Tuesday, June 06, 2017

WSJ ends Google users’ free ride, then fades in search results - The Boston Globe

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"First click free" trade-offs "After blocking Google users from reading free articles in February, the Wall Street Journal...

Apple Needs to Reinvent Itself. It Just Might Be Doing So. - The New York Times

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Final paragraphs from a timely Apple reality check; for an overview of yesterday's Apple announcements, see  These are the six big thing...
Monday, June 05, 2017

Digital Coins Are Making Bitcoin's Rip-Roaring Rally Appear Tame - Bloomberg

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Behold the ICO (initial coin offering) wave -- digital tulips ?... "While the record-breaking rally in bitcoin has captivated market...

Oculus Founder Plots a Comeback With a Virtual Border Wall - The New York Times

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Evidently still living in virtual reality "And he has a new start-up in the works, a company that is developing surveillance technolog...
Friday, June 02, 2017

Microsoft clones Snapchat’s Stories for its reimagined Skype experience (Marketing Land)

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Check this Microsoft post for more details "Skype was first released in 2003 as a messaging and free calling tool — ahead of its time...

OneLogin suffers breach—customer data said to be exposed, decrypted | Ars Technica

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Oops... "One customer affected by the OneLogin attack told Ars that he was having to "rebuild the whole authentication security s...

Google plans to clean up the web with Chrome ad blocker next year - The Verge

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See this Google blog post for details "Google will introduce an ad blocker to Chrome early next year and is telling publishers to get...

Apple, Facebook and Google are among the many tech giants angry with Trump’s decision to leave the Paris agreement - Recode

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I have yet to see a single credible and fact-based comment in support of Trump's latest travesty "With Trump’s decision now final,...

Facebook shareholders are not happy with how it’s handling fake news - The Washington Post

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Check the full article for some Mark Zuckerberg comments on the "fake news" challenge "Facebook chief executive Mark Zucker...
Thursday, June 01, 2017

Google beefs up Gmail security to fight phishing attempts (Engadget)

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See this Google post for more details "First, Google has implemented a machine learning model to keep spam out of your inbox and to b...

Gaming’s cultural influence gets Mary Meeker’s attention in her new Internet report - The Washington Post

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Check this page for the full 355-slide annual report; also see  Mary Meeker’s 2017 internet trends report: All the slides, plus analysis ...

Apple Is Manufacturing a Siri Speaker to Outdo Google and Amazon - Bloomberg

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Hear all about it -- maybe -- at next week's WWDC keynote "Apple hopes that more advanced acoustics technology will give the speak...

Alphabet Driverless Ambitions Looked Stalled. Then It Sued Uber - Bloomberg

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Driving innovation "But behind the scenes, Waymo was shoring up its engineering bench and improving the technology. Since being spun o...

Uber Limits Loss to $708 Million in First Quarter - The New York Times

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"Limits loss" compared to losing $991M last quarter; it's all relative... "“These results demonstrate that our business ...

How Twitter Is Being Gamed to Feed Misinformation - The New York Times

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From a timely Twitter reality check "Though the 140-character network favored by President Trump is far smaller than Facebook, it is u...
Wednesday, May 31, 2017

Swisscom to cut mainframe spend as Cobol app moves to x86 Linux (Diginomica)

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A "software-defined mainframe" win "Swiss telecoms giant and IT services provider Swisscom is to start migrating a suite of ...

Asus, HP, and Lenovo will all build ARM-powered Windows 10 PCs | The Verge

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Tangentially,  Steve Ballmer says Microsoft was too slow to develop hardware (Recode) "Microsoft is revealing its partners for Window...

HP's Cortana speaker has to connect to a Windows 10 PC - The Verge

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Tbd if it will ever get beyond the "visual representation" phase "Microsoft revealed earlier this month that HP is planning ...

A Price Amazon Is Content to Keep High: $1,000 a Share - The New York Times

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The " Frightful Five " top the charts "Cracking the arbitrary threshold of a four-digit stock price is a reminder of just ho...

Uber Fires Former Google Engineer at Heart of Self-Driving Dispute - The New York Times

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A lose-lose situation "Mr. Levandowski, however, may not see his rich payday from Uber. He has been employed at Uber for less than a y...