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Source: new Apple TV remote to include touch pad for scrolling, two physical buttons, and will be slightly thicker — Apple TV Remote Expected to Add Touch Pad in Redesign — Apple has long ridiculed remote controls for being too complex. Now after eight years of a minimalist design …
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Microsoft is working on 5.2" and 5.7" Lumia phones with QHD displays, 20mpx cameras, 3GB of RAM and other high-end specs, to launch this fall — Exclusive: Microsoft has two high-end Lumias coming this year [Specs] — Good news, Windows Phone fans! Microsoft apparently … | Jordan Kahn / 9to5Mac: |
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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| Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
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 …
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| Julie Bort / Business Insider: |
Chuck Robbins' appointment as Cisco CEO is a surprise to many inside and outside the company — Cisco's new CEO choice is a shocker — Cisco has announced that its next CEO will be Chuck Robbins, a 17-year Cisco veteran who was leading the company's global sales and partner team.
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| Yevgeniy Sverdlik / Data Center Knowledge: |
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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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.| 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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Thanks:@ericleamen. See also Mediagazer| Lucy Vernasco / Motherboard: |
Behind the plan to replace Internet's aging 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 and outs … | Liam Spradlin / Android Police: |
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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| 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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Thanks:@jamiefavazza| Harry McCracken / Fast Company: |
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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Android Authority, ZDNet, VentureBeat, The Next Web, BetaNews, 9to5Mac, PhoneDog.com, iPhone in Canada Blog, MacStories and TechCrunch. Tweets: @chrissyfarr. Thanks:@harrymccracken
| MIT Technology Review: |
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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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Facebook And Nokia Quietly Ink Deal For Here To Power Maps On Mobile, Instagram And Messenger — One of the companies in the frame as a potential buyer of Nokia's Here mapping division has quietly inked a deal with the Finnish company to power mobile maps. Facebook is now using Here maps … | Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
Kano, which teaches kids to code and build Raspberry Pi-based computers, raises $15M to expand with new software offerings and hardware kits — Learn To Code Startup Kano Gets $15M To Build A Creative Computing Brand — London-based startup Kano, which makes a software platform … Sponsor Posts
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