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Gartner: Global PC shipments fell 8.3% in Q4 2015, Apple only company in top 5 to see growth — The PC market ended its poor year with another negative quarter. Both Gartner and IDC agreed: PC shipments were down globally, again. — Gartner estimated worldwide PC shipments fell 8.3 percent to 75.7 million units in Q4 2015.
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| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
Skype to add group video calling on iOS, Android, and Windows 10 Mobile; users can now sign up to preview the feature — Skype adds mobile group video calling on iOS, Android, and Windows 10 Mobile — Skype is celebrating the tenth anniversary of its free video calling feature with the addition …
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| SecurityWeek: |
Verizon Accused of Routing Millions of IP Addresses for Cybercriminals — US network operator Verizon Communications is routing over 4 million IP addresses that are currently in the hands of cybercriminals, researchers at The Spamhaus Project reveal. — Spammers have been acquiring large ranges …
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| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Researchers find older versions of Fortinet's firewall software allow remote access using a hard-coded password; company says issue resolved via patch in 2014 — Et tu, Fortinet? Hard-coded password raises new backdoor eavesdropping fears — Discovery comes a month after competitor Juniper disclosed unauthorized code.
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| Mark Bergen / Re/code: |
Google opens VR division, to be headed by VP of Product Management Clay Bavor; apps division now under SVP Diane Greene, head of enterprise operations — Google Opens Virtual Reality Division, Apps Move to Enterprise Unit — As Facebook and Microsoft have plowed ahead with virtual reality, Google has looked like it's behind.
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Tweets: @marshallk, @willoremus and @amir
See also Mediagazer| Lucas Matney / TechCrunch: |
Netflix CEO Reed Hastings Announces $100M Philanthropic Education Fund — Reed Hastings took to Facebook Tuesday to announce that he would be personally funding a new $100 million philanthropic fund, focusing exclusively on education-related projects and organizations.
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| Andrew J . Hawkins / The Verge: |
Uber updates its API with Trip Experiences, a way for third party apps to serve content and ads to users during trips with users' permission — Uber wants to feed you all kinds of content during your next ride — Uber, realizing it had hundreds of millions of people in its back seats …
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Thanks:@chrissaad| Cecilia Kang / New York Times: |
Google Picks Former Obama Adviser to Lead Global Public Policy — Google, facing increased scrutiny from European regulators, has hired a former senior adviser to President Obama to lead its global public policy team. — Caroline Atkinson, who left her position as a White House deputy … | Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Google I/O 2016 to be held May 18-20 at Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View — Google's I/O 2016 conference announced for May 18th-20th — Google CEO Sundar Pichai just announced that the company's annual I/O developer's conference has been scheduled for May 18th through the 20th.
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Tweets: @sundarpichai, @jrraphael and @saschasegan
| David Curry / Digital Trends: |
Moto to focus on high-end smartphones, with Moto G, E being merged with Lenovo lineup; 2016 Moto phones will have fingerprint scanners, 5-inch+ screens — All Motorola flagships will feature a fingerprint scanner in 2016 — Lenovo has confirmed the roadmap for Motorola …
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| Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / Motherboard: |
Group that hacked CIA Director John Brennan's AOL account has now allegedly hacked Director of National Intelligence James Clapper's phone, Internet, email — Teen Who Hacked CIA Email Is Back to Prank US Spy Chief — One of the “teenage hackers” who broke into the CIA director's AOL email account …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Spotify And Genius Team To Stream The Backstory On Music Tracks — Spotify, the popular music streaming app with 75 million users, wants to ramp up its profile as a platform for more than just music listening. And to that end, it has linked up with Genius, the startup that annotates music lyrics …
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