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| Pali Bhat / Official Android Blog: |
Android Pay begins rolling out at over 1M locations in the US today — Tap. Pay. Done. — Today, we're beginning to roll out Android Pay — the simple and secure way to pay with your Android phone at over one million locations across the US. Android Pay also stores your gift cards …
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| Ben Thompson / Stratechery: |
Apple would be better off improving the iPad by making it a better platform for developers, not making a new product — From Products to Platforms — Yesterday's Apple keynote was one of the company's best in quite some time.1 One reason why was, as John Gruber noted, a certain sense of stagecraft …
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| Adrian Kingsley-Hughes / ZDNet: |
Adobe accidentally says the iPad Pro ships with 4GB of RAM in blog post, later removes mention from the article — iPad Pro has 4GB of RAM, claims Adobe — While Apple was typically tight-lipped as to how much RAM was packed into the new iPad Pro, Adobe is far more loose-lipped.
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| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
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| Kara Swisher / Re/code: |
Ellen Pao won't appeal verdict in gender discrimination lawsuit against Kleiner Perkins — Ellen Pao: ‘I Have Decided to End My Lawsuit Against Kleiner Perkins’ — The epic and historic lawsuit that has rocked tech over the last year is over. — In a statement today … | Jan Dawson / Tech.pinions: |
iPhone Upgrade Program lets Apple take primary relationship with customers away from carriers, may boost sales in markets where phones aren't subsidized — The iPhone Upgrade Plan is a Game-Changer — Apple announced a lot of new products at its big event on Wednesday - new iPhones …
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| Neil Hughes / AppleInsider: |
Apple's iPhone Upgrade Program is your best bet if you're a US AppleCare+ customer, aren't interested in T-Mobile, and plan on upgrading in less than 2 years — If you buy AppleCare+, Apple's new iPhone Upgrade Program is a great deal — While it lacks the fanfare of new hardware or software …
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| John Gruber / Daring Fireball: |
Thoughts about Apple's event: iPad Pro should compare favorably to recent MacBooks, Apple TV might be the most disruptive Apple product since iPhone, more — Brief Thoughts and Observations Regarding Today's ‘Hey Siri’ Apple Event — All for One, One for All
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| Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: |
| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Once seen as bulletproof, 11 million+ Ashley Madison passwords already cracked — Programming errors make 15.26 million accounts orders of magnitude faster to crack. — When the Ashley Madison hackers leaked close to 100 gigabytes worth of sensitive documents belonging to the online dating service …
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| Larry Dignan / ZDNet: |
Salesforce launches App Cloud, puts developer resources under one roof — As part of the App Cloud launch, Salesforce also rolled out Heroku Enterprise, which will address key concerns for CIOs. — Salesforce consolidated its various developer platforms and resources under one cloud service …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Periscope Adds Facebook Sharing, Support For Landscape Broadcasts Ahead Of Its Apple TV App — Twitter's live-streaming app Periscope rolled out an update today that introduces support for broadcasting and watching streams while your mobile device is in landscape mode.| Jason Del Rey / Re/code: |
Secondhand Clothing Site ThredUp Raises $81 Million at Valuation Around $500 Million — The shakeout in the online used-clothing industry is here, and ThredUp is looking to separate from the pack. — The San Francisco-based shopping site, which sells secondhand clothing for women and children … | Lucian Constantin / Computerworld: |
Cyberattack exposes 10M records at Excellus — Hackers have penetrated the IT systems of U.S. health insurer Excellus BlueCross BlueShield and gained access to personal, financial and medical information of more than 10 million people, the company disclosed Thursday.
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| Arik Hesseldahl / Re/code: |
HP CEO Whitman Joins Board at SurveyMonkey — Hewlett-Packard CEO Meg Whitman has been named to the board of directors of SurveyMonkey, the Web survey outfit whose founding CEO Dave Goldberg died suddenly in May. — Whitman joining the board is notable for a few reasons.
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| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Microsoft confirms Office 2016 is rolling out on September 22 — We knew it was coming, but Microsoft has now officially confirmed that Office 2016 for Windows will be “broadly available” from September 22. — The full public launch comes after many months of iteration …
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| Alex Kantrowitz / BuzzFeed: |
Twitter Is Experimenting With Putting Analytics Highlights In Your Notifications Tab — “Popular Tweet,” “Noteworthy Mention,” and “Top Follow” now appear in Twitter's “Notifications” tab for some verified users. — Twitter's “Notifications” tab now features analytics highlights, at least for some users, on the web.| Steve Reilly / USA Today: |
Attackers compromised US Department of Energy computer systems 159 times between 2010 and 2014; no comment on whether sensitive data was accessed — Records: Energy Department struck by cyber attacks — Attackers successfully compromised U.S. Department of Energy computer systems …
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| Heather Somerville / Reuters: |
Former Uber driver was an employee, rules California department — Uber has lost another legal round in the dispute over whether its drivers are independent contractors or employees, an issue that threatens the core of the ride-hailing company's business model.| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
IBM Buys StrongLoop To Add Node.js API Development To Its Cloud Platform — IBM has today made another acquisition to expand its business in cloud services — specifically in the area of enterprise app development. It has acquired StrongLoop, a startup based in San Mateo … Sponsor Posts
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