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| Mike Isaac / AllThingsD: |
Twitter Plans to Revamp Its Private Messaging Product — Twitter's entire premise is based on publicness. “Join the conversation in the global town square!” the company likes to say. — But, over the past year, Twitter has come around to seeing the value of being more discreet.
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| Matthew Panzarino / TechCrunch: |
Twitter's Theoretically Temporary URL Messaging Ban Due To Massive Wave Of DM Spam — Late yesterday afternoon many Twitter users began to notice that they could no longer send Direct Messages containing URLs. The complaints about the issue gained steam late into the night … | Matthew Panzarino / TechCrunch: |
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| Brandon LeBlanc / The Windows Blog: |
Windows 8.1 now available! — Less than a year ago we were preparing to launch Windows 8, which introduced our vision of highly personalized mobile computing. And here we are today announcing the global availability of Windows 8.1. Windows 8.1 demonstrates our commitment to continuously improving …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Windows 8.1 review: step in the right direction, but still a work in progress — Windows 8.1 review — It's take two for Microsoft's ambitious operating system — A year ago, Microsoft “reimagined” the look and feel of Windows, and placed a risky bet on the future of computing.| Brandon LeBlanc / The Windows Blog: |
| Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: |
iPhone takes 51% share of smartphone activations at Verizon in Q3, unit sales flat compared to Q2 … Verizon has just reported their results for the third quarter, with smartphone sales topping 7.6 million units. While the press release does not disclose details about iPhone performance … | Roger Cheng / CNET: |
Verizon scraps deal with cable for joint home, wireless services — Verizon confirmed on Thursday that its joint venture with the cable companies is no more. — Chief Financial Officer Fran Shammo, speaking to investors on a conference call, briefly mentioned that the company had terminated …
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| Ted Johnson / Variety: |
isoHunt to Shut Down as Part of Settlement With Studios — The website isoHunt will shut down as part of a settlement in a massive piracy suit filed by Hollywood studios, the MPAA said on Thursday. — U.S. Magistrate Judge Jacqueline Chooljian canceled a planned hearing after she was informed of the settlement.| FaryaabS / SamMobile: |
Samsung Galaxy S4 LTE (GT-I9505) receives official Android 4.3 update — Samsung promised at its Mobile UNPACKED Episode 2 event that it will start rolling out Galaxy S4 updates in October and we are very pleased that Samsung has kept their promise. As Samsung has just started rolling out Android 4.3 … | Joan E. Solsman / CNET: |
AOL dethrones Google at top of video-ad ranking — With CEO Tim Armstrong's biggest takeover — Adap.tv — in the fold, AOL edges ahead of Google in ComScore's listing of the biggest video-ad properties.—YouTube is still the king of Internet video, but AOL's takeover of Adap.tv last month is making it the richest in that kingdom.
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| John Koetsier / VentureBeat: |
Facebook ad profit a staggering 1,790% more on iPhone than Android — Nov. 12 - 13, 2013 — A study of more than 200 billion ads on Facebook says that mobile ads on iPhone generate 1,790 percent more return on investment than ads on Android. Even worse, advertising on Android actually costs more than it returns.| David Meyer / GigaOM: |
Ubuntu launches on mobile - but without some key elements — Thursday sees the release of Ubuntu “Saucy Salamander” 13.10, the first version of the Linux distribution to explicitly support smartphones and tablets, as well as desktop PCs and servers. There aren't any Ubuntu mobile devices on sale yet … | Liam Spradlin / Android Police: |
Latest Google Glass firmware hints at new voice commands, album art for music, and more — [APK Teardown] Latest Google Glass Firmware Gives A Tantalizing Glimpse At A Ton Of Future Features — Last weekend, I finally got my own Google Glass unit. Since then I've been trying to adapt …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Nokia's multi-display smartwatch concept revealed in patent application — Nokia appears to be experimenting with its own smartwatch concepts. In a patent application submitted in August last year, the company details a “multi-segment wearable accessory.”
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| Dana Wollman / Engadget: |
Acer intros the Iconia W4, its second 8-inch Windows 8.1 tablet: brings improved screen for $330 (hands-on) — Once Intel shows off an unannounced tablet at one of its press events, the jig is up: the product may as well be official at that point. That's what happened with Acer's Iconia …
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| John Paczkowski / AllThingsD: |
Apple Gets Its E-Book Antitrust Monitor — The federal judge who found Apple guilty of colluding with five of the six largest publishers in the U.S. in an e-book price-fixing scheme has chosen the external antitrust compliance monitors charged with making sure the company doesn't overstep the law again.| Josh Lowensohn / CNET: |
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| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Motorola hopes to tempt iPhone users to Moto X with iCloud migration tool — Motorola's Moto Maker site is primarily meant to help customize and purchase a new Moto X, but today the company is adding another feature: the option to transfer your contacts and calendars from an Apple iCloud account to a Google account.
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| Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
LG's G Pad 8.3 available today in the US for $349.99 — LG's G Pad 8.3 tablet is going on sale in the US today for $349.99. The G Pad 8.3 is a small, well-built Android tablet sized perfectly to compete with the iPad mini, but when it was first announced back in early September …
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| Matt Brian / Engadget: |
Samsung proposes five-year patent lawsuit hiatus to escape EU antitrust warnings — Almost 20 months after the European Commission (EC) formally launched an investigation into its patent licensing practices, Samsung believes it has come up with an answer. Today, the EC published an open call …
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| Roger Cheng / CNET: |
T-Mobile ad criticized for belittling smartphone theft — T-Mobile CEO John Legere. — (Credit: Lori Grunin/CNET) — T-Mobile is hot water again for one of its “Uncarrier” campaign commercials. — The latest comes in the form of a letter written by San Francisco District Attorney George Gascon …
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| Colleen Taylor / TechCrunch: |
Stitch Fix, The Online Personal Shopping Startup, Sews Up $12 Million Series B Led By Benchmark — San Francisco startup Stitch Fix has closed on $12 million in a new funding round led by Benchmark as it looks to further scale out its tech-powered personal shopping and delivery service for women.
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| Leena Rao / TechCrunch: |
Backed By Social+Capital, A16Z, And Formation8, Data Elite Launches Lab To Fund And Advise Big Data Startups — If AngelList provides a foundation for investment “capital as a service,” then Data Elite could be the model for ‘advising-as-a-service.’ Data Elite is launching today as a a venture lab …
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| Dana Mattioli / Wall Street Journal: |
China's Lenovo is considering buying Blackberry — Lenovo Group Ltd. is actively considering a bid for all of BlackBerry Ltd. , according to people familiar with the matter. — The Chinese personal-computer and smartphone maker has signed a “non-disclosure” agreement that enables it to look … Sponsor Posts
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