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• How Steve Jobs Buys a Company and Why Apple Bought Lala – According to a (now deleted) blog post by a former Lala and Color employer, Apple bought Lala kill off a music competitor whose results were...
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• New PRISM slides: more than 100,000 ‘active surveillance targets,’ explicit mention of real-time monitoring – The slides, originally published by the Washington Post, give a semi-clearer picture of...
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• Apple, Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Twitter and Others Call for More NSA Transparency – Tech companies are banding together to demand that the feds allow them to provide more information about what...
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• N.S.A. Foils Much Internet Encryption – The NSA has figured out how to crack most types of privacy protection online, employing massive computing systems to do so. Most commercial and consumer...
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• Exclusive: Amazon Wants To Offer Its Smartphone for Free. Who Will Follow? – Amazon is still reportedly working out the details with carriers, but it’s possible it would be free even for those who...
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• In fight with broadcasters, Aereo has time on its side: Supreme Court ruling unlikely before 2015 – If you’re in Houston and interested in becoming an Aereo customer when it formally launches here on...
View ArticleLinkpost | 12.2.2013
• Amazon Floats the Notion of Delivery Drones – In a “60 Minutes” interview, Amazon.com CEO Jeff Bezos says the company is working on drones that would deliver products to your door in 30 minutes. The...
View ArticleLinkpost | 12.5.2013
• NSA tracking cellphone locations worldwide, Snowden documents show – The NSA captures more than 5 billion cellphone location records daily, according to documents supplied by Edward Snowden. •...
View ArticleUpdating to a new iPhone or iPad? Encrypt your old device’s backup first
This week, I bought a new iPad Air 2 to replace my three-year-old iPad 3. This is my third Apple tablet, having also owned the original iPad from 2010. I’ve had it less than 24 hours, but I love it...
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