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One Microsoft: Company realigns to enable innovation at greater speed, efficiency — Text of an internal email from Microsoft chief executive officer Steve Ballmer to employees regarding changes in the senior leadership team at the company. — Today, we are announcing a far-reaching realignment …
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The Rise of Julie Larson-Green, the Heir Apparent at Microsoft — It remains to be seen whether the Microsoft reorganization announced by CEO Steve Ballmer this morning can rejuvenate the once-mighty software company. But one thing is crystal clear: The reshuffling marks another huge win …
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Transforming Our Company — As the times change, so must our company. — In the 37 years that Microsoft has been helping to improve people's lives by helping them to realize their own potential with technology, we have seen exactly the kind of transformation we had hoped for when we set …
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| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft 3.0: A meaner, leaner devices and services machine? — Summary: Microsoft officials announced its latest expected cross-company reorg designed to better deliver on its new devices and services charter. Here's who ended up where. — On July 11, Microsoft officials announced details …
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| Guardian: |
Revealed: how Microsoft handed the NSA access to encrypted messages — • Secret files show scale of Silicon Valley co-operation on Prism — • Outlook.com encryption unlocked even before official launch — • Skype worked to enable Prism collection of video calls
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Nokia Lumia 1020: a 41-megapixel Windows Phone available on July 26th for $299.99 at AT&T — After weeks of leaks, Nokia is making its Lumia 1020 handset official on Thursday. The Finnish smartphone maker has just unveiled its latest flagship Windows Phone on stage at an event in New York.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft is cutting the price of its Surface RT tablets, base model to cost $349 — Microsoft is planning to cut the price of its Surface RT tablets. Sources familiar with Microsoft's Surface plans have revealed to The Verge that the price cut could occur as early as next week, with each model being cut by $150.
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| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
For first time ever, feds asked to sit out Defcon hacker conference — Since its founding in 1992, Defcon has been a venue where anarchists, geeks, and employees of three-letter federal agencies became unlikely comrades under a live-and-let-live credo that placed the love of computer tinkering above almost everything else.
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| Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web: |
IFTTT comes to iPhone with a crisp app featuring native Photos, Reminders and Contacts channels — The digital glue service IFTTT is finally launching an iPhone app and it brings with it a set of new channels specific to Apple's platform and a lovely mobile platform for both building and using its automated actions.
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| Paul Sawers / The Next Web: |
Any.DO enters the smart calendar app market, launching Cal out of private beta — A little over a month after Any.DO debuted Cal, a new smart iOS calendar and first in a suite of standalone apps, the Israeli startup has removed the private beta tags and launched it to the public.| Erica Ogg / GigaOM: |
UpTo social networking app morphs into a modern calendar with a social twist — The default mobile calendar may seem like one of the most mundane apps on your phone, but there are dozens of startups aiming to help people better manage their work meetings, personal appointments and social calendars.
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| Josh Ong / The Next Web: |
Pebble passes 275,000 pre-orders and 1M app downloads, says Gmail and IMAP support coming — Smartwatch maker Pebble has announced passing 275,000 device preorders and 1 million app downloads and is making a renewed commitment to its development platform, promising to help third-party …
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| David Kravets / Wired: |
RIAA Wants Infamous File-Sharer to Campaign Against Piracy — Did you hear the one about the world's most infamous music file-sharer being asked to publicly extol the virtues of the Recording Industry Association of America's anti-piracy platform? — The RIAA is suggesting Jammie Thomas-Rasset do just that.
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| Ben Woods / The Next Web: |
Meet Lumi, the no-effort content discovery engine from the founders of Last.fm — What do you do when you've built a product up from nothing to the point of being acquired for hundreds of millions of dollars by a massive American corporation? You take some time off.
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| Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune: |
Apple's quarter of lowered expectations: Fiscal Q3 2013 — Wall Street is looking for Apple to report zero revenue growth. — FORTUNE — On April 24, the day after Apple (AAPL) reported its earnings for fiscal Q2, Cowan and Company's Matthew Hoffman published a revised forecast for the following quarter.
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| Amir Efrati / Wall Street Journal: |
Google to Spend Up to $500 Million Marketing ‘Moto X’ Phone — All Four Major US Wireless Carriers Expected to Sell Device This Fall — As Motorola Mobility prepares to unveil its first flagship smartphone since being acquired by Google Inc. last year, new details are emerging …
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