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Joshua Topolsky / Engadget:
Exclusive: Upcoming Apple TV loses 1080p playback, gains apps... and will be renamed iTV — You might remember that we broke news of an updated Apple TV headed to market just a few months ago. If your brain isn't working right, let us jog it: a trusted Engadget source asserted that the gang …
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Adrianne Jeffries / ReadWriteWeb:
Apple Rumor: iTV Hitting in the Fall, $99?
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Joshua Topolsky / Engadget:
Exclusive: Sony Ericsson to introduce Android 3.0 gaming platform and PSP Go-like smartphone — There's no question that gaming on the Android platform has heretofore been relatively underwhelming, but that looks like it's all about to change. It seems that Sony Ericsson …
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Paul Graham:
What Happened to Yahoo — When I went to work for Yahoo after they bought our startup in 1998, it felt like the center of the world. It was supposed to be the next big thing. It was supposed to be what Google turned out to be. — What went wrong? The problems that hosed Yahoo go back a long time …
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Vlad Savov / Engadget:
Exclusive: Dell Thunder prototype rumbles into the wild (video) — Did it get hot in here all of a sudden or is it just this extremely sexy prototype we're looking at? Yes, the Dell Thunder that boomed onto your internet screens back in April is back, and this time we've got video of it too.
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John Gruber / Daring Fireball:
N92 — Let's concede for the moment that Amy Thomson's report for Bloomberg back on June 29 is correct, and that Verizon is going to start selling iPhones in January 2011. Let's further say that this first Verizon iPhone will be a CDMA iPhone 4 — pretty much the same specs as the iPhone 4 we have now, but with CDMA instead of GSM.
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Gartner:
Gartner Says Worldwide Mobile Device Sales Grew 13.8 Percent in Second Quarter of 2010, But Competition Drove Prices Down — Android Became the World's Third Most Popular Smartphone Operating System and Claimed Top Spot in the U.S — Worldwide mobile device sales to end users totaled 325.6 million units …
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Yang Li / Google Mobile Blog:
Flipping for Gesture Search — You may already be familiar with Gesture Search, our Android app from Google Labs that lets you search by writing out characters on the touchscreen of your device. Today we're happy to announce a new version, Gesture Search 1.2, which includes a new motion gesture.
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Greg Kumparak / MobileCrunch:
Apple Pulls Camera+ From The App Store After Its Developers Reveal A Contraband Feature — The fun's over, folks*. About a week and a half ago, iPhone developers TapTapTap pushed an updated version of their Camera+ photography app to the App Store, and all seemed well.
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Walter S. Mossberg / Personal Technology:
Dell's Streak: a Tiny Tablet That Takes Calls, Too — In just a few months, Apple's iPad has established that there is indeed a consumer market for a multitouch tablet computer. — The 1.5-pound slate with a 10-inch screen has already sold more than 3 million units, even though it costs $499 …
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Larry Downes / Technology Liberation Front:
Deconstructing the Google-Verizon Framework — I've just published a long analysis for CNET of the proposed legislative framework presented yesterday by Google and Verizon. — The proposal has generated howls of anguish from the usual suspects (see quotes appearing in Cecilia Kang …
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Roger Cheng / Dow Jones Newswires:
UPDATE: AT&T Pleased With Verizon-Google Net-Traffic Proposal
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John A. Byrne / C-Change Media Inc.:
Google? Where are you? — Monday of this week was a big day for me. I launched http://PoetsandQuants.com, the first in a network of niche business websites. The site is devoted to the coverage of MBAs and graduate business education. One of the most fascinating aspects of our debut …
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Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Google Ventures Invests In iPhone Game Developer ngmoco — Google Ventures, the VC arm of the search giant, has made an investment in popular iPhone/iPad game developer ngmoco, say multiple sources. The company, which is already profitable, took the money as part of a new round of funding …
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Jason Chen / Gizmodo:
Sprint Epic 4G Android Slider Phone Engages on August 31 for $250 — Sprint's second 4G Android phone, the Samsung Epic 4G, is going to be available August 31 with a $100 rebate to make it $250. … The phone is based off the same core as the other Samsung Galaxy S devices …
Julie Bosman / New York Times:
Quick Change in Strategy for a Bookseller — In the movie “You've Got Mail,” Tom Hanks played the aggressive big-box retailer Joe Fox driving the little bookshop owner played by Meg Ryan out of business. — Twelve years later, it may be Joe Fox's turn to worry.
Kate Murphy / New York Times:
Web Photos That Reveal Secrets, Like Where You Live — When Adam Savage, host of the popular science program “MythBusters,” posted a picture on Twitter of his automobile parked in front of his house, he let his fans know much more than that he drove a Toyota Land Cruiser.
Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Waiting for Godot: Apple's Fall Event Is Definitely Happening, but Exactly When and What? — Oh, it's coming. — According to several sources, and as has been widely expected, Apple will once again be holding its annual autumn special event, possibly closer to mid-September this time.
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James Hawkins / Google Chrome Blog:
Syncing, simplifying, and speeding up with Chrome's new beta — In today's new Google Chrome beta release, we're introducing a host of new beta features which will further improve Chrome's ease of use and speed. — One of my favorite features, Autofill, helps you fill in web forms automatically …
Richard Lawler / Engadget:
Cox to offer retail TiVo Premiere DVRs next year, first with cable VOD & Amazon, Netflix access — TiVo users, even with boxes provided by their cable company in the case of RCN and Comcast, have so far had to make a compromise: Choose their cable company's video on-demand offerings …
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Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Two Days After Steve Slater's Slide Ride, JetBlue Comes Back to the Web — Be honest-if you ran JetBlue, you'd want to stay quiet, too. Right? — But the airline, which gets lots of credit for engaging its customers on the Web, on Facebook and on Twitter, had to speak up eventually …
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