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The NSA's Secret Spy Hub in Berlin — According to SPIEGEL research, United States intelligence agencies have not only targeted Chancellor Angela Merkel's cell phone, but they have also used the American Embassy in Berlin as a listening station. The revelations now pose a serious threat to German-American relations.
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| Abby Ohlheiser / The Atlantic Wire: |
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| Chris Velazco / TechCrunch: |
Samsung Launches Five SDKs To Lure Developers Into Its Hardware Web — Samsung kicked off its first Developer Conference in San Francisco today, and the Korean tech juggernaut is eager to show just how much it cares about the devs building apps and services for its hardware ecosystem.| Jonathan Cheng / Wall Street Journal: |
| Wall Street Journal: |
Samsung signs three-year deal to supply NBA with courtside tablets and monitors — NBA Teams Up With Samsung — The National Basketball Association has signed a wide-ranging, $100 million deal with Samsung Electronics Co. to bring the South Korean company's technology courtside at its games …
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| Mike Isaac / AllThingsD: |
Syrian Electronic Army Targets President Obama in Latest Hack — Add President Obama to the list of the latest high-profile hacks. — A handful of sites affiliated with the President's campaign organization, Organizing for Action, were compromised by a group of hackers on Monday morning …
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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
iPad Air Supplies Expected to Be Plentiful at Launch With In-Store Pickup Available — When Apple launches orders for the iPad Air on Friday, November 1, the company will reportedly accept requests for Personal Pickup, according to a source who notified MacRumors about Apple's plans.
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Nielsen's New SDK Adds Mobile Viewing To Its Traditional TV Ratings, Uses Data From Facebook To Match Demographics — After months of trials, Nielsen today is announcing an SDK that will give it the ability to measure how people view TV on mobile apps and other digital formats …
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| Kara Swisher / AllThingsD: |
Twitter to Wait Until After IPO to Name Woman — Likely With International Cred — to Board — According to sources close to the situation, Twitter is planning on waiting until after its IPO — which is set to take place next week — to name its first woman to its board.
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| Shane Cole / AppleInsider: |
Another daylight saving time bug strikes Apple's iOS 7, affects calendar display — Owners of iOS devices running the latest version of Apple's mobile operating system awoke to a display error in iOS 7's calendar app caused by the switch to daylight saving time.| Jennifer Baker / PC World: |
Google's European antitrust remedies don't cover google.com searches — Google's proposal aimed at dodging a fine from the European Commission for allegedly breaking competition rules doesn't include any changes to how search results are presented on the Google.com domain.
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| Todd Wasserman / Mashable: |
Starbucks Lets You Buy Coffee for a Friend via Twitter — In the '70s, a Coke ad envisioned a day in which you could buy the world Coke to promote harmony. Now, Starbucks is letting you do something similar, with the help of Twitter. — The coffee giant is launching a beta program called Tweet …
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Fast Company, TechHive, ABC News, The Switch, GeekWire, Business Insider, POPSUGAR, TIME, [a]listdaily, TechnoBuffalo and Digital Trends. Tweets: @starbucks. Thanks:@jimprosser
| Shara Tibken / CNET: |
Nvidia expands Shield controller capabilities to thousands of Android games — Nvidia has opened its Shield gaming device up to the universe of Android games, adding console support to thousands of games originally designed for touch screens. The Santa Clara, Calif., graphics chipmaker said the Shield … | Hayden Dingman / PC World: |
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