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The Great Smartphone War: Apple vs. Samsung — For three years, Apple and Samsung have clashed on a scale almost unprecedented in business history, their legal war costing more than a billion dollars and spanning four continents. Beginning with the super-secret project that created the iPhone …
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| Ina Fried / Re/code: |
Apple-Samsung Jury Recalculates Verdict, but Leaves Intact Original $119 Million Award — A federal jury in San Jose on Monday recalculated its damage award, but left essentially intact its decision that Samsung owes Apple nearly $120 million in damages. — The move follows …
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google Wallet Is Coming To Glass — Google Wallet is coming to Glass soon. According to a source close to the company, Google is currently testing a way for Glass users to send money to their friends through Wallet by simply using their voices to ask Glass to “send money.”
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| Brian Fagioli / BetaNews: |
Lenovo announces two new 11.6-inch Chromebooks: the N20 for $279 and the N20p starting at $329 — Lenovo announces N20 and N20p Chromebooks — I think it safe to say that the Chromebook movement has exceeded all expectations. What first seemed like a silly Google experiment has blossomed into a legit Windows threat.| Reed Albergotti / Wall Street Journal: |
After Facebook Deal, Moves App Changes Privacy Policy — Moves, the fitness-tracking app recently acquired by Facebook, has changed its privacy policy to allow broader sharing of user data, including with Facebook. — As recently as Friday, Moves's privacy policy said the company did not … | Rene Ritchie / iMore: |
Apple is aware of iOS 7 mail attachment bug, working on a fix — A bug has been discovered in iOS 7 that causes email attachments to not be encrypted. Before anyone panics, however, in order for an attacker to exploit the bug they'd need to a) steal your device and, b) …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
VC Fred Wilson: By 2020 Apple Won't Be A Top-3 Tech Company, Google And Facebook Will — Fred Wilson of New York's Union Square Ventures, one of the top tech investors around, believes that by 2020, the biggest tech company in the world — Apple — will cease to be the most important, and won't even be in the top three.| Christina Farr / Reuters: |
Insight: Apple on medical tech hiring spree, a possible hint of iWatch plans — (Reuters) - Apple Inc is building a team of senior medical technology executives, raising hackles in the biotechnology community and offering a hint of what the iPhone maker may be planning for its widely expected iWatch and other wearable technology.| Larry Seltzer / ZDNet: |
Google experimenting with hiding URLs in Chrome — Summary: In an effort to make phishing attacks more evident to the user, Chrome Canary is taking a tip from iOS Safari, emphasizing the domain and hiding the rest of the URL. — Jake Archibald, a “developer advocate” for Chrome at Google …
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| Kara Swisher / Re/code: |
With Alibaba IPO Filing Set to Arrive Tomorrow, Here's Why It Does Matter to Silicon Valley — As Re/code has reported several times, the sure-to-be-blockbuster IPO filing for China's mega-Internet giant Alibaba Group is now set to drop this week. Sources said that the documents … | Harrison Weber / VentureBeat: |
Google Search competitor DuckDuckGo teases major revamp, beautiful new design — DuckDuckGo, a privacy-focused search engine that skyrocketed in size following mass-surveillance leaks, will soon be completely redesigned. — According to a blog post from DuckDuckGo chief executive Gabriel Weinberg …
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| Paul Sawers / The Next Web: |
John McAfee launches Chadder, a new encrypted private messaging app — Antivirus software pioneer John McAfee has launched a new messaging app called Chadder, with a focus on encryption and security. — The app is produced by Future Tense Private Systems (FTC), a company founded by McAfee … | Sean Gallagher / Ars Technica: |
Hands-on: Android based Pwn Phone, a mobile penetration testing platform for white hat hackers — Android-based Pwn Phone is prepared to do evil for your network's own good — The Pwn Phone, with its external Wi-Fi adaptor case jacked into its USB port, is prepared to do evil for your network's own good.
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| Tim Cushing / Techdirt: |
US government begins testing national online ID system in Michigan and Pennsylvania — US Government Begins Rollout Of Its 'Driver's License For The Internet' — An idea the government has been kicking around since 2011 is finally making its debut. Calling this move ill-timed would be the most gracious way of putting it.
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
@WalmartLabs Buys Adtech Startup Adchemy, Its Biggest Talent Deal Yet — @WalmartLabs, the retailer's Silicon Valley-based innovation lab and R&D center, has now made its twelfth acquisition with the purchase of e-commerce technology company Adchemy, its biggest deal yet in terms of people.| FaryaabS / SamMobile: |
Exclusive: Samsung GALAXY Tab S - 2560×1600 AMOLED Display, Exynos 5 Octa, Fingerprint sensor and more — We are now in 2nd quarter of 2014 and Samsung has released 7 tablets, already. However, the Korean giant isn't stopping just yet. Samsung has a brand new tablet lineup in the pipeline and its calling it the GALAXY Tab S.| Danny Yadron / Wall Street Journal: |
Symantec says antivirus is dead, plans turnaround with products to help businesses minimize damages from security breaches — Symantec Develops New Attack on Cyberhacking — Declaring Antivirus Software Dead, Firm Turns to Minimizing Damage From Breaches
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SiliconANGLE, ZDNet, The Register, PC World, Business Wire, BetaNews and USA Today. Tweets: @securityhumor
| Steven Loeb / VatorNews: |
Zendesk sets IPO price range between $8 and $10 a share — Zendesk does not seem to be spooked by the same market conditions that caused Box to delay — The market has not been too kind fo cloud companies in the last few months. Just ask Box about that.
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| Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
Level 3 claims six ISPs dropping packets every day over money disputes — Network provider doesn't name and shame ISPs guilty of “permanent congestion.” — Network operator Level 3, which has asked the FCC to protect it from “arbitrary access charges” that ISPs want in exchange … | Mike Beasley / 9to5Mac: |
Apple welcomes new Senior VP Angela Ahrendts with 113,334 AAPL shares worth $68M — An SEC filing has revealed that Apple granted its incoming retail Angela Ahrendts 113,334 shares in the company. At today's price (which hit $600 for the first time since the end of 2012), that comes out to about $68 million.
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