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Joe Wilcox / BetaNews:
Mac OS X 10.6.8 is out, and you need it for Lion — Say, had you wondered about those strange system requirements for Apple's Final Cut Pro X — Mac OS X 10.6.8, yet only dot seven was available? Wonder no more. Late today, Apple released the dot 8 update, quite likely the last before OS X 10.7, aka “Lion”, releases next month.
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Apple, AppleInsider, TUAW, TUAW, Apple Gazette, MacGazette.net, 9 to 5 Mac, Shoutpedia, Techie Buzz, 9 to 5 Mac, TidBITS, Mashable!, BGR, RazorianFly, CNET News, Computerworld, GigaOM, MacRumors, iThinkDifferent, Redmond Pie, Gizmodo, The Next Web, MacNN and The Loop
Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
LulzSec Releases Arizona Law Enforcement Data In Retaliation For Immigration Law — LulzSec has just released a a torrent of data it claims to belong to Arizona law enforcement. — From their press release:
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TechEye, Reuters, Inquirer, Computerworld, Guardian, Lulzsec, Boing Boing, Techland, New York Times, PE Hub Blog, Examiner, Digital Trends, Neowin.net, Slyck, AllThingsD, L.A. Times Tech Blog, PC Magazine, Zero Day Blog, Electronista, Softpedia News, msnbc.com, CNET News, TG Daily, ZeroPaid.com, @lulzsec and Gizmodo
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Arik Hesseldahl / AllThingsD:
Arizona Confirms LulzSec Docs Are Authentic, Worries About Officer Safety — Officials in Arizona have confirmed that the documents dumped by the hacker group LulzSec are authentic. They also say they're concerned that the release of personal information about some officers could compromise their safety.
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Arizona Republic, Guardian, Wall Street Journal, BetaNews and thinq_
Jessica Guynn / L.A. Times Tech Blog:
Winklevoss twins press Facebook case in Boston federal court after dropping Supreme Court appeal — As the old saying goes, it ain't over until it's over. — And Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss are not finished with Facebook yet. The dramatic seven-year legal feud that inspired “The Social Network” may have one last plot twist.
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Inquirer, The Register, Wall Street Journal, AllThingsD, Techdirt, Pocket-lint, PC Magazine, @aulia, Neowin.net, T3.com News and FT Tech Hub, Thanks:allnick
Thomas Catan / Wall Street Journal:
FTC to Serve Google With Subpoenas in Broad Antitrust Probe — The U.S. Federal Trade Commission is poised to serve Google Inc. with civil subpoenas, according to people familiar with the matter, signaling the start of a wide-ranging, formal antitrust investigation into whether the search giant has abused its dominance on the Web.
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Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
Is Nanosys' awesome new screen technology gonna be in iPad 3? I hope so. Wow. — When Nanosys CEO Jason Hartlove pulled two iPads out of his bag and turned them on one looked like when I first saw my first Kodachrome slide while the other looked muddy and crappy in comparison …
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I4U News, SlashGear and Electronista, Thanks:scobleizer
Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
In-Stream Ads Are Coming To Twitter, Will A User Revolt Follow? — After nine months of testing in-stream Promoted Tweets on third party client Hootsuite, reports have surfaced today that Twitter's head of monetization Adam Bain has been pushing a new in-timeline Promoted Tweets product during …
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Tim Bradshaw / FT Technology:
Twitter plans bolder advertisements
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The Huffington Post, The Next Web, MediaNama, iFans, VatorNews, WebProNews, The Business Insider, AllTwitter and Adotas
Business Week:
Why Some Skypers Are Seeing Red — Departing employees have had their stock options zeroed out — For decades, people such as Yee Lee have been coming to Silicon Valley for the opportunity to work not just for a salary but for stock options that give employees the right to buy a chunk …
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Tech Europe
Ricky Laishram / Digitizor:
Jingle Becomes The Default Protocol For Google Talk's VoIP — Google has announced that Google Talk calls will now use the Jingle (XEP-166 and XEP-167) protocol as the primary signaling protocol. — Jingle is an extension of the XMPP which supports peer-to-peer multimedia interaction such as VoIP and Videoconferencing.
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The XMPP Standards Foundation
Jack Clark / ZDNet:
Google: ‘At scale, everything breaks’ — Q&A — Google operates technology that is expected to be reliable in the face of major traffic demands. — To scale its services, the company has developed many systems, such as MapReduce and Google File System, that have since been made open source …
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Ben Elowitz / AllThingsD:
The Web Is Shrinking. Now What? — We all read the statistics every week documenting the meteoric new growth areas of the Internet, and they are impressive: — Online video is exploding, with annual user growth of more than 45 percent. Mobile-device time spent increased 28 percent last year …
Tim Stevens / Engadget:
Prototype dual-screened 2-in-1 Android smartpad from Imerj preview — From the front it looks like yet another plain smartphone — dark, nondescript, and maybe a little like an iPhone 4 that's had its right-most extent sliced off. Pick it up, though, and you realize this little thing isn't so nondescript.
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Inquirer, SlashGear, PhoneArena, AndroidGuys and Android Phone Fans
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
The State Of iFund: 3 Years, 25 Companies, 2 Exits, Over 300 Million Downloads This Year — Today at their offices in Menlo Park, venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers is celebrating the third anniversary of the iFund. Technically, the fund started in March of 2008 alongside …
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Mobile Entertainment, AppleInsider, Electronista and AllThingsD
Todd Haselton / BGR:
40% of European smartphone buyers intend to buy an iPhone next — Yankee Group is set to release its European Mobile User Study next month and the research firm has just provided a quick glimpse into its early findings. Reportedly, 40% of European smartphone buyers plan to purchase an iPhone as their next device.
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AppleInsider, Electronista and Fudzilla
Shirlene Lim / The Windows Blog:
Upping our game: What's new in the Games Hub for Mango — I used to play games on my Xbox only on the weekends. Now that I work on and own a Windows Phone, I play them at least once a day. As a new “avid gamer” and one of the program managers behind the Games Hub, I'm excited …
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TechNet Blogs, Mobile Entertainment, SocialTimes.com, SlashGear, Neowin.net, Electronista, Engadget, IntoMobile, Windows Phone Secrets, The Next Web, WMPU, WPCentral.com and Joystiq
Evan Williams / Evhead:
Five Reasons Domains Are Getting Less Important — While discussing possible names for a product recently, someone asked me if we were at the point where getting the perfect domain name was less important than it used to be. While I'm still a sucker for a clean .com, it does seem less important …
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Techland, @jason, @loic, Fusible.com and parislemon
Pamela Parker / Search Engine Land:
Google Rolls Out Behavioral Targeting To All AdWords Advertisers — Google is finally rolling out the ability to target ads to users by interest — based on their previous browsing activity, or behavior — to all of its advertisers. The company first announced a beta test of this capability …
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Josh Constine / Inside Facebook:
Facebook Testing Home Page Design That Keeps Ads and Bookmarks Visible as You Scroll — Facebook is testing a new home page design that allows the news feed to be scrolled independently of the rest of the page. This allows ads, app bookmarks, and the top navigation bar to remain visible …
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Neowin.net and VentureBeat
Zach Epstein / BGR:
MacBook Air Q3 sales to double combined sales of all Macs last quarter, report claims — Apple plans to ship more than 8 million MacBook Air computers in the third quarter of 2011, DigiTimes claims in a new report on Friday. The number represents more than twice the total number …
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9 to 5 Mac, DigiTimes, MacRumors, Computerworld, Distorted-Loop.com, SlashGear, Apple Bitch, MacStories and The Next Web
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Getting The Band Back Together: Picadee Founded And Funded By The iLike Guys — Keep an eye on yet-to-be launched Picadee, a new Seattle startup getting some buzz. The company was founded by former iLike employees Marcus Womack, Mike Bohlander, Ray Fortna and Josh Hepfer …
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Todd Bishop / GeekWire:
Microsoft sees a future for Kinect avatars in health care — Microsoft's Craig Mundie showing an Avatar Kinect prototype at the Pacific Health Summit in Seattle today. — As Microsoft looks to take its Kinect sensor beyond video games into mainstream computing, a top company executive today provided …
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SlashGear, Electronista, Computerworld, Electricpig.co.uk and CNET News
Jeff Bercovici / Mixed Media:
Even MySpace's Founders Have Stopped Using MySpace — How over is MySpace? So over that even the guys who founded it can't be bothered to update their profiles. Former CEO Chris DeWolfe “cringes” on the rare occasions when he visits his page on the soon-to-be-sold social networking site …
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The Social Path and Business Week
Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
eBay Acquired Magento For Over $180 Million - But Not Everyone Is Smiling — Earlier this month, eBay acquired Magento, developer of an open-source e-commerce platform. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but we've heard from multiple sources that the ecommerce and digital payments giant paid north …
Jack Purcher / Patently Apple:
New iOS Camera Features in the Works + Glass Apple Store TM on the Way — On June 23, 2011, the US Patent & Trademark Office published Apple's patent application titled “Image Capture Device Having Tilt and/or Perspective Correction. Apple's patent generally relates to image capture devices …
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Crave and AppleInsider
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
TechCrunch Disrupt Winner Soluto Raises $10.2 Million In B Round — TechCrunch Disrupt winner Soluto has raised $10.2 million in Series B funding. Index Ventures led the round, with Saul Klein taking a board seat. Previous investors including Bessemer, Giza Venture Capital, and Proxima Ventures also participated.
