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Interview with Sony Mobile CEO Hiroki Totoki: we will never ever sell or exit from the current mobile business — Billion dollar turnaround: Sony Mobile CEO — The phrase ‘thrown in at the deep end’ might have been invented for Hiroki Totoki. — The CEO and president of Sony Mobile … | Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
All Apple Stores to reduce third-party accessories selection to items sold in packaging co-designed by Apple, starting next week — All Apple Stores revamping third-party accessory selection with Apple designed boxes — Apple-designed packaging for the Mophie Juice Pack and Logitech iPad Keyboard
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| Leo Kelion / BBC: |
BBC Micro Bit computer's final design revealed — The BBC has revealed the final design of the Micro Bit, a pocket-sized computer set to be given to about one million UK-based children in October. — The device - which features a programmable array of red LED lights …
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Ellen Pao apologizes again, announces new role of Moderator Advocate to be moderators' contact with Reddit, pledges improvements to mod tools — We apologize — We screwed up. Not just on July 2, but also over the past several years. We haven't communicated well …
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| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
Eddy Cue: Apple ‘working’ to bring back music Home Sharing with iOS 9 — Last week, we noted that Apple's latest iOS 8.4 release with Apple Music removes support for the long-existing Music Home Sharing feature. This function allows an iOS device user to stream music from a computer running iTunes on their own WiFi network.
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Samsung's Q2 disappoints with 7th straight profit decline; revenues fall 8.4% as wrong sales forecast leads to glut of unsold Galaxy S6 and shortages of S6 Edge — Samsung Sees Seventh Straight Profit Decline — The world's largest smartphone maker by shipments said operating profit likely fell about 4%| Stuart Dredge / Music Ally: |
Streaming music service Saavn raises $100m as it reaches 14m active users — Big news for Indian streaming music service Saavn: it's announcing a $100m funding round led by Tiger Global Management today, while announcing a new milestone of 14m active users.| Quentin Hardy / New York Times: |
Sheryl Sandberg Joins SurveyMonkey's Board — Sheryl Sandberg is taking a seat on the board of SurveyMonkey, her late husband's online survey and polling company. — Ms. Sandberg, chief operating officer of Facebook and author of the book “Lean In,” unexpectedly lost her husband, Dave Goldberg, while on vacation in May.
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| Jon Fingas / Engadget: |
Samsung announces 2TB consumer-oriented SSDs; 2TB 850 Evo for $800, and 850 Pro for $1,000 — Samsung brings 2TB solid-state drives to your home PC — You no longer have to bend over backwards to get more than a terabyte of fast, flash-based storage in your home computer.
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| Jordan Novet / VentureBeat: |
Microsoft offers researchers $500K and HoloLens development kits to make holographic computing useful — Microsoft today announced a request for proposals for academic research on possible applications of “holographic computing” — the sort of augmented reality that Microsoft's HoloLens headset can offer.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Hulu: Living room viewing accounts for over 58% of content streams, up from 44% in Q1 2014 — Hulu's Living Room Viewing On The Rise As PC Viewing Declines — While the rise of standalone streaming services has been fueled, in part, by increased connection speeds combined with the ubiquity …
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