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| Amir Efrati / jessica lessin: |
Android's Next Targets: Wearables, TVs, Low-End Phones — The launch of Google Inc.'s Android KitKat, the next version of the most widely used operating software for smartphones and tablets, is drawing near. Google executives haven't announced a release date but people who have been briefed on KitKat say that it is coming soon.
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| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
New FAA Guidelines Permit More Device Use, All The Way From Take-Off To Landing — For years now, most of us have been quietly not turning off our phones and devices at landing and take off, and merely putting the screens to sleep and stuffing them in seat pockets instead.
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| Matt McGee / Marketing Land: |
Google's Glass Accessory Store Is Coming Online (Wow. Stuff's Expensive!) — Google is bringing an official accessory store for Google Glass online this evening, based on reports first shared in a private Google forum for Glass Explorers. — The store appears to be part of the “My Glass” …
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| Matt Buchanan / New Yorker: |
After Walt Mossberg and David Pogue: Waiting for the Next Great Technology Critic — For well over a decade, the two most influential voices about consumer technology have been a sixty-six-year-old man who lives just outside of Washington, D.C. and a fifty-year-old man who resides in Westport, Connecticut.
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| Dan Primack / Fortune: |
Why are Internet startups raising so much, so fast? — Snapchat, Pinterest and Nextdoor are all raising money before the ink is even dry on their last VC checks. Why? — FORTUNE — Pinterest last week announced that it had raised $225 million in new funding, just eight months after raising $200 million.| Washington Post: |
How the NSA is infiltrating private networks — The NSA, working with its British counterpart, the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), secretly taps into the internal networks of Yahoo and Google, the two biggest Internet companies by overall data traffic.
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| Andrea Peterson / The Switch: |
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| Mike Masnick / Techdirt: |
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| Doug Madory / Renesys: |
Google DNS Departs Brazil Ahead of New Law — In response to recent NSA spying allegations, Brazil is pressing ahead with a new law to require Internet companies like Google to store data about Brazilian users inside Brazil, where it will be subject to local privacy laws.| Michael Winter / USA Today: |
Coast Guard visits mysterious ‘Google barge’ — Agency mum on trip and San Francisco vessel's purpose, citing “commercial confidentiality.” —The Coast Guard on Wednesday visited the mysterious “Google barge” floating in San Francisco Bay, but the agency would not reveal anything about the tech giant's hush-hush vessel.| Richard Lawler / Engadget: |
Pandora for Android adds Chromecast streaming (update: iPhone too) — When Google's Chromecast streaming device launched, the company mentioned it would stream stream music from Pandora eventually and now that day has arrived. At least on Android, a new version 5 of the app is available …
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| Lisa Chow / NPR: |
Top Reviewers On Amazon Get Tons Of Free Stuff … You're on Amazon.com. You're buying, say, a toaster, and you're checking out the customer reviews. You assume the people writing these reviews are people like you — people who wanted a toaster, went online and bought one.
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| Wall Street Journal: |
NSA Fallout Hits AT&T's Ambitions In Europe — AT&T Inc. T -0.03% 's ambitions to expand in Europe have run into unexpected hurdles amid the growing outcry across the region over surveillance by the National Security Agency. German and other European officials said any attempt by AT&T …
| Rich McCormick / The Verge: |
Steam rises to 65 million active users, eclipsing Xbox Live — Steam now has more than 65 million active accounts. The figure marks a 30 percent rise in players over the last year. The video game digital download platform also boasts daily peak concurrent users of more than six million.| Somini Sengupta / New York Times: |
No U.S. Action, So States Move on Privacy Law — State legislatures around the country, facing growing public concern about the collection and trade of personal data, have rushed to propose a series of privacy laws, from limiting how schools can collect student data to deciding whether the police need a warrant to tap cellphones.
Tweets: @astepanovich
| Phys.org: |
Future Internet aims to sever links with servers — This is a diagram showing how information would be shared on the PURSUIT Internet, compared with the present architecture. Credit: Barney Brown, University of Cambridge. — A revolutionary new architecture aims to make the internet more … | RIA Novosti: |
Ex-NSA Contractor Snowden Finds Computer Job in Russia — Fugitive former US security contractor Edward Snowden has found a website maintenance job in Russia, his lawyer said Thursday. — Snowden, who was granted temporary asylum in Russia this summer, will start work November 1 in maintaining …
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| Parmy Olson / Forbes: |
Flurry in 400K apps, tracks 1.2B devices a month with a reach greater than Facebook or Google — Meet The Company That Tracks More Phones Than Google Or Facebook — Picture this scenario. A bored woman sits waiting in an airline lounge. She scrolls through her iPhone and taps …
Tweets: @forbes
| Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: |
Fantastical 2: The calendar Apple should have built... again — After bringing natural language input to the mobile calendar experience with Fantastical for iPhone last November, Flexibits today released a brand new version of what was already my absolute favorite calendar app.
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MacStories, Engadget, iMore, The Verge, iPhone, Gigaom, TechCrunch, iMore, TUAW, Redmond Pie, Pocket-lint, PandoDaily, Cult of Mac, TechHive and The Next Web
| Bloomberg: |
Twitter Stays Mum on Profit on Roadshow Ahead of IPO — Twitter Inc. (TWTR) sought to drum up investor interest this week for its initial public offering by talking about mobile growth and advertising capacity. Notably absent from the list: profits. — At the money-losing company's roadshow meetings … | Rachel King / ZDNet: |
Salesforce.com adds private storefront option to AppExchange — Summary: Essentially, the idea is to satisfy employee demands for the latest web and mobile apps within the boundaries of each IT department's rules and regulations. — SAN FRANCISCO—Salesforce.com's annual (and ever-growing) …
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The Next Web, VentureBeat, Gigaom, TechCrunch, InfoWorld and CITEworld
| Josh Lowensohn / CNET: |
Apple working on a fix for new Retina MacBook input issues — Apple on Wednesday acknowledged an issue with some models of its newest MacBook Pro with Retina Display that would leave the keyboard and trackpad unresponsive. — Those computers were released last week alongside the debut of new iPads.| Kevin C. Tofel / Gigaom: |
Sprint intros first phones to tap its trio of 4G LTE network frequencies — Sprint will have three smartphones on sale November 8 that can support all three of the its 4G LTE frequencies, with a fourth smartphone coming soon. The company is calling its technology Sprint Spark …
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PC World, Sprint, Engadget, AndroidHeadlines.com, Computerworld and Droid Life
| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook Admits Some Decrease Of Usage Amongst Young Teens For The First Time — Facebook may be feeling the pinch from teen-focused, mobile-first social networks like Snapchat, as CFO David Ebersman said on today's earnings call that Facebook “did see a decrease in daily users specifically …
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