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Sources: new Samsung Gear smartwatch to run on Tizen, not Android — Samsung's updated smartwatch to shun Android — SAN FRANCISCO - The new version of Samsung's Gear smartwatch will run on Tizen, not Google's Android operating system, the latest attempt by the South Korean electronics giant … | Chris Ziegler / The Verge: |
Samsung plans to launch new Galaxy Gear models next week — Samsung could take the wraps off multiple new Galaxy Gear wearables at the Mobile World Congress trade show in Barcelona next week, according to a source familiar with the company's plans. The announcements would come just half …
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| Kate Kaye / AdAge: |
Amazon and Apple struggle with ad growth because they're “slow, cocky and downright stingy” according to media buyers — Why Can't Amazon And Apple Catch a Break on Madison Ave? — Advertising Sales Are a Tough Slog for Both — And for A lot of the Same Reasons — Goodby, Silverstein and Partners| Matt Burns / TechCrunch: |
Google Explains How Not To Be A Glasshole — Here are the do's and don'ts of wearing Google Glass. Right from Google. — Apparently — and I know this might be a shocker — you're not supposed to stand in the corner of the room and record people with Google Glass.
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| Emil Protalinski / The Next Web: |
Microsoft SkyDrive becomes OneDrive, gets camera backup for Android, real-time co-authoring, and easier video sharing — Microsoft today officially relaunched SkyDrive as OneDrive, giving its existing users access to their files on the new service by simply logging in at onedrive.com.| Douglas MacMillan / Digits: |
Peter Magnusson, former engineering director at Google, joins Snapchat as a VP of engineering — Snapchat Poaches Google Veteran in Engineering Push … “What differentiates Snapchat from most other tech companies is that the service constantly erases messages from its servers …
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| Mikey Campbell / AppleInsider: |
Apple patents sensor-packed health monitoring headphones with ‘head gesture’ control — In one of the earliest pieces of evidence pointing to Apple's push into the fitness and health monitoring field, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office on Tuesday granted the company a patent … | Colleen Taylor / TechCrunch: |
Whisper publicizes and claims it vetted a new Gwyneth Paltrow affair rumor shared by a user — Whisper, The Sequoia-Backed Secret Sharing App, Makes A Move Into TMZ Territory — Whisper, the popular anonymous social sharing startup that's raised $24 million from venture capital giants …
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Upsetting the app cart: Asian messaging services challenge mobile order — (Reuters) - Asian chat services KakaoTalk, LINE and WeChat threaten to overturn the mobile order of things, usurping the role of Google Inc, Apple Inc, Amazon.com Inc, Facebook Inc and telecoms carriers as gatekeeper to the consumer.| Ina Fried / Re/code: |
No New Windows Phone Models on Tap for Barcelona — It's shaping up to be a rough Mobile World Congress for Microsoft, with little new expected on either the hardware or software front for Windows Phone. — The Barcelona event will see the debut of dozens of new Android phones, said sources …
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Iranian infiltration of US Navy computer network far more extensive than previously thought — Iranian Hacking to Test NSA Nominee Michael Rogers — Infiltration of Navy Computer Network More Extensive Than Previously Thought — WASHINGTON—Iran's infiltration of a Navy computer network …
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| Naomi Tajitsu / Reuters: |
NZ court overturns earlier High Court decision, rules raids on Dotcom's mansion were legal — NZ court rules Megaupload warrant legal, dealing blow to Dotcom — (Reuters) - A New Zealand court on Wednesday ruled that the search warrant used in the arrest of Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom …
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| Dan Farber / CNET: |
Artemis aims to eliminate congestion, dead zones and unreliable connections in cellular networks using pCell technology — Is pCell the Holy Grail of wireless networking? — Serial entrepreneur Steve Perlman claims that his new patented technology can create the wireless network of our dreams.| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Password leak in WeMo devices makes home appliances susceptible to hijacks — Security researchers have taken the unusual step of recommending that people stop using Belkin's WeMo home automation products after uncovering a variety of vulnerabilities that attackers can exploit to take control …
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Krebs on Security, US-CERT, SlashGear, Help Net Security, Lifehacker, MacNN, eWeek, CNET, SecurityWeek, SC Magazine, Network World, Threatpost and Softpedia News. Tweets: @weldpond
| Alex Wilhelm / TechCrunch: |
New Bing Apps For Windows Phone Point To Increasing Platform Unity From Microsoft — This morning Microsoft announced updates to Bing apps for Windows Phone (News, Finance, Weather, Sports), and new Bing-based apps for the smartphone platform: Food and Drink, Health and Fitness, and Travel.
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Search Blog, Windows Phone, The Verge, The Windows Blog, Softpedia News, CNET, The Next Web and WinBeta
| Jerome Segura / Malwarebytes Unpacked: |
Banking trojan ZeusVM retrieves configurations hidden inside image files — Hiding in plain sight: a story about a sneaky banking Trojan — The Zeus/Zbot Trojan is one the most notorious banking Trojans ever created; it's so popular it gave birth to many offshoots and copycats.| Eric Blattberg / VentureBeat: |
Mayfield raises $108M fund for investments in India — The Mayfield Fund is bullish on India. — Founded in 1969, the global venture capital firm will soon announce the closing of a $108 million fund focused exclusively on investments in India. It filed paperwork for the fund with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission today.
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| Diane Cardwell / New York Times: |
Newark Airport tests sensor network embedded in light fixtures to analyze passengers — At Newark Airport, the Lights Are On, and They're Watching You — Visitors to Terminal B at Newark Liberty International Airport may notice the bright, clean lighting that now blankets the cavernous interior …
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Opera Opens Pre-Registration For Its Data-Savings Android App — Last December, Opera announced Max, a free app that would use Opera's servers to compress all the non-encrypted data to your Android device. At the time, it opened up sign-ups for a small private alpha test, but starting today … | Alex Konrad / Forbes: |
Accounting Software Maker Intacct Takes On $45M To Pick Up The Pace — Financial management software may seem a sleepy area in tech, destined for a back office and without the buzz of more consumer-facing business products like Dropbox or Square. But there's major money to be had in riding the space …
| Phil Goldstein / FierceWireless: |
AT&T, IBM partner on Internet of Things for smart cities, utilities — AT&T (NYSE:T) said it will work with cloud and computing giant IBM to developer machine-to-machine solutions for the Internet of Things, specifically for things like smart cities and utilities.
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IBM, Fortune, Turbo Todd, ValueWalk, PC World, VentureBeat and SlashGear
| Christian Zibreg / iDownloadBlog.com: |
Realmac adds iPad support to Clear for iPhone, migrates Clear+ users to Clear for free — Realmac Software has finally added native iPad support to its popular Clear to-do application for the iPhone and iPod touch. They're also moving customers from Clear+ back to Clear for free.
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Tweets: @dancounsell, @tapbot_paul and @useclear
| Jordan Crook / TechCrunch: |
Bitstrips Is Raising $15 Million — Bitstrips, an app for building personalized comic strips, is raising a hefty Series B. We've heard from sources familiar with the matter that Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers is taking the lead. — The deal hasn't yet closed, so the amount isn't confirmed …
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