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Kellex / Droid Life:
Exclusive: Tiered Data Plans Headed to Verizon July 7, Packages Start at $30 for 2GB — We knew that July 7 was going to mark the beginning of something after Verizon extended out the free 4G hotspot promo one more time to the 6th, but what we weren't 100% sure of was if it would have to do with tiered data.
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Jordan Golson / MacRumors:
Verizon Dropping Unlimited Data Plan Next Month
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Droid Life, PC World, Macworld and GottaBeMobile
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Dropbox Security Bug Made Passwords Optional For Four Hours — This morning a post on Pastebin outlined a serious security issue that was spotted at Dropbox: for a brief period of time, the service allowed users to log into accounts using any password. In other words, you could log …
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Geek.com, Delimiter, Helloform, AccMan Pro, Neowin.net and WPCentral.com
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Arash Ferdowsi / The Dropbox Blog:
Yesterday's Authentication Bug — Yesterday we made a code update at 1:54pm Pacific time that introduced a bug affecting our authentication mechanism. We discovered this at 5:41pm and a fix was live at 5:46pm. A very small number of users (much less than 1 percent) logged in during that period …
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CNET News.com, SmoothSpan Blog, Gizmodo, Threat Level, Liquidmatrix Security Digest, forums.dropbox.com, TUAW, Lifehacker and @csoghoian
Omar Shahine / The Windows Blog:
Introducing SkyDrive for the modern web, built using HTML5 — We're committed to making SkyDrive the best place to get access to your content from anywhere, collaborate on Office docs, and share photos. Mike recently talked about how we're delivering access to your information seamlessly across devices - starting with Windows Phone.
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VentureBeat, Technologizer, SAI, SiliconFilter, LiveSide.net, TechCrunch, The Microsoft Blog, WPCentral.com, Gizmodo, GeekWire, All about Microsoft Blog, Neowin.net, WMPU and WinRumors, Thanks:harrisonhoffman
Foursquare Blog:
Wow! The foursquare community has over 10,000,000 members! — And, to commemorate this pretty crazy occasion, we put together a little infographic. Be sure to click through to see it bigger; if you're anything like us, watching the full-size animated map puts butterflies in your tummy.
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The Next Web, L.A. Times Tech Blog, TechCrunch, Search Engine Land, @jason, SAI, StartupLocker, VatorNews, About Foursquare, @bluto_corp, msnbc.com and AllThingsD
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Liz Gannes / AllThingsD:
Caterina Fake Raising $2M for New Social Start-Up — Caterina Fake, co-founder of Flickr and Hunch and an investor in companies like Etsy, has a new start-up that she says will be consumer-facing and social. — She's raising what looks like a $2 million round, according to an SEC filing …
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Why We Often Blindside Companies
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Daring Fireball, @marcoarment, @dangillmor, @peteryared, @sarahcuda, @alexbraunstein, @furrier, @marshallk, @gnat, @jason, @tcarmody, @megan and Betabeat, more at Mediagazer »
Caterina Fake / Caterina.net:
New Startup! — Entrepreneurs gonna entrepreneur. I have a new startup!
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cdixon.org, Digital Media and VatorNews
Kashmir Hill / The Not-So Private Parts:
Now Your Embarrassing/Job-Threatening Facebook Photos Could Haunt You For Seven Years — These privacy sunglasses are seeming like more of a necessity — Last week, the Federal Trade Commission gave a stamp of approval to a background check company that screens job applicants based on their Internet photos and postings.
Dieter Bohn / This is my next:
Nokia N9 Lankku leaks out in images and renders — If you're among those waiting for Nokia to lay down a proper MeeGo powered phone, take a good long look at the two images above. On the left, one of two renders Pocketnow identifies as press images of the Nokia N9, a replacement for the likely-canceled N9-00.
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Nokia Conversations, Engadget, The Next Web, Electronista, Gizmodo, GottaBeMobile and All About Symbian
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Ina Fried / AllThingsD:
Nokia Introduces N9, Reiterates First Windows Phones Will Ship This Year
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Reuters, Nokia Conversations and Engadget
John Paczkowski / AllThingsD:
Consumers Don't Want Tablets, They Want iPads — A theory: Though consumers desire the iPad for the functions it performs, they want it more for what it is. Just as many preferred the iPod to the generic MP3 player, so too do they prefer the iPad to the generic “tablet.”
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Technologizer, PC Magazine, eHomeUpgrade, TUAW, MacDailyNews and NBC Bay Area
Jordan Golson / MacRumors:
If You Use All Your iCloud Storage, Apple Sends You This Email — A reader sent us this email he received from the “MobileMe Quota Service”, informing that he was using 4.2GB of his 5GB of free iCloud storage. — The email notes that once the storage is full, iOS devices will no longer …
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The Next Web and TUAW
Jordan Golson / MacRumors:
Apple Tried And Failed To Make A Black MacBook Air? — Apple did indeed test out a black powder-coated MacBook Air, but the treatment absorbed body oils and didn't live up to Steve's standards, according to an anonymous Apple employee. — This employee got in touch after we wrote about emails …
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eWeek, Apple, 9 to 5 Mac, Computerworld, AppleInsider, The Toybox Blog, SlashGear, MacStories, CrunchGear and Gizmodo, Thanks:jlgolson
Matt Rosoff / SAI: Silicon Alley Insider:
THEY STILL EXIST: Startups That Survived The Dot-Com Bust And Are Ready To Cash In On The New Boom — Pandora's recent IPO is a good reminder that the tech industry is sometimes a game of attrition. — The company was founded in 1999 and struggled for years — founder Tim Westergren went through …
Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
What The New ICANN Domain Names Mean For Google Rankings & SEO: Nothing — ICANN - the organization in charge of internet domain names - has approved plans that may create hundreds or thousands of new “top level domain names.” I've seen some reports already that this will help with search engine optimization.
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Charles Newark-French / Flurry:
Mobile Apps Put the Web in Their Rear-view Mirror — Although the Internet entered the mainstream a mere 15 years ago, life without it today is nearly incomprehensible. And our use of the web has rapidly changed as well. In simple terms, it has evolved from online directories (Yahoo!) …
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HipMojo.com, ReadWriteWeb, SAI, 9 to 5 Mac, Internet2Go, TechCrunch, RazorianFly, MediaPost, digiday:DAILY and Appolicious Advisor
Kevin C. Tofel / GigaOM:
Seesmic dumps BlackBerry: Start of a stampede? — Seesmic, a popular third-party Twitter client for desktop and mobile devices, today announced it would end support for BlackBerry handsets at the end of June. In a blog post today, the company shared the news, saying the reason for the decision is …
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Seesmic Blog, TechCrunch, ReadWriteWeb, SAI, ITworld.com, CrackBerry.com blogs, MacNN, MobileBurn.com, WMPU, PhoneArena, Tracy and Matt's Blog, Phone Scoop and The Loop
Thea / Groublogpon:
The Groupon Guide to the “Quiet Period” — At the bottom of each Daily Groupon feature, users can find Groupon the Cat, slouching majestically across a cloud of pure wisdom. Groupon dispenses ancient truisms that still have relevance to our modern lives, as evidenced by today's entry:
Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
Hulu Plays Along With Apple's New Rules. Who's Next? — Apple's new subscription rules could have posed a problem for services like Hulu. But when Steve Jobs changed his mind earlier this month, life got a lot easier. — Here's the old version of the Hulu Plus subscription app for the iPad:
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Engadget, paidContent, eBookNewser, TUAW, PC World, PC Magazine, SAI, MacRumors and AppleInsider, more at Mediagazer »
Tim Conneally / BetaNews:
LightSquared cuts base station power by 50% to halt GPS interference — Mobile network LightSquared today said it has a solution to the problem of interference with Global Positioning System (GPS) receivers that will allow the company to proceed with the construction of its new hybrid satellite/cellular data network.
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CNET News, Engadget and Electronista
Liz Gannes / AllThingsD:
What's Really Going on With Facebook's Mobile Plans? An Explainer for the Rest of Us. — The hullabaloo around Facebook's upcoming mobile products in the past week was probably bigger than the news itself. But if you clear away the fuss, we now know a bit more about what the largest social network …
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Inside Mobile Apps and digiday:DAILY
Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
‘Reminder: Call Dad’ Is Another Notch In Google's Belt Of Social Fail — Google, Google, Google ... I don't know if it's that you just don't understand the intricacies of interpersonal relationships or if getting the social stuff right is just extremely difficult ...
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The Not-So Private Parts, PC World, Technologizer, Digital Trends, WebProNews, Internet Evolution and Techland
Brian / Uber Blog:
Uber Drops Fares 50% For SF Taxi Strike — Tomorrow is going to be a tough day for getting around in San Francisco. Taxi drivers are going on strike, and while they circle City Hall in hopes of getting a better deal, Uber is making sure to do our part to keep San Francisco moving.
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Examiner, @marshallk and TechCrunch
Jonathan S. Geller / BGR:
RIM is black-burying carriers with half-baked BlackBerrys — Launching new products is always difficult. Launching new products with hundreds of different carriers is exponentially more difficult. Apparently there is an easy way and a hard way to do things, however, and RIM has been making carriers offers they can't refuse.
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Reuters, SlashGear, MobileCrunch and Electronista
Cindy Cohn / Electronic Frontier Foundation:
EFF and Bitcoin — For several months, EFF has been following the movement around Bitcoin, an electronic payment system that touts itself as “the first decentralized digital currency.” We helped inform our members about this unique project through our blog and we experimented …
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@counternotions and @mkapor, Thanks:bskingdom
