Apple is reportedly testing camera-equipped minivans in the Bay Area, possibly for a Street View-like mapping system
Apple testing mysterious camera-equipped vehicles in the Bay Area — A number of minivans with what appears to be camera equipment and a LiDAR sensor mounted to the roof …
FCC Chairman Wheeler proposes using Title II authority to implement and enforce open internet protections
FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler: This Is How We Will Ensure Net Neutrality — Federal Communication Commission(FCC) Chairman Tom Wheeler waits for a hearing at the FCC December 11, 2014 in Washington, DC.
The Next Android Revision Is Indeed ‘Android 5.1 Lollipop’, Shipping On Android One Phones, Coming To Nexus Devices
A few hours ago, we spotted no less than five mentions of “Android 5.1” on Google's Indonesian Android One page. Considering that 5.1 is quite a jump from 5.0.2 …
AT&T previews lawsuit it plans to file against FCC over net neutrality
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Almost all 47K edits by a top Wikipedia editor were to fix incorrect uses of “comprised of”
Meet the ultimate WikiGnome. — On a Friday in July 2012, two employees of the Wikimedia Foundation gave a talk at Wikimania, their organization's annual conference.
Instagram introduces endlessly looping videos to please advertisers
Instagram has tweaked its video settings so that clips automatically replay in users' streams — a change that will be mainly welcomed by #brands keen to get as many views for their ads as possible.
Apple's iPhone Overtakes Android In US Sales For The First Time Since 2012
Apple, in its flush of new, bigger iPhone 6 handsets, has been selling record numbers of its older and newer model smartphones in the last few months, and now it's passed another significant milestone...
Taboola Gets $117M From Comcast, Other Strategics To Boost Its Content Recommendation Platform
Taboola — the recommendation platform that provides 200 billion content suggestions to 550 million users each month, and analytics to publishers and brands about what's getting people clicking …
Microsoft stops making the Nokia Lumia 2520 tablet, the last remaining Windows RT device in production
Windows RT is officially dead — Microsoft was left alone as the last manufacturer of Windows RT-based tablets, and now the software giant is no longer producing any RT devices.
Groupon founder Andrew Mason launches Detour, an iPhone app for location-aware walking tours in cities, starting with San Francisco
Groupon's ex-CEO launches audio tour app in San Francisco — Audio tours, often associated with museum field trips, are taking to the streets.
What Satya Nadella has done in his first year as Microsoft CEO
In just one year, Satya Nadella made Microsoft so much better — One year ago, Microsoft appointed long-time Microsoftie Satya Nadella as the company's historic third CEO, and by all accounts, it's b...
California becomes first state to convict someone for operating a revenge porn website
A California jury has convicted the operator of a revenge porn website in what the state believes is the first conviction of its kind nationwide. The operator, Kevin Bollaert, was found guilty …
Alibaba is testing drone delivery in China with a 3-day pilot program
Alibaba is now in the testing phases of delivering packages by drone, according to a post on Taobao's website (h/t 36kr). Bringing Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos' dream into reality, Alibaba's major online ma...
Serious bug in fully patched Internet Explorer puts user credentials at risk
Microsoft engineers are working to patch universal XSS vulnerability. — A vulnerability in fully patched versions of Internet Explorer allows attackers to steal login credentials and inject maliciou...
Twitter is testing a new landing page featuring curated tweets for people without accounts
Another Twitter Update! This One's a New Homepage, Designed to Lure New Users. — Twitter is experimenting with yet another new product tweak — a homepage designed for people who visit Twitter but d...
Report: Silicon Valley powers to record job boom, but surge produces income gap
SAN JOSE — The Silicon Valley economy is red hot and the growth looks like it will intensify, with technology leading the employment and investment boom in the region, according to the latest Joint Ve...
Apple plans all-new Beats-based music service integrated into iOS, iTunes, and Apple TV, devlops Android app in-house, considers charging $8/month
The Next Episode: Apple's plans for Beats-based music service revealed — Six months after buying the subscription music service Beats Music …
Amazon launches Kindle Convert in the US, a $19 Windows app for scanning, turning paper books into e-books
Amazon's Kindle Convert Can Turn Your Paper Library Into E-Books — If you've been hanging on to those paper books because the idea of having to repurchase them all as Kindle titles is daunting …
Toshiba releases super-secure Encrypted USB Flash Drive with hardware-based encryption
In a cloud-focused world, more and more people are shunning physical storage. It's hard to blame them, as cloud services are very convenient. Best of all, services like Dropbox and OneDrive store …
Pono Player review: FLAC does not sound noticeably better than high-quality MP3 audio, poor portability, sluggish touchscreen
Pono Player review: A tall, refreshing drink of snake oil — We give Neil Young's high-res music player a spin and do a few cochlea kegels.
Obama wants $105M in budget to replicate the US Digital Service at 25 agencies
Obama wants $105M to improve agencies' digital footprint — President Obama's budget request includes $105 million to expand a digital strike force modeled on the team that turned around HealthCare.g...
How Twitter developed its revenue model, even as user growth disappointed
While Twitter struggles to get new users, its revenue side is killing it. — In 2009 Twitter was a 50-person company punching way above its weight in cultural impact, its micro-blogging platform blas...
Cisco report: 1,800 compromised domains serving Flash zero day exploit
1,800 Domains Overtaken by Flash Zero Day — When the Blackhole exploit kit went away after the arrest of its alleged creator and maintainer Paunch, there were questions about which kit would rise up...
Twitter's quick promote feature lets SMBs buy promoted tweets from the analytics dashboard
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First-ever staffed Amazon store opens at Purdue University
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Obama administration publishes 2016 fiscal budget proposal on Github and Medium
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Microsoft launches Picturesque, its second free lock screen replacement app for Android
Abhimanyu Ghoshal / The Next Web :
Yahoo to declare Small Business unit a separate entity as part of the plan to spin out Alibaba stake tax-free
Douglas MacMillan / Wall Street Journal :
Samsung and Good Technology launch container and secure app ecosystem for Knox platform
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FBI added Anonymous hacker Jeremy Hammond to a terrorist watchlist several months before the Stratfor hack and his arrest
Tim Cushing / Techdirt :
SAP revamps Business Suite with new UI, HANA analytics
Larry Dignan / ZDNet :
Microsoft pushes the open source door a little wider with .NET CoreCLR
Brad Sams / Neowin :
ARM says next-generation A72 chip can triple the performance of today's chips, or match performance while using 75% less power
Phones will be WAY faster, with DOUBLE battery life Noel Randewich / Reuters : ARM Holdings unveils beefed-up smartphone chip design Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica : ARM wants to double its CPU spee...
Inside the prison system's illicit cell phone trade, and prison officials' battle to end it
Alan Eustace, Google's SVP Of Knowledge, Is Leaving The Company
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch :
Microsoft's updated Yammer comes with Android Wear support and Handoff for iOS and Yosemite
Carlos Bohórquez Marín / The Yammer Blog :
Cisco mobile network report: global data traffic to grow tenfold to 25 exabytes/month by 2019
Stacey Higginbotham / Gigaom :
Samsung Electronics names new mobile marketing chief ahead of the expected launch of next flagship Galaxy S handset
Se Young Lee / Reuters :
VMware bolstering mobile device management tools with Immidio buy
Rachel King / ZDNet :
Apple builds US sales team for IBM partnership to target healthcare, retail, finance, manufacturing customers
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