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Google Nexus phones vulnerable to denial-of-service attack via SMS — Attackers could force phones from Google's Nexus line to reboot or fail to connect to the mobile Internet service by sending a large number of special SMS messages to them. — The issue was discovered by Bogdan Alecu … | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Over 400 Retailers Are Offering Deals On New “Bitcoin Black Friday” Website — Bitcoin burning a hole in your pocket? Probably. If so, a new site has popped up to help you spend your digital currency during this hectic holiday shopping week: “Bitcoin Black Friday.”
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| Kara Swisher / AllThingsD: |
While Mulally/Nadella Remain the Favorites, Bates Is Silicon Valley's Choice for Microsoft CEO — About 10 days ago, AllThingsD reported once again that Ford CEO Alan Mulally was in the lead position to take over as CEO of Microsoft, with one internal exec as the No. 2 choice.| Reuters: |
Vietnam announces big fines for social media ‘propaganda’ — (Reuters) - Vietnam will hand out fines of 100 million dong ($4,740) to anyone criticizing the government on social media, under a new law announced this week, the latest measure in a widening crackdown on dissent by the country's communist rulers.
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Thanksgiving Digest (IBM E-Commerce Edition): Mobile 43% Of All Traffic, Over 25% Of All Online Sales — For many years, Black Friday - the day after Thanksgiving - marked the start of the holiday shopping rush. But with many (not all) physical stores closed on Thanksgiving … | Alexis C. Madrigal / The Atlantic Online: |
Why Did 9,000 Porny Spambots Descend on This San Diego High Schooler? — A voyage into the strange underworld of spambots, shady marketing, and non-human intelligence. — It was around 5pm last Thursday when Olivia, a San Diego high school student, noticed that something interesting was going on with her Twitter account.| Jamie Rigg / Engadget: |
A closer look at the Jolla phone: good intentions, bad delivery (video) — Jolla's self-titled and first smartphone launched in partnership with Finnish carrier DNA this week, with a few hundred handsets finding their way to early pre-orderers. Today, a couple of familiar faces …
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Apple Objects to Monitor's Fees in E-Books Antitrust Case — Apple Inc. said a monitor appointed by a judge to oversee antitrust compliance in its electronic books price-fixing case is charging too much money. — “Of all all known past Apple matters,” no lawyer has had a higher rate …
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Instagram says Thanksgiving 2013 was its busiest day so far, but fails to share exact figures — Instagram today announced that Thanksgiving 2013 in the US was “the busiest day on Instagram so far,” thanks to a massive flood of Thanksgiving and Hanukkah-related photos and videos.
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| Devindra Hardawar / VentureBeat: |
Mobile rules Walmart: Accounted for 53% of Thanksgiving traffic, new mobile customers up 3 times — Black Friday is just beginning, but Walmart has already seen some impressive stats from shoppers on Thanksgiving day — especially when it comes to mobile. — The retail giant announced …
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| Chance Miller / 9to5Google: |
Moto G now available on Amazon, ships December 4 — Motorola's ultra-afordable Moto G finally became available in the United States earlier this week from the company's website, and now the device is available via Amazon (via Android Central). The online retailer is selling the device …
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| Shane Cole / AppleInsider: |
Apple's iOS brings developers 5x more revenue per download than Android — Despite Android's significantly larger installed base, iOS continues to dominate in monetization with a five-times-greater return rate for developers — a sign that Cupertino's market segmentation strategy is paying dividends for application creators.
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A look at Cicada 3301, the mysterious and unsolved Internet puzzle that may be a search for talented cryptologists — The internet mystery that has the world baffled — For the past two years, a mysterious online organisation has been setting the world's finest code-breakers a series of seemingly unsolveable problems.Sponsor Posts
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