Associated Press: German court says Google must act if autocomplete makes defamatory suggestions  —  BERLIN — Google Inc. must respect requests to remove autocomplete entries from its search bar in Germany if they are defamatory, a German court ruled Tuesday.  —  The Federal Court of Justice upheld a complaint …
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Moxie Marlinspike: A Saudi Arabia Telecom's Surveillance Pitch  —  Last week I was contacted by an agent of Mobily, one of two telecoms operating in Saudi Arabia, about a surveillance project that they're working on in that country.  Having published two reasonably popular MITM tools, it's not uncommon …
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Sean Ludwig / VentureBeat: Database-as-a-service Cloudant nabs $12M from Devonshire, Rackspace, & more  —  Hot database-as-a-service startup Cloudant has raised $12 million in its second round of funding, the company announced today.  —  Boston-based Cloudant was initially founded in Cambridge, Mas. in 2008 by three MIT physicists.
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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: @WalmartLabs Acquires Cloud Computing Startup OneOps & Delicious Founder's Tasty Labs  —  Walmart, via its Silicon Valley innovation lab @WalmartLabs, announced today the acquisition of two startups: cloud computing newcomer OneOps and the software development shop Tasty Labs, from Delicious founder Joshua Schachter.
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Roger Cheng / CNET: BlackBerry CEO likes tablets, just not as they are  —  BlackBerry CEO Thorsten Heins made some different — and seemingly conflicting — comments about the state of tablets.  —  ORLANDO, Fla.—OK, so is BlackBerry CEO Thorsten Heins a fan of tablets, or isn't he?
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Wall Street Journal: Sharp Plans Shake-Up as Loss Widens to $5.35 Billion  —  TOKYO—After posting an annual net loss of ¥545 billion ($5.35 billion), the biggest in its 100-year history, Sharp Corp. said it plans to replace both its president and chairman after just one year in an unusually public rebuke …
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Donald Melanson / Engadget: BlackBerry Q10 coming to Verizon, Sprint and T-Mobile this summer  —  We've gotten word of a new BlackBerry smartphone today, and we now also have some news about familiar one.  Verizon, Sprint and T-Mobile have all confirmed that they'll soon be carrying the BlackBerry Q10 …
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Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Nearly 75% Of All Smartphones Sold In Q1 Were Android, With Samsung At 30%; Mobile Sales Overall Nearly Flat: Gartner  —  Gartner has just released its Q1 figures for mobile handset sales, and the key takeaway is that Android continues to steal the show, led by handset maker Samsung.
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Brad Stone / Businessweek: Larry Page Explains Why He Lost His Voice  —  For the first time in nearly a year, Google CEO Larry Page is publicly addressing a question about his personal health: why he lost his voice and continues to speak more hoarsely than normal.  —  In a post to his page on the social network Google+ …
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Ken Yeung / The Next Web: 500 Startups bets big on international as it reveals the names of its spring 2013 accelerator class  —  500 Startups has announced the names of the startups that joined its accelerator program this spring — perhaps the most internationally diverse yet as 71 percent of companies come from outside the US.
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Sean Ludwig / VentureBeat: BlackBerry updates enterprise software for BB10, iOS, and Andriod devices  —  BlackBerry has always been primarily known as a smartphone for the workplace, but it has lost that status in recent years as iPhone and Android have steadily gained ground in enterprises.
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Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: PayPal's Cash For Registers Tries To Outdo Square And Groupon With Its Own Bid To Rule The Register  —  PayPal today announced Cash for Registers to encourage merchants to switch to PayPal-powered point-of-sale solutions.  The program is part of the payment giant's bid to be the kingpin among …
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Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: Microsoft shares details about its next Windows Phone 8 update  —  Summary: Microsoft is starting to detail features coming in this summer's GDR2 update to the Windows Phone 8 operating system.  —  Microsoft is starting to open up a bit on what Windows Phone 8 users can expect with the next version …
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Sean Hollister / The Verge: Nvidia Shield gaming handheld priced at $349, pre-orders begin on May 20th (preview)  —  The biggest surprise at the 2013 Consumer Electronics Show is about to go on sale.  The Nvidia Shield, a five-inch portable Android game console that can also stream PC games from a nearby gaming computer …
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Florian Mueller / FOSS Patents: Apple wants to add Galaxy S4 to second patent case against Samsung in California (spring 2014 trial)  —  Late on Monday, Apple and Samsung submitted statements in response to Judge Koh's April 24, 2013 order to narrow their second California case.  Narrowing will occur in several steps until the spring 2014 trial.
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Jonathan Skillings / CNET: Aereo gets set for Atlanta debut  —  The capital of Georgia will be the third city to get the TV streaming service, following New York and, from tomorrow, Boston.  —  Aereo is getting on a roll, with plans now to bring its streaming TV service to Atlanta.  —  The Atlanta launch is scheduled …
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Nick Summers / The Next Web: BlackBerry World hits 120,000 apps, as Skype launches on the Z10 along with 10.1 firmware update  —  BlackBerry CEO Thorsten Heins has revealed that there are now over 120,000 apps in the BlackBerry World storefront.  —  To coincide with the milestone, Skype will be launching …
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Adi Robertson / The Verge: BlackBerry announces BBM ‘Channels’ social platform for brands and celebrities  —  BlackBerry's BBM service was one of the earliest popular alternatives to text messaging, but it's become less vital amidst competition from Apple's iMessage and a variety of third-party apps.
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Leena Rao / TechCrunch: Square Debuts Its Latest Hardware, Stand, A $299 Card Swiper For iPad Registers  —  At an event in San Francisco at Blue Bottle Coffee, Square debuted a stand built specifically for the iPad, which turns the device into a card-swiping register.  —  Hardware has always been a part …
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Chris Welch / The Verge: BlackBerry bringing BBM to Android and iOS this summer  —  BlackBerry has just announced that its hugely popular BBM messaging service is going multi-platform: it will be released for Android and iOS as a free app this summer.  BBM will support iOS hardware running iOS 6 and above …
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Michael Gorman / Engadget: BlackBerry announces BBM channels  —  BlackBerry Live 2013 isn't just about new phones and OS versions, Thorsten Heins has just announced BBM channels, a way for people, companies and brands to provide streams of content in BBM.  The new service allows users search for channels …
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Terrence O'Brien / Engadget: Microsoft drops the Blue codename, confirms Windows 8.1 will be a free upgrade available ‘later’ this year  —  BlackBerry Live 2013 isn't just about new phones and OS versions, Thorsten Heins has just announced BBM channels, a way for people, companies and brands to provide streams of content in BBM.
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Susan Decker / Bloomberg: Nintendo Wins U.S. Court Ruling Over Video-Game Systems  —  Nintendo Co. (7974), maker of the Wii video-gaming system, won a U.S. appeals court ruling that makes it harder for patent-licensing companies to seek an import ban on products as a way to demand royalties.
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Douglas Pearce / The Microsoft Office Blog: Outlook.com now lets you chat with Google friends - one more reason to make the switch  —  The last three months since Outlook.com came out of preview have been filled with releases to help make you more productive and your experience more personal.  These were often based on your feedback.
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Michael C. / Inside BlackBerry: BlackBerry 10.1 Now Available for BlackBerry Z10  —  Onstage at the BlackBerry Live conference in Orlando, Thorsten Heins, President and CEO, BlackBerry just announced that all of you BlackBerry Z10 customers are in for a treat.  An update to BlackBerry 10 software has been released with new features designed to keep you moving.
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