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| Andy Greenberg / Forbes: |
An NSA Coworker Remembers The Real Edward Snowden: ‘A Genius Among Geniuses’ — Perhaps Edward Snowden's hoodie should have raised suspicions. — The black sweatshirt sold by the civil libertarian Electronic Frontier Foundation featured a parody of the National Security Agency's logo …
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| Josh Gerstein / Politico: |
Judge: NSA phone program likely unconstitutional — A federal judge ruled Monday that the National Security Agency program which collects information on nearly all telephone calls made to, from or within the United States is likely to be unconstitutional. — U.S. District Court Judge …
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| Sara Morrison / The Wire: |
‘60 Minutes’: NSA Good, Snowden Bad — As if that whole retracted Benghazi report and the Amazon commercial/drone reveal didn't undermine 60 Minutes' credibility enough in the last few weeks, here's another gem: a report on how the NSA has simply been misunderstood by all those Snowden leaks and is a good guy, really.
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See also Mediagazer| Simon Sharwood / The Register: |
NSA alleges ‘BIOS plot to destroy PCs’ — Un-named PC maker sought help to defeat un-named nation's PC-bricking plan — Senior National Security Agency (NSA) officials have told US news magazine program “60 Minutes” that a foreign nation tried to infect computers with a BIOS-based virus …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Windows Phone 8.1 includes notification center and Siri-like personal assistant — Microsoft is preparing to ship its Windows Phone 8.1 update with two significant changes: a notification center and a Siri-like personal assistant. Sources familiar with Microsoft's plans have revealed … | Nick Wingfield / NYT Bits: |
Photosynth creator and architect of Bing mobile and mapping leaves Microsoft to join Google — A Microsoft Star Goes to Google — SEATTLE — Blaise Agüera y Arcas, a respected engineer and software designer at Microsoft, has left the company to join its rival Google.
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| David Carr / New York Times: |
AOL's Tim Armstrong reluctantly lets go of Patch as shareholder pressures mount — AOL Chief's White Whale Finally Slips His Grasp — Tim Armstrong, the chief executive of AOL, is finally winding down Patch, a network of local news sites that he helped invent and that AOL bought after he took over.
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See also Mediagazer| Cory Doctorow / Boing Boing: |
Amazon takes away access to purchased Christmas movie during Christmas … Yes, Disney is stupid and evil for doing this. But when Amazon decided that it would offer studios the right to revoke access to purchased videos, they set the stage for this. They stuck the gun on the mantelpiece in Act One …
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TorrentFreak, Gizmodo, AllThingsD, TechHive, DSLreports, Guardian and Softpedia News. Tweets: @chartier
| Will Connors / Wall Street Journal: |
Two More Executives Leaving BlackBerry — EVP of Global Sales, Official in Charge of M&A Strategy to Depart in Weeks — TORONTO—The leadership upheaval at BlackBerry Ltd. continues under interim Chief Executive John Chen, according to people familiar with the matter.
| Josh Halliday / Guardian: |
Google will not answer to British court over UK privacy claim — Search giant insists lawsuit concerning UK internet users' privacy should be brought in California where it is based — Google has been called “arrogant and immoral” for arguing that a privacy claim brought by internet users …
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PR Newswire, Gigaom, Telegraph, 9to5Google, SlashGear, BBC, Daily Mail, TechWeekEurope UK, PC Pro and Mashable
Tweets: @raycorrigan, @ellieaskswhy and @joshhalliday
| Brian R. Fitzgerald / Digits: |
As Walt Mossberg exits, WSJ's new personal tech team includes Geoffrey Fowler and new hires Joanna Stern, Wilson Rothman, and Nathan Olivarez-Giles — WSJ Announces Personal Tech Reviewing Team — Today we are announcing expanded Wall Street Journal coverage of personal technology …
Tweets: @nottechmeme, @qthrul, @geoffreyfowler, @blam, @scottmaustin, @joannastern, @waltmossberg and @dsilverman. See also Mediagazer
| David Streitfeld / NYT Bits: |
Amazon Strikers Take Their Fight to Seattle — Amazon employees in Germany have been battling the retailer with a series of wildcat strikes, most recently at the end of November. These protests, involving hundreds of Amazon workers at two fulfillment centers, have been the first strikes …
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Reuters, VatorNews, ZDNet, The Register, GeekWire, Motherboard, Bloomberg, Softpedia News, BBC and Forbes
| Jean-Louis Gassée / Monday Note: |
Despite higher ARPU generated by smartphones, carriers still complain of subsidy burden — Shameless Carriers — By Jean-Louis Gassée in mobile internet 4 Comments Tags: att, iphone, verizon … Until about two weeks ago, it seemed that our major wireless carriers had given …
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stratechery, Mobile Marketing Watch, Businessweek, eWeek, Reuters, BGR, iMore, iLounge, Wonkblog, Ubergizmo, T3 News and Felix Salmon
| Peter Kafka / AllThingsD: |
TV Check-In Company Viggle Buys Facebook Publisher Wetpaint — Viggle, the company that rewards people for watching TV shows, has bought Wetpaint, a Facebook-centric publisher that specializes in writing about TV shows. — The deal, which is costing Viggle $30 million in cash and stock … | Glenn Peoples / Billboard: |
The Download Hits Middle Age (and It Shows) — The slow but steady rise of on-demand services like Spotify and Rdio coincided with a drop-off in sales for various download fomats. — The digital download hit middle age in 2013. Although retirement may be far in the future …
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