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Bloomberg:
Apple Said to Prepare New 99-Cent TV Show Rental Service — Apple Inc. is in advanced talks with News Corp. to let iTunes users rent TV shows for 99 cents and is in discussions with other media companies about similar deals, said three people familiar with the plan.
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TechCrunch, AppleInsider, MacRumors, Silicon Alley Insider, Tech Trader Daily, Techland, TiPb, Gizmodo, Electronista and iLounge
Aza Raskin / Aza on Design:
Firefox Panorama: Tab Candy Evolved — I am happy to announce that Tab Candy is coming to Firefox 4. Starting today, Tab Candy will be called Firefox Panorama and be available as a feature in Firefox betas. Head to the Firefox 4 feature list, or watch the video below …
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CNET News, TechCrunch, Webmonkey, BetaNews, Startup Meme, MacStories, Electronista and Lifehacker
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Mike Beltzner / The Mozilla Blog:
Firefox 4 Beta Updated with Sync and Panorama — The latest update to Firefox 4 Beta is now available with new features that offer more control over your Web experience. This release lets you own and control your personal Web experience by syncing your data across devices …
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The Register, Pocket-lint, Erictric and The Next Web
Apple:
iTunes U Downloads Top 300 Million — In just over three years, iTunes® U downloads have topped 300 million and it has become one of the world's most popular online educational catalogs. Over 800 universities throughout the world have active iTunes U sites, and nearly half …
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Velocity, SFGate, CNET News, VatorNews, Digital Daily, Fortune, App Advice, PC World, VentureBeat, TiPb, PadGadget, I4U News, Macsimum News, MacStories, TheAppleBlog, TechCrunch, MacRumors, iLounge and Edible Apple
Shashi Seth / Yahoo! Search Blog:
Yahoo! Transitions Organic Search Back-End to Microsoft Platform — First let me say, wow, what a week! As I hope everyone saw our post from last week, Yahoo! began transitioning certain back-end functions for Yahoo! Search over to Microsoft's search platform.
Ben Worthen / Wall Street Journal:
Businesses Add iPads to Their Briefcases — Some Companies, Which Barred the iPhone, Build Apps for Tablet Computer and Give Apple Gadget to Employees — When Apple Inc.'s first iPhone came out in 2007, many companies told their employees that the device wasn't appropriate for the workplace.
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MediaPost, Computerworld, TG Daily, Silicon Alley Insider, MacStories, MacNN, GigaOM, IntoMobile, AppleInsider and TUAW, Thanks:atul
Emma Barnett / Telegraph:
Facebook Places ‘boring’ says Foursquare chief — Dennis Crowley, the co-founder of Foursquare, a location-based social network, has called Places, Facebook's new check-in tool, “boring” and “unexciting”. — Talking to The Telegraph, Crowley, said he had now had time to play around …
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All Facebook, MediaPost, TechCrunch, Appolicious Advisor, PC Magazine, ReadWriteWeb, IntoMobile, Tech Eye, Switched, Fast Company, PC World and Venture Capital Dispatch
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Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
Why Recommended Places Are the Next Big Thing in Location
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MediaPost, Business Wire, Google Maps Mania and TechCrunch
Robert McMillan / Computerworld:
Apple exec stashed $150K in shoe boxes — Bail for Paul Devine is set at $600K, plus any money he has in foreign bank accounts — IDG News Service - SAN JOSE — Federal agents found more than $150,000 in cash when they searched the house of Apple manager Paul Devine earlier this month, prosecutors said in court Monday.
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AppleInsider, The Register, Bloomberg, Cult of Mac, everythingiCafe, CrunchGear and The Loop
Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Topsy: Now Searching Tweets Back To May 2008 — Looking for old tweets? Look to Topsy. The service has just expanded to have what it claims to be the largest searchable collection of past tweets, over 5 billion of them, stretching back to at least May 2008.
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ReadWriteWeb and Topsy Labs
Brian Barrett / Gizmodo:
The 300,000 Biggest Websites, Visualized With Their Icons — How do the 288,945 most heavily trafficked sites on the internet stack up against each other? Take a very close look at this chart to find out. — While you could spend all day with a microscope trying to sort …
Jonny Evans / Computerworld:
Why ‘open’ Android may lose the Apple iOS wars — Everyone's sleeping with Android and Apple should watch out, at least that's the threat on news Acer has also thrown in its lot with Android, hinting at truth in earlier predictions the firm intends releasing an Android 3.-powered iPod contender …
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Macworld, AppleInsider and DigiTimes
Tom Krazit / CNET News:
Google defends Android Market licensing server — A licensing system meant to ensure Android applications were properly downloaded has been hacked, and Google is looking into the issue. — Google introduced a new licensing system for the Android Market in late July in response to concerns …
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Android Developers Blog, IntoMobile, The Next Web and AndroidGuys
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Nielsen Wire:
African-Americans, Women, and Southerners Talk and Text The Most in the U.S. — Think you can guess which Americans talk or text the most on their cellphones? — According to Nielsen, African-Americans use the most voice minutes - on average more than 1,300 a month.
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Hillicon Valley, GigaOM, Telecompetitor, mocoNews and MediaPost
Mike Melanson / ReadWriteWeb:
Pandora Adds Genre-Based Stations — Just the other day, I introduced my mother to music recommendation service Pandora. We'd been discussing how my grandfather used to love listening to barbershop music and she said she missed it and would love to find a way to listen.
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MediaPost, Mashable!, PR Newswire and CNET News
James Temple / San Francisco Chronicle:
Jack Dorsey connected the dots to create Twitter — During the mid-1980s, an introverted young teenager named Jack Dorsey sat for countless hours at his father's desk, in a small city outside of St. Louis, teaching himself to program on an early IBM personal computer.
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Declan McCullagh / CNET News:
RIAA: U.S. copyright law 'isn't working' — RIAA President Cary Sherman, second from right, says new pro-content copyright laws may be necessary. — (Credit: Declan McCullagh/CNET) — ASPEN, Colo.—The Recording Industry Association of America said on Monday that current U.S. copyright law …
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Slyck, Mashable!, Techdirt, Gizmodo, PlagiarismToday and techblog.dallasnews.com
Caroline McCarthy / The Social:
Twitter: Yes, we're building out a sales team! — Confirming a bunch of disparate blog rumors about individual hires, Twitter confirmed on Tuesday—after previously declining to comment—that it's building out a sales team and has hired a News Corp. veteran to helm it.
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MediaPost, TechCrunch, Mark Evans Tech, Adotas and Pulse2
Tiffany Hsu / L.A. Times Tech Blog:
Consumer Reports calls for protections on mobile payments through phones — Paying for a shopping spree by waving a smart phone may be more exciting than swiping a credit card, but according to Consumers Union, it might not be as safe. — The nonprofit testing and information organization …
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PR Newswire and Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim
Ryan Lawler / NewTeeVee:
Clicker Launches iPhone App for Mobile Video Discovery — Video search startup Clicker is taking its social and search capabilities mobile with a new iPhone app available today. The app will act as a companion to Clicker.com and Clicker.tv, enabling users to search for iPhone-ready video …
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L.A. Times Tech Blog, ReadWriteWeb, Silicon Alley Insider, Technologizer, Clicker Blog and Fast Company
Jon Stokes / Ars Technica:
Microsoft beats Intel, AMD to market with CPU/GPU combo chip — At Hot Chips today, Microsoft's Xbox team unveiled details of the system-on-a-chip (SoC) that powers the newer, slimmer Xbox 360 250GB model. Produced on the IBM/GlobalFoundries 45nm process, it's fair to say that the new SoC …
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VentureBeat, Engadget, BlogsDNA, Gizmodo, Gizmodo Australia, VG247, SlashGear, Ubergizmo, Fudzilla and TG Daily
AVG Blogs / Roger Thompson:
Where are the safest and most dangerous places in the world to use the internet? — w During the last week of July, AVG researchers compiled a list of virus and malware attacks by country picked up by AVG security software. — This means we have compiled data from over 127 million computers …
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Softpedia News, SourceWire and White African
Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
Samsung Galaxy Tab gets official teaser video — Whoa, now we're talking. It's short, sweet, and dramatic yet the official Samsung Galaxy Tab teaser video still manages to reveal a number of features. We've got Android 2.2 running on a 7-inch display, video calling, Swype, HD movie playback, navigation, e-reader, and plenty more.
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CNET News, Electronista, Boy Genius Report, Silicon Alley Insider, Obsessable, Gadget Lab, GeekSugar, Androinica, BlogsDNA, Hardware 2.0 Blog, MacDailyNews, Gizmodo and GottaBeMobile
Nikhil Pahwa / MediaNama:
RIM Acquires Mobile Content Platform Co Cellmania — Research In Motion, the makers of Blackberry, have acquired Cellmania, a mobile content platform company and application and content storefront provider, according to a note on Cellmania's website. In an email sent out to content partners in India …
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Mobile Marketing Watch, Silicon Alley Insider, mocoNews and TechCrunch
