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US govt secretly created “Cuban Twitter” to stir unrest, sought funding from Jack Dorsey — US secretly created “Cuban Twitter” to stir unrest — WASHINGTON (AP) — In July 2010, Joe McSpedon, a U.S. government official, flew to Barcelona to put the final touches on a secret plan …
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See also Mediagazer| Apple: |
Apple Worldwide Developers Conference Kicks Off June 2 at Moscone West in San Francisco — Developers Can Apply for WWDC Tickets Starting Today — Apple® today announced that it will hold its annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) June 2 through June 6 at San Francisco's Moscone West.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Speech Recognition Pioneer Novauris Bought By Apple, Team Now Works On Siri — Apple quietly acquired an automatic speech recognition (ASR) technology company called Novauris Technologies, which grew out of Dragon Systems R&D U.K. Ltd., the British research subsidiary of Dragon Systems, a well-known voice dictation pioneer.| Kara Swisher / Re/code: |
Mozilla Co-Founder Brendan Eich Resigns as CEO, Leaves Foundation Board — Brendan Eich, the well-known techie who has gotten swept up in a controversy about his support of California's anti-gay marriage law Proposition 8, is resigning as CEO of for-profit Mozilla Corporation and also from the board …
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| Amir Efrati / The Information: |
Google mulls offering wireless voice and data services in Fiber markets, talked with Sprint, Verizon about buying, reselling network access — Google Weighs a Plunge into Mobile Phone Services — After thrusting itself into competition with U.S. cable operators, Google is inching closer to competing with wireless carriers, too.| Mike Beasley / 9to5Mac: |
iOS 7 bug allows anyone to disable Find My iPhone and bypass Activation Lock without a password — Starting with iOS 7, deleting an iCloud account or restoring a device requires Find My iPhone to be disabled. Find My iPhone, in turn, requires the user to enter the password for the Apple ID attached to the iCloud account.
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| Russell Holly / Geek.com: |
Google is testing an army of new features for Gmail — There's a whole new wave of features being considered for Google's popular email client, and on the list is more tabs, a new pin system, and the ability to temporarily quiet an email notification. — Email is one of those things … | Seth Weintraub / 9to5Google: |
Google plans significant overhaul of many of its native and web apps in 'Google 2.0′/wearable push — Yesterday we got a look at a beta version of the upcoming Gmail app for Android which includes new Travel, Purchases, and Finance categories in addition to the Social, Promotions … | Jenna Wortham / New York Times: |
Imgur, the Image-Sharing Site, Raises $40 Million From Andreessen Horowitz — If you spend any measurable amount of time on the Internet, you've likely visited — or at least looked at — an image hosted on Imgur (pronounced “image-er"). — The photo-sharing service is extremely popular … | Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft open sourcing more developer tech: .NET Compiler Platform, C#, Visual Basic, more — Microsoft open sources more of its .Net technologies — Summary: From the truth-is- stranger-than-fiction files, Microsoft — along with its mobile-dev tool partner Xamarin …
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| David Meyer / Gigaom: |
European Parliament passes strong net neutrality law, along with major roaming reforms — European fans of the open internet can breathe a sigh of relief: the European parliament has passed a major package of telecoms law reform, complete with amendments that properly define and protect net neutrality.
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See also Mediagazer| David Ruddock / Android Police: |
[Rumor] “Android Silver” May Be Google's Attempt To Finally Provide A Premium Android Sale And Support Experience — If there's one thing we hear time and again about Android, it's the F word: fragmentation. While it's largely just an annoying word used to get under the skin of Android fans … | Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
How Amazon Fire TV Stacks Up To Apple TV, Chromecast And Roku — Amazon has just announced its streaming TV media device, the Fire TV, and that means it now faces off against other tech giants and incumbents in yet another category. So how does the Amazon TK compare to the likes of the Apple TV …
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IFTTT now works with iOS push notifications and looks great on the iPad — If you're a user of popular personal productivity service IFTTT (If This Then That) who also has an iPhone, iPad or iPod touch, maybe you've wished that you could use iOS push notifications in your recipes.
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| Matthew Panzarino / TechCrunch: |
Twitter's Vine Introduces Direct Video Messaging — Twitter's Vine has introduced a feature that allows you to message other users directly via video. This adds both a direct messaging channel and video clips to its messages, a big addition to Twitter's video app.
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| Brooke Crothers / CNET: |
Intel outs 64-bit KitKat Android, ‘Braswell’ chip for Chromebooks — Intel is touting a future system-on-a-chip for low-cost PCs and tablets and a 64-bit version of Android 4.4. — Toshiba's Chromebook uses a low-cost Intel Celeron processor. Intel's upcoming Braswell chip could find its way into future Chromebooks.
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Turkey lifts Twitter ban: official — A Turkish national flag with the word ‘offline’ projected on it, is seen through a Twitter logo in this photo illustration taken in Zenica, March 21, 2014. — (Reuters) - Turkey's telecoms authority lifted a two-week-old ban on Twitter on Thursday …
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See also Mediagazer| Farhad Manjoo / New York Times: |
Inside Stanford's Virtual Human Interaction Lab; see what Zuck saw just weeks before Oculus buy — If You Like Immersion, You'll Love This Reality — The news that Facebook paid $2 billion for a virtual reality start-up, Oculus VR, might strike you as a bit zany.| Blair Hanley Frank / GeekWire: |
Azure updates: 99.95% DB uptime, SQL DBs up to 500GBs, load management on sites, more — Microsoft announces broad swath of new features for Azure — SAN FRANCISCO - There are some big new features afoot for Microsoft Azure. As a part of the company's Build developer conference …
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Google stock split creates nonvoting class, lets founders retain control when new stock issued — New Google Shares Hit Market as Founders Cement Grip With Split — More than 330 million new shares of Google Inc. (GOOG) land in the U.S. equity market today, completing a two-year process through …
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| Cade Metz / Wired: |
Twitter details its “Manhattan” real-time distributed database that helps it scale — This Is What You Build to Juggle 6,000 Tweets a Second — When you open the Twitter app on your smartphone and all those tweets, links, icons, photos, and videos materialize in front of you, they're not coming from one place.
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The Twitter Blog. Tweets: @kevinweil, @jeffsand, @andypiper, @scode, @andresplazar, @henrikjoreteg and @syrneus
| Amy Schatz / Re/code: |
Tech Giants Team Up With Pharma to Protect Software Patents — Concerned that the value of their patents could be in some danger, Apple, Microsoft and IBM have teamed up with major pharmaceutical companies and manufacturers to launch a new industry group to talk up the value of the current patent system … | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Tesco Buys Into Ad Tech As Big Data Division Dunnhumby Nabs Sociomantic For Over $100M — UK-based Tesco, the world's second-largest retailer after Walmart, has made a killing in its sector by jumping early into the use of big data, collected via loyalty cards as well as through stores and online …
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Sociomantic Labs, ExchangeWire.com and MediaNama
| Kevin Fitchard / Gigaom: |
FireChat's anonymous, off-grid messaging app arrives on Android — FireChat has been on a rollercoaster ride since developer Open Garden released it for iOS last month, peaking at well over 100,000 iTunes downloads a day last Tuesday. Open Garden is now hoping for a repeat performance, this time on Android.
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