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Technology Report: Amazon tries to break from pack with 3D-ready 'Fire' phone

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06/18/2014
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Amazon tries to break from pack with 3D-ready 'Fire' phone
SEATTLE (Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc Chief Executive Officer Jeff Bezos unveiled a "Fire" smartphone on Wednesday equipped with a 3D-capable screen and the ability to recognize objects, music and TV shows, hoping to stand out in a crowded field dominated by Apple Inc and Samsung Electronics .
Intel woos Internet heavyweights with flexible server chips
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Intel Corp is taking a new approach to the powerful server chips it sells to Internet heavyweights like Facebook and Google.
Amazon expected to unveil 3D smartphone to court mobile shoppers
SEATTLE (Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc's newest mobile device, a smartphone that may sport a 3D screen, is the retailer's latest attempt to exert its influence over the way consumers shop online.
Genealogy website Ancestry.com says hackers crashed servers
SALT LAKE CITY (Reuters) - The genealogy website Ancestry.com said its websites were recovering on Wednesday after hackers temporarily shut them down this week in a distributed denial of service attack, but it said no consumer data was compromised.
U.S. says cable, fiber Internet speeds mostly as hyped; DSL lags
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. cable and fiber Internet providers generally deliver the download speeds they advertise, though not consistently, while DSL connections increasingly fail to meet promised speeds, the Federal Communications Commission said on Wednesday.
In deal with Amazon, BlackBerry to offer 240,000 Android apps
TORONTO (Reuters) - BlackBerry Ltd has agreed a licensing deal with Amazon.com Inc that will let the Canadian smartphone maker offer some 240,000 Android applications from Amazon's app store on its line-up of BlackBerry 10 devices this fall.
Billionaire JD.com founder lines up next challenge: beating Alibaba
BEIJING (Reuters) - With an iron grip, JD.com Inc founder Richard Liu has dragged China's number two online retailer from a Beijing backwater to a rich New York listing. Beyond the wealth that brought him lies Liu's next target - beating Jack Ma's Alibaba.
U.S. bill on email privacy gathers majority support in the House
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A bill to force government agencies to get warrants before they access the email of people under investigation advanced in the U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday after a majority of lawmakers signed on as co-sponsors.
Data sharing deal with U.S. referred to EU's top court
DUBLIN (Reuters) - Ireland's High Court on Wednesday asked the European Court of Justice (ECJ) to review a European Union-U.S. data protection agreement in light of allegations that Facebook FB.O shared data from EU users with the U.S. National Security Agency.
Acer appoints co-founder George Huang as board chairman
TAIPEI (Reuters) - Taiwan's Acer Inc on Wednesday said it has appointed co-founder and board member George Huang as new chairman, tasked with overseeing the recovery of the PC maker's near-dominant position in a shrinking industry.
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