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Court strikes down FCC's net neutrality rules, agency may appeal — An appeals court in Washington on Tuesday ruled that the FCC's “net neutrality” rules, which forbid prevent companies like Verizon from favoring some type of internet traffic over others, are invalid.
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Welcome To The Net Neutrality Nightmare Scenario — Net neutrality advocates just lost their biggest battle yet. Welcome to “Internet 3.0.” — Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Thomas Wheeler listens to public comments during a town hall meeting in Oakland, California January 9, 2014.
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Facebook Could Launch Its Flipboard-Like News Reader This Month — After years of experimentation, cancellations and redesigns, Facebook looks like it is finally going to launch in the coming weeks a news reading service built for mobile devices. — The product is known as “Paper,” …
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NSA is using radio waves to monitor and alter data on computers not connected to the Internet — N.S.A. Devises Radio Pathway Into Computers — WASHINGTON — The National Security Agency has implanted software in nearly 100,000 computers around the world that allows the United States …
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| Lorraine Luk / Digits: |
Foxconn Ships Over 1 Million iPhone 5Ss to China Mobile — Apple's major iPhone assembler Foxconn has shipped about 1.4 million iPhone 5Ss to China Mobile last week, according to a person familiar with the matter, ahead of the mobile giant's launch this Friday.| Jordan Kahn / 9to5Google: |
Google releases Moto G Google Play Edition for $179/$199 — This morning Google announced that its releasing a Moto G Google Play Edition starting at $179 for the 8GB model and $199 for the 16GB model. There isn't much of a difference between the Google Play Edition and the regular unlocked GSM model …
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Chrome 32 launches with noisy tab indicators, new Windows 8 look, better malware blocking, and supervised users — Google today released Chrome version 32 for Windows, Mac, and Linux. The new version includes tab indicators, a new look for Windows 8 Metro mode, and automatic blocking of malware downloads.| Joe Mullin / Ars Technica: |
Patent stunner: Under attack, nation's most notorious “troll” sues federal gov't — Texas lawyer Jay Mac Rust, pictured here in 2006, has been revealed as the owner of MPHJ Technology Investments. — Super Lawyers — MPHJ Technology Investments quickly became one of the best-known … | Michael J. de la Merced / DealBook: |
Oyster, the service offering access to over 100,000 books for $10 a month, raises $14 million — Oyster, a Start-Up for E-Reading, Raises $14 Million — With Netflix soaring, investors are betting that a start-up based on the same business model — but for e-books — will succeed as well.
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Coinye developers say they're abandoning project as Kanye West escalates legal battle — Kanye West has escalated his legal battle against Coinye, filing a trademark-infringement lawsuit against unnamed digital currency operators and 100 anonymous co-defendants, even as some people involved with the project appear to have abandoned it.
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Uber Cofounder Is Launching On Demand Healthcare for the 1% — Sources tell Valleywag that after housing and transportation, the latest slice of public infrastructure to get the VIP, front-of-the-line treatment is healthcare. We hear Oscar Salazar, an Uber cofounder who helped design … | Gabe Rivera / Techmeme News: |
Why Techmeme's calendar is now listing even more events — Nearly two years ago, Techmeme began listing technology events, both on its front page, which showed events expected to result in news on Techmeme, and a dedicated events page which showed the same list, but projected several more months into the future.| Elizabeth Dwoskin / Wall Street Journal: |
Startups analyze phone location data, sell lifestyle profiles of owners, often with no consent — What Secrets Your Phone Is Sharing About You — Businesses Use Sensors to Track Customers, Build Shopper Profiles — Fan Zhang, the owner of Happy Child, a trendy Asian restaurant in downtown Toronto … | Jordan Kahn / 9to5Mac: |
Apple begins hiring iPhone/iPod manufacturing design engineers for Mesa, Arizona plant — Back in November, the State of Arizona announced that Apple had chosen the city of Mesa to create a new manufacturing facility and in the process 700 new permanent manufacturing jobs.| Writankar Mukherjee / The Econonomic Times: |
Apple to relaunch 8GB version of iPhone 4 in India as sales lag — KOLKATA: Apple is set to relaunch the 8GB version of the iPhone 4 in the Indian market after losing sales and market share in the middle segment to rival Samsung in the last quarter after pulling out the model as part of a global strategy.| Kim-Mai Cutler / TechCrunch: |
Early Android Veterans Raise $18M From Accel, Google Ventures For Stealth Company, NextBit — “What? You're raising $18 million from Accel and Google Ventures and you can't even tell me what it is?” I ask Tom Moss, who brokered carrier and handset maker relationships for Google Android when the OS originally launched.| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
AOL Sells Winamp And Shoutcast For $5-10M To Radionomy, Takes 12% Stake In Belgian Digital Audio Company — Returning from the brink of death, music services Winamp and Shoutcast are now officially with a new owner: Digital audio business Radionomy has acquired the both media player and radio platform from AOL.
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| Lora Kolodny / Venture Capital Dispatch: |
Applause Raises $43M to Test Apps, Hardware ‘In the Wild’ … A startup called Applause Inc., previously known as uTest, has raised $43 million to help businesses test their Web, mobile and desktop apps “on real devices in the hands of real consumers in actual markets,” rather than in a device laboratory …
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Chicago Sun-Times to test bitcoin paywall for articles — The Chicago Sun-Times and startup BitWall have announced a trial paywall using bitcoin as payment for articles. The trial also involves the Taproot Foundation, which pairs professionals looking for pro bono work with non-profits …
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TheDomains.com, PandoDaily, Poynter, Business Insider, nbcchicago.com, CoinDesk and Mashable. Thanks:@calebgarling. See also Mediagazer
| Ellis Hamburger / The Verge: |
Tumblr now lets you mention and link to specific users inside posts — As Tumblr evolves from blog network to modern social network, it is today adding a long-awaited feature: user mentions. When you type an @ symbol into Tumblr's compose screen, a new field auto-populates a list of usernames …
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