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Josh Ong / AppleInsider:
Apple to begin assembling iPhone 5 ‘in mid to late August’ — Apple will begin production of fifth-generation iPhones in August ahead of a projected late third quarter launch, according to intelligence obtained by by one investment banker's recent trip to Taiwan .
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Mark Gurman / 9 to 5 Mac:
BestBuy.com stops shipping MacBook Airs ahead of refresh (update: Amazon stock low) — We've known for many weeks now that a refreshed line of MacBook Airs is incoming, starting with rumors about Airs with Sandy Bridge processors way back then, our report that the current SKUs are constrained across …
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Nick Ross / ABC News:
BREAKING: Anonymous picks up where Lulzsec leaves off with new hack — BREAKING: With the notorious Lulzsec hacking group having announced its retirement yesterday, the Anonymous hacking group has stepped back into the fore. — The group Tweeted: Little teaser while we work on the actual release …
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New York Times:
Dissolution of Hacker Group Might Not End Attacks — Facing increasing pressure from law enforcement agencies over its brazen computer attacks, the small group of hackers known as Lulz Security announced over the weekend that it would disband. — But security experts said on Sunday …
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Henry Blodget / The Business Insider:
SKYPE SCANDAL: Here's How Big Bad Private-Equity Firm Silver Lake Sees The Situation — Over the past week, a minor scandal has emerged in Silicon Valley over the way a bunch of senior Skype executives were treated after the company agreed to be acquired by Microsoft for $9 billion.
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Felix Salmon / Reuters:
Skype's evil ways, cont. — The Skype/Silver Lake story is refusing to die, with Yun Lee's revelations bringing out the same anonymous investor-group sources defending Skype's actions. But if the defenders are comfortable in their anonymity, it seems only fair for me to share an anonymous email …
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Verne G. Kopytoff / New York Times:
Companies Are Erecting In-House Social Networks — What would Facebook look like without photos of drunken nights out and tales of misbehaving cats? It might look a lot like the internal social network at the offices of Nikon Instruments. — The tone is decidedly businesslike …
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Computerworld and The Business Insider
Christopher Williams / Telegraph:
Hollywood studios ask High Court to block film website — Hollywood film studios will ask the High Court tomorrow to force BT to block its millions of broadband customers from accessing a filesharing website, in a test case that could make way for a clampdown on internet piracy.
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TorrentFreak and The Next Web
Georgina Prodhan / Reuters:
Facebook overtakes Microsoft in UK: UKOM/Nielsen — (Reuters) - Facebook overtook Microsoft websites in Britain for the first time last month, becoming the UK's second-most popular after Google as people aged over 50 flocked to social networks, online measurement body UKOM/Nielsen said.
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Mike Swift / Mercury News:
Carmakers race to exploit Internet — Carmakers are racing to exploit one of the Internet's final frontiers — the driver's seat. — From luxury manufacturer BMW to high-tech electric carmaker Tesla to affordable Fords, automobiles increasingly are coming with Internet-connected features to inform, entertain and protect the driver.
Greg Sandoval / CNET News:
Take that Netflix, HBO Go app sees big growth too — If you don't believe in cord cutting and that there isn't any competition between Netflix and cable programmers then you needn't read on. — If on the other hand, you at least see the potential for Netflix's meteoric growth …
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Idannyocean / 9 to 5 Mac:
A spotlight on the world's first iOS jailbreak convention — Craig Fox had worked as a carpenter his entire life until the economy took a turn for the worst and he found himself without work. Craig combined his newly acquired free time and his love for jailbreaking iDevices to conceive MyGreatFest …
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