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Breaking Tech News- Measuring the iTunes video store (Horace Dediu/asymco) June 20, 2013Horace Dediu / asymco: Measuring the iTunes video store — It's been five years since we had an update on TV show downloads and six years since we've had an update on movie downloads from Apple. In Q3 2008 Apple announced 200 million TV show downloads and in Q2 2007 2 million movies.
- Yahoo rejects fears hackers will exploit old user IDs (Alexei Oreskovic/Reuters) June 20, 2013Alexei Oreskovic / Reuters: Yahoo rejects fears hackers will exploit old user IDs — (Reuters) - Yahoo Inc on Wednesday downplayed concerns that its plans to recycle inactive user IDs could leave users exposed to hackers, saying only 7 percent of those IDs are tied to actual Yahoo email accounts.
- LinkedIn suffers site outage due to 'DNS issue' (Steven Musil/CNET) June 20, 2013Steven Musil / CNET: LinkedIn suffers site outage due to ‘DNS issue’ — The business networking site's home page is replaced by a domain sales page for about an hour. — LinkedIn is battling a DNS issue that took the business social networking site offline for an hour Wednesday night.
- A startup looks to stop fraud with a new method for 'fingerprinting' phone calls (Joshua Kopstein/The Verge) June 20, 2013Joshua Kopstein / The Verge: A startup looks to stop fraud with a new method for ‘fingerprinting’ phone calls — Pindrop Security is using acoustic analysis tech to stop social engineering — One of the most cherished and time-honored traditions of computer security conferences like Def Con has been the Social Engineering contest.
- Cumulus Networks Comes Out of Stealth With Linux for Data-Center Networks (Arik Hesseldahl/AllThingsD) June 20, 2013Arik Hesseldahl / AllThingsD: Cumulus Networks Comes Out of Stealth With Linux for Data-Center Networks — Startup Cumulus Networks popped out of stealth mode today to announce that it has created a version of the Linux operating system for building out software-defined networks in the data center.
- Rockmelt brings its social news app to Android (Eliza Kern/GigaOM) June 20, 2013Eliza Kern / GigaOM: Rockmelt brings its social news app to Android — Rockmelt, which started out as a social web browser and has pivoted to produce apps for social news instead, is bringing its product to Android on Wednesday. — The company was known for its social browser that had tabs for chat and features …
- Blackboard Co-Founder Michael Chasen Raises $12.75M Series A For SocialRadar, A New Take On ... (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch) June 20, 2013Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Blackboard Co-Founder Michael Chasen Raises $12.75M Series A For SocialRadar, A New Take On Location-Based People Discovery Apps — If you thought the “ambient location” craze has passed, prepare to be surprised. A company called SocialRadar is announcing today that it has raised $12.75 million …
- EMC acquires Israeli storage startup, Scale IO, for $200-300M (Avi Schneider/GeekTime) June 20, 2013Avi Schneider / GeekTime: EMC acquires Israeli storage startup, Scale IO, for $200-300M — 3:30PM Jerusalem, Israel - Israeli startup, ScaleIO, a leader in enterprise data and elastic converged storage, has been purchased by enterprise data giant, EMC, for a reported purchase price sitting somewhere between $200-300M.
- Microsoft gives a sneak peek of Office Web Apps real-time co-authoring across Windows, Android, and iOS devices (Emil Protalinski/The Next Web) June 20, 2013Emil Protalinski / The Next Web: Microsoft gives a sneak peek of Office Web Apps real-time co-authoring across Windows, Android, and iOS devices — Microsoft today released a sneak peek of how Office Web Apps real-time co-authoring will work across Windows, Android, and iOS devices. Unfortunately, the company still …
- Best Buy Is Recalling Thousands of MacBook Pro Batteries Over Fire Risk (Ashley Feinberg/Gizmodo) June 19, 2013Ashley Feinberg / Gizmodo: Best Buy Is Recalling Thousands of MacBook Pro Batteries Over Fire Risk — Best Buy is recalling 5,100 third-party replacement MacBook Pro batteries after the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission reported 13 separate cases in which the batteries caught fire, at least one causing serious injury.
- Groupon Founder Andrew Mason's Music Album Will Drop On iTunes And Spotify Later This Month (Alyson Shontell/Business Insider) June 19, 2013Alyson Shontell / Business Insider: Groupon Founder Andrew Mason's Music Album Will Drop On iTunes And Spotify Later This Month — When Andrew Mason left his role as CEO of Groupon, he was uncharacteristically serious about his next move. — He said he'd be moving to California, joining Y Combinator, and working on a music album.
- Lytro Enables Its Camera's Hidden WiFi Chip, Launches A Companion iOS App (With Animated GIFs!) (Greg Kumparak/TechCrunch) June 19, 2013Greg Kumparak / TechCrunch: Lytro Enables Its Camera's Hidden WiFi Chip, Launches A Companion iOS App (With Animated GIFs!) — It sure doesn't seem like many people have bought Lytro's crazy light-field camera (the one that lets you focus your photos after you take them) — but if you're one of those who did: go plug that thing in. […]
- Microsoft to drop Xbox One DRM, region locking (Jordan Devore/destructoid) June 19, 2013Jordan Devore / destructoid: Microsoft to drop Xbox One DRM, region locking — [Update: It's true. Microsoft has reversed its policies. There's only a one-time system setup that requires an Internet connection — no daily check-ins. Discs work like they have in the past — they'll need to be in your console's tray — so trade-ins aren […]
- Intellectual Ventures sues Motorola Mobility, again (Josh Lowensohn/CNET) June 19, 2013Josh Lowensohn / CNET: Intellectual Ventures sues Motorola Mobility, again — IV launches another lawsuit against Google-owned Motorola Mobility over patents, the latest in series of lawsuits in recent months. — Intellectual Ventures is coming back for seconds in another lawsuit against Google-owned Motorola Mobility.
- Measuring the iTunes video store (Horace Dediu/asymco) June 20, 2013
