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Joshua Topolsky / Engadget:
Xbox Live launch titles for Windows Phone 7 finally revealed, we've got the full preview — We've known that proper Xbox Live gaming (powered by XNA) was coming to Windows Phone 7 devices, but we'd yet to see any of that thumb-spraining goodness in action besides a brief demo and a few developer videos.
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Inquirer, Microsoft, PC World, Gizmodo, Softpedia News, IntoMobile, Global Nerdy, eWeek, Phone Arena, Neowin.net, Telegraph, pocketnow.com, LiveSide.net, WMExperts, WMPoweruser.com, Mobile-Geeks, Redmond Pie, TechNet Blogs, MobileContentToday, The Seattle Times, Joystiq, 9 to 5 Mac, Startup Meme, Mashable!, MobileCrunch, TechFlash, BetaNews, MacNN, Kotaku, Boy Genius Report, InformationWeek, Smartphones …, jkOnTheRun and VentureBeat
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Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft Blog:
Microsoft: Games to be front and center for Windows Phone 7 — Microsoft is reconfirming, on the eve of GamesCon 2010, that it is making sure the Windows Phone 7 platform will be a game-centric one. — On August 16, Microsoft officials confirmed earlier reports that Microsoft Game Studios …
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Hardware 2.0 Blog, IntoMobile, Associated Press, Neowin.net, The Mobile Gadgeteer Blog, CNET News, VentureBeat, The Windows Blog, Softpedia News, DailyTech and Engadget, Thanks:rawmeet
Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
What Will Facebook Be Announcing Wednesday? Location, Location, Location! — Foursquare might want to stock up on the Mylanta on Wednesday. — That's because a multitude of sources indicate that Facebook will finally be rolling out its own geo-location offering and the date now looks set for the day after tomorrow.
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
As Facebook Location Looms, Has Foursquare Entered The Pantheon Of Services? — Look at the image above. There are three services listed on the San Francisco Giants' scoreboard during a baseball game. Twitter. Facebook. Foursquare. The first two are ubiquitous.
Dan Nystedt / PC World:
Report Says Apple to Launch 7-inch IPad by Christmas — Apple is readying another tablet similar to the iPad but with a 7-inch touchscreen for launch as early as the end of this year, according to a major Taiwanese newspaper. — This is the second report of an iPad 2 sighting in Taiwan …
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Fast Company, IntoMobile, Fonehome.co.uk, I4U News, GottaBeMobile, SlashGear, Electronista, Pocket-lint, Engadget and everythingiCafe
Martyn Williams / Computerworld:
Laptop e-mail cache tipped Apple to kickbacks scheme — IDG News Service - Court papers filed by the U.S. Government and Apple against a former manager detail a scheme that allegedly saw confidential Apple data supplied to Asian electronics companies over more than three years in return for kickbacks of more than US$1 million.
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Silicon Alley Insider, Bloomberg, PC World and Mercury News
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Tim Culpan / Bloomberg:
Pegatron Suspends Manager at Kaedar After Apple Manager Indicted in U.S.
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Computerworld, 9 to 5 Mac and Silicon Alley Insider
Zephoria / danah boyd:
a few thoughts on name changes & reputation — I've changed my name twice. First, I took my (now ex) stepfather's last name when I was a child. At 18, I started the process to take my maternal grandfather's name to honor him and to create an identity that meant something to me.
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The Atlantic Wire, MarketingVOX and The Register, Thanks:rawmeet
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Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
Google CEO Suggests You Change Your Name to Escape His Permanent Record
english.caing.com:
China Unicom Clinches iPad Deal — A source from China Unicom said that the company has finalized an agreement to be the sole distributor of Apple's iPad in China — China Unicom, the exclusive provider of Apple's iPhone in China, has won the right to sell the iPad in the world's largest mobile market.
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Fortune, MacRumors and Digital Daily
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Daniel Eran Dilger / AppleInsider:
Apple set to launch iPhone 4 in China early next month
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9 to 5 Mac, TiPb, everythingiCafe, Softpedia News and Agence France Presse
Devin Coldewey / MobileCrunch:
Bad News For RIM: Only 150,000 Torches Sold At Launch? — RIM needed a hit, and the data increasingly indicate that the Blackberry Torch is not that. While 150,000 units sold is nothing to sneeze at, and RIM's overall sales are still strong, I can smell their decaying brand from here.
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Between the Lines Blog, PC World, Electronista, Wall Street Journal, Boy Genius Report, Know Your Cell and IntoMobile
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Royal Pingdom:
Why Android developers are losing money, and it's not due to piracy — Google has made great strides with Android, and a ton of developers have flocked to the growing mobile platform. Not everything is rosy, though. One major concern among developers is that piracy levels are very high on the platform.
Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:
PAY ATTENTION TO THIS STARTUP: Shopkick, Launching Today, Is Foursquare For Shopping — With Actual Rewards — Foursquare has become a popular mobile social networking app with some shopping perks. — But another iPhone app, launching today, is much more focused on shopping …
Matthew Danzico / BBC:
Cult of less: Living out of a hard drive — Chris Yurista, a Washington, DC resident who lives out of a backpack, claims digital technology has replaced the need for his home and his possessions — Many have begun trading in CD, DVD, and book collections for digital music, movies, and e-books.
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Gizmodo, Switched, PSFK and Boing Boing
Wired:
The Web Is Dead. Long Live the Internet — Sources: Cisco estimates based on CAIDA publications, Andrew Odlyzko — Two decades after its birth, the World Wide Web is in decline, as simpler, sleeker services — think apps — are less about the searching and more about the getting.
Liz Gannes / GigaOM:
The Early Facebook Employee Exodus — Staying at a tech startup for more than four years — the default stock option vesting schedule — is a rare thing, but it seems notable that at 6-year-old Facebook, many early and influential employees have moved on, several of them recently.
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Inside Facebook
Mark Milian / L.A. Times Tech Blog:
AP decides not to LOL — The Associated Press almost shared a page with LOLcats. — Pet Holdings Inc., which owns a network of blogs that post pictures of felines with silly captions, and videos of men getting hit in the groin on its Fail Blog, had been wrapped in rather lengthy negotiations …
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Telegraph, p2pnet, Techdirt and Gawker, more at Mediagazer »
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
AOL Opens Its 100th Patch, Targets 500 By Year's End (TCTV) — When AOL bought hyperlocal news site Patch in June, 2009, it covered five towns in Connecticut and New Jersey. On Tuesday, it will open its 100th Patch, and by the end of the year it plans to open 400 more for a total of 500.
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CNET News, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim, Forbes, Guardian, MediaMemo, Associated Press and Tech Trader Daily, more at Mediagazer », Thanks:erickschonfeld
Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider:
JULY SEARCH SHARE: Google Loses, Yahoo Gains, Bing Hits Wall — Comscore has adjusted its search methodology to mute the impact of automated searches, “hovers,” and other gimmicks. — The new numbers only measure “explicit” searches, in which a user types a term in a search window and clicks “search.”
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BoomTown, Search Engine Land, comScore Voices, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim, Yodel Anecdotal and Softpedia News
Boy Genius Report:
Both Verizon Wireless iPhone and next generation iPad about to hit field testing? — One of our Apple sources has just informed us of something very interesting. Way down deep within iOS 4 is a pretty intriguing block of code. Our source says that the code queries the device …
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Computerworld, Newlaunches.com, iPhone Buzz, Softpedia News, TechnixNews, Startup Meme, AppleInsider, Techland, PC World, TUAW, Electronista, Redmond Pie, BlogsDNA, SlashGear, DSLreports, Neowin.net, IntoMobile, I4U News, 9 to 5 Mac, MacRumors, Engadget, Phones Review, iLounge, TiPb, everythingiCafe, Erictric, MacStories and Gizmodo
Jeremy Toeman / LIVEdigitally:
The Handy Android Fanboy Detector — If you are unfamiliar with the term, read my friend Harry's article for a great piece on “the fanboy”. Now, onto the piece - which I anticipate bringing me tons of annoyed Android folks (much like my tablet rant did last year).
Booyah!:
MyTown Sees 350K Product Check-ins A Week; Pantene and H&M Join In On The Fun — It's only been a short time since we offered Product Check-ins as a feature in MyTown, but the results have been amazing. Not only has the feedback for this feature been overwhelmingly positive, its use has been incredible as well!
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Internet2Go and The Next Web
Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
Radio, RIAA: mandatory FM radio in cell phones is the future — Music labels and radio broadcasters can't agree on much, including whether radio should be forced to turn over hundreds of millions of dollars a year to pay for the music it plays. But the two sides can agree on this …
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Techdirt, Hillicon Valley and AppleInsider
