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Jury Finds Samsung Phones Infringe on Several Apple Patents, Awards $119.6 Million — A federal jury ruled Friday that Samsung infringed on at least one of the patents that Apple had sued over in its latest patent case. — The jury found all accused Samsung phones infringed on the first patent at issue …
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| Florian Mueller / FOSS Patents: |
Apple wins $119 million in patent damages from Samsung, wanted $2.2 billion: mixed verdict — The Apple v. Samsung II jury didn't want to go into another week of deliberations and rendered a verdict just minutes before the end of the scheduled deliberation time.
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| Jillian D'Onfro / Business Insider: |
PayPal director of strategy Rakesh Agrawal fired for insulting coworkers in late-night tweets — PayPal Exec No Longer With The Company After Insulting Colleagues In Late-Night Tweets — Less than two months after getting hired to be PayPal's new director of strategy, Rakesh “Rocky” …
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Valleywag and Re/code. Tweets: @rakeshlobster, @rakeshlobster, @alex, @mikeisaac, @edbott and @joshconstine
| James Galbraith / Macworld: |
2014 MacBook Air benchmarks: new processors perform better, flash storage is slower compared to 2013 models — Lab tested: New 2014 MacBook Air benchmarks — Apple on Tuesday released a minor update to its MacBook Air line of laptops. The changes included a subtle 100MHz increase …
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iPhone in Canada Blog, MacRumors, iMore and MacNN
| Ryan Whitwam / Android Police: |
Updated Google Drive app now requires separate Docs and Sheets apps to edit files — Google Drive App Updated To v1.3 - Now Requires New Docs And Sheets Apps For Editing Capability [APK Download] — Google is sneaking one more update in this week, and it's an odd one.
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| Lucas Mearian / Computerworld: |
SanDisk announces 4TB SSD, hopes for 8TB next year — SanDisk's new drive family has up to 4TB capacity for data center use — SanDisk this week announced the industry's first 4TB enterprise-class SAS solid-state drive (SSD) in its Optimus MAX product based on 19-nanometer process technology.
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Google swiftly denied alleged leak that claimed AdSense was stealing money from publishers — Google Is Enraged By A Fake Conspiracy Theory That It Is Stealing Money From Publishers — Perhaps the most startling “news” to have emerged about Google this week was a deliciously detailed …
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White House seeks legal immunity for telecom firms complying with court orders for customer data — White House seeks legal immunity for firms that hand over customer data — Obama administration asks legislators drafting NSA reforms to protect telecoms firms for complying with court orders, Guardian learns
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New York Times, SlashGear and emptywheel
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Turkey's Erdogan: One of the World's Most Determined Internet Censors — Some Worry Prime Minister's Tactics Could Become a Template for Other Countries — ISTANBUL—Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan rode around Google Inc. headquarters last spring in the company's self-driving car … | Emil Protalinski / The Next Web: |
Google Now for Android updated to keep cards loaded when you lose service — Google today updated Google Search for Android with a very useful Google Now improvement: cards will now stay loaded even when you lose service. You can download the new version now directly from Google Play.
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Google, AndroidGuys, Softpedia News, Android Authority, Electronista, Android and Me, PC Magazine, Pocketnow, TechnoBuffalo, IntoMobile and SlashGear. Tweets: @thenextweb
| Cynthia Littleton / Variety: |
Showtime Near Deal to Partner with Xbox Studios on ‘Halo’ Series — Xbox Entertainment Studios is deep in negotiations with Showtime to develop a live-action “Halo” drama series that is a high priority for the Microsoft production unit headed by Nancy Tellem.| Marvin Ammori / Slate: |
FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler's lame excuses for his net neutrality proposal — Tom Wheeler tries, and fails, to justify his execution of net neutrality. — A few years ago, Internet users, democracy activists, and entrepreneurs got wind of a proposed law, SOPA, that would have changed …
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