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| Brian McCullough / Internet History Podcast: |
The History of the iPhone, On Its 10th Anniversary — So... Three things: A widescreen iPod with touch controls. A revolutionary mobile phone. And a breakthrough internet communications device. An iPod... a phone... and an internet communicator... An iPod, a phone... are you getting it?
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| Sonny Dickson: |
Video shows early iPhone prototype with an iPod-like interface and a software click wheel — While it has always been known that Apple considered a variety of ideas when they were deciding to enter the mobile phone market (with ex employees discussing it behind closed doors …
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The Verge, MacRumors, Tech Times, 9to5Mac, SlashGear, CNNMoney, Daring Fireball, TechSpot, iPhone in Canada Blog, Gizmodo, iMore, Redmond Pie, TechnoBuffalo, Forbes, InvestorPlace, MobileSyrup.com, Ubergizmo, BGR, Neowin, The Mac Observer, Cult of Mac, iDownloadBlog.com, and AppleInsider. Tweets: @tfadell
| Andrew J . Hawkins / The Verge: |
Waymo says it is now producing all self-driving tech in house, with big cost savings, will deploy Chrysler minivans this month in Mountain View and Phoenix — Now with all-new tech produced in-house — Waymo, the self-driving car startup spun-off from Google late last year …
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MacRumors, TechCrunch, Bloomberg, TechEye, BuzzFeed, Reuters, USA Today, Recode, Forbes, Business Insider, Engadget, ABC News, Tech Times, Wall Street Journal, SiliconANGLE, and Slashdot. Tweets: @ow
| Washington Post: |
Uber launches Movement, a website to share its aggregated travel times data for cities, starting with Washington, Boston, Manila, and Sydney — SAN FRANCISCO — The combative ride-hailing giant Uber is extending an olive branch to cities — in the form of data that transit wonks have coveted for years.
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Uber Global, Wired, PCWorld, The Verge, TechCrunch, SlashGear, SiliconANGLE, Bloomberg, Business Insider, Digital Trends, New York Times, Engadget, Fortune, and Ubergizmo
Tweets: @conormyhrvold, @mikeisaac, and @lizzadwoskin
| New York Times: |
Russian regulator told Apple and Google to remove LinkedIn app from App Store and Google Play; app is no longer available for download in Russia — WASHINGTON — Smartphone users in Russia can no longer download the LinkedIn app on iPhone or Android devices, following a similar move in China to block The New York Times app on iPhones.
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Tweets: @davidbyttow, @rprose, and @hunterwalk
| Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica: |
LG threatens to put Wi-Fi in every appliance it introduces in 2017 — You can also use a camera to save you the trouble of opening your fridge. — In the past few years, products at CES have increasingly focused on putting the Internet in everything, no matter how “dumb” the device in question is by nature.
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The Next Web, @internetofs**t, Boing Boing, and Quartz
Tweets: @erratarob, @arstechnica, @arstechnica, and @annarussett
| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
10K+ poorly secured MongoDB installations deleted by attackers demanding hefty ransoms — Poorly secured MongoDB installations deleted and held for ransom. — More than 10,000 website databases have been taken hostage in recent days by attackers who are demanding hefty ransoms for the data …
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Google Docs, BleepingComputer.com, MongoDB | Blog, The Next Web, The Register, Office of Inadequate Security, Digital Trends, BleepingComputer.com, Threatpost, NEWSBTC, BBC, eWeek, PCWorld, SecurityWeek, and Motherboard
Tweets: @abhishek_pc, @coates, @ovidperl, and @troyhunt
| Matthew Strauss / Pitchfork: |
Nielsen: US on-demand audio streaming up 76% to 250B+ streams in 2016, becoming the dominant form of audio consumption with 38% of the market — Streaming consumption beat digital sales for the first time in history, according to new Nielsen report — It's official: according …
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blogwallet.com, Reuters, Engadget, CNET, Quartz, SlashGear, PYMNTS.com, Los Angeles Times, Digital Trends, and The Tech Portal
| Tim Ingham / Music Business Worldwide: |
SoundCloud's filing in UK: losses up 30.9% to $52M while revenues grew 21.6% to $22M in 2015; Universal, Sony, and Warner now own stakes in SoundCloud — SoundCloud's losses grew faster than its revenues in 2015 - with the company now admitting that, should its subscription service flop, its funding may run dry this year.
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Fast Company, Silicon Republic, The Verge, Yahoo, Bloomberg, Phandroid, and VentureBeat. See also Mediagazer
| Christopher Zara / Backchannel: |
How the “safe harbor” provision of the 1996 Telecommunications Act allowed the modern internet to flourish, and why it's under attack — How “safe harbor” turned into a protector of privilege. — For Airbnb, suing American cities had become something of a monthly ritual.
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The Guardian and Memex 1.1. Tweets: @vogelelaw, @backchnnl, @backchnnl, @backchnnl, @backchnnl, and @ma_franks
| Jon Fingas / Engadget: |
Samsung launches Gear S and Gear Fit apps on iOS, allowing Gear S3, Gear S2, and Gear Fit 2 wearables to work with iPhones — Did you sigh wistfully at Samsung's Gear S3, knowing you couldn't use it because you have an iPhone? Relax. Samsung has launched new Gear S and Gear Fit apps … | Steve Ragan / CSO: |
Esports community ESEA hacked, as 1.5M records, including users' names, phone numbers, and PSN/Xbox/Steam IDs, leak after alleged attempt to extort $50K failed — More than a million players have been affected by this incident — E-Sports Entertainment Association (ESEA) …
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