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Google's Android chief Sundar Pichai on Apple, Samsung, Amazon, Android's future, his past, I/O, and more — Google's Sundar Pichai Is the Most Powerful Man in Mobile — At the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas in January, Samsung introduced new software for its tablets, called the Magazine UX.
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| Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
Pichai will preview the next release of Android at I/O; introduce Android TV and Android Wear — Google will reportedly show a new version of Android tomorrow — Get ready to take a first look at the next version of Android tomorrow. In an interview with Bloomberg Businessweek … | Oculus VR: |
Oculus to acquire Carbon Design, gaining the product engineering team known for the Xbox 360 controller — Oculus Agrees to Acquire Carbon Design Team — We're thrilled to announce that we've agreed to acquire the Carbon Design team, one of the premier industrial design and product engineering teams …
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TechCrunch, Engadget, Gigaom, GeekWire, TechnoBuffalo, Ars Technica, Electronista, TechSpot, Business Insider, Re/code, The Verge, ZDNet, Neowin, Gizmodo and GamesIndustry International. Tweets: @bhsharp
| Matt Rogers / Nest: |
Nest Developer Program opens to the public; integration with LIFX, Mercedes, Whirlpool, Jawbone, IFTTT, and more already enabled — The Nest Developer Program is here. — Wouldn't it be cool if our homes could be more aware? If they could learn from us? And help take care of us?
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| JR Raphael / Computerworld: |
Google offering $150 credits to make up for Chromebook data debacle — Some good news for owners of Google's LTE Chromebook Pixel: Following my report that data plans for the device were being disconnected prematurely, Google is stepping up to make things right.
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PC World, Gigaom, Engadget, Droid Life, PC Magazine, Phandroid, Ars Technica, The Verge, Android Central, Digital Trends, 9to5Google, SlashGear, Pocketables, Electronista, blog.chron.com, TechSpot and Daring Fireball. Tweets: @dcseifert
| Nathan Ingraham / The Verge: |
Google refreshes Glass hardware with 2GB RAM and a bigger battery; current owners won't get upgraded — Google refreshes Glass hardware, but current owners won't get upgraded — Small tweaks suggest that a true consumer product is still a ways off — Google's plan to sell its Glass headset … | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Twitter tests ‘retweet with comment’ that shows referenced tweet as a card below your comment — Twitter Is Experimenting With A New Way To Retweet — The best thing about Twitter is that it forces users to embrace brevity thanks to its 140-character updates.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
App Store Policy Of Rejecting Apps With Rewarded Video, Social Sharing Gets Rolled Back...With A Few Caveats — A recent policy change floated by Apple caused a flurry of discussion - and concern - among mobile app developers. According to several public forum postings and other industry sources …
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| Shreyas Gandhe / Neowin: |
First gen Nokia X devices won't be updated to Platform 2.0 — The first generation Nokia X smartphones which were released in February, will not be getting updated to the Nokia X software featured on the Nokia X2. — In a detailed post about the Nokia X2 smartphone user experience …
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| Josh Ong / The Next Web: |
Twilio partners with Google to release a Chromebook communications package — Cloud telephony firm Twilio today announced Twilio CX for Chromebooks, a new partnership with Google that bundles its WebRTC-powered client, 7,500 voice minutes, a Plantronics headset and a Chromebook together …
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| Sarah Frier / Bloomberg: |
Oculus seeks partners to help make hardware, emulating Android's expansion model — Facebook's Oculus, Emulating Android, Seeks Partners — Oculus VR Inc. has a plan for making virtual reality mainstream: Replicate Google Inc. (GOOGL)'s success with Android.| Kim Zetter / Wired: |
Researchers Find and Decode the Spy Tools Governments Use to Hijack Phones — Newly uncovered components of a digital surveillance tool used by more than 60 governments worldwide provide a rare glimpse at the extensive ways law enforcement and intelligence agencies use the tool … | Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: |
Michael Arrington drops defamation suit against Jenn Allen after she retracts rape accusations — Jenn Allen Retracts Michael Arrington Rape Accusations — TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington has reached a settlement agreement with Jenn Allen. He's posted a copy of the agreement …
| Peter Kafka / Re/code: |
Ex-Hulu CEO Jason Kilar teases video startup Vessel backed by Benchmark, Greylock, and Bezos — Jason Kilar's New Startup Has a Name, and a Whole Lot of Money — Former Hulu CEO Jason Kilar still doesn't want to say much about the startup he has been working on since last fall.| Shira Ovide / Wall Street Journal: |
Microsoft's Top Lawyer Slams Secret Surveillance Court — The U.S.'s secret surveillance court is unaccountable to the public and not “inclined to promote justice,” Microsoft's top lawyer said Wednesday. — General counsel Brad Smith said the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court … | Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Firechat Enables Cross-Platform, Off-The-Grid Chat Between iOS And Android — Open Garden's Firechat was one of the first — if not the first — application to make use of Apple's new multi-peer mesh networking capabilities. This enabled its users to anonymously chat with each other …
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| Dana Wollman / Engadget: |
Samsung Galaxy Tab S review: slim design, long battery life, stunning screen — It'd be silly of me to talk about tablets in the past tense — we still write stories about them daily and clearly, we review them, too. But of the ones we've seen lately, most have been low-end; mid-range at best.
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DisplayMate, SamMobile, Gizmodo, CNET, LAPTOP Mag, DisplayBlog and 9to5Google
| Walt Mossberg / Re/code: |
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| Erin Griffith / Fortune: |
ZocDoc raising $152 million at $1.6 billion valuation — Investors in the online find-a-doctor portal's latest round include DST Global, according to a filing. ZocDoc, an online find-a-doctor portal, is raising a new round of funding worth $152 million, valuing the company at $1.6 billion … | Ina Fried / Re/code: |
Cyanogen expands team in push for open-source Android, hires former HTC, MediaTek and Amazon executives — Cyanogen Expands Team in Push for Open Android — Cyanogen has quietly expanded its executive ranks to transform its open source Android project into a serious player in the phone business.Sponsor Posts
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