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Apple's Boston-Area Team: Working on Speech in Nuance's Backyard — It's been one of the Boston-area tech industry's more intriguing questions for months: Just what is Apple doing here? — Today, we've got an answer. — Apple has assembled a small team of notable names in speech technology …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Ballmer admits Microsoft built too many Surface RTs, disappointed with Windows sales — Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has admitted that the company built too many Surface tablets, and it's not selling as many Windows devices as it wants. During an internal town hall event earlier this week … | Reuters: |
Insight: How Samsung is beating Apple in China — (Reuters) - Apple Chief Executive Tim Cook believes that “over the arc of time” China is a huge opportunity for his pathbreaking company. But time looks to be on the side of rival Samsung Electronics Co Ltd, which has been around far longer … | David Pierce / The Verge: |
Google Nexus 7 review (2013) — Nine months after the iPad mini, Google proves it's been watching — I make a lot of aspirational purchases. I constantly buy books I really ought to read, subscribe to magazines that are so good the one time a year I actually get around to opening them …
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Instagram users complain after being struck by mysterious ‘smoothie hack’ — Instagram users are taking to Twitter tonight to complain that they have been hacked, with photos of smoothies posted to their accounts without permission. Those affected also say that a strange URL has been placed in their Instagram profile bios.
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When ‘Smart Homes’ Get Hacked: I Haunted A Complete Stranger's House Via The Internet — “I can see all of the devices in your home and I think I can control them,” I said to Thomas Hatley, a complete stranger in Oregon who I had rudely awoken with an early phone call on a Thursday morning.| Todd R. Weiss / CITEworld: |
Los Angeles plans to give 640,000 students free iPads — Students in the Los Angeles Unified School District will receive 31,000 free iPads this school year under a new $30 million program launched by the district. The goal is to improve education and get them ready for the workforce … | Ryan Knutson / Digits: |
Samsung Dethrones Apple in Smartphone Profits — Apple has fallen off the profit throne. — Last quarter, Samsung Electronics made more money selling handsets than Apple for the first time, according to a report by Strategy Analytics. — Samsung's operating profit for handsets … | Kim-Mai Cutler / TechCrunch: |
Timehop, The Place To Reminisce Online, Raises $3M Led By Spark Capital — While present-focused social networks like Facebook and Instagram make plenty of room for the narcissists in us, there's not really a dedicated and focused place to reflect on the past.| Kara Swisher / AllThingsD: |
Yahoo Plans Splashy New San Francisco Digs (And Dreams of Neon Billboard's Return) — According to multiple sources close to the situation, Yahoo is close to signing a lease for a splashy new San Francisco outpost to keep up with the fast growth of other Web companies that have opened high-profile offices here.| Josh Ong / The Next Web: |
Spy agencies reportedly have a long-standing ban on Lenovo PCs due to back-door vulnerabilities — Spy agencies in the UK, Australia and the US have internally banned using Lenovo PCs because of remote access vulnerabilities that were discovered during testing, a new report from the Australian Financial Review alleges.| Josh Ong / The Next Web: |
Apple's Developer Center returns after 8-day outage due to security breach — After being down for more than a week due to an embarrassing security breach, Apple has brought its Developer Center back up. — Apple took the site down last Thursday, eventually notifying developers that it was overhauling its systems after an intrusion.
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Chinese firm Huawei controls net filter praised by PM — Huawei has had considerable operations in the UK for almost a decade — The pornography filtering system praised by David Cameron is controlled by the controversial Chinese company Huawei, the BBC has learned.
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Compared: What You Can Watch On Google Chromecast, Apple TV & Roku — Want to stream content from the internet to your TV? There's a new player in town, Google's Chromecast. It's super easy to use and priced to move. What's not to like? If you're happy with just Netflix, you're good.
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