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Samsung Plans Galaxy S5 by April With Possible Eye-Scan Security — Samsung Electronics Co. (005930) will release its Galaxy S5 smartphone by April and is considering using iris scanning technology for the first time as it readies the new high-end handset to compete with Apple Inc. (AAPL)'s latest iPhones.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
New Gmail Feature Allows Anyone On Google+ To Email You & Vice Versa, But Opt Out Is Provided — Google is today making a change to Gmail that will further bake in Google+ to its webmail product in a way that's actually somewhat practical, though also potentially invasive.
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Overstock.com becomes the first major online retailer to accept bitcoins, will use Coinbase's payment system — The Grand Experiment Goes Live: Overstock.com Is Now Accepting Bitcoins — Overstock.com is now accepting payments in bitcoin, making it the first major online retailer to embrace … | Ellis Hamburger / The Verge: |
Snapchat apologizes for leaked user data, updates app to let you opt out of ‘Find Friends’ — Snapchat today rolled out the security fix it promised last week, which lets users opt out of the app's “Find Friends” feature. The feature, which let users plug in their phone number to find friends … | Businessweek: |
The Bitcoin-Mining Arms Race Heats Up — Joel Flickinger's two-bedroom home in the hills above Oakland, Calif., hums with custom-built computing gear. Just inside the front door, in a room anyone else might use as a den, he's placed a desk next to a fireplace that supports a massive monitor …
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| Stephanie Bodoni / Bloomberg: |
Google Data Chief Says ‘Flawed’ EU Privacy Law Is Dead — Google Inc. (GOOG)'s top privacy official said the European Union's “flawed” attempt to overhaul data-protection rules is “dead” and urged politicians to go back to the drawing board. — “Europe's much-ballyhooed, and much-flawed …
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Gartner: PC shipments slip 6.9% to 82.6m units in Q4 2013, the seventh consecutive quarter of decline — The PC market continues to be in free fall, having now seen its seventh consecutive quarter of declining worldwide shipments. Worldwide PC shipments dropped to 82.6 million units …
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Yahoo malware turned European computers into bitcoin slaves — Search firm remains silent on how its ad servers infected Windows PCs of visitors to homepage — As many as two million European users of Yahoo may have received PC malware from virus-laden ads served by its homepage over a four-day period last week.
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Surprise: Amazon tests physical retail with ‘Kindle Kiosk’ vending machines — LAS VEGAS — Amazon, the company that defined the world of online commerce, is venturing further into the world of physical retail — experimenting with standalone, automated “Kindle Kiosk” vending machines in selected airports and shopping malls.
Tweets: @dannysullivan
| Matt Brian / Engadget: |
Social calendar app Sunrise finally comes to iPad — Launching on iPhone in February 2013, Sunrise changed our perception of calendar apps with its ability to provide more context to daily events. By connecting to Google, iCloud, Facebook, LinkedIn and Foursquare accounts …
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UPDATED: Facebook To Sunset Sponsored Stories April 9 — Facebook's sponsored stories have seen their highs and lows, with the lowest low occurring when the ad unit became the subject of a class-action lawsuit, but sponsored stories will be history after April 9, according to a list …
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Apple, Samsung CEOs agree to mediation in U.S. patent fight: court filing — (Reuters) - Apple Inc and Samsung Electronics have agreed to attend a mediation session to be held on or before February 19, as they prepare to clash in court in March over smartphone patents.
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| Matt Asay / TechRepublic: |
Google's master plan for Android: More Internet users paying $6.30 a pop — The mobile industry is headed to Google, who is in an ideal position to clean up at roughly $6.30 per Internet user per year. — Forget today's smartphone profits: Apple and Samsung increasingly split those relatively evenly … | Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Nokia brings folders to Windows Phone with its Lumia Black rollout — Nokia is once again extending and improving Windows Phone. While Microsoft has implemented Live Tiles across Windows Phone, Nokia is adding a new App Folder interface that allows Windows Phone users to stack apps and settings into a folder Tile on the Start Screen.| Stephanie Armour / Wall Street Journal: |
Lenders Use Social Media to Screen Borrowers — Regulators Have Concerns About Lenders' Use of Facebook, Other Sites — WASHINGTON—More lending companies are mining Facebook, Twitter and other social-media data to help determine a borrower's creditworthiness or identity …
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