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Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
It's official: Saudi Arabia bans BlackBerrys — The rumors are true: Saudi Arabia has become the second country inside of a week to block access to Research in Motion's BlackBerry devices on grounds of national security. — The ban goes into effect on August 6 after a “grace period” …
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Jenna Wortham / New York Times:
BlackBerry Maker Resists Governments' Pressure
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PC World, CNET News, Inquirer, Reuters, 9 to 5 Mac, Guardian and Agence France Presse
NPD Group:
The NPD Group: Motorola, HTC drive Android to Smartphone OS lead in the U.S. — Android now installed in one of every three smartphones sold at retail. BlackBerry OS share drops 9 points to 28 percent. … - Motorola Droid — HTC Droid Incredible — HTC EVO 4G — HTC Hero
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Vlad Savov / Engadget:
NPD: Android is now top-selling OS in American smartphones — Step aside, BlackBerrys and iPhones, the American consumer has voted with his wallet and picked Android as his favorite flavor in the quarter just gone. NPD's number crunchers have just announced their findings for Q2 2010 …
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Electronista, IntoMobile, Boy Genius Report, I4U News and MobileCrunch
Michael's Minute:
Apple Quietly Enables Online Streaming To iPhones, iPad and iTouch — Buried in the release notes of an updated iPhone app is significant new functionality which lets Apple devices stream music from its online storage in a useful manner for the first time. This is in defiance …
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Download Squad, Gizmodo, The Register, IntoMobile, Jonny Evans's blog, Techland, SiliconANGLE, CrunchGear, GottaBeMobile, Music Ally, hypebot, The Next Web and iClarified
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
WAR! It's Patton v. Rommel: Vic Gundotra Will Lead Google To Victory In Social War With Facebook — Google has chosen a General in their War With Facebook - VP Engineering Vic Gundotra, we've heard from multiple sources. This is the person who will control overall product strategy …
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Scripting News
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Kyle VanHemert / Gizmodo:
Vonage Mobile App Lets You Call Facebook Friends From iPhone or Android For Free — Vonage, the VoIP company with the head-whacking commercials, has a new app for Android and iOS that lets users make free calls to Facebook friends over 3G and Wi-Fi. Finally, your reward for cultivating that extensive friends list.
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MacRumors iPhone Blog, Between the Lines Blog, GigaOM, The Register, 9 to 5 Mac, Guardian, Daily Patricia and Future Tense
MrK / AlienBabelTech:
[ABT Exclusive]TMobile's “Project Emerald” is HTC Glacier, has a dual-core Snapdragon CPU, three times faster than EVO 4G and benchmarks! — With the evidence that we present to you below we can safely say now that TMobile's fabled “Project Emerald” is in fact the rumored HTC Glacier.
Mike Schackwitz / The Windows Blog:
The new Hotmail is now available to everyone! — Here at Hotmail, we've had quite a busy week! All of our customers are now upgraded. The majority of you got the new Hotmail just this past week, as we completed the rollout to over 350 million people in more than 220 countries around the world.
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Download Squad, Inquirer, Erictric, The Register, WebWorkerDaily, ReadWriteWeb, Techie Buzz, V3.co.uk, Softpedia News, LiveSide.net, Neowin.net, The Next Web and Lifehacker
Josh Nguyen / Flickr Blog:
Welcome to your new photo page — After a few weeks in public preview, we're rolling out the new Flickr photo page to 100% of the Flickrverse. Our effort in this release focuses on two areas that will continue to make Flickr the very best place for your photos.
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Search Engine Land, Softpedia News, Teens in Tech, The Next Web and 1001 Noisy Cameras, Thanks:rawmeet
Financial Times:
Motorola and Verizon team up for TV tablet — Motorola is developing a digital tablet device that will allow users to watch television on it, as the US mobile phone group attempts to chip away at a market established by Apple's popular iPad. — The device, which will have a 10-inch screen …
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Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Tim Mayer, Who Worked For Practically Every Search Engine, Leaves Yahoo — Earlier I wrote about the depature of Yahoo's Srinija Srinivasan. Yahoo's lost another person, and another big figure in search, that of Tim Mayer. — Tim just tweeted, as shown above, that he's enjoying his first “post-Yahoo” day.
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Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Once The Most Powerful Person In Search, Srinija Srinivasan Leaves Yahoo
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GMSV, ResourceShelf, Yodel Anecdotal and Tech Check, Thanks:atul
Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
LinkedIn Acquires mSpoke For Its Recommendation Technology, Team — Professional social network provider LinkedIn has acquired mSpoke, a small startup that aims to make content more relevant through recommendation technology. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.
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alarm:clock, Business Wire, Yahoo! News, Softpedia News, Between the Lines Blog and Forbes
Brian Womack / Bloomberg:
Facebook Advertisers Boost Spending 10-Fold, Sandberg Says — Aug. 4 (Bloomberg) — Facebook Inc.'s biggest advertisers have boosted spending by at least 10-fold in the past year as the social network crossed the half- billion user mark, becoming more alluring to marketers that want to reach a broad online audience.
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VatorNews, FM Blog, Erictric, TechCrunch, Startup Meme and bizjournals
Peter Kaplan / Federal Trade Commission:
FTC Settles Charges of Anticompetitive Conduct Against Intel — The Federal Trade Commission approved a settlement with Intel Corp. that resolves charges the company illegally stifled competition in the market for computer chips. Intel has agreed to provisions that will open the door …
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Business Wire, New York Times, Tech Eye, PC World, CNET News, Between the Lines Blog, Computerworld and GMSV, Thanks:michaelkroker
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Brooke Crothers / CNET News:
FTC to spell out Intel settlement
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Digital Daily, VentureBeat, Computerworld, Tech Check, Inquirer, Electronista and Bloomberg
Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
iPhone 4 unlock available now (update: video!) — It's the moment that many of you have been waiting for: the Dev-Team's ultrasn0w carrier unlock for iPhone 4 is out. You'll find version 1.0-1 of ultrasn0w in Cydia on jailbroken devices. If not, just add the repo666.ultrasn0w.com repository.
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ReadWriteWeb, Dev-Team Blog, iPhone Download Blog, AppleInsider, I4U News, 9 to 5 Mac, everythingiCafe, DailyTech, TiPb, SlashGear, Electronic Pulp, App Advice, Cult of Mac, Gadget Lab, MobileCrunch, O'Grady's PowerPage, Neowin.net, MacRumors, Phones Review, Ubergizmo, MacStories, Gadgetell and Geek.com
Kevin C. Tofel / GigaOM:
Facebook Gains an Android Facelift — Facebook for Android (s goog) got a long overdue update tonight (perhaps the final push was Mark Zuckerberg's installing the Android app himself last week?), after playing second fiddle to the iOS version for far too long.
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TechCrunch, Softpedia News, FierceMobileContent, EuroDroid, Boy Genius Report, Inside Facebook, MobileCrunch, FierceWireless, Redmond Pie, OStatic blogs and Phone Scoop, Thanks:bobcaswell
Staska / Unwired View:
Samsung thinks about putting touchscreen on a tablet's back — Now that Apple showed how a real tablet device should look and work, everyone else is scrambling to make their own tablet that will be at least on par with the iPad. — Samsung is no stranger here, and has already confirmed …
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Electronista, Fonehome.co.uk, The Next Web, CrunchGear, SlashGear, Liliputing, I4U News, Gizmodo Australia, GottaBeMobile and Gizmodo
Google Mobile Blog:
Introducing the new Search History link on Google — Have you ever tried to remember how to get back to a website that you found from a recent search? Today in the US, we're launching a new search history feature which helps you quickly get back to sites you've been to and see items …
Michael Kan / Network World:
iPad clears government hurdle in China — The popular device moves closer toward being cleared by the Chinese government for sale in the mainland market — Apple's iPad has received a safety certification mark from Chinese regulators, putting it on a path that could see the future release of the popular tablet computer in China.
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9 to 5 Mac, Erictric, CrunchGear and MacNN
Dan Nosowitz / Fast Company:
Bing Maps Re-Routed to Look Smarter and Calculate Your Cab Fare — Microsoft's Bing Maps, like Bing Search and Zune, is one of Microsoft's great underrated surprises. It may seem like a ripoff of a better-known product (in this case, Google Maps), and that's not entirely inaccurate, but it's also unfair.
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PC World, Open Source Blog, Epicenter, Techi.com and Gizmodo
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