Sprint Loses More Customers Than Estimated, Will Cut 2000 Jobs (video)

Sprint Loses More Customers Than Estimated, Will Cut 2K Jobs: Video - Bloomberg:
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Sprint lost more customers than analysts projected as new CEO Marcelo Claure began to counter rivals’ escalating price cuts. As the company continues to lose money and subscribers, Sprint said it will cut about 2,000 more jobs. Estimize CEO Leigh Drogen and Bloomberg Intelligence's John Butler have more on "Street Smart." (Source: Bloomberg 11/3)

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With Calendar app revamp, Google aims to keep rivals at bay
CNET
Tablet Review: Amazon's Fire Vs Google's Nexus 9 - ABC News
Google Just Released a Brand New Google Calendar App - TIME
Nexus 9 Review: Google's Flagship Tablet Is Nothing Special - Gizmodo


Wall Street Journal
Apple, Google Set Disney Video Deal
Google partnership with Disney streams its catalog to Android - CNET
Disney partners with Google to bring its cloud movie locker to Android and Google Play Movies - Gigaom

Bill Gates' $578M Planned Microsoft Stock Sale
Barron's
Microsoft shares went flying out the windows last week. ... of the company, Gates now serves as a technology advisor and on the company's board.


New York Daily News
Internet Archive Brings Vintage Arcade Games Right To Your Browser
Huffington Post
If office productivity takes a tumble around the world today, you can blame the Internet Archive. The online home of the "Wayback Machine" archive of old websites as well as libraries of books, videos and music has added some 900 classic arcade games that ...

Wall Street Journal
Google Renews Its Cloud Efforts
Wall Street Journal
Google is making a renewed effort to catch Amazon in so-called cloud services...


New York Times
Facebook Conducted Another Secret Experiment On Users
Huffington Post
Facebook quietly tweaked the news feeds of 1.9 million users before the 2012 election so they would see more "hard news" shared by friends. That change may have boosted voter turnout by as much as 3 percent, according to a little-known study first ...

PC Advisor
Nest Thermostat update 4.3 lands with improved energy saving
TrustedReviews
The Nest Thermostat made home heating cool when it hit the UK earlier this year, now the innovative device is being made even better thanks to a software update. Nest has been tinkering with the Thermostat's inner workings, with the new software update ...

PCWorld
Microsoft Cloud Apps vs. Best of Breed
Enterprise Apps Today
Microsoft offers cloud-based apps for business intelligence, CRM and ERP. You'll want to evaluate the "best-of-breed" approach to going with a single vendor like Microsoft for everything. When you think of Microsoft, you naturally think of operating systems ...

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Visa, Mastercard, Tracking Your Smartphone (video)

Banks and card networks like Visa and MasterCard are working with wireless carriers to cut down on fraudulent transactions by tying purchases to the location of a shopper's smartphone. Bloomberg's Crayton Harrison reports on "In The Loop." (Source: Bloomberg June 26)

Google execs visit Cuba for first time to promote open Internet | Reuters: "... The Google delegation in Havana met with students and was given a tour of Havana's University of Information Sciences on Saturday, according to 14ymedio. Sanchez started 14ymedio, Cuba's first independent online newspaper in May, although the site has been repeatedly blocked in Cuba. The Cuban government sought to discredit Sanchez as a paid propagandist doing the bidding of the U.S. government."

Why Google, Amazon and Apple are making set-top TV boxes: "The answer, says Creative Strategies’ Ben Bajarin, can be found in the attached chart, taken from Mary Meeker’s Internet trends slide show. It shows consumers around the world spending less time in front of their PCs and more time looking at their smartphones and televisions. Americans, for example, spend an average of 2 hours and 31 minutes a day staring at their smartphones and 2 hours and 27 minutes staring at their TVs."

Google Apps update alerts: Removal of Quickoffice from Google Play and App Store: "With the integration of Quickoffice into the Google Docs, Sheets and Slides apps, the Quickoffice app will be unpublished from Google Play and the App Store in the coming weeks. Existing users with the app can continue to use it, but no features will be added and new users will not be able to install the app."

Facebook News Feed: 5 Changes
InformationWeek
Gone are the days when Facebook showed you every post from every friend. Here's a look at Facebook's latest News Feed algorithm changes and ...

Google I/O 2014: 10 Big Developments
InformationWeek
Google unveiled everything from Android to wearable news at its annual developers show. Here are the developments that matter most. Previous.

Google I/O: Project Tango LG Tablet Coming To Consumers In 2015
Forbes
Google's Google's Project Tango — an effort to develop mobile devices that can map the space around you — is set to be in consumers' hands next ...

Google focused on big data, real-time analysis in the cloud
Computerworld
Google plans to focus on helping those companies over the next year. ... continuing what some have called a price war with Amazon Web Services.

Status update: Facebook not so diverse
USA TODAY
SAN FRANCISCO – Facebook, the world's most popular social network, ... He appeared at the shareholder meetings of Google and Facebook to ...

Facebook battles Manhattan DA over warrants for user data
Boston Globe
NEW YORK — Facebook and the New York district attorney's office are in a bitter fight over a privacy question that was bound to come up sooner or ...

Google targets business users with cloud, Docs advances
Computerworld
"Microsoft Outlook is well-entrenched in almost all large businesses. ... or Apple devices, there's now mobile support for Google Slides, an Android app ...

Microsoft to double OneDrive free space, slash extra storage prices up to 73%
Computerworld
Computerworld - Microsoft today announced it would double OneDrive's free storage space for ... (Data: Amazon, Apple, Dropbox, Google, Microsoft.).

Microsoft $650 Macbook Air Trade-In: Fine Print
InformationWeek
But it appears especially interested in Apple customers who might be getting ... even in light of the price war among Google, Amazon, and Rackspace.

Microsoft Exchange Online Suffers Service Outage
InformationWeek
Microsoft's Exchange Online hosted email service suffered a disruption Tuesday morning, leaving many users without email for much of the morning.

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China's Crackdown on Google Hurts Chinese Businesses (video)

Google Crackdown Hurts Chinese Businesses: Rein: Video
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Shaun Rein, managing director at China Market Research, discusses China cracking down on Google ahead of the Tiananmen Square anniversary. He speaks with Cory Johnson on Bloomberg Television's "Bloomberg West." (Source: Bloomberg, June 3rd)

Cybercrime Remains Growth Industry With $445 Billion Lost - Businessweek: "...The outlook “is increased losses and slower growth,” with no “credible scenario in which cybercrime losses diminish,” according to the report published by the Washington-based Center for Strategic and International Studies. Some of the damage will be hard to trace, such as economic downturns caused by foreign competitors selling products based on stolen designs and financial markets undermined by hackers...."

Search Apps Stealing Mobile Search Ad Revenues from Google [Report] - SEW: "Google's dominance in paid search is taking a hit from the number of mobile apps that users are using on a daily basis, apps that often use alternative sources of revenue generation outside of Google ads. according to a new eMarketer report...."

Facebook mistakenly releases second Snapchat clone, quickly removes it
Los Angeles Times
In recent years, Facebook has seen its younger users turn to other apps to get their social networking fix, and Snapchat has proven particularly ...

Apple Beefs Up iOS 8 Security In Preparation For Launch Of Secure Smartphone Competition
Forbes
The iPhone 6 could be Apple Apple's most secure smartphone to date ... asking users to share its app on Facebook to receive in-game bonuses.

Facebook, Twitter brace for World Cup fever
Salt Lake Tribune
New York • This year's World Cup will play out on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and messaging apps like WhatsApp just as it progresses in stadiums ...

Google Open Sources Its Secret Weapon in Cloud Computing
Wired
When Google engineers John Sirois, Travis Crawford, and Bill Farner left the internet ... With Borg, Google engineers could instantly grab enormous amounts of ... It also lets you oversee machines running on competing cloud services–from Amazon, say, ...

Microsoft withholds monster IE update from Windows 8.1 dawdlers
Computerworld
Computerworld - Microsoft refused to give Windows 8.1 customers a ... Gregg Keizer covers Microsoft, security issues, Apple, Web browsers and ...

Microsoft firmware improves Surface 2 family's Cover performance
PCWorld
If you own a Microsoft Surface Pro 2 or Surface 2, good news: A number of Microsoftupdates should improve how your tablet interacts with its Surface ...

Microsoft's 3D-Sensing Smartphone: Evidence Mounts
InformationWeek
Microsoft may be prepping a 3D-sensing smartphone that lets users interact with it ...Microsoft places a distant third in the smartphone race but has still managed to ... ReadApple WWDC 2014 Highlights: A New Era?] ... Later this month, Amazon is expected to debut a smartphone with a 3D, perhaps ...

Three Questions with Beats Designer Robert Brunner | MIT Technology Review: "....Do people really want to wear another device, though? It means one more gadget to keep track of and charge. An iPad is a more limited interface, but for a certain number of things it’s perfectly adequate. So for a lot of people who bought computers for e-mail and Web browsing and games, “Oh, I’ll just get this because it’s more mobile, it’s easier,” and so forth. Well, you could see the same kind of thing happening between a phone and a watch. Let’s say with my watch I could easily make phone calls, I could easily get my messages, there’s a certain subset of things that are easier, simpler, and much more mobile, you could make that transition as well. There may be a subset of functionality on the smartphone that a bunch of people buy it for, all of a sudden it moves to the watch, and, great, I don’t have to drag this thing out of my pocket; it’s always on my wrist."

Sun Unleashes Two X-Class Flares, Back to Back
NBCNews.com
The sun unleashed two major solar flares early Tuesday in amazing back-to-back storms. The first outburst, an X2.2-class solar flare, hit its maximum at about 7:42 a.m. ET. An X1.5-class flare followed at 8:36 a.m. EDT (1236 GMT). Both flares were capable of ...

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Google Cloud Computing Pricing Drops

Google, Amazon, Microsoft -- let the cloud wars begin! --

Google Reinvents How Cloud Computing Is Priced | Wired Enterprise | Wired.com: " . . . Today, at an event in San Francisco, the tech giant significantly reduced the prices attached to several of its cloud computing services, seeking an edge over Amazon, the world’s dominant cloud company. “This brings you industry leading pricing without the complexity you’re used to,” said Urs Hölzle, who oversees Google’s cloud services and its entire online infrastructure...." more info: https://cloud.google.com/

Google Drops Cloud Pricing
InformationWeek
Taking aim at Amazon Web Services, Google on Tuesday slashed the ... Both Amazon and Microsoft are expected to respond with price reductions for ...

Facebook Buys Oculus VR: What's Next?
InformationWeek
Not to be left out of the wearable computing market, Facebook on Tuesday said it ...Google is imagining just that, but with Glass rather than goggles.

Google to De-Dorkify Glass in Partnership With Ray-Ban Maker Luxottica
Businessweek
About a week ago, Google (GOOG) seemed to face a tense moment in the development of its high-profile Google Glass wearable computer.

Apple engineer shares details on the iPhone's long birth — Tech News and Analysis - Gigaom
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You'd might be surprised by what the Apple team used to simulate the ... Can NRG be as effective as Google, Amazon, Apple or Facebook in the ...
Gigaom

Minecraft Cancels Oculus Rift Version After Facebook Acquisition - The Next Web
By Josh Ong
Minecraft creator Markus Persson just revealed that he has canceled any possible deal with Oculus Rift now that Facebook has announced plans to ...
The Next Web

A Reddit User 'Broke' The Facebook-Oculus Deal - Business Insider
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A Reddit user spotted Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg at the Oculus office about a ... Login With Facebook Login With Twitter Login With Google .... Microsoft makes source code for MS-DOS and Word for Windows available to ... How They're Used For Payments And Retail, And Why Apple's Ahead ...
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Facebook Invades Virtual Reality, Plans to Buy Oculus for $2 Billion - Gawker
By Jay Hathaway
Soon, we won't even have a virtual reality without Facebook. The ubiquitous social networking/advertising firm just announced it's buying Oculus VR, ...
Gawker

Bob Peck on Facebook-Oculus | The Reformed Broker
By Joshua M Brown
Bob Peck (SunTrust) frames the discussion around Facebook's $2 billion acquisition of development-stage virtual reality company Oculus as a ...
The Reformed Broker

Notch Says He's Canceled Oculus Rift Minecraft Because Of Facebook | Kotaku Australia
By Kirk Hamilton
The people at Oculus VR are doubtless pretty psyched that Facebook just bought their company for $US2 billion . Some game developers, not so ...
Kotaku Australia

Google Takes Action Against Greek Link Networks - Search Engine Watch (#SEW)
By Jennifer Slegg
Google is continuing their fight against link networks internationally. Google's Matt Cutts recently confirmed via Twitter that Greece was the latest ...
Search Engine Watch - Latest

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