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NSA Spies on International Payments — The United States' NSA intelligence agency is interested in international payments processed by companies including Visa, SPIEGEL has learned. It has even set up its own financial database to track money flows through a “tailored access operations” division.
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Nearly two years after launch, Siri seems to exit ‘beta’ with iOS 7 — With the iPhone 4S launch nearly two years ago, Apple introduced the Siri voice control system to its customers. At launch, Siri was a gimmicky feature at best, being released with bugs, a highly-computerized voice …
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E-ZPasses Get Read All Over New York (Not Just At Toll Booths) — A New Jersey hacker altered his E-ZPass to set off alerts whenever it was being read — After spotting a police car with two huge boxes on its trunk — that turned out to be license-plate-reading cameras … | James Surowiecki / Currency: |
The Virtues of Twitter's Confidential I.P.O. Filing — When Twitter announced yesterday afternoon (via tweet, naturally) that it was planning to file an I.P.O., the company said it had started the process by “confidentially” submitting an S-1 prospectus to the Securities and Exchange Commission.
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AT&T Threatens Persistent Pirates With Account Termination — After years of negotiating and planning the long-awaited U.S. “six-strikes” system finally went live in February. — The Copyright Alert System's main goal is to educate the public. That is, informing people that their connection …
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| Gregory Ferenstein / TechCrunch: |
Twitter Co-Founder Evan Williams Lays Out His Plan For The Future Of Media — Twitter Co-Founder Evan Williams has an ambitious new plan: to shift our daily reading habits away from consuming incremental news bites and towards engaging with enlightened ideas curated by an intelligent algorithm.
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| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Layoffs hit HTC America as the company struggles to turn itself around — About twenty percent of HTC America employees were let go — The bad news for HTC keeps rolling in. The Verge learned today that the company has laid off about thirty employees and contractors out of its HTC America division.| George Hahn / Generic Maker: |
Why the PhoneBloks phone will never happen — It's a physics issue. Signals in modern devices are extremely high speed; the easiest and cheapest way to combat this is to bring components closer together. For example, the wireless radios, RAM, and processor in all modern phones exist as one chip.
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| Jenna Wortham / NYT Bits: |
Twitter's Magic Recs Experiment Personalizes What You Follow — A few months ago, a mysterious account called “Magic Recs” appeared on Twitter. — Magic Recs promises to deliver “instant, personalized recommendations for users and content via direct message.”
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| Emil Protalinski / The Next Web: |
Microsoft passes 9 million Windows Phone transactions daily, promises carrier payouts to developers after 30 days — Microsoft today announced the Windows Phone platform has surpassed 9 million transactions, which encompasses both app and in-app purchases, per day.| Alyson Shontell / Business Insider: |
When A Startup Worth Hundreds Of Millions Goes Dark: Klout's Quiet Year Of Growth And Struggle — “What do you want to be when you grow up?” — It's a question all startups have to answer between giant fundraises and figuring out business models. — Some growing companies, like Twitter and Facebook, handle adolescence well.| Reuters: |
Exclusive: BlackBerry bidders may want to carve up business - sources — (Reuters) - A handful of potential bidders, including private equity firms, are lining up to look at BlackBerry Ltd, but initial indications suggest that interest is tepid and buyers are eyeing parts …
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