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All Of The Ways Apple's New Free Mac OS Hurts Microsoft Windows — Apple announced today that Mavericks, its latest version of Mac OS X, will be free for all Mac users to download. Windows 8.1 is still $119.99. — Apple products are usually seen as expensive if not out of reach for average consumers … | Serenity Caldwell / Macworld: |
What you need to know about Apple's free apps policy — Apple made waves during Tuesday's media event when the company announced that its iLife and iWork suite would be free for customers who buy a new Mac or iOS device. But the apps are also free for users who already have the apps installed, and one app is free, period.| Nick Wingfield / NYT Bits: |
Apple's pricing of iWork, Microsoft's hesitation with Office for iOS seen as strategic plays — Apple Exploits Microsoft Hesitation on Office — Microsoft may want to rethink its hesitation about bringing its Office applications to the iPad. — On Tuesday, Apple made its own rival suite …
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| Sam Byford / The Verge: |
LG's curved-screen G Flex smartphone revealed in photos and video — We've seen rendered images of LG's G Flex and its curved OLED display, but the device itself has proven elusive — until now. Argentinian broadcaster Telefe Noticias managed to obtain the phone for an in-studio hands-on video … | MG Siegler / TechCrunch: |
Air or Mini? A hard choice - nearly identical internals, both comfortable one-handed devices — Two iPads To Tango — I walked into today's Apple event positive that the iPad mini with a retina display, if unveiled, would be the one iPad to rule them all.| Apple: |
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| Dale Peterson / Digital Bond's SCADA Security Portal: |
Call Yourself A Hacker, Lose Your 4th Amendment Rights — The US District Court for the State of Idaho ruled that an ICS product developer's computer could be seized without him being notified or even heard from in court primarily because he states on his web site “we like hacking things and don't want to stop”.
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| Jon Fingas / Engadget: |
LG unveils the Fireweb, its first Firefox OS smartphone (video) — So far, Firefox OS has been limited to ultra-basic smartphones like the ZTE Open. LG is expanding the platform's reach today by releasing its inaugural Mozilla-powered handset, the Fireweb.| Clare Jim / Reuters: |
Exclusive: HTC scales back production lines as cash flow worsens-sources — (Reuters) - Taiwanese smartphone maker HTC Corp has halted at least one of its four main manufacturing lines, accounting for at least a fifth of total capacity, and is outsourcing production as a sales slump puts pressure …
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| Mike Isaac / AllThingsD: |
Facebook Reverses Stance — Again — On Violent Viral Video — Sometimes figuring out the fine line between free expression and overly objectionable content is harder than you'd think. — Just ask Facebook, which on Tuesday reversed a stance it took just 24 hours previously and removed … | Patrick Hoge / bizjournals: |
Facebook's Zuckerberg highest-paid CEO at $2.28 billion — Facebook (NASDAQ: FB) CEO Mark Zuckerberg was the highest paid CEO of a North American public company last year, with total compensation of $2.28 billion — almost all of it coming from share options exercised when Facebook went public … | Alexis Santos / Engadget: |
Aereo app finally arrives on Android — It's taken a while for Aereo's Android app to see the light of day, but it's finally hit Google Play today as promised. Subscribers to the service will now be able to watch live TV streamed to handsets and tablets running Android 4.2 or higher …
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| Mat Smith / Engadget: |
Galaxy Gear compatibility comes to the Samsung Galaxy S 4, S3, Note 2 and more — If you wanted live out your Inspector Gadget fantasies, but lacked the Galaxy Note 3 needed to take full advantage of the possibilities, we've got good news. Samsung's bringing compatibility for its Galaxy Gear …
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| Alex Williams / TechCrunch: |
SkySQL Raises $20M To Support Open-Source Relational Database MariaDB — SkySQL has raised $20 million to deepen its support for MariaDB, the fast growing open-source relational database and the emerging database of choice for Wikipedia. The round was led by Intel Capital with participation …
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Upcoming USB Power Delivery standard brings variable voltage, up to 100W to device charging — Edison's revenge — The humble USB cable is part of an electrical revolution. It will make power supplies greener and cheaper — From the print edition — FIDDLY cables … | Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Nokia Refocus turns your Lumia into a Lytro-like camera — Nokia may have had a bunch of hardware on display at its Abu Dhabi event today, but some of the company's most impressive work is linked with its camera improvements. While the Lumia 1020 introduced a 41-megapixel camera and a new Pro Cam app … | John Siracusa / Ars Technica: |
OS X 10.9 Mavericks: The Ars Technica Review — After a dozen years and nine major releases, OS X has had a full life: the exuberance of youth, gradually maturing into adulthood, and now, perhaps, entering its dotage. When I am an old operating system I shall wear... leather?
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft drops ‘RT’ moniker from original Surface, hides desktop mode on new RT tablets — Microsoft is altering its Surface RT name to just Surface today. After dropping the RT moniker for its Surface 2 tablet, the software maker is removing the RT branding on the Surface entirely.
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| Andrew Leonard / Salon: |
The candidate from Facebook: Silicon Valley's march on Washington — The tech economy elite are pouring money into Ro Khanna's campaign for Congress. What do they want in return? — It is a Thursday night in mid-May in San Francisco's North Beach and Silicon Valley is feeling its oats.| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
US intelligence chief denies reports that the NSA collected 70 million French call records — The NSA has struck back at reports that it recorded millions of French telephone calls and stored metadata from them. In a statement on Tumblr, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper …
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| Dara Kerr / CNET: |
US government releases draft cybersecurity framework — According to NIST, all levels of an organization should be involved in cybersecurity. — (Credit: The National Institute of Standards and Technology) — The National Institute of Standards and Technology released …
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nist.gov, Reuters, The Verge, Hillicon Valley, PC World, CircleID and The State of Security
| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft enables developers to add speech recognition to Windows 8 apps — Summary: Microsoft is continuing to flesh out its Bing developer platform with a new speech-recognition control, allowing coders to add speech input to their Windows 8 apps. — In July of this year …
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| David Meyer / Gigaom: |
Why in-contract price hike controls will likely mean the end of UK handset subsidies — Britain's telecommunications regulator, Ofcom, has told the country's fixed-line and mobile carriers that they will no longer be allowed to keep customers tied to their monthly contracts if they raise prices before the contract is up.
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| Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols / ZDNet: |
Linux Foundation adopts Open Virtualization Alliance and KVM — Summary: The Linux Foundation used to be just about Linux. Now it's also directly backiing virtualization with support for Linux and the Open Virtualization Alliance's KVM. — In Edinburgh, Scotland at the European LinuxCon … Sponsor Posts
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