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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 … | Clinton Jeff / UnleashThePhones: |
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 … | Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
Apple launches official “Made for Apple Watch” program for third-party bands, doesn't allow for use of the hidden diagnostic port or charging — Apple launches official ‘Made for Apple Watch’ third-party bands program — In line with our report from a couple of weeks ago …
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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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Twilio raising $100M Series E at a $1B valuation according to April filing — Twilio Has Joined The Unicorn Ranks With Stealthy $100 Million Raise — Twilio is the latest tech startup to join the ranks of private companies worth at least $1 billion after quietly raising a $100 million round of funding, Forbes has learned.
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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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| 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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Mobile phones and low cost solar panels revolutionizing Africa — Africa's Mobile-Sun Revolution — The transformative potential for mobile communications is upon us in every aspect of life. In the developing world where infrastructure of all types is at a premium …
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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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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.| 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 … | Jordan Crook / TechCrunch: |
Gamification returns to Swarm in v2.3 with unlockable stickers; mayorships and leaderboards coming in v3.0 — Swarm 2.3 Feels Like The Old Foursquare, Looks Way Better — Foursquare has today released an update for Swarm, the company's social check-in app, that brings far …
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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 … | Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
Comcast spent $336M on failed attempt to buy Time Warner Cable; TWC spent $219M — Comcast spent $336 million on failed attempt to buy Time Warner Cable — And Time Warner Cable spent $219 million of its own. — Comcast spent $336 million over the past year-plus on its failed attempt to acquire Time Warner Cable.| Tali Arbel / Associated Press: |
Comcast now has more Internet than cable customers after reaching parity in Q1 with 22.4M — Comcast Now Has More Inernet Than Cable Customers — NEW YORK (AP) — Just before its $45 billion deal with Time Warner Cable collapsed over regulators' fears about a giant cable company's control over the Web … | 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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