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| Lorraine Luk / Wall Street Journal: |
Apple Orders More Than 5 Million Watches for Initial Run — Apple has asked its suppliers in Asia to make a combined five to six million units of its three Apple Watch models during the first quarter ahead of the product's release in April, according to people familiar with the matter.
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Telegraph, TechCrunch, TIME, Business Insider, Reuters, AppleInsider, Fortune, MacNN, DailyTech, Cult of Mac, iPhone in Canada Blog, Wearable Tech Insider, ZDNet, Mashable, iDownloadBlog.com, Patently Apple, Digital Trends, MacDailyNews and CNET. Tweets: @benbajarin
| Mike Beasley / 9to5Mac: |
WSJ: Apple struggled to find purpose for Apple Watch after many planned health features were cut, 5 million units ordered — The Wall Street Journal revealed tonight that many of the planned health features that Apple intended to include in its first-generation wearable were cut from the final product.
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Wall Street Journal, Ars Technica, Gigaom, Macworld, CNET, The Register, BGR, Business Insider, Forbes, bizjournals, Daily Mail, MacRumors, Neowin, The Verge, Inquirer, VentureBeat, Tech.pinions, TechnoBuffalo, Engadget, Ubergizmo, iMore and iDownloadBlog.com
Tweets: @patrick1barta, @paulharapin and @patrick1barta
| Kirk Koenigsbauer / Office Blogs: |
Microsoft updates Office mobile and web apps to support third-party cloud storage services — New cloud storage integration for Office — Today's post was written by Kirk Koenigsbauer, corporate vice president for the Office team. — We want Office to be the preferred way to work with documents no matter where they're stored.| Brad Smith / Microsoft on the Issues: |
Microsoft announces its cloud services are compliant with ISO 27018, a new international standard for privacy — Microsoft adopts first international cloud privacy standard — Today marks a major milestone, as Microsoft is the first major cloud provider to adopt the world's first international standard for cloud privacy.
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Gigaom, Office Blogs, Computerworld, BetaNews, FierceCIO News, MSDN Blogs, CloudWedge, Inquirer, WindowsITPro, cso.com.au, SC Magazine UK, Network World, TechWeekEurope UK, V3.co.uk, MSDN Blogs, cloudcomputing-news.net, Microsoft Azure Blog, cloudpro.co.uk, GeekWire, CW Developer Network, Microsoft News and Business Cloud News
| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Extensive Kasperky Lab report details advanced spy capabilities of Stuxnet-linked threat actor dubbed “Equation Group” — How “omnipotent” hackers tied to NSA hid for 14 years—and were found at last — “Equation Group” ran the most advanced hacking operation ever uncovered.
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Securelist, New York Times, F-Secure Antivirus …, Wired, BetaNews, theWHIR.com, O'Grady's PowerPage, Kaspersky Lab, Fortune, TechWorm, Boing Boing, Computerworld, socalTECH.com, Slashdot and Threatpost
Tweets: @kashhill, @markrussinovich, @ahess247, @kpoulsen, @ioerror, @csoghoian and @aurich
| Joseph Menn / Reuters: |
NSA-linked “Equation Group” can infect computers repeatedly via spyware inserted in hard disk firmware — Russian researchers expose breakthrough U.S. spying program — (Reuters) - The U.S. National Security Agency has figured out how to hide spying software deep within hard drives …
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Securelist, Engadget, Kaspersky Lab US, The Hill, DSLreports, bizjournals, ZDNet, Inquirer, Electronista, BGR, The Verge, SiliconANGLE, techPowerUp!, Gizmodo, VentureBreak, The Register, TechWeekEurope UK, The Next Web, Tech Times, Neowin, Wall Street Journal, Forbes and Boing Boing
Tweets: @violetblue, @csoghoian, @dangillmor, @info_activism and @jonathan_blow
| Eugene Kim / Business Insider: |
Parker Harris: The little-known nice guy who helped turn Salesforce into San Francisco's most powerful tech company — Parker Harris was sitting by the windows of Kinkaid's, a steakhouse in Burlingame, California, gazing at the lake of Anza Lagoon, when Marc Benioff walked in.| Ryan Whitwam / Android Police: |
Sony opens pre-orders for SmartEyeglass Developer Edition in the UK and Germany; $840 device ships in March — Sony Announces Pre-Orders Of SmartEyeglass Developer Edition, Starting Today In The UK And Germany For $840 — Sony slipped the official SmartEyeglass app into the Play Store yesterday … | Conor Dougherty / New York Times: |
Google X head Astro Teller says Neural Network Project, formerly Google Brain, produces value comparable to total Google X costs — Astro Teller, Google's ‘Captain of Moonshots,’ on Making Profits at Google X — Google is all over the place. From biotechnology and robots to satellites …
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Business Insider, New York Times, 9to5Google and Beyond Search
| Derrick Harris / Gigaom: |
EMC's Pivotal open sources big data tech, joins newly formed Hadoop-focused Open Data Platform with Hortonworks, IBM, GE, Verizon, Infosys, others — Pivotal open sources its Hadoop and Greenplum tech, and then some — Pivotal CEO Paul Maritz at Structure Data 2014. Credit: Pivotal CEO Paul Maritz / Jakub Mosur
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Re/code, TechCrunch, VentureBeat and New York Times
| Bill Luan / Google Developers Blog: |
Google launches the Chinese language Developer Channel on YouTube — Today, the Google Developer Platform team is launching a Chinese language and captioned YouTube channel, aiming to make it easier for the developers in China to learn more about Google services and technologies around mobile, web and the cloud.
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TechCrunch, BetaNews, Tech in Asia, Techcircle.in, 9to5Google and Android Central
| Harrison Weber / VentureBeat: |
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