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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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| Bryan Steele / Skype Blogs: |
Skype for Web brings instant messaging, voice, and video calls to your 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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| Mike Isaac / New York Times: |
Reddit CEO Yishan Wong resigns, Ellen Pao to be interim CEO, Alexis Ohanian back full time as executive chairman — Reddit Chief Executive Resigns as Company Shuffles Top Ranks — Reddit, the popular online community message board, wants to grow up into a viable business.
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As executive chairman, Alexis Ohanian says Reddit's focus will be on mobile, UX, and community tools
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| 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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| Brad Stone / Businessweek: |
Tony Fadell backed Keyssa announces ‘Kiss Connectivity’ tech which offers wireless transfer speeds of up to 6Gb/sec via EHF between devices — Keyssa ‘Kiss Connectivity’ Promises Faster Wireless Data Transfer — You need almost a minute to copy a high-definition … | Adam Zeis / iMore: |
Photo Editor by Aviary updated with creative cloud sync and $200 worth of free effects — Aviary has today announced their biggest update since joining forces with Adobe, bring a much improved Photo Editor by Aviary app to Android and iOS. The photo editing app — which allows users to edit … | Wilson Rothman / Wall Street Journal: |
SanDisk announces iXpand flash drive with USB and Lightning connectors, 16GB for $59.99 and 64GB for $119.99 — iPhone and iPad Get Extra Storage and Easy Back-Ups With SanDisk iXpand … When it comes to iPhones and iPads, storage can be a huge pain. Apple charges an arm and a leg … | 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.| Jessica E. Lessin / The Information: |
Samsung to invest millions in short-form video for new mobile service; may use pay-per-month revenue model and include music — Samsung Preps New Mobile Video Service — Samsung Electronics is rebooting its mobile video strategy in a test of whether short-form video content can drive mobile revenues just as games have.
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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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| John Ribeiro / PC World: |
SAP to pay $359M to Oracle instead of the $1.3B awarded in 2010, to settle long-running TomorrowNow lawsuit — Oracle, SAP settle long-standing TomorrowNow lawsuit — SAP and Oracle have settled a long-standing copyright-infringement lawsuit, with the German company agreeing to pay …
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Amazon Announces EC2 Container Service For Managing Docker Containers On AWS — At its re:invent developer conference in Las Vegas, Amazon today announced its first Docker-centric product: the EC2 Container Service for managing Docker containers on its cloud computing platform.| Ron Miller / TechCrunch: |
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