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12 hrs ago | E-Commerce Times

Microsoft Challenges iAd With Ad Pano

How to make Windows 8 a more compelling platform for advertisers? That would be Ad Pano, Microsoft's new format for enabling rich, interactive multiscreen ads.

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Related Topix: Microsoft, Startups, Marketing, iPod touch App, iPad App, iPhone and iPad App, iPhone App

16 hrs ago | WallStreetInsanity

Yahoo Interested In Buying Xobni For $30 Million To $40 Million

Is Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer giving the search company an intelligence facelift? That's what tech blogger Drew Alanoff said when Yahoo purchased social-recommendation app Jybe, one of at least 14 tools Yahoo has acquired in the past year, including OnTheAir, Summly and Tumblr .

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Related Topix: Startups, Yahoo!, Dapper, Citizen Sports, Xobni, iPod touch App, iPad App, iPhone and iPad App, LinkedIn, iPhone App

Tue Jun 18, 2013

ITworld

How do I change the Autocorrect settings for Word in Office 2013?

I recently started using the Office 2013 suite and noticed some things have changed.

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Related Topix: Microsoft, Startups, Sentillion, iPod touch App, iPad App, iPhone and iPad App, iPhone App, Science / Technology, Microsoft Office

TechCrunch

FiftyThree, Maker Of Drawing App Paper, Raises $15 Million From Andreessen Horowitz And Others

Ryan has spent more than five years covering business, technology, and telecom-related subjects for a variety of publications based in New York and San Francisco.

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Related Topix: Venture Capital, Emerging Technology, Thrive, Twitter, Kinect, Microsoft Game Studios, Video Games, Ipad, Science / Technology, iPad App, iPhone App, iPod touch App, iPhone and iPad App

The Campbell Reporter

NSA Prism disclosures: All the user-data requests from tech's biggest names

Technology's biggest names have rushed to disclose the number of law-enforcement requests for data they receive, a result of allegations that they have provided the National Security Agency "direct access" to customer data on their servers.

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Related Topix: iPod touch App, iPad App, iPhone and iPad App, iPhone App, Twitter, Widevine Technologies, Apple, Startups

GigaOM

Now that's a chathead: Rounds adds co-browsing to its mobile video chat apps

What would get your average teenager to ditch their favorite video chat app and switch to a competitor? Co-browsing may just be one of those features.

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Related Topix: iPod touch App, iPad App, iPhone and iPad App, iPhone App, iPhone

Queerty

POLL: YouTube, Netflix Top List Of Most Popular LGBT Brands

We know which companies to hate , but which ones do we actually love? Answer: anything with a screen or a toasted baguette.

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Related Topix: iPod touch App, Netflix, iPad App, iPhone and iPad App, iPhone App, Apple, Startups, Gay/Lesbian, Transgender, Starbucks

MacLife

Overnight Recap: Skype Video Messaging, Digg Previews RSS, Jobs in Paperback

Companies are racing to get their Google Reader replacements out before the plug gets pulled on July 1, with the latest announcement coming from Digg, who plans to unveil their solution next week.

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Related Topix: iPod touch App, iPad App, iPhone and iPad App, iPhone App, Google, Startups, Emerging Technology, Search Engines, Blog News, Walmart, Twitter

This is Bath

Pat Ellingham Tempted by wonders of the electronic age

I think I finally got the point of a Kindle on a recent flight, watching the ease with which my neighbour scrolled through his screen, especially when food was served, while my brick-sized book kept sliding around my lap.

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Related Topix: iPad App, iPhone and iPad App, iPod touch App, iPhone App

Mon Jun 17, 2013

Times of Oman

Office Mobile now available for Apple

Microsoft has announced Office Mobile for iPhone and has made it available at the App Store at no extra charge for Office 365 Home Premium and Office 365 ProPlus subscribers.

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Related Topix: iPod touch App, iPad App, iPhone and iPad App, iPhone App, iPhone, Microsoft, Tellme, Startups, Apple

Globe and Mail

British spies penetrated BlackBerry security to snoop at G20: report

BlackBerry spies British spies have reportedly succeeded in cracking the security of BlackBerrys, taking the surveillance controversy to a new level.

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Related Topix: Startups, Facebook, iPod touch App, iPad App, iPhone and iPad App, iPhone App, Social Software, Canada, Netflix

The

COMMUNICATION: Skype adds Video Message to its real-time VoIP Service

Ever, since Skype acquired Qik , it was somehow clear that they'll add sooner or later video messages to its Skype service, which was so far about real time voice and video telephony.

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Related Topix: iPod touch App, iPad App, iPhone and iPad App, iPhone App, VoIP, Science / Technology, iPhone

SlashGear.com

Skype Video Messaging graduates from beta with unlimited clip support

Skype has taken Skype Video Messaging out of beta, pushing the three minute clip-sharing service to most of its desktop and mobile apps.

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Related Topix: iPod touch App, iPad App, iPhone and iPad App, iPhone App, VoIP, Science / Technology

Engadget

Skype video messaging officially launches on Windows, Mac, iOS, Android -- but not Windows Phone

Out of beta and free, Skype today launches its video messaging service across all its major platforms.

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Related Topix: iPod touch App, iPad App, iPhone and iPad App, iPhone App, iPhone, Gadgets

Daily Kos

Your Midnight Chat is On

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Related Topix: iPad App, iPhone and iPad App, iPod touch App, iPhone App, iPhone

Holtz Communication + Technology

FIR #708 - 6/17/13 - For Immediate Release

Intro: Three new FIR Interviews are up, new FIR Interview coming, FIR Book Reviews on the Gamification Revolution and Attack of the Customer coming, we're experimenting with Google+ Hangout to record this episode; Quick News: How Upworthy became the fastest growing website in history, meet Line: the biggest social network you never heard of; Ragan ... (more)

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Related Topix: iPod touch App, iPad App, Twitter, iPhone and iPad App, iPhone App, Startups, Facebook, Social Software, Concord, CA

Sun Jun 16, 2013

Salt Lake Tribune

Utah military dads embrace change, growing families after deployment

Deployed to Afghanistan with the Utah National Guard's 624th Engineering Co. 1457th Battalion, he left last June when his wife, Camille, was about eight months pregnant.

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Related Topix: US National Guard, US Military, iPod touch App, iPad App, iPhone and iPad App, iPhone App

Sat Jun 15, 2013

ABC15.com

7 cheap ways to use cellphone abroad

I'm going to various countries in Europe this summer and can't figure out the best way to use my smartphone.

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Related Topix: Cellphones, iPod touch App, iPad App, iPhone and iPad App, iPhone App

The Guardian

The NSA has us snared in its trap - and there's no way out

Watching William Hague doing his avuncular routine in the Commons on Monday , I was reminded of the way establishment figures in the 1950s used to reassure hoi polloi that they had nothing to worry about.

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Related Topix: iPod touch App, iPad App, iPhone and iPad App, iPhone App, Google, Startups, Emerging Technology, Search Engines, Microsoft, Facebook, Apple

KSDK-TV Saint Louis

Free messaging apps can help you stop paying for texts

Do you pay for text messaging? If you have a smartphone, you don't have to. There are plenty of mobile messaging app alternatives that you can try at no cost.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Wi-Fi, Cellphones, iPod touch App, iPad App, iPhone and iPad App, iPhone App, Facebook Messenger, iPhone, Skype