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President Barack Obama says PRISM is Not for “People Living in the United States”
0By: Ali Raza | June 8th, 2013 | News
The US government's secret surveillance program, PRISM, seems to have become a headache for major tech companies which were highlighted in The Guardian and Washington Post’s reports and authorities. They are receiving severe criticism from the general public, who have learned from these reports that tje NSA is keeping an eye on every email, call, video call, chat and other data with the assistan...
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Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg says His Company Has Nothing to Do With PRISM
By: Jeff Stewart | June 8th, 2013 | Apple, Google, News, Social Media
After The Guardian and Washington Post reported that major tech companies like Apple, Google, Facebook and others have participated in a secret surveillance program of the US government called PRISM to give agenci...
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BlackBerry Claims More Than Half of US Fortune 500 Companies are Currently Testing or Using the New BB10
By: Jeff Stewart | June 8th, 2013 | Business, News, O Canada, Smartphones
BlackBerry has revealed that more than half of the Fortune 500 companies that are based in the US are currently either testing the brand new mobile platform from the company or have already adopted it. To be precise, about 60 percent of the US Fortune 500 companies are using BB10 or testing it to become a potential user of th...
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Google CEO Larry Page says They “Had not Heard of a Program Called PRISM Until Yesterday”
By: Jeff Stewart | June 8th, 2013 | Google, News
The Washington Post and The Guardians reports about a top secret surveillance program called PRISM which allows the US government to keep track of users’ data by getting direct access to the servers of top tech companies has brought several companies under fire including Google. Internal documents revealed that the search engine giant...
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Google Will Soon Launch HTML5 Development Tool Called Web Designer
By: Talha Bhatti | June 7th, 2013 | Business, Google, News
Google can be relied on to help as many people get online and utilize the internet to meet their personal, professional and creative goals. That is why the search engine giant recently announced in a blog post that it will soon be launching Google Web Designer. The new service is a HTML5 development tool and is for “creative professionals.”...
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Uber Drops UberX Fees To Compete Against New Arrivals
By: Talha Bhatti | June 7th, 2013 | Business, Mobile Apps, News
Uber is fighting a battle against government regulation in some cities that feel the mobile on-demand transportation provider is a threat to traditional services. Another fight the startup is now facing is from rivals that have popped up in the its markets. The company is not taking this threat lightly and has just announced that it is dropping its already ...
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Toronto-Based Thomvest and New York-Based Cartesian Capital Jointly Acquires Public Mobile
By: Jeff Stewart | June 7th, 2013 | Business, News, O Canada
Mobilicity was not the only wireless telecom carrier in Canada that was up for sale, as another wireless startup Public Mobile was also looking to wind up its business in the country. After finally completing all legal formalities, Public Mobile was able to find not one but two buyers, as two private equity firms...
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BlackBerry Discards Rumours of BBM Release On Android and iOS Platforms by June 27
By: Ali Raza | June 7th, 2013 | Android, iOS, Mobile Apps, News
Back in May, BlackBerry announced that the popular BlackBerry Messaging service, commonly known as BBM, would be made available on both Android and iOS platform during the summer. However, the Canadian smartphone maker did not give out an exact date for the release. Therefore, when Slashgear revealed a tweet from T-Mobile UK ...
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Cupertino Makes Draft Environmental Impact Report of New Apple Campus Available for Public
By: Ali Raza | June 7th, 2013 | Apple, News
The City of Cupertino made it known on Thursday, June 6 that the draft Environmental Impact Report for Apple’s proposed Campus 2 has been released and people are invited to make a comment. Below is an excerpt from the Environmental Impact Report of the City of Cupertino, which explains the proposal as: “Apple Inc. has submitte...
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Director of National Intelligence says The Guardian and Washington Post Reports Regarding PRISM have Numerous Mistakes
By: Ali Raza | June 7th, 2013 | News
In response to the articles in The Guardian and Washington Post which asserted that US government agencies are keeping a track of users’ data with the help of several top tech companies under a secret program, the Director of National Intelligence, James R. Clapper has claimed that reports related to the PRISM program “contained numerous inaccuracies.” According to Clapper, “Section 702 is...
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