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Allister Heath / Telegraph:

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Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat:

VLC gets first major release across Windows, Mac, Linux, Android, iOS, Windows Phone, Windows RT, and Android TV — VideoLAN today launched what is arguably the biggest release of its popular media player to date: an update to VLC for the desktop coordinated with new versions across all major mobile platforms.

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Miles Brignall / Guardian:

UK ISP TalkTalk suffers massive data breach, subscribers' information used in scams — Fraud threat to millions of TalkTalk customers — Major breach of data leaves one customer £2,800 out of pocket as TalkTalk and his bank, Santander, refuse to compensate him

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Adrian Kingsley-Hughes / ZDNet:

Lenovo promises to stop bundling crapware on PCs — Summary:Following on from the Superfish debacle the company found itself embroiled in earlier this month, PC maker Lenovo is promising to bring to an end to the practice of pre-loading crapware onto systems.

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Andrew Chung / Reuters:

Smartflash LLC sues Apple again over use of same patents in iPhone 6/6 Plus and iPad Air 2 — Apple faces second suit from victorious patent firm — (Reuters) - Fresh off a $532.9 million jury win against Apple Inc (AAPL.O), a Texas company is again suing the tech giant …

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Ariel Adams / aBlogtoWatch:

Swiss watchmakers Mondaine, Alpina, Frederique-Constant debut luxury smartwatches with embedded activity tracker based on modules by Jawbone-supplier MotionX — MMT ‘Horological Smartwatch’ Platform Finally Ties Switzerland To Silicon Valley — Ever since the smartwatch became a thing …

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Juli Clover / MacRumors:

Apple Opens Up ‘iWork for iCloud’ to Everyone, No Apple Device Required — Following a short beta testing period, Apple's iCloud.com website has been updated to make its iWork suite of apps accessible to all users, even those without an Apple device. — As of today, anyone can sign …

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Reuters:

China's draft counterterror law would require that technology firms hand over encryption keys, install backdoors; Obama administration has conveyed concerns — China draft counterterror law strikes fear in foreign tech firms — (Reuters) - China is weighing a far-reaching counterterrorism law …

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Paul Carsten / Reuters:

China censorship sweep deletes more than 60,000 Internet accounts — (Reuters) - Some of China's largest Internet companies deleted more than 60,000 online accounts because their names did not conform to regulations due to take effect on Sunday, the top Internet regulator said.

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Brian P. Rubin / ReadWrite:

Pebble releases SDK v3.0 with software emulator for Pebble Time — Pebble: It's Time To Preview Our New App Development Tools — Thursday, Pebble released a preview of its software development kit for its new smartwatch platform and Pebble Time device. — With SDK 3., the company touts …

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John Cook / GeekWire:

PopCap Games co-founder emerges with virtual reality startup Pluto VR — As the co-founder of PopCap Games, John Vechey helped create some of the most compelling and beloved games for PCs, consoles and mobile devices. Now, the 37-year-old Seattle entrepreneur sees the same opportunity …

More: TechSpot, Engadget, VentureBeat, GamesIndustry.biz, Polygon and Gamasutra. Thanks:@belril

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:

Visa Announces Acquisition Of TrialPay To Expand Its Offers Platform — Visa announced today that it's planning to acquire Mountain View-based TrialPay, an e-commerce payment platform which sits in between payments and advertising, providing consumers with an alternative way to pay for items …

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Alex Barinka / Bloomberg Business:

IBM Forms Partnership With Juniper on Data-Networking Analysis — Don't Miss Out — (Bloomberg) — International Business Machines Corp. formed a partnership with Juniper Networks Inc. to create networks with built-in analytics, harnessing big data to improve mobile and other applications.

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Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:

Verizon mocks FCC ruling with Morse code response dated 1934, despite using Title II to its benefit — Verizon issues furious response to FCC, in Morse code, dated 1934 — Verizon wants 1st Amendment right to edit the Web, but rules from 1934 are too old.

Stacey Higginbotham / Gigaom:

Net neutrality's next chapter: How experts saw today's milestone and next steps

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