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RT @Techmeme: Graphs of sales market share of mobile platforms compared with those of actual installed base

RT @Techmeme: Source: Yahoo Bought Aviate For $80M (@anthonyha / TechCrunch)

RT @Techmeme: Source: Yahoo Bought Aviate For $80M (@anthonyha / TechCrunch)

RT @FastCompany: Beats Music Launches to Take on Spotify, Google, and Apple, by @alicetruong

Windows 9. To distance itself from the Windows 8 debacle, Microsoft is currently planning to drop the Windows 8 name and brand this next release as Windows 9. That could change, but that's the current thinking.

CodeCombat is a programming game for learning to code; a multiplayer coding challenge arena for sharpening your skills; a Y-Combinator-funded startup; and as of this weekend, the largest open source CoffeeScript project and a fantastic way to get into open source and game development. Whether you’re a novice programmer wanting to figure out this GitHub thing or an open source guru looking for something to sink your teeth into, check out our GitHub and join over two hundred CodeCombat Archmages in building the best programming game ever.

RT @TechCrunch: AOL Sells Winamp And Shoutcast For $5-10M To Radionomy, Takes 12% Stake In Belgian Digital Audio ... by @ingridlunden

RT @Techmeme: U.S. Supreme Court refuses to hear shopping cart case between Newegg and patent troll Soverain

RT @Techmeme: U.S. Supreme Court refuses to hear shopping cart case between Newegg and patent troll Soverain

RT @Techmeme: Google's patent rank shoots up as company stakes out wearable tech (@jeffjohnroberts / Gigaom)

RT @Techmeme: Google's patent rank shoots up as company stakes out wearable tech (@jeffjohnroberts / Gigaom)

RT @Techmeme: Moto X hits UK and Europe in February for £380, 429 euros (@nickhide / CNET)

RT @Techmeme: Moto X hits UK and Europe in February for £380, 429 euros (@nickhide / CNET)

RT @Techmeme: In 2013 the number of Windows PCs sold was only 1.18 times the number of Apple devices sold

RT @Techmeme: In 2013 the number of Windows PCs sold was only 1.18 times the number of Apple devices sold

RT @Techmeme: When Google closes the Nest deal, privacy issues for the internet of things will hit the...

RT @Techmeme: When Google closes the Nest deal, privacy issues for the internet of things will hit the...

RT @Techmeme: Apple loses bid to block antitrust monitorship (@nateraymond / Reuters)

RT @Techmeme: Apple loses bid to block antitrust monitorship (@nateraymond / Reuters)

RT @Techmeme: 'High-profile' Google+ users will get better default email settings (@nateingraham)

RT @Techmeme: 'High-profile' Google+ users will get better default email settings (@nateingraham)

The FCC rules were designed to ensure Internet service providers treat similar content on broadband pipes equally. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit found that the FCC lacked the authority to impose antidiscrimination rules because it had failed to classify broadband Internet as a common-carrier service.

[UPDATE: While Microsoft will provide updates for Security Essentials for another year, after this April you will no longer be able to download and install the program.]

The untargeted collection and storage of SMS messages – including their contacts – is revealed in a joint investigation between the Guardian and the UK’s Channel 4 News based on material provided by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden. The documents also reveal the UK spy agency GCHQ has made use of the NSA database to search the metadata of “untargeted and unwarranted” communications belonging to people in the UK. The NSA program, codenamed Dishfire, collects “pretty much everything it can”, according to GCHQ documents, rather than merely storing the communications of existing surveillance targets.

RT @dbfarber: Bitcoin miner: It takes up a lot of time, but I have no kids.I have no life.I have a cat. via @valleyhack @BradStone

RT @arrington: Congressional Reps Ask Bruce Schneier To Explain To Them What The NSA Is Doing, Because The NSA Won\'t Tell Them

After six years and more than $300 million, AOL has finally called it quits on CEO Tim Armstrong’s plan to build a “hyper-local” journalism entity known as Patch, an effort that will undoubtedly go down as one of the longest-running and most expensive such projects in media history. On Wednesday, AOL sold a majority interest in the unit to Hale Global, an investment company that specializes in buying distressed assets from corporations like AOL. In other words, the bone-yard.

The malicious program used to compromise Target and other companies was part of a widespread operation using a Trojan tool known as Trojan.POSRAM, according to a new report released Thursday about an operation that investigators have dubbed Kaptoxa. The malware is a memory-scraping tool that grabs card data directly from point-of-sale terminals and stores it on the victim’s own system for later retrieval.

We are very pleased with the application numbers for this new program. A total of 2,360 students applied within the 3-week application period. This is about 75% more than normally apply for the on-campus degree over the duration of an entire year. Of this pool, 375 have been accepted and start today and several others have deferred admission.