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• Apple seeks to dismiss lawsuit filed by electric battery maker

  10-03-2015 23:59
  
  Apple Inc asked a U.S. court on Tuesday to dismiss a civil lawsuit filed by battery maker A123 systems over engineers hired by Apple, saying A123's claims were too speculative to proceed, according to a court filing. Apple is exploring how to make an electric car and has been hiring engineers with deep expertise in automobile systems. Around June 2014 Apple began aggressively poaching A123 engineers tasked with leading some of the company's most critical projects, A123's lawsuit s
  
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• Lawyer for Silicon Valley firm questions woman in bias suit

  10-03-2015 23:09
  
  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — An attorney representing a prestigious Silicon Valley venture capital firm in a gender bias lawsuit questioned why the plaintiff did not reject initial advances by a male colleague.
  
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• FACT CHECK: Clinton and her emails

  10-03-2015 22:02
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — How Hillary Rodham Clinton's statements about her exclusive use of private email instead of a government account as secretary of state compare with the known facts:
  
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• Apple's Tim Cook cites record sales and "unbelievable" year

  10-03-2015 21:52
  
  CUPERTINO, Calif. (AP) — Apple CEO Tim Cook took a figurative victory lap at his company's annual shareholder meeting, one day after he announced details about the new smartwatch Apple plans to start selling next month.
  
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• Google says CFO Patrick Pichette to retire

  10-03-2015 21:47
  
  (Reuters) - Google Inc said Chief Financial Officer Patrick Pichette had informed the company that he planned to retire. The effective date of his retirement has not yet been determined, the company said in a filing on Tuesday. (http://1.usa.gov/1Af5q91) Google said Pichette intended to assist the company in the search for a new CFO. (Reporting by Subrat Patnaik in Bengaluru; Editing by Kirti Pandey)
  
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• Apple asks U.S. appeals court to disqualify antitrust monitor

  10-03-2015 20:41
  
  By Nate Raymond NEW YORK (Reuters) - A U.S. appeals court on Tuesday weighed Apple Inc's latest bid to disqualify a court-appointed antitrust monitor whose activities one judge sharply questioned. Members of the three-judge 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New York heard arguments focused on the actions of Michael Bromwich, who was appointed as monitor after Apple was found liable for conspiring with publishers to raise e-book prices. Circuit Judge Dennis Jacobs focused on Bromwich'
  
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• Woman suing Silicon Valley firm calls for equal opportunity

  10-03-2015 20:35
  
  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The woman suing a prominent Silicon Valley firm in a gender bias case says she wants females to have equal opportunities to become venture capitalists.
  
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• Obama calls for more rights for struggling student borrowers

  10-03-2015 20:31
  
  ATLANTA (AP) — Issuing a clarion call to Americans saddled by student debt, President Barack Obama urged student borrowers Tuesday to stand up for their rights, and announced a medley of modest steps to bring some order to a notoriously chaotic system.
  
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• Solar-powered plane lands in India on 2nd leg of world trip

  10-03-2015 19:39
  
  AHMADABAD, India (AP) — A Swiss-made solar powered aircraft has landed in western India, completing the second leg of its historic round-the-world trip.
  
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• Obama aims to clamp down on federal student loan servicers

  10-03-2015 19:22
  
  ATLANTA (AP) — President Barack Obama says college affordability isn't just important for students, but for the nation as well.
  
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• Indebted Gigaom shuts down

  10-03-2015 19:03 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Gigaom, one of the leading technology blogs, has ceased operations after running out of money.
  
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• Woman suing Silicon Valley firm says she asked for $10M

  10-03-2015 18:17
  
  The woman behind a sex discrimination lawsuit against one of Silicon Valley's most prestigious venture capital firms says she sought $10 million from the firm after filing a complaint alleging women were ...
  
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• Uber pledges to enlist 1 million female drivers by 2020

  10-03-2015 17:57
  
  Ride-hailing app Uber, under the microscope due to a handful of driver assaults on passengers in some cities, pledged in a blog post on Tuesday to sign up 1 million female drivers around the world by 2020. The ride service did not provide comparable figures for how many women drivers are on the Uber service worldwide at present. Uber said it adds thousands more drivers each month. "Uber does not require (minimum) hours, and it does not require a schedule," Salle Yoo, Uber's genera
  
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• U.S. NSA sued by Wikimedia, rights groups over mass surveillance

  10-03-2015 17:21
  
  The U.S. National Security Agency was sued on Tuesday by an array of groups challenging one of its mass surveillance programs that they said violates Americans' privacy and threatens communications worldwide by dissidents living under oppressive regimes. The lawsuit filed in federal court in Maryland, where the spy agency is based, said the NSA is violating U.S. constitutional protections and the law by tapping into high-capacity cables, switches and routers that move Internet traffic throu
  
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• Telecom Italia says in talks with Netflix over content deal

  10-03-2015 17:10
  
  Italy's biggest phone company, Telecom Italia said on Tuesday it was in talks with Netflix over a possible content deal with the U.S. online movie streaming company. "We are in talks also with Netflix," Telecom Italia Chief Executive Marco Patuano told a parliamentary hearing. "In some European countries (Netflix) has chosen to make deals with telecoms operators," he added, recalling that Netflix services are available on the TV platform of Belgium's national teleco
  
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• Apple, fix these problems first

  10-03-2015 17:07 via bbc.co.uk
  
  From battery life to broken cables, some Apple users would like the company to make their current products better before selling them something new.
  
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• Police iPad mini trial aims to keep bobbies on the beat longer

  10-03-2015 16:39 via zdnet.com
  
  London's police claim that trials have so far cut down the force's paperwork.
  
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• ​OnePlus One arrives in 16 new European countries

  10-03-2015 16:38 via zdnet.com
  
  Chinese smartphone startup OnePlus is extending sales of the One in Europe ahead of the launch of its successor to the popular handset.
  
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• Review: Meizu MX4 Pro

  10-03-2015 16:07 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Introduction and designMeizu is a rather unfamiliar name to many living in the UK, US and Australia. However, over the past few years the Chinese smartphone company has been subtlety expanding into the global market, building significant fan bases in France, Russia, Italy, Ukraine and Israel. This gradual expansion into the Middle East and Europe is no fluke. In China, Meizu products both MP3 players and smartphones, have always been renowned for being well built and affordable. Prices for the M
  
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• Woman suing Silicon Valley firm over bias to testify again

  10-03-2015 15:09
  
  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Jurors in a sex discrimination trial against one of Silicon Valley's most prestigious venture capital firms will hear a second day of testimony Tuesday from the woman behind the high-profile lawsuit.
  
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• 'Banning Tor unwise', MPs told

  10-03-2015 15:04 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Advice given to MPs on the dark web says it can be used in the public interest and that banning it in the UK would be difficult technically.
  
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• Q&A: A look at solar plane attempting round-the-world trip

  10-03-2015 14:55
  
  DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Two Swiss pioneers are attempting to fly around the world in a solar-powered airplane without a drop of a fossil fuel. Here's a look at the plane and pioneers behind it:
  
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• ACLU, Wikimedia file lawsuit challenging NSA mass surveillance

  10-03-2015 14:35
  
  (Reuters) - The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) said on Tuesday it had filed a lawsuit on behalf of organizations including the Wikimedia Foundation and the conservative Rutherford Institute against the National Security Agency and the Department of Justice challenging the government's mass surveillance program. The lawsuit alleges that the NSA's mass surveillance of internet traffic, often called "upstream" surveillance, violates the First Amendment of the U.S. Constit
  
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• Charges over 'largest' email breach

  10-03-2015 14:20 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The US has charged three men with carrying out the 'largest' email breach ever in which one billion email addresses were stolen
  
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• France's Iliad launches new set-top box, holds fire on mobile

  10-03-2015 13:38
  
  By Leila Abboud PARIS (Reuters) - France's low-cost telecoms group Iliad upgraded its entry-level broadband offer with the launch on Tuesday of a new, more powerful set-top box but did not cut mobile prices, comforting rivals who had feared the reigniting of a price war. After Iliad's billionaire founder Xavier Niel unveiled the Freebox Mini 4K set-top box the shares in Orange rose as much as 4 percent, the biggest gainer in the French blue-chip index . Numericable-SFR climbed 2.7 perc
  
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• Datacenter startup SimpliVity seals $175m for engineering and sales boost

  10-03-2015 13:04 via zdnet.com
  
  A new funding round for the converged infrastructure software and appliance company is to be pumped into a rapid expansion in 2015.
  
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• Wikipedia to file lawsuit against NSA and US Department of Justice

  10-03-2015 12:56
  
  Jimmy Wales’s company will be joined by Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International USA in a challenge against mass surveillance by the US government Wikipedia will take legal action against the National Security Agency and the US Department of Justice challenging the government’s mass surveillance programme. The lawsuit, to be filed on Tuesday, alleges that the NSA’s mass surveillance of internet traffic in the United States – often called “Upstream” surveillance – violates the U
  
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• Wikimedia sues NSA over surveillance

  10-03-2015 12:53 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The Wikimedia Foundation has launched legal action against the NSA over its programme of mass surveillance
  
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• ​Google releases Android Lollipop 5.1 factory images for Nexus devices

  10-03-2015 12:38 via zdnet.com
  
  Android 5.1 factory images for Nexus 5, 7, and 10 devices are now available to download directly from Google.
  
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• Technology should be used to create social mobility – not to spy on citizens

  10-03-2015 12:06
  
  NSA and GCHQ mass surveillance is more about disrupting political opposition than catching terrorists
  Why spy? That’s the several-million pound question, in the wake of the Snowden revelations. Why would the US continue to wiretap its entire population, given that the only “terrorism” they caught with it was a single attempt to send a small amount of money to Al Shabab?One obvious answer is: because they can. Spying is cheap, and cheaper every day. Many people have compared NSA/GCHQ mass s
  
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• Blocked online, Islamic State supporters launch CaliphateBook

  10-03-2015 11:57
  
  Islamic State supporters, facing regular bans and blockages on Facebook and other social networks, have launched their own CaliphateBook to spread their militant message over the Internet. The site 5elafabook.com, which resembled Facebook but appeared unfinished, went live on Sunday then went offline again a day later and its linked Twitter account was shut down. Islamic State, which had declared its own caliphate in territory captured in Iraq and Syria, has relied heavily on social media to spr
  
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• CIA sought to hack Apple iPhones from earliest days - The Intercept

  10-03-2015 11:48
  
  By Eric Auchard FRANKFURT (Reuters) - CIA researchers have worked for nearly a decade to break the security protecting Apple phones and tablets, investigative news site The Intercept reported on Tuesday, citing documents obtained from NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden. The report cites top-secret U.S. documents that suggest U.S. government researchers had created a version of XCode, Apple's software application development tool, to create surveillance backdoors into programs distributed on A
  
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• New law means job applicants cannot be forced to reveal spent convictions

  10-03-2015 11:48
  
  Change aims to ensure that those who have committed less serious crimes have better chance of finding job once they have reformed their lives Continue reading...
  
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• Your 30-second guide to the Apple Watch – and its cheaper rivals

  10-03-2015 11:35
  
  Kind of interested in the new gadget but can’t really be bothered to plough through the millions of words written about it? Now read on ... Continue reading...
  
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• ​'Rowhammer' DRAM flaw could be widespread, says Google

  10-03-2015 11:29 via zdnet.com
  
  Google's Project Zero team have found a serious DRAM bug that it's using to encourage computer vendors to cough up more information about hardware flaws.
  
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• CIA 'tried to crack security of Apple devices'

  10-03-2015 11:25
  
  Agency tried to create dummy version of development software that would allow it to insert surveillance back doors into appsThe CIA led sophisticated intelligence agency efforts to undermine the encryption used in Apple phones, as well as insert secret surveillance back doors into apps, top-secret documents published by the Intercept online news site have revealed. The newly disclosed documents from the National Security Agency’s internal systems show surveillance methods were presented at its
  
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• Wikipedia to file lawsuit challenging mass surveillance by NSA

  10-03-2015 11:14
  
  (Reuters) - Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit organization that runs free online encyclopedia Wikipedia, will file a lawsuit against the National Security Agency and the U.S. Department of Justice, challenging the government's mass surveillance programme. The lawsuit, to be filed on Tuesday, alleges that the NSA's mass surveillance of Internet traffic in the United States — often called Upstream surveillance — violates the U.S. Constitution's First Amendment, which protects
  
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• Wall Street's reaction to the Apple Watch? It will sell millions – but meh …

  10-03-2015 10:38
  
  Analysts see mostly risk in the release of the line of smartwatches, from pricing – £13,500 for a rose-gold version – to demand and even profit margin
  The internet might have lost it over Apple’s £13,500 [$17,000] smartwatch on Monday. Wall Street’s reaction so far? Meh.The world’s most valuable company released details of its long-awaited Apple Watch at an event in Cupertino, California. The new smartwatch “can be an incredibly rich and integral part of your life”, said c
  
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• Solar-powered plane takes off from Oman, heads to India

  10-03-2015 10:22
  
  DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A Swiss-made solar-powered aircraft has taken off from Muscat, Oman, bound for India on the second leg of its historic round-the-world trip.
  
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• Tim Cook looks to ignite smartwatch market with launch of Apple Watch

  10-03-2015 10:18
  
  BMW app, 18-carat gold casing, launched with the help of a supermodel – Apple moves further into luxury market with the launch of its first smartwatch Continue reading...
  
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• Twitter opens Hong Kong office, gains China foothold

  10-03-2015 10:16
  
  By Gerry Shih BEIJING (Reuters) - Twitter Inc has opened a Hong Kong office, its first in the Greater China region, the company whose microblogging services are blocked on the mainland said on Tuesday. The office, to be headed by Twitter executive Peter Greenberger, will allow the San Francisco-based company to tap China for advertising revenue, the company said, even if Internet users on the mainland cannot see those ads. Twitter collected $479 million in fourth-quarter revenue from advertisers
  
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• Apple 'understands' fashion with new watch

  10-03-2015 10:08
  
  The much anticipated Apple Watch was unveiled in San Francisco on 9 March and the device is already earning points with reviewers who praise not only its tech abilities, but also its fashion appeal. We want them to notice our fashion sense and that is something I think Apple truly understands. They've worked to give us so many different choices," said Chief Correspondent for Mashable, Lance Ulanoff. The Apple Watch sport will start at £299 for the smaller, 38-mm model and go up to £1
  
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• Under-fire Uber pledges to enlist 1 million female drivers by 2020

  10-03-2015 10:04
  
  Ride-hailing app Uber, under the microscope due to a handful of driver assaults on passengers in some cities, pledged in a blog post to sign up one million female drivers globally by 2020. The ride service did not provide comparable figures for how many women drivers are on the Uber service globally today. "Uber does not require (minimum) hours, and it does not require a schedule," said Salle Yoo, Uber's general counsel, in an interview Monday about why women might find working fo
  
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• Dragon Age: Inquisition - sex has never been so enjoyable in videogames

  10-03-2015 08:53
  
  The latest Dragon Age game creates a feminist, gender-blind utopiaI think I am in love with Dorian from Dragon Age: Inquisition. Which puts me in a worse-than-usual fix. No woman ever stood a chance with Dorian from Dragon Age. And he’s a fictional character in an entirely made-up game universe. Fucksticks.Enormous and immediate apologies to Wendy Cope for that, but when you descend to stealing someone else’s love poetry to express how you’re feeling about a videogame character, you know y
  
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• Early Look: How does Apple Watch stack up vs rival watches?

  10-03-2015 08:52
  
  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Apple made a strong case for how you can use its upcoming Apple Watch, and the device stacks up well against the competition.
  
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• Time for a loan? Solid gold Apple Watch will cost $17k

  10-03-2015 08:16
  
  The Californian technology company revealed full details of its smartwatch range, including a luxury range that starts with a solid 18-carat gold version for $10,000
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• NHS embraces wearable health devices such as the Apple Watch to improve care

  10-03-2015 08:00
  
  Monitoring activity could help patients take better care of their health and allow doctors and nurses to keep abreast of changes without several appointments
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• ADF health records IT system implementation 'deficient'

  10-03-2015 07:16 via zdnet.com
  
  The planning and implementation of the Australian Defence Force's health records management system in 2009 has been found to have been 'deficient', resulting in a AU$110 million blowout of the project's original budget, according to the Australian National Audit Office.
  
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• Electric cars could cut oil imports 40% by 2030, says study

  10-03-2015 07:00
  
  Massive switch to electric cars could save drivers £1,000 a year on fuel costs, if infrastructure is built to support the vehicles Continue reading...
  
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• It's time to disrupt the disruptor pop culture, Australia

  10-03-2015 06:48 via zdnet.com
  
  Why do discussions about developing Australia's IT sector always degenerate into a conversation about startups? They're more about noise than real money, people.
  
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