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RIAA Hits 25 Million Google Takedowns, Web Blocking Making Things Worse — Back in May the RIAA reached a historic milestone in its quest to remove copyright-infringing links from the Internet. — The music industry group asked Google to remove the 20 millionth URL from its indexes …
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Venezuela and Nicaragua offer asylum to Edward Snowden — President Maduro offers to protect NSA whistleblower ‘from persecution by the empire’ and rejects US extradition request — Bolivia, Venezuela and Nicaragua have offered asylum to Edward Snowden, the US whistleblower who is believed …
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Alleged ‘budget’ iPhone revealed in photos and video by company selling Android knock-offs — Photos and video of what's purported to be the new low-cost iPhone popped up online overnight, possibly giving us the closest look yet at Apple's newest device. The images even look identical …
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| Christopher Mims / Quartz: |
Almost every major consumer electronics manufacturer is now working on a smart watch — Something about the ailing PC industry, competition among makers of smartphones and the endless quest for the next big thing has nearly every major consumer electronics manufacturer working on a smart watch or at least contemplating it.
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| Kashmir Hill / Forbes: |
How To Opt Out Of AT&T's Plan To Sell Everything It Knows About You And Your Smartphone Use — Your smartphone knows a lot about you. It's with you all the time. It knows which apps you use. It knows which websites you visit. And it knows your gender, your age, and even how fit you are.
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| Laura Hazard Owen / GigaOM: |
Amazon and Barnes & Noble slash prices on tablets in Europe — Consumers in Europe are getting better deals on tablets this week, as both Amazon and Barnes & Noble dropped prices on their devices. — Barnes & Noble, which sells Nook products only in the U.K. and not the rest of Europe … | Andrew Leonard / Salon: |
AdBlock Plus lets some advertisers pay to play — The hugely popular browser extension charges a fee from big advertisers such as Google to let some ads go through — If you use AdBlock Plus to keep your Web browsing experiencing free of annoying clutter, this is the kind of tweet that might grab your attention:| John Koetsier / VentureBeat: |
‘Restore The 4th’ galvanizes over 100 nation-wide protests against NSA, PRISM, and government spying — “Stop the surveillance! Restore the fourth amendment!” — It's the largest online protest since SOPA. And perhaps an even larger offline protest, as protestors galvanized by the Restore …
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Japan's DoCoMo holds out to iPhone mania, but at what cost? — NTT DoCoMo Inc, Japan's largest mobile provider and a pioneer of the mobile Internet, is one of just a few holdouts among the world's big mobile carriers not offering Apple's iPhone to its 60 million customers.
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| Jeff John Roberts / GigaOM: |
Who will get Hulu? No clear answer at close of latest bidding — The Hulu rumor mill churns on. Friday marked the deadline for would-be buyers to submit bids for the over-the-top TV service but, even with the reported departure of one big contender, it's hard to say who will close the sale — or if a sale will occur at all.| Eric Mack / CNET: |
Moto X not on agenda for upcoming Google event, says source — A popular podcaster claims to have received a personal invite to an exclusive event from Motorola's Guy Kawasaki. — See any hidden messages here? — Despite speculation that Google could be planning to reveal the Moto X …
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techshout.com, Forbes, IntoMobile, 9to5Google and Droid Life
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| Lance Whitney / CNET: |
IT spending to rise just 2 percent this year, says Gartner — The new forecast is down from the prior projection of 4.1 percent, due largely to changes in U.S. dollar exchange rates. — Global IT spend will likely hit $3.7 trillion this year, inching up just 2 percent from 2012's $3.6 trillion, research firm Gartner said today.
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eWeek, TechSpot, The Register, Gartner and TechCrunch
| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
FCC officially approves Softbank buyout of Sprint and Sprint buyout of ClearWire — As previously rumored, the FCC has officially approved Softbank's purchase of Sprint and, furthermore, Sprint's purchase of the rest of ClearWire. Acting FCC Chairwoman Mignon Clyburn and commissioner Ajit Pai …
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