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| Farhad Manjoo / New York Times: |
Apple Watch has a steep learning curve but can be a life-changer after apps are streamlined and initial bugs are fixed — Apple Watch Bliss, but Only After a Steep Learning Curve — It took three days — three long, often confusing and frustrating days — for me to fall for the Apple Watch.
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| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
Apple watch is the nicest smart watch but has performance issues with apps and locations services, is more expensive than rivals — Apple Watch: the definitive review — The Apple Watch is an extraordinarily small and personal device. It is designed to participate in nearly every moment of your day …
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| Joshua Topolsky / Bloomberg Business: |
Apple Watch Review: You'll Want One, but You Don't Need One … I'm in a meeting with 14 people, in mid-sentence, when I feel a tap-tap-tap on my wrist. I stop talking, tilt my head, and whip my arm aggressively into view to see the source of the agitation.| Katherine Boehret / Re/code: |
| Andrew Nusca / Fortune: |
Fortune hires six former Gigaom reporters to double down on its technology coverage — Fortune bulks up on technology coverage, hires 6 Gigaom veterans — When technology industry executives visit Fortune's New York City headquarters, one of the things I enjoy most is when they inevitably slow …
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Twitter confirms it's experimenting with a new search interface with more filtering options — Twitter Confirms It's Messing With Its Search Experience — While covering Google's closure of Google Moderator earlier, I searched Twitter on the desktop to see what people were saying about it … | Blair Hanley Frank / GeekWire: |
Oyster takes aim at Amazon with new e-book store, lands all ‘Big Five’ publishers … Oyster launched a new version of its e-book platform today that puts it in even closer competition with Amazon. The New York-based startup introduced its own e-book store to augment its existing Netflix-esque e-book subscription service.
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| Mic Wright / The Next Web: |
Popcorn Time launches on iOS, no jailbreak required, works brilliantly for watching streaming video — Popcorn Time's launched on iOS and that's a big problem for Apple and Netflix — Torrent-streaming platform Popcorn Time has been causing headaches for the movie and TV industries ever since it emerged early last year.| CNN: |
Russian hackers accessed sensitive White House information, including real-time details of president's schedule, via compromised State Department system — How the U.S. thinks Russians hacked the White House — Washington (CNN)Russian hackers behind the damaging cyber intrusion …
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| Matt Weinberger / Business Insider: |
The rise and fall of OpenStack startups as venture capital investments in the space dries up — Investors were once tripping over themselves to get into a hot technology called OpenStack. What happened? — Once upon a time, venture capitalists were tripping over themselves to invest …
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| Richard Lai / Engadget: |
HTC One M9+ launches in China: 5.2" Quad HD screen, fingerprint sensor, MediaTek SoC — HTC's bigger and better One M9+ launches in China — HTC clearly gets China's obsession with large-screen phones. Following the plastic 5.5-inch One E9+, the company is back with the metallic M9+ which … | Eva Dou / Wall Street Journal: |
Xiaomi throws parties for fans every few weeks across China, making customers feel part of an exclusive club — Xiaomi: The Secret to the World's Most Valuable Startup — Xiaomi reaches out to customers through parties and social media — HANGZHOU, China—Zhao Ruiping assembles mechanical valves … | Brad Heath / USA Today: |
US Justice Department and Drug Enforcement Administration secretly tracked billions of international calls from US for nearly a decade before 9/11 — U.S. secretly tracked billions of calls for decades — Starting in 1992, the Justice Department amassed logs of virtually all telephone calls … | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Sprinklr Buys Get Satsifaction To Add Customer Feedback To Its Social Media Platform — Sprinklr, the social media management company that vaulted into the “unicorn club” last month after it raised $46m on a $1b+ valuation, is making an acquisition to expand into a new area, customer feedback.
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| Chance Miller / 9to5Google: |
Google appears to be developing a teleconferencing tool called GMeet — First noticed by Florian Kiersch on Google+, Google appears to be testing a new meetings service. Google Meetings, also referred to as GMeet, appears to allow users to schedule and join teleconference calls with one click.
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| Abhijeet M. / SamMobile: |
Samsung's round smartwatch to be called Gear A, come in two variants, one with Bluetooth, one with 3G and calling support — Exclusive: Samsung's round smartwatch to be called Gear A, have 3G and calling support — A perfect smartwatch? There's no such thing, but Samsung … | Selena Larson / The Daily Dot: |
Anonymous messaging app After School back in App Store with moderation to combat bullying — After School attempts a comeback with bans on bullying — Wherever there's an anonymous app, there are teens using it to bully each other. — After School, one of the newest applications … | Sam Machkovech / Ars Technica: |
Presidential candidate Rand Paul promises to end warrantless searches of phone, computer records; campaign site sells $15 “NSA spy cam blocker” sticker — Rand Paul sells “NSA spy cam blocker” as Presidential bid fundraiser — Bid announcement video taken off YouTube due to copyright claim over a song.| John Callaham / Windows Central: |
Kabam abandons Windows Phone development after releasing just one game — Windows Central has learned that Kabam, one of the biggest mobile game developers, has decided to stop making titles from the Windows Phone platform. This decision represents a complete reversal of Kabam's original plans …
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| Xbox Wire: |
TV on Xbox Gets More Versatile with Over-the-Air Tuner for the U.S. and Canada — At Xbox, we're committed to delivering amazing new gaming and entertainment experiences, and part of that commitment includes giving you the best TV-viewing options, in one place, never more than one step away from your gaming.
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| Nicole LaPorte / Fast Company: |
An inside look at HBO's strategy to compete with Netflix by launching HBO Now — HBO to Netflix: Bring it on — On a frigid winter Friday in Manhattan's MediaGulch, HBO CEO Richard Plepler glides through the doors of a power-lunch spot called the Lambs Club.| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
Instagram Adds Post Notifications For Specific Accounts, Color And Fade Tools — Instagram has a couple of new photo editing tools available in its mobile applications, out today on Android and coming soon to iOS: Color and Fade. Color lets you adjust the tone of both the highlights … | Gaurav Raghuvanshi / Wall Street Journal: |
SingTel To Buy U.S. Cybersecurity Firm Trustwave for $810 Million — SingTel is buying 98% of the equity of Trustwave, with the balance remaining with CEO Robert J. McCullen — SINGAPORE—Singapore Telecommunications Ltd. Wednesday said it would buy Trustwave, a U.S. managed-security services specialist … | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Rocket Internet Fashion Group GFG Raises $35M, Poaches Amazon Exec To Lead It — Rocket Internet — the Berlin-based startup incubator that went public in October 2014 — is today adding more muscle to the Global Fashion Group, a cluster of five of its emerging market fashion sites …
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