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Google in talks to begin mass production of smartwatch, device integrated with Google Now — Google Nears Smartwatch Launch — Company In Talks With Asian Suppliers for Mass Production — TAIPEI—Google Inc.'s smartwatch is in late-stage development and the company is in talks …
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| Matthew Panzarino / TechCrunch: |
Twitter Apps For iOS, Android And Web Get In-Stream Video And Image Previews — Twitter today shipped an update that adds in-stream video and image previews to the main feed in its iOS, Android and web apps. Previously you would have to tap on links for images via Twitter or video service Vine.
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| Will Connors / Wall Street Journal: |
BlackBerry Met With Facebook Last Week on Potential Bid — BlackBerry Ltd. executives flew to California to meet with Facebook Inc. last week to gauge its interest in a potential bid for the struggling smartphone-maker, according to people familiar with the matter.| The Official Motorola Blog: |
Motorola's Project Ara: A free, open hardware platform for creating modular smartphones — Goodbye Sticky. Hello Ara. — Over the last six months, our MAKEwithMOTO team took Sticky, a truck wrapped entirely in velcro and filled with rooted, hackable Motorola smartphones …
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| Jordan Kahn / 9to5Google: |
Google adds location sharing, animated GIFs to Hangouts, integrates SMS — Today during its “A Morning with Google+” event, Google announced some updates for its Google+ service on top of sharing some improvements to Hangouts. Perhaps the biggest new feature that was announced during …
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| Mark Hosenball / Reuters: |
Exclusive: Obama orders curbs on NSA spying on U.N. headquarters — (Reuters) - President Barack Obama recently ordered the National Security Agency to curtail eavesdropping on the United Nations headquarters in New York as part of a review of U.S. electronic surveillance, according to a U.S. official familiar with the decision.| Brendan Sasso / Hillicon Valley: |
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| Jason Green / Mercury News: |
Steve Jobs house added as ‘historic resource’ — The humble home where Silicon Valley tech titan Steve Jobs built some of his first computers and co-founded Apple was added to a list of historic Los Altos properties Monday night. — The Los Altos Historical Commission voted unanimously … | Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: |
Adobe Breach Impacted At Least 38 Million Users — The recent data breach at Adobe that exposed user account information and prompted a flurry of password reset emails impacted at least 38 million users, the company now says. It also appears that the already massive source code leak at Adobe …
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| Alex Wilhelm / TechCrunch: |
LinkedIn Beats In Q3 With Revenue of $393M, EPS of $0.39, But Weak Q4 Guidance Sends Its Stock Lower — LinkedIn reported its third-quarter earnings today, with revenue of $393 million (up 56 percent) and earnings per share of $0,39. Analysts had expected LinkedIn to earn $0.31 per share, on revenue of $385 million.
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| Jason Wilson / VentureBeat: |
Oculus Rift virtual reality headset coming to mobile — but just Android, not iOS [corrected] — REDWOOD CITY, Calif. — Virtual reality meets today's mobile reality. Oculus VR announced that it's bringing its virtual-reality headset, the Oculus Rift, to mobile gaming.
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| Kevin C. Tofel / Gigaom: |
Samsung is pulling another Amazon on Android, but this is even bigger — As much as Google likes and touts that Android is open, that freedom may come with the cost of some control over the platform. Amazon may have started the first truly successful “fork” of Android, but Samsung is going after the whole place setting.
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Infosys faces record $35M fine in U.S. for using visitor visas instead of work visas — U.S. to Hit Infosys With Record Immigration Fine — Indian Outsourcing Firm Expected to Pay About $35 Million for Illegal Use of Visas — The federal government is set to slap Infosys Ltd … | Lance Whitney / CNET: |
Samsung shipped more phones than Nokia, Apple, LG combined — Samsung's Galaxy Note 3 helped it win 29 percent of the mobile phone market. — (Credit: CNET) — Samsung shipped a record 120.1 million phone phones last quarter, beating Nokia, Apple, and LG combined, Strategy Analytics said on Tuesday.
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| Somini Sengupta / New York Times: |
Warily, Schools Watch Students on the Internet — SAN FRANCISCO — For years, a school principal's job was to make sure students were not creating a ruckus in the hallways or smoking in the bathroom. Vigilance ended at the schoolhouse gates. — Now, as students complain …
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| Emil Protalinski / The Next Web: |
Firefox 25 arrives with Web Audio API support, guest browsing and mixed content blocking on Android — Mozilla today officially launched Firefox 25 for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Android. Additions include Web Audio API support, as well as guest browsing and mixed content blocking on Android.
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| Chris Ziegler / The Verge: |
Comcast rebranding mobile app to ‘Xfinity TV Go’ with live TV streaming from anywhere — Comcast will update its mobile video app and rebrand it as Xfinity TV Go as soon as this week or next, The Verge has learned. Currently known as Xfinity TV Player, the new app will launch on both Android and iOS …
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| Jason Del Rey / AllThingsD: |
Yelp Misses on Earnings, Beats on Revenue in Q3 — Yelp just announced that it posted a third-quarter loss per share, excluding certain items, of four cents on higher-than-expected revenue of $61.2 million. — Wall Street analysts had been expecting, on average, earnings of one cent per share on $59.4 million in revenue.
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| Ben Popper / The Verge: |
Dell officially goes private under founder Michael Dell and Silver Lake Partners — The company has promised a renewed focus on tablets — The long delayed and contested buyout of Dell Computers by its founder, Michael Dell, and the private equity firm Silverlake, has finally wrapped up today.
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| Nicole Perlroth / NYT Bits: |
New Vulnerability Found in Apps Using Wi-Fi — Public wi-fi networks are notoriously insecure, and now there's this: Mobile security researchers have discovered a new way for attackers to access mobile phone apps from wi-fi networks. — On Tuesday, mobile security researchers will demonstrate … Sponsor Posts
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