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Hands-on sources on Apple Watch: battery life for 5 hours of fairly heavy use, unannounced Heart Rate Glance feature, more — Sources offer hands-on Apple Watch details: battery life, unannounced features, and more — Just ahead of the finalized Apple Watch's presentation at Apple's March 9th … | Matthew Panzarino / TechCrunch: |
Apple Watch full battery charge takes two hours; push notifications arrive only with skin contact, stop when battery is less than 10% charged — The Apple Watch Is Time, Saved — Over the course of investigating the Apple Watch, I've spoken to several sources who have spent extended time with it.
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| Peter Kafka / Re/code: |
Apple negotiates with music labels for streaming licenses that would forego free tier, allow high-profile artists to distribute with Apple first — Big Music Labels Want to Make Free Music Hard to Get, and Apple Says They're Right — Right now it's easy to stream any song you want …
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Apple to overhaul iPad for Education program, remove Apple ID requirement for apps and books for large deployments beginning this fall — Apple Overhauling iPad for Education Program to Simplify Sharing Devices and Apps — Apple will be making significant changes to iPad deployment …
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| Shara Tibken / CNET: |
Samsung's CMO, responsible for the hit “Next Big Thing” ad campaign, plans to leave company in early April — Samsung loses ‘Next Big Thing’ marketing chief — Todd Pendleton, the man behind Samsung's popular marketing campaign, plans to leave the smartphone giant in early April, CNET has learned.| New York Times: |
Study finds at least 46K Twitter accounts linked to ISIS; from September to December Twitter suspended 1K accounts — ISIS Is Skilled on Twitter, Using Thousands of Accounts, Study Says — The Islamic State, the violent extremist group that espouses a return to a seventh-century caliphate … | Peter Kafka / Re/code: |
Sling TV's Web-TV Service Attracts at Least 100,000 Sign-Ups in Its First Month — Sling TV, Dish Network's Web-TV service, has been open to U.S. customers for just over a month. And so far, it seems like Sling has generated some attention: Sources say at least 100,000 people have signed up to check out the $20-a-month service.| Ed Bott / ZDNet: |
Oracle now bundles Ask toolbar adware with Java for Mac installations by default — Oracle extends its adware bundling to include Java for Macs — Summary:For years, Oracle has tormented Windows users by bundling adware with its Java installer for Windows PCs.| Krebs on Security: |
US Department of Justice charges two Vietnamese citizens and a Canadian with stealing over 1B email addresses from email service providers — Feds Indict Three in 2011 Epsilon Hack — U.S. federal prosecutors in Atlanta today unsealed indictments against two Vietnamese men and a Canadian citizen …
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| Matt Haughey / MetaFilter: |
MetaFilter founder Matt Haughey steps away from his pioneering online community after 16 years, later adds he's joining Slack in a content role — Sixteen Years — After 16 years of doing a bit of everything under the sun here, I'm stepping away from the day to day of running MetaFilter and moving into the background.
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Boing Boing. Tweets: @mathowie, @jessethorn, @busblog, @mat, @danielpunkass, @jkottke, @marshallk, @waxpancake, @craigmod, @joshmillard, @mathowie, @anildash and @waxpancake
| Don Reisinger / CNET: |
Sony has sold 20.2M PlayStation 4 units since November 2013 launch, keeping grip of market — Sony's PlayStation 4 continues to soar with 20M sold — By contrast, Microsoft's most recent public count in November noted Xbox One sales at around 10 million, though that figure is likely … | Andrew Webster / The Verge: |
Amazon to bring four of its Game Studios titles to iOS, release date not yet announced — Amazon is bringing its premium mobile games to iPhone and iPad — With some major acquisitions and multiple big games in the works, Amazon clearly has some big ambitions for its in-house gaming division.
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| Chance Miller / 9to5Google: |
Gmail for iOS updated w/ share sheet support, ability to archive & reply to email via notifications — Google this morning has released a major update for Gmail on iOS. The update bumps the app to version 4.0 and packs a handful of new features. First off, Gmail on iOS now supports …
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PC Magazine, TechCrunch, Gmail - Google+, The Verge, SlashGear, PC World, Mashable, App Advice, The Next Web, MacRumors, BGR, GSMArena Blog, Engadget, MobileSyrup.com, Ubergizmo and iMore
| Michelle Davis / Bloomberg Business: |
Apple replacing AT&T in the Dow Jones Industrial Average — Apple Will Join the Dow Jones Industrial Average — (Bloomberg) — Apple Inc. will be added to the Dow Jones Industrial Average, replacing AT&T Inc., in the first reshuffling since September 2013.
| John Biggs / TechCrunch: |
US Marshals Sell The Last Of The Seized Silk Road Bitcoins — US Marshals have sold the last batch of 50,000 seized Silk Road bitcoins at auction after a surprisingly quiet sealed bidding process. The USMS has not announced the name of the winner of the entire collection of bitcoin … Sponsor Posts
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