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| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
Apple planning to launch iPhone trade-in program in September — Apple is beginning final preparations to launch an iPhone trade-in program in its retail stores as soon as next month, according to sources with knowledge of the initiative. This trade-in program will allow customers …
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| Matthew Panzarino / TechCrunch: |
Apple's iPhone Trade-in Program Is Already Being Piloted, Here's How It Works — Apple is about to introduce an iPhone trade-in program that will allow users to walk into a Retail store and trade up from an old model to a new one. We've heard some interesting details about the way that the program … | Kurt Wagner / Mashable: |
Facebook Unveils Shared Photo Albums — A picture's worth a thousand words, and now Facebook is letting others add to your conversation. — The world's largest social network announced shared photo albums on Monday, a new feature that allows multiple users to upload images to the same album.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Nokia Sirius: a 10.1-inch Windows RT tablet that looks like a Lumia — Nokia is preparing to back Windows RT by launching a 10.1-inch tablet soon. Sources familiar with Nokia's plans have revealed to The Verge that the tablet, codenamed Sirius, will be launched shortly.
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| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
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How Snowden did it — When Edward Snowden stole the crown jewels of the National Security Agency, he didn't need to use any sophisticated devices or software or go around any computer firewall. — All he needed, said multiple intelligence community sources, was a few thumb drives …
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| Julian Assange / The Stringer: |
Google and the NSA: Who's holding the ‘s**t-bag’ now? — It has been revealed today, thanks to Edward Snowden, that Google and other US tech companies received millions of dollars from the NSA for their compliance with the PRISM mass surveillance system. — So just how close is Google to the US securitocracy?
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| Justine Sharrock / BuzzFeed: |
The Rise And Fall Of A Startup Mansion — Startups, pizza, ego, beer, filth. The collapse of a hacker house and the battle for Silicon Valley's soul. — a1.muscache.com — When William Hsu first moved to San Francisco to work in startups, he got a one-bedroom apartment.| Dana Wollman / Engadget: |
Dell intros new Latitude business laptops, including a flagship Ultrabook (hands-on) — Fun fact: the XPS 13 Ultrabook we liked so much also happens to be one of Dell's best-selling products. It's been so successful, in fact, that even large corporations have been thinking of issuing it to their employees …
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| New York Times: |
As Amazon Stretches, Seattle's Downtown Is Reshaped — SEATTLE — Often a corporation with a grand dream to reshape a city wants tax breaks in return. Not Amazon. — When Amazon executives showed up last year for the first meetings about their proposal to build a new headquarters here … | Laura Hazard Owen / GigaOM: |
Apple: Feds aim to “give Amazon a significant competitive advantage” in ebooks case — In court filings posted Monday morning, Apple attorney Orin Snyder responded to the Department of Justice's revised proposed punishment for the tech company in the ebooks case.| Steven Levy / Wired: |
Zuckerberg Explains Facebook's Plan to Get Entire Planet Online — Mark Zuckerberg wants to get everyone on Earth connected to the internet. — Last week, in an effort to reach this lofty goal, the Facebook CEO announced the establishment of Internet.org, a consortium that allied his company …
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| Todd Hoff / High Scalability: |
Reddit: Lessons Learned from Mistakes Made Scaling to 1 Billion Pageviews a Month — Jeremy Edberg, the first paid employee at reddit, teaches us a lot about how to create a successful social site in a really good talk he gave at the RAMP conference. Watch it here at Scaling Reddit from 1 Million to 1 Billion-Pitfalls and Lessons.| David Talbot / MIT Technology Review: |
Hacked Feature Phone Can Block Other People's Calls — Hacked Feature Phone Can Block Other People's Calls — Swapping software can give one GSM phone the power to prevent incoming calls and text messages from reaching other phones nearby. — WHY IT MATTERS — Most of the world's phones use the GSM standard.
| Romain Dillet / TechCrunch: |
Rumors Of Apple's New A7 Chip Could Indicate That CPU Innovation Is Flagging — With every new iPhone, most of the discussion centers around its look and not what comes inside. But, according to reports, Apple has designed a new dual-core A7 system on a chip for the iPhone 5S.
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| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Google blocks Chromecast app that let you stream your own videos — Google hasn't provided a clear answer on whether Chromecast will eventually let users stream their own local videos and music to the TV screen. But if early updates for the $35 dongle are any indication …
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Koushik Duttap, Gizmodo, Wired, Android Beat, Android Police, Businessweek, TechCrunch, SlashGear, Digital Trends, TechnoBuffalo, Android and Me, PC Magazine, GigaOM, 9to5Google, IntoMobile, TechSpot, DSLreports, Pocket-lint, Ars Technica, Engadget, Droid Life, WebProNews, Android Phone Fans, Daring Fireball, TechHive and Electronista. Tweets: @fer_sure. Thanks:@themadhacker
| Jason Del Rey / AllThingsD: |
Google's Local Business Is “Really Struggling,” in “Constant Chaos,” Yelp CEO Tells Charlie Rose (Video) — Based on their relationship today, it's hard to believe that Google almost owned Yelp. — The acquisition never went through, and today the two companies seem firmly entrenched … | Mike Wehner / TUAW: |
U.S. government finds 0.7% of all mobile malware affects iOS, while Android accounts for 79% — A cautionary memo put out by the US Department of Homeland Security and the US Department of Justice shows that, according to the government's findings, only 0.7 percent of all mobile malware is designed to take advantage of iOS.| Jennifer Valentino-DeVries / Digits: |
Open Secret About Google's Surveillance Case No Longer Secret — The Justice Department recently won a court battle to keep an Internet company from talking about federal demands for user data, arguing that even disclosing the company's name would damage national security.'
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Backed By $3 Million In Funding, Canva Launches A Graphic Design Platform Anyone Can Use — A company called Canva is today launching what it hopes will become the default tool people use to create and collaborate on design online. The service, which offers an easy to use drag-and-drop interface …
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GigaOM, ZDNet, Inc.com, Softpedia News, Tech in Asia, The Next Web and PandoDaily. Tweets: @themaninblue
| Arik Hesseldahl / AllThingsD: |
At Last, Violin Memory Files for $173 Million IPO — Violin Memory, the flash storage company that has been raising money like crazy, just filed to raise about $173 million in an initial public offering, according to documents submitted to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
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| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
Apple launches more intuitive AppleCare support website, 24/7 chat — Earlier this month, we reported that Apple would soon introduce significant changes to its online AppleCare support portals. In line with our report, Apple has begun rolling out a redesigned AppleCare website to provide support … | Cory Gunther / Android Community: |
Hangouts update brings support for AT&T video calling — Back in May Google announced their new messaging service to replace Google Talk, and hopefully one day Google Voice. That being their new Hangouts app. It was revealed at Google I/O, and since has been updated with a slew of new features, smiley faces and more.
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Pew: 30% Of U.S. Adults Don't Have Broadband; 10% Use Smartphones As Sole Internet Access; 20% Have Zilch — As Facebook teams up with other tech titans to put more effort into ubiquitous internet access worldwide, Pew Research is today is releasing the results of a survey that shows …
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