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CurrentC alerts users of its pilot program that some email addresses were stolen by hackers — Wal-Mart's Answer To Apple Pay Has Already Been Hacked — Here's a bad sign for CurrentC, the fledgling mobile payment system in development by a consortium of retailers.
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MCX: open to switching from QR codes to NFC and non-exclusivity; reported hack only occurred at email provider — MCX Says QR Payments App Will Pivot To NFC If Necessary, Won't Fine Retailers Who Break Exclusivity — In a virtual press conference today, MCX's CEO Dekkers Davidson said “We're agnostic about technology.
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IBM to incorporate Twitter data into their analytics tools, enterprise solutions — Changing the way business decisions are made — We believe that social data has unlimited value, and near limitless application. Today, we're taking an important step toward unleashing this value through a new relationship with IBM.
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| David Pierce / The Verge: |
Microsoft's health revolution is here, starting with a $199 fitness tracker — Microsoft Health, the Microsoft Band, and a plan to unite the world — Microsoft's fitness tracking ambitions are not small. — Yusuf Mehdi is sitting at a conference table at the company's campus in Redmond …
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| Mike Beasley / 9to5Mac: |
Microsoft outs upcoming fitness ‘Band’ with premature Mac and iPhone app releases — Update: Microsoft has now announced the Microsoft Band, a $199 fitness band that does everything described below. — Microsoft hasn't officially announced its wearable device, but it seems the company …
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| Ellen Nakashima / Washington Post: |
Unclassified White House network breached by hackers thought to be working for Russia, no system damage or evidence of classified network hack — Hackers breach some White House computers — Hackers thought to be working for the Russian government breached the unclassified White House computer networks …
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| Jason Schreier / Kotaku: |
YouTube Finally Supports 60FPS, And It Looks Awesome — Earlier this year, YouTube announced plans to support videos running at 60 frames-per-second—plans that would make a huge difference for footage of video games. Today, the video network has finally started rolling out the new service …
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| David Kravets / Ars Technica: |
MPAA, movie theaters announce “zero tolerance” policy against wearables — A movie theater industry group and the Motion Picture Association of America updated their anti-piracy policies and said that “wearable devices” must be powered off at show time. — “Individuals who fail or refuse … | Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
Microsoft lays off 638 in Seattle area, 3,000 globally, nearly completing its planned 18K cuts — Microsoft cuts another 3,000 jobs, finishing last big phase of layoffs … Microsoft this morning cut an additional 3,000 jobs from its workforce around the world, saying it has now completed almost …
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| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
Windows Phone Shrinks In Android-Dominated Europe, As New iPhones Boost iOS' Share — Spare a thought for Microsoft, a relative newcomer to the mobile making business, after Redmond completed its $7.2BN+ acquisition of former European mobile making powerhouse Nokia earlier this year.| Chris Velazco / Engadget: |
Google takes another step into your living room with its Nexus Player (hands-on) — Google's wanted a piece of your living room for ages, and now — after two attempts that never really went anywhere =- the search giant seems poised to get it what it wants.
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| Jon Fortt / CNBC: |
Twitter consumer engineering VP Jeremy Gordon and analytics group lead Adam Kinney resigning as company plans reorg — More Twitter exits: 2 key executives flying away — Twitter is planning yet another reorganization in its engineering department, and two respected managers plan to resign, CNBC has learned.| Shara Tibken / CNET: |
Samsung's Q3 profit drops 60% YoY to $3.9 billion, mobile division profit down 74% YoY — Samsung's Q3 financials show ongoing struggles in mobile — The Korean electronics giant posts a 74 percent drop in its mobile business operating profits during the September period.| Erin Griffith / Fortune: |
After a blow from Apple, Nomi sells to Brickstream — Even the smallest change to Apple's iOS platform can have a huge impact. Tiny tweaks, such as the decision to improve privacy settings on iOS8, can wipe out whole categories of app makers. — Take Nomi, a New York-based startup.
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TechCrunch, AdExchanger, VentureBeat and Brickstream
| Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
Google will discuss ‘major changes and advances’ for its modular smartphone in January — Google plans to update developers on the state of its Project Ara modular smartphones at a series of conferences held early next year, where it'll discuss “major changes and advances” …
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Google ATAP, VentureBeat, PHONEBLOKS.COM and Gizmodo
| Jordan Kahn / 9to5Google: |
Google Wallet adds recurring bank transfers for automatically adding money, low balance alerts — Google today announced it's adding new ways to add money to its Google Wallet service in addition to some new features that will make keeping an eye on your balance easier.| Abhimanyu Ghoshal / The Next Web: |
Google Hangouts now lets you make free one-minute international calls — Google announced yesterday that users in 25 countries will now get the first minute free on international calls to 25 countries they make via its Hangouts app. — Google's Hangouts app for desktops and mobile …
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| Federico Viticci / MacStories: |
Apple forcing PCalc to remove its iOS 8 Notification Center widget, saying widgets cannot perform calculations — Apple Asks PCalc Developer to Remove iOS 8 Widget — As tweeted by PCalc developer James Thomson today, he will be forced to remove the app's iOS 8 widget.
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MacRumors, TUAW, iPhone in Canada Blog, iMore, iDownloadBlog.com, 9to5Mac and MacNN. Tweets: @drbarnard
| Jon Russell / TechCrunch: |
Reddit Gets Into Crowdfunding With Redditmade — Reddit is continuing to expand its presence beyond its wildly popular sharing site — known as the front page of the internet for many — after it jumped into the world of crowdfunding with Redditmade, a service that allows moderators to set up projects which can be backed by Redditors.| Phil Goldstein / FierceWireless: |
WhatsApp delays launch of voice calling service to Q1 of 2015 — HALF MOON BAY, Calif.—WhatsApp CEO Jan Koum said the over-the-top messaging app intends to launch voice calling services in the first quarter of 2015. The company, which Facebook (NASDAQ: FB) recently finished acquiring … | Zoe Kleinman / BBC: |
Samaritans app flags worrying tweets — WATCH: Rory Cellan-Jones shows how the new Samaritan Radar app works — The Samaritans charity has launched a new app which will notify Twitter users if people they follow on the site appear to be suicidal. — Samaritans Radar uses an algorithm …
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