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Mozilla Co-Founder Brendan Eich Resigns as CEO, Leaves Foundation Board — Brendan Eich, the well-known techie who has gotten swept up in a controversy about his support of California's anti-gay marriage law Proposition 8, is resigning as CEO of for-profit Mozilla Corporation and also from the board …
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| Brendan Eich: |
Brendan Eich on leaving Mozilla, taking a break and what's next — The Next Mission — Slides for the brief talk that I gave at a Harvard seminar on privacy and user data organized by John Taysom last week. — My talk was really more about the “network problem” than the “protocol problem”.
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| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft open sourcing more developer tech: .NET Compiler Platform, C#, Visual Basic, more — Microsoft open sources more of its .Net technologies — Summary: From the truth-is- stranger-than-fiction files, Microsoft — along with its mobile-dev tool partner Xamarin …
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Ars Technica, InfoWorld, The Next Web, GeekWire, The Official Microsoft Blog, ReadWrite, MSDN Blogs, eWeek and TechCrunch. Tweets: @ldignan
| Amir Efrati / The Information: |
Google mulls offering wireless voice and data services in Fiber markets, talked with Sprint, Verizon about buying, reselling network access — Google Weighs a Plunge into Mobile Phone Services — After thrusting itself into competition with U.S. cable operators, Google is inching closer to competing with wireless carriers, too.| Associated Press: |
US govt secretly created “Cuban Twitter” to stir unrest, sought funding from Jack Dorsey — US secretly created “Cuban Twitter” to stir unrest — WASHINGTON (AP) — In July 2010, Joe McSpedon, a U.S. government official, flew to Barcelona to put the final touches on a secret plan …
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Computerworld, The Verge, Telegraph, Forbes, PandoDaily, The Next Web, Engadget and VentureBeat
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See also Mediagazer| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Speech Recognition Pioneer Novauris Bought By Apple, Team Now Works On Siri — Apple quietly acquired an automatic speech recognition (ASR) technology company called Novauris Technologies, which grew out of Dragon Systems R&D U.K. Ltd., the British research subsidiary of Dragon Systems, a well-known voice dictation pioneer.| Apple: |
Apple Worldwide Developers Conference Kicks Off June 2 at Moscone West in San Francisco — Developers Can Apply for WWDC Tickets Starting Today — Apple® today announced that it will hold its annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) June 2 through June 6 at San Francisco's Moscone West.
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| Russell Holly / Geek.com: |
Google is testing new inbox tabs, snooze and pinning features for messages in Gmail for Android — Google is testing an army of new features for Gmail — There's a whole new wave of features being considered for Google's popular email client, and on the list is more tabs, a new pin system … | Seth Weintraub / 9to5Google: |
Google plans significant overhaul of many of its native and web apps in 'Google 2.0′/wearable push — Yesterday we got a look at a beta version of the upcoming Gmail app for Android which includes new Travel, Purchases, and Finance categories in addition to the Social, Promotions … | Carol E. Lee / Wall Street Journal: |
White House calls Samsung out on Ortiz's Selfie With Obama — Samsung Called Out on Ortiz's Selfie With Obama — The White House is pushing back against Samsung Electronics Co. for its promotion of a selfie that Red Sox slugger David Ortiz took with President Barack Obama earlier this week.| Jordan Kahn / 9to5Mac: |
Microsoft says Office iPad apps hit 12 million downloads a week after release — After announcing the release of the Office for iPad apps late last month, Microsoft announced today that the separate Word, Excel and PowerPoint apps for iPad have collectively reached 12 million downloads a week after release.
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AppleInsider, Cult of Mac, VentureBeat, BGR, Gotta Be Mobile, Pocketnow, TechnoBuffalo and Seattle Times blogs. Tweets: @office
| Matthew Panzarino / TechCrunch: |
Nest Halts Sales Of Protect Smoke Alarm Over Safety Concerns About ‘Wave To Dismiss’ Feature — Nest CEO Tony Fadell has just issued a notice recommending users disable the Protect smoke alarm's ‘wave to dismiss’ feature. In testing, it was discovered that people could accidentally trigger the dismiss feature, delaying a smoke alarm.
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| Mike Beasley / 9to5Mac: |
iOS 7 bug allows anyone to disable Find My iPhone and bypass Activation Lock without a password — Starting with iOS 7, deleting an iCloud account or restoring a device requires Find My iPhone to be disabled. Find My iPhone, in turn, requires the user to enter the password for the Apple ID attached to the iCloud account.
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| Jenna Wortham / New York Times: |
Imgur, the Image-Sharing Site, Raises $40 Million From Andreessen Horowitz — If you spend any measurable amount of time on the Internet, you've likely visited — or at least looked at — an image hosted on Imgur (pronounced “image-er"). — The photo-sharing service is extremely popular … | Matthew Panzarino / TechCrunch: |
Twitter's Vine Introduces Direct Video Messaging — Twitter's Vine has introduced a feature that allows you to message other users directly via video. This adds both a direct messaging channel and video clips to its messages, a big addition to Twitter's video app.
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| David Ruddock / Android Police: |
[Rumor] “Android Silver” May Be Google's Attempt To Finally Provide A Premium Android Sale And Support Experience — If there's one thing we hear time and again about Android, it's the F word: fragmentation. While it's largely just an annoying word used to get under the skin of Android fans … | David Meyer / Gigaom: |
European Parliament passes strong net neutrality law, along with major roaming reforms — European fans of the open internet can breathe a sigh of relief: the European parliament has passed a major package of telecoms law reform, complete with amendments that properly define and protect net neutrality.
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Tweets: @janalbrecht, @edri_org and @accessnow
See also Mediagazer| Blair Hanley Frank / GeekWire: |
Azure updates: 99.95% DB uptime, SQL DBs up to 500GBs, load management on sites, more — Microsoft announces broad swath of new features for Azure — SAN FRANCISCO - There are some big new features afoot for Microsoft Azure. As a part of the company's Build developer conference …
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TechCrunch, PC World, Ars Technica and ReadWrite
| Eric Johnson / Re/code: |
Jaunt Raises $6.8 Million for Virtual Reality Movies — Facebook and Sony are betting that games will be the first wave of virtual reality content, but that the uses for the technology will eventually broaden. Even before the Oculus Rift or Project Morpheus has had a chance with consumers …
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Engadget, Gizmodo, PC World, Computerworld, VentureBeat and TechCrunch
| Mike Isaac / Re/code: |
Facebook Explores Anonymity Features — Facebook spent years defining what it means to have an online identity. Now with the surge in popularity of anonymous social apps, Facebook may be spending next few figuring out how to deal with the complete opposite case.| James Robinson / PandoDaily: |
Indiegogo edits support document claiming to catch “all cases of fraud” after clamor on dubious Healbe campaign — After Pando shows clear evidence of fraud, Indiegogo responds by... deleting anti-fraud guarantee — What's the right thing to do if your crowdfunding platform guarantees … | Brooke Crothers / CNET: |
Intel outs 64-bit KitKat Android, ‘Braswell’ chip for Chromebooks — Intel is touting a future system-on-a-chip for low-cost PCs and tablets and a 64-bit version of Android 4.4. — Toshiba's Chromebook uses a low-cost Intel Celeron processor. Intel's upcoming Braswell chip could find its way into future Chromebooks.
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Tech2, PC World and Geeky Gadgets
| Martin Bryant / The Next Web: |
IFTTT now works with iOS push notifications and looks great on the iPad — If you're a user of popular personal productivity service IFTTT (If This Then That) who also has an iPhone, iPad or iPod touch, maybe you've wished that you could use iOS push notifications in your recipes.
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Macworld, 9to5Mac, AppleInsider, Lifehacker, iMore, TechCrunch, MacStories and Cult of Mac
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Turkey lifts Twitter ban: official — A Turkish national flag with the word ‘offline’ projected on it, is seen through a Twitter logo in this photo illustration taken in Zenica, March 21, 2014. — (Reuters) - Turkey's telecoms authority lifted a two-week-old ban on Twitter on Thursday …
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Webrazzi, VentureBeat, The Verge, Wall Street Journal and The Next Web
Tweets: @policy and @accessnow
See also Mediagazer| Emil Protalinski / The Next Web: |
Facebook paid 330 security researchers $1.5M in 2013; adds Instagram, Parse, Atlas, Onavo to Bug Bounty program — Facebook today announced it paid out $1.5 million to 330 security researchers around the world in 2013 as part of its bug bounty program, which launched back in August 2011.
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Facebook, Inside Facebook, Re/code, The Register, ZDNet and Bloomberg
| Eric Johnson / Re/code: |
Messaging App Tango Hooks Up With Words With Friends — In Asia, mobile messaging apps are a dominant means of game and app distribution. Now, one of their many American peers, Tango, is positioning itself to be a bit more like Facebook, at least within the Zynga game Words With Friends.
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VentureBeat and The Next Web
| Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: |
U.S. States Investigating Breach at Experian — An exclusive KrebsOnSecurity investigation detailing how a unit of credit bureau Experian ended up selling consumer records to an identity theft service in the cybercrime underground has prompted a multi-state investigation by several attorneys general, according to wire reports.
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