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Apple Watch's retail sales pitch uses a soft-sell that focuses on bands, three key features including health and fitness, and upgrading iPhone — Apple Watch's retail sales pitch revealed: 3 key features, switch to iPhone, focus on bands — With next week's Apple Watch event fast approaching … | Zac Bowden / WinBeta: |
Windows 10: A closer look at Cortana integration with Spartan (with video) — Microsoft's new browser has a unique feature built in... Cortana — Microsoft announced back in January that Windows 10 would ship with two browsers, the regular IE11 for backwards compatibility, and Spartan.
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| Craig Timberg / Washington Post: |
Researchers discover “FREAK” flaw, which can force Safari and Android browsers to use weak encryption, enabling MITM attacks — “FREAK” flaw undermines security for Apple and Google users, researchers discover — Technology companies are scrambling to fix a major security flaw …
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| Jason Del Rey / Re/code: |
PCH buys Fab.com, will use it as a sales channel for the hardware products it helps startups make — Fab.com's Fire Sale Is Official — Fab.com finally has a new home. — PCH International, a company that helps startups design and manufacture hardware products, has announced … | Kurt Wagner / Re/code: |
Oculus Has Hired Mary Lou Jepsen Away From Google X — Facebook-owned Oculus has hired away big-time Google X executive Mary Lou Jepsen, according to sources familiar with the move. — Jepsen, who spent the last three years running the Display Division at Google X, is joining …
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Apple beat Samsung for Q4 2014 global smartphone sales, first time since 2011; Samsung led sales for 2014 as a whole — Led By iPhone 6, Apple Passed Samsung In Q4 Smartphone Sales, 1.9B Mobiles Sold Overall In 2014 — If 2014 goes down as the year when smartphone sales globally passed the 1 billion mark …
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| Rich Brome / Phone Scoop: |
YotaPhone 2 featuring a rear-facing e-ink display to make its US debut this spring via Indiegogo — YotaPhone 2 Launching in U.S. via Indiegogo — YotaPhone plans to launch its unique dual-screen YotaPhone 2 in the U.S. this spring via crowd-funding site Indiegogo, according to spokesperson Matthew Kelly.
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| Ben Popper / The Verge: |
Inside Project Loon: Google's internet in the sky is almost open for business — “Good news,” says Katelin Jabbari, Google X's communications chief. “It's about to explode.” — We're several hundred feet in the air, inching our way along a wooden walkway tucked high into the rafters …
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| Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch: |
Luxe Confirms $20M In New Funding, As It Hires A Business Chief And Expands To New Markets — Last week we reported that on-demand valet startup Luxe had raised $20 million in Series A funding from Venrock Partners and Redpoint Ventures to expand its service into new markets.
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Tor Users Must Now Provide A Phone Number To Open A New Twitter Account — Twitter last week announced plans to begin tracking troublesome users via their mobile phone number. Along those lines, it has begun forcing users of anonymous web browser Tor to provide a number in order to open a new account.| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Sync, BitTorrent's Free File Sharing Service, Exits Beta With A $40 Pro Tier — BitTorrent is today taking one more step ahead in its bid to create a revenue-generating business out of its peer-to-peer file-sharing network. Sync, the desktop and mobile file synchronising service … | Dan Seifert / The Verge: |
BlackBerry plans four phones this year, including $275 all-touch 5-inch Leap phablet — BlackBerry plans to launch a sliding ‘dual-curved display’ phone this year — During a press conference at Mobile World Congress today, BlackBerry revealed that it plans to launch a new touchscreen slider device later this year.
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| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
Pebble reveals Pebble Time Steel for $250 on Kickstarter along with a “Smartstraps” system that's open to hardware developers — Pebble Reveals Pebble Time Steel And A Smartstrap System Open To Hardware Developers — Pebble announced Pebble Time last week …
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| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Chrome 42 will be the last version to support Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich — Gaming execs: Join 180 select leaders from King, Glu, Rovio, Unity, Facebook, and more to plan your path to global domination in 2015. GamesBeat Summit is invite-only — apply here. Ticket prices increase on March 6 Pacific!
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| Ryan Smith / AnandTech: |
Khronos unveils Vulkan: next generation of OpenGL, a cross-platform efficient graphics API — Next Generation OpenGL Becomes Vulkan: Additional Details Released — Continuing this week's GDC-2015 fueled blitz of graphics API news releases, we have Khronos, the industry consortium behind OpenGL …
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| Lauren Johnson / Adweek: |
Interview with Kim Kardashian on her hit game, aspirations in tech, and plans to create more apps — After Conquering Reality TV, Kim Kardashian Is Taking the Mobile World By Storm — Kim Kardashian West first grabbed our attention in October 2007 with the premiere of E!'s Keeping Up With the Kardashians.
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| Kevin Dugan / New York Post: |
Goldman Sachs and 14 other banks invest $66M in Symphony, a messaging and social networking service for Wall Street workers — Goldman Sachs to debut new social networking service — Call it Goldman Apps. — A Goldman Sachs-backed messaging and social networking service is planning … | Luke Westaway / CNET: |
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