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| Reed Hastings / Netflix US & Canada Blog: |
Internet Tolls And The Case For Strong Net Neutrality — The Internet is improving lives everywhere - democratizing access to ideas, services and goods. To ensure the Internet remains humanity's most important platform for progress, net neutrality must be defended and strengthened.
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The Switch, Ars Technica, Comcast Voices, BuzzFeed, CNET, Electronista, The Verge, Gigaom, Rapid TV News, TIME, VentureBeat, BetaNews, Forbes, ZDNet, TheHill, Deadline.com, Consumerist, Bloomberg, Mashable, Tech Trader Daily, Engadget, SlashGear and The Next Web
Tweets: @richbtig, @samgustin, @bijan, @notpatrick, @jayadelson, @benfritz, @haroldfeld, @mhelft, @oti and @scxzor
See also Mediagazer| Dan Rayburn / StreamingMediaBlog.com: |
Netflix & Level 3 Only Telling Half The Story, Won't Detail What Changes They Want To Net Neutrality — Late yesterday, Netflix's CEO published a blog post making the argument that “stronger” net neutrality is needed and that Netflix will “fight for the Internet”.
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| The Intercept: |
Inside the NSA's Secret Efforts to Hunt and Hack System Administrators — A secret document reveals how the NSA tracks down system administrators for surveillance. Illustration: Josh Begley. — Across the world, people who work as system administrators keep computer networks in order …
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Gizmodo, The Register, Softpedia News, ZDNet and Engadget
Tweets: @benhuh, @the_intercept, @jsnover, @krinndnz, @rj_gallagher, @_defcon_ and @dangillmor
| Andrea Peterson / The Switch: |
Microsoft scanned blogger's Hotmail account to find source of Windows 8 leak, cites TOS — Court docs: Microsoft searched through blogger's e-mail to track down alleged leaker — Earlier this week, an ex-Microsoft employee was charged with the theft of trade secrets in the U.S. District Court …
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New York Times, CNET, Telegraph, ZDNet, Re/code, TechEye, Ars Technica, Softpedia News, eWeek, PC Magazine and LiveSide.net
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See also Mediagazer| John Frank / Microsoft on the Issues: |
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Re/code, The Verge, SlashGear and Engadget
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Thanks:@fxshaw| Aaron Souppouris / The Verge: |
Turkish citizens use Google public DNS to circumvent Twitter ban — Turkish citizens use Google to fight Twitter ban — Turkish citizens have found away to circumvent yesterday's reported block of Twitter: Google DNS. — After being implicated in a corruption scandal through recordings … | Chris Taylor / Mashable: |
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Tweets: @policy, @redhackeditor, @zeynep and @timcast
See also Mediagazer| Matthew Panzarino / TechCrunch: |
Medium Launches Simple iPhone App That's Just For Reading — Blogging platform Medium has released a simple app for the iPhone that allows users to read articles from the site. They're presented as a feed that's recommended for you automatically, though articles that have been recommended … | Sophie Knight / Reuters: |
Mt. Gox says it found 200,000 bitcoins in ‘forgotten’ wallet — (Reuters) - Mt. Gox said on Friday it found 200,000 “forgotten” bitcoins on March 7, a week after the Tokyo-based digital currency exchange filed for bankruptcy protection saying it had lost about $500 million worth of bitcoin, nearly all its holdings.
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| Kara Swisher / Re/code: |
Marissa Mayer meets with Satya Nadella, still wants out of Microsoft/Yahoo search pact — Field of Search Dreams: If Marissa Mayer Builds It, Will Microsoft Let Yahoo Leave? — Just after he was named CEO of Microsoft, Satya Nadella got a visit from Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer.| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Bitcoin software gets fix for weakness that helped bring down Mt. Gox — The software driving Bitcoin transactions on the Internet has been updated to fix a weakness that contributed to the downfall of Mt. Gox, once one of the biggest exchanges for the digital currency.
| Daily Dot: |
Hacked emails show what Microsoft charges the FBI for user data — Microsoft often charges the FBI's most secretive division hundreds of thousands of dollars a month to legally view customer information, according to documents allegedly hacked by the Syrian Electronic Army.
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The Verge, The Hacker News, The Daily Caller, Gizmodo and SlashGear
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| Tony Romm / Politico: |
Barack Obama to meet again with tech CEOs about NSA — President Barack Obama will huddle with “tech CEOs” on Friday to “continue his dialogue with them on the issues of privacy, technology, and intelligence,” according to a White House official. — The Obama administration declined … | Cotton Delo / AdAge: |
Pinterest Seeks 7-Figure Spend Commitments from Advertisers — Company Has Raised $564M And Has No Revenue Yet — Example of a test promoted pin on Pinterest — How Advertising Performs in a Social Media World — Pinterest hasn't brought its ads to market yet, but it's swinging …
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| JP Mangalindan / Fortune: |
Pebble sold 400,000 smartwatches last year, on track to double revenues in 2014 — CEO Eric Migicovsky walks Fortune through the smartwatch maker's successful first year. — FORTUNE - If Pebble is the smartwatch category's David, surely Google is its Goliath.
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BGR, Softpedia News, MobileSyrup.com, Geeky Gadgets, TechnoBuffalo, Android Central, Android Community, PhoneArena and The Verge
Tweets: @javi, @felixsalmon and @benwood
Thanks:@jpmanga| Hayden Dingman / PC World: |
Microsoft's DirectX 12 to boost gaming on PCs, mobile devices — San Francisco—Meet the next generation of gaming graphics. DirectX 12 is faster, lighter-weight, and more predictable said Anuj Gosalia, Development Manager for Graphics at Microsoft, at the Game Developers Conference on Thursday …
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| Roger Cheng / CNET: |
Sprint lays off 330 techs, shutters 55 stores as part of broader cuts — Sprint recently cut a significant chunk of its staff dedicated to repairing and refurbishing phones and shut down its slower-performing stores, part of a broader effort to reduce the company's costs in the face of continued financial struggles.
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Electronista, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Engadget, Android Central and Re/code
| Emil Protalinski / The Next Web: |
Firefox 29 beta arrives with new Sync tool, customization mode, and Mozilla's user interface overhaul Australis — Following the release of Firefox 28 just two days ago, Mozilla today updated its Firefox Beta channel to version 29 for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Android.| Vindu Goel / New York Times: |
Twitter's new video hosting platform lets mobile users play clips with a single tap — Twitter Rolls Out Easier, Faster Video Playback — Over the past year, Twitter has worked closely with television networks and other professional video creators to upload and promote thousands … | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Paypal's in-app ‘Pay at Table’ and ‘Order Ahead’ now available in UK and Australia — PayPal Expands Its In-App Pay At Table And Order Ahead Services In UK — It's still very early days for mobile payments, with the vast majority of consumers still not convinced … | Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Seagate CEO Luczo departs from the Microsoft board — Summary: Musical chairs among Microsoft's board members continues, with Seagate's CEO departing the board. — The Microsoft board musical chairs are continuing, with Seagate Chairman and CEO Stephen Luczo announcing on March 20 …
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PR Newswire, Bloomberg, GeekWire, Wall Street Journal and Reuters
| Emil Protalinski / The Next Web: |
Gmail now always uses an HTTPS connection and encrypts all messages moving internally on Google's servers — Google today announced it has made security improvements to Gmail to further protect users' emails from snooping. Gmail now always uses an encrypted HTTPS connection when you check or send email …
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The Official Google Blog, Gmail Blog, TechCrunch, Gizmodo, PC Magazine, Threatpost, Softpedia News, Mashable, The Register, Salon, Associated Press, TechSpot, The Verge, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, KPLU News for Seattle …, GeekWire, SecurityWeek, Android Central, ParisLemon, InfoWorld and ITworld.com. Tweets: @mattcutts
| Ben Woods / The Next Web: |
Layar now wants to augment your reality with its Google Glass app — Augmented reality and wearable technology go hand-in-hand, so it's with not too much surprise that we've just learnt that Layar's augmented reality app is now available to download for Google Glass.
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| Cade Metz / Wired: |
Facebook migrates to, open-sources Hack, a language resembling PHP with gradual typing — Facebook Introduces ‘Hack,’ the Programming Language Of the Future — Facebook engineers Bryan O'Sullivan, Julien Verlaguet, and Alok Menghrajani spent the last few years building a programming language unlike any other.
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Tweets: @danielchmbrs and @bos31337
| Amol Sharma / Wall Street Journal: |
Sony to offer original programming on PlayStation Network, its first show “Powers” for US only — Sony to Add Original TV Shows for PlayStation — Move Is Part of Effort to Broaden Console's Appeal Beyond Videogames — Sony Corp. is venturing into original TV programming …
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