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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
This is Nokia X: Android and Windows Phone collide — It's official, the Nokia X Android phone is here. Microsoft might be buying Nokia's phone business shortly, but the Finnish smartphone maker is still pushing ahead with the a launch of three Android-powered handsets today.
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| Ian Delaney / Nokia Conversations: |
Nokia announces X, X+, and XL low-cost Android phones “to appeal to new smartphone users” outside North America — Xtraordinarily xcellent: the Nokia X family — Today Nokia introduces a brand new family of smartphones, the Nokia X family, a range of handsets that combines Nokia design … | Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
Nokia Forks Android In Mobile Services Push — $122 Nokia X Will Also Be Lumia “Feeder” — Sony Taps Its Display, Gaming, And Photography Might For Latest Mobile Flagships — More proof, if proof were needed, that Android won the smartphone OS wars: Nokia, the former world No.1 smartphone maker and …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Messaging Giant WhatsApp, With 465M Users, Will Add Voice Services In Q2 Of This Year — Today Jan Koum, the CEO of WhatsApp — acquired by Facebook last week for $19 billion — announced that the messaging giant is finally moving into voice — a move announced at MWC, the conference …
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| eBay Inc: |
eBay Inc. Responds to Carl Icahn's Feb. 24 Open Letter to Stockholders — New eBay shareholder Carl Icahn has cherry-picked old news clips and anecdotes out of context to attack the integrity of two of the most respected, accomplished and value-driven technology leaders in Silicon Valley.| Reuters: |
Icahn accuses eBay board members Marc Andreessen and Scott Cook of conflict of interest — Icahn accuses eBay board members of conflicts of interest — (Reuters) - Billionaire investor Carl Icahn accused eBay Inc Chief Executive John Donahoe of failing to spot - or ignoring …
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| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Sony's SmartBand fitness tracker will launch worldwide in March — Sony's SmartBand, the first product powered by the company's new Core fitness tracker, will be released worldwide in March. We got our first look at the product back at CES in January, and Sony is showing it off yet again here at Mobile World Congress.
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| Brooks Barnes / New York Times: |
Moviefone Is Hanging Up, but Its App Will Go On — LOS ANGELES — Mr. Moviefone's lines are going dead. — For 25 years, residents of America's biggest cities have been able to call 777-FILM to receive movie listing information and buy tickets. The service's goofily booming greeting became … | Sam Oliver / AppleInsider: |
Apple sues Chinese government agency over Siri patent dispute — Apple has targeted both a Chinese government agency and a Shanghai-based company in a new patent lawsuit related to the ownership of Siri, the voice-driven personal assistant found on iPhone and iPad.| Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica: |
Qualcomm's 4- and 8-core Snapdragon 610 and 615 trade CPU power for 64-bit — Cortex A53 won't stand up to Krait, but Qualcomm adds a capable GPU to the mix. — Qualcomm's first 64-bit chip wasn't a record-breaking high-end Snapdragon, but rather the modest, mid-range Snapdragon 410.
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| Avram Piltch / LAPTOP Mag: |
Intel Announces Next-Gen, 64-Bit Merrifield / Moorefield CPUs for Smartphones — Intel has long been the leader in desktop and laptop processors, but the company hasn't made much headway in the smartphone market as only a handful of handsets, none of which currently ship in America …
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AnandTech, The Next Web, BetaNews, ZDNet, Unwired View, Engadget, VentureBeat, SlashGear, TechSpot and Gigaom. Tweets: @zdnet
| Brad Molen / Engadget: |
HTC's ‘flagship mid-range’ Desire 816 packs a large display, decent cameras and LTE — BY BRAD MOLEN @PHONEWISDOM FEB 24TH 2014 10:33AM — That HTC “Desire 8” you've been seeing lately? It's finally unveiled as the Desire 816, a “flagship mid-range” phone that promises to be competitively priced …
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Re/code, CNET, ZDNet, TechCrunch, The Next Web, The Verge, TechHive, AnandTech and SlashGear
| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
Next-Gen YotaPhone Follow-Up Unveiled, With Full-Touch E-Ink Rear Screen — Russian mobile-making startup Yota Devices has just unveiled the next generation of its dual-screen smartphone, the YotaPhone. — As with the current first-gen model, which went on sale in Russia and select European markets …
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Engadget, Gizmodo, IntoMobile, Geeky Gadgets, I4U News and The Next Web
| Dan Rayburn / StreamingMediaBlog.com: |
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.
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VideoNuze Analysis, Forbes, DailyTech, TheHill, Washington Post, TIME, I4U News, WebProNews, Gigaom, Softpedia News and The Register
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Oracle To Buy BlueKai For Estimated $350M to $400M, Deal Presents Big Challenges — Oracle will acquire data services and technology company BlueKai for an estimated $350 to $400 million, bringing together one of the largest enterprise software companies with a market leading data management platform (DMP).
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Oracle, Digits, Business Insider and Gigaom
| Megan Geuss / Ars Technica: |
Security certification group EC-Council's website defaced with Snowden passport — A screencap of the defaced EC-Council page. — The website for EC-Council, an “International Council of E-Commerce Consultants,” was defaced on Sunday evening. The hacker, who went by Eugene Belford …
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The Verge, PC World, InfoSec News and Softpedia News
| Barb Darrow / Gigaom: |
SAP and Rackspace jump on the Cloud Foundry bandwagon — In a move that could bolster Cloud Foundry's position as an enterprise-class Platform-as-a-Service standard, SAP and Rackspace are throwing their weight behind the effort. — Those two companies, both newbies to Cloud Foundry …
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VentureBeat, Forbes, InfoWorld, I4U News, Business Cloud News, The Register and ZDNet. Tweets: @scottmcnealy
| Liz Stinson / Wired: |
New study analyzes Instagram selfies to constrast gender, age, and other features by city — Fantastic Infographics, Drawn From A Study of Millions of Instagram Selfies — Right now, there are more than 79 million photos on Instagram that fall under #selfie.| The Verge: |
Live from Mark Zuckerberg's Mobile World Congress keynote — Mark Zuckerberg takes the stage at Mobile World Congress today to deliver his first keynote at the conference. We have Tom Warren on text duties and Aaron Souppouris on photos today. Everyone wants a piece of the Zuck.
| Matt Stroud / The Verge: |
The minority report: Chicago's new police computer predicts crimes, but is it racist? — Chicago police say its computers can tell who will be a violent criminal, but critics say it's nothing more than racial profiling — When the Chicago Police Department sent one of its commanders …
Tweets: @levie, @raniakhalek and @dorothyeroberts
| Derrick Harris / Gigaom: |
IBM buys NoSQL cloud database startup Cloudant — IBM is at it again in the cloud computing space, this time acquiring Boston-based cloud database startup Cloudant. The company, which runs a distributed cloud document store based on the Apache CouchDB technology, was founded in 2008 …
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