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| Mark Chandler / Cisco Blog: |
Cisco general counsel: US Government has overreached, and should not interfere with the lawful delivery of our products — Internet Security Necessary for Global Technology Economy — Today's security challenges are real and significant. We want governments to detect and disrupt terrorist networks …
Tweets: @padmasree, @arrington and @om
| Sean Gallagher / Ars Technica: |
Photos of an NSA “upgrade” factory show Cisco router getting implant — Servers, routers get “beacons” implanted at secret locations by NSA's TAO team. — A document included in the trove of National Security Agency files released with Glenn Greenwald's book No Place to Hide details … | Kim Zetter / Wired: |
Greenwald expands on NSA reporting with new book ‘No Place to Hide’ and 50+ new documents — Glenn Greenwald's Pulse-Pounding Tale of Breaking the Snowden Leaks — In June 2013, Edward Snowden was sitting in his room at the Mira hotel in Hong Kong, watching the world react …
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| FRONTLINE: |
United States of Secrets — How did the government come to spy on millions of Americans? — In United States of Secrets, a two-part series airing May 13 and 20, FRONTLINE goes behind the headlines to reveal the dramatic inside story of the U.S. government's massive and controversial secret …
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| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
iPhone 6 with larger, sharper 1704 x 960 resolution screen in testing — Apple is preparing to release a new iPhone with a larger screen later this year, and while multiple reports have indicated that the screen will be larger, the exact dimensions of the screen and its resolution have so far been guesswork.
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Tweets: @stevesi and @markgurman
| Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
Comcast plans data caps for all customers in 5 years, could be 500GB — A Comcast executive said he expects the company will roll out “usage-based billing”—what most people call “data caps”—to all of its customers within five years. — Speaking with investors today (transcript) …
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| Brandon Bailey / Mercury News: |
Google promises to release minority hiring figures, as activists protest outside shareholder meeting — MOUNTAIN VIEW — Prodded by the Rev. Jesse Jackson, Google said Wednesday that it will reverse a long-held stance and reveal publicly how many minority workers are employed by the giant Internet company, in a report next month.
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| Cory Doctorow / Guardian: |
Firefox's adoption of closed-source DRM breaks my heart — I understand the pressure to support commercial video - but the browser makers can do more to defend free and open software — Future versions of the open-source Firefox browser will include closed-source digital rights management …
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| Stephen Shankland / CNET: |
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook For iOS Tries Popping Up Cards Of Related Content To Browse After You Post — Facebook is taking a swing at suggesting contextual content to keep you surfing after you share. A new test on iOS surfaces related content cards including photos of restaurants you say you're at … | Peter Kafka / Re/code: |
Apple's Beats Deal May Not Be Finalized Until Next Week — More time for people to speculate about what it all means: Apple's planned deal to buy Beats Electronics for $3.2 billion may not be finalized until next week, according to people familiar with the transaction.
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| Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: |
Google Glass Aims To Entice Travelers With New TripIt, Foursquare, And OpenTable Integrations — A day after Google announced that it will sell Google Glass to anyone in the United States, the company is unveiling some new “Glassware” (basically, Google Glass apps) that's supposed to be particularly useful for travelers.
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| Dylan Tweney / VentureBeat: |
OpenDNS raises $35M for its security and content-filtering servers — How can big data and smart analytics ignite growth for your company? Find out at DataBeat, May 19-20 in San Francisco, from top data scientists, analysts, investors, and entrepreneurs. There are less than 50 tickets left!
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| Christopher Grant / Polygon: |
Tracing the collapse of the ‘integral’ Kinect, in Microsoft's own words — The Xbox One was revealed one year ago this month and, in that twelve month period, Microsoft has struggled to define just what the console is. — From the disastrous reveal, overshadowed by questions …
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| Henry K. Lee / San Francisco Chronicle: |
Nextdoor CEO and former Epinions chief Nirav Tolia charged with felony hit-and-run after crash on US 101 that left a woman injured — Police-friendly tech CEO charged with hit-and-run — The CEO of Nextdoor, a social network designed to help neighbors connect with each other and police …
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Tweets: @darwinbondgraha, @darthwhitey2010, @sfgate, @ellenhuet and @markpritchard
| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Flappy Bird to Return to the App Store in August, Will Be Multiplayer and ‘Less Addictive’ — Flappy Bird creator Dong Nguyen today announced plans to return Flappy Bird to the App Store in August in a new interview with CNBC's Kelly Evans. According to Nguyen, the new version of Flappy Bird …
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| Stacey Higginbotham / Gigaom: |
AT&T's GigaPower plans cost double the advertised rate if you include TV and retain privacy — AT&T's GigaPower plans turn privacy into a luxury that few would choose — If you sign up for AT&T's GigaPower fiber-to-the-home internet service in Austin, Texas, you can expect to pay … | Barb Darrow / Gigaom: |
Acxiom snaps up LiveRamp and its data onboarding smarts for $310M — Acxiom is not some shiny Silicon Valley startup. In fact, it's over 40 years old. The company, based in Little Rock, Arkansas, also happens to be a pioneer in collecting data — and converting that data into big bucks …
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LiveRamp Blog, Wall Street Journal, AdAge, Acxiom, Wall Street Journal, Forbes, AdExchanger, AdExchanger, ECPM BLOG and ZDNet
| Cabel Sasser / Panic Blog: |
Panic to offer developer tool Coda 2.5 only from their website, to bypass sandboxing hurdles imposed by the Mac App Store — Coda 2.5 and the Mac App Store — Over a year ago, I wrote a blog post about Coda and Sandboxing. — It detailed a thorough list of changes we'd be making to Coda … | Emil Protalinski / The Next Web: |
Research project Cider brings iOS apps to Android devices — Six PhD students at Columbia University's Department of Computer Science have developed Cider, an OS compatibility architecture capable of running iOS apps on Android. Rather than using a strict virtual machine …
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9to5Mac, Engadget, BGR, iPhone in Canada Blog, AppleTell, Phandroid, Ubergizmo, The Droid Guy, I4U News, iMore, iLounge and App Advice. Tweets: @elanazak
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