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Sprint Preparing a Bid for T-Mobile US — An Offer Would Test U.S. Regulators's Willingness to Have Just 3 Major Carriers — Sprint Corp. is working toward a possible bid for rival T-Mobile US Inc., people familiar with the matter said, setting the stage for a giant telecom merger …
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| John Paczkowski / AllThingsD: |
iPhones Dominate Sales at All Four Major U.S. Carriers — Apple's latest iPhones are topping the charts at U.S. carriers. — That's the latest from Canaccord Genuity analyst T. Michael Walkley, who says that the iPhone 5s and iPhone 5c have been among the top three sellers …
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Google Removes Vital Privacy Feature From Android, Claiming Its Release Was Accidental — Yesterday, we published a blog post lauding an extremely important app privacy feature that was added in Android 4.3. That feature allows users to install apps while preventing the app …
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| Jason Del Rey / AllThingsD: |
Report: Readers who own a Kindle spend $1,233/year on Amazon; those who don't spend $790 — The Amazon Kindle Numbers That Jeff Bezos Must Really Care About — We all know that Amazon's annual touting of its new Kindles as the best-selling Kindles ever has become laughable since the company …
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NSA review to leave spying programs largely unchanged, reports say — A participant in a White House-sponsored review of surveillance activities described as “shameful” an apparent decision to leave most of the National Security Agency's controversial bulk spying intact.
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| Michael Sippey / Twitter Blog: |
Reverting the changes to block functionality — Earlier today, we made a change to the way the “block” function of Twitter works. We have decided to revert the change after receiving feedback from many users - we never want to introduce features at the cost of users feeling less safe.
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iOS 7.1 likely to unlock Apple's upcoming iOS in the Car feature — In July, we reported that Apple was already at work at iOS 7.1 and that it would build in support for the upcoming iOS in the Car feature: … iOS in the Car is a feature that allows customers to attach an iOS device … | Robert McMillan / Wired: |
U.S. Government Nastygram Shuts Down One-Man Bitcoin Mint — Mike Caldwell spent years turning digital currency into physical coins. That may sound like a paradox. But it's true. He takes bitcoins — the world's most popular digital currency — and then he mints them here in the physical world.
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| Horace Dediu / asymco.com: |
How many Americans will be using an iPhone when the US smartphone market saturates? — As previously noted, the US smartphone market has followed an almost perfectly logistic growth. The measured data (via comScore, in green below) follows a predictive logistic function (thin blue whose formula is discussed here).
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By cracking cellphone code, NSA has capacity for decoding private conversations — The cellphone encryption technology used most widely across the world can be easily defeated by the National Security Agency, an internal document shows, giving the agency the means to decode most of the billions …
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Google considering moving away from Intel with its own, ARM-based server chips — Google Said to Mull Designing Chips in Threat to Intel — Google Inc. (GOOG) is considering designing its own server processors using technology from ARM Holdings Plc (ARM), a move that could threaten Intel Corp. …
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| Bloomberg: |
Verizon close to buying Intel's Internet-based pay-TV startup OnCue, may announce the deal next week — Verizon Said Near Agreement to Buy Intel's Start-Up TV Service — Verizon Communications Inc. (VZ) is near an agreement to purchase Intel Corp. (INTC)'s Internet-based pay-TV start-up, according to people familiar with the deal.| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Leaked Facebook Video Ad Pitch Deck Reveals Plans To Steal TV And YouTube Dollars — “Avoid saying anything negative about YouTube - leave the impression of the user experience up to them” Facebook tells its adtech partners in a leaked, confidential deck that teaches them to sell Facebook's video ads.
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| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
Flush with cash, Oculus plans ambitious new VR headset — Is virtual reality finally ready for primetime? — According to Oculus Rift inventor Palmer Luckey, virtual reality is near and dear to Marc Andreessen's heart. Twenty years ago — before he created the Mosaic web browser … | Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
| Alex Colon / Gigaom: |
Holiday deal: Get $50 off the Nexus 7 at Office Depot — This holiday season, it seems that if you try you really hard, you don't have to pay full retail price for almost anything. This week has brought us good deals on tablets from Amazon and Apple, and now you can get quite a nice price on this year's Nexus 7 as well.
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