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Google Has Shown Another Living Room Device — Google's home-entertainment experiments extend beyond the gadget the company announced Wednesday, which turns TV sets into an extra screen for watching Web videos and other content. — The Internet giant in January used the Consumer Electronics Show …
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Chromecast vs. AirPlay: how do they compare? — Can Google finally take on one of Apple's best features? — Google's new Chromecast HDMI stick is a lot of things: it's a simple new way to bring internet video to your living room after the company stumbled with Google TV …
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Keeping it simple: Chromecast, Google TV, and the zen of a $35 dongle — Google's latest foray into the living room may actually have a chance — Google's combined Chrome and Android event yesterday should have had a relatively small impact: the Nexus 7 was already widely leaked and Android 4.3 was a very minor update.| Brad Stone / Businessweek: |
Jeff Bezos Doesn't Care What You Think About Amazon's Quarterly Earnings — If you are watching Amazon's quarterly earnings today, probing the numbers for signs of the online giant's continued vigor, feel free. But honestly, Jeff Bezos doesn't care what you think.
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IDC: Apple, Samsung lose smartphone market share as Lenovo and others see greater growth — Apple and Samsung have both reported their financials for Q2 2013 so, as is customary, analyst firms are now putting out their estimates for the quarter. IDC is out of the blocks …
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| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
T-Mobile goes $0 down for all devices, including iPhone 5 for $27/month — As part of its new un-carrier strategy, T-Mobile USA today announced that it will begin a new deal tomorrow: $0 down for all devices. Now, eligible customers can receive a phone with no money down and pay for the device over 24 months.
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Best Buy, Amazon, and Walmart selling the new Nexus 7 four days early — Having already launched its pre-orders ahead of the official Nexus 7 announcement, Best Buy is keeping up the habit of preempting Google by making the new Android slate available early.| Andy / TorrentFreak: |
UK Porn Filter Will Censor Other Content Too, ISPs Reveal — On Monday David Cameron told his citizens that by the end of the year broadband subscribers will be required to go through a compulsory system which will decide what they can and cannot see on the Internet.
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Personalized Financial Planning Service LearnVest Raises $16.5M From Accel, American Express And Others — LearnVest, a personalized financial planning program, has raised $16.5 million in strategic funding from existing investor Accel Partners, and new investors: American Express Ventures …
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Apple is America's computer, tablet, and smartphone brand of the year — It's been years since the company was Apple Computer Inc., but America still loves Apple. — Just not only for its computers anymore. — Apple has been declared America's computer brand of the year … | Aaron Souppouris / The Verge: |
Android 4.3 code reveals granular app controls and 4K support are coming soon — As developers get their hands on the latest version of Google's operating system, Android 4.3, we're discovering some hidden features of the platform that hint at what's to come. Android Police reports on one such gem, “App Ops.”| Richard Lawler / Engadget: |
Sky's Now TV box is a £9.99 Roku clone that streams iPlayer and more — BSkyB started investing in Roku last year and it's leveraged that involvement to develop this new Now TV set-top box. Going on sale today for just £9.99 (including shipping), it brings a rebranded Roku 2 XS … | Salvador Rodriguez / Los Angeles Times: |
Google ends Chromecast-Netflix promotion ‘due to overwhelming demand’ — Citing overwhelming demand, Google on Thursday said it has ended a Netflix promotion tied to its new Chromecast TV dongle. — The promotion gave users, new and existing, three free months of Netflix's video streaming service …
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| Steven Musil / CNET: |
Samsung posts record $8.5B profit as mobile business shrinks — Operating profit jumps 47 percent over a year ago, but profit from the South Korean electronics giant's mobile division declined 3.5 percent from the previous quarter. — Samsung lauded sales of its Galaxy S4 in the second quarter.| Miguel Helft / Fortune: |
Laurene Powell Jobs backs ambitious media site — Ozy Media will create content for the so-called change generation. — FORTUNE — Laurene Powell Jobs, the intensely private widow of Steve Jobs, has teamed up with other Silicon Valley luminaries to back an ambitious new journalism site dubbed Ozy Media.
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SolidFire Raises $31 Million, Says Its SSD is Now Cheaper Than Disk — SolidFire is on, er, fire this month. It had a major customer win with Colt and now it tops the month off announcing that it has raised an additional $31 million in funding. The company also unveiled the SF9010 a huge …
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Agreement Calls for Mobile App Privacy Disclosures But Does It Have Teeth? — Sample screens disclose what is collected and how it is shared (Source: NTIA) — A new voluntary code has been tentatively established to assure greater transparency in the types of information apps collect … | Sean O'Neill / Tnooz: |
Expedia admits that TripAdvisor and Booking.com are hurting it hard — CEO Dara Khosrowshahi was somewhat on the defensive today in answering investor questions on a call for second quarter 2013 for Expedia, the world's largest online travel agency. — The company saw a broad negative impact … | John Cook / GeekWire: |
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3D printing at home could have health risks, says study — While industrial 3D printers often use ventilation shafts and filters to evacuate airborne particles, commercially available printers are often set up in environments with little or no thought about the emissions they might be kicking out.
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Feds tell Web firms to turn over user account passwords — Secret demands mark escalation in Internet surveillance by the federal government through gaining access to user passwords, which are typically stored in encrypted form. — The U.S. government has demanded that major Internet …
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Nielsen: Online display ads grew 26.3% in Q1 2013, but TV ads still dominate — Mad Men TV advertising guru Harry Crane — Good news for advertisers and services that rely on display advertising technology: Display advertising on the web grew by about 26.3 percent for the first quarter of 2013 …
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