern / GigaOM: |
Twitter enables translation on tweets from high-profile users amid Egyptian turmoil — Twitter has enabled an automatic translation feature that allows English-speaking users to read the tweets of high-profile Egyptian Twitter users during the country's high-profile time of political unrest, the company told us.
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| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Rampant Apache website attack hits visitors with highly malicious software — Darkleech is back. Or maybe it never left. Either way, it's a growing problem. — Enlarge — Eset — A campaign that forces sites running the Apache Web server to install highly malicious software …
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