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August 21, 2013, 3:50 PM

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Wall Street Journal:

New Details Show Broader NSA Surveillance Reach — Programs Cover 75% of Nation's Traffic, Can Snare Emails WASHINGTON—The National Security Agency—which possesses only limited legal authority to spy on U.S. citizens—has built a surveillance network that covers more Americans' Internet communications …

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Wall Street Journal:

What You Need to Know on New Details of NSA Spying — Today's report in The Wall Street Journal reveals that the National Security Agency's spying tools extend deep into the domestic U.S. telecommunications infrastructure, giving the agency a surveillance structure with the ability to cover …

More: dailywireless.org and Gawker

Ellen Nakashima / Washington Post:

NSA gathered thousands of Americans' e-mails before court struck down program

More: Electronic Frontier Foundation and Boing Boing. Tweets: @washingtonpost

emptywheel:

How NSA Bypassed the Fourth Amendment for 3 Years

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NBCNews:

US doesn't know what Snowden took, sources say

More: SiliconBeat, Techdirt and The Switch. Tweets: @techopirate

Facebook Newsroom:

Technology Leaders Launch Partnership to Make Internet Access Available to All — Facebook, Ericsson, MediaTek, Nokia, Opera, Qualcomm, Samsung to be founding partners — MENLO PARK, CA, — Mark Zuckerberg, founder and CEO of Facebook, today announced the launch of internet.org …

Vindu Goel / New York Times:

Facebook Leads an Effort to Lower Barriers to Internet Access

More: The Atlantic Wire, VentureBeat, Guardian, Network World, The Verge, ExtremeTech, NPR, Gizmodo, The Tell, PC Advisor, Yahoo! News, BGR India, Datamation.com, SocialTimes and CNN

Tweets: @jguynn, @markgurman and @zeldman

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Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

Is Google Ready to Buy Its Way Into TV With an NFL Deal? — Here's a fun combination to ponder: The world's most powerful media company and America's most popular sport. — That could happen if Google buys the rights to the NFL's Sunday Ticket package, the all-you-can-eat subscription-TV service currently owned by DirecTV.

Jesse Hicks / The Verge:

Bradley Manning sentenced to 35 years for WikiLeaks disclosures — Bradley Manning's court-martial reached an end today, with Army Colonel Denise Lind sentencing him to 35 years in prison. The WikiLeaks source, arrested in Iraq in 2010 for releasing nearly 700,000 government documents to WikiLeaks …

More: Guardian, AllFacebook, New York Times, RT, Techdirt, The Switch, Ars Technica, The Next Web, ZDNet, GigaOM, Gizmodo, emptywheel, CNET and ACLU

Tweets: @jpbarlow, @ggreenwald, @jaredbkeller, @ggreenwald and @carnage4life

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Seth Rosenblatt / CNET:

Field Trip now ready for Google Glass — The Field Trip app for exploring and learning about your surroundings launches a Glassware app for a more hands-free approach to real-world discovery. — Self-guided smartphone tours just got a lot more hands-free, as the Field Trip app …

More: Engadget, TechCrunch, Marketing Land, VentureBeat, GigaOM, Gizmodo, 9to5Google, The Verge, Android Phone Fans, Pocket-lint and Skift

Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch:

Netflix Introduces ‘My List,’ A Personalized Instant Queue For Users All Over The World — Netflix is continually working to make its streaming video service more personalized, adding features that will make individual users keep coming back for more. The company's latest effort in that direction …

More: Netflix US & Canada Blog, PC World, BetaNews, The Next Web, Inquirer, SocialTimes, AllThingsD, WebProNews, GigaOM, VentureBeat, Gizmodo, Mashable, Macgasm and Electronista. Tweets: @xamat. See also Mediagazer

Reuters:

Insight: Peter Chou - Is he HTC's savior or obstacle to revival? — (Reuters) - Now in his tenth year as CEO of HTC Corp, Peter Chou is lauded as the architect of the Taiwanese firm's award-winning smartphones. But as the company's fortunes have dived, some insiders say he's now an obstacle to any revival.

More: Pocketables, BGR, Android Authority, PhoneArena, The Verge, TechnoBuffalo, Android Phone Fans, Android Beat and ZDNet

Tom Warren / The Verge:

Microsoft offers classrooms free Surface RT tablets with ad-free Bing for Schools — Microsoft's plan to battle Google in the classroom is launching today. Bing for Schools is a new ad-free version of Microsoft's search service that includes strict filtering and privacy protections designed for schools.

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

Maker Studios Buys Blip, and a Home Outside of YouTube (Update) — Maker Studios, one of the biggest YouTube networks, is buying Blip, a video maker and distributor. — Blip officials informed their staff of the deal this morning, and it is expected to close in early September.

More: TechCrunch, VideoNuze Analysis, GigaOM and ReelSEO Video Marketing

Tweets: @johnpaczkowski and @johnolilly

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Rajat Agrawal / BGR India:

Doubts cast over developer interest in BlackBerry as lone developer accounts for a third of all apps — In what could be the latest in a series of reality checks for BlackBerry, a report has emerged claiming that just one app developer accounts for a third of all apps on the company's app store.

More: GigaOM, BerryReview, TechCrunch, AllThingsD, BGR, MobileSyrup.com, VentureBeat and WMPoweruser

Tweets: @spencerchen and @adora

Thanks:@rajatagr

Charlie Savage / New York Times:

Facial Scanning Is Making Gains in Surveillance — WASHINGTON — The federal government is making progress on developing a surveillance system that would pair computers with video cameras to scan crowds and automatically identify people by their faces, according to newly disclosed documents …

More: Ars Technica, Betabeat and Motherboard

Tweets: @feardept and @thomas_drake1

Aaron Ricadela / Bloomberg:

HP's Whitman Shakes Up Deputy Ranks — Hewlett-Packard Co. (HPQ)'s head of data-center computing, Dave Donatelli, will be reassigned and replaced by Chief Operating Officer Bill Veghte, according to people with knowledge of the matter. — Chief Executive Officer Meg Whitman is shaking …

More: AllThingsD, GigaOM, ZDNet, SiliconBeat and CNBC

Bloomberg:

Apple IPad's China Market Share Slumps as Samsung Tablets Gain — The iPad's share of China's tablet-computer market plunged by more than 20 percentage points in the second quarter as Samsung Electronics Co. (005930) built on its lead in smartphones to cut into Apple Inc. (AAPL)'s sales.

More: iPhone Hacks and Tech in Asia. Tweets: @hyunggmyung

Matthew Panzarino / TechCrunch:

Nearly A Year Later, Twitter Triggers Return to IFTTT With Official Support — Today, the ‘Internet glue’ service IFTTT gets a fresh set of Twitter triggers that allow users to build recipes that react to tweets, favorites, retweets and more. This enables users to return to archiving tweets to Dropbox …

More: The Verge, TechHive, Engadget, The Next Web and 9to5Mac

Alex Wilhelm / TechCrunch:

Tech In A “Surprising Slump”? Hardly — What is the forecast for tech? It depends on whom you ask. For some, it's contraction. For others, the money is flowing. Cisco is in the tank and has layoffs planned, even as Microsoft mints new billion-dollar businesses. Yahoo can't keep its hands off the kids.

Steve Dent / Engadget:

LG exec: tablet, phablet, smartwatch and Firefox OS device coming soon — LG's mobile communications head in Bulgaria, Dimitar Valev, has laid out some of the company's key plans in an interview with Dnevnik.bg. For starters, he confirmed that the company will fire up its temporarily mothballed tablet lines …

More: PhoneArena, The Next Web, GSM Insider, Unwired View, TechCrunch, MobileSyrup.com, AndroidGuys, IntoMobile and Electronista

Alex Wilhelm / TechCrunch:

Box Doubles Its Free Plan To 10GB, Creates New $5/Month, 100GB Storage Tier For Small Firms — Box, an enterprise-facing cloud document and file storage service, today opened a new front in the online storage war by doubling its free plan to 10GB of space, and added a new …

More: The Next Web, The Box Blog, BetaNews, InfoWorld, PC World, CITEworld and TechRadar.com. Thanks:@fredericl

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:

Google Updates Its Keep Note-Taking App With Reminders, Location-Based Alerts And Google Now Integration — When Google launched Keep for Android and the web a few months ago, it was essentially a basic note-taking application. Today, the company is launching a major update that turns it into a far more useful application.

More: Official Android Blog, The Next Web, PC Magazine, The Verge, Engadget, 9to5Google, Pocket-lint and Android Authority

Peter Burrows / Bloomberg:

Goldman Invests $40 Million in Salesforce Rival SugarCRM — SugarCRM Inc., a maker of sales-tracking software, raised $40 million from Goldman Sachs Group Inc. to speed global expansion as it takes on larger rivals Oracle Corp. (ORCL) and Salesforce.com Inc. (CRM)

More: GigaOM, AllThingsD, TechCrunch, ZDNet and VentureBeat

Lulu Yilun Chen / Bloomberg:

Bitcoin Spawns China Virtual IPOs as U.S. Scrutiny Grows — The Bitcoin craze is catching on in China. — Sun Minjie is a 28-year-old Internet worker who lives in Beijing. Eager to profit from growing demand for the digital currency, Sun has invested more than $3,000 in a company called 796 Xchange Ltd …

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