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| Vlad Savov / The Verge: |
Motorola adds LTE to Moto G, introduces an even cheaper Moto E — Shipping with Android 4.4 and a guaranteed upgrade to the next major version of Android — The Moto G is the best selling smartphone in Motorola history. Combining good-enough specs with solid build quality at an especially low price …
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| Yinka Adegoke / Billboard: |
Jimmy Iovine and Dr. Dre could be unveiled as Apple executives at WWDC, deal to be announced later this week — Apple May Unveil Iovine, Dr. Dre Exec Appointments at June Conference — Apple could unveil Jimmy Iovine and Dr. Dre as its latest recruits at its Worldwide Developers' Conference in June … | Adam Satariano / Bloomberg: |
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| Paul Rosania / The Twitter Blog: |
Twitter's new mute feature lets you hide users from your home timeline — Another way to edit your Twitter experience: with mute — Today we're beginning to introduce a new account feature called mute to people who use our iPhone and Android apps and twitter.com.
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| Glenn Greenwald / Guardian: |
NSA routinely receives or intercepts US-made routers and servers to implant backdoors before international shipping — how the NSA tampers with US-made internet routers — The NSA has been covertly implanting interception tools in US servers heading overseas - even though the US government …
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The Register, CNET News, Softpedia News, Gigaom, TechCrunch, Wall Street Journal, SlashGear, Daily Dot and Freedom to Tinker
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See also Mediagazer| Sam Machkovech / Ars Technica: |
Sources: Xbox Live to remove Gold requirement for Netflix, Hulu — Coming soon, according to internal Microsoft sources: two fewer white dots on this promotional card. — We can report that multiple sources within Microsoft have been briefed on plans to make a long-awaited change … | Reuters: |
EU top court upholds “right to be forgotten”, says Google must edit sensitive search results — Europe's top court: people have right to be forgotten on Internet — People can ask Google to delete sensitive information from its Internet search results, Europe's top court said on Tuesday.| Alex Wilhelm / TechCrunch: |
Office For iPad Apps Have Racked Up 27M Downloads In 46 Days — In just over a month, Office for iPad has picked up another 15 million downloads of its applications. Microsoft reported 12 million downloads in early April, and 27 million today. — That's a massive figure.
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| Dale Russakoff / New Yorker: |
Zuckerberg's $100M pledge in 2010 to reform Newark schools has had little benefit to students — SCHOOLED - Cory Booker, Chris Christie, and Mark Zuckerberg had a plan to reform Newark's schools. They got an education. — Late one night in December, 2009, a black Chevy Tahoe in a caravan …
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Salon and The Verge. Tweets: @underoak, @russellbrandom, @moneyries, @tonyromm, @andrewverte and @tonyromm
| Serdar Yegulalp / InfoWorld: |
Apple working on a JavaScript accelerator for WebKit which doesn't require the use of asm.js — Apple has its own JavaScript accelerator in the works — Apple's FTLJIT project aims to give JavaScript a boost, and it doesn't require the use of asm.js for its speed improvements
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MacNN, VentureBeat, iPhone in Canada Blog, iPhone Hacks and MacRumors
| Jackie Dove / The Next Web: |
Moju: a Vine-like app for sharing 24-frame animated photos viewed by twisting your iPhone left to right — Moju, a self-styled Instagram on steroids, showcases photos with an animated twist — There's still images and video; there's even multimedia images with sound effects … | Bloomberg: |
Facebook Said to Take Steps to Open a China Sales Office — Facebook Inc. (FB) is taking steps to open a sales office in China to work with local advertisers, according to people with knowledge of the matter, in a move that would put the social network's employees in the country for the first time …
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The Next Web, Fortune, Tech in Asia, Wall Street Journal, Reuters and AllFacebook. Tweets: @sarahfrier
| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft's ‘Mohoro’ Windows-as-a-service released as a public preview — Summary: Microsoft is entering the desktop-as-a-service space with its new Azure Remote App service, which is available as a free public preview. — Microsoft is releasing its desktop-as-a-service, codenamd 'Mohoro," in public preview form as of today, May 12.| Peter Bright / Ars Technica: |
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Microsoft Azure Gets New Tools For Hybrid Clouds And Simplified Cloud Storage Service For Businesses
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| Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica: |
YouTube shuts down public RSS feeds of user subscriptions — If you're a news junky, you probably use an RSS reader like Feed.ly to keep up with stuff on the Web. One of the nicest ways to consume YouTube subscriptions was to use an RSS feed of new videos, allowing them to show up just like news articles do.
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| Kevin Fitchard / Gigaom: |
AT&T customers can connect their GM 4G cars to shared data plans for $10 a month — If you were thinking about buying one of General Motors' new-fangled 4G cars this summer but were wondering how much that LTE connectivity would cost you, then GM and AT&T today provided an answer.| Wall Street Journal: |
AT&T could seal deal to take over DirecTV within two weeks, for around $50B — AT&T Could Strike Deal For DirecTV In As Soon As Two Weeks — AT&T Would Likely Pay A Combination of Cash, Stock — AT&T Inc. is moving quickly to seal a takeover deal with DirecTV … | Steven Melendez / Motherboard: |
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