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Email Company Reportedly Used By Edward Snowden Shuts Down Rather Than Hand Data Over To Feds — When Edward Snowden emailed journalists and activists in July to invite them to a briefing at the Moscow airport during his long stay there, he used the email account “edsnowden@lavabit.com” according to one of the invitees.
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YouTube's Founders Challenge Vine and Instagram with New Video App — After months of teasing, the wait is over: Chad Hurley and Steve Chen, who brought us the video-sharing site YouTube, are taking the wraps off their newest project, a video creation app called MixBit.
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T-Mobile CEO Says More Apple Products Coming — T-Mobile CEO John Legere says that it is the company's message, not the arrival of the iPhone, that is behind a recent surge in new customers. — In an interview after the company's second-quarter earnings announcement … | Marguerite Reardon / CNET: |
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| Marco Arment / Marco.org: |
Shell Company Related To Cowardly Patent Troll, Nathan Myhrvold's Intellectual Ventures, Forced To Settle Frivolous Lawsuit Against One-Man Business After Law Firm Donates Nearly $200,000 Worth Of Defense — This story will circulate a lot today. I'd like to suggest a more informative …
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N.S.A. Said to Search Content of Messages to and From U.S. — WASHINGTON — The National Security Agency is searching the contents of vast amounts of Americans' e-mail and text communications into and out of the country, hunting for people who mention information about foreigners under surveillance, according to intelligence officials.
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With KeyMe, an iPhone Pic Now Means You Can Always Print More House Keys Later — A little bit of prepping in advance could save a lot of headache next time you lock yourself out, lose your keys, or need to let a friend into your place when you're not there.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft unboxes Xbox One, reveals final design and a bundled headset — Microsoft's next Xbox console won't go on sale until November, but that isn't stopping the company from unboxing it a little early. In a new video featuring one of the first Xbox One production units … | Nancy Gohring / CITEworld: |
Acer the latest to turn to Google after poor Windows sales — Acer, the electronics maker that once seemed to be a big Windows 8 booster, is turning its back on Microsoft. — After posting a second quarter loss this week, it said it's going to aggressively work on selling more Chromebooks and Android devices.| Janko Roettgers / GigaOM: |
Rdio launches personalized radio stations to steal listeners away from Pandora — Choice is great - except when you have to choose. Subscription music service Rdio made it a bit easier for its users to just sit back and listen by launching personalized radio stations that deliver a never-ending stream of music Thursday.
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| Kara Bloomgarden-Smoke / The New York Observer: |
Patch Expected to Lay Off 500 Employees Tomorrow — Hard times are hitting Patch, AOL's network of hyperlocal news sites. In an earnings call yesterday, AOL CEO Tim Armstrong said that he expects to shut, sell or find partners for nearly 300 of the 900 sites, Newsday reported this morning.
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Twitter Partners With Datalogix To Track When Tweets Lead To Offline Sales — What's the value of a retweet? Or a follower? Those questions get asked all the time in discussions about social media and advertising. Now Twitter is announcing a partnership with Datalogix …
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Backed With $6M, Max Levchin's Glow App For Tracking Female Fertility Debuts On The App Store — Glow, the fertility tracking iOS app co-founded by Max Levchin, is making its debut in the app store today. The app was first introduced earlier this summer by Levchin to a surprised audience …
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| Zack Whittaker / ZDNet: |
BlackBerry first to secure U.S. DOD device management approval — Summary: The smartphone maker retains its security crown as it becomes the first mobile device management provider to be awarded an “authority to operate” on the U.S. Defense Dept. networks. — Zack Whittaker
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| Horace Dediu / asymco: |
Signs of US Android net user decline — ComScore's latest survey for US smartphone users showed that Android had 52% share of about 142 million users. That amounts to 73.84 million Android devices in use. — ComScore's previous such survey showed that Android had 52.4% of about 141 million users.| John McDermott / AdAge: |
Vevo Developing Apple TV App for 24-7 Music Video Channel — Will Allow It to Sell Video Ads Made Specifically for Televisions — Cord-cutting millennials will soon have a new way to quench their insatiable thirst for '90s nostalgia. Music video website Vevo is developing an app …
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These Silicon Valley Titans Think You Probably Shouldn't Start a Company — From the ninth-floor offices of Asana — the software startup run by Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz — you can see the high rises of downtown San Francisco twinkling in the moonlight, with the Bay Bridge looming beyond.| Emil Protalinski / The Next Web: |
Google Maps for Android and iOS now shows ‘relevant’ ads at the bottom of the screen after you perform a search — Google today introduced what it calls “relevant ads” in the newly updated Google Maps app for Android and iOS. These advertisements now appear at the bottom of the screen after you perform a search.
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