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Apple in Talks with Comcast About Streaming-TV Service — Companies Discuss Service That Would Try to Bypass Web Congestion — Apple Inc. is in talks with Comcast Corp. about teaming up for a streaming-television service that would use an Apple set-top box and get special treatment …
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Microsoft's $7.2B Nokia deal is officially delayed until April — Nokia and Microsoft will have to wait a little longer to press the Start button. — Microsoft's $7.2 billion acquisition of Nokia's devices and services business, originally expected to close this quarter …
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| Noam Scheiber / The New Republic: |
The Brutal Ageism of Tech — Years of experience, plenty of talent, completely obsolete — “I have more botox in me than any ten people,” Dr. Seth Matarasso told me in an exam room this February. He is a reality-show producer's idea of a cosmetic surgeon—his demeanor brash, his bone structure preposterous.| Jaikumar Vijayan / Computerworld: |
ATM operators eye Linux as alternative to Windows XP — End support for XP is prompting them to seek out Windows alternatives — Some financial services companies are looking to migrate their ATM fleets from Windows to Linux in a bid to have better control over hardware and software upgrade cycles.
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iOS 7's Multipeer Connectivity enables network creation and expansion in unconnected locations — How an Under-Appreciated iOS 7 Feature Will Change the World — A curious download hit Apple's app store this week: a messaging app called FireChat. — It's a new kind of app because it uses … | Kara Swisher / Re/code: |
Nilay Patel, No Longer Managing Editor of The Verge, Moves to Vox.com — Nilay Patel, the well-known and highly regarded managing editor of The Verge, which he founded with editor-in-chief Josh Topolsky, has left that high-profile job, according to several sources.
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| Mat Honan / Wired: |
The Next Big Health App Needs to Do More Than Just Track Our Numbers — I don't want to die. And so I exercise regularly and eat lots of vegetables and track just about every damn thing I do. I step on a scale every morning. I can tell you exactly how many steps I took on any given day …
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| Alex Wilhelm / TechCrunch: |
Change In UK Tax Law Could Raise The Price Of Music And Apps In The Country — A change in UK tax law that may take force at the start of 2015 would push the price of apps, music and other downloads and “e-services” higher in the United Kingdom. — The legal shift would see downloads charged … | Jon Russell / The Next Web: |
Sound familiar? Bitcoin exchange Vircurex freezes customer accounts as it battles insolvency — The implosion of Mt. Gox has been widely heralded as a sign of a new era of Bitcoin companies, but there are still examples of the unpredictable and shady side of the cryptocurrency world, as developments at Vircurex demonstrate.
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Vircurex, ZDNet, Computerworld, Gigaom, Electronista, Tech.pinions, SlashGear, VentureBeat, Softpedia News, SocialTimes, CoinDesk and TheDomains.com. Tweets: @jonrussell
| Matthew Panzarino / TechCrunch: |
Popcorn Time is doing for distribution of pirated movies what the movie industry needs to do for itself — The Sweet Irony Of Popcorn Time — So the big fun story of last week was this streaming movie app called Popcorn Time. Essentially, it aggregated torrent links and packaged … | Shira Ovide / Wall Street Journal: |
Cisco to invest $1B in new “Cisco Cloud Services” effort aimed at large corporate customers — Cisco Joins Race to Offer Cloud Services — Firm to Spend $1 billion in Next Two Years to Enter Market — Cisco Systems Inc. plans to begin offering “cloud” …
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Link Bubble loads web pages in the background, represents them with chat head-like bubble icon — [New App] Chris Lacy's Link Bubble Makes Browsing The Web On A Mobile Device Suck A Lot Less (Hands-On) — We're lucky to have capable mobile browsers on Android these days …
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