Comcast says Stream TV, its IP cable service, doesn't count against data caps because it isn't offered over the Internet, but over its cable television network
Comcast May Have Found a Major Net Neutrality Loophole — Comcast may have found a major loophole in the Federal Communication …
Mark Zuckerberg Will Take Two Months Off When His New Baby Arrives
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is about to become a father, and he's decided to take two months of parental leave when the new baby arrives, he shared on his Facebook page Friday. — Facebook offers it...
Google App Streaming: A Big Move In Building “The Web Of Apps”
A world where you can search through and move between apps as easily as with the web? Google's new app streaming service may usher this in. — Google App Streaming became a reality today, and with i...
Malicious Android apps force adware on users by hijacking the Android Accessibility Service and can be extremely difficult to uninstall
Android adware can install itself even when users explicitly reject it — Hard-to-uninstall apps can also hijack Android Accessibility Service.
Amazon Studios Launches Amazon Storywriter, Free Cloud Software For Screenwriters
In an effort to expand its original video content, including movies and TV series, Amazon announced this morning the launch of a free, cloud-based screenwriting software program called Amazon Storywri...
PlayStation 2 Emulation Coming to PS4, Sony Confirms
here are 20 great ones that need to come back Paul Morris / Redmond Pie : PS4 Backwards Compatibility With PS2 Games Confirmed By Sony Brendan Sinclair / GamesIndustry.biz : Sony working on PS2 emulat...
Rdio will transition subscribers to free accounts after November 23rd
Billy Steele / Engadget :
Rdio, while a good product, wasn't differentiated enough from Spotify, and ultimately failed from poor marketing, say former employees
Why Rdio died — It's easy to forget now, but the first modern music streaming service to arrive in America was Rdio.
ISIS' OPSEC manual reveals how it handles cybersecurity, from Tor and Tails to BlackPhone
ISIS' OPSEC Manual Reveals How It Handles Cybersecurity — In the wake of the Paris attacks, US government officials have been vocal in their condemnation of encryption, suggesting that US companies ...
TrueCrypt is safer than previously reported, detailed analysis concludes
Fraunhofer Institute gives clean bill of health to crypto tool used by millions. — The TrueCrypt whole-disk encryption tool used by millions of privacy and security enthusiasts is safer than some st...
EFF and Visualizing Impact launch Onlinecensorship.org to collect reports on content takedowns by Facebook, Twitter, and other social media services
Onlinecensorship.org Tracks Content Takedowns by Facebook, Twitter, and Other Social Media Sites — New Project Will Gather Users' Stories of Censorship from Around the World
Facebook's David Marcus on how humans work alongside AI automation to power Facebook M and whether such a service can scale
Time To Meet The Wizard: Facebook's Messenger Head Pulls Back The Curtain On “M” — Facebook's David Marcus says M is already a lot more than just people pretending to be robots. Tweets: @vanessaluvt...
LivingSocial's growth-at-all-costs strategy serves as a lesson for today's unicorns as the firm struggles to retain staff and pivots away from daily deals
LivingSocial, Once a Unicorn, Is Losing Its Magic — WASHINGTON — The first thing you see when walking into the headquarters … Tweets: @trengriffin , @jtepper2 , @p1bc , @nytimes , @startupljackson ,...
Pepsi Phone P1s official - 5.5-inch 1080p display, 4G LTE and fingerprint sensor for $110
Srivatsan Sridhar / Fone Arena :
Sony Xperia Z5 Premium review: 4K resolution display is indiscernible over other high end phones, not worth high price
Sony Xperia Z5 Premium review: Astonishing resolution results in an astonishing price — Sony's Xperia Z5 premium is the flagship phone Sony has owed us for a long time.
Lumia 950 review: great screen and camera, using phone as a PC is neat but limited; it's not the ground-breaking phone Windows Phone needed to attract new users
but can it succeed? Steve Kovach / Tech Insider : Microsoft's new smartphone sounds like a dud Todd Haselton / TechnoBuffalo : Lumia 950 - 5 things we learned after a few days with one Adrian Diacones...
Source: Airbnb raises over $100M on same $25.5B valuation from summer fundraising, had Q3 revenue of $340M on bookings of $2.2B, roughly doubling year-over-year
Rolfe Winkler / Wall Street Journal :
Quora Launches Troll-Free AMA “Writing Sessions”
Josh Constine / TechCrunch :
Yahoo Mail is blocking ad-block users from accessing their email
Jordan Valinsky / Digiday :
Wheeler says FCC will keep an eye on T-Mobile's Binge On, which offers free data for some services, but calls it “highly innovative and highly competitive”
Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica :
Facebook At Work Gets Its Own Version Of Messenger With Debut of “Work Chat”
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch :
Square Cash for Business processing fee has increased from 1.5% in March to 2.75% today
Jason Del Rey / Re/code : Tweets: @mdudas Tweets: Mike Dudas / @mdudas : Square Cash now priced like PayPal for business http://recode.net/...
Sources: Yahoo media executive Rob Barrett, who was in charge of media strategy and operations, departs the company
top media exec Barrett departs http://recode.net/...
Reddit updating privacy policy to honor Do Not Track; CEO Huffman urges users to consider privacy browser extensions that block third-party scripts, cookies
Steve Huffman / reddit :
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