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Heidi / Nokia Conversations:
Introducing the Nokia N9: all it takes is a swipe! — SINGAPORE - At the Nokia Connection event in Singapore today, Nokia introduced the Nokia N9, the first-ever pure touch smartphone that is all about making things simpler. Nokia N9 focuses on the most important things that people do …
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Nilay Patel / This is my next:
Nokia N9 officially announced: unibody design, buttonless ‘swipe’ UI, and the lost promise of Meego — Nokia might be all about Windows Phone 7 now, but the Espoo crew isn't quite done with those “burning platforms” yet — and the new N9 might be the ultimate oh-Meego-we-hardly-knew-ye swan song.
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Engadget, Nokia Conversations, Electricpig.co.uk and My Nokia Blog
Ina Fried / AllThingsD:
Nokia Introduces N9, Reiterates First Windows Phones Will Ship This Year — Nokia CEO Stephen Elop said that he has increasing confidence the company will ship its first Windows Phones this year, though significant volumes won't come until next year. — “We have shifted our organization …
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, Naked Security, TUAW, @f, Helloform, AccMan Pro, Delimiter and Neowin.net
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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 …
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 and Macworld
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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SocialTimes.com, LiveSide.net, TechCrunch, All about Microsoft Blog, MSDN Blogs, SAI, Technologizer, SiliconFilter, VentureBeat, WPCentral.com, WMPU, GeekWire, The Microsoft Blog, Neowin.net, WinRumors and Gizmodo, Thanks:harrisonhoffman
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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9 to 5 Mac, Neowin.net, Electricpig.co.uk, AppleInsider, eWeek, Computerworld, Redmond Pie, CrunchGear, Softpedia News, TUAW, StartupLocker, The Toybox Blog and I4U News, Thanks:jlgolson
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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Softpedia News, L.A. Times Tech Blog, TechCrunch, The Next Web, @jason, @bluto_corp, @fredericl, Search Engine Land, VatorNews, StartupLocker, About Foursquare, SAI, msnbc.com and New Media Age
Chris Ziegler / This is my next:
Windows Phone ‘Mango’ preview — Though it's not launching for several more months, Microsoft is getting its first major Windows Phone update — codenamed “Mango” — out in front of developers and media way early, just as it did with the Windows Phone 7 kickoff a year ago.
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Tom Warren / WinRumors:
Windows Phone Mango ‘secret’ features demo [video]
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Jay Yarow / SAI: Silicon Alley Insider:
The Real Reason There Was No Email On The BlackBerry PlayBook — When Research In Motion shipped the PlayBook without native email support, it was surprising. — After all, RIM's greatest strength is a killer email-application for BlackBerrys. Why didn't it have email baked into the PlayBook?
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GottaBeMobile and CrunchGear
Harry McCracken / Technologizer:
“Why Should Somebody Buy This Instead of an iPad?” — It's been fifteen months since the first iPad shipped. Nearly every sizable company that makes anything that looks even sort of like a computer or a phone has rushed into the market that Apple created. Many of these companies haven't yet shipped the tablets they've announced.
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Nikhil Pahwa / MediaNama:
Google Street View Stops Driving In India; Bangalore Police — Exclusive: Google has paused it's Street View project in India, the company has confirmed to MediaNama, stating that they received a letter from the Commissioner of Police regarding street view, and decided to stop Street View cars …
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Times of India, The Register, Pluggd.in and Brave New World
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
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.
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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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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@mkapor, Naked Security, @counternotions and The Next Web, Thanks:bskingdom
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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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 …
Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
DARPA-Born TrapIt Wants to be Your Personalized Newsreader of the Future — How would you like to have a “cognitive prosthetic” that could “adapt to unexpected events” in situations of “intense information overload”...as a personal newsreader app online? That sounds pretty hot and it's exactly …
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GigaOM, AllThingsD, Mashable!, @fredericl and Technology Review
Mark Gurman / 9 to 5 Mac:
Apple about to drop cheaper AirPort Extreme, 3TB Time Capsule — Apple is set to release upgraded models of their AirPort Extreme and Time Capsule products. The brand name wireless routers have been constrained for many weeks now in retail locations across the globe: from Apple Stores to Best Buy to resellers world wide.
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Engadget, MacRumors, Apple Bitch, MacStories, TUAW and SlashGear, Thanks:lillerik
Brooke Crothers / CNet News:
Intel adds Sandy Bridge chips for ultraslim laptops — Intel has added three power-frugal Sandy Bridge chip models to its lineup, while a research note Monday from a Gleacher & Company analyst says the chipmaker will boost its presence in the burgeoning market for ultrathin laptops like the MacBook Air.
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Engadget, AppleInsider, 9 to 5 Mac, SlashGear, MacStories, Electronista and MacRumors
Katie Fehrenbacher / GigaOM:
iControl raises $50M from Intel, Cisco, Comcast, Kleiner — On the heels of Silion Valley startup iControl securing a deal to provide its software for Comcast's new home security and energy management service, iControl announced Monday that it has raised another $50 million in a Series D round …
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PR Newswire and SiliconANGLE
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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SocialTimes.com, Google Watch, eHomeUpgrade and PC Magazine
Tom Warren / WinRumors:
Apple iOS 5 now outperforms IE9 HTML5 on Windows Phone Mango — Microsoft kicked off a mobile HTML5 performance war back in April. — The software giant demonstrated a Windows Phone Mango device against an Android and iPhone 4. Windows Phone came out on top but it hasn't taken Apple long to respond.
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9 to 5 Mac, AllThingsD, MacNN, AppleInsider and eWeek
Cade Metz / The Register:
Google bypasses admin controls with latest Chrome IE — ‘Screw your BOFH. Install our plug-in’ — Google has released a new version of Chrome Frame - the Internet Explorer plug-in that turns Microsoft's browser into a Google browser - letting users install the plug-in even when they …
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