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T-Mobile will now pay $350 for you to leave AT&T, Sprint, or Verizon — Just as predicted, T-Mobile's latest hyped-up new plan to change the cellular industry is this: the company will pay your early termination fee if you agree to switch. While T-Mobile CEO John Legere hasn't yet announced it onstage …
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| Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
T-Mobile CEO: “This industry blows,” biggest carriers offer “horsesh**” — T-Mobile US CEO John Legere has had an eventful week at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. He was thrown out of AT&T's CES party Monday night after the company detected his presence.| Spencer E. Ante / Wall Street Journal: |
IBM Struggles to Turn Watson Computer Into Big Business — Revenue Is Far From Company's Ambitious Targets … Three years after International Business Machines Corp. began trying to turn its “Jeopardy"-winning computer into a big business, revenue from Watson is far from the company's ambitious targets.
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| Kara Swisher / Re/code: |
Microsoft CEO Selection Unlikely to Come in January, as Candidate List Contracts and Expands — The selection of a CEO to take over Microsoft is not expected to come before February, according to multiple sources, due to a range of issues, including the packed schedule of the software giant's chairman Bill Gates this month.| John Herrman / BuzzFeed: |
In interview with David Pogue, Nick D'Aloisio touts positive Yahoo News Digest reviews likely written by Yahoo employees — The Curious Case Of Yahoo's App Reviews — Summly founder Nick D'Aloisio, in an interview with Yahoo's David Pogue, touted his new app's positive reviews. But who's writing them?
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See also Mediagazer| Jason Evangelho / Forbes: |
Dell Wasn't Joking About That 28-Inch Sub-$1000 4K Monitor; It's Only $699 — Last month Dell launched a pair of UltraSharp monitors boasting 4K resolution, and dangled a sweet carrot in front of our early adopting paws: a forthcoming 28-inch Ultra HD monitor that would retail for less than $1000.
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| Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols / ZDNet: |
1 PC, 2 operating systems: Intel introduces Dual OS, AMD adds Android apps to Windows — Summary: Intel and partners are going to be bringing us PCs that run both Android and Windows 8.1. Meanwhile, AMD and its partner BlueStacks will enable users to run Android and its apps on Windows.| Brian Stelter / CNNMoney.com: |
New York Times redesign points to future of online publishing — The last time The New York Times embarked on a wholesale redesign of its Web site, in 2006, the iPhone wasn't on the market. Tablets like the iPad were still years away. — So the new design that The Times is unveiling Wednesday …
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See also Mediagazer| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Nokia's Android phone UI revealed in leaked photos — Nokia has been building its own Android phone, codenamed Normandy, and the first examples of its user interface are now starting to emerge. Evleaks has posted an image of Nokia's custom Android implementation, with three examples of how the smartphone maker has tweaked the UI.| Jeff John Roberts / Gigaom: |
Confide: an app for execs who want sensitive messages to vanish Snapchat-style — Many people associate “disappear” apps like Snapchat with young people who want to send each other bong or boob shots. But kids are hardly the only ones who want to relay sensitive or silly messages without leaving a permanent trace on the internet.
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| Greg Bensinger / Wall Street Journal: |
Amazon's Current Employees Raise the Bar for New Hires — Scores of Workers are Deputized to Vet Job Candidates, Ensure Cultural Fit — In fulfilling online orders, Amazon.com Inc. is all about expediency. The fewer people involved the better. — But when it comes to filling higher-level jobs … | Dylan Tweney / VentureBeat: |
Nuance demos two cool new things: Voice recognition for everything and Swype for smartwatches — Omate's smartwatch will include Nuance's Dragon Mobile Assistant for voice-based controls — CES 2014 … If there's one company well positioned to benefit from the rise of wearable technology, it's Nuance.
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| Ben Fritz / Wall Street Journal: |
Digital movie sales up 47% in 2013 as studios allow digital purchases before rental, physical — Sales of Online Movies Jumps; DVDs Continue to Decline — Delaying Availability of DVDs, Rentals Nudged Consumers … After years of trying to convince consumers to buy movies online … | David Meyer / Gigaom: |
France fines Google over privacy violations and makes it put a notice on its site — The French data protection authority CNIL has fined Google €150,000 ($204,000) over its unified privacy policy, which regulators believe violates European privacy law.
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| David Meyer / Gigaom: |
A quarter of British and Canadian businesses want their data taken out of U.S., according to Peer1 — The NSA's shenanigans are having a very real effect on businesses' data storage decisions, according to Canadian cloud and hosting provider Peer1. — The company surveyed 300 businesses … | Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
Kickstarter's 2013 Saw 3M Crowdfunders Pledge $480M, 19.9K Successfully Funded Projects — De facto crowdfunding kingpin Kickstarter has put out a set of performance stats for the year just gone. If you're curious about what success in a very crowded space looks like here's the skinny...| Kaylene Hong / The Next Web: |
File-sharing service Droplr now offers unlimited uploads starting from $4.99 per month — File-sharing service Droplr announced last week that it was putting an end to its free accounts, and today it is officially transitioning to a paid-only service with a 30-day free trial.
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| Lulu Yilun Chen / Bloomberg: |
Alibaba Takes On Tencent With Mobile Game Hosting Platform — Alibaba Group Holding Ltd., the owner of China's biggest e-commerce business, will start a platform hosting mobile games to compete with Asia's largest Internet company, Tencent Holdings Ltd. (700)
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| Emily Parkhurst / bizjournals: |
Seattle's fiber-network deal with Gigabit Squared is dead — Mayor Ed Murray has declared the city's deal with startup broadband company Gigabit Squared dead. In fact, the city's deal with the company may have been doomed before Murray was even elected. — “We understand the Gigabit problems … | Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
DoS attacks that took down big game sites abused Web's time-synch protocol — 69 percent of all DDoS attack traffic by bit volume in the first week of January was the result of NTP reflection. — Black Lotus — Miscreants who earlier this week took down servers for League of Legends … | Douglas MacMillan / Wall Street Journal: |
Uber CEO: Surge Pricing Is Here to Stay … Some year in the near future, Travis Kalanick could transform the car-service app Uber into a multipurpose logistics conglomerate, delivering an array of physical products around cities in addition to people. — For now, though, he's still fighting in the trenches.
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VentureBeat, The Switch, Business Insider, The Verge, Digits and The Next Web. Tweets: @mattknn
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