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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.| 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 …
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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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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 … | 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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| Marcia Hoffman / Wired: |
Apple's Fingerprint ID May Mean You Can't ‘Take the Fifth’ — There's a lot of talk around biometric authentication since Apple introduced its newest iPhone, which will let users unlock their device with a fingerprint. Given Apple's industry-leading position, it's probably not a far stretch … | 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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| Sam Biddle / Valleywag: |
Path, known for spamming and ad-fueled installs, plummets from top 10 in iPhone app rankings — Path Is S**tting the Bed — After a steady spell of buying its way to the top of download charts, Path is plummeting out of even the top thousand iPhone apps—which makes sense … | Wall Street Journal: |
Twitter's IPO Plan: Don't Do What Facebook Did — Company Executives Work to Distance Themselves From Rival's Mistakes — The Twitter Inc. executives leading its long-expected initial public offering have a mission: Don't repeat the mistakes that muddied Facebook Inc.'s IPO.
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MoneyBeat, Venture Capital Dispatch, Venture Capital Dispatch and DealBook. Tweets: @geoffreyfowler
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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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| Michael Horowitz / Computerworld: |
Google knows many of the world's Wi-Fi passwords thanks to backup defaults on Android devices — Google knows nearly every Wi-Fi password in the world — If an Android device (phone or tablet) has ever logged on to a particular Wi-Fi network, then Google probably knows the Wi-Fi password.
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