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Surface Pro 3 starts at $799 for Core i3 SKU, i5 SKUs start shipping first to US and Canada on June 20, other configurations in August — Microsoft introduces Surface Pro 3: the tablet that can replace your laptop — Pre-order beginning 12:01 a.m. EDT May 21. — Surface Pro 3| Panos Panay / Surface Blog: |
Surface Pro 3: “The tablet that can replace your laptop” — Announcing Surface Pro 3 — Today we announced Surface Pro 3. It's the tablet that can replace your laptop. It is the most powerful, thinnest, and lightest Surface Pro yet. It is a full PC and a brilliant tablet.
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| Dana Wollman / Engadget: |
Microsoft announces its biggest tablet yet, the 12-inch Surface Pro 3 — When Microsoft invited us to a “small gathering” here in New York City, we thought that meant a smaller-screened Surface Mini was in order. Instead, the company just announced a larger Surface, the 12-inch Surface Pro 3.
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| Anand Lal Shimpi / AnandTech: |
Microsoft Surface Pro 3: Hands On, Display & Performance Preview — Earlier today Microsoft announced its 3rd generation Surface Pro device, aptly named the Surface Pro 3. This is the first Surface model to deviate from the 10.6" 16:9 form factor of all four previous devices (Surface Pro …
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Microsoft backed off from debuting smaller Surface today, concerned it lacked differentiation — Microsoft Said to Back Off Plans to Debut Smaller Surface — Microsoft Corp. (MSFT), struggling to break into the tablet market, backed off plans to introduce a smaller version …
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| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
What Microsoft didn't announce today: An ARM-based Surface Mini — Summary: In spite of numerous leaks indicating an ARM-based Surface was going to be launched at Microsoft's “small gathering” in New York City, no such device materialized. What happened? — It's not fair to call … | Wall Street Journal: |
Twitter backed out of talks to buy SoundCloud because “the numbers didn't add up” — Twitter Considered Buying German Music-Streaming Service — 'Numbers Didn't Add Up' on Deal That Would Have Been Messaging Company's Largest — Twitter Inc. considered buying German music …
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| Ladar Levison / Guardian: |
Secrets, lies and Snowden's email: why I was forced to shut down Lavabit — For the first time, the founder of an encrypted email startup that was supposed to insure privacy for all reveals how the FBI and the US legal system made sure we don't have the right to much privacy in the first place
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| Dan Rayburn / StreamingMediaBlog.com: |
Apple Negotiating Paid Interconnect Deals With ISPs For Their Own CDN — In February I blogged about a new group formed inside of Apple last year, tasked with building out their own CDN to deliver Apple software updates, apps and other Apple related content.
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PandoDaily, Ars Technica, Digital Trends, Gigaom, Ubergizmo, The Register, iPhone Hacks, 9to5Mac, Cult of Mac, MacRumors, Mashable, iPhone in Canada Blog, SlashGear, iMore, App Advice and Electronista. Tweets: @tim
| Peter Rubin / Wired: |
The Inside Story of Oculus Rift and How Virtual Reality Became Reality — As he flew from Orange County to Seattle in September 2013, Brendan Iribe, the CEO of Oculus, couldn't envision what the next six months would bring. The rhapsodic crowds at the Consumer Electronics Show.| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Dropbox Buys Bubbli, Will Integrate The 3D Photo Tech Into Its Photo Service — It looks like Dropbox has made another acquisition today in the photo space: it has acquired Bubbli, a startup that has built some innovative ways of incorporating 3D technology into 2D views, and packaging it in a mobile app for ordinary consumers to use.
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| Nathan Donato-Weinstein / bizjournals: |
Google to take over former Palm HQ in Sunnyvale — Google Inc. has leased the former headquarters of Palm Computing Inc. in Sunnyvale , demonstrating that the No. 1 search advertising company's appetite for real estate showing no signs of abating — and showing again how the technology industry recycles …
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China bans use of Microsoft's Windows 8 on government computers — (Reuters) - China has banned government use of Windows 8, Microsoft Corp's latest operating system (OS), in a blow to the U.S. technology company which has long been plagued by sales woes in the country.
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| Matt Flegenheimer / New York Times: |
New York Taxi commission official joining Uber as head of policy development — Taxi Commission Official Plans to Join Uber — At first, they were adversaries — the taxi agency leery of a smartphone app that could upend decades of street-hailing history and the business that responded …
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| Greg Bensinger / Wall Street Journal: |
Indian e-commerce site Snapdeal raises $100M at $1B valuation — Indian E-Commerce Site Snapdeal Lands $1 Billion Valuation — Indian e-commerce site Snapdeal.com has raised $100 million in a round that that values the company at roughly $1 billion, according to two people familiar with the deal.
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Re/code, TechCrunch and The Economic Times
| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
Apple beefs up iWork for iCloud with bolstered collaboration, more file storage — Apple today has enhanced its iWork suite of iCloud apps to include much improved collaboration, new document options, and more file storage. iWork includes the Pages word processor, Keynote presentation maker … | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Privacy-Focused Search Engine DuckDuckGo Gets A New Look, Smarter Search With “Instant Answers” — DuckDuckGo, the privacy-focused search engine whose popularity grew last year following the NSA and PRISM leaks, is today rolling our an updated interface for its website, which features …
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DuckDuckGo Blog, Computerworld, Search Engine Land, Lifehacker and ITworld.com
| Arik Hesseldahl / Re/code: |
Salesforce Rises on Earnings Beat, Improved Outlook — Shares of Salesforce.com rose after the company reported quarterly earnings that were better than what analysts had expected. — The company just reported per-share earnings of 11 cents on $1.23 billion in revenue.
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Tech Trader Daily, The Register, TechCrunch, Bloomberg, salesforce.com and ZDNet. Tweets: @ahess247
| Tom Simonite / MIT Technology Review: |
SigFox Installing a Cellular Network for the Internet of Things in San Francisco and Silicon Valley — A French company plans to build a wireless slow lane for small, low-power devices. — San Francisco is set to get a new cellular network later this year, but it won't help fix the city's spotty mobile-phone coverage.Sponsor Posts
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