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Arn / MacRumors:
New Images of 4th Generation iPod Touch LCD with FaceTime Camera — An iPhone parts supplier sent us these photos of what are claimed to be the front LCD and bezel of the upcoming 4th generation iPod Touch. The new part clearly shows a front-sided hole that would leave room for a front-facing FaceTime camera.
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AppleInsider, 9 to 5 Mac, Gizmodo, Crave, Redmond Pie, Erictric, MacStories, TiPb, everythingiCafe, Teens in Tech, TUAW, Engadget and Gizmodo Australia
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Machmeter / HardMac.com:
Pictures of the iPod Touch 4... well, almost — As you may know, Apple provides some case manufacturers with the size and shape of the new iPhones and iPods so they can start making the new cases before the devices come out. This doesn't allow us to know what materials Apple will use …
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eWeek, Ars Technica, Fortune, GeekSmack, Edible Apple, App Advice, Computerworld, Pocket-lint and GeekSugar
Josh Halliday / Guardian:
Google denies deal with Verizon to end net neutrality — Search giant says there is no agreement allowing telecoms company Verizon to prioritise the order and speed in which it delivers content to users — Google has dismissed reports that the company is in talks with US telecoms operator Verizon …
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Verizon:
New York Times' Story is Mistaken — The NYT article regarding conversations between Google and Verizon is mistaken. It fundamentally misunderstands our purpose. As we said in our earlier FCC filing, our goal is an Internet policy framework that ensures openness and accountability …
Cecilia Kang / Post Tech:
FCC stops closed-door Internet policy meetings as Google, Verizon strike side deal — Under criticism for its handing of closed-door discussions with certain companies on broadband policy, the Federal Communications Commission announced Thursday the meetings with Verizon, AT&T …
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CNET News, BetaNews and GamePolitics News
Stacey Higginbotham / GigaOM:
Genachowski, Man Up! And Silicon Valley, Wake Up! — The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) just called off the “closed door” network neutrality negotiations it was conducting between major ISPs, Google, Skype and the Open Internet Coalition, after news broke Wednesday afternoon …
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Network World
Electronista:
FCC chair: neutrality would trump any Google/Verizon pact
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Reuters, Ubergizmo, Digital Daily, Gizmodo and Gizmodo Australia
Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:
Evil? — UPDATE: It's looking more and more to me as if the …
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Engadget, Technology News, The Next Web, Computerworld and The Huffington Post, Thanks:rawmeet
Edward Wyatt / New York Times:
Google and Verizon in Talks on Web Priority
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Alex Williams / ReadWriteWeb:
Why Developers Did Not Adopt Google Wave — Google Wave entered the Google Apps family earlier this year with what looked like some momentum. — Novell had integrated Google Wave into its Pulse project. SAP had developed a collaborative business process modeling tool within Google Wave.
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blogs.ft.com, internetnews.com, Yahoo! News, Irregular Enterprise Blog and CNET News
Nicholas Deleon / CrunchGear:
U.S. Military Bans Personnel From Visiting Wikileaks; Pentagon Asks Site To Do The ‘Right Thing’ — The controversy surrounding Wikileaks continues, as you always expected it would. All branches of the Unites States military are now banning their personnel from having anything to do with the site …
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CNET News and Boing Boing
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Martin Bryant / The Next Web:
Twitter's ShoutOut is an internal service for employees. Read the awesome official statement. — Okay, so a bit of back story. Louis Gray found a mysterious Twitter account called ShoutOut that hinted at some kind of new Twitter service. We later spotted a DM Fail from Twitter's Sean Garrett that seemed to confirm it was real.
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Fast Company, Startup Meme, ReadWriteWeb and louisgray.com
Sarah Lacy / TechCrunch:
Here's What Everybody Made From The Slide Sale — Further to our post yesterday on the sale of Slide to Google, we've spoken to a source with knowledge of the terms to understand what everybody made from the deal. — As we speculated yesterday, founder Max Levchin did the best out of the sale …
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Softpedia News and Xconomy
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Om Malik / GigaOM:
Slide, Vic Gundotra & The Un-Social Reality of Google
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CNET News, eWeek, Guardian, Black Web 2.0, Stowe Boyd, TechCrunch, VatorNews, FM Blog, louisgray.com, MTV Multiplayer and Fast Company, Thanks:sachbalag
Leonid Taycher / Google Book Search Blog:
Books of the world, stand up and be counted! All 129,864,880 of you. — When you are part of a company that is trying to digitize all the books in the world, the first question you often get is: “Just how many books are out there?” — Well, it all depends on what exactly you mean by a “book.”
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CrunchGear, ResourceShelf, The Official Google Blog and The Atlantic Online, more at Mediagazer », Thanks:atul
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Schmidt: Google Now Activating 200,000 Android Units A Day [Video] — Remember back in the day when Google was only activating 100,000 Android units a day? You should — it was May. By June, that number had jumped to 160,000 units a day. And today it now stands at 200,000 Android units activated a day.
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Between the Lines Blog, internetnews.com, iSuppli, Android Phone Fans, Reuters, Computerworld, CNET News, PC World, Engadget, 901am, Search Engine Land, Unwired View, Edible Apple, Droid Life, jkOnTheRun, PhoneDog.com, VentureBeat, Internet2Go, I4U News, Geek.com, Newlaunches.com, AndroidGuys, Gizmodo, FierceMobileContent, GigaOM, T3.com News, mocoNews, Gadgetell, EuroDroid, Fudzilla, IntoMobile, Fortune, TG Daily, Tech Trader Daily, Linux.com, MobileContentToday, Google Android News … and Phones Review, more at Mediagazer »
John Paczkowski / Digital Daily:
Apple Stores Raking In Revenue — How's this for a data point: Apple's (AAPL) retail store revenue increased 72.8 percent year over year to $2.58 billion in the June quarter. That means, according to Needham analyst Charlie Wolf, Apple Store revenue for that period was greater …
Tom Warren / Neowin.net:
Microsoft's mystery hardware? Arc Touch Mouse, launching in September — Microsoft has been teasing a new mystery hardware device over the past week. According to company insiders the software giant plans to unveil a new Arc Touch Mouse in September. — Details of the Arc Touch Mouse …
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The Microsoft Blog, Electronista, Engadget, Digital Daily, Technologizer, Erictric, Softpedia News, Gizmodo, THINQ.co.uk, Computerworld, Techland, Electricpig.co.uk, Obsessable, Geek.com, istartedsomething, SlashGear and Pocket-lint, Thanks:tom_warren
Matt Buchanan / Gizmodo:
Deep Inside Xbox 360 Kinect: The Interface of Microsoft's Dreams — Kinect is more than an Xbox 360 peripheral, it's the future of Microsoft, or at least a very possible one. It's the beginning of Microsoft's plans for natural user interfaces, the step beyond the thing you're staring at right now.
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Go Rumors, The Next Web, Technologizer and Geek.com, Thanks:rawmeet
Gmail Blog:
Access two Gmail accounts at once in the same browser — I have a couple different Gmail addresses that I use for different purposes. Historically, Google Accounts - including Gmail accounts — have only let people access one account at a time per browser, so using both accounts has been a bit inconvenient.
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Lifehacker and The Next Web, Thanks:tonyskn
John Timmer / Ars Technica:
Gamers beat algorithms at finding protein structures — Today's issue of Nature contains a paper with a rather unusual author list. Read past the standard collection of academics, and the final author credited is... an online gaming community. — Scientists have turned to games for a variety …
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Nature, PC World, New York Times, GamePolitics News and The Register, Thanks:atul
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Redbeacon Raises $7.4 Million To Help You Book Local Services Online — Redbeacon, which won the TechCrunch50 launch conference in 2009, has raised a $7.4 million round of financing. The round was led by Mayfield Fund and Venrock. — Raj Kapoor, Managing Director at Mayfield …
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Local Onliner and Silicon Alley Insider
Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
Hunch Relaunches as Internet Personalization Service — Hunch was never a social Q&A service, though many press outlets have confused it for one. The service, founded by Flickr co-founder Caterina Fake and super-hot angel investor Chris Dixon, has relaunched its home page …
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GigaOM, VentureBeat, Technologizer and Fast Company
Electronista:
HP quietly intros new Mini 5103 netbook with DDR3 — HP today slipped out an upgrade to its pro netbooks in the form of the Mini 5103. The 10-inch portable uses a 1.66GHz Atom N455 or 1.86GHz N475 but primarily gets a memory upgrade: either supports 1,333MHz DDR3 RAM instead of the more typical DDR2.
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The Toybox Blog and Engadget
Johnny Diaz / Boston Globe:
With Patch, AOL offers challenge to local news — A risky Web strategy in a crowded field — Like any online user, Annie LaCourt can easily scour for news from around the world, but sometimes she prefers to make the Internet more intimate and local, all about her hometown of Arlington.
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