UK ISP TalkTalk suffers massive data breach, subscribers' information used in scams
Fraud threat to millions of TalkTalk customers — Major breach of data leaves one customer £2,800 out of pocket as TalkTalk and his bank, Santander, refuse to compensate him
Ericsson Sues to Block Apple IPhone in U.S. Amid Patent Spat
(Bloomberg) — The licensing battle between Apple Inc. and Ericsson AB is escalating. — Ericsson, a pioneer in mobile phones that transformed itself into the world's largest maker of wireless network...
Verizon mocks FCC ruling with Morse code response dated 1934, despite using Title II to its benefit
Verizon issues furious response to FCC, in Morse code, dated 1934 — Verizon wants 1st Amendment right to edit the Web, but rules from 1934 are too old.
Apple Watch will replace your car keys, says Tim Cook
Exclusive interview: The Apple chief executive reveals to Allister Heath how the revolutionary features in the company's smartwatch could forever alter our daily lives — Like millions of people, Tim...
Google won't ban adult content on Blogger after all
Well that was fast. Google only declared that it would begin cracking down on adult content posted to Blogger a few days ago, but it's already decided it was a bit hasty in its decision. After comin...
Twitter adds “report dox” option, makes some users verify contact info
Temporarily banned users may need to confirm phone or e-mail to tweet again. — On Thursday, Twitter announced that its abuse-report system, which was recently refined to simplify and shorten the rep...
AT&T, Verizon, Obama, lobbyists, advocates, and others react to net neutrality ruling
Shares Tweets: Chris Ziegler / @zpower : who saw this and was like “lol! my bad, I guess title II regulation is terrible news after all” http://www.theverge.com/... Tom Warren / @tomwarren : Microsoft...
Net neutrality's next chapter: How experts saw today's milestone and next steps
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Swiss watchmakers launch luxury smartwatches with embedded activity tracker based on an open platform
MMT ‘Horological Smartwatch’ Platform Finally Ties Switzerland To Silicon Valley — Ever since the smartwatch became a thing, I have been preaching that companies need to pool …
Smartflash LLC sues Apple again over use of same patents in iPhone 6/6 Plus and iPad Air 2
Apple faces second suit from victorious patent firm — (Reuters) - Fresh off a $532.9 million jury win against Apple Inc (AAPL.O), a Texas company is again suing the tech giant …
VLC gets first major release across Windows, Mac, Linux, Android, iOS, Windows Phone, Windows RT, and Android TV
VideoLAN today launched what is arguably the biggest release of its popular media player to date: an update to VLC for the desktop coordinated with new versions across all major mobile platforms.
Google pays $25M for top level domain .app, the most expensive TLD ever sold
Google just paid $25 million to buy the entire ‘.app’ web domain — Google just paid $25 million for exclusive rights to the “.app” top-level web domain. — Google decided to apply for new top-level...
Google Ventures and Michael Dell invest $60M in Kobalt, which handles music publishing rights
Music royalty hunter Kobalt wins Google funding — Since the music industry began in the early 20th century, musicians and songwriters have complained about paltry royalty payments for their creation...
PopCap Games co-founder emerges with virtual reality startup Pluto VR
As the co-founder of PopCap Games, John Vechey helped create some of the most compelling and beloved games for PCs, consoles and mobile devices. Now, the 37-year-old Seattle entrepreneur sees the sam...
China censorship sweep deletes more than 60,000 Internet accounts
(Reuters) - Some of China's largest Internet companies deleted more than 60,000 online accounts because their names did not conform to regulations due to take effect on Sunday, the top Internet regula...
Silent Circle raises $50M, buys out Geeksphone's stake in JV to get full control of Blackphone
Silent Circle targets enterprise users with ‘world first’ privacy ecosystem — Summary:A fresh funding round will help the company cope with increased demand for encrypted communications in the enter...
China's draft counterterror law would require that technology firms hand over encryption keys, install backdoors; Obama administration has conveyed concerns
China draft counterterror law strikes fear in foreign tech firms — (Reuters) - China is weighing a far-reaching counterterrorism law …
Lack of notifications on password changes and slow customer service put Venmo users at risk for fraud
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Spotify adds lyrics to its desktop player, while phasing out App Finder
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Facebook launches new suicide prevention features linking users posting troubling messages to trained experts
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3D Robotics raises $50M Series C led by Qualcomm, the largest amount raised by any US consumer drone company to date
Frank Bi / Forbes :
Facebook adds custom entry to gender selection list, with free-form field for those who don't identify with pre-set options
Apple to live stream ‘Spring Forward’ Apple Watch event on March 9 at 10am PT
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Google exec hints at Photos, Hangouts and G+ split
Richard Lawler / Engadget :
Spyware firm Gamma failed on human rights, says OECD
David Meyer / Gigaom :
Webnic Registrar Blamed for Hijack of Lenovo, Google Domains
Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security :
Twenty20, formerly Instacanvas, exits beta and raises $8M series A led by Canaan; launches photo licensing service with 45M crowdsourced images
Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch :
Aereo assets bring less than $2M at auction, firm hoped for $4M-$31.2M; TiVo buys trademark, customer lists, other assets
Alex Barinka / Bloomberg Business :
Google makes mobile-friendliness a ranking signal, ranks apps with indexed deep links higher
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch :
iOS grows to 73% enterprise share in Q4 2014, Android drops to 25%, and Windows Phone stays flat at 1%
Windows Phone in open beta Paul Krill / InfoWorld : Survey: iPhone 6 powers an increase in enterprise adoption of iOS Neil Hughes / AppleInsider : iPhone hits record high 88.7% of smartphone profits i...
Vurb is a mobile search engine that helps you get things done without jumping between apps
Owen Williams / The Next Web :
Mobile news app startup Circa launches fully featured responsive website
Neal Ungerleider / Fast Company :
Disqus relaunches to turn your comments into a Reddit-like social network
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