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Circle Sept. 10 on Your Calendar for Apple's Big iPhone Event — Apple is expected to unveil its next iPhone at a special event on Sept. 10, sources told AllThingsD. — D: All Things Digital — The launch comes at an important time for Apple, which continues to make a lot of money …
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| Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine: |
NSA by the numbers — Fear not, says the NSA, we “touch” only 1.6% of daily internet traffic. If, as they say, the net carries 1,826 petabytes of information per day, then the NSA “touches” about 29 petabytes a day. They don't say what “touch” means. Ingest? Store? Analyze?| Mike Masnick / Techdirt: |
NSA Tries To Justify Its Surveillance Programs With Ridiculous Assertions — As President Obama was laying out his “plan” in response to the public's concerns over NSA spying, both the DOJ and the NSA released some documents defending the various programs. I would imagine it will surprise none …
| Peter Wallsten / Washington Post: |
Lawmakers say obstacles limited oversight of NSA's telephone surveillance program — The Obama administration points to checks and balances from Congress as a key rationale for supporting bulk collection of Americans' telephone communications data, but several lawmakers responsible for overseeing …
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| Parmy Olson / Forbes: |
E-mail's Big Privacy Problem: Q&A With Silent Circle Co-Founder Phil Zimmermann — Customers of Silent Circle's encrypted mail service got an unfortunate surprise on Friday: all their messages had been deleted. — The management of Silent Circle, an encryption firm that specializes …
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| Ernesto / TorrentFreak: |
Pirate Bay Releases ‘Pirate Browser’ to Thwart Censorship — The Pirate Bay is arguably the most censored website on the Internet. — Courts in the UK, the Netherlands, Italy and elsewhere have ordered Internet providers to block subscriber access to the torrent site, and more are expected to follow.| Siraj Datoo / Quartz: |
This recycling bin is following you — Recycling bins in the City of London are monitoring the phones of passers-by, so advertisers can target messages at people whom the bins recognize. — Renew, the startup behind the scheme, installed 100 recycling bins with digital screens around London before the 2012 Olympics.
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| Peter Whoriskey / Washington Post: |
For Jeff Bezos, a new frontier — This story was reported by Peter Whoriskey, Brady Dennis, Kimberly Kindy, Holly Yeager, Cecilia Kang and Alice Crites. It was written by Whoriskey. Dennis reported from Seattle. — One summer day as a kid riding in the back seat of his grandparents' car …
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| Ben Horowitz / TechCrunch: |
Why Founders Fail: The Product CEO Paradox — Editor's note: Ben Horowitz is co-founder and partner of Andreessen Horowitz. He was co-founder and CEO of Opsware (formerly Loudcloud), which was acquired by HP, and ran several product divisions at Netscape.| Jon Russell / The Next Web: |
Google releases factory images and binaries for new Nexus 7, seemingly ending dispute with Qualcomm — Google has finally published the factory images for its new Nexus 7 tablet, just days after the employee responsible for managing the images quit the role over an apparent dispute with chip-maker Qualcomm … | Reuters: |
Analysis: Ottawa set to leave telecom door open for Verizon — (Reuters) - Canada's wireless industry is bracing for its biggest shakeup in decades as Ottawa appears impervious to pleas that it block U.S. giant Verizon Communications Inc from the lucrative market.
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Booker's Web Company, Struggling, Sought Buyer as Senate Drive Began — Even as Mayor Cory A. Booker of Newark continued to promote his year-old Internet start-up, Waywire, the company was racing to find a buyer because it had effectively stalled out, according to people aware of the efforts … Sponsor Posts
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