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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 — Google this morning confirmed what had already been widely reported — that it has bought Slide, the social application maker. (In fact, it's already been reported who made what from the $182 million sale, with an additional $46 million paid in retention bonuses.)
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Silicon Alley Insider, E-Commerce Times and TechCrunch
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 …
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Computerworld, Technologizer, Engadget, The Register, Tech Eye, CNET News, 9 to 5 Mac, Tech Trader Daily, MacRumors, AppleInsider, MediaMemo, I4U News, Network World, CrunchGear, Fortune, Electricpig.co.uk, The Loop, Digital Trends, Gadgetell, Daring Fireball, Electronista, Cult of Mac and everythingiCafe, more at Mediagazer »
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, Boy Genius Report, MobileCrunch, The Toybox Blog, SlashGear, PC World, GeekSmack, WMExperts, The Next Web, WMPoweruser.com, IntoMobile, Fonehome.co.uk, Pocket-lint, Electronista, Phones Review, Know Your Cell, Windows Phone Thoughts.com and TG Daily, Thanks:pocketnowtweets
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, Tech Eye, Walt Mosspuppet and Cult of Mac
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Om Malik / GigaOM:
Not a Joke: An Apple App Patent (Pic) That Looks Like an Actual …
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Computerworld, App Advice, The FutureBlog, venomous porridge, Technovia, TUAW, Gizmodo, CrunchGear and Gizmodo Australia, Thanks:om
Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
Apple Patent Diagrams Send The Wrong Message To Developers
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TiPb, me & her, MacRumors, eSarcasm, 9 to 5 Mac, Tnooz, venomous porridge, The Next Web and Macworld
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, SlashGear, Boy Genius Report, Softpedia News, Pocket-lint, Engadget, paidContent, Phones Review, Smartphones … and Gadget Lab
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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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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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, Engadget, AppleInsider, MacRumors, SlashGear, Gizmodo, Ubergizmo, MacStories, CrunchGear, TUAW, ReadWriteWeb and 9 to 5 Mac, Thanks:atul
Chris Davies / SlashGear:
Kinect patent detailed; American Sign Language supported — The patent for Microsoft's Kinect console has been unearthed, describing the “gesture keyboarding” system that's tracked by the special PrimeSense-developed depth camera. Kinect builds a dynamic wireframe representation - or …
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Destructoid, Edge Magazine, MTV Multiplayer and Gizmodo
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Anand Srinivasan / Go Rumors:
How Microsoft Kinect Works
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The Microsoft Blog, Gizmodo, Engadget, Electronista, The Next Web and Technologizer
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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SlashGear, Silicon Alley Insider and GottaBeMobile
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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Josh Halliday / Guardian:
Digg investigates claims of conservative ‘censorship’ — Group of users known as ‘Digg Patriots’ said to have been systematically downgrading ‘liberal’ stories on link-sharing site — The popular link-sharing website Digg is investigating claims that a group of the site's “influential conservative” …
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MarketingVOX and The Huffington Post
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Oleoleolson / AlterNet Blogs:
Massive Censorship Of Digg Uncovered
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CNET News, ABCNEWS, SocialTimes.com, Mashable!, TG Daily, Computerworld, Softpedia News, Fast Company, Switched, Black Web 2.0, Inquirer, ReadWriteWeb, V3.co.uk, Gawker and The Next Web
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
Mark Gurman / 9 to 5 Mac:
Apple opens “Try Before You Buy” section in App Store, Step to fight app piracy — Apple seems to be adding to and changing up their App Store's featured sections quite frequently. Today Apple added a new section dedicated to promoting free applications on the App Store.
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Computerworld, Download Squad, VentureBeat, App Advice, CNET News, IntoMobile, Mashable!, TG Daily, Covering Web, Digital Trends, TUAW, Gizmodo, ReadWriteWeb, Unwired View, SlashGear, iGeneration Blog, Pocket-lint, Silicon Alley Insider, everythingiCafe, Redmond Pie, GeekSugar, I4U News, FierceMobileContent, MobileCrunch, TiPb, Teens in Tech and Gizmodo Australia, Thanks:atul
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, everythingiCafe, Computerworld, TUAW, Engadget and The Huffington Post
Wall Street Journal:
Google Loses Discrimination Ruling — The California Supreme Court ruled that an age-discrimination lawsuit filed against Google Inc. should proceed to trial, potentially paving the way for more lawsuits that previously were blocked under a theory that crude and possibly discriminatory workplace comments were merely “stray remarks.”
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The Next Web, Search Engine Land, The Register, Law Blog, Silicon Valley Watcher and CNET 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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Boing Boing, Thanks:atul
