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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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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
That Apple Television Is Coming This August Alongside The iPhone Nano (And Santa) — I really wanted to do the headline without the Santa bit, but I didn't want to be that much of an ass. — Regardless, let's see how many people report this as fact just from the headline.
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Jonathan S. Geller / BGR:
Apple iPhone 5 to be major update after all; announcement and availability in August?
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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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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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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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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.
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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Todd Bishop / GeekWire:
Q&A: Meet the 15-year-old who just sold his tech startup — Daniil Kulchenko in the KIRO-FM studios (Erynn Rose photo) — Our guest on the latest GeekWire Podcast was Daniil Kulchenko, the 15-year-old sophomore from Kenmore, north of Seattle, who last week announced the sale …
Thanks:johnhcook
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 …
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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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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TechEye, Gizmodo, 9 to 5 Mac, SlashGear, The Next Web, MacStories and PhoneArena, Thanks:hecatae
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
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, LiveSide.net, PhoneArena, Softpedia News, Windows Phone Sauce, Neowin.net, WMPU, GottaBeMobile, WinRumors, Pocket-lint, Electronista and The Seattle Times
Brian Heater / Engadget:
Vizio Tablet gets detailed, we go hands-on (video) — Way back in January at CES, we managed to sneak in a little bit of hands-on time with the Vizio tablet, the TV manufacturer's straightforwardly-name foray into the ever-popular space. The tablet runs Gingerbread at present …
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LAPTOP Magazine, SlashGear, Technology Questions and Electronista
Dan Frommer / SAI: Silicon Alley Insider:
Shopkick Looks Beyond The Big-Box: First 1,000 Small Businesses Get Free Installation — Shopkick, an almost year-old check-in/rewards app for shopping, has been very successful so far getting big, nationwide chains to use it: Partners include Best Buy, Target, Macy's, Crate and Barrel …
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GigaOM and Local Media Watch
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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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
Ashish Venugopal / The Official Google Blog:
Google Translate welcomes you to the Indic web — (Cross-posted on the Translate Blog and Research Blog) — Beginning today, you can explore the linguistic diversity of the Indian sub-continent with Google Translate, which now supports five new experimental alpha languages: Bengali, Gujarati, Kannada, Tamil and Telugu.
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Google Operating System, Softpedia News, MediaNama, Search Engine Journal and The Next Web
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, Google Watch, Digitizor, SlashGear, Electronista, ZDNet, Tech Europe, Techie Buzz, SAI, Softpedia News, Neowin.net and Crave
Ryan Kim / GigaOM:
Mobile devices overtake computers on Wi-Fi networks — Mobile devices, led by the iPad and Android phones and tablets, have overtaken computers on Wi-Fi networks, according to a new report from cloud networking provider Meraki. It's another sign that mobile is increasingly the way people access …
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NevilleHobson.com, Android Phone Fans, AppScout, Electronista and SAI
