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| Hiroshi Lockheimer / Google Chrome Blog: |
Google emphasizes that “there's no plan to phase out Chrome OS”, but says it's “bringing together the best” of Android and Chrome OS — Chrome OS is here to stay — Over the last few days, there's been some confusion about the future of Chrome OS and Chromebooks based …
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Thanks:@arpitnext| Kellex / Droid Life: |
Blackberry Priv Arrives at AT&T on November 6, $249 on a two year contract — Blackberry Priv Arrives at AT&T on November 6 — If you were turned off at the unlocked price of the Blackberry Priv when it went up for pre-order a couple of weeks ago, I can't say I blame you.| Roger Cheng / CNET: |
Inside BlackBerry's last-ditch plan to win you back with Android — Once the mobile maker to beat, BlackBerry is fighting for survival with a new plan to win over smartphone users. It's secret weapon: the first-ever BlackBerry phone powered by Google's Android software.Thanks:@jeskillings
| Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: |
Official Plex app for Apple TV now available, offers local streaming, playlists, channels, more — The official Plex app for Apple TV is now available in the App Store. Plex is a media server for video, TV shows, music and photos. The app is fully featured, with quick access to search, playlists and more from the top bar.
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Google's Project Wing lead David Vos says company aims to start commercial package deliveries by drone in 2017 — Google plans drone delivery service for 2017 — Search giant Google has announced a date for the launch of its drone delivery service. — Called Project Wing …
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| Cam Bunton / 9to5Google: |
T-Mobile announces new 4G LTE CellSpot, offering LTE signal from Wi-Fi wherever you want it — John Legere took to Twitter in a surprisingly short and subdued Tweetstorm just a short while ago to announce a new move the ‘Uncarrier’ is making this week. Ahead of its Uncarrier X event … | Martin Bryant / The Next Web: |
SoundCloud launches Pulse for Android to help artists keep in touch with fans on the go — SoundCloud suffered some criticism for stripping creator-focused features out of its mobile apps last year but now it's making amends with the launch of Pulse, a new Android app that allows artists …
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
DJI and Canonical announce Manifold, an embedded computer for drones — DJI Teams Up With Canonical To Launch Embedded Computer For Drones — Drone manufacturer DJI and Canonical, the corporate entity behind the Ubuntu Linux distribution, today announced the launch of Manifold … | Lucian Constantin / PCWorld: |
Vulnerability in Baidu's Moplus SDK, integrated in 14K+ apps, may affect 100M users — Baidu Android app component puts 100 million devices at risk — Baidu's Moplus SDK allows attackers to execute malicious commands on users' devices — A software development kit created … | Ritika Shah / CNBC: |
Sources: Square to set IPO price range this week, start trading the week before Thanksgiving — Square IPO roadshow to begin next week: Sources — Financial services startup, Square is slated to set its IPO price range this week according to sources familiar with the matter.
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| Arik Hesseldahl / Re/code: |
Sources: Pivotal may IPO in early 2016; EMC would sell about 20% of shares and retain the rest — EMC May Float Pivotal in IPO Next Year in a Plan Blessed by Dell — David Paul Morris, Slaven Vlasic / Getty — EMC and Dell are speeding up plans to take the software company Pivotal public …
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eWeek, SiliconANGLE, Fortune, FierceCIO News, Business Cloud News, Seeking Alpha and ZDNet. Tweets: @cloud_opinion
| Mikey Campbell / AppleInsider: |
Apple indoor positioning app ‘Indoor Survey’ spotted on iOS App Store — Apple could be on the verge of releasing its first dedicated indoor positioning app for iPhone, as a seemingly legitimate, albeit non-operational, first party app called “Indoor Survey” was spotted in the iOS App Store on Sunday.
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