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January 7, 2014, 1:15 AM

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Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:

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.

More: CNET, The Verge and VentureBeat. Tweets: @theromit

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.

More: The Verge, Engadget, Mercury News and NYT Bits

Kaylene Hong / The Next Web:

Intel unveils series of wearable devices, including a smartwatch and fitness-tracking earbuds

More: Re/code, VentureBeat, The Verge, Engadget, PC World, USA Today, Intel Newsroom, Ars Technica and Intel Newsroom. Tweets: @verge

Kaylene Hong / The Next Web:

Intel confirms it will power devices that run both Windows and Android

More: The Verge and VG247

Kwame Opam / The Verge:

Intel announces that every processor released in 2014 will be conflict mineral free

More: Ars Technica, Co.Exist, Engadget and Tech Trader Daily

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 …

More: Forbes, Valleywag, NEWS.com.au, Business Insider, Mashable, Ubergizmo and Betabeat

Tweets: @fmanjoo, @tim, @violetblue, @forbes and @kate_pierce

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 …

More: CNET. Tweets: @evanspiegel, @dmac1, @fmanjoo, @evanspiegel, @evanspiegel, @evelynrusli and @evelynrusli

Kate Tummarello / TheHill:

Snapchat hires lobbyists for the first time

More: Om Malik, SiliconBeat, Re/code, bizjournals and Mashable

Tweets: @jwherrman and @nicoleperlroth

Thanks:@lutherlowe

Eric Limer / Gizmodo:

Asus ZenFones: An Android Army with Intel Inside — After years of bringing you the horror/glory that is the PadFone and FonePad, Asus is branching out on its fone offerings and introducing not one, not two, but three flavors of “ZenFone,” Android handsets with ultrabook lineage.

More: The Verge, The Verge, AnandTech, Softpedia News, LAPTOP Magazine and Engadget. Tweets: @tomwarren

Michael Brown / PC World:

Asus outs the VivoTab Note 8, an 8-inch, $300 Windows tablet with a Wacom stylus

More: The Verge, CNET, The Verge, Liliputing, Gotta Be Mobile, Ubergizmo, Liliputing and Forbes

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.

More: VentureBeat, Inquirer, GeekWire, 9to5Google, The Next Web, The Verge, Electronista, Engadget, Softpedia News, IntoMobile and Gotta Be Mobile

Roger Cheng / CNET:

Xperia Z1S a lifeline as Sony treads water in US

More: The Verge, Gizmodo, LAPTOP Magazine, Guardian, BGR, Forbes and Pocket-lint. Tweets: @verge

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 …

More: GeekWire, ZDNet, Re/code, Business Insider and Wall Street Journal. Tweets: @hebbark

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.

More: TechCrunch. Tweets: @kashhill

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.

More: The Verge, Gigaom, BGR, BetaNews, The Register, Digits, Gigaom, AppleInsider, The Switch, WebProNews, iMore, VentureBeat, Gizmodo, NYT Bits and Gotta Be Mobile

Tweets: @fugueish, @adamludwin, @nytimesbits and @rudy

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 …

More: Engadget, CNET, ZDNet, Maximum PC and PC Magazine

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 …

More: Gigaom, The Verge and CNET

John Coté / San Francisco Chronicle:

S.F. to charge operators of tech commuter buses — (01-06) 13:18 PST SAN FRANCISCO — The operators of employee shuttle buses for Silicon Valley technology and Peninsula biotech firms, which have become a symbol of income disparity in San Francisco, will start paying to use public bus stops, city officials said Monday.

More: Los Angeles Times, Reuters, CNET, Valleywag and Business Insider

Tweets: @mcbridesg, @markasaurus, @ellenhuet and @bradstone

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.

More: Computerworld, Reuters, Electronista, CNET, Reuters and Wall Street Journal

Tweets: @turleymuller and @satariano

Matt Blaze / Guardian:

NSA revelations: the ‘middle ground’ everyone should be talking about — The NSA's Tailored Access Operations show there's a way to be safe and get good intelligence without mass surveillance — As if there wasn't already enough NSA mass surveillance to worry about, last week we got a peek …

Tweets: @guardianus, @mattblaze and @ethanz

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.

More: Computerworld, Associated Press, LAPTOP Magazine, VentureBeat, Forbes and Digital Journal

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.

More: CNET, MacRumors, Softpedia News, AppleInsider, Geek.com, The Register, PhoneArena, iClarified, m.blog.laptopmag.com, iDownloadBlog.com, 9to5Mac, MacStories, Gotta Be Mobile, The Verge and Engadget

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.

More: The Next Web, Gizmodo and Variety

Katie Roof / Fox Business:

Source: AOL Tried to Buy Business Insider for $100M+ — AOL Inc. (AOL) offered to purchase BusinessInsider.com, a popular business and technology news website, for more than $100 million but talks ultimately broke down when the two sides couldn't agree on price, the FOX Business Network has learned.

Tweets: @katie_roof and @cgasparino

Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch:

Pebble Reveals The Pebble Steel For $249 Shipping Jan. 28; App Store Coming Soon — Smartwatch pioneer Pebble is introducing something everyone has been waiting for at CES this year: new hardware. But the hardware isn't so new that it throws the baby out with the bath water …

More: Pebble, The Verge, Re/code, CNET, ReadWrite, iClarified, TechRepublic, ZDNet, Digits, Business Insider, WebProNews, Gotta Be Mobile, Ars Technica, iPhone in Canada Blog, Engadget, CNET, TIME, IntoMobile, Inquirer, AppleInsider, VentureBeat, Gigaom and Fortune

Bloomberg:

Apple promises to diversify its board after shareholder pressure — Apple Facing Criticism About Diversity Changes Bylaws — Apple Inc., facing behind-the-scenes pressure from some shareholders to add more female directors and executives, has taken a step to address the criticism and diversify its board.

More: Los Angeles Times, iDownloadBlog.com, Business Insider, MacRumors, iPhone in Canada Blog, MacNN, AppleInsider and Ars Technica

Mat Smith / Engadget:

Samsung's new Galaxy Tab Pro series comes in 12-, 10- and 8-inch sizes, but looks a little too familiar (hands-on) — Not stopping with its new productivity-centered Galaxy Note Pro, Samsung has three more tablets to launch this year. Say hello to the Galaxy Tab Pro, in 12.2-, 10.1- and 8.4-inch screen sizes.

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).

More: PC Magazine, Gigaom, VentureBeat, Tech Trader Daily, Gizmodo and The Verge

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.

More: Gizmodo, Gizmodo and The Verge

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