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Apple Retail Stores Begin Price Matching iPhone Discounts from Carriers and Major Retailers — With a number of retailers and carriers beginning to drop prices on the iPhone as the introduction of Apple's next-generation hardware approaches, Apple has officially continued to maintain standard …
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Google Will Pay $22.5 Million to Settle FTC Charges it Misrepresented Privacy Assurances to Users of Apple's Safari Internet Browser — Privacy Settlement is the Largest FTC Penalty Ever for Violation of a Commission Order — Google Inc. has agreed to pay a record $22.5 million civil penalty …
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| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft: Don't call it Metro. Call it ‘Windows 8’ — Summary: Microsoft may go the simple route and replace ‘Metro’ with ‘Windows 8,’ my sources are saying. — After a seeming naming dispute with a European partner (cough...Metro Group... cough), Microsoft has decided to switch rather … | Kurt Opsahl / Electronic Frontier Foundation: |
Good News: Craigslist drops exclusive license to your posts — In a welcome course correction, craigslist has removed its short-lived provision that required users to grant it an exclusive license to—in other words granting them ownership of—every post. We were unhappily surprised …
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| Jordan Golson / MacRumors: |
Blizzard's Battle.net Hacked; Company Recommends All Users Change Their Passwords — Blizzard Entertainment, the company behind Warcraft, Starcraft and Diablo, today informed customers that their internal security network had been breached. — The company doesn't believe that financial information …
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| Devindra Hardawar / VentureBeat: |
The Mobile Payments Committee: AT&T, Verizon, Sprint, T-Mobile unite for the future of payments — The mobile payments industry is still very much like the Wild West — there's little law and order, and plenty of gunslingers itching to strike gold. But a new committee today could finally civilize the mobile payments wild lands.
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| Jay Yarow / Business Insider: |
Marissa Mayer: I Might Not Return Cash To Shareholders If We Sell Our Alibaba Stake — In a new Yahoo filing, CEO Marissa Mayer reveals that she may not be returning cash to shareholders if Yahoo sells its stake in Alibaba: — On July 17, 2012, Marissa Mayer became the Chief Executive Officer …
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| Billy Steele / Engadget: |
OUYA console pre-order now available for non-backers starting at $109, slated to ship in April — Miss out on your chance to snag the Android-based gaming console during OUYA's Kickstarter tour-de-force? Worry not, friends. The outfit has opened up pre-orders it promised … | AppleInsider: |
Apple's ‘Wi-Fi Plus Cellular’ option in iOS 6 to keep apps syncing when WiFi networks choke — If you've ever jumped onto a WiFi hotspot from your iPhone to grab a faster connection only to see it bog down and grind to a halt moments later, Apple feels your pain.
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| Meghan Casserly / Forbes: |
Here's What Happens To Google Employees When They Die — Google employee benefits last into the afterlife — It's no surprise that the employee benefits of Google are among the best in the land—free haircuts, gourmet food, on-site doctors and high-tech “cleansing” toilets are among the most talked-about … | Ernesto / TorrentFreak: |
New Data Exposes BitTorrent Throttling ISPs — Hundreds of ISPs all over the world limit and restrict BitTorrent traffic on their networks. Unfortunately, most companies are not very open about their network management solutions. — Thanks to data collected by Measurement Lab (M-Lab) … | Kasper Jade / AppleInsider: |
Apple suppliers see best July on record as they prepare for ‘largest launch in history’ — A basket of Apple suppliers responsible for delivering parts for the iPhone maker's future products witnessed their best monthly sales jump last month, a trend financial experts are attributing to the ramp …
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| Douglas MacMillan / Bloomberg: |
Zynga Is Said To Grant Stock Awards To Staff After Earnings Miss — Zynga Inc. (ZNGA), the biggest maker of games played on Facebook Inc.'s website, doled out equity grants to all full-time employees after an earnings shortfall caused a share-price decline and lessened the value of existing grants …
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| Mike Isaac / AllThingsD: |
With Spindle, Ex-Microsoft Engineers Rethink the Social Discovery App — There's a running dialogue that has bubbled up with the rise of Facebook and Twitter over the past decade: Googling the indexable, global Web isn't the end-all for information anymore. The Social Web can serve us data just as pertinent, if not more so.| Sharif Sakr / Engadget: |
Galaxy Tab 2 7.0 Student Edition expected at Best Buy: $249 with bundled keyboard and USB adapter — If you're looking for something — anything — to lessen the burden of summertime studies, then a trip to Best Buy may soon be in order. We've just heard from a helpful tipster … | BBC: |
Anonymous vows Demonoid revenge — The US suggested Demonoid used to be one of the 300 most visited websites in the States — Members of the Anonymous hacktivist community have attacked websites belonging to the Ukrainian authorities after Demonoid was forced offline.
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| Kim Zetter / Wired: |
Flame and Stuxnet Cousin Targets Lebanese Bank Customers, Carries Mysterious Payload — A newly uncovered espionage tool, apparently designed by the same people behind the state-sponsored Flame malware that infiltrated machines in Iran, has been found infecting systems in other countries in the Middle East, according to researchers.
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| Andrew Webster / The Verge: |
OTA Update Center makes it easier for developers to update custom Android ROMs — A new tool has been released that makes it easier for the developers of custom Android ROMs to push out new updates over the air. Called OTA Update Center, the service is free to use and, according to the creators, relatively simple to implement.
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Amazon Confirms Cloud Player, Its Would-Be iTunes Killer, Now Works On Sonos, More Devices Coming Later This Year — At the end of July, Amazon updated its Cloud Player to be in fighting form as an iTunes killer, with a load of new audio features like Scan and Match technology and licensing deals with a number of labels.
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Ebook site Unglue.it hits bump after Amazon ends crowdfunding payment support — Unglue.it, which aims to release ebooks into the Creative Commons through crowdfunding, has only “freed” one book so far and has already hit a bump after Amazon Payments pulled support for crowdfunding accounts.
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