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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: @dsilverman, @backlon, @mattrosoff, @whatthebit, @theromit and @edbott
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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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| 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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| 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. — Screengrab from Ubi's video … | 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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| 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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| 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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| 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: |
| 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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| 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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| 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
| 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.| Dina Bass / Bloomberg: |
Microsoft's First Chip Brings Tank-Finding Design to Xbox — Microsoft Corp. (MSFT), seeking to fend off competition for its Xbox game console by souping up the Kinect motion sensor, is tapping a new semiconductor developer: itself. — For the first time, the company will build its own processors based on an in-house design.| 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 … | 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 … | 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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Tweets: @theatlanticwire and @1bobcohn
See also Mediagazer| Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch: |
Tastemade Raises Another $10 Million And Launches An iPhone App For Video Reviews Of Local Restaurants — In just 12 months since being founded, Los Angeles-based Tastemade has carved out a place for itself as the go-to place for high-quality videos about food on Facebook.
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GigaOM, Venture Capital Dispatch, VatorNews, VentureBeat and AllThingsD
| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Google confirms critical Android crypto flaw used in $5,700 Bitcoin heist — Google developers have confirmed a cryptographic vulnerability in the Android operating system that researchers say could generate serious security glitches on hundreds of thousands of end user apps, many of them used to make Bitcoin transactions.
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Android Developers Blog, Guardian, InfoWorld, Examiner, The Switch, SiliconANGLE, Softpedia News, ZDNet, GigaOM and Symantec
Tweets: @gcaughey, @kleinmatic, @fraserspeirs and @mattetti
| Liz Gannes / AllThingsD: |
Swiftype Raises $1.7M for Site Search — You know how search engines are supposed to be unbiased and impenetrable to manipulation by self-serving interests? Well, that might apply to public search engines, but site search is a different ballgame. When it's all your own content, there's no such thing as spam or SEO.
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| Tom Simonite / MIT Technology Review: |
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