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Obama bans spying on leaders of U.S. allies, scales back NSA program — (Reuters) - President Barack Obama announced a ban on U.S. eavesdropping on the leaders of close friends and allies on Friday, and rein in the vast collection of Americans' phone data in a series of reforms triggered by Edward Snowden's revelations.
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President Obama's NSA reforms show both promise and peril — The president's NSA changes have potential to increase privacy, but need concrete action — President Obama just announced big changes to America's massive government surveillance programs, promising to add new safeguards …
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Guardian, The Switch, CNET, Betabeat, Computerworld, PC World, Senator Wyden's Press Feed, TechFreedom, Access Blog, VentureBeat, TechCrunch, SiliconBeat, Gotta Be Mobile, eWeek, and Softpedia News. Tweets: @joshuatopolsky
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EFF's scorecard rates Obama's proposed NSA reforms at 3.5 out of 12 — Obama's NSA Reform Scorecard — Will Obama Hit the Mark on Real NSA Reform?| Cecilia Kang / The Switch: |
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Dropbox Raises About $250 Million at $10 Billion Valuation — BlackRock Is Leading the Deal Alongside Previous Backers — Dropbox Inc. has closed on about $250 million in a funding round that values the online-storage provider at close to $10 billion, according to two people familiar with the deal.
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Intel announces plans to cut 5% of its 107k workforce this year — Intel to reduce global workforce by five percent in 2014 — (Reuters) - Intel Corp plans to reduce its global workforce of 107,000 by about 5 percent this year as the chipmaker, struggling with falling personal-computer sales …
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HTC Said to Plan New One Phone With Larger Screen, Better Camera — HTC Corp. (2498) plans a March release for the latest version of its HTC One smartphone featuring a larger screen and twin-sensor rear camera, according to a person with direct knowledge of the plans.
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Building an open source Nest — Earlier this week, Google bought Nest, a connected devices company, for $3.2 billion. This might seem like an ungodly sum for a company that makes thermostats and smoke detectors, but it makes absolute sense. Nest's products are beautifully designed …
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| Dan Primack / Fortune: |
Andreessen Horowitz raising $1.5 billion for new fund — Andreessen Horowitz is raising its fourth fund in six years. — FORTUNE — Venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz is in the process of raising $1.5 billion for its fourth fund, Fortune has learned.
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Exclusive: Cybercrime firm uncovered six active attacks on U.S. merchants — The sign outside the Target store is seen in Arvada, Colorado January 10, 2014. — (Reuters) - The cyber security firm IntelCrawler said on Friday that it has uncovered six ongoing attacks at merchants across …
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| Nick Summers / Businessweek: |
ATMs, 95% of which run Windows XP, must upgrade by April 8 to avoid losing support — ATMs Face Deadline to Upgrade From Windows XP — One-dollar bills. Envelope-free deposits. Stamp dispensers. These are a few of the features that Wells Fargo (WFC), Bank of America (BAC) … | Google Research Blog: |
Google visualizes data from Google Play Music to show changes in music genres over the decades — Explore the history of Pop — and Punk, Jazz, and Folk — with the Music Timeline — With newspapers, blogs, and websites wrapping up their Top Ten album lists for 2013 … | Andrew Martonik / Android Central: |
Sprint Wifi Calling poised to debut on two Samsung phones — Calling requires software update but no monthly fee; only supported in the U.S. — T-Mobile may soon no longer be the only major carrier offering first-party Wifi calling, as Sprint apparently is preparing to launch a system of its own.| Greg Bensinger / Digits: |
Amazon patents method for anticipating your purchases to move them to a shipping hub near you — Amazon Wants to Ship Your Package Before You Buy It — Amazon.com knows you so well it wants to ship your next package before you order it. — The Seattle retailer in December gained …
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Code points to a Google “Fitness API” allowing Android apps to view and edit activity data — Google Works on a Fitness API for Android — Wearables are now the next big thing. A lot of companies develop smart watches, smart glasses and head-up displays, smart headphones, smart clothes.
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BGR, ReadWrite, Gotta Be Mobile, Computerworld, AndroidHeadlines.com, Google Developers Blog, Electronista, 9to5Google, Phandroid, Engadget and Droid Life. Tweets: @arjunram
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Path launches for Windows Phone as a public beta — Path today quietly launched an app for Windows Phone, but there's a small catch: it's a public beta. Nevertheless, the social network has arrived on Microsoft's mobile platform and you can grab the app now directly from the Windows Phone Store.
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Path, TechCrunch, Softpedia News, My Nokia Blog and Gotta Be Mobile
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VP Of Product Michael Sippey Is Leaving Twitter — Twitter's Vice President of Product Michael Sippey just announced that he's stepping into an advisory role at the company, then moving on to, well, something else. — In a company email that Sippey also posted on his blog, he said he realized that … | David Kravets / Wired: |
Supreme Court to Decide if Warrants Needed to Search Mobile Phones — The Supreme Court today agreed to decide the unsolved constitutional question of whether police may search, without warrants, the mobile phones of suspects they arrest. — The justices did not immediately schedule … | Rebecca Grant / VentureBeat: |
With 60M downloads, BitTorrent's Bundle experiment is paying off — The Internet has created a world where value is determined by virality. — BitTorrent is contributing to the evolution of how content gets shared. The creator of file-sharing technology revealed today that people … | Alex Howard / E Pluribus Unum: |
California court rules blogger has same First Amendment protections as traditional media — Here's the summary of the decision, published earlier today: … You can read the whole thing ruling (appropriately enough) or the backstory on the case of the Obsidian Finance Group and defendant Crystal Coxat …
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Motorola slashes Moto X's wood finishes from $100 to $25, reveals three new designs coming January 21 — Motorola today announced it is slashing the price of the Moto X's wood finishes from a $100 premium to just $25 on Moto Maker. Furthermore, in addition to Bamboo, the Google-owned company …
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The Official Motorola Blog, PC Magazine, Droid Life, IntoMobile and 9to5Google
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Apple details secure ‘touchless’ e-wallet strategy in patent filing — Apple has been coy in revealing its plans for a touchless payment solution, but a patent filing discovered on Thursday gives clues as to where the company is headed. — Tech companies like Google are looking …
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Patently Apple, MacRumors, MacDailyNews, Payments News, BGR and iLounge. Thanks:@_trendspotter
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In Sign of Maturing Smartphone Market, Q1 Sales Expected to Drop From Previous Quarter — For two years now the global smartphone market has continued to be bigger each quarter than it was the last. — In a sign that the market is now starting to mature, though, analysts at TrendForce project …
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press.trendforce.com, The Droid Guy, Gigaom, 9to5Google and ZDNet
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Google developing “Chromoting” remote desktop management app for iOS — Google has been working on a remote desktop management app for Android devices called “Chromoting” since last year, but today an entry in the Chromium issue tracker has revealed that an iOS version is also under developement.
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