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Amazon Takes Kindle Fire HD Tablets 170 Countries As It Ramps Up Its Appstore To Nearly 200 Marketsview story

http://techcrunch.com – No, we still don’t have any word from Amazon on where it stands with a smartphone, but it’s definitely making its mobile ambitions clear anyway. Today, the e-commerce giant took two more steps in its strategy to scale up its Kindle Fire tablet business. (IT news)

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Twitter introduces two-factor authentication for log-insview story

http://www.talkandroid.com – Twitter is an extremely popular social media site, and like all other popular services, it suffers from its share of security concerns. Well, today Twitter is stepping up to help ease some of those security issues by introducing two-factor authentication for accounts. (IT news)

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Google Drive app updated with featuresview story

http://www.themobileindian.com – Update for Google Drive app brings optical character recognition powered text search, new card-style user interface and more editing options in spreadsheets. (IT news)

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OtterBox Acquires Rival Protective Case Maker LifeProof After Settling Patent Lawsuitview story

http://techcrunch.com – OtterBox, which makes the top-selling protective case for smartphones, has announced the acquisition of LifeProof for an undisclosed amount. News of the acquisition comes one day after a lawsuit filed by OtterBox against LifeProof for patent infringement was dismissed. OtterBox told the North Carolina Business Report that the acquisition was not related to the lawsuit or any settlement. (IT news)

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Waterproof LG Optimus GJ E975W officially announced, will be priced at $600view story

http://www.talkandroid.com – Today LG announced their high-end waterproof handset called the Optimus GJ. The device is just slightly larger than the original Optimus G at 131.9 x 68.9 x 8.5 mm vs. 136.9 x 68.9 x 9.9 mm. It can stay underwater up to 1 meter for as long as 3 minutes. (IT news)

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Let Google Reader Die in Peace, Use Liferea 1.10 RC3view story

http://news.softpedia.com – Liferea, a free news aggregator capable to store articles for offline reading and with full synchronization with Google Reader and TinyTinyRSS, is now at version 1.10 RC3. Liferea 1.10 RC3 is a minor release in the development branch and it features a few changes and updates. Highlights of Liferea 1.10 RC3: • A workaround has been implemented for an XHTML issue, in TinyTinyRSS support; &bu (IT news)

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Square Starts Mobile Payments In Japan, Its First Country Outside Of North America, In Partnership With Visa's Allyview story

http://techcrunch.com – Mobile payment platform Square has announced that it is now publicly available in Japan, its first country outside of North America. (IT news)

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Will Intel’s Mobile-Centric Reorg Rattle Smartphone, Tablet Markets?view story

http://thevarguy.com – Maybe a new day has dawned at Intel. The chip maker's new chief executive, Brian Krzanich, after but a few weeks on the job, already has rattled some cages with a broad reorganization that firmly points the venerable company not only at the smartphone and tablet market but also at newly emerging mobile technology. read more (IT news)

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Mark Shuttleworth Talks About Canonical's Conflict with KDE and GNOME Developersview story

http://news.softpedia.com – Mark Shuttleworth, the founder of Canonical, took the time to answer a few question from the community, during an Ubuntu Open Week session.During the Ubuntu Open Week, Canonical developers have a transparency exercise with the community and they share a lot of interesting information.Mark Shuttleworth himself has decided to talk about Canonical’s relationship with GNOME and KDE develoepers.& (IT news)

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Google Drive mobile app updated; Brings forth Androids card UIview story

http://www.talkandroid.com – Google Drive for mobile devices has been updated and brings forth a new UI as well as some useful tools. (IT news)

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Survival Game Don't Starve Receives a New World Ready for Explorationview story

http://news.softpedia.com – Don't Starve, a new action adventure developed by Klei Entertainment, is now available on Steam for Linux and has received a hefty update.Don't Starve is a 2D action game in which the players don’t received any kind of instructions or help. (IT news)

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It's Official, Ubuntu 13.10 Will Have Linux Kernel 3.11view story

http://news.softpedia.com – The development of Ubuntu 13.10 (Saucy Salamander) has just started, but there is only one solid piece of information about it, and that is the version of the Linux kernel used.Ubuntu 13.04 has a custom version of Linux kernel 3.8, a branch which has been deemed EOL (end of life) already. (IT news)