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Bloomberg:
Apple Said to Prepare Faster IPhone for September — Apple Inc. (AAPL) plans to introduce a new iPhone in September that boasts a stronger chip for processing data and a more advanced camera, according to two people familiar with the plans. — The device will include the A5 processor …
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App Advice, Shiny Objects, 9 to 5 Mac, Techie Buzz, MacHackPC, ITProPortal and MacRumors
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Jonathan S. Geller / BGR:
Apple iPhone 5 to be major update after all; announcement and availability in August? — While Apple has indeed been giving some developers access to a device known as the iPhone 4S — an iPhone 4 with upgraded internals — BGR has independently confirmed that the next-generation iPhone …
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Softpedia News, PhoneArena, AppleInsider, Computerworld, Apple, Examiner, MacRumors, Delimiter, SlashPhone, eWeek, TechSpot, Redmond Pie, CrunchGear, MacNN, PC Magazine, Tech Trader Daily, ITProPortal, iThinkDifferent, Neowin.net, Techland, iPhone Download Blog, Pocket-lint, App Advice, MacStories, IntoMobile, RazorianFly, CNET News.com, Edible Apple, MacHackPC, mocoNews, iPhone Alley, Mobile Marketing Watch and Techie Buzz
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
That Apple Television Is Coming This August Alongside The iPhone Nano (And Santa)
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ITProPortal and Examiner
Jay Yarow / SAI: Silicon Alley Insider:
RUMOR: Apple Could Release A Full On Television Later This Year
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App Advice, DailyTech, MacGazette.net, Electricpig.co.uk, Pocket-lint, MacRumors, 9 to 5 Mac, T3.com News, Techie Buzz, Neowin.net, Examiner, Redmond Pie, MacDailyNews, AppleInsider, iPhone Download Blog, SlashGear, RazorianFly, iClarified, Electronista, The Next Web, PE Hub Blog and @cdixon
Ina Fried / AllThingsD:
Meet the Stealthy Start-Up That Aims to Sharpen Focus of Entire Camera Industry — A Mountain View start-up is promising that its camera, due later this year, will bring the biggest change to photography since the transition from film to digital. — Ordinarily, I'm turned off by such hyperbole …
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New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Techie Buzz, I4U News, Social Markets, Digits and 1001 Noisy Cameras
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Sarah Lacy / TechCrunch:
Lytro Launches to Transform Photography with $50M in Venture Funds (TCTV) — Love photos but utterly bored by wave after wave of iPhone photo sharing apps? Lytro is the company for you. This is also the company for anyone who thinks Silicon Valley has fallen into a rut of innovation-less posing.
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Gizmodo, ben's blog, Mashable!, SlashGear, LYTRO BLOG and PetaPixel
Dawn Chmielewski / Company Town:
Yahoo approaches Hulu about possible acquisition — Yahoo Inc. recently approached Hulu to discuss a possible acquisition of the popular online video service, according to a person with knowledge of the matter. — Hulu, which streams television shows on the Internet, has been the subject of intense speculation about its future.
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Engadget, FT Tech Hub, Electronista, SAI, DealBook and Gizmodo, more at Mediagazer »
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Yahoo's 360 Degree Turnaround — Oof, Yahoo. The Alibaba dispute, just the most recent Yahoo trainwreck, is still a fresh wound for shareholders. And things are getting worse. — Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz has long promised a turnaround at the lagging company.
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Verne G. Kopytoff / Bits:
F.B.I. Seizes Web Servers, Knocking Sites Offline — Updated Adding that the F.B.I. did not comment. — The F.B.I. seized Web servers in a raid on a data center Tuesday, causing several Web sites, including sites run by the New York publisher Curbed Network, to go offline.
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TechEye, Yahoo! News, The New York Observer, Pinboard, @mathewi, Gawker, thinq_, The Register, CNET News.com and Gizmodo
DigiTimes:
Amazon to launch tablet PCs in August-September, say Taiwan component makers — Amazon is poised to step into tablet PCs and will launch models as son as August-September, with targeted global sales of four million units for 2011, according to Taiwan-based component makers.
Vlad Savov / Engadget:
Nokia N9 first hands-on! (update: video) — The N9 has arrived. Functional units of Nokia's long-awaited MeeGo smartphone have finally landed into our eager hands and we've got a gallery of images to provide you with below. What we can say from our first experience is that we're …
Florian Mueller / FOSS Patents:
Samsung has to wait for iPad 3 and iPhone 5, but Apple may have to wait for a preliminary injunction — Last week I reported on Apple's staunch opposition to Samsung's request for early access to product samples of (and packaging and marketing materials related to) the next generation of the iPad and the iPhone.
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Gizmodo, 9 to 5 Mac, MacStories, SlashGear, The Next Web and PhoneArena, Thanks:hecatae
Amir Efrati / Digits:
Google Notches One Billion Unique Visitors Per Month — Google's websites had more than a billion unique visitors in May, the first time an Internet company has hit that benchmark, according to comScore data released Tuesday. — Over the past year, Google's unique visitors per month have increased 8.4% to just over one billion.
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Telegraph, SAI, Softpedia News, 9to5 Google and MacHackPC
Sal Rodriguez / L.A. Times Tech Blog:
LulzSec says it's outing two who may have led to arrest of an alleged hacker — The hacker group LulzSec posted the identities of two people it claimed had snitched on it and provided information that may have led to the arrest of a teen hacker in England. — “These goons begged us for mercy …
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Pastebin.com, Digital Trends, THN, CNET News.com, Zero Day Blog, TG Daily and thinq_
Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land:
Official: Google Panda Update 2.2 Is Live — Google has given us confirmation that they have ran an update to the Panda filter recently. — We have been expecting the Panda 2.2 update based on news coming out of the SMX Advanced conference. Matt Cutts told SMX attendees that Panda 2.2 has been approved …
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Search Engine Watch and Marketing Pilgrim
Stephen Shankland / CNET:
Google building Skype-alike software into Chrome — Heads up, Skype. — Shortly after releasing software for audio and video chat as an open-source project called WebRTC as open-source software, Google is beginning to build it into its Chrome browser. — The real-time chat software originated …
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TechEye, Engadget, Digitizor, Google Watch, SlashGear, ZDNet, Electronista, Techie Buzz, Softpedia News, Neowin.net, Crave and SAI
Kelly Hodgkins / TUAW:
iPhone 4 most popular camera on Flickr — The iPhone 4 is now the most popular camera on Flickr, with a caveat. More on that in a minute. The smartphone's 5-megapixel shooter has finally surpassed the Nikon D90 as the top camera on the photo hosting and sharing service.
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TechCrunch, Examiner, Electronista, Redmond Pie, ITProPortal, RazorianFly, The Next Web, MacStories and everythingiCafe
John V. / PhoneArena:
AT&T announces its new $50 prepaid unlimited talk, text, & web plan — Setting its eye on the always competitive prepaid market, which has been dominated heavily by the likes of MetroPCS, Cricket, and Boost Mobile, national carrier AT&T Wireless has just announced its new $50 unlimited plan to compete against its stacked rivals.
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SocialTimes.com, AT&T, MobileCrunch, SlashGear, IntoMobile and Engadget
Janko Roettgers / GigaOM:
Bootstrapping the CNN of tech: the story of TWiT — It all started with boredom. Leo Laporte had a few gigs with TV and radio networks back in 2005, but his work schedule left him with nothing to do half of the month. So he started an audio podcast called This Week in Tech, also known as TWiT.
Thanks:olsenmike
Francis Tan / The Next Web:
Asia surges in iPhone App Store downloads, China now second biggest market after U.S. — The rise of the Asia as a region for sustainable app distribution is clearly evident. According to the latest Distimo Report, the download volume in the Apple App Store for iPhone from Asian countries grew significantly in the past six months.
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paidContent and TechCrunch
Sascha Segan / PC Magazine:
Will Nokia Launch Its First Windows Phone on Oct. 26? — SHENZHEN, CHINA—Nokia set the date for its annual Nokia World conference on October 26-27 in London, fueling speculation that this will be the venue for the company to announce its first Windows Phones. — Right now there aren't many details on the Nokia World site.
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WPCentral.com, Softpedia News, WMPU, GottaBeMobile, Neowin.net, WinRumors, Pocket-lint and Electronista
Frederic Lardinois / SiliconFilter:
Hackers Take Down Australian Web Host, Leave 4,800 Sites Unrecoverable — There has been a frenzy of hacking activity over the last few weeks from organizations like LulzSec and others that affected a number of major brands ranging from Sony to Citibank. Over the weekend …
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Sydney Morning Herald and Gizmodo
Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
The downside of Facebook as a public space: Censorship — The benefits of being on Facebook are fairly obvious by now: you can connect to friends and family and share things with them no matter where they are — and it's all free! This quasi-public space is also owned and controlled by a corporate entity …
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Jillian C. York, Gizmodo, All and Chris Peterson, Thanks:michelemclellan
Maria Halkias / Seattle Times:
Amazon offers Texas 5,000 jobs in trade for sales-tax exemption — DALLAS — Amazon.com wants to make a deal with the state of Texas. — The proposed offer circulating around Austin and obtained by The Dallas Morning News would let Amazon off the hook for collecting sales taxes …
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Austin American-Statesman, The Next Web, VatorNews and TechFlash
