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Google blocks Microsoft's new YouTube Windows Phone app — Microsoft's recently released YouTube application for Windows Phone is being blocked by Google. In a statement issued to The Verge, Google confirms that the application has been blocked for violating the terms of use.
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Tweets: @edbott, @theromit, @mattrosoff, @whatthebit, @backlon and @dsilverman
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft claims Google's reasons for blocking YouTube app ‘are manufactured’ — Earlier today Google confirmed to The Verge that the company is blocking Microsoft's newly released Windows Phone YouTube app. Despite both companies committing to work with each other on the YouTube app … | Jeffrey Meisner / Microsoft on the Issues: |
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| AllThingsD: |
Facebook to Test Its Own PayPal Competitor in Bid to Simplify Mobile Purchases — Facebook plans to test a new payments product that would allow online shoppers to make purchases on mobile apps using their Facebook login information, according to sources familiar with the company's plans.
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See also Mediagazer| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
| Reuters: |
New iPhone, 4G technology may mean Apple, China Mobile tie-up closer — (Reuters) - The stars may be aligning for a long-awaited deal between Apple Inc and China Mobile Ltd, the world's biggest mobile carrier, that could help the iPhone maker claw back lost ground in its most important growth market.
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| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
Apple Acquired Matcha Because It Got The Recommendation Recipe Right — News broke that Apple had acquired Matcha, a video programming recommendation site, earlier this week. It's not surprising, despite the company's relative unknown status and small amount of total funding …
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| Dan Seifert / The Verge: |
Yahoo's beautiful new weather app comes to Android — Yahoo's redesigned weather app for iOS has been receiving praise and accolades for its gorgeous design and usability all year. In fact, the updated weather app included with iOS 7 appears to borrow more than a few ideas from Yahoo's version.
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| Dara Kerr / CNET: |
Microsoft's ‘touch screen’ for any surface goes on sale — Prototype technology that turns any surface — a wall, table, or floor — into an interactive touch screen has been years in the making. Now, anyone can get their hands on the software. Turning a wall into a touch-screen computer has many uses … | Wall Street Journal: |
Sony Reaches Programming Deal With Viacom for Online Pay-TV Service — Sony Corp. has reached a preliminary agreement with Viacom Inc. to carry the media company's cable channels on its planned Internet-based TV service, a person familiar with the matter said, a significant boost … | Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Apple Releases New App Store Review Guidelines with Updated Rules for Kids Apps, Gambling Apps — Apple has updated its App Store Review Guidelines, revising several sections and introducing a number of new rules based on various policies that have been enacted over the last six months.
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Twitter Flexes Its Location Muscle, Tests Out Highlights Of Live Events Happening Near You — Yesterday we reported how Twitter was testing out a new Trending box for TV programs to run at the top of your timeline; today we've spotted a test for yet another new feature: alerts for live events that are happening right near you.
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| Emil Protalinski / The Next Web: |
Google updates Cloud Storage with server-side encryption: No setup, no performance impact, and no extra charge — Google today announced an update to Google Cloud Storage that beefs up security: server-side encryption. The service now automatically encrypts all data before it is written to disk.
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| Rachel King / ZDNet: |
Dell reports decent Q2 earnings as company future still looks uncertain — Summary: Could this be the last time that Dell reports quarterly earnings as a public company? The shareholders are still out on that one. — Amid its ongoing self-identity crisis, Dell turned …
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| Joan E. Solsman / CNET: |
Aereo CEO: Service will turn a profit before turning in 1M subscribers — The upstart online TV service will have a “fabulous” business at 1 million users and an “extremely fabulous” one at 5 million, but registrations need only be in the hundreds of thousands for it to be profitable, its CEO says.| Peter Kafka / AllThingsD: |
Multitask Nation: ESPN Lets iPad Users Call Up Scores, Clips, While They Watch Live Video — ESPN's WatchESPN is a very good app that lets you stream the sports channel's live broadcasts to your phone, tablet or TV. But what if you're not content watching a single game at a time?
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| Jon Fingas / Engadget: |
Lenovo posts Q1 earnings, reveals that its mobile sales have overtaken PCs — Don't look now, but Lenovo just became an industry bellwether. While reporting strong first quarter results that include a record $8.8 billion in revenue and $170 million in profit, the tech giant revealed …
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| Juro Osawa / Digits: |
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
IBM Buys Israel/US Cybersecurity Specialist Trusteer For $800M-$1B — Another exit for an Israeli enterprise startup and a deeper move into Israel by one of the world's tech titans: IBM today announced the acquisition of Trusteer, a specialist in cybersecurity primarily for financial services.
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PR Newswire, Ynetnews, ZDNet, SC Magazine, GigaOM, Gartner, Web Host Industry Review, Internet Evolution, The Register, Xconomy, AllThingsD, GeekTime, Inquirer, WebProNews, Network World, Softpedia News and bizjournals. Tweets: @techwriterjim
| Philip Bump / The Atlantic Wire: |
Syrian Hackers Use Outbrain to Target The Washington Post, Time, and CNN — For a brief period on Thursday morning, the Washington Post's website redirected some visitors to a webpage controlled by the Syrian Electronic Army. In a brief statement, the site didn't indicate how the infiltration occurred …
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Washington Post, New York Times, eWeek, Outbrain Techblog, CNNMoney.com, ZDNet, The Switch, The Verge, VentureBeat, ABC News, Poynter, Graham Cluley, Mashable, GigaOM, Digiday and SiliconBeat
Tweets: @markrussinovich, @theatlanticwire and @1bobcohn
See also Mediagazer| Chloe Albanesius / PC Magazine: |
Roku Trumps Apple TV as Most-Used Streaming Media Player — The Roku is the most popular streaming video device in the U.S., trumping the Apple TV, according to new data from Parks Associates. — Of the 10,000 people polled by Parks, 37 percent of those with a streaming video media device used …
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Light Reading, GigaOM, Business Insider, TechSpot, TelecompetitorTelecompetitor, TUAW, Geek News Central, everythingiCafe, I4U News, CNET and Fast Company. Tweets: @jtoeman
| Klint Finley / Wired: |
Meet the Hackers Who Want to Jailbreak the Internet — PORTLAND, OREGON — One guy is wearing his Google Glass. Another showed up in an HTML5 t-shirt. And then there's the dude who looks like the Mad Hatter, decked out in a top hat with an enormous white flower tucked into the brim.
Tweets: @nytimesbits and @jhong
| Emil Protalinski / The Next Web: |
Nokia releases Lumia Amber update for WP8: Better image processing, new camera app, Glance Screen, and more — Nokia today started rolling out its Amber software update for Lumia smartphones running Windows Phone 8. Amber is meant to build upon the latest Windows Phone 8 update (GDR2) … Sponsor Posts
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