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Intel CEO Brian Krzanich announces McAfee brand name will be replaced by Intel Security — At CES 2014 today, Intel CEO Brian Krzanich announced the McAfee brand name will be phased out and replaced by “Intel Security,” which will identify Intel products and services in the security segment.
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| Sean Buckley / Engadget: |
Intel announces Edison: a 22nm dual-core PC the size of an SD card — Four months ago, Intel unveiled its Quark SoC at IDF. Today at CES 2014, company CEO Brian Krzanich wants to introduce you to Edison, a miniature computer based on the same technology condensed into the form factor of an SD card.| Quentin Hardy / NYT Bits: |
Intel CEO focuses on wearable and connected devices in CES keynote speech — Intel: Inside, Upon, Within, Around — Intel is trying to make good on its promises, fast. — Speaking at the preshow keynote of the International Consumer Electronics Show, Brian Krzanich, Intel's chief executive … | Kaylene Hong / The Next Web: |
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Re/code, Intel Newsroom, Intel Newsroom, VentureBeat, Ars Technica, PC World, USA Today and Engadget. Tweets: @verge
| Kaylene Hong / The Next Web: |
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| Evelyn M. Rusli / Digits: |
When Mark Met Evan — It's safe to assume that Evan Spiegel and Mark Zuckerberg are not best buds. — Spiegel, the Snapchat CEO, Monday tweeted a screenshot of an e-mail exchange from November 2012 with the Facebook chief. The exchange, confirmed as authentic by a Snapchat spokeswoman …
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| J.J. Colao / Forbes: |
The Inside Story Of Snapchat: The World's Hottest App Or A $3 Billion Disappearing Act? — THIRTEEN MONTHS AGO Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg, the richest twentysomething in history, reached out to Snapchat's Evan Spiegel, who oversees a revenue-less app that makes photos disappear, with an invitation …
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| Michael Brown / PC World: |
Asus outs the VivoTab Note 8, an 8-inch, $300 Windows tablet with a Wacom stylus — LAS VEGAS—Asus will join the likes of Dell, Lenovo, and Toshiba when it ships its new 8-inch Windows tablet powered by an Intel Bay Trail-class CPU. But the Asus VivoTab Note 8 has one key differentiator: A Wacom digitizer stylus.
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| Amanda Hess / Pacific Standard: |
The Next Civil Rights Issue: Why Women Aren't Welcome on the Internet — I was 12 hours into a summer vacation in Palm Springs when my phone hummed to life, buzzing twice next to me in the dark of my hotel room. I squinted at the screen. It was 5:30 a.m., and a friend was texting me from the opposite coast.
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| Alex Williams / TechCrunch: |
Microsoft Acquires Parature For $100M In Deal To Bolster Knowledge Base For Dynamics CRM Platform — Microsoft has acquired Parature, a customer service SaaS provider, for $100 million, according to sources close to the deal. The Parature acquisition gives Microsoft Dynamics, its CRM platform …
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| Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
Linksys resurrects classic blue router, with open source and $300 price — Now owned by Belkin rather than Cisco, Linksys joins its past to its future. — A year after purchasing the Linksys home networking division from Cisco, Belkin today brought back the design of what it called …
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| Christopher Williams / Telegraph: |
Autonomy founder Mike Lynch under fire from US Air Force over HP claims — Accounting row renewed by US Air Force report rasing possibility of Mike Lynch and two US firms being barred from federal contracts — Mike Lynch, the founder of Autonomy, has defended himself against renewed allegations …
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| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
Android on Windows gets another supporter in AMD — It's not just Intel — Last week, we told you about Intel's plans to join Windows and Android at the hip, possibly launching a new brand of computer at this year's Consumer Electronics Show that can run both operating systems simultaneously.| Ashley Feinberg / Gizmodo: |
Netgear's HDMI Dongle Is Your Storage-Friendly Answer to Chromecast — While Google's Chromecast might seem poised become the quintessential universal streaming device, it's taking a hell of a long time to get there. So in the meantime, Netgear's new NeoMediacast dongle is picking …
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| Jungah Lee / Bloomberg: |
Samsung Posts First Profit Decline Since 2011 Amid Apple Battle — Samsung Electronics Co. (005930) posted its first profit decline in nine quarters as Apple Inc. (AAPL:US)'s newest iPhones won high-end handset sales and competition from cheaper makers crimped prices.
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| Andrew Liszewski / Gizmodo: |
Polaroid's Socialmatic Camera Is All About Sharing Your Shots — We were cautiously optimistic when the concept for the real-life Instagram camera, the Socialmatic, popped up online last year. Now, despite a few concerns, Polaroid is officially making the design a reality.| Daniel Cooper / Engadget: |
Sony's new UHD TVs are built to support Netflix in 4K when it arrives — 3D? Pah. 2014 is the year that 4K makes its first grand assault upon the mainstream. Naturally, Sony is one of the names leading the charge, and is bolstering the 4K support it added to the Video Unlimited service back in September.| Michelle Maisto / eWeek: |
Induct introduces Navia, the first commercial driverless vehicle, a $250k electric shuttle — Induct Now Selling Navia, First Self-Driving Commercial Vehicle — Induct Technology has begun selling the world's first commercially available self-driving vehicle, Navia.
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| Joseph Volpe / Engadget: |
Sony's waterproof flagship Xperia Z1S coming to USA January 22 for $528 at T-Mobile — Sony Xperia Z1S: a waterproof flagship exclusive to T-Mobile (hands-on) — For the past two years, Sony Mobile could be counted on to introduce new Xperia smartphone lines at CES — the S and Z, specifically.
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The Verge, TechCrunch, CNET, Phones Review, Softpedia News, GeekWire, Pocket-lint, Gotta Be Mobile, The Next Web, Forbes, BGR, VentureBeat, Engadget, IntoMobile, 9to5Google, Guardian, Inquirer, Electronista and The Verge. Tweets: @verge
| Bruce Schneier / Wired: |
The Internet of Things Is Wildly Insecure — And Often Unpatchable — We're at a crisis point now with regard to the security of embedded systems, where computing is embedded into the hardware itself — as with the Internet of Things. These embedded computers are riddled with vulnerabilities, and there's no good way to patch them.
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| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
AT&T's Sponsored Data is bad for the internet, the economy, and you — Another brick in the wall — AT&T today announced a new “Sponsored Data” program that lets developers and brands pay to deliver content to your mobile device outside of your data caps.
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| Dana Wollman / Engadget: |
Vizio's Portable Smart Audio players run Android, play from built-in streaming apps — Don't call it a wireless speaker. Though Vizio's new Portable Smart Audio players are capable of streaming music over WiFi and Bluetooth, that's not how they were meant to be used.| Alex Colon / Gigaom: |
Corning's antimicrobial Gorilla Glass can kill bacteria on your smartphone — It's no secret that smartphones are gross. More than 59 percent of phone users have confessed to using their device in the bathroom, and those are just the people willing to admit as much to a survey.| Brian Heater / Engadget: |
MakerBot announces Replicator Mini 3D printer: one-touch printing for $1,375 — When MakerBot CEO Bre Pettis hit the CES stage today, he was joined by three tall, somewhat ominous black boxes (along with, strangely, acoustic versions of Goo Goo Dolls and Stone Temple Pilots hits).
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| Mark Hachman / PC World: |
Nuance, Intel build speech commands into PCs — finally — LAS VEGAS—PCs from Acer, Dell, HP and Lenovo will soon include Nuance's Dragon Assistant, the speech giant's technology for tweeting, Facebooking, and playing music using voice commands. — Nuance announced the partnerships here at CES …
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Computerworld and Gotta Be Mobile
| Roger Cheng / CNET: |
AT&T's connected car push shifts into high gear with Drive — The company is hoping a platform for services and a 5,000-square foot testing facility will convince the automakers to sign up for its connected services. — LAS VEGAS — AT&T is putting its money where its mouth is when it comes …
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| Emil Protalinski / The Next Web: |
Microsoft reportedly considers letting consumers pick a device and then its OS: Windows Phone or Android — We've already heard rumors that Microsoft has courted smartphone OEMs to offer dual-boot options for Windows Phone and Android, as well as looked at cutting the licensing fees that it normally charges device makers.
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TechCrunch, The Information, NYT Bits, Softpedia News, Windows Phone Central, CNET, ZDNet, WMPoweruser, WPDang, PhoneArena, GeekWire, WinBeta and BGR. Tweets: @benedictevans
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