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Verizon eliminates subsidized phones and contracts, offers 4 plans with 1-12GB of data for $30-80 per month and a $20 per month smartphone access fee — Verizon kills off service contracts, smartphone subsidies — In a radical shift, the company will only offer new plans …
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| Daniel Veditz / Mozilla Security Blog: |
Firefox file-stealing exploit found in the wild, Mozilla issues security update patching the vulnerability — Firefox exploit found in the wild — Yesterday morning, August 5, a Firefox user informed us that an advertisement on a news site in Russia was serving a Firefox exploit that searched …
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Square IPO bankers make preparations in case Jack Dorsey leaves to be full-time Twitter CEO — Dorsey's Dilemma: Running Twitter Seen Complicating Square IPO — Jack Dorsey, co-founder and interim CEO of Twitter Inc. and founder and chief executive officer of Square Inc. Photographer: Scott Eisen/Bloomberg
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American Airlines, Sabre Said to Be Hit in Hacks Backed by China — A group of China-linked hackers that has mowed through the databanks of major American health insurers and stolen personnel records of U.S. military and intelligence agencies has struck at the heart of the nation's air-travel system …
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Apple.com redesign does away with ‘Store’ tab and ‘store.apple.com’ domain, integrates shopping buttons in every product page — Apple.com, One Of The World's Biggest Stores, Gets A Redesign — A redesign of Apple.com that went live today removed the standalone ‘Store’ tab … | Mike Beasley / 9to5Mac: |
Everything new in iOS 9 beta 5: AT&T Wi-Fi Calling, keyboard changes, CarPlay tweaks, and more — With the release of today's iOS 9 beta, Apple has introduced several new features. The first on the list, and probably one of the most important, is support for Wi-Fi Calling on AT&T …
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| Thomas Mulier / Bloomberg Business: |
NPD: Apple helped US watch sales fall 14% in June, the biggest drop in seven years — Apple Helps Push U.S. Watch Sales to Biggest Drop in Seven Years — U.S. watch sales fell the most in seven years in June, one of the first signs Apple Inc.'s watch is eroding demand for traditional timepieces.| Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols / ZDNet: |
Check Point: Certifi-Gate-based attacks could take complete control of Android devices — Check Point has discovered a serious security hole with mobile remote support tools commonly used by hundreds of millions of Android devices. — Android security holes are popping up like mushrooms after a rain.
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| Rebecca Jeschke / Electronic Frontier Foundation: |
EFF's browser extension Privacy Badger out of beta; 1.0 blocks super-cookies and browser fingerprinting — Privacy Badger 1.0 Blocks the Sneakiest Kinds of Online Tracking — Browser Add-On Prevents Data Collection from Ads and Other Hidden Trackers — San Francisco …
| Rolfe Winkler / Wall Street Journal: |
Dozens of retailers, including Home Depot and Amazon, pull more than 100 brands from Jet.com, after it placed links to their sites without permission — Jet.com Runs Into Turbulence With Retailers — Home Depot, L'Oreal and others pull brands from new discount website| Larry Dignan / ZDNet: |
Informatica goes private, counts Microsoft, Salesforce as strategic investors — Salesforce Ventures and Microsoft buy into partner Informatica as the data integration and management company goes private in a $5.3 billion deal. — Informatica closed its deal to go private Thursday … | Mark Wilson / BetaNews: |
Zimperium releases free Stagefright detector Android app, shows if device is vulnerable — Zimperium releases Stagefright detection tool and vulnerability demo video — We've already looked at the Stagefright vulnerability, discovered by Zimperium, and shown what can be done to deal with it.
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