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Samsung Elec says Gear smartwatch sales hit 800,000 in two months — (Reuters) - Samsung Electronics Co said on Tuesday its Galaxy Gear has become the world's most popular smartwatch with sales reaching 800,000 since its debut two months ago, defying some market concerns the accessory would fail due to a lack of compelling features.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Nokia shareholders approve Microsoft deal — Nokia shareholders have approved a deal allowing Microsoft to purchase the Finnish smartphone maker's Devices and Services unit. 99.7 percent of shareholders who participated in the vote agreed with the Microsoft sale, representing around four-fifths …
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| Ashlee Vance / Businessweek: |
Dropbox Seeks Another $250 million and $8 billion valuation — Dropbox has always had a flair for the dramatic. Its CEO and co-founder Drew Houston, for example, appeared on a YouTube clip in 2012, belting out “Rocket Man” with a pint in hand at a Swiss bar—just one of several bravura performances.
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| Derek Khanna / Slate: |
Obama's Secret Attempt to Ban Cellphone Unlocking, While Claiming to Support It — Last week, WikiLeaks made public a portion of a treaty that the White House has been secretly negotiating with other nations and 600 special interest lobbyists. The draft of the Trans-Pacific Partnership Treaty …
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| Spencer Ackerman / Guardian: |
Court order that allowed NSA surveillance is revealed for first time — Fisa court judge who authorised massive tapping of metadata was hesitant but felt she could not stand in the way — A secret court order that authorised a massive trawl by the National Security Agency of Americans' email … | Olivia Solon / Wired.co.uk: |
You can't beat politics with technology, says Pirate Bay cofounder Peter Sunde — Pirate Bay cofounder Peter Sunde spoke to Wired.co.uk about the problems with the file-sharing website in its current form, the “imminent death” of peer-to-peer and the centralised services that leave us open to NSA surveillance.| Taylor Soper / GeekWire: |
Bitcoin surges to all-time high of $900, then drops below $650 in 30 minutes — The value of Bitcoin has skyrocketed in the past five days. Graph via Bitcoincharts.com. — It's Bitcoin-madness today. — On the same day the U.S. government began discussions about Bitcoin, the value of the digital currency is skyrocketing.
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| Dr. Raymond M. Soneira / DisplayMate: |
Mini tablet display comparison: Kindle Fire HDX 7 and Nexus 7 impress, iPad Mini disappoints — Mini Tablet Display Technology Shoot-Out — Introduction A new generation of Mini 7 to 8 inch Tablets from three of the major manufacturers has just completed with the belated launch of the Apple iPad mini with Retina Display.
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| Katie Fehrenbacher / Gigaom: |
Special report: Apple's ground-breaking bet on its clean energy infrastructure, with exclusive photos — Last week a utility in North Carolina announced something seemingly mundane on the surface, but it was a transcendent moment for those that have been following the clean energy sector.
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| Donna Tam / CNET: |
Uber adds PayPal payment option to drive user adoption — Uber users can now pay for on-demand car service with PayPal, kicking off a partnership that lends PayPal some mobile cred while potentially driving new users to Uber's services. — Uber is releasing new versions of its Android … | Vlad Savov / The Verge: |
Samsung makes the case for ‘bended’ phones in latest patent application — Filed in May of this year and made public this month, Samsung's latest patent application details a “method of operating functions of a portable terminal having a bended display.” You can think of this as the manual …
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| Andy Greenberg / Forbes: |
Meet The ‘Assassination Market’ Creator Who's Crowdfunding Murder With Bitcoins — As Bitcoin becomes an increasingly popular form of digital cash, the cryptocurrency is being accepted in exchange for everything from socks to sushi to heroin. If one anarchist has his way, it'll soon be used to buy murder, too.
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| Barb Darrow / Gigaom: |
Salesforce.com buys cloudconnect just in time for Dreamforce — Salesforce.com has purchased cloudconnect, a startup founded by Heroku and Salesforce.com alum Adam Gross who is now, I guess, back in the fold. — The news was posted — with scant details — on cloudconnect's web page which read:
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| Hamish McKenzie / PandoDaily: |
Tencent to launch international version of free 10TB storage service. New photo-sharing app coming soon to US — Tencent, China's largest Internet company, will release an international version of its 10TB cloud storage product next year, and within the coming weeks it'll launch … | Joe Mullin / Ars Technica: |
Newegg hurtles toward Texas showdown with famed “patent troll” — MARSHALL, TX—Who is Michael Jones, and what did he invent? — After five years of legal battles over Jones' patent involving hundreds of lawsuits and tens of millions of dollars in payments, that question still has no clear answer.
Tweets: @cipherlaw
| Marissa Mayer / Yahoo: |
Yahoo will encrypt all information moving between its data centers by the end of Q1 2014 — Our Commitment to Protecting Your Information — We've worked hard over the years to earn our users' trust and we fight hard to preserve it. — As you know, there have been a number of reports …
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