Does Sony Have a Case to Stop Hack Reporting? (videos)

Does Sony Have a Case to Stop Hack Reporting?: Video - Bloomberg:
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Sony Pictures Entertainment requested news outlets stop disclosing material from a devastating computer hack as its studio chief made plans to meet a civil-rights leader after the exposure of a racially tinged e-mail exchange. Rasch Technology And Cyberlaw Principal Mark Rasch weighs in on “Bloomberg West.” (Source: Bloomberg 12/15)

Sony Asks Media to Destroy Hacked Data: Do They Have a Case?: Video - Bloomberg:
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Trend Micro's Tom Kellermann and Bloomberg's Lucas Shaw discuss the ethical issues raised by the hack attack on Sony Pictures. They speak with Bloomberg's Trish Regan on "Street Smart." (Source: Bloomberg 12/15)


New York Times
Apple Wins Decade-Old iTunes Suit
New York Times
Several other Apple executives were called to the witness stand. ... in the process of fixing hacks, “it might screw up the Real technology anyway, ... accusation: that Appleand the online retailer Amazon had colluded to make their ...
Apple Wins iPod Antitrust Trial - Wall Street Journal
Jury finds Apple not liable of harming consumers in iTunes DRM case - The Verge
Apple Wins Class-Action Lawsuit Over iPod Prices - ABC News


RT
Apple halts online sales to Russia as the ruble plunges in value
The Verge
According to reporters at Bloomberg, Apple is shutting down its online sales to Russia because of the "extreme fluctuations" in its currency, the ruble.
Apple Stops Online Sales in Russia Over Ruble Fluctuations - Bloomberg


Newsweek
What People Are Searching For, According to Google
Newsweek
Every December, as one year is about to give way to the next, Google ... pumpkin pie, anapple and an egg; Paleo, Atkins and Gluten-free were the ...
Robin Williams Tops 2014 List of Google Searches - ABC News


CNET
Dozens of vendors jump on Apple Pay bandwagon
CNET
Log In to CNET; Sign In with Facebook Google Yahoo; Join CNET; Member Benefits ... With the expanded list, Apple says its mobile-payments system now ... Other services such as Google Wallet and Softcard have tried to find ... CNET, Computer Shopper,Microsoft TechNet, and other technology sites.
Apple Pay Recruits Dozens of New Banks and Stores - Wired
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Tech News Week Review, Jack Ma Richest in Asia (video)

Jack Ma has become the richest person in Asia. The 50-year-old founder of Alibaba Group Holding, China’s biggest e-commerce company, passed Li Ka-shing, the Hong Kong property and ports tycoon who has held the top spot in the region since April 5, 2012, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. Bloomberg's Yvonne Man has more on "On The Move Asia." (Source: Bloomberg 12Dec)


CNET
FCC to spend $3.9 billion to expand Internet access to schools in rural and poor ...
Washington Post
The Federal Communications Commission agreed Thursday to dramatically boost spending to bring high-speed Internet access to schools and libraries in poor or rural areas, a move that would probably increase Americans' phone bills by about $2 a year.


USA TODAY
'Call of Duty' and Xbox One pace monthly game sales
USA TODAY
Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare captured the top spot on November's video-game sales list and Microsoft's Xbox One outsold the PlayStation 4, according to The NPD Group — the first month Xbox has been the top seller since the consoles were released a ...


Forbes
Mark Zuckerberg: Facebook May Offer Something Beyond The Like Button
Forbes
For years, people on Facebook have wanted something more than the Like button to express their feelings about the posts they see on the social network. Despite the clamoring, though, all you see to click on below posts is a thumbs up. That could change ...


Fortune
Twitter co-founder: 'I don't give a sh*t' if Instagram has more users
Fortune
Yesterday, Instagram announced it has 300 million monthly active users. The news drew immediate comparisons between the photo-sharing app, which sold to Facebook FB for $1 billion in 2012, and Twitter TWTR , a $24 billion publicly traded company ...


Financial Times
Google shuts Russia engineering office
Financial Times
Google is to close its engineering office in Russia, in the latest sign that a crackdown on internet activity by Russian authorities this year could hasten an outflow of engineering talent from the country. A series of moves against internet companies, culminating ...


Wired
Original Apple computer sells for $365000 at New York auction
Reuters
A fully operational Apple computer that company co-founder Steve Jobs sold out of his parents' garage in 1976 for $600 sold for $365,000 at Christie's on Thursday. The Ricketts Apple-1 Personal Computer, named after its ...


Quartz
Priceline.com Becomes First Major Online Travel Agency to Integrate Apple Pay ...
MarketWatch
Priceline.com announced today that it is the first major Online Travel Agency (OTA) to integrate Apple Pay in its recently updated ...


CBC.ca
Spanish news to vanish from Google News globally
Fresno Business Journal
Google announced Thursday it will close Google News in Spain and block reports from Spanish publishers from more than 70 Google News international editions due to a new Spanish law...


NDTV
YouTube unveils experimental new GIF maker, currently in testing on PBS Idea ...
9 to 5 Google
YouTube has just released a new GIF-making tool in testing on PBS's Idea Channel. The tool is available under the share menu and allows users to pick a five-second clip from the video, add two lines of text, and export the file to their computer. The frame rate ...

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Will HP Enterprise Survive, or Is It Too Late? (video)

HP’s Fourth-Quarter Sales Miss Estimates Ahead of Split: Video - Bloomberg:
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Hewlett-Packard reported fiscal fourth-quarter sales that fell short of analysts’ estimates, hurt by an accelerating shift to cloud computing and a tepid personal-computer market. Bloomberg Intelligence's Anand Srinivasan takes a look at the numbers on "Taking Stock." (Source: Bloomberg - 11/25)


New York Times
EU Parliament Passes Measure to Break Up Google in Symbolic Vote
New York Times
A breakup of Google in Europe will almost certainly not happen, legal .... Google in Europe are major American technology companies like Microsoft ...
Europe has good reasons to fear Google - The Verge


Wall Street Journal
New Facebook Rules Will Sting Entrepreneurs
Wall Street Journal
Chrisy Bossie built a $100,000-a-year gemstone e-commerce business by sharing information about her products on her company's Facebook page ...

New York Post
Apple Watch and iPhone will tether closer than expected
New York Post
Apple fans are still a good six months away from testing the gadget maker's new smartwatch, but details are ticking out — thanks to the geeks building ...

TIME
Why You Shouldn't Shop at Walmart or Amazon on Saturday
TIME
Local mom-and-pop stores are trying to make a strong sales pitch to holiday shoppers, while getting squeezed by big box Goliaths on one side and ...

Business Insider
A Cashier At The Whole Foods I Just Went To Says No One Uses Apple Pay
Business Insider
A couple of weeks after Apple Pay launched, payments expert Mike Dudas estimated thatApple Pay already accounted for 1% of all Whole Foods ...

The Switchboard: EU passes symbolic measure calling for break-up of Google
Washington Post (blog)
E.U. parliament passes measure to break up Google in symbolic vote. "Europe's resentment of the Americantechnology giant Google reached a new ...

Gigaom
How Amazon Echo could answer the call of greatness
Gigaom
Of course, Amazon ould implement voiceprint technology as its answer to Touch ID. The company has been stepping up its efforts in voice search, ...
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SimPrints, Finger Scanner, Revolutionizing Health Care (video)

British chip designer ARM Holdings is best known for supplying processors to mobile giants like Apple. Now the company has thrown its weight behind a tiny Cambridge-based startup named SimPrints it claims is on the brink of revolutionizing the delivery of health care in the developing world. Bloomberg's Tom Mackenzie reports.(Source: Bloomberg 11/13)


NPR (blog)
Google's Android Lollipop Wants To Change The Way We Use Our Phones
NPR (blog)
Yearly system updates are a part of the modern smartphone experience, and like clockwork Apple and Google typically issue them every fall.


Financial Post
Fun Number: Apple Is Now Worth More Than The Entire Russian Stock Market
Forbes
However, this isn't so much a story about how wonderfully Apple is doing (the ... The UStechnology giant's market capitalisation has overtaken the ...


TechCrunch (blog)
Why Did Google Decide To Split Inbox From Gmail?
TechCrunch (blog)
Editor's note: Marat Ryndin is a UX/visual designer, writer and app/tech/soccer/music junkie. He worked for Google and various startups and climbed ...


USA TODAY
Amazon boosts its eReader lineup with fantastic Voyage
USA TODAY
Though there's still a little competition between Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and a couple of others, the recipe for a solid eReader is well-established: ...


The Daily Star
Technofile: My computer choked on Apple's Yosemite
The Post-Standard - syracuse.com
When I installed the new operating system, which Apple calls Yosemite, my ... Like that old version of Microsoft, you're pushing software out the door ...


New York Times
Google to Quadruple Computer Science Prize Winnings to $1 Million
New York Times
The move can be seen as another sign of the boom times in technology. ... For Google, being the deep-pocketed benefactor of the Turing Award is ...


ValueWalk
After Three Weeks, Apple Pay Is Already Transforming How We Buy Things
Gizmodo
For years, tech companies like Google and Softcard (formerly known as ... Now thatApple Pay has graced millions of iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus ...


Telegraph.co.uk
Flubit wants to be the next Amazon... of Amazon
Telegraph.co.uk
As the Christmas season picks up now that the previous commercial festivals of Halloween and Bonfire Night are behind us, 2014 is set to be another ...

The 12 Worst Apple Products Of All Time
Apple is known for the hit products it has released in the last decade: the iPod, the ...

Facebook reportedly wants to be your office's social network
A report from Financial Times today indicates that Facebook is working on a new service called “Facebook at Work” that aims to get a piece of the ...

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Amazon Web Services, Tech Behind NASA and Netflix (video)

Amazon Web Services: The Tech Behind NASA and Netflix: Video - Bloomberg:
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Amazon CTO Werner Vogels explains how Amazon Web Services makes companies more competitive. He speaks with Bloomberg's Cory Johnson on "Bloomberg West." (Source: Bloomberg)


New York Times
Facebook Will Curtail Unpaid Ads by Brands
New York Times
Facebook has accumulated one of the biggest vaults of consumer data in the world. It dominates social media advertising the way Google dominates ...
Your Facebook News Feed is about to have fewer ads - CNET


New York Times
Apple Pay Gives Glimpse of Mainstream Appeal for Mobile Payments
New York Times
And even some of Apple's competitors, like Google and Softcard, say Apple has helped ...Apple Pay Rival MCX Open to Other Technology OCT.


TechCrunch (blog)
As Developers Depart, Google Glass Is Ready To Become This Era's Segway
TechCrunch (blog)
Admittedly, Facebook and OpenTable are among the larger developers ... thing for Googleto do now would be to release the underlying technology ...


Sci-Tech Today
Is Amazon Echo the next big thing?
Standard-Examiner
It's not often that I'm intrigued with a new tech gadget, but Amazon's Echo, ... The gadget arrived on Amazon's website with no fanfare. ... Leslie Meredith has been writing about and reviewing personal technology for the past six ...


TechNewsWorld
Amazon's Echo: A Play For The Smart Home, A Hot Holiday Gift, Or Another Money Losing Gadget?
Forbes
All I could see was Amazon pitting itself, again, against big players in the electronic industry – like Apple, Google and Microsoft, who already have ...


Business Insider
Here's How To Figure Out Everything Google Knows About You
Business Insider
When you use Google, you are making a deal. You get to use Gmail and search and YouTube and Google Maps for free and in exchange, you agree ...


The Columbian
Why the Amazon–Hachette Deal Is Likely Good for Writers and Publishers
The New Yorker
The end of the months-long impasse between Amazon and Hachette over ... It is believed that Amazon, which has typically favored keeping e-book prices ... San Francisco and is a business and technology correspondent for the site.


Forbes
Apple Loop: iPad Sales Crashing, Why Apple Is So Addictive, iPhone Demand High
Forbes
Taking a look back at another week of news from Cupertino, this week's Apple Loop covers lead times and demands for the new iPhones, projected ...
The desperate struggle at the heart of the brutal Apple supply chain | Technology | The Guardian: ".... Though it doesn’t actually own any factories, Apple pours gigantic amounts of money - about $12.5bn in the past four quarters - into “plant, property and equipment”, the majority equipping its suppliers to make its products. (It is spending about $3bn - nearly as much as chipmaker Intel, though far less than Samsung Electronics, which has factories making screens, hard drives, and memory chips as well as phones, tablets and computers. Apple can make or break a supplier -The reality is that Apple, as the most valuable company on Earth by market capitalisation, now has the power to make or break a company through its supplier relationships (unlike Jobs’s pique, which had minimal effect on ATI). Being known as a supplier to it has definite value, one company - which is listed in Apple’s top 200 list - told the Guardian: “The value lies in the fact that Apple is recognised as having a high-quality build spec, so a relationship reflects well on that supplier’s products,” an executive said...."

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Myo Armband, The Future of Gesture Control (video)

Thalmic Labs' Myo armband turns electrical impulses in your muscles into commands for your electronics. Switch songs on Sonos or change slides in PowerPoint just by wiggling your fingers. Sam Grobart reports for Bloomberg's "The Year Ahead: 2015 " series. (Source: Bloomberg 11/11)

TECH NEWS

CNET
With its first Lumia, Microsoft aims low
CNET
That is, it's not exactly a flagship phone intended to go after the high-end likes of theApple iPhone, Google's Nexus 6 or Samsung's Galaxy line.

New York Times
Yahoo Buys Digital Ad Service BrightRoll for $640M
ABC News
By MICHAEL LIEDTKE AP Technology Writer ... Meanwhile, ad revenue at Google andFacebook has been steadily rising by 20 percent or more in ...
Yahoo to Buy Ad Platform for $640 Million - Wall Street Journal
Yahoo bets big on video with $640 million BrightRoll acquisition - Fortune


Wall Street Journal
Alibaba, Apple Talks on Payments Tie-Up Focused on China
Wall Street Journal
Alibaba, Apple Talks on Payments Tie-Up Focused on China ... Chairman Jack Ma said at The Wall Street Journal's WSJD technology conference last ...
Jack Ma Will Take Alipay Public, Bullish On Apple Pay Partnership - Forbes


NPR (blog)
Facebook Friends Ebola Relief, Google Searches For Donations
NPR (blog)
If you're one of the billions of people who use Facebook and Google on a daily basis, you may have noticed some new messaging coming from the ...

BBC News
Facebook new Messenger service reaches 500 million users
BBC News
Social networking giant Facebook said its new messaging service now has more than 500 million users worldwide. ... In April, Facebook had told users that they would need to download a ... said Jack Kent, senior mobile analyst at the IHS Technology consultancy.... 

Reuters
Apple must face US lawsuit over vanishing iPhone text messages
Reuters
"Apple takes customer satisfaction extremely seriously, but the law does not provide a remedy when, as here, technology simply does not function as ...

BBC News
Google to lease former Nasa airfield for space research
BBC News
Google latest "moonshot" is an apt one - it is investing in a Nasa-owned ... company has acquired firms working on satellite technology and robotics.

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Apple Sapphire Partner Accuses Apple of Bait-and-Switch

TECH NEWS:

Wall Street Journal
Apple Accused of 'Bait and Switch'
Wall Street Journal
Apple sapphire partner GT Advanced accuses the iPhone maker of a “bait-and-switch” strategy. Above, the new Apple Watch, which is expected to use ...In a motion seeking to keep Mr. Squiller’s declaration under seal, Apple said the filing was intended to “vilify Apple and portray Apple as a coercive bully.” Apple said Mr. Squiller’s statements were untrue and defamatory...

New York Times
Microsoft, Changing Tack, Makes Office Suite Free on Mobile
New York Times
SEATTLE — Few golden geese in technology have survived as long as Office ...Microsoft's Band contains a display that shows text messages from a cellphone,Facebook alerts and ... A version of Microsoft Excel for the iPad. ... And the company's about-face comes after rivals like Apple and Google and ...
Microsoft Office Offers Free Content Creation And Editing For iOS And Android Apps - Forbes
Microsoft Office gives away apps for iPhone, iPad - CBS News
Microsoft Word mobile app shoots to tops of Apple's charts - CNET


The Fuse Joplin
Apple Pay Vs. Google Wallet: A Digital Wallet Guide
Hartford Courant
What's in your digital wallet, Apple Pay or Google Wallet? ... code readers instead of NFC chip technology favored by Apple Pay and Google Wallet.

CNET
First Microsoft Lumia phone to be revealed next week
CNET
"Microsoft is delivering the power of everyday mobile technology to ... In comparison,Google's Android OS runs on nearly 85 percent of mobile devices ...

TechCrunch (blog)
Unfollow Your Most Annoying Facebook Friends And Pages With “News Feed Settings”
TechCrunch (blog)
Face it. You've accepted friend requests from some weirdos and over-sharers. Luckily, today Facebook's launched a News Feed Settings tool that ...

MIT Technology Review
Google Wants to Store Your Genome
MIT Technology Review
“The opportunity is how to apply breakthroughs in data technology to help with this transition.” ... “Google or Amazon is a back end. They are saying ...

Mashable
Amazon Echo is another step toward commoditizing your personal life
Mashable
The 4-minute video introducing Amazon's Echo seems at first like a parody or a glimpse into some dystopian vision of the near-future. The premise: A ...

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Apple Pay, Game Changer for Payments (videos)

Apple Has Given Upper Hand to Merchants: Priebatsch: Video - Bloomberg:
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LevelUp Chief Ninja Seth Priebatsch discusses mobile payments with Erik Schatzker from the Money2020 conference in Las Vegas on “Bloomberg West.” (Source: Bloomberg 11/3)

Apple Pay: Is It Really a Game Changer for Payments?: Video - Bloomberg:
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Visa President Ryan McInerney discusses Apple Pay and the future of digital payment systems with Bloomberg's Erik Schatzker on "Bottom Line." (Source: Bloomberg 11/3)

TECH NEWS:

Businessweek
Jawbone's New Fitness Trackers: A High-End Design and a Cheap Gateway
Businessweek
Wearable tech startup Jawbone will release two new products this fall. There will be a new version of the Up health-monitoring wristband, and the company will introduce an entry-level device that can be strapped to the wrist or attached to clothing. Announced ...


Firstpost
MAGID ON TECH: Google's high-end phone is valiant first try
San Jose Mercury News
For the past few days, I've been testing Google's new Nexus 6 phone, which compares favorably against the iPhone 6 Plus. The Nexus 6 is a very big phone, so if you think the iPhone 6 Plus is too big, you'll feel even more so about the Nexus 6. On the other ...


Philly.com
Emojis may expand skin color options
San Jose Mercury News
A proposal to expand the skin color options for emojis may get the thumbs up from those calling for more diversity in the icons. Emojis are cartoon-like pictograms -- such as smiley faces or hearts -- that have become popular in texts and online chats to express ...


Capital Wired
Nuance Swype Adds 16 New Languages and Intuitive Emoji Input
MarketWatch
BURLINGTON, Mass., Nov 04, 2014 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Nuance Communications... announced that its popular Swype keyboard for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch users with iOS 8 is now available in more than 20 languages...


USA TODAY
IBM brings its 'smart' tactics to cloud security portfolio
ZDNet
Infusing smart technology is becoming a trademark quality to IBM's enterprise cloud and software portfolio. Continuing along with that trend is Big Blue's new intelligent security portfolio. Read this. IBM, Apple forge enterprise app pact: Watson, meet iPad ...


ZDNet
UPDATE 1-Entrepreneur, 13, gets Intel funding for low-cost Braille printer
Reuters
If Shubham Banerjee cannot lay claim to being the world's youngest venture capital-backed entrepreneur, he comes very close. Banerjee was ...


ABC News
The wearable drone camera, for when you just can't manage a selfie
Mashable
It's a drone that doubles as a wristband, and it's one step closer to being around your wrist. Nixie takes your GoPro's vantage point one step further: On your command, you can unstrap the band from your wrist; it then transforms into a quadcopter and takes ...

Amazon Prime customers now get unlimited cloud storage for photos | The Verge

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