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President Obama endorses net neutrality, asks FCC to reclassify the Internet as a utility — Net Neutrality: President Obama's Plan for a Free and Open Internet — More than any other invention of our time, the Internet has unlocked possibilities we could just barely imagine a generation ago.
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Facebook Messenger passes 500M monthly users — Messenger Reaches 500 Million — By Peter Martinazzi, Director of Product Management — Messaging is an important part of how people stay connected and since Messenger launched in 2011 we've been passionate about giving people a faster and more expressive way to communicate.
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| Jessi Hempel / Wired: |
David Marcus on the evolution of Messenger and its future: VOIP, payments, and B2C messaging — Why Facebook Has Entrusted Its Future to the CEO of PayPal — One evening last May, Mark Zuckerberg invited David Marcus to dinner. — It wasn't the first time PayPal's soft-spoken French CEO …
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iOS vulnerability allows apps installed via enterprise/ad-hoc provisioning to replace real apps under the same name, letting an attacker steal data — Masque Attack: All Your iOS Apps Belong to Us — In July 2014, FireEye mobile security researchers have discovered that an iOS app installed …
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| Ellen Nakashima / Washington Post: |
Chinese hackers suspected of breaching US Postal Service, compromised data of 800K+ employees — China suspected of breaching U.S. Postal Service computer networks — Chinese government hackers are suspected of breaching the computer networks of the United States Postal Service, compromising the data of more than 800,000 employees.
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| Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch: |
Google Takes Over Operations Of Moffett Airfield From NASA, Will Invest $200M Into The Site — After years of using Moffett Field as the home and launch pad for the private jets of Google's founders, the company has agreed to a deal in which it will lease the airfield from NASA for the next 60 years.
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| Kim Zetter / Wired: |
DarkHotel: A Sophisticated New Hacking Attack Targets High-Profile Hotel Guests — This hotel is not implicated in the DarkHotel attacks. It is shown here to stand in for all luxury hotels. Flickr: L'HOTEL PORTO BAY SÃO PAULO — The hotel guest probably never knew what hit him.
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Apple hiring dedicated sales team, working with business app developers in enterprise push — Exclusive: Apple's enterprise assault gets into higher gear — (Reuters) - Apple Inc (AAPL.O) is embarking on its most aggressive expansion yet onto corporate turf, hiring a dedicated sales force …
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New devices help iOS steal back enterprise share from Android; breakdown is 85% iPhone 6, 15% iPhone 6 Plus — Apple has managed to reverse a recent trend of declining quarterly enterprise share for device activations, thanks to its new smartphones. The breakdown for businesses buying …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Microsoft Office Apps Skyrocket To The Top Of The App Store Following Pricing Changes — Nothing sells like “free.” Microsoft Word is now the number one free iPhone and iPad application on iTunes, closely followed by other Microsoft Office apps including Excel and PowerPoint.
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| Steve Kovach / Business Insider: |
Microsoft explains its new productivity focused strategy in more detail — Microsoft's CEO Gave Us The Clearest Vision For The Company We've Had In Years — Over the past few years, it has been tough to pinpoint what Microsoft's focus is. — In 2012, then-CEO Steve Ballmer wrote … | Eben Upton / Raspberry Pi: |
Raspberry Pi Model A+ now on sale for $20 with smaller design, lower power consumption, microSD card slot — Raspberry Pi Model A+ on sale now at $20 — When we announced the Model B+ back in July, we said that we'd also be producing a lower-cost variant, analogous to the original Model A. Since then … | Phobos / The Tor Blog blogs: |
Tor Project has few answers, many questions about Operation Onymous — Thoughts and Concerns about Operation Onymous — What happened — Recently it was announced that a coalition of government agencies took control of many Tor hidden services. We were as surprised as most of you.
| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Instagram now lets you edit captions, suggests accounts to follow in new People tab — Instagram today released two new features for its mobile apps. You can download the new version now directly from Google Play and Apple's App Store. — First up, the app now lets you go back and edit captions on your posts.| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Mozilla launches Firefox Developer Edition with built-in tools for debugging apps and mobile browsers — Mozilla today launched Firefox Developer Edition, which it is calling “the first browser created specifically for developers.” The company wants to solve a very big problem developers often complain …
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Hadoop startup Hortonworks announces it has filed for an IPO — Hortonworks Files to Float Public Shares in 2015 — Hortonworks, one of a handful of companies seeking to build a business on Hadoop, the open source big data software technology, has filed for an initial public offering.| Erin Griffith / Fortune: |
DogVacay, offering dog-sitting services, raises $25M to expand internationally and offer boarding, day care, walking, training and grooming — Exclusive: DogVacay raises $25 million — When you enter the offices of DogVacay, there's a good chance you'll be eagerly greeted by Maggie. And Minnie.
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Daily Deals Site Groupon Debuts A New App, Getaways, For Travel And Hotel Offers — Daily deals site Groupon says that travel is its fastest growing business category, and today it is launching a new mobile app that it hopes will help it capitalize on that more.
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The Next Web, WebProNews and GeekWire
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Pirate Bay Founder Peter Sunde Released From Prison — After being on the run for two years Peter Sunde, aka brokep, was arrested during a family visit in southern Sweden late May. — Despite being accused of non-violent crimes, Peter was transferred to a high-security unit. His time in prison was tough.
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