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Microsoft responds to YouTube demands, ‘more than happy’ to include ads if Google allows it — Following Google's demands for Microsoft to remove its Windows Phone YouTube app, Microsoft has responded saying it's happy to include advertising. Google sent a cease and desist letter to Microsoft recently …
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| Peter Kafka / AllThingsD: |
Microsoft's Anti-Google Campaign Gets a Boost, From Google — For the last few months, Microsoft has been running a pointed PR and ad campaign against Google, where it accuses the search giant of screwing over its customers. — You gotta hand it to Microsoft: Yesterday they got Google to help promote their message for them.
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Tweets: @marcoarment, @lvdjgarcia and @qualresearcher
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Exclusive: Inside Hangouts, Google's big fix for its messaging mess — How Google built its new messaging platform for Gmail, Android, iOS, and Chrome... and what took so long — Skydivers equipped with futuristic glasses live-broadcasted their descent into the Moscone Center …
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| Kellex / Droid Life: |
SMS is Indeed Coming to Google Hangouts, According to Google+ Community Manager — To say that readers were disappointed at the lack of SMS support in Google's new Hangouts application is probably somewhat of an understatement. People are 100% ready to make Hangouts their number …
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| Quentin Hardy / NYT Bits: |
Google Buys a Quantum Computer — Google and NASA are forming a laboratory to study artificial intelligence by means of computers that use the unusual properties of quantum physics. Their quantum computer, which performs complex calculations thousands of times faster than existing supercomputers … | Nick Hide / Crave: |
Samsung changes mind, will look at storage on Galaxy S4 … Samsung has backed down on the Galaxy S4's limited storage after the phone appeared on the BBC's Watchdog, saying it will try to squeeze its myriad features into a smaller space, freeing up more memory for apps.| Claire Cain Miller / NYT Bits: |
New Apps Arrive on Google Glass — Google Glass, the company's Internet-connected glasses, will soon have seven new apps, including breaking news alerts from CNN, fashion features from Elle, Twitter, Tumblr and Facebook posts and reminder notes from Evernote.
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| John Paczkowski / AllThingsD: |
Here's That Steve Jobs E-Book Email to James Murdoch — “Throw in with Apple and see if we can all make a go of this to create a real mainstream e-books market at $12.99 and $14.99.” — That's an excerpt from an email sent by Apple co-founder Steve Jobs to James Murdoch of News Corporation …
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| Jason Wilson / VentureBeat: |
EA kills its controversial Online Pass program — EA is doing away with its Online Pass program from this point forward, a decision the video game publisher says is partially based on player response. — “Yes, we're discontinuing Online Pass,” EA senior director of corporate communications … | Matt Burns / TechCrunch: |
Pebble Nabs $15M In Funding, Outs PebbleKit SDK And Pebble Sports API To Spur Smartwatch App Development — Get ready for a whole lot more Pebble. The smartwatch company just announced several software enhancements for the Pebble and a $15M Series A led by Charles River Ventures.
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| Nick Summers / The Next Web: |
Android and iOS accounted for 92% of Q1 2013 smartphone shipments, as Windows Phone passes BlackBerry — Android and iOS accounted for 92.3 percent of all smartphones shipped during the first quarter of 2013, according to new figures published today by the International Data Corporation (IDC).| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Biz Stone's New Startup Jelly Raises Series A From Spark Capital, SV Angel, Square CEO Jack Dorsey, Reid Hoffman, Al Gore, Bono & Others — Twitter co-founder Biz Stone's new and mysterious startup called Jelly still isn't saying what it's up to, but it has announced funding.
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| John Gruber / Daring Fireball: |
Google Versus — Larry Page, on stage at I/O today: … Google fans seem to eat this kumbaya stuff up, to really believe it. But Google is the company that built Android after the iPhone, Google Plus after Facebook, and now a subscription music service after Spotify.
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| Kevin Bostic / AppleInsider: |
Apple plans to move flagship San Francisco store to Union Square — Apple has submitted plans for a new retail location in San Francisco's Union Square that would replace the Apple Store currently at Stockton and Ellis. — Plans for the new store emerged on Thursday, according to SFGate.
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| Stephen Shankland / CNET: |
Microsoft building touch-screen feature into Chrome — To try to spread its flexible Pointer Events interface beyond Windows 8 and IE10, Microsoft programmers are trying to build support into Google's browser. — Through the peculiar dynamics of Web standard politics and the open-source …
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| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Google adopts Bluetooth Smart, hints of a new Android version within two months — According to a just-issued press release from the Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG), Google has committed to updating Android with support for Bluetooth Smart (also known as Bluetooth Low Energy) “in the coming months.”| Reuters: |
Senators struggle with tech industry concerns on U.S. immigration bill — (Reuters) - Senate supporters of a broad U.S. immigration bill struggled on Wednesday to satisfy technology companies that want greater leeway to hire high-skilled foreign workers. — Democratic Senator Charles Schumer … | Emil Protalinski / The Next Web: |
Gmail is getting quick action buttons that let you RSVP to events, rate restaurants, view flights, and more — Google on Wednesday announced the addition of a new Gmail feature called quick actions. These new buttons will be rolling out “over the next few weeks,” so don't fret if you don't see them yet.
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| Emil Protalinski / The Next Web: |
Yahoo partners with Twitter to bring tweets directly into its US newsfeed on the desktop and mobile Web — Yahoo on Thursday announced a new partnership with Twitter that will see tweets brought directly into the company's homepage newsfeed. The new integration will be rolling out …
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Official Yahoo! Blog, The Verge, CNET, Business Insider, Digits, AllThingsD, TechCrunch and WebProNews
| Keach Hagey / Wall Street Journal: |
USA Network's Dividing Line With Twitter — Several television companies have announced deals with Twitter Inc. in recent weeks, looking to take advantage of the popularity of tweeting while watching shows. But not all TV companies believe tying up with the social-media site is such a great idea.
| Luke Johnson / Trusted Reviews: |
iOS BBM app will not support iPad at launch — With a summer iOS BBM app release having been confirmed, BlackBerry has revealed that the Apple friendly messaging application will not be available to iPad owners. — Leaving iPad mini and iPad 4 users out in the cold, the iOS BBM app … | Richard Nieva / PandoDaily: |
RelayRides suspends New York service after cease and desist — New York State's Department of Financial Services today ordered car-sharing company RelayRides to suspend service in New York state, issuing a cease and desist letter to the company, alleging “repeated false advertising and violation … | Steve Dent / Engadget: |
NEC's Medias X smartphone for DoCoMo features first-ever liquid-cooled CPU — NEC's just broken some new ground with the Medias X, the world's first liquid-cooled smartphone that was launched as part of DoCoMo's summer lineup. Rather than aiming it at the propeller-heads usually associated with that tech …
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| Matt Brian / The Verge: |
Google Play Books enables user ebook uploads, Google Drive support — Google has updated its Play Books e-reader apps for iOS and Android to include support for EPUB and PDF files from outside the Play Store. The new feature has been enabled as part of Google's strategy to unite its cloud services … | Robin Wauters / The Next Web: |
That settles it: Opera drops its $3.4m lawsuit against ex-employee Trond Hansen — A little over two weeks ago, word got out about Opera filing a rather nasty lawsuit against a former longtime employee and contractor, designer and musician Trond Werner Hansen.Thanks:@robinwauters
| Robert McMillan / Wired: |
Is It Wrong to Use Data From the World's First ‘Nice’ Botnet? — When Morgan Marquis-Boire heard about the Internet Census 2012, he was excited. — Marquis-Boire, a Google engineer by day, spends his spare time looking for state-sponsored spyware, and here was something new that he could use.
Tweets: @wired
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