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FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler signals split with Obama on net neutrality: “I am an independent agency” — The FCC weighs breaking with Obama over the future of the Internet — President Barack Obama shakes hands with then-nominee for Federal Communications Commission, Tom Wheeler …
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See also Mediagazer| Marina Lopes / Reuters: |
AT&T to pause fiber investment until net neutrality rules are decided — The signage for an AT&T store is seen in New York October 29, 2014. — (Reuters) - AT&T (T.N) will pause investments to bring fiber connections to 100 cities until U.S. regulators iron out rules to regulate …
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See also Mediagazer| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Microsoft starts to open source .NET and take it cross-platform to Mac, Linux — Microsoft today announced plans to open source .NET, the company's software framework that primarily runs on Windows, and release it on GitHub. Furthermore, Microsoft also unveiled plans to take .NET cross-platform by targeting both Mac OS X and Linux.
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| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Microsoft debuts Visual Studio 2015 and .NET 2015 previews, free Visual Studio Community 2013 — In addition to announcing that .NET is going open source and cross-platform, Microsoft today also unleashed a torrent of Visual Studio news at its Connect() developer event in New York City.
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Top Yahoo shareholders, unhappy with Marissa Mayer, make direct plea to AOL CEO Tim Armstrong to explore merger — Exclusive: Some unhappy Yahoo investors asking AOL for rescue — (Reuters) - At least two top-10 Yahoo Inc shareholders are so unhappy with Chief Executive Marissa Mayer's turnaround efforts …
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Google's ad server suffers global failure, causing millions of ads to disappear from web — An unusual glitch struck Google's ad serving tool on Wednesday morning, causing blanks spaces to appear in place of advertisements on websites like BuzzFeed, Time, Forbes and VentureBeat.| Mary Madden / Pew Internet: |
91% of US adults say consumers have lost control over how their personal info is collected and used by companies — Public Perceptions of Privacy and Security in the Post-Snowden Era — Summary of Findings — Privacy evokes a constellation of concepts for Americans …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Square Eschews Free, Starts $29 Pre-Orders For Chip-Based Card Readers — Mobile payments company Square is today kicking off pre-orders for its new chip-based card readers, which were first announced earlier this year and intended to replace the current devices that read cards' magnetic stripes.
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Microsoft posts critical patch for huge Windows vulnerability that affects all modern machines — Remember Heartbleed? You know, the exploit in SSL that was so bad it got its own brand? Microsoft may have an issue of similar scale on its hands with a critical patch issued via Windows Update today.| David Pierce / The Verge: |
Microsoft Band review: short two-day battery life, not waterproof, bulky and expensive, but collects valuable data and is easy to use — Microsoft Band review — What will happen when we know everything about ourselves? — I slept terribly last night.
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Beats Debuts $300 Solo2 Wireless Headphones, First New Product Since Apple Deal Closed — Beats by Dre is launching a new pair of headphones today, a Bluetooth-powered wireless version of the Solo2 headset it introduced back in June this year. The wireless edition was tipped by an FCC document last week …
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| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Stuxnet worm infected high-profile targets before hitting Iran nukes — List of “patients zero” shows cyber weapon broke into—not out of—Natanz. — The Stuxnet computer worm that attacked Iran's nuclear development program was first seeded to a handful of carefully selected targets …
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| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
Amazon Is Expanding Its R&D In Cambridge, U.K., With A Focus On Prime Air Drones And Speech Tech — Amazon is expanding its R&D operations in Cambridge, U.K., with a plan to staff out a large research lab — expanding on the foothold it acquired when it bought Cambridge-based speech tech …
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| James Kanter / New York Times: |
European Antitrust Regulators to Hold Discussions With Google's Rivals — European antitrust regulators will hold discussions with the companies most concerned by Google's business practices before deepening existing investigations or resolving them, the new competition commissioner for the European Union said Tuesday.| Jonathan Stempel / Reuters: |
Apple to face lawsuit claiming it failed to disclose that iMessage would obstruct texts after customers switched to non-Apple devices — Apple must face U.S. lawsuit over vanishing iPhone text messages — (Reuters) - Apple Inc (AAPL.O) was ordered to face a U.S. federal lawsuit claiming …
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| Barney Jopson / CNBC: |
Republicans signal demise of internet sales tax bill — Bricks-and-mortar retailers have become the first US business group to be disappointed by Republicans since their midterm election gains, as party leaders indicated that a bill to end tax-free internet shopping was doomed.
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