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| Vlad Savov / The Verge: |
BlackBerry PlayBook will not be upgraded to BlackBerry 10 — Reneging on a promise it made back in January, BlackBerry has just announced that it will not, in fact, be upgrading its BlackBerry PlayBook tablet to its latest mobile OS, BlackBerry 10. CEO Thorsten Heins revealed the sour news …
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| Sharif Sakr / Engadget: |
BlackBerry ships 6.8 million smartphones but loses $84 million in Q1 2014 — Every quarter is pivotal for BlackBerry right now, but the one covered by today's earnings report (Q1 2014, in fiscal terms) is especially important. It's the first full period of Z10 availability and also the first quarter …
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| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
BlackBerry Shipped Just 2.7M BB10 Handsets In Q1 2014 — BlackBerry didn't break out its individual BB10 device sales in its quarterly earnings report released earlier this morning, but during its conference call to discuss its performance CEO Thorsten Heins revealed that it shipped 2.7 …
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| Xbox Wire: |
Xbox Announces Landmark Deal with Time Warner Cable to Bring More Live TV to Xbox 360 — In a landmark deal announcement for Xbox 360 and Time Warner Cable customers, we're excited to share a new partnership that will deliver up to 300 of the most popular live TV channels to Xbox 360 for Xbox Live Gold members.| Matt McGee / Marketing Land: |
A Week After Instagram's Video Launch, Vine Sharing Tanks On Twitter — It's now been a full week since Instagram added video recording to its popular camera app, and it's already had a dramatic impact on its main competitor: — Vine sharing on Twitter has tanked.| Amir Efrati / Wall Street Journal: |
Google Is Developing Android Game Console — Google Inc. is developing a videogame console and digital wrist watch powered by its Android operating system, according to people familiar with the matter, as the Internet company seeks to spread the software's domination beyond smartphones …
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| Andrew Zajac / Bloomberg: |
Google Sues IRS for $83.5 Million Tax Refund — Google Inc. (GOOG), owner of the most popular Internet search engine, sued the U.S. Internal Revenue Service for an $83.5 million refund, claiming it was improperly denied a deduction for a 2004 stock transaction with America Online Inc.
| Sean Buckley / Engadget: |
Netflix Max hands-on: Jellyvision's take on your movie queue — Being a Netflix subscriber is almost like being cursed — sure, you have access to untold troves of streaming TV shows and films, but how do you choose what to watch? The burden of choice weighs heavily on the indecisive Netflix user …
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Netflix US & Canada Blog, TechCrunch, PC Magazine, TechHive, The Verge, VentureBeat, Betabeat, The Next Web, CNET, Gizmodo, Polygon, SlashGear and NBC Bay Area
| Eric Johnson / AllThingsD: |
BlueStacks Announces Second Android Gaming Console, Free Forever (With a Software Subscription) — Its first Android gaming console is still only available for preorders, but BlueStacks said today that it's planning to roll out a second device, the hardware component of which will be permanently free.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Skype built into final Windows 8.1 version, Microsoft drops existing Messaging app — Microsoft is making use of its Skype acquisition for Windows 8.1, opting to bundle it into a final version of the OS. Existing preview versions of Windows 8.1 do not include the traditional built-in Messaging app.
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| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
Android 4.3 Available To Test For Adventurous Galaxy S4 Owners — Google's worst-kept secret is the upcoming Android 4.3 update for devices powered by its mobile OS (though a lot more secrets have come to light recently), and we're starting to see that update make its way to the handsets of owners who aren't afraid to experiment.| Phillip Molnar / Monterey County Herald: |
Restricted web access to The Guardian is Armywide, officials say — The Army admitted Thursday to not only restricting access to The Guardian news website at the Presidio of Monterey, as reported in Thursday's Herald, but Armywide. — Presidio employees said the site had been blocked since …
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T-Mobile forks over $308M for U.S. Cellular spectrum — The deal will boost the carrier's 4G LTE footprint in areas such as St. Louis, New Orleans, and Nashville, Tenn. — T-Mobile's flagship store in midtown Manhattan. — T-Mobile customers in places like St. Louis and New Orleans are about to get a boost in coverage.
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| Amy Chozick / New York Times: |
Jimmy Wales Is Not an Internet Billionaire — According to Wikipedia, the Tampa International Airport is a public airport six miles west of downtown Tampa, in Hillsborough County, Florida. It's also where Jimmy Wales flies in and out of a couple times a month, in coach … | Michael Isikoff / NBC News Investigations: |
Ex-Pentagon general target of leak investigation, sources say — Retired Marine Gen. James “Hoss” Cartwright was the second-highest ranking member of the U.S. military, and a key Obama adviser who served as the vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Legal sources tell NBC News Cartwright … | Joshua Kopstein / The Verge: |
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| Ben Woods / The Next Web: |
Facebook to review which Pages and Groups can show ads after complaints about inappropriate content — Facebook has revamped the way its advertising system works in response to concerns from major brands who were concerned about where their ads were showing up.
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Facebook Newsroom, BBC, AllFacebook and TechCrunch
| Leena Rao / TechCrunch: |
First Round Capital Debuts Original Content And Knowledge Hub For Startups, Review — First Round Capital has been one of the few firms who started providing compelling services for startups before the agency model became popular. For example, the firm created a Yelp-like database …
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The Next Web, GigaOM, VentureBeat, Forbes and PE Hub Blog
| Michael J. Miller / PC Magazine: |
Microsoft Pushes Cloud Service at Build — Today's keynote at Microsoft's Build conference focused on cloud services, with lots of enhancements to the company's Azure Web services. I was impressed not only by how much Microsoft is trying to compete with Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud Platform …
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| Andy / TorrentFreak: |
UK Government Announces New Intellectual Property Crime Unit — Earlier this month it became evident that UK police were becoming more involved in the music and movie industries' fight against unauthorized online sharing. — The National Fraud Intelligence Bureau (NFIB) …
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Inside Government, Betabeat, The Next Web, VentureBeat, Music Week and Inquirer
| Aaron Souppouris / The Verge: |
British Airways launching wireless luggage tag with e-paper display — British Airways will introduce reusable luggage tags with Kindle-like e-paper displays next year. After checking in online, passengers will be able to use the BA app to create a luggage tag for their journey.
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Engadget, PadGadget, PSFK, Laughing Squid, www.idigitaltimes.co.uk and SlashGear
| Brian Proffitt / ReadWrite: |
Oracle And Salesforce Bury The Hatchet—Surprisingly, Not In The Others' Back — What caused the kumbaya? Oracle's fear of NoSQL and other new but increasingly popular database-related technologies. Say this for Larry Ellison. He can sometimes shoot off his mouth and piss people off …
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Fortune, USA Today and AllThingsD
| Lucian Constantin / Computerworld: |
Citadel malware targets localized brands and users — Malware variant can modify localized versions of social networks, banks and e-commerce sites when accessed from infected computers — A new variant of the Citadel financial malware uses in-browser injection techniques combined …
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