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Microsoft execs were aware of an Android Lumia prototype before Nokia deal — Behind Microsoft Deal, the Specter of a Nokia Android Phone — SEATTLE — Before Microsoft reached a deal to buy Nokia's phone business, there was a possibility that Nokia could have switched its smartphones …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Nuclear options: Microsoft was testing Surface Phone while Nokia experimented with Android — Things might have turned out very differently — Microsoft and Nokia need each other more than you'd expect. While Nokia was testing Android in a variety of different ways, Microsoft was busy experimenting with a Surface Phone.
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| AllThingsD: |
Twitter's internal 2013 growth target was 400m users, sources say it now has 240m — Twitter User Growth Slower Than Internal Goals — Is Twitter growing fast enough? — This seems like an odd question to ask, since the company has just told the world it's getting ready to go public.
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| John Paczkowski / AllThingsD: |
Apple's iPhone 5s, the A7 Chip, and That 64-Bit Question — When Apple unveiled the iPhone 5s on Tuesday, the company touted as one of its tentpole features the 64-bit desktop-class processing power of its new custom-made A7 chip. “The A7 is up to twice as fast as the previous-generation system …
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FBI Admits It Controlled Tor Servers Behind Mass Malware Attack — It wasn't ever seriously in doubt, but the FBI yesterday acknowledged that it secretly took control of Freedom Hosting last July, days before the servers of the largest provider of ultra-anonymous hosting were found … | Amanda Holpuch / Guardian: |
Google's Eric Schmidt says government spying is ‘the nature of our society’ — Tech giant's executive chairman calls for greater transparency but declines to ‘pass judgment’ on spying operations — Eric Schmidt, the executive chairman of Google, reiterated the tech industry's call … | Brian Fung / The Switch: |
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Intel Has Acquired Natural Language Processing Startup Indisys, Price “North” Of $26M, To Build Its AI Muscle — Intel has quietly made another international acquisition in its push into artificial intelligence technology: it has bought Indisys, a Spanish startup focused on naturual language recognition.
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| Jordan Kahn / 9to5Mac: |
Unlocked 16GB Yellow iPhone 5c is first to sell out, available to ship by 9/25 (Update: 1-2 weeks in Hong Kong) — We have our first sellout! — Following pre-orders going live today for Apple's new iPhone 5c, shipping times for the yellow, unlocked model of the device have just slipped … | Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica: |
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| Alex Colon / GigaOM: |
Best Buy will trade you a free iPhone 5 for your old smartphone — Don't know what to do with your old Palm Pre? If you were thinking about getting an iPhone you can bring it to Best Buy this weekend, where it'll take your old smartphone and give you an iPhone 5 in exchange.
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Government Standards Agency “Strongly” Suggests Dropping its Own Encryption Standard — Following revelations about the NSA's covert influence on computer security standards, the National Institute of Standards and Technology, or NIST, announced earlier this week it is revisiting some of its encryption standards.
| Cyrus Farivar / Ars Technica: |
Kim Dotcom sues New Zealand for $7 million over illegal spying, raid — New details emerge about the Mega-raid: including video cameras, secret pencams. — It was bound to happen sooner or later: Kim Dotcom has finally sued the New Zealand government over its admittedly illegal spying … | Eliot Van Buskirk / Evolver.fm: |
Twitter Releases Spotify App — Remember when Twitter bought We Are Hunted, whose creators then built Twitter's #music app, which was initially super popular in part due to its cool design and the fact that everybody uses Twitter, but then it ran into a bit of a chicken-and-egg problem?
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| Jack Clark / The Register: |
Google swaps out MySQL, moves to MariaDB — 'They're moving it all,' says MariaDB Foundation headman — Google is migrating its MySQL systems over to MariaDB, allowing the search company to get away from the Oracle-backed open source database. — The news came out at the Extra Large Database …
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