Apple acknowledges reports of music files lost while using iTunes, plans update with more safeguards next week
iTunes may play a role in reports that Apple Music was replacing user libraries with DRM-encumbered files. — Apple on Friday confirmed to iMore that a very small number …
Microsoft Discontinues Support for Project Spark; Online Services Going Down in August
Today Project Spark Community Manager Thomas Gratz announced on the game/creativity platform's official forums that support for the game is officially being discontinued.
Sources: group led by Quicken Loans founder Dan Gilbert, backed by Warren Buffet, and advised by former senior Yahoo executives bids for Yahoo
Former execs Dan Rosensweig and Tim Cadogan are also helping in the Yahoo sweepstakes. — Apparently, once you bleed purple, you never stop.
Oracle v Google trial, which is based on the notion that APIs are copyrightable, hinges on a judge and jurors who don't have a firm grasp of FOSS philosophy
The problem with Oracle v. Google is that everyone actually affected by the case knows what an API is, but the whole affair …
Study: 45% of online households in US refrained from some online activities due to security and privacy concerns, 19% experienced an online security breach
Almost half of American households with at least one internet user have been “deterred” from online activity recently because of privacy or security concerns, a survey has said.
Source: Google plans big expansion of Project Tango with focus on indoor mapping and VR, seeks eventual ubiquity for the technology, to showcase progress at I/O
Tango to give phones new sense of their immediate surroundings — Project is crucial part of Google's virtual reality efforts
Facebook says it has invited “about a dozen” conservative leaders to meet Mark Zuckerberg on Wednesday, including Glenn Beck
“It would be interesting to look him in the eye.” — Mark Zuckerberg is hosting a summit for conservative leaders on Wednesday. — So says Glenn Beck, who says he will attend.
How Facebook, oblivious to India's concerns, used heavy-handed tactics and failed with Free Basics
ntil Mark Zuckerberg arrived in a bright orange helicopter in October 2014, Chandauli had never seen a celebrity visitor. One of 44,795 villages in the state of Rajasthan …
Profile of Maksym Igor Popov, a Ukrainian hacker turned FBI mole who later tried to scam EMC, AT&T, and the FBI
I'm sorry; your browser does not support HTML5 video in WebM with VP8 or MP4 with H.264. — Typography by Michiel Schuurman — O — One Thursday in January 2001 …
Behind the rise and fall of Lionhead, the Peter Molyneux-founded video game developer, known for Fable, which Microsoft acquired in 2006 and closed this year
Hear me roar. — In October 2008, Microsoft released Lionhead's Fable 2 to critical and commercial acclaim.
Android VR Placeholder Pops Up In The Google Play Developer Console
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How Google Fiber is aggressively competing with cable companies: better service, faster speeds, neighborhood outreach, maybe wireless, and cheaper prices
Forget self-driving cars and drones. Five years later, where is Google's broadband business going? — It's a crisp spring Friday in Kansas City and Jim is upset with Google.
Samsung's $45 Charm fitness bracelet with color-coded LED alerts launches in South Korea, Italy, France, and Russia
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Sources: Apple and Didi were in contact for more than a year, closed the $1B deal in three weeks after CEOs met in April to discuss cooperation
Trust Our Machines Junko Yoshida / EE Times : What Apple Gains by Sinking $1B into Didi Evan Selleck / iPhone Hacks : Apple's Investment in Didi Chuxing Could be Another Boost for the Apple Car Chris ...
Philadelphia Police Department admits it disguised a license plate surveillance truck as a Google Maps vehicle
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Some Vine stars migrate to Facebook and others as loops for top 10 accounts fall 29% from May 2015 through March 2016, ad buyers direct dollars to competitors
Marketers and ad buyers are also moving away from the Twitter-owned video app — Elton Castee has 1.2 million followers on Vine …
Amazon launches programmable $19.95 AWS IoT Button based on Dash hardware, that can be integrated with services like Twitter, Facebook, Netflix, Uber or Slack
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Google for Work president Amit Singh moves to company's virtual reality division as vice president of business and operations
Julie Bort / Business Insider :
Linksys WRT routers will continue to load open source firmware after hardware update to comply with new FCC rules
Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica :
Microsoft adding fingerprint support to Windows 10 Mobile this summer
Pradeep / MSPoweruser :
High-speed optical-networking gear maker Acacia Communications raises $103.5M in the second tech IPO this year, closes up 34%+, now valued at $1B+
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Activision Blizzard to start live streaming eSports on Facebook Live, beginning with June 10 Anaheim Open tournament, building to daily content
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2025 marked 11 years of building a customer experience platform designed to support organizations as customer expectations, channels …
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