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hp.com:
HP CEO Mark Hurd Resigns; CFO Cathie Lesjak Appointed Interim CEO; HP Announces Preliminary Results and Raises Full-year Outlook — PALO ALTO, Calif. — HP today announced that Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and President Mark Hurd has decided with the Board of Directors to resign his positions effective immediately.
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Nicholas Carlson / Silicon Alley Insider:
HP CEO Mark Hurd Resigns Over Sexual Harassment Accusations — Updates: — Marc Andreessen In Charge Of Helping HP Find A New CEO — HP CEO Mark Hurd Getting $40-$50 Million In Severance — HP's Stock Crashes 10% — Earlier: Hewlett-Packard CEO Mark Hurd just resigned …
Jay Yarow / Silicon Alley Insider:
Marc Andreessen In Charge Of Helping HP Find A New CEO — Now that Mark Hurd is out as CEO of HP, the company is going to have to find a new leader. — On a conference call with reporters, HP's general counsel didn't name any names for potential CEOs. Though he did says Marc Andreessen …
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David Glazer / The Official Google Blog:
Google and Slide: building a more social web — We're excited to announce we've acquired Slide, a social technology company with an extensive history of building new ways for people to connect with others across numerous platforms online. — For Google, the web is about people …
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Liz Gannes / GigaOM:
How Slide Pushes Google's Open Social Strategy
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Silicon Alley Insider, E-Commerce Times and TechCrunch
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Here's the Big IPO You've Been Waiting For: Demand Media Files With the SEC — Fun weekend reading for the tech and media set: Demand Media's S-1 filing, the first step it will take on the road to a public offering. — The S-1 doesn't include lots of important information …
Matt Burns / CrunchGear:
Best Buy's CTO Tweets Out Pics Of A Rocketfish Tablet. Seriously, A Best Buy Tablet. — Well, look at that. A Rocketfish tablet. Can't say we saw this coming, but Best Buy's CTO and Geek Squad founder, Robert Stephens, just tweeted two pics of the surprisingly polished-looking tablet.
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eHomeUpgrade, Liliputing, Electronista, SlashGear, Silicon Alley Insider and GottaBeMobile
Dean Goodman / Reuters:
Beatles and iTunes Deal Still at Impasse — Yoko Ono — LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Don't hold your breath waiting for Beatles songs to go on sale at iTunes or other online retailers, Yoko Ono said on Thursday. — The Fab Four have long resisted the allure of digital downloads …
Brandon Miniman / pocketnow.com:
New ASUS Windows Phone 7 Device Appears in Pakistan — We don't have much information on this (yet) but it looks like an ASUS device running on Windows Phone 7 has been spotted in Pakistan. Unlike the LG Panther and Samsung Taylor devices that are only intended to be development devices …
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Engadget, Gadget Lab, Gizmodo, Obsessable, Fone Arena, WMExperts, The Toybox Blog, SlashGear, PC World, GeekSmack, The Next Web, MobileCrunch, WMPoweruser.com, IntoMobile, Fonehome.co.uk, Boy Genius Report, Pocket-lint, Electronista, Phones Review, Know Your Cell, Windows Phone Thoughts.com and TG Daily, Thanks:pocketnowtweets
Anthony Ha / VentureBeat:
Facebook on ‘lockdown’ as it prepares for war with Google — It looks like Google isn't the only one gearing up for a social network battle. — Rumors surfaced in June that the search giant was developing a Facebook competitor called Google Me, and the company's social networking ambitions became …
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Kevin Michaluk / CrackBerry.com blogs:
BlackBerry Torch 9800 Teardown Photos and Video of Slider Mechanism in Action! — Tear down posts of a new smartphone don't normally happen until the new device is available for commercial purchase and somebody is crazy enough to sacrifice it to the tech gods.
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blogs.ft.com, Computerworld, IntoMobile, Boy Genius Report, SlashGear, Softpedia News, Pocket-lint, Engadget, paidContent, Phones Review, Smartphones … and Gadget Lab
Devindra Hardawar / VentureBeat:
Controversy erupts over Apple software patent “copying” existing app's home screen — Today's Apple controversy: Apparently, a recent mobile app patent filed by Apple is blatantly copying the home screen of an existing application — the local search app Where To — reports GigaOm.
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The FutureBlog, iLounge, Engadget, ConceivablyTech, TiPb, MacRumors, Tech Eye, TechCrunch, Cult of Mac, me & her, Walt Mosspuppet, GigaOM and The Next Web
Jack Purcher / Patently Apple:
Apple Introduces us to the Smart Bike — On August 5, 2010, the US Patent & Trademark Office published a patent application from Apple that reveals various concepts behind a newly advanced Smart Bicycle System in development. The premise is rather like Apple's Nike + iPod system for runners except for cyclists.
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Silicon Alley Insider, Gadget Lab, AppleInsider, Engadget, MacRumors, SlashGear, Ubergizmo, Gizmodo, CrunchGear, MacStories, TUAW, ReadWriteWeb and 9 to 5 Mac, Thanks:atul
Souhail Karam / Reuters:
BlackBerry maker and Saudis working on fix: source — (Reuters) - The makers of the BlackBerry were looking into the possibility of using servers in Saudi Arabia on Friday to avert a threatened ban on its Messenger services by Saudi government, which wants access to its encrypted network, a source said on Friday.
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Electronista, Associated Press and Reuters
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Andrew Webster / Ars Technica:
Machinarium suffers 90% piracy rate, offers $5 amnesty sale — When World of Goo came to the PC with no DRM, it eventually turned out that 90 percent of the people who played the game did so by pirating it. Now it looks like Machinarium—an excellent point-and-click adventure game …
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Geek.com and Blue's News
Rebecca / Electronic Frontier Foundation:
Court Rejects Warrantless GPS Tracking — Washington, D.C. - The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit today firmly rejected government claims that federal agents have an unfettered right to install Global Positioning System (GPS) location-tracking devices on anyone's car without a search warrant.
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Techdirt and Boing Boing, Thanks:atul
Kelvin Soh / Reuters:
Apple in talks to buy China's Handseeing — (Reuters) - Apple Inc is in takeover talks with Chinese software maker Handseeing, an executive of the Chinese company said on Friday. — The deal would be the iPhone maker's first major acquisition in the country.
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Agence France Presse, PC World, Xinhua News Agency, Digital Daily, 9 to 5 Mac, 24/7 Wall St., SlashGear, Softpedia News, FierceMobileContent, Tech Eye, Dow Jones Newswires, The Register, MacRumors, MTV Multiplayer, Engadget, Tech Trader Daily, Edge Magazine, mocoNews, business.globaltimes.cn and AppleInsider
Eric Slivka / MacRumors:
Apple Adds ‘Genius’ Tab to iPad App Store — Several readers have noted that Apple has rolled out a new “Genius” feature for its App Store application on the iPad. Similar to other Genius offerings from Apple, the new tab offers automatic suggestions on applications users might be interested …
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Mashable!, 9 to 5 Mac, Computerworld, everythingiCafe, TUAW, Engadget, The Huffington Post and Gizmodo Australia
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Yahoo Turns News Browsing Into Infinite Search — We know that Yahoo is integrating search with news, recently launching a news portal called the the Upshot, which uses search data to pick which stories to pursue. Today, Yahoo is integrating search into news content in yet another way …
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Yahoo! Search Blog, Thanks:ellieaskswhy
Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
uTorrent Wants Torrent Sites to Adopt Torrent Tweet — BitTorrent Inc. has released a new App for uTorrent that allows users to find out what others people are saying about a torrent they're downloading. Users can also join the discussion and use uTorrent to tweet about torrents.
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BitTorrent Blog and Epicenter
Bloomberg:
AT&T, Verizon May Pick Texas, Utah for ‘Mercury’ Test — Aug. 6 (Bloomberg) — AT&T Inc. and Verizon Wireless, the two biggest U.S. mobile carriers, picked cities in Texas, Minnesota and Utah to test a smartphone payments system that may one day supplant plastic debit and credit cards …
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Electronista
Greg Sandoval / CNET News:
MTV loses Web videos from Universal Music — MTV, once the king of music videos, has failed to reach an agreement with music portal Vevo, for the rights to Universal Music Group's Web music videos. — Negotiations between MTV and Vevo over videos from UMG, home of such artists as U2 …
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