Thursday, April 4, 2013

Top Stories of the Day // April 4, 2013

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Today's Top Stories // Apr 4, 2013

Former Google AdSense Director, Kim Malone Scott, Leaves Dropbox After Just Four Months

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What The Facebook Phone Actually Means

Ambient intimacy, accelerated social life, thawed relations between Google and Facebook, and an iPhone that looks impersonal by comparison. These are just a few... read more

Facebook Phone International, Bringing The Developing World Online Social-First

Facebook's next billion users don't have smartphones or even the Internet yet, but the Facebook Phone could change that. Through savvy carrier deals, subsidized... read more

LinkMe Is An LED Smart Bracelet That Displays Scrolling Lines Of Text

LinkMe is an LED smart bracelet that connects to your smartphone via Bluetooth and displays SMS and social media updates in text that scrolls across your wrist.... read more

Apple's iMessage Encryption "Impossible To Intercept" For Surveillance Purposes, Claims DEA Report

Apple's iMessage text messaging replacement and chat service has frustrated U.S. federal agents looking to get access to suspect communications, a new report... read more

Netflix Confirms 15 New Episodes Of Arrested Development Landing May 26 At 12:01 AM PT

Netflix has finally revealed exactly when we'll be able to get our new Arrested Development fix: May 26, 2013 will see the debut of 15 new episodes of the Mitch... read more

The Idiocy Of The Social Animal

As we move closer to the launch of the (probably awful) Facebook phone, let's examine just what the social network and its ilk have created. Millions of us use... read more

Apple's 'Spaceship' Campus Budget Reportedly Balloons To $5B, Will Look To Cut $1B Before Proceeding

Apple's massive new spaceship-style headquarters in Cupertino is not on-budget or on schedule, according to a new report at Bloomberg Businessweek. The article... read more

Watch The Facebook Phone Event Live Stream Here

Are you ready for a Facebook Phone? Because it's a-comin'. Zuck should take the stage at 10 A.M Pacific this morning, where he'll be showing off the company's... read more

Apple Patents A Convertible MacBook Design, And Street View Navigation That Can Go Inside Buildings

A couple of new Apple patent applications published today show how the company might be thinking about competing with recent innovations from other big tech... read more

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