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Sources: Jack Dorsey to be named permanent Twitter CEO as soon as tomorrow, continue at Square — Sources: Jack Dorsey to Be Named Permanent Twitter CEO — Jack is back — for good this time. — Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey, who has been serving as interim CEO for the past three months …
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Drop-dead simple exploit completely bypasses Mac's malware Gatekeeper — A key limitation makes it trivial for attackers to skirt Gatekeeper protections. — Since its introduction in 2012, an OS X feature known as Gatekeeper has gone a long way to protecting the Macs of security novices and experts alike.
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Google modifies First Click Free policy, lowers access from five to three free articles per day from Google Search and Google News — First Click Free update — Around ten years ago when we introduced a policy called “First Click Free,” it was hard to imagine that the always-on …
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Microsoft flagship stores in New York City and Sydney to open on October 26 and November 12 respectively — Grand opening dates set for Microsoft flagship stores in New York City and Sydney — Renderings of Microsoft's first flagship stores - Fifth Ave. in NYC (top), Pitt Street Mall in Sydney (bottom).
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| Walt Mossberg / The Verge: |
TiVo Bolt review: great $300 solution for cable subscribers, but ad skip only works for recorded shows on select channels — TiVo Bolt review: watching TV faster — Back in 1999, when I first reviewed the original TiVo DVR, I griped that “TiVo has no commercial-skipping button” …
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Behind the evolution of Nexus hardware and why Google chose to roll out two Nexus handsets — How Google Changed The Smart Phone: A Deep History Of The Nexus Phone — Google's vice president of Android walks us through how Nexus hardware and Android software influence each other and how they always have.
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Apple releases OS X El Capitan, featuring full-screen Split View, new Notes, revamped Spotlight Search, Safari 9 and more — Apple releases OS X El Capitan, featuring full-screen Split View, new Notes, revamped Spotlight Search, Safari 9 and more — Apple has officially released OS X El Capitan …
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| Adrian Kingsley-Hughes / ZDNet: |
Cellular usage through the roof since installing iOS 9? Wi-Fi Assist may be to blame — If you've noticed that your data usage has skyrocketed since installing iOS 9 then this may be a feature rather than a bug. A lesser-known feature of the update called Wi-Fi Assist may be to blame.
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IHS estimates iPhone 6s Plus costs about $236 to build, one-third its $749 retail price — Apple's iPhone 6s Plus Costs an Estimated $236 to Make — $749 to Purchase — It costs Apple an estimated $236 to make and assemble its new iPhone 6s Plus, roughly one-third the $749 retail price of the smartphone …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Twitter Expands ‘Buy’ Buttons To Bigcommerce, Demandware, Shopify... And Best Buy — A year after Twitter launched its first commerce product in the form of “buy now” buttons in Tweets, get ready to start seeing a whole lot more of them in your feed. — The social media company today … | Ruth Reader / VentureBeat: |
Samsung's Gear S2 launches on October 2 in the U.S. starting at $299 — Samsung has announced it's making the Gear S2 watch available for purchase in the U.S. starting on Friday. The watch will cost $299 for the original version and $349 for the higher-end S2 Classic.| Apple: |
Apple Music, iTunes Movies, and iBooks now available in China, music free for three months then 10 RMB/month, movies start at 5 RMB, iBooks from 0.5 RMB — Apple Brings Apple Music, iTunes Movies & iBooks to Customers in China Starting Today — Apple today announced that Apple Music …
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Google acquires Jibe Mobile to help implement the RCS carrier messaging standard in Android — Google today announced it has acquired Jibe Mobile, a startup known as the “cloud communications company for mobile operators.” Put more succinctly, Jibe focused on helping carriers build support … | Danny Sullivan / Marketing Land: |
iOS Ad Blockers Begin Dropping In Popularity — For the first time since iOS 9 launched, no ad blocker is number one on the paid apps chart for iPhone. — Just short of two weeks since ad blockers skyrocketed to the top of the iPhone paid app chart, only one remains in the top five … | Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Facebook redesigns mobile profiles, adds temporary profile pictures, and tests looping video profile pictures — Facebook redesigns mobile profiles and begins testing video profile pictures — Profiles, the original beating heart of Facebook, were pushed to the side in 2006 by the more addictive News Feed.
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Independent board to determine which ads are “acceptable” for Adblock Plus whitelist in first half of 2016 — Adblock Plus to Allow Independent Board to Decide Which Ads Are ‘Acceptable’ — Parent company Eyeo says it will no longer help decide which ads can pass through its filters| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
XOR botnet infecting Linux computers launches 150 Gpbs DDoS attacks on up to 20 targets per day — Botnet preying on Linux computers delivers potent DDoS attacks — XOR DDoS bombards as many as 20 targets per day, sometimes with 150 GBpS of traffic. — Security researchers have uncovered …
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Chromecast is Google's hugely successful Trojan Horse into your home — Google's secret weapon for getting inside our homes and deeper within the fabric of our daily lives is not smart appliance maker Nest or even its ubiquitous Android operating system. It's a $35 HDMI stick … | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Adyen Adds New Funding From Iconiq, Values Dutch Payment Group At $2.3B — Adyen, a payment startup based in Amsterdam that provides services for companies like Facebook, Uber and Netflix, made waves last year when it announced a $250 million Series B that valued it at $1.5 billion.
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