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Jay Yarow / SAI: Silicon Alley Insider:
Next iPhone Will NOT Have NFC Mobile Payments, Says Bernstein — Apple's next iPhone, said to be called the 4S, will not have the mobile payment support through NFC (near field communication) says Bernstein in a note this morning. — We don't have the full note, just highlights from a Bloomberg terminal.
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Fast Company, PC World, Electronista, GigaOM, Jonny Evans's blog, Guardian, AppleInsider, gdgt, BGR, I4U News, GottaBeMobile, IntoMobile, O'Grady's PowerPage, FreakGeeks, Apple Bitch, ReadWriteWeb, Crave, TUAW and mocoNews
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John Paczkowski / Digital Daily:
NFC Might Not Make It Into iPhone 5
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Epicenter, TG Daily, Edible Apple and MacStories
Yusuf Mehdi / Bing:
Facebook Friends Now Fueling Faster Decisions on Bing — At Bing, our mission is to help you make faster, more informed decisions. We designed a new way to experience search, focusing on great design, task completion, instant answers, and vertical categories like shopping and travel to help you make decisions faster.
Chase Hensel / The Official Google Blog:
Expanding Google News for more variety and multimedia — (Cross-posted from the Google News blog) — Every day, Google News crawls through thousands of news articles to present you with the most relevant and recent stories. For a long time, we've realized that bringing relevant news …
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CNET News, PC Magazine, Google Operating System, ReadWriteWeb, Techie Buzz, Search Engine Land and NewsGrange, more at Mediagazer »
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Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Look Out Blogs: Google News Gains Options To Drop Blogs & Press Releases — Tired of seeing blogs or press releases in your Google News homepage? Google's got a cure for that, new settings that allow you to see fewer results from these sources, or none at all.
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Search Engine Roundtable, WebProNews, Digital Inspiration … and Google Operating System
Jonathan S. Geller / BGR:
Apple planning major product launch for 10th retail anniversary? — We have just received some information from a solid Apple source, and if they're right, Apple may be planning something big for its 10th retail anniversary this Thursday the 19th. Here's what we've been told:
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CNET News, MacStories, AppleInsider, 9 to 5 Mac, @jason, Redmond Pie, Apple Gazette, Electricpig.co.uk, TUAW, SAI, TiPb, iLounge, Gadgets DNA, GottaBeMobile, I4U News, iClarified, Apple Bitch, MacNN and everythingiCafe
Jonathan S. Geller / BGR:
Amazon prepping dual-core ‘Coyote’ and quad-core ‘Hollywood’ tablets for 2011 — We received word from a tipster that Amazon, practically confirmed to be entering the tablet market in the near future, isn't planning just one device, but is planning on releasing at least two before the end of the year.
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Gizmodo, Android Phone Fans, Electronista, Android and Me and Tools
Patrick Seybold / PlayStation Blog:
Details for PlayStation Network and Qriocity Customer Appreciation Program in North America — Now that some PlayStation Network and Qriocity services have been restored and you're once again enjoying online gaming and entertainment, we're happy to provide details about the “Welcome Back” …
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VentureBeat, Hardware 2.0 Blog, PlayStation.Blog.Europe, Engadget, ZDNet, Geekosystem, Joystiq, Electronista, PlayStation LifeStyle, Neowin.net, Kotaku and Technologizer
Darren Murph / Engadget:
Seagate's GoFlex Satellite portable hard drive streams content over WiFi (review) — Seagate just took the wraps off what's likely the niftiest portable HDD to cross our path in a long, long while. The GoFlex Satellite is part storage device, part wireless media streamer …
Joanna Stern / This is my next:
Android 3.1 Honeycomb hands-on — Well, it sure did take a few days for Verizon and Motorola to roll out the Android Honeycomb 3.1 update to the majority of Xoom owners, but as they say, better late than never. Yes, my very own Xoom finally received the over-the-air update early Saturday morning …
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GigaOM, TG Daily, I4U News, IntoMobile and TechCrunch
Jessica Guynn / L.A. Times Tech Blog:
Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss lose federal appeals court bid for a rehearing in Facebook case — A federal appeals court has declined to review a legal challenge from Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, who claim that Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg stole their idea for the social networking site.
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eWeek, Bits, Reuters, NetworkEffect and NBC Bay Area
Staci D. Kramer / paidContent:
Post-Disney Miramax Signs First Major Digital Deal With Netflix — Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) continues to add programming strength to its digital service. Starting next month Netflix subscribers will have instant access to hundreds of Miramax titles from Oscar winners like The English Patient …
Vlad Savov / Engadget:
Samsung Galaxy S II US carrier names revealed: AT&T Attain, Verizon Function, and Sprint Within — Anticipation, thy name is Galaxy S II. Or is it Galaxy S 2 Attain? Perhaps it's Galaxy S 2 Function or Within, it all depends on what carrier you prefer, really.
Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
New bill upgrades unauthorized Internet streaming to a felony — Two months ago, US Intellectual Property Enforcement Coordinator Victoria Espinel produced her wishlist of changes to US law. One item in particular caught our interest—the suggestion that the online streaming of copyrighted content be bumped up to a full-scale felony.
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Vanessa Grigoriadis / Vanity Fair:
Ol' Mark Pincus Had a Farm... Zynga—the company behind such Facebook games as FarmVille, CityVille, and Zynga Poker—is the hottest topic in Silicon Valley: valued at $10 billion, with 250 million users and a rumored I.P.O. next year. Its C.E.O., Mark Pincus, takes fun very, very seriously.
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Gawker
Sapna Maheshwari / Bloomberg:
Google Makes $3 Billion Bond-Market Debut — Google Inc. (GOOG), whose shares have dropped 9 percent this year, is making its first foray into the bond market with a planned $3 billion sale to pay back short- term borrowings. — “People aren't going to do very much credit analysis …
Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft Blog:
Mono lives ... in new startup Xamarin — Just over a week after reports that Attachmate/Novell was axing the team that developed the Mono open-source implementation of .Net, Miguel de Icaza announced plans to keep the technology alive via a new startup, Xamarin.
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The Register, internetnews.com, GigaOM, eWeek, Miguel de Icaza and Tim Anderson's ITWriting
Bloomberg:
Hewlett-Packard CEO Girds for ‘Tough Quarter’ — Hewlett-Packard Co. (HPQ) Chief Executive Officer Leo Apotheker told top executives that he's bracing for “another tough quarter” in the period that ends in July and urged deputies to “watch every penny and minimize all hiring.”
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Wall Street Journal, NewEnterprise, Tech Trader Daily and SAI
Sinead Carew / Reuters:
AT&T plans consumer security service for 2012 — (Reuters) - AT&T Inc plans to launch a wireless security service for consumers next year to help combat a big rise in cyber attacks on mobile devices, a top executive said. — As more people use smartphones like Apple Inc's iPhone …
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MediaFile, The Toybox Blog, FierceWireless, Electronista and MobileBurn.com
Jenna Wortham / New York Times:
Skype-Style Calls Force Wireless Carriers to Adapt — Today, long-winded talkers need to worry about running out of minutes on their cellphone plans. But someday there will be no minutes to run out of — just megabytes. — Wireless carriers now funnel voice and data traffic …
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Telecompetitor, Alec Saunders and VoIP Watch
Robin Wauters / TechCrunchIT:
VMware Buys Cloud-Based IT Management Service Provider Shavlik Technologies — Virtualization software giant VMware this morning announced that it has agreed to acquire Shavlik Technologies, a provider of cloud-based IT management solutions for small and medium businesses.
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Market Wire, Shavlik, Between the Lines Blog, PC World and GigaOM
Matt Brian / The Next Web:
Lodsys explains in-app patent warning letters sent to iOS developers — On Friday, news broke of a number of warning letters sent to application developers for iPhone and iPad applications, warning them that by using Apple's in-app payment mechanism, they were violating a patent issued to “inventions” firm Lodsys.
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Lodsys, LLC, Lodsys, FOSS Patents, Engadget, mobiputing, PC World, MacStories, GigaOM, 9 to 5 Mac, TUAW, Hardware 2.0 Blog, Mobile Entertainment, MarketingVOX and everythingiCafe, Thanks:m4tt
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Kleiner Perkins Leads $9M Round In Apache Hadoop-Based Analytics Platform Datameer — Datameer, a startup that offers a big data analytics solution built on Apache Hadoop, has raised $9.25 million led by Kleiner Perkins with participation from Redpoint Ventures. Kleiner partner Ellen Pao will be joining Datameer's board.
Jay Yarow / Business Insider:
LinkedIn Shares Start Trading Thursday — LinkedIn shares are going to hit the public markets starting on Thursday, the WSJ reports. LinkedIn is looking to raise $274 million with the offering. It is pricing its shares at $32 to $35, and is looking at a $3 billion valuation.
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Tencent And Expedia Invest $126 Million In Chinese Online Travel Marketplace eLong — Chinese internet giant Tencent and U.S. travel bookings company Expedia have invested in Chinese travel site eLong, totaling $126 million. Tencent has acquired approximately 16% of the outstanding shares …
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PR Newswire and eMoney
Ryan Kim / GigaOM:
StackMob Grabs $7.5M to Offer Backend Support for Mobile Devs — Stackmob, a cloud platform for mobile developers built in the mold of Heroku, has raised $7.5 million in a Series A round as it ramps up its offering for mobile developers. The new money, led by Trinity Ventures …
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Inside Mobile Apps, Market Wire, ReadWriteWeb, NetworkEffect, TechCrunch, alarm:clock, VatorNews, VentureBeat, Xconomy and silicontap.com
