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Drug Agents Use Vast Phone Trove, Eclipsing N.S.A.'s — For at least six years, law enforcement officials working on a counternarcotics program have had routine access, using subpoenas, to an enormous AT&T database that contains the records of decades of Americans' phone calls …
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| Taylor Berman / Gawker: |
AT&T Partnered With DEA to Provide Access to 26 Years of Phone Records — Since at least 2007, DEA agents and local police detectives have had regular access to a gigantic database that contains detailed records of every American phone call that's passed through an AT&T switch in the past 26 years.
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Synopsis of the Hemisphere Project — A slide presentation given to The New York Times shows that the Hemisphere Project was started in 2007 and has been carried out in great secrecy.
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| Om Malik / GigaOM: |
More details on Samsung's Galaxy Gear smartwatch: those images are of a prototype — Venturebeat caused a holiday weekend stir with what appeared to be pictures of Samsung's Galaxy Gear smartwatch, which will be formally unveiled this Wednesday. However, the model of the watch reported …
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| Christina Farr / VentureBeat: |
This is Samsung's Galaxy Gear smartwatch: A blocky health tracker with a camera — Samsung's Galaxy Gear smartwatch is a chunky, 3-inch wrist-mounted accessory that runs Android apps and connects with your phone via Bluetooth. — Samsung is set to reveal its Galaxy Gear smartwatch next Wednesday, Sept. 4, in Berlin.
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Thanks:@chrissyfarr| Sarah Silbert / Engadget: |
Acer announces 6-inch Liquid S2, ‘first 4K-recording smartphone’ — Compared to many other companies, Acer's taken a rather cautious approach to super-sized phones. Its first attempt was the 5.7-inch Liquid S1, a rather straightforward Android handset unveiled back in June at Computex.
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Exclusive: Japan's Rakuten Acquires Viki Video Site for $200 Million — Japan's Internet e-commerce giant Rakuten is set to purchase Viki, a premium video site that has been described as “Hulu for the rest of the world.” — The deal was set to be announced next week …
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Thoughts on privacy — In Here Is New York, E.B. White opens with this sentence: “On any person who desires such queer prizes, New York will bestow the gift of loneliness and the gift of privacy.” Sixty-four years have passed since White wrote that, and it still makes perfect sense to me …
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| Bloomberg: |
Lenovo Chief Yang Shares Bonus With Workers For Second Year — Lenovo Chief Shares Bonus With Workers — Lenovo Group Ltd. (992), the world's biggest maker of personal computers, said Chief Executive Officer Yang Yuanqing will share his bonus with employees for a second straight year after achieving record shipments and sales.| Kara Swisher / AllThingsD: |
One Microsoft On, Ballmer Out, ValueAct In — Get Ready for the Next Shoe to Drop at Microsoft — It would seem that all it takes to be in a position to make big changes at Microsoft is $2.2 billion. — That's the value of the tiny 0.8 percent stake that ValueAct had compiled … | Wall Street Journal: |
Vodafone, Verizon Agree on $130 Billion Deal — Negotiators for Verizon Communications Inc. and Vodafone Group PLC have agreed to a deal in which Verizon will pay about $130 billion for the U.K. company's stake in their U.S. joint venture, a person familiar with the matter said.
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Tweets: @ryan_knutson, @vijayshekhar, @lloydmathias, @dtapscott and @davecbenoit
| John Gruber / Daring Fireball: |
Nintendo in Motion — My terse reaction to the 2DS on Wednesday: It's $129. I say they should just give in and start making iOS games. They're not going to win this battle. This prompted several thoughtful responses, many of them staunchly in opposition.
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Director Says BlackBerry Can Survive as ‘Niche’ Player — Nordberg Says There Are ‘Subsets’ That Should Be Sold Off — One of the members of BlackBerry Ltd.'s board committee tasked with exploring strategic alternatives said the company can compete as a “niche company” in the smartphone business … Sponsor Posts
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