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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, @om and @arrington
| 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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| 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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| 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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DSLreports, FierceCable, The Verge, CNET News, TechCrunch, DSLreports, multichannel.com, GamePolitics blogs, The Register, SlashGear and Electronista
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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 … | 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.| 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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| 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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The Verge, TechCrunch, Kotaku, Softpedia News, NEWS.com.au, The Next Web, IntoMobile, Touch Arcade, Business Insider, BuzzFeed, VG247, The Droid Guy, TechnoBuffalo, Phandroid, TUAW, Android and Me, Engadget and CNET News. Tweets: @kelly_evans
| 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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| 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, Wall Street Journal, Acxiom, AdExchanger, Forbes, AdExchanger, ECPM BLOG and ZDNet
| 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, Ubergizmo, iPhone in Canada Blog, AppleTell, The Droid Guy, Phandroid, I4U News, iMore, App Advice and iLounge. Tweets: @elanazak
| Don Clark / Wall Street Journal: |
Autodesk Moves to Make Its Own 3-D Printer — Autodesk is known for programs that help people make things. Now the San Francisco company plans to make something itself-a 3-D printer and software to go with it, hoping to spur a hot market to move even faster.
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In The Fold, Gigaom, The Next Web, BBC, New York Times, ZDNet, CNET News, SlashGear, Engadget and Electronista
| 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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Engadget, The Next Web and Google Glass
| 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 … | Ben Popper / The Verge: |
Depending on its needs, Verizon flip-flops on how its infrastructure should be regulated — Game of phones: how Verizon is playing the FCC and its customers — Tomorrow, the FCC starts deciding the future of the internet. It's an emotional, controversial, drawn-out battle that has been building … | Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Al-Qaeda's new homebrew crypto apps may make US intel-gathering easier — NSA spying revelations led to development of three new encryption apps. — Terrorists loyal to al Qaeda and its offshoots are using new encryption software, most likely in response to revelations that the National Security Agency …
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| Miguel Helft / Fortune: |
Square expects to start turning a profit in about a year, has secured $225M line of credit — Square's status? It's complicated — Exclusive: Internal documents show that the innovative payments company expects losses through mid-2015. But then it predicts a turnaround.
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TechCrunch, Business Insider and Mashable
Tweets: @danprimack, @evelynrusli, @evelynrusli, @evelynrusli, @sequoia_capital, @djtgallagher, @kylezink and @mattlynley
| Peter Kafka / Re/code: |
Cord cutters use 7x more bandwidth than cable TV watchers - Sandvine — Here's a question that may be increasingly relevant for some of you: If you don't pay for cable, and you get all your video from the Internet instead, how much bandwidth do you eat up each month? — Quite a bit, it turns out.| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Surface Pro 3 might join Microsoft's Surface mini unveiling next week — Microsoft is holding a Surface press event in New York City next week, but the company may have accidentally revealed one of the announcements. In a support article published yesterday, Microsoft says a fresh update for Windows 8.1 … Sponsor Posts
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