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| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Sources: Microsoft is building a new, lightweight browser codenamed Spartan for Windows 10 — Microsoft is building a new browser as part of its Windows 10 push — Summary:Microsoft is planning to roll out a new browser when it debuts Windows 10, according to sources. But IE isn't going completely away.
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| Jarah Euston / Flurry Insights: |
51% of new devices activated during Christmas week were Apple, 18% were Samsung, 6% Nokia — Apple and Apps Dominated Christmas 2014 — Millions of people woke up and unwrapped a shiny new device under the Christmas tree. As we have done in years past, Flurry examined these new device activations …
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The Verge, SiliconANGLE, 9to5Mac, BGR, Fortune, Inquirer, AppleInsider, VentureBeat, Mashable, Business Insider, VatorNews, Gigaom, Re/code, Engadget, The Register, The Daily Dot, Ubergizmo, Windows Phone Central, PadGadget, TechCrunch, PC Magazine, Electronista, CNET, Wall Street Journal, TechSpot, SlashGear, Neowin, iPhone Hacks, The Mac Observer, MacDailyNews, iPhone in Canada Blog, App Advice, iMore, Yahoo, mobiquityinc.com and WebProNews. Tweets: @theromit
| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Chaos Computer Club claims it can reproduce fingerprints from people's public photos — Chaos Computer Club, Europe's largest association of hackers, claims it can reproduce your fingerprints from a couple of photos that show your fingers. At the 31st annual Chaos Computer Club convention in Hamburg …
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BBC, Guardian, The Register, Computerworld, PC Magazine, Gigaom, ReadWrite, The Hacker News, RT, Ars Technica, TechNewsWorld, CNET, Business Insider, SiliconANGLE, Tom's Guide, PandoDaily, TechnoBuffalo, MacDailyNews, ExtremeTech, BGR, GeekWire, Fox News, Digital Trends, TechSpot, Electronista, iDownloadBlog.com, Geek.com, iPhone in Canada Blog, Cult of Mac, 9to5Mac, App Advice, MacRumors, SlashGear and Engadget. Tweets: @levie
| Jordan Kahn / 9to5Mac: |
Apple introduces 14-day no questions asked refunds for App Store & iTunes in EU countries — Apple has recently introduced a new 14-day no questions asked return policy for iTunes, App Store and iBooks purchases in Europe including the UK, Germany, Italy, France, and many other EU countries.
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SiliconANGLE, Telegraph, CNET, FACT Magazine, Cult of Mac, Phones Review, Ars Technica, Polygon, Digital Trends, The Next Web, The Register, ReadWrite, Ubergizmo, ABC News, Good E-Reader, Pocketnow, iPhone in Canada Blog, PC Magazine, Touch Arcade, Gotta Be Mobile, iDownloadBlog.com, Business Insider, MacRumors, AppleInsider, SlashGear, Neowin, Gigaom, iMore, iLounge and App Advice. Tweets: @bzamayo. Thanks:@llsethj. See also Mediagazer
| Eugene Kim / Business Insider: |
Washington Post hopes to generate more revenue by licensing its content management system to other news organizations — Here's A New, Inventive Way Jeff Bezos Plans To Make Money From The Washington Post — When Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos bought The Washington Post for $250 million in 2013 …
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Bloomberg and GeekWire. Tweets: @michaelroston, @sixfoot6, @rafat, @anildash, @fmanjoo and @anildash. See also Mediagazer
| Michal Lev-Ram / Fortune: |
How Disney CEO Bob Iger uses technology to keep every division of his company relevant — Disney CEO Bob Iger's empire of tech — Even in a dress-down gray sweater, Bob Iger looks a bit mechanical. His mouth is almost geometrically straight, his face constructed of some cool alloy.
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Fortune, MacRumors, Telegraph, Gizmodo, Inside Movies, The Inquisitr News, MacDailyNews, TUAW, AppleInsider, Cult of Mac, iMore, 9to5Mac, iPhone in Canada Blog and MakingStarWars.net
Tweets: @mdudas and @sfiegerman
| Christopher Williams / Telegraph: |
UK banks in talks to launch Apple Pay in 2015, execs concerned about data collection by Apple — UK banks in talks over Apple ‘wave and pay’ — Negotiations between the tech giant and at least one bank have proved tricky because of wrangling over the terms, including what data Apple will be able to access
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MacRumors, SiliconANGLE, Associated Press, AppleInsider, iMore, 9to5Mac, AppleTell, InvestorPlace, Gotta Be Mobile, TechnoBuffalo, BGR, Pocket-lint, Neowin, PC Magazine, Ars Technica, App Advice, MacDailyNews, iPhone in Canada Blog, SlashGear, Cult of Mac, Patently Apple, ReadWrite, Electronista, iPhone Hacks, O'Grady's PowerPage, Ubergizmo and iDownloadBlog.com
Tweets: @dgwbirch and @liarpoliticians
| Re/code: |
New King of Tech Startups: Smartphone Maker Xiaomi Raises $1.1 Billion at $45 Billion Valuation — Xiaomi has said it has closed a massive $1.1 billion round of funding that values the fast-growing Chinese phone maker at a jaw-dropping $45 billion, pre-money.
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Bin Lin - Facebook, Wall Street Journal, Computerworld, Bloomberg, CNET, New York Times, Forbes, Forbes, StrictlyVC, Reuters, Android Authority, GeekWire, Gigaom, 9to5Google, TIME, PE Hub Blog, Mashable, Android Beat, SiliconANGLE, Telegraph, VentureBeat, Tech in Asia and TechCrunch
Tweets: @ajs and @jonrussell
| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
As Microsoft scales back original vision of the Xbox One as a general-purpose living room platform, key team members keep leaving the company — Almost every single Xbox executive we profiled in this video last year has left the company — Boyd Multerer — the genius Microsoft engineer …
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Neowin, Polygon, VentureBeat, gameinformer.com, Business Insider, SlashGear, Windows Phone Central and Ubergizmo
Tweets: @boydmulterer, @monkbent, @fmanjoo and @ckindel
| Steven Millward / Tech in Asia: |
China's Great Firewall attacks Google once again, blocks any form of access to Gmail — Gmail users in China are now finding that Google's email service is totally inaccessible in the country. While Gmail's website has been blocked in China since June, along with every other Google service … | Brandon Chester / AnandTech: |
Samsung announces Galaxy Note 4 with Snapdragon 810 processor to enable 300 Mbps LTE download speeds in South Korea — Samsung Launches A Snapdragon 810 Powered Galaxy Note 4 — Today Samsung has announced a new version of the Galaxy Note 4 which will be launching in the South Korean market in January 2015.
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Samsung Tomorrow, Ars Technica, Forbes, Android Central, Social Barrel, Gigaom, Engadget, Android Authority, Pocketnow, Business Insider, Liliputing, BGR, GadgeTell, PhoneDog.com, TechnoBuffalo, Phandroid, MobileSyrup.com, MobileBurn.com, Phones Review, Droid Life, Android and Me, 9to5Google and Ubergizmo
| Spiegel Online: |
Snowden documents reveal the NSA routinely intercepted SSL/TLS traffic, decrypted VPN connections, struggled with PGP, Truecrypt, Tor, CSpace, OTR, ZRTP in 2012 — Inside the NSA's War on Internet Security — US and British intelligence agencies undertake every effort imaginable to crack …
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A Few Thoughts …, Computerworld, Boing Boing, ReadWrite, The Hill, Techdirt, PC Magazine, BGR, Mashable, It's a Gadget, SlashGear, TechCrunch, TechSpot, Paul Wouters …, Ubergizmo, PandoDaily, Gizmodo, Slashdot and Errata Security
Tweets: @anon_govwatchca, @csoghoian and @benedictevans
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