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Fixing the Nexus 5: with a new version of Android, Google tackles the camera — Android 4.4.1 is coming to help you take better pictures — Only a few years ago, Dave Burke remembers, cellphone users were just happy to have a camera at all. But expectations have changed.
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| Bloomberg: |
Alan Mulally, considered a candidate for Microsoft CEO, commits to Ford through end of 2014 — Ford's Mulally Not Leaving Company, Board Director Says — Ford Motor Co. (F) Chief Executive Officer Alan Mulally, considered one of the leading candidates to take the top job at Microsoft Corp. …
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| Adrianne Jeffries / The Verge: |
Bank of America says Bitcoin could become a ‘major means of payment’ — Analysts at Bank of America Merrill Lynch issued the bank's first research report today on Bitcoin, the virtual currency that approximates cash on the internet, concluding that the currency has the potential to become a …
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Ryan Seacrest invests $1 million in Typo iPhone keyboard case, will debut CES 2014 — Ryan Seacrest Wanted a Keyboard for His iPhone, So He Invested $1 Million in One — Well-known entertainment personality and producer Ryan Seacrest said he had invested in a startup, which he also co-founded … | Reed Albergotti / Digits: |
Big Data, Big Bucks: Palantir Valued at $9 Billion — Palantir Technologies, the “big data” miner that the counts the CIA and the FBI among its clients, is poised to announce a new round of funding that will value the company at roughly $9 billion, according a person familiar with the matter.| Shara Tibken / CNET: |
Instagram invites press to ‘share a moment’ at NYC event — CNET today received a mysterious invite — sent via FedEx, not e-mail — from Instagram for an event it's hosting next week. — The package, wrapped with brown paper and a white ribbon, contained a wooden block …
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| Dante D'Orazio / The Verge: |
New York Times brings print edition to tablets and computers with Today's Paper web app — The daily print edition of The New York Times now has a home of its own on digital devices. A new web app called Today's Paper, released today, offers solely the articles and sections that go to print every …
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Spotify Will Launch Limited Free Mobile Access At Dec 11th Event, Source Confirms — Spotify plans to make mobile access to its music service free, The Wall Street Journal reports. Now a source confirms with TechCrunch that the free mobile tier will launch December 11th at a press event in New York.
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| Hannah Karp / Wall Street Journal: |
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| Sruthi Ramakrishnan / Reuters: |
Twitter to be available on mobile phones without Internet — (Reuters) - Twitter Inc is tying up with a Singapore-based startup to make its 140-character messaging service available to users in emerging markets who have entry-level mobile phones which cannot access the Internet.| Kevin Fitchard / Gigaom: |
Verizon quietly unleashes its LTE monster, tripling 4G capacity in major cities — We've already logged a few sightings of Verizon's powerful new LTE network in New York and other cities, but in the last few months Verizon has been rapidly working behind the scenes on upgrading its LTE infrastructure across the country.
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| Michael Mimoso / Threatpost: |
Microsoft To Patch TIFF Zero Day; Wait Til Next Year for XP Zero Day Fix — Microsoft will, next week, patch a zero-day vulnerability in its GDI+ graphics component being exploited in targeted attacks in the Middle East and Asia. — The zero day has sat unpatched since it was made public Nov. 5 … | Liz Gannes / AllThingsD: |
Heyday App Is a Journal of Your Life That Writes Itself — An iPhone app called Heyday launches today — it compiles a record of its owner's life, based on places visited and photos taken. — This is a topic I've been particularly interested in, as it becomes more evident … | John Koetsier / VentureBeat: |
BitTorrent Sync doubles users in a single month, growing ‘2 times as fast as Dropbox’ — On Nov. 5, BitTorrent Sync, the free “private cloud” solution to syncing files between your desktop, laptop, and mobile devices, hit one million users. Today, the company announced that it has hit two million users.
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| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
Apple Puts iOS 7 Adoption At 74% Based On App Store Usage Numbers — Apple has just updated its developer website for the iOS App Store to show the distribution of devices on different versions of iOS, and iOS 7 now commands a significant league, with 74 percent of devices using … | Cotton Delo / AdAge: |
Facebook Admits Organic Reach Is Falling Short, Urges Marketers to Buy Ads — Brands Urged to Think of Fan Acquisition As Way to Enhance Performance — Facebook is being more blunt about the fact that marketers are going to have to pay for reach. — If they haven't already …
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Tweets: @chrisschlosser, @lulugrimm, @jguynn, @ryanlawler and @future_of_music
Thanks:@petersontee| Jeremy Kirk / PC World: |
‘ZeroAccess’ click-fraud botnet disrupted, but not dead yet — Microsoft and law enforcement agencies said Thursday that they disrupted a botnet that defrauded online advertisers of US$2.7 million a month but that the malicious network hasn't been completely eliminated.| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
House of Representatives passes widely supported bill to fight patent trolls — A bipartisan bill that cracks down on potentially frivolous suits from “patent trolls” has passed the House of Representatives. Rep. Bob Goodlatte's (R-VA) Innovation Act passed committee in November and reached …
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Electronic Frontier Foundation, The Switch, TechCrunch, Droid Life, ZDNet, Gigaom and AllThingsD. Tweets: @paulg
| Julie Bort / Business Insider: |
Snapchat Is Raising $54.5 Million On A Valuation Of Up To $2 Billion, This Regulatory Filing Says — The sleuths at VC Experts, a site that tracks the financial information of private companies, have done it again. They uncovered a new regulatory filing that shows Snapchat is about to raise …
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| Jason Karaian / Quartz: |
Half of Twitter's board members don't tweet regularly, including newly appointed Scardino — Twitter's new board member isn't the only one who rarely tweets — When Twitter announced the appointment of Marjorie Scardino as a board member, it did it, naturally, with a tweet.
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See also Mediagazer| Bing Blog: |
Bing Maps Preview Arrives on Windows 8.1 — A first step in introducing a new way to explore the world, the Bing Maps Preview app hits the Windows Store today. Built from the ground up for clarity, detail and scale, the app provides a seamless and dynamic way to experience mapping.| The Information: |
Employee Stock Sales Boom, As Square Considers One at $5 Billion — Across Silicon Valley, employees are cashing out. — For years, the Valley's conventional wisdom has held that allowing employees to sell some stock before an initial public offering would reduce their drive and hurt retention.
Tweets: @ericnewcomer, @jessicalessin, @jessicalessin and @scottmaustin
| Nicole Lee / Engadget: |
Fleksy predictive keyboard for Android exits beta, multilingual support and iOS integration in the pipeline — Almost a year after it made its debut, Syntellia's Fleksy keyboard for Android is finally out of beta. It actually arrived on Google Play six months ago, but was only available …
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PC World, TechCrunch, Newsday, Android Community, Android Community, Android Police, PalmAddict and Ubergizmo
| Emil Protalinski / The Next Web: |
comScore: Apple takes 40.6% share as top US smartphone maker, Samsung hits 25.4%; Android stops losing share — In the US, Apple's dominance as the top smartphone OEM appears to have peaked at just above the 40 percent mark. In the last three months, Samsung gained share faster than its main competitor … Sponsor Posts
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