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Obama Order Sped Up Wave of Cyberattacks Against Iran — WASHINGTON — From his first months in office, President Obama secretly ordered increasingly sophisticated attacks on the computer systems that run Iran's main nuclear enrichment facilities, significantly expanding America's …
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| Nate Anderson / Ars Technica: |
Confirmed: US, Israel created Stuxnet, lost control of it — Stuxnet was never meant to propagate in the wild. — The new account is unlikely to alter Iran's view of the US, seen here in a mural on the old US embassy in Tehran — David Holt — In 2011, the US government rolled out its …
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| MG Siegler / TechCrunch: |
After Years Of Flirting, Facebook And Apple Set To Achieve Relationship Status In iOS 6 — There's been a lot of flirting going on in recent months between Apple and Facebook. In February, Apple CEO Tim Cook told a group of investors that Facebook was “the one company that is closest to being like Apple”.
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| Matt Brian / The Next Web: |
ETSI chooses Apple-inspired proposal for new 4FF nano-SIM standard — Despite objections and criticism over the different proposals for a new 4FF (nano-SIM) standard, Apple's nano-SIM proposal has been adopted by the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI), edging out submissions from Nokia, RIM and Motorola.| Stacey Higginbotham / GigaOM: |
When Facebook goes down, the Internet barely blinks — Facebook went down for a few hours last night, causing people to turn to Twitter to complain, quip and mourn. But despite the outsized reactions from the site's 901 million users, the web itself barely felt the shock of losing the largest social network on the planet.
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| Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web: |
Google to head Apple off at the pass by holding 3D Maps event on June 6th, just before WWDC — We just got an invite in our inbox to an interesting Google event centered around Google Maps. The invite says we're invited to an event that will show off The Next Dimension of Google Maps, so we're betting its related to 3D.| Bing: |
Social Meets Search with the Latest Version of Bing, Available to Everyone in US Today — A few weeks ago, we introduced you to the most significant update to Bing since our launch three years ago, combining the best of search with relevant people from your social networks, including Facebook and Twitter.| Tim Stevens / Engadget: |
Microsoft Smart Glass coming at E3, AirPlay-style streaming from iOS, Android and Windows Phone? — Windows 8 is coming and it features more and better Xbox integration than we've yet seen in an operating system from the company — but it looks like Microsoft has something even bigger up its sleeve.
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook Forced By Privacy Activist To Put Policy Changes Up For Worldwide Vote Until June 8th — Max Schrems, the Austrian founder of Europe Vs. Facebook, has forced Facebook to put proposed policy changes up for a vote by all its users. By mobilizing his privacy group … | Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
Windows 8: Why I'm struggling with Microsoft's new thing — The debut of the Windows 8 Release Preview yesterday was a key milestone in Microsoft's march to release its new operating system later this year. — I've been using different versions of Windows 8 off and on since last September …
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| Somini Sengupta / New York Times: |
On Facebook, ‘Likes’ Become Ads — SAN FRANCISCO — On Valentine's Day, Nick Bergus came across a link to an odd product on Amazon.com: a 55-gallon barrel of ... personal lubricant. — He found it irresistibly funny and, as one does in this age of instant sharing, he posted the link on Facebook …
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| Bloomberg: |
Acer, Toshiba To Take On IPads With Windows 8 Tablets — Acer Inc., Toshiba Corp. (6502) and Asustek Computer Inc. (2357) will unveil tablets running Microsoft Corp.'s Windows 8 operating system next week, people with knowledge of the matter said, challenging the dominance of Apple Inc. (AAPL)'s iPad.
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| Alexis Madrigal / The Atlantic Online: |
Wow! Apple Turns Over Its Inventory Once Every 5 *Days* — Apple turns over its inventory once every five days. — That's part of why a new report from the technology research firm, Gartner, ranked Apple's supply chain the best in the world. And it's pretty amazing when you think about it.
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| Ryan Singel / Wired: |
In Ad Network Nightmare, Microsoft Making ‘Do Not Track’ Default for IE 10 — Microsoft announced Thursday that the next version of its browser, IE 10, will ship with the controversial “Do Not Track” feature turned on by default, a first among major browsers, creating a potential threat to online advertising giants.
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| Bloomberg: |
Twitter Said To Expect $1 Billion In Sales In 2014 On Ad Growth — Twitter Inc. expects to generate at least $1 billion in sales in 2014, two people with knowledge of the matter said, indicating that the blogging service will grow about twice as fast as some analysts now predict.
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Cisco sues TiVo over DVRs — (Reuters) - Cisco Systems Inc has filed a lawsuit to void four TiVo Inc patents related to digital video recorders, escalating a battle over who has the right to profit from sales of the popular machines. — In a complaint filed on Wednesday …
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| Wailin Wong / Chicago Tribune: |
Groupon lock-up period ends Friday, letting insiders sell stock for first time — Top executives have said they will not sell; analysts predict many others will sit tight, wait for share price to improve — On Friday, Groupon insiders will be allowed to sell their stock for the first time since the company went public in November.
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| Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
Nook version of War and Peace turns the word “kindled” into “Nookd” — Tolstoy's text victimized by modern technology, laziness. — In one of the truly bizarre incidents we've seen out of the e-book publishing world, a translation of Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace for Barnes & Noble's Nook platform … | Vlad Savov / The Verge: |
Nokia calls Google's EC complaint a frivolous waste of time, notes Android's ‘problems with patents’ — Late last night it was revealed that Google has filed a complaint with the European Commission alleging that Microsoft and Nokia colluded to drive up handset prices together with Canadian IP licensing firm MOSAID.
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| Darren Murph / Engadget: |
Google's Sundar Pichai confirms that offline Google Drive ‘coming in five weeks,’ hints at ad-supported Chromebook — During the closing session here at D10 in California, Google's on Senior Vice President of Chrome & Apps Sundar Pichai was joined by Susan Wojcicki (SVP of Advertising at Google) at Walt Mossberg.Sponsor Posts
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