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Top Tech News: Virtual Reality Gets Thumbs Up with Oculus VR Funding
Oculus VR, makers of a virtual reality headset for video games, has raised $16 million in a Series A funding round co-led by Spark Capital and Matrix Partners, along with Founders Fund and Formation 8.
In case you aren't familiar with the concept, the...
Dateline: 2013-06-18 3:16pm -07:00T (300 words)
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Top Tech News: BPMonline 7.0: Engaging Interface Keeps You Focused
London, UK, 18 June 2013 -- BPMonline, a leading global provider of customer relationship management (CRM) and business process management (BPM) solutions, today has released a revolutionary next-generation platform BPMonline 7.0.
This new release of ...
Dateline: 2013-06-18 11:31am -07:00T (290 words)
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Top Tech News: Secret to Prism Program: Even Bigger Data Seizure
In the months and early years after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, FBI agents began showing up at Microsoft Corp. more frequently than before, armed with court orders demanding information on customers.
Around the world, government spies and ea...
Dateline: 2013-06-18 10:16am -07:00T (300 words)
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Top Tech News: Apple Details Government Requests for Data
Apple says it received between 4,000 and 5,000 requests from U.S. law enforcement for customer data for the six months ended in May.
The company, like some other businesses, had asked the U.S government to be able to share how many requests it received...
Dateline: 2013-06-18 10:16am -07:00T (300 words)
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Top Tech News: Free Videomail Comes to Skype
Feature by feature, Microsoft's Skype is becoming a full communications suite. Microsoft announced Monday that its video messaging function, where users can leave videomail as well as voicemail, has now moved out of beta into general release.
The new, ...
Dateline: 2013-06-18 10:16am -07:00T (300 words)
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Top Tech News: Why Google's Project Loon is Smart Business
Google is once again proving that it's much more than a search engine or even a mobile-device company, with Project Loon. The initiative aims to bring "balloon-powered Internet" to isolated areas of the world.
With a tagline "Loon for all," Project Loo...
Dateline: 2013-06-17 2:46pm -07:00T (300 words)
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Top Tech News: Samsung Offers Tiny, Superfast PCIe SSDs for Ultrabooks
Solid-state drives are continuing their march forward. On Monday, Samsung Electronics announced it has started to mass produce the first PCI-Express 3.0 SSDs for the new wave of Ultrabooks.
The thin Samsung XP941, available in 512 GB, 256 GB, and 128 G...
Dateline: 2013-06-17 1:31pm -07:00T (300 words)
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Top Tech News: Edward Snowden's Life Surrounded by Spycraft
In the suburbs edged by woods midway between Baltimore and Washington, residents long joked that the government spy shop next door was so ultra-secretive its initials stood for "No Such Agency." But when Edward Snowden grew up here, the National Security ...
Dateline: 2013-06-17 1:31pm -07:00T (300 words)
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Top Tech News: Authorities Want Smartphone 'Kill Switch' To Fight Thefts
Law enforcement authorities are calling on the smartphone industry to adopt technologies that would deter theft by squeezing the market for selling stolen devices. New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman and San Francisco District Attorney Georg...
Dateline: 2013-06-17 12:16pm -07:00T (300 words)
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Top Tech News: Microsoft, Facebook Tell of Thousands of Security Requests
Microsoft and Facebook disclosed late Friday that they had received thousands of law enforcement and U.S. national security requests in the second half of 2012. The companies noted, however, that the requests represented a tiny fraction of their user base...
Dateline: 2013-06-17 11:16am -07:00T (300 words)
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Top Tech News: Small Business Gets Boost from Mobile Marketing
With steady rain muddying New Orleans right before the city's famous Jazz & Heritage Festival in April, Evie Poitevent tweeted about rain boots at her shoe store, Feet First.
Featured with photos and hashtags -- #jazzfest, #rainboots, #nola -- the firs...
Dateline: 2013-06-17 8:46am -07:00T (300 words)
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Top Tech News: Keeping Your Data Safe from Spying
Phone call logs, credit card records, emails, Skype chats, Facebook message, and more: The precise nature of the NSA's sweeping surveillance apparatus has yet to be confirmed.
But given the revelations spilling out into the media, there hardly seems a ...
Dateline: 2013-06-17 8:46am -07:00T (300 words)
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Top Tech News: Promise of Mobile Payments Slow To Emerge
Imagine: You've just finished pumping a tank of gas and it's time to pay up. Instead of having to swipe your card, enter your PIN, and wait for the system to approve the transaction, you simply wave your smartphone across a terminal and leave.
The tech...
Dateline: 2013-06-17 8:46am -07:00T (300 words)
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Top Tech News: ESPN 3-D Shutdown Is Latest Sign of Doom for Format
ESPN's decision to shut down its 3-D channel by the end of the year is the latest sign the format won't revolutionize entertainment as the industry once hoped.
Troubling signs for 3-D have been on the horizon for the last year or so. ESPN 3D's audience...
Dateline: 2013-06-16 8:01am -07:00T (300 words)
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Top Tech News: Apple Exec Denies Fixing E-Book Prices
A top Apple Inc. executive described as Steve Jobs' right-hand man took the witness stand at a Manhattan price-fixing trial and denied scheming with major book publishers to drive up the cost of electronic books.
Eddy Cue was questioned about meetings ...
Dateline: 2013-06-16 8:01am -07:00T (300 words)
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