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On Microsoft's 40th birthday, a look at how Satya Nadella is upending Microsoft's old Windows-first strategy — Opening Windows — A once-dominant software giant is determined to prove that life begins again at 40 — “WHAT are you on? The ‘f**k Windows’ strategy?”
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Bill Gates: under Nadella, “Microsoft is better positioned than ever to lead” in computing — Read the letter Bill Gates sent to Microsoft employees for the company's 40th anniversary — On April 4th, 1975, Bill Gates and Paul Allen started a little company named Microsoft.
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| Dan Frommer / Quartz: |
The number of daily tweets to Periscope streams settles near Meerkat's level after explosive launch week — The Meerkat-Periscope live-streaming race is neck-and-neck after a crazy week — The rise of two strikingly similar mobile live-video streaming apps—Meerkat and Periscope …
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Mashable and Open Gardens. Tweets: @stkonrath, @sg, @myurow, @joshelman, @sacca and @fromedome
| Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica: |
HTC One M9 review: some improvements over last year's model, but the throttled Snapdragon 810 processor runs hot, hurting performance and battery life — HTC One M9 review: HTC's flagship feels like an afterthought — A design from 2013 and a heavily-throttled SoC make for a disappointing update.
Tweets: @arstechnica
| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
OnePlus's Android Lollipop-based ROM, OxygenOS, is available to download now — A little later than expected, OnePlus has finally launched its much-anticipated Android Lollipop-based operating system, OxygenOS, for its One smartphone. — The China-based mobile phone manufacturer … | Kale Williams / San Francisco Chronicle: |
Operator of “revenge porn” website sentenced to nearly 18 years in prison in a first-of-its-kind prosecution — ‘Revenge porn’ site runner gets 18 years in prison — In a first-of-its-kind prosecution, the convicted operator of a “revenge porn” website was sentenced …
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| Alex Davies / Wired: |
Delphi created an autonomous car that drove across US without human input for 99% of the time — This Is Big: A Robo-Car Just Drove Across the Country — An autonomous car just drove across the country. — Nine days after leaving San Francisco, a blue car packed with tech …
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| Alissa Walker / Gizmodo: |
Apple demonstrates how to use Apple Watch with new guided tour videos — Your Best Apple Watch Glimpse Yet In Four Official Videos — Will the Apple Watch be so radically different we won't understand how to use it at first? Perhaps so: Apple has produced a series of videos …
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| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
AppleCare+ for Apple Watch: $999 for Edition, $79 for Watch, $59 for Sport — To go along with the premium $10,000 and up pricing of the 18-karat gold Apple Watch Edition, Apple will charge up to $999 for the Apple Watch Edition's AppleCare+ Protection Plan, 9to5Mac has learned.
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AppleInsider, GeekWire, CNET, Tech Times, MacRumors, iMore, The Register, MacRumors, Redmond Pie, Macworld, Pocketnow, Gotta Be Mobile, BGR, TechCrunch, TrustedReviews, Gizmodo, ZDNet, Gizmodo UK, The Next Web, PC World, TechSpot, iPhone in Canada Blog, Mashable, SlashGear, Ubergizmo, The Verge, Cult of Mac, TechnoBuffalo, iDownloadBlog.com, App Advice, VentureBreak, AppleTell, Business Insider, The Mac Observer and iLounge
Tweets: @9to5mac, @markgurman and @markgurman
| Anna Irrera / Wall Street Journal: |
UBS to Open Blockchain Research Lab in London — Swiss banking giant UBS is to open a technology lab in London to explore how blockchain technology can be used in financial services. — The lab, set to open this month and occupy a dozen desks at Canary Wharf-based fintech accelerator space Level39 … | Conor Dougherty / New York Times: |
Profile of Jay Edelson, who specializes in privacy class-action lawsuits against tech firms, relying on the application of old laws to new technologies — Jay Edelson, the Class-Action Lawyer Who May Be Tech's Least Friended Man — When technology executives imagine the boogeyman, they see a baby-face guy in wire-rim glasses.
Tweets: @jessicalessin
| Joshua Kopstein / Al Jazeera America: |
Latest apps promising encryption show that security should only be trusted if tested and proven over time — Not all encryption apps are created equal — Privacy has never been cooler, but beware startups offering magic solutions — “Encryption works.
Tweets: @sweis, @esquiring, @headhntr, @eff and @csoghoian
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