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| Laurie Burkitt / Wall Street Journal: |
China to End Ban on Videogame Consoles — Gamers in China have turned to mobile and computer entertainment — BEIJING—China will lift a ban on making and selling videogame consoles in the country, paving the way for foreign companies like Sony Corp. and Microsoft Corp. to expand in one of the world's largest videogame markets.
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Exclusive: Amazon planning drive-up grocery stores with the first likely coming to Sunnyvale — sources — For decades, drive-thrus have served up everything from coffee to prescriptions to dry cleaning — not to mention burgers and fries. Now Amazon.com Inc. wants to add another item to the list: Your groceries.| Chuong Nguyen / TechRadar: |
Dell launching Latitude 12 Rugged Tablet with Windows in the US this month starting at $1,600 — Dell built the Latitude 12 Rugged Tablet to survive extreme environments — IP65-rated and tested with MIL-STD-810G specifications — Made for outdoor use in harsh environments … | Ryan Whitwam / Android Police: |
Motorola Accidentally Leaks 2015 Moto G Options, Includes Up To 2GB Of RAM And Multiple Colors — We all know that a new Moto G is coming very soon, probably at Motorola's “find your match” event on July 27th. Someone over at Moto HQ must have an itchy trigger finger, though.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Team behind Delicious releases Dmail, a Chrome extension to make Gmail messages self-destruct — Dmail Makes Your Gmail Messages Self-Destruct — Have you ever regretted sending an email, and wished you could take it back? Or maybe you've worried about sending confidential information over email …
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| Ted Johnson / Variety: |
FCC OKs AT&T-DirecTV merger with conditions lasting 4 years: expand fiber internet to 12.5M new customers, submit interconnection agreements for review, more — FCC Approves AT&T-DirecTV Merger — AT&T and DirecTV's merger cleared its final federal regulatory hurdle on Friday, garnering the votes at the FCC for approval.
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FCC, Ars Technica, CNET, Reuters, Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, VentureBeat, PC Magazine, GamePolitics blogs, Wired, Digital Trends, New York Times, Bloomberg Business, USA Today, Tech Times, TechnoBuffalo, Forbes, ZDNet, FierceCable, TIME, New York Times, CNBC, Seeking Alpha, eWeek, DSLreports, Engadget and The Verge. See also Mediagazer
| Don Clark / Wall Street Journal: |
Technicolor to Buy Cisco's Set-Top Box Unit for About $600 Million — The deal signals the priorities of Cisco's incoming CEO, who assumes the role on Monday — SAN FRANCISCO— Technicolor SA has agreed to buy Cisco Systems Inc.'s TV set-top business for about $600 million …
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Cisco Blog, Technicolor, Variety, ZDNet, CIO.com, Fortune, PCWorld, eWeek, The Register and DSLreports
| Mikey Campbell / AppleInsider: |
Nike, Apple agree to $2.4M settlement in suit over false FuelBand claims, Apple to pay nothing — Consumers who purchased a Nike+ FuelBand between 2012 and 2015 might be eligible for a small payment from Nike after the sports brand, alongside co-defendant Apple, agreed to settle …
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MacRumors, VentureBeat, Re/code, Engadget, iMore and Wearable Tech Insider. Thanks:@mikeycampbell81
| Michael McWhertor / Polygon: |
Nintendo shutting down Wii U TVii service in August — Nintendo TVii, the service for Wii U that lets its users find, watch and interact with television content through the console's GamePad controller, is shutting down on Aug. 11, Nintendo announced in a Miiverse post today.
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Miiverse, Ars Technica, Tech Times, DualShockers, Kotaku, The Next Web, Nintendo Life, Engadget, Ubergizmo, Twinfinite and destructoid
| Syed Raza Hassan / Reuters: |
Pakistan to shut down BlackBerry's secure messaging services by Dec. 1 for “security reasons” — Pakistan to shut down BlackBerry services by December over ‘security’ — The Pakistani government plans to shut down BlackBerry Ltd's secure messaging services by Dec. 1 for …
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Slack now integrates with Google Calendar, allowing users to receive reminders in any channel — Google Calendar Reminders Come to Slack — As a user of Slack, you're organized, you're on the ball, and you're well connected to your team. Every once in a while though, something falls through the cracks and you forget a meeting.
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