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AT&T hotspot at Dulles Airport tampers with HTTP traffic to inject third-party ads from WiFi monetization firm RaGaPa — AT&T Hotspots: Now with Advertising Injection — While traveling through Dulles Airport last week, I noticed an Internet oddity. The nearby AT&T hotspot was fairly fast—that was a pleasant surprise.
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| Jacob Demmitt / GeekWire: |
Amazon secretly testing new restaurant delivery service in Seattle with Prime Now rollout … Amazon has quietly started experimenting with delivery of hot meals from restaurants in the Seattle area, GeekWire has learned. It's a sign that the e-commerce giant could soon throw its weight … | Jason Del Rey / Re/code: |
Amazon launches Prime Now with one- and two-hour alcohol delivery in Seattle — Amazon Will Bring You Booze in One Hour, Starting in Seattle — Finally, a really good reason to use Amazon's one-hour delivery service. — The e-commerce company has started to offer one- and two-hour delivery of beer …
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Worldwide Smartphone Growth Expected to Slow to 10.4% in 2015, Down From 27.5% Growth in 2014, According to IDC — According to a new mobile phone forecast from the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker, smartphone shipments are expected to grow 10.4% in 2015 to 1.44 billion units.
| Stephanie Clifford / New York Times: |
Online male escort service Rentboy raided by federal investigators on charges of promoting prostitution; CEO and six employees arrested — 7 Charged With Promoting Prostitution by Working on Rentboy.com, an Escort Website — The terms of service on the website Rentboy.com said that people could not use it to exchange money for sex.
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YouTube Gaming launches Wednesday on iOS, Android, and web to compete with Twitch — YouTube Gaming—Google's Twitch.tv competitor—launches tomorrow — Twitch.tv finally gets some real competition in the game live streaming market. — One year and one day after Google lost Twitch.tv to Amazon, YouTube Gaming is going public.
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Verizon looks to bring connected car features to older vehicles with Hum, a $14.99/month service that offers roadside assistance, car diagnostics, more — Verizon's New Service Aims to Connect Older Cars, Keep Them Humming — After a brief delay, Verizon is ready with a service designed … | Emily Steel / New York Times: |
Netflix is licensing films from YouTube stars and developing new shows to appeal to teens — Netflix to Add Films and TV Series for Teenagers — Netflix is entering the awkward teenage years, at least with its latest programming push. — The company is adding to its streaming service … | Koushik Dutta / Google+: |
Allcast creator releases free Vysor app to view and control an Android device from a computer without rooting, includes remote screen and ADB access — Vysor Share — Remote screen and ADB access — There's a few tools already out that that lets you control your Android through your PC.
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PayPal's One Touch checkout service now available across Europe and Australia — There's no argument that mobile is the most promising frontier for commerce. Delivering on that potential, however, very much depends on making payment as fluid as possible. — Today PayPal One Touch …
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Windows 10 review: worthy upgrade for both Windows 7 and 8/8.1 users, better for desktops as well as tablets — The Windows 10 Review: The Old & New Face of Windows — Let's flash back to 2012. About three years ago, Windows 8, the last major release of Microsoft's ubiquitous operating system, was released to manufacturers.| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Facebook's New Moments App Now Automatically Creates Music Videos From Your Photos — Facebook Moments, the social network's recently launched photo-sharing app that aims to address the problem of getting friends to send each other the photos they've been hoarding on their own phones, is expanding to video.
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| Phil Wahba / Fortune: |
Best Buy to sell Apple Watch in all 1,050 stores instead of planned 300 by October amid strong demand; will begin selling AppleCare this quarter — Best Buy deepens links to Apple, says watch has been a smash hit — Best Buy BBY continued its remarkable turnaround last quarter, with a big assist from Apple AAPL .
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| Joel Rosenblatt / Bloomberg Business: |
‘Spam King’ Sanford Wallace pleads guilty to sending 27M+ unsolicited Facebook messages, faces up to three years in prison, $250K fine — Facebook ‘Spam King’ Guilty for Sending 27 Million Messages — A Las Vegas man pleaded guilty to sending more than 27 million unsolicited …
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