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June 7, 2013, 12:20 PM
U.S. intelligence mining data from nine U.S. Internet companies in broad secret program — The National Security Agency and the FBI are tapping directly into the central servers of nine leading U.S. Internet companies, extracting audio, video, photographs, e-mails, documents and connection logs …
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Nick Hopkins / Guardian:
UK gathering secret intelligence via covert NSA operation — Exclusive: UK security agency GCHQ gaining information from world's biggest internet firms through US-run Prism programme — The UK's electronic eavesdropping and security agency, GCHQ, has been secretly gathering intelligence …
More: TechCrunch, ZDNet, Inquirer, Engadget, The Next Web, Forbes andwww.idigitaltimes.co.uk
NSA slides explain the PRISM data-collection program — Through a Top-Secret program authorized by federal judges working under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), the U.S. intelligence community can gain access to the servers of nine internet companies for a wide range of digital data.
More: Businessweek, The Register, Guardian, Inquirer, 9to5Google, The Next Web,9to5Mac, Lifehacker, Falkvinge on Infopolicy, Quartz, www.idigitaltimes.co.uk,Boing Boing, SiliconANGLE, InfoWorld, BuzzFeed, Ars Technica and Electronista
President Obama's Dragnet — Within hours of the disclosure that the federal authorities routinely collect data on phone calls Americans make, regardless of whether they have any bearing on a counterterrorism investigation, the Obama administration issued the same platitude it has offered every …
More: Forbes, InfoWorld, Gawker, ZDNet and CNN. See also Mediagazer
Anti-Surveillance Activist Is at Center of New Leak — After writing intensely, even obsessively, for years about government surveillance and the prosecution of journalists, Glenn Greenwald has suddenly put himself directly at the intersection of those two issues, and perhaps in the cross hairs of federal prosecutors.
More: Forbes, App Advice, BGR, The Next Web, Guardian, T3 News,ValueWalk and Digital Trends. See also Mediagazer
Harrison Weber / The Next Web:
Facebook, Apple, Google, Microsoft, AOL, PalTalk, Dropbox and Yahoo deny participation …
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Zachary M. Seward / Quartz:
Twitter boosts its privacy cred with its absence from the NSA's surveillance program
More: Examiner, SiliconANGLE, Guardian, A VC, TechnoBuffalo, Forbes,BetaNews, Associated Press and Professional Blog
Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
The NSA surveillance story reinforces why an entity like WikiLeaks is so important
More: Uncrunched. See also Mediagazer
Jared A. Favole / Wall Street Journal:
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James Temple / The Technology Chronicles:
Government acknowledges PRISM spying program, disputes details
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Mark Felsenthal / Reuters:
Internet tapping aimed at non-U.S. people outside U.S. : official
Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
Apple Signs Sony Up for iRadio, Now Has All Three Major Music Labels On Board — Sony Music has signed on to Apple's forthcoming iRadio service, according to a person familiar with negotiations between the two companies. — The deal means Apple now has agreements with all three major music labels.
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Miyoung Kim / Reuters:
Samsung Electronics loses $12 billion market value on smartphone worries — (Reuters) - Samsung Electronics Co lost $12 billion in market value on Friday, hit by brokerage downgrades that have underscored concerns about slowing sales of its flagship Galaxy S4 smartphone.
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Google Wallet Is Leaking Money — Google Wallet (GOOG), the mobile software that allows Android users to pay for purchases online and in stores with their phones, has become a money pit. The company has dedicated hundreds of developers to Wallet and spent about $300 million to acquire digital payment startups to help develop the app.
More: Business Insider and MobilePaymentsToday.com News
Tom Warren / The Verge:
Windows 8.1 Start button demonstrated fully in new video — Microsoft demonstrated a number of new features in Windows 8.1 earlier this week, but the company briefly showed the return of the Start button and avoided any details on how it visually works. During Computex this week the company took …
More: BetaNews, BGR, ZDNet, BetaNews, Neowin, Electronista, Softpedia News andThe Tech Report
Jordan Kahn / 9to5Mac:
Android game console GamePop does the unthinkable, brings iOS games to TV with ‘Looking Glass’ — In case you hadn't heard: BlueStacks, the company with around 10M+ using its technology that brings Android games to PC and Mac, has recently been working on a new dedicated Android gaming console …
More: The Verge, TechCrunch, CNET, MacRumors, Business Insider, VentureBeat,AllThingsD, The Next Web, IntoMobile, Macgasm, Ubergizmo, Touch Arcade andSlashGear
Jordan Crook / TechCrunch:
YouTube Founders Hurley And Chen Have Released An Asian Clone Of Vine — AVOS Systems, the company founded by YouTube founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen, has just launched a new app that appears to be a Chinese version of Twitter's popular six-second video-sharing app, Vine.
More: Tech in Asia, memeburn, The Verge and Valleywag
Google allows ads for illegal drugs, state AG says — Google still is allowing ads for illegal online pharmacies that sell dangerous or counterfeit drugs without a prescription, Mississippi state Attorney General Jim Hood charged Thursday. — The Internet giant paid $500 million in 2011 …
More: msbusiness.com, Search Engine Land, WebProNews and The Verge
Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent:
Amazon, Google execs clash with Apple lawyers in ebook pricing trial — On the fourth day of the federal government's ebook pricing trial against Apple, Amazon and Google executives offered testimony in hearings that were often fraught and occasionally funny — but still introduced little evidence …
More: The Verge, MacRumors, Business Insider, AppleInsider, CNET and Cult of Mac. See also Mediagazer
John Paczkowski / AllThingsD:
Amazon Demanded Same Terms From Publishers For Which Apple is Now On Trial
More: CNET, MacNN and TechEye. See also Mediagazer
Kaylene Hong / The Next Web:
Amazon's devices finally on sale in China; Kindle Paperwhite for $138 and Kindle Fire HD from $244 — After plenty of rumors and repeated delays, Amazon's devices have finally landed on China's shores. — We earlier reported that Sina Tech said the Kindle e-reader and Fire HD would be launched …
More: Tech in Asia, ZDNet, GigaOM, Engadget, CNET, CITEworld and TechEye
Mary Ellen Gordon, PhD / The Flurry Blog:
The iOS and Android Two-Horse Race: A Deeper Look into Market Share — Over the past four years, Apple's iOS and Google's Android have been locked into a two horse race for mobile OS ownership. In the past year, there has been a lot of focus on the rise of Android and its lead in device market share.
More: Marketing Land, Android Beat, iPhone Hacks and AdExchanger
Michael Isikoff / Open Channel:
Chinese hacked Obama, McCain campaigns, took internal documents, officials say — Cyberattacks linked to the Chinese government will be at the top of the U.S. agenda when President Obama meets with Chinese president Xi Jinping Friday in California. Chinese officials deny any role in the cyberattacks …
More: The Verge, Gizmodo, Hillicon Valley, ValueWalk, Softpedia News, CNET andThe Atlantic Wire
Brian Klug / AnandTech:
Apple Not Throttling iPhone or iPad Cellular Throughput via Carrier Bundles — Yesterday there were some allegations made about whether Apple is intentionally throttling cellular data throughput on iPhones and iPads via some files used for network provisioning.
More: Electronista, Gotta Be Mobile, iPhone, AppleInsider, iDownloadBlog.com andiPhone Hacks
Paul Sawers / The Next Web:
Any.DO debuts Cal, a new smart iOS Calendar and first in a suite of standalone apps — To-do list startup Any.DO is spinning out a brand new calendar app called Cal, which represents the “first in a suite” of standalone apps from the Israel-based company. — This news falls less than a month …
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License to Kill: Malware Hunting with the Sysinternals Tools — Watch Mark Russinovich's TechEd North America 2013 session on malware hunting. This session provides an overview of several Sysinternals tools …
Static.com Adds Hadoop Support for Cloud Foundry — In this guest post, Jake Farrell, CTO for Static.com, explains how the major shift in the hosting industry towards platforms for high developer productivity …
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10 Reasons To Put “Hadoop Summit 2013” In Your Calendar — Hadoop Summit 2013 in San Jose is approaching quickly and in just a few weeks attendees will have the opportunity to learn all of the up and coming advances …
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Nick Heath / ZDNet:
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More: Reuters, BBC, www.idigitaltimes.co.uk, Wall Street Journal and Reuters
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