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Netflix agrees to pay Comcast to improve its streaming speeds — Deal Ends Standoff Over Streaming, Would Give Netflix Direct Access to Comcast Systems — Netflix Inc. has agreed to pay Comcast Corp. to ensure Netflix movies and TV shows stream smoothly to Comcast customers …
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Inside The Netflix/Comcast Deal and What The Media Is Getting Very Wrong — On Sunday, Comcast and Netflix announced a commercial interconnect relationship between the two companies, which is in the very early stages of implementation, and as a result, many who clearly don't understand how the Internet works are writing about the news.
| Timothy B. Lee / The Switch: |
Comcast's deal with Netflix makes network neutrality obsolete — For the past two decades, the Internet has operated as an unregulated, competitive free market. Given the tendency of networked industries to lapse into monopoly—think of AT&T's 70-year hold over telephone service, for example—that's a minor miracle.
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| Peter Kafka / Re/code: |
Netflix and Comcast Solve Their Web Traffic Problem With a Long-Term Deal — Comcast and Netflix have hammered out a deal designed to remove a bottleneck slowing the video service's streams for the cable company's broadband customers. — The deal focuses on the intersection between … | Joe Belfiore / Windows Phone Blog: |
Scaling Windows Phone, evolving Windows 8 — A lot of you folks know me as “the Windows Phone guy.” Over the past five years I've been co-managing the Windows Phone product team on a mission to make Windows Phone a delightful and successful platform. Recently my job changed to focus …
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| Richard Lai / Engadget: |
Huawei announces TalkBand B1 smart watch with 1.4 inch flexible OLED display and removable earpiece — Huawei's first smartband has a pop-out earpiece for voice calls — Huawei hasn't exactly been keeping quiet about its very own wearable device, so today's announcement of its TalkBand B1 should be no surprise to anyone.| Chris Hall / Pocket-lint: |
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Firefox OS getting interface overhaul in coming months — BARCELONA, Spain — Big changes are coming to Firefox OS over the next year as Mozilla moves the browser-based operating system away from its current Android-style functioning. — At the Mobile World Congress show here Sunday …
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| Raphael Minder / New York Times: |
In a First for Spain, a Woman Is Convicted of Inciting Terror Over Twitter — MADRID — The line between youthful rebelliousness and something more dangerous is not always clear. But in her angry musings on Twitter, Alba González Camacho, 21, who describes herself as a “very normal girl,” sailed across it.| Andy Greenberg / Forbes: |
Apple's ‘Gotofail’ Security Mess Extends To Mail, Twitter, iMessage, Facetime And More — First, Apple revealed a critical bug in its implementation of encryption in iOS, requiring an emergency patch. Then researchers found the same bug is also included in Apple's desktop OSX operating system …
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| Dana Wollman / Engadget: |
HP's Pavilion x360 convertible has a low price, decidedly Yoga-like design — If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, Lenovo ought to be tickled right now. HP just announced the 11-inch Pavilion x360, and it takes more than a few cues from Lenovo's iconic Yoga design.
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| MG Siegler / ParisLemon: |
What will unify the fragmented world of mobile apps like Google unified the web? — A New Glue For A New Kingdom — To me, the most exciting part of the Facebook/WhatsApp deal has nothing to do with the deal itself. Instead, I'm excited about the ramifications of such a deal.
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Allen & Co. Flourishes as a Tech Deal Maker — Facebook's WhatsApp Purchase Highlights Allen & Co.'s Rise in the Technology Sector — Allen & Co. has long been a big player in media and entertainment deals. Facebook Inc. 's $19 billion acquisition of WhatsApp Inc. highlights …
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| Jeff Bercovici / Playboy: |
The Playboy Interview: A Candid Conversation with Gawker's Nick Denton — Manti Te'o had a fake girlfriend. Rob Ford smoked crack. Brett Favre texted photos of his junk to a young woman. That these and countless other onetime secrets are now public knowledge is thanks to Nick Denton … | Robin Sidel / Wall Street Journal: |
Mt. Gox CEO Resigns From Bitcoin Foundation Board — Mark Karpeles, chief executive of Mt. Gox, the embattled Toyko-based bitcoin exchange, resigned on Sunday from the board of the Bitcoin Foundation, according to a person familiar with the situation. — The move comes as amid a string …
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| Kara Swisher / Re/code: |
Facebook Price for Having No Phone OS? $19 Billion. A Must-Have Apps Play? Priceless. — Everyone in a room I was in today dropped their jaws in disbelief when I told them the news that Facebook had forked over $19 billion to buy the global mobile messaging service WhatsApp.| Nicholas Carlson / Business Insider: |
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