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Facebook opens up Internet.org to all developers following backlash in India from net neutrality proponents — Facebook opens up Internet.org to developers, hoping to pacify net neutrality critics — Chris Daniels, Facebook's VP for Internet.org, says Facebook isn't picking the web winners through the initiative.
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Internet.org opens to developers, but high-bandwith services like VoIP and video aren't allowed — Facebook's free Internet for the poor leaves out high-bandwidth sites — Facebook opens platform after criticism, but no VoIP, video, and file transfers. — Facebook's Internet.org … | Nikhil Pahwa / MediaNama: |
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Accessory makers plan to tap Apple Watch's hidden port for battery straps, faster charging — One of the first companies to announce plans to make a battery strap for Apple Watch— allowing you to charge the device while on the go while continuing to wear it— has confirmed plans to tap …
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| Micah Singleton / The Verge: |
Department of Justice looking closely at Apple as it pushes record labels to ditch free Spotify streaming ahead of Beats relaunch — Apple pushing music labels to kill free Spotify streaming ahead of Beats relaunch — The Department of Justice is looking closely into Apple's business practices …
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Microsoft delivers public preview of Office 2016 for Windows desktops — Summary:A new test build of Microsoft's Office 2016 suite for Windows 7, 8 and 10 users is available, ahead of this fall's final release. — Microsoft is making available to the public a test build of its Office 2016 desktop suite for Windows desktops.| Matthew Lynley / TechCrunch: |
Pinterest Developers Platform launches in beta to let whitelisted developers build apps that integrate data from users' Pins and Boards — At Long Last, Pinterest Is Opening Up To Developers — Pinterest is finally opening the doors for developers to access its information — a little bit, at least.
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Docker-competitor CoreOS spins off its App Container project into a separate foundation with Google, VMware, Red Hat, and Apcera support — CoreOS Gives Up Control of Non-Docker Linux Container Standard — Taking a major step forward in its quest to drive a Linux container standard that's …
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Google acquires startup behind Timeful, a popular iOS time-management app — With Timeful Acquisition, Google Aims To Supercharge Its Apps' Time-Management Smarts — When time-management startup Timeful launched its iOS app last July, it faced a basic challenge.
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Google rolls out Collections, a Pinterest-like feature for curated sets of Google+ posts — Google+ Collections Feature Begins Its Rollout — It seems that while Google hasn't actually released the official announcement yet (it's expected this morning), the Collections feature we've heard …
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Free Android apps secretly connect to thousands of user tracking and ad sites — The Truth About Smartphone Apps That Secretly Connect to User Tracking and Ad Sites — Security researchers have developed an automated system for detecting Android apps that secretly connect to ad sites and user tracking sites.
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| Lucy Vernasco / Motherboard: |
Behind the plan to replace the Internet's ageing TCP/IP architecture with Named Data Networking — The Mission To Save The Internet By Rewiring It From The Name Up — While most of us have been binge-streaming or strapping computers to our bodies or wrapping our heads around the ins … | Samuel Gibbs / Guardian: |
Twitter kills MS-Dos games embedded in tweets — Social network kills MS-Dos gaming fun, saying interactives and games breach its embedded cards terms of service — Faster than Ryu KOing Ken, Twitter has killed off the ability to play MS-Dos games in tweets.
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| Andrew Nusca / Fortune: |
Chuck Robbins named Cisco CEO; John Chambers to become executive chairman — John Chambers will step down from Cisco CSCO after 20 years at the helm. The company announced on Monday that Chuck Robbins, its senior vice president of worldwide field operations, will step into the company's top job effective July 26, 2015.Sponsor Posts
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