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Skype launches Skype for Web beta to enable instant messaging, voice, and video calls in a browser — Please welcome Skype for Web (Beta) — Skype has been breaking down barriers to communication for more than a decade by being at the forefront of real-time voice and video.
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| Nathan Layne / Reuters: |
Wal-Mart told store managers to match online prices with Amazon — Wal-Mart Stores Inc has informed managers of its roughly 5,000 stores across the United States that they can match prices with Amazon.com Inc and other online retailers, the head of the company's U.S. business said on Thursday.
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iPhone 6 accounts for 68% of all iPhone sales in first 30 days of availability in US, iPhone 6 Plus takes around 24% — iPhone 6 outselling iPhone 6 Plus by 3-to-1 margin in US - report — Though Apple doesn't break down sales figures for specific iPhone models, a new study suggests …
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| Jeremy C. Owens / Mercury News: |
Apple downplays Masque threat, ‘not aware’ of any users affected — CUPERTINO — In Apple's first statement since a vulnerability in its popular mobile devices was described by security specialists, the company said Thursday that it was unaware of any user actually being hacked through the “Masque Attack” technique.
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| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
Kindle Software Update Lets You Share Your Amazon Library With A Partner And More — Kindle has a new update rolling out to its Kindle e-reader device hardware, which includes new features for the latest Kindle, Kindle Voyage and Kindle Paperwhite devices. The update includes …
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| Ian Hardy / MobileSyrup: |
Blackberry Classic available for preorders now, launches December 17 for $499 — BlackBerry Classic to launch on December 17th, pre-orders now live — At BlackBerry's BES 12 Event today the company unveiled a number of new products and partnerships. Most notedly was the addition … | Devlin Barrett / Wall Street Journal: |
Secret US DOJ program collecting data from thousands of cellphones through phony communications “towers” deployed on airplanes — Americans' Cellphones Targeted in Secret U.S. Spy Program — Fake Cellphone Towers on Planes Used to Target Criminals, but Also Sift Through Thousands of Other Phones
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| Ilya Khrennikov / Bloomberg: |
Mail.ru acquires crowdsourced map app Maps.Me to accelerate international expansion — Mail.ru Buys Crowdsourced Maps App to Push Beyond Russia — Mail.ru Group Ltd. (MAIL), Russian billionaire Alisher Usmanov's Internet company, acquired maps and navigation service Maps.Me to accelerate its international expansion.
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| Stephen Hall / 9to5Google: |
Google says Play Music subscribers automatically get access to YouTube Music Key starting next week — When YouTube Music Key was announced earlier this week, we were left with many details about the service unexplained. Of these, was the question of whether or not current Google Play Music subscribers … | Steve Lohr / New York Times: |
Google underwriting quadruples the prestigious A.M. Turing Award, which recognizes contributions to computing, to $1M, now on par with Nobel prize money — Google Lifts the Turing Award Into Nobel Territory — The A.M.Turing Award is often called the Nobel prize of computer science.
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| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
For a year, gang operating rogue Tor node infected Windows executables — A flowchart of the infection process used by a malicious Tor exit node. — F-Secure — Three weeks ago, a security researcher uncovered a Tor exit node that added malware to uncompressed Windows executables passing through it.| Matteo Gamba: |
Facebook's redesign of Places directory shows focus on personalized local search and discovery — Facebook Goes After Yelp & Foursquare With Redesigned Places Directory — Do you want to discover great places around the world? Facebook's new feature offers to help.| Stephen Shankland / CNET: |
IBM, Nividia land $325M US Energy Dept supercomputer deal, another $100M for next-generation supercomputing tech — IBM, Nvidia land $325M supercomputer deal — US Energy Department funds two huge machines that combine IBM and Nvidia chips with Mellanox networking.
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