Microsoft Will Now Deploy Two Legal Teams, Outside Former Federal Judge To Approve User-Data Searches
Following a court document revealing that Microsoft read the email of a third-party blogger to uncover an internal leak, the company this evening announced a policy change, effective immediately, regarding how it searches user data that is part of its own network of services. Noting that it couldn't, in its view, get a court order to search itself as none is needed, it will instead add layers of… Read More-
PayPal Expands Its In-App Pay At Table And Order Ahead Services In UK
It's still very early days for mobile payments, with the vast majority of consumers still not convinced that it really is a lot easier to pay for things using their phones instead of pulling out a payment card or even cash. But companies like PayPal continue to lay the groundwork with interesting implementations for how and where a mobile payment might come in handy -- the idea being, it seems… Read More -
Medium Launches Simple iPhone App That’s Just For Reading
Blogging platform Medium has released a simple app for the iPhone that allows users to read articles from the site. They're presented as a feed that's recommended for you automatically, though articles that have been recommended by people you follow feature their mug shot next to the title. Read More -
Twitter Goes Dark In Turkey Hours After The Country’s PM Threatened To “Wipe Out” The Service
After the Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdoğan promised that he would “wipe out” Twitter after it apparently ignored court orders asking the site to remove certain corruption allegations, the service has gone dark in the country. The situation is developing: a site that lets the public track decisions made by the courts over Internet communications indicates that today the… Read More -
Netflix Blasts ISPs, Calls For “Strong” Net Neutrality And Explains Why It Pays Comcast
When Netflix agreed to pay Comcast as part of a peering agreement in the wake of the legal demise of net neutrality, the landscape of the Internet changed. Netflix CEO Reed Hastings today published an extensive blog post explaining his and his company's views on net neutrality and why it now pays an ISP that it feels should be better regulated. The reason? Because it has to. Read More -
Leap Motion Lays Off 10% Of Its Workforce After Missing On First Year Sales Estimates
Leap Motion won a lot of buzz early on for its motion controller, which is designed to make it possible for users to interact with their computer through gestures alone. The early buzz and pre-order interest led to a lot of growth, with the company swelling to 120 employees at its peak. But disappointing reviews when the hardware actually shipped took some of the wind out of the startup’s… Read More -
Google Wants Everyone To Stop Hating On Glass
All social issues aside, Google Glass is an impressive kit of technology. However, that might not be enough to secure its future. The novel PR campaign that is the Google Glass Explorer program seems to be failing. So much so that Google has started firing back at Google Glass haters with a series of pro-Glass factoids. Read More -
The Ember iPhone Case Improves Your Late-Night Selfies With 56 Built-In LEDs
Model by model, the iPhone is getting better at taking photos at night without making everyone look like spooky-ass ghosts — but you can only go so far with one or two little LEDs. But what about 56 little LEDs? The Ember is an iPhone 5/5S case that adds a crazy bright panel of lights to the back of your handset, along with a battery to keep it all powered. Read More -
Microsoft Read A Blogger’s Personal Email And IMs, Court Docs Reveal
Microsoft caught and fired an employee who leaked confidential software to a French blogger. That blogger then published screenshots of Windows 8 to the Internet before Microsoft's official announcement. The employee also secretly released, without authorization, a tool that could have allowed for the unauthorized activation of copies of Windows, potentially harming Microsoft's ability to derive… Read More -
Stir, A Kinetic Desk Startup From An Ex-Apple Engineer, Raises $1.5M Led By Tony Hsieh’s Vegas TechFund
As the world continues to see more and more everyday objects become "hardware" controlled through operating systems and internet connectivity, an ex-Apple engineer called JP Labrosse is hoping to take that principle and combine it with elegant design to transform the prosaic world of office desks. Read More
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