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Microsoft likely to announce job cuts this week; may be biggest restructuring in its history — Microsoft Said to Announce Job Cuts as Soon as This Week — Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) is planning its biggest round of job cuts in five years, as the software maker looks to slim …
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| Jack Purcher / Patently Apple: |
USPTO Refuses to Register Apple's “Touch ID” Trademark — Today, the US Patent & Trademark Office published an official letter that was sent to Apple regarding their trademark application for “Touch ID” having been refused by their trademark examiner. Noteworthy is the fact that the letter …
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| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
Apple debuts iTunes Pass in Japan, allows Passbook-based iTunes credit refills at Apple Stores — Apple today has launched an interesting new service for iTunes Store, App Store, and iBookstore users in Japan with iPhones and iPod touches. The new service, called iTunes Pass (no …
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| Stacey Higginbotham / Gigaom: |
Nest and Samsung launch Thread, a wireless mesh standard for the smart home — Samsung, ARM, Nest and four other companies have gotten together to build a new radio standard for the smart home. Dubbed Thread, it is a low-power, mesh network protocol that also supports IPv6.
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| Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
FCC's awful website crashes on last day for initial net neutrality comments — If you can get the FCC comment site to work, this is what it looks like. — Today is the last day to file initial comments on the Federal Communications Commission's network neutrality proposal …
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Novartis to develop Google smart contact lens to track diabetes and correct farsightedness — Google strikes smart contact lens deal to track diabetes and fix farsightedness — With Glass and Android Wear, Google has already invested a lot of time and resources into developing …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft won't let you set Google as default search on some new Lumias — Microsoft has disabled an option to set Google as the default search engine on some of its latest Lumia Windows Phones. The option is currently supported on the majority of Nokia's Lumia devices …
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| Tim Culpan / Bloomberg: |
HTC Marketing Chief Ho, Engineering Head Liu Said to Quit — HTC Corp. (2498) Chief Marketing Officer Ben Ho and President of Engineering and Operations Fred Liu have resigned from the Taiwanese smartphone maker, according to two people familiar with the matter.
| Casey Johnston / Ars Technica: |
Call to cancel Comcast service turns into absurd interrogation; Comcast calls rep's behavior “unacceptable” — Call to cancel Comcast service descends into desperate, hysterical fireworks — A Comcast customer service representative tried to retain a customer over the weekend …
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Tweets: @ryan, @comcast, @fmanjoo, @harrymccracken, @caseyjohnston, @darth, @pkafka, @ryan, @om, @mikeisaac and @ryan
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Windows Phone 8.1 now rolling out to Lumia devices with new Cyan update — Microsoft is starting to distribute Windows Phone 8.1 to existing Lumia devices this week. The Lumia Cyan update provides the full Windows Phone 8.1 software, alongside some tweaks and customizations specifically for Lumia handsets.
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| Rob Knies / Inside Microsoft Research: |
Microsoft to integrate academic data into Bing, hopes to improve Cortana for use in research — Making Cortana the Researcher's Dream Assistant — Cortana, the personal assistant for Windows Phone 8.1, certainly has received plenty of attention since being announced in April.| Bloomberg: |
Japanese messaging app Line applies for IPO on Tokyo Exchange, could value the company at $10B — Line Said to Submit IPO Application to Tokyo Exchange — Line Corp., operator of Japan's most popular mobile messaging service, submitted an application for an initial public offering …
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| Emil Protalinski / The Next Web: |
Mozilla releases mozjpeg 2.0 as Facebook tests and backs the JPEG encoder with $60,000 donation — Mozilla today announced the release of mozjpeg version 2.0. The JPEG encoder is now capable of reducing the size of both baseline and progressive JPEGs by 5 percent on average …
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| Todd Hoff / High Scalability: |
Bitly: Lessons Learned Building a Distributed System that Handles 6 Billion Clicks a Month — Have you ever wondered how bitly makes money? A URL shortener can't be that hard to write, right? Sean O'Connor, Lead Application Developer at bitly, answers the how can bitly possibly … | Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
Google reveals Project Zero, a security team to find and report serious flaws in any software — Meet ‘Project Zero,’ Google's Secret Team of Bug-Hunting Hackers — Hacking wunderkind George Hotz's latest gig: An intern on Google's elite hacking team. Tribune Review, Andrew Russell/AP
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Help Net Security, Gigaom, Google Online Security Blog, ZDNet, 9to5Google, Business Insider, The Next Web and Softpedia News. Tweets: @mattcutts. Thanks:@a_greenberg
| Nick Summers / The Next Web: |
Google offers first developer boards for its Project Ara modular smartphone — Google hopes to launch its ‘build-it-yourself’ Project Ara smartphone next year and in preparation, the technology giant is accepting applications for its first development boards.
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| Alex Wilhelm / TechCrunch: |
Box Plans Deep Office 365 Integration As It Removes Storage Caps For Business Customers — This morning Box announced that it will integrate its cloud storage solution into Microsoft's popular Office 365 productivity suite. The company also indicated that its ‘Business’ SKU will no longer …
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Gigaom, The Box Blog, VentureBeat, CNET, CITEworld, The Next Web and BuzzFeed
| Cyrus Farivar / Ars Technica: |
Dish Anywhere streaming stays alive, despite Fox's win over Aereo — Appellate court denies Fox's request to impose a preliminary injunction. — A federal appeals court has denied Fox's bid to immediately shut down the Dish Anywhere streaming platform. The United States Court of Appeals … | Mike Isaac / New York Times: |
Data Breaches in New York Hit Record High in 2013, State Attorney General Says — Last year was a record-setting one for the state of New York — and not in a good way. — Public and private institutions in New York experienced more than 900 data breaches in 2013, according to a report released …
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| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
Snapchat Adds Geofilters For Quick Image Location Tags, And A New Revenue Possibility — Snapchat has added a new feature to its app starting today that will offer special image filters depending on your location. All you need to do to activate them is swipe right from the preview screen … | Anna Prior / Wall Street Journal: |
H-P Chairman Whitworth to Step Down to Focus on Health — Executive Is Co-Founder of Relational Investors — Hewlett-Packard Co. said interim Chairman Ralph Whitworth has resigned from the company's board to focus on his health. — The Silicon Valley giant said Tuesday that the resignation …
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| Jim Edwards / Business Insider: |
Twitter Is Cracking Down On Companies That Provide Stats About Its Users — Twitter has taken the unusual step of shutting off its datapipe to certain companies that have published their own stats on how big Twitter's user base really is, according to two sources.| Daniela Hernandez / Wired: |
Microsoft says its deep learning project “Adam” is faster than Google Brain in benchmark test — Microsoft Challenges Google's Artificial Brain With ‘Project Adam’ — Microsoft's new artificial intelligence system, Project Adam, can identify images, including photos of a particular breed of dog.
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| Aldrin Calimlim / App Advice: |
PayPal for iOS now lets you carry virtual versions of your loyalty cards — PayPal has just updated its flagship iOS app with a major new feature and a couple of welcome improvements. — In September last year, just ahead of the launch of iOS 7, PayPal for iOS was updated with a new design …
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