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Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune:
Report: Apple is building two (!) iPhones for September release — An analyst expects Apple to launch both an iPhone 5 and a mid-range iPhone 4S — Click to enlarge. Source: Deutsche Bank — For much of the spring, the reporters who cover Apple (AAPL) have been arguing among themselves …
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
A Tale Of Two iPhones — A new iPhone is approaching — this, everyone knows. While WWDC came and went without an announcement, this was expected. Instead, this year it will be all about the fall — with new hardware hitting just in time for the formal launch of iOS 5. But what exactly will the new hardware be?
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Eric Slivka / MacRumors:
Analyst Claims Apple May Release $349 iPhone for Prepaid Markets This Year
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Jonathan S. Geller / BGR:
Google's first Ice Cream Sandwich phone to be manufactured by Samsung, possibly dubbed ‘Nexus Prime’ — We exclusively reported details of Google's first Ice Cream Sandwich smartphone — either a Nexus device, or a “pure Google” flagship handset from one of Google's key partners …
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Chris Foresman / Ars Technica:
Apple to move ARM SoC production away from Samsung in 2012 — Apple's increasingly tenuous relationship with Samsung as a component supplier for its mobile devices could end next year, according to numerous sources inside the semiconductor industry. The company will likely tap contract fab …
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Ross Miller / This is my next:
Apple to give 'A6′ ARM SoC production to TSMC over Samsung?
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Kristen Purcell / Pew Internet:
E-reader ownership doubles in six months — e-Reader ownership surges since last November; tablet ownership grows more slowly — The share of adults in the United States who own an e-book reader doubled to 12% in May, 2011 from 6% in November 2010. E-readers, such as a Kindle or Nook …
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Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft Blog:
(Not so) Crazy Microsoft Rumors: Windows 8 to RTM in April 2012 — It's been a while since I blogged about another of my (not so) crazy Microsoft rumors. It's also been a while since I've heard any kind of an update on Windows 8 timing. In that spirit — here's the latest …
Kari Wilson / Google Webmaster Central Blog:
+1 around the world — A few months ago we released the +1 button on English search results on google.com. More recently, we've made the +1 button available to sites across the web, making it easy for the people who love your content to recommend it on Google search.
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Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
Hulu Buyers Would Get Exclusive Content, With Strings Attached — A few days after the news first broke that Hulu is for sale, we know a bit more about what, exactly, that means. Here's where things stand right now. — Hulu's owner/partners — Disney's ABC and News Corp.'s Fox …
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Andrew Nusca / Between the Lines Blog:
Hulu: as TV landscape shifts, it's pass the potato
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Jeff Bercovici / Mixed Media:
Will the NY Times Give David Pogue Another Pass on Ethics? — David Pogue has weathered one mini-scandal after another in his years as the star technology columnist for The New York Times. Lately, however, the infractions have been piling up, and the very most recent may be too clear-cut for the paper to gloss over.
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Jacqui Cheng / Ars Technica:
iOS 5 beta hobbles OS downgrades, untethered jailbreaks — Those who screw up their iPhones with an unsupported jailbreak—or who have bad luck with their iOS upgrades and want to roll back to an older version—are usually able to make everything right again by downgrading their phone's OS back to the previous version.
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Nathan Olivarez-Giles / L.A. Times Tech Blog:
Former YouSendIt CEO pleads guilty to Web attack on his old company — The former chief executive of the YouSendIt, a website where users can post files too large to send over email, has admitted to launching an online attack against the company he once ran.
Tom / fring:
NEW! Fun Group Video Chat for iPad: Full Size! — fring is launching the world's 1st Group Video chat App for the iPad — 4 friends video chat at the same time. That's at least 4 times more fun than regular 1 to 1 video chat (But fring lets you do that too...) — Its FREE
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Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
Answers.com Gets Gutted By Its New Owner: Massive Layoffs, CEO And CTO Out — AFCV Holdings, a portfolio company of growth equity investor Summit Partners, is axing the majority of people working for Q&A site Answers.com parent company Answers Corporation, which it acquired earlier this year for $127 million in cash.
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Ryan Tate / Gawker:
MySpace Layoffs Rumored for Tomorrow — We hear MySpace's Southern California offices are thick with rumors that the social network is planning some serious bloodletting tomorrow afternoon. Scary as that sounds, some employees are apparently looking forward to the layoffs.
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Supreme Court strikes down video game violence law on free speech grounds — Arguing that video games qualify for First Amendment protection, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled today that California's video game violence law is unconstitutional. — The state law restricted the sale or rental …
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Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Justices Reject Ban on Violent Video Games for Children
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Josh Halliday / Guardian:
Google reveals US government leads way in private data requests — Google has received a record number of requests from 26 developed countries to reveal private information about internet users — Private information about Google users was demanded by governments or police a total …
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CNN, The Register, VentureBeat, Computerworld, The Official Google Blog, Between the Lines Blog, SiliconFilter and CNET News
Todd Bishop / GeekWire:
Microsoft signs Android patent deal with military contractor General Dynamics — Microsoft today made new progress in its Android patent campaign, announcing a licensing deal with General Dynamics Itronix, maker of rugged tablets and handheld devices used by the military.
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Microsoft, Electronista, All about Microsoft Blog, WinRumors, eWeek, Softpedia News and The Register
Declan McCullagh / CNET News:
Google curbs Web map exposing phone locations — Google has taken steps to limit the disclosure of the locations of millions of iPhones, laptops, and other devices with Wi-Fi connections after a CNET article drew attention to privacy concerns. — The Mountain View, Calif.-based company's move comes …
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Mark Gurman / 9 to 5 Mac:
Apple Stores now capable of unlocking full-price AT&T iPhones at checkout — As early as last week, my sources in the Apple food chain were hinting at some sort of way for Apple Stores to unlock AT&T iPhone 4s - different than the unlocked models that Apple Stores started selling on June 13th.
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MacRumors, Geek.com, GottaBeMobile, IntoMobile, iPhone Download Blog and The Business Insider, Thanks:ipuffa
Jennifer Saba / Reuters:
GSV takes stake in Facebook, valuing it at $70 billion — Investment fund GSV Capital Corp has taken a small stake in Facebook that values the world's No. 1 social networking site at about $70 billion. The investment fund said on Monday that it had bought 225,000 shares in Facebook at an average price of $29.28 each.
Derrick Harris / GigaOM:
Exclusive: Yahoo launching Hadoop spinoff this week — Yahoo will be spinning off a separate company focused on the development and commercialization of Apache Hadoop, called HortonWorks. The official announcement likely will come tomorrow or Wednesday to coincide with Yahoo's annual Hadoop Summit …
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Faith Merino / VatorNews:
Artist launches album exclusively on Groupon — In another first for Groupon, it is exclusively debuting David Gray's live album “Lost and Found” — In an interesting first for Groupon, the company is not only offering a discount on British musical artist David Gray's newest album …
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SiliconFilter, Business Wire and Prefix
Darren Murph / Engadget:
CSI Virtual MasterCard app bringing mobile payments to iOS, Android and BlackBerry — Shortly after MasterCard announced plans to become entangled with Google Wallet (and a few months after those ambitious Isis plans were shelved), it looks as if the aforesaid company is diving into yet another mobile payment arena.
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