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Sources: new Samsung Gear smartwatch to run on Tizen, not Android — Samsung's updated smartwatch to shun Android — SAN FRANCISCO - The new version of Samsung's Gear smartwatch will run on Tizen, not Google's Android operating system, the latest attempt by the South Korean electronics giant … | Chris Ziegler / The Verge: |
Samsung plans to launch new Galaxy Gear models next week — Samsung could take the wraps off multiple new Galaxy Gear wearables at the Mobile World Congress trade show in Barcelona next week, according to a source familiar with the company's plans. The announcements would come just half …
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| Kate Kaye / AdAge: |
Amazon and Apple struggle with ad growth because they're “slow, cocky and downright stingy” according to media buyers — Why Can't Amazon And Apple Catch a Break on Madison Ave? — Advertising Sales Are a Tough Slog for Both — And for A lot of the Same Reasons — Goodby, Silverstein and Partners| Matt Burns / TechCrunch: |
Google Explains How Not To Be A Glasshole — Here are the do's and don'ts of wearing Google Glass. Right from Google. — Apparently — and I know this might be a shocker — you're not supposed to stand in the corner of the room and record people with Google Glass.| Alex Wilhelm / TechCrunch: |
New Bing Apps For Windows Phone Point To Increasing Platform Unity From Microsoft — This morning Microsoft announced updates to Bing apps for Windows Phone (News, Finance, Weather, Sports), and new Bing-based apps for the smartphone platform: Food and Drink, Health and Fitness, and Travel.
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Search Blog, Windows Phone, The Verge, The Windows Blog, Softpedia News, CNET, The Next Web and WinBeta
| Colleen Taylor / TechCrunch: |
Whisper publicizes and claims it vetted a new Gwyneth Paltrow affair rumor shared by a user — Whisper, The Sequoia-Backed Secret Sharing App, Makes A Move Into TMZ Territory — Whisper, the popular anonymous social sharing startup that's raised $24 million from venture capital giants …
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Apple patents sensor-packed health monitoring headphones with ‘head gesture’ control — In one of the earliest pieces of evidence pointing to Apple's push into the fitness and health monitoring field, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office on Tuesday granted the company a patent … | Ina Fried / Re/code: |
No New Windows Phone Models on Tap for Barcelona — It's shaping up to be a rough Mobile World Congress for Microsoft, with little new expected on either the hardware or software front for Windows Phone. — The Barcelona event will see the debut of dozens of new Android phones, said sources …
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BGR, Softpedia News, WMPoweruser, WinBeta, Pocketnow, TechnoBuffalo, Gotta Be Mobile and Ubergizmo
| Douglas MacMillan / Digits: |
Peter Magnusson, former engineering director at Google, joins Snapchat as a VP of engineering — Snapchat Poaches Google Veteran in Engineering Push … “What differentiates Snapchat from most other tech companies is that the service constantly erases messages from its servers … | Wall Street Journal: |
Iranian infiltration of US Navy computer network far more extensive than previously thought — Iranian Hacking to Test NSA Nominee Michael Rogers — Infiltration of Navy Computer Network More Extensive Than Previously Thought — WASHINGTON—Iran's infiltration of a Navy computer network …
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| Diane Cardwell / New York Times: |
Newark Airport tests sensor network embedded in light fixtures to analyze passengers — At Newark Airport, the Lights Are On, and They're Watching You — Visitors to Terminal B at Newark Liberty International Airport may notice the bright, clean lighting that now blankets the cavernous interior …
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IEEE Spectrum Recent …, Computerworld, Gizmodo, Skift and Gothamist
| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Password leak in WeMo devices makes home appliances susceptible to hijacks — Security researchers have taken the unusual step of recommending that people stop using Belkin's WeMo home automation products after uncovering a variety of vulnerabilities that attackers can exploit to take control … | Eli Lake / The Daily Beast: |
Spy Chief: We Should've Told You We Track Your Calls — The U.S. government long considered its collection of Americans' call records to be a state secret. Now the Director of National Intelligence admits it would have been better if Washington had acknowledged the surveillance in the first place.| Alex Konrad / Forbes: |
Accounting Software Maker Intacct Takes On $45M To Pick Up The Pace — Financial management software may seem a sleepy area in tech, destined for a back office and without the buzz of more consumer-facing business products like Dropbox or Square. But there's major money to be had in riding the space …
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| Nick Bilton / NYT Bits: |
Postmates raises $16M series B funding, passes 10,000 deliveries a week — Postmates Closes New Financing Round and Passes 10,000 Deliveries a Week — Kosmo tried it and failed — dismally. Urban Fetch did, too. But it seems Postmates, a mobile-delivery service that can fetch …
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Venture Capital Dispatch and The Register
| Emma Lee / TechNode: |
China's Mobile Payment Turnover Soared 317% YOY to $1.59 Trillion in 2013: PBOC — The turnover of Chinese mobile payment industry rocketed 317.56% year-over-year to 9.64 trillion yuan ($1.59 trillion) in 2013, while the number of orders hiked 212.86% year-on-year to 1.67 billion …
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App Advice, The Next Web and BGR
| Christian Zibreg / iDownloadBlog.com: |
Realmac adds iPad support to Clear for iPhone, migrates Clear+ users to Clear for free — Realmac Software has finally added native iPad support to its popular Clear to-do application for the iPhone and iPod touch. They're also moving customers from Clear+ back to Clear for free.
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Realmac Software, App Advice, 9to5Mac, iPhone in Canada Blog, AppleInsider, MacStories, Macworld, iMore, The Verge and The Next Web
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| Phil Goldstein / FierceWireless: |
AT&T, IBM partner on Internet of Things for smart cities, utilities — AT&T (NYSE:T) said it will work with cloud and computing giant IBM to developer machine-to-machine solutions for the Internet of Things, specifically for things like smart cities and utilities.
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IBM, Turbo Todd, VentureBeat, PC World, ValueWalk, SlashGear and Gigaom
| Jordan Crook / TechCrunch: |
Bitstrips Is Raising $15 Million — Bitstrips, an app for building personalized comic strips, is raising a hefty Series B. We've heard from sources familiar with the matter that Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers is taking the lead. — The deal hasn't yet closed, so the amount isn't confirmed …
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| Naomi Tajitsu / Reuters: |
NZ court overturns earlier High Court decision, rules raids on Dotcom's mansion were legal — NZ court rules Megaupload warrant legal, dealing blow to Dotcom — (Reuters) - A New Zealand court on Wednesday ruled that the search warrant used in the arrest of Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom …
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Bloomberg, Stuff.co.nz, sbs.com.au, TVNZ and sharechat.co.nz
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Banking trojan ZeusVM retrieves configurations hidden inside image files — Hiding in plain sight: a story about a sneaky banking Trojan — The Zeus/Zbot Trojan is one the most notorious banking Trojans ever created; it's so popular it gave birth to many offshoots and copycats.| Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica: |
The bizarre, mind-numbing, mesmerizing beauty of “Twitch Plays Pokémon” — Twitch hands the controller to the Internet hivemind, and I can't stop watching. — Most gamers in my Twitter orbit have been spending their time with the Titanfall beta since invitations began going out late last week …
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Polygon, minimaxir, BBC, The Official Twitch Blog, Geekosystem, Kotaku, TechnoBuffalo, Eurogamer.net, The Independent and Joystiq
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