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Sources: Twitter considers 10K-character limit for “Beyond 140” feature slated for Q1, testing timeline that shows 140 characters with option to expand for more — Twitter Considering 10,000-Character Limit for Tweets — Longer tweets are coming soon to Twitter.
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Jack Dorsey likens additional text in tweets to text screenshots, affirms the value of the 140-character constraint, predicts most tweets will still be short — At its core Twitter is public messaging. A simple way to say something, to anyone, that everyone in the world can instantly see. We didn't start Twitter with a 140 character restriction. We added that early on to fit into a single SMS message (160 characters).
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| Eva Dou / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Apple has cut order forecasts to iPhone suppliers in past several months — Apple Scales Back Orders for Its iPhones — Component suppliers that rode the iPhone's boom are now bracing for lower sales — BEIJING— Apple Inc. is scaling back orders for its iPhones …
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| Vlad Savov / The Verge: |
Samsung's new Notebook 9 laptops take “thin-and-light” to a beautiful extreme, with the 13.3-inch model weighing just 1.85lbs, the 15-inch 2.84lbs — Samsung's Notebook 9 laptops take ‘thin-and-light’ to a beautiful extreme — Before Intel coined the term “ultrabook” …
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SAMSUNG NEWSROOM, Gizmodo, Windows Central, Laptop Mag, SiliconANGLE, DISPLAYBLOG, Engadget, BetaNews, TechSpot, GeekWire, MacRumors, CNET, Digital Trends and Microsoft News. Tweets: @profjeffjarvis
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| Ryan Whitwam / Android Police: |
Casio's Android Wear watch is drop and shock resistant, will have up to a month of battery life, coming April for about $500 — Casio's First Android Wear Watch Will Be Ruggedized And Have Up To A Month Of Battery Life — Most of the Android Wear devices out there are similar takes on the same use case … | Mike Brunker / NBC News: |
Lumosity to Pay $2M to Settle FTC Charges Over ‘Brain Training’ Ads — The company that created the Lumosity “brain training” program has agreed to pay $2 million to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that it deceived consumers into believing that its mind games could help users excel …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Intel Says Its Button-Sized Curie Will Ship In Q1, Costing Under $10 — Computing devices are getting smaller by the day, and today at CES in Las Vegas Intel's CEO Brian Krzanich announced new details about one of its big (little?) efforts in the space. Curie, Intel's button-sized wearable … | Yevgeniy Sverdlik / Data Center Knowledge: |
Apple to build another data center adjacent to its existing campus in Reno — Apple Doubling Down on Data Center Construction in Reno — Apple has filed for approval to build another massive data center campus adjacent to the existing Apple data center site in Reno, Nevada, local officials told the Reno Gazette Journal.
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| Ryan Whitwam / Android Police: |
Cyanogen OS 12.1.1 With Cortana Integration Is Rolling Out To The OnePlus One — Cyanogen Inc is rolling out Cyanogen OS 12.1.1 for the OnePlus One today, and it's not just any update. This is the first version of Cyanogen OS with support for Microsoft Cortana baked right in.
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| Michael S. Rosenwald / Washington Post: |
President Obama instructs Defense Department, the Justice Department, and DHS to research and regularly review smart gun technology in executive action — Obama embraces smart guns, thrilling proponents of the controversial technology — Proponents of smart guns say President Obama's executive action … | Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Sources: Facebook giving some developers access to chat SDK to build bots in Messenger for shopping, booking travel, more — Facebook's Secret Chat SDK Lets Developers Build Messenger Bots — M won't be the only artificial intelligence on Facebook Messenger.
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Twitter's new “conversational ads” let users respond to ad tweets by choosing between multiple preselected hashtags and then tweeting them — Twitter's ‘Conversational’ Ad Unit Encourages Users To Participate With Customizable Hashtags — Twitter is announcing a new …
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Dish releases Hopper 3 set-top box, can record 16 HD shows simultaneously, introduces HopperGo, a portable, $99 battery-powered storage device — CES 2016: Dish offers a DVR for the stream-and-binge generation — Dish Network's Hopper 3 set-top box can record programs on 16 channels simultaneously … | Valentina Palladino / Ars Technica: |
Withings unveils Go activity tracker with e-ink display for $70, runs 8 months on a button cell battery, can be clip-on or wrist-worn, available Q1 2016 — Withings expands fitness family with button-sized, e-ink Go tracker — The $69 device is the company's least expensive and most versatile tracker.
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Sources: Verizon to auction off 48 data centers to focus on core business, hopes to raise $2.5B+ — Exclusive: Verizon launches auction to sell data centers - sources — Verizon Communications Inc (VZ.N) has started a process to sell its data center assets, hoping to fetch more than $2.5 billion …
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| James Niccolai / PCWorld: |
Panasonic and Facebook develop freeze-ray cold storage system; Facebook to deploy 300GB disks this year, companies working on 500GB and 1TB disks — Panasonic to commercialize Facebook's Blu-ray cold storage systems — Facebook has said Blu-ray can cut costs significantly for long term data storage
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| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Toshiba's 12-inch Windows 10 DynaPad available for pre-order today, will be available in stores late January, prices start at $570 — Toshiba starts selling its thinnest 12-inch Windows 10 Dynapad tablet — Toshiba said today it is shipping its newest 12-inch Dynapad tablet powered by Windows 10.| Patrick Howell O'Neill / The Daily Dot: |
Dutch government backs strong encryption, condemns backdoors — The Netherlands government issued a strong statement on Monday against weakening encryption for the purposes of law enforcement and intelligence agencies. — The move comes as governments in the United Kingdom and China act …
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| Garett Sloane / Digiday: |
Sources: Snapchat is building an ad API, and reaching out to potential ad partners — Snapchat is building an ad technology platform — Snapchat is working on a crucial part of its growing digital ad business: an application programming interface (API) that would let partners start buying ads …
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SiliconANGLE, AdExchanger, Tubefilter, Fortune, Marketing Land and Business Insider. Tweets: @dannysullivan
| Andrei Frumusanu / AnandTech: |
Huawei Mate 8 review: excellent battery life and performance, while display and camera leave room for improvement — The Huawei Mate 8 Review — It's been over a year since we reviewed the Huawei Ascend Mate 7 and Ascend Mate 2. For many people and including ourselves at AnandTech … | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Oracle Buys Audience Tracking Firm AddThis For Around $200M — Oracle continues to ramp up its business in the area of marketing tech. Today the enterprise software giant announced that it has acquired AddThis, which makes sharing features (i.e., those buttons on web pages that let you share stories …
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Tweets: @jasonlk and @tedleonsis
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Amazon's Email And Calendaring Service, Amazon WorkMail, Exits Preview — Amazon this week took its enterprise-aimed email and calendaring service called WorkMail out of preview mode. The product, which first debuted a year ago, is based on Amazon Web Services and is meant to sub in for legacy solutions, like Microsoft Exchange.
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