Apple introduces 14-day no questions asked refunds for App Store & iTunes in EU countries
Apple has recently introduced a new 14-day no questions asked return policy for iTunes, App Store and iBooks purchases in Europe including the UK, Germany, Italy, France, and many other EU countries.
51% of new devices activated during Christmas week were Apple, 18% were Samsung, 6% Nokia
Apple and Apps Dominated Christmas 2014 — Millions of people woke up and unwrapped a shiny new device under the Christmas tree. As we have done in years past, Flurry examined these new device activ...
Sources: Microsoft is building a new, lightweight browser codenamed Spartan for Windows 10
Microsoft is building a new browser as part of its Windows 10 push — Summary:Microsoft is planning to roll out a new browser when it debuts Windows 10, according to sources. But IE isn't going comp...
Chaos Computer Club claims it can reproduce fingerprints from people's public photos
Chaos Computer Club, Europe's largest association of hackers, claims it can reproduce your fingerprints from a couple of photos that show your fingers. At the 31st annual Chaos Computer Club conventi...
How Disney CEO Bob Iger uses technology to keep every division of his company relevant
Disney CEO Bob Iger's empire of tech — Even in a dress-down gray sweater, Bob Iger looks a bit mechanical. His mouth is almost geometrically straight, his face constructed of some cool alloy.
UK banks in talks to launch Apple Pay in 2015, execs concerned about data collection by Apple
UK banks in talks over Apple ‘wave and pay’ — Negotiations between the tech giant and at least one bank have proved tricky because of wrangling over the terms, including what data Apple will be able...
Grocery delivery startup Instacart scores $220M investment at a valuation of around $2B
Grocery Delivery Startup Instacart Scores $220 Million Investment — Instacart, the grocery delivery startup, disclosed in a regulatory filing Tuesday that it had closed a monster $210 million invest...
As Microsoft scales back original vision of the Xbox One as a general-purpose living room platform, key team members keep leaving the company
Almost every single Xbox executive we profiled in this video last year has left the company — Boyd Multerer — the genius Microsoft engineer …
Samsung launches Milk VR to deliver virtual reality videos to Gear VR
Milk VR will provide the videos for free as Samsung hopes to goose interest in virtual reality. — Samsung wants to jump-start the virtual-reality movement. — The Korean electronics conglomerate on...
Washington Post hopes to generate more revenue by licensing its content management system to other news organizations
Here's A New, Inventive Way Jeff Bezos Plans To Make Money From The Washington Post — When Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos bought The Washington Post for $250 million in 2013 …
Samsung announces Galaxy Note 4 with Snapdragon 810 processor to enable 300 Mbps LTE download speeds in South Korea
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New King of Tech Startups: Smartphone Maker Xiaomi Raises $1.1 Billion at $45 Billion Valuation
We just completed the latest round of funding last week … Matt Hamblen / CITEworld : The rise of China's smartphone makers Wall Street Journal : Xiaomi Becomes World's Most Valuable Tech Startup Jonat...
Access To Gmail Partially Restored In China
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Pinterest finds Promoted Pins, currently in beta, are shared as often as organic pins, plans rollout to all partners on Jan. 1
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Scaled Inference raises $13.6M at a valuation of about $60M from Khosla Ventures and others, to offer machine learning software as a cloud service
Scaled Inference Raises $13.6 Million to Build Out Machine Learning — Artificial intelligence and machine learning are back in vogue. Tweets: @felicisventures Tweets: Felicis Ventures / @felicisvent...
Yahoo Directory Closes, Five Days Early
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Book excerpt from Dragnet Nation: a quest for privacy, security, and freedom in a world of relentless surveillance
Who Is Watching You? — Companies and institutions track us almost indiscriminately. Is this the world we want to live in? … But today the anxious question … Tweets: @youranonnews Tweets: @youranonn...
Archivist Daniel Rehn of wwwtxt, a cache of Internet content from 1980-94, finds similarities in conversations from then and now
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Hacker gang siphons more than $15M from Eastern European banks with targeted phishing, malware
Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security : Tweets: @briankrebs Tweets: @briankrebs : Crime gang hacked ATMs from inside banks http://ow.ly/GhgoM < Russian gang also appears tied to Staples, Sheplers, Michaels...
Few US laws protect against the abuse of remote access tools used to spy on laptop users
Dan Massoglia / The Atlantic Online : Tweets: @frankpasquale Tweets: Frank Pasquale / @frankpasquale : Without regulation now, RATS (remote access tools to enable webcam hacking) could become rampant...
W3C to recommend allowing companies with whom users show an “intention to interact”, like a Facebook login, to track them, weakening “Do Not Track” efforts
Fred B. Campbell Jr / New York Times : Tweets: @darylsurat , @stevesi and @caseynewton Tweets: Daryl Surat / @darylsurat : The Slow Death of ‘Do Not Track’ http://www.nytimes.com/... “For starters, t...
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