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Jonathan S. Geller / BGR:
Inside RIM: An exclusive look at the rise and fall of the company that made smartphones smart — Research In Motion is in the midst of a major transition in every sense of the word. Publicly, the company is portraying a very defensive image — one that is very dismissive …
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Gizmodo, SplatF, Daring Fireball, Electronista, BerryReview.com and mobile.slashdot.org
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Simon Sage / IntoMobile:
RIM promises seven new BlackBerry smartphones in coming months — RIM just finished wrapping up their annual shareholders meeting. The bit of info mentioned of most interest to everyday consumers was that seven BlackBerry smartphones are due to land in the next couple of months.
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Inquirer, PC World, Guardian, MobileSyrup.com, BerryReview.com, TechCrunch, ITworld.com, SlashGear, SoMobile and Fast Company
Hugo Miller / Bloomberg:
RIM Has Six Months to ‘Prove’ Need for Joint Chairman-CEO Role — Research In Motion Ltd. has six months to “prove” that its co-chief executive officers need to retain their co-chairmen titles for business reasons or face the reintroduction of a proposal to split the roles, said the investor that originally called for the change.
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Between the Lines Blog, mocoNews, Tech Trader Daily, Wall Street Journal, IntoMobile, Electronista, BGR, MobileBurn.com and ITProPortal
Ian Austen / New York Times:
To Rebound, RIM Courts the Carriers
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SiliconANGLE, PC Magazine and Light Reading
Ina Fried / AllThingsD:
Frustrated by Apple's Long Approval Process, WhitePages Goes Android First With Latest App — When WhitePages launches its Localicious app on Wednesday, it will be in Android Market rather than in the iPhone App Store. — There's a simple reason for that.
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Computerworld, PC Magazine, Android Community, 9to5Google, iPhone, Marketing Pilgrim, GeekWire and MacNN
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Ina Fried / AllThingsD:
Android's Co-Founder: Developers Can Now Afford to Wait on iPhone — As recently as six months ago, the founder of Android was recommending that start-ups focus on the iPhone first and then move to Android. — That's because Rich Miner's day job these days is heading the East Coast wing …
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Digits, CNET News, Macworld, GigaOM, Android Community and Search Engine Land
Paul Adams / Are you thinking inside out?:
Why I left Google. What happened to my book. What I work on at Facebook. — In the last couple of weeks there has been plenty of speculation around: — Why I left Google — What happened to my book ‘Social Circles’ — What I'm working on at Facebook
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GigaOM, Digital Trends, CNET News, Bob Caswell, TechCrunch, AllThingsD, Google Watch, WebProNews, SlashGear, Gizmodo Australia and thinkoutsidein.com
Todd Haselton / BGR:
AT&T to offer Sony S2 tablet exclusively in the U.S. — AT&T on Wednesday announced that it will be the exclusive provider of Sony's new S2 tablet in the United States. Sony took the wraps off of the S2 in April, and said it offers a unique folding form factor with dual 5.5-inch 1024 x 480 displays …
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Between the Lines Blog, Engadget, IntoMobile, Engadget, Softpedia News, PhoneNews.com, PhoneArena and The Next Web
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Mark Spoonauer / LAPTOP Magazine:
Sony S1 and S2 Tablets Hands-on: Are They Good Enough?
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PC Magazine, Engadget, AT&T, Gizmodo, TechCrunch, ITProPortal and Liliputing, Thanks:mspoonauer
Colleen Taylor / GigaOM:
How Google+ is built — If you're curious about all things Google+, you're in luck. The project's technical lead, Google engineer Joseph Smarr, is currently hosting an online question and answer session about the service — and he has already shared a number of details about Google+'s development …
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Pulse2, AnyAsq, WebProNews, Techie Buzz, InfoQ, Women of Google+, High Scalability and WinBeta
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Evernote Takes $50 million To Become The Anti-Zynga — A couple of weeks ago we wrote about Evernote's new rumored venture round. It was a big one, said one source, putting them in the billion dollar valuation club. — Today they'll officially announce that deal - $50 million …
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Bits, Market Wire, Evernote Blogcast, alarm:clock, ReadWriteWeb, The Business Insider and GigaOM, Thanks:sistaklein
Matt Rosoff / The Business Insider:
Microsoft Will Bite The Bullet And Open 75 More Stores — Microsoft COO Kevin Turner just dropped a bomb on the assembled audience at the Worldwide Partner Conference — the company will open 75 more retail stores in the next two to three years. — That's a really smart move, particularly to help Microsoft sell more Windows Phones.
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The Microsoft Blog, GeekWire, All about Microsoft Blog and Neowin.net
Michael Hickins / Speakeasy:
Google Employee No. 59 on Google+, Privacy and Why He Left … Douglas Edwards joined Google in 1999 as employee No. 59, and lived through some of its early developmental steps, including the creation of the Google Doodle and Gmail. Something of an outsider in a culture dominated by engineers …
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Greg Kumparak / TechCrunch:
PayPal Announces Phone-To-Phone NFC Payment Support For Android — Slowly but surely, NFC (the tech that'll let us ditch our wallets in favor of paying for things with a Jedi-wave of our phones) is picking up steam. After years of floundering around in the US, NFC took a major leap forward …
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The PayPal Blog, VentureBeat, GigaOM, CNET News, Engadget, AllThingsD, Between the Lines Blog, The Business Insider, GottaBeMobile and Android Phone Fans
Janko Roettgers / GigaOM:
People really hate the Netflix price hike — Subscribers have been up in arms since Netflix announced a changed pricing structure on Tuesday that will raise the price for a combined DVD and streaming subscription from $10 to $16 a month. The company is also offering DVD-only and streaming …
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Gizmodo, SplatF, App Advice, CNN, FT Tech Hub, WebProNews, PC Magazine, msnbc.com, Consumer Reports News, the Econsultancy blog, CNET News, digiday:DAILY, Hardware 2.0 Blog, Zatz Not Funny! and Digits
Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
Visually Launches To Automate The Making Of Infographics — The whiz kids behind Mint's infographics, Stewart Langille and Lee Sherman are today launching the first startup that solely focuses on mass producing infographics, Visually. Users who visit Visually this morning …
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Search Engine Land, AllThingsD, ReadWriteWeb, The Next Web, information aesthetics and Mashable!
DigiTimes:
Pegatron unlikely to share iPad orders with Foxconn in 2011 — Printer friendly Related stories Comments Email to a friend Latest news Advertisement Monica Chen, Taipei, Steve Shen, DIGITIMES [Wednesday 13 July 2011] Pegatron Technology is expected to land orders for at least 10 million units of iPhone 5 …
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SlashGear, PadGadget, MacRumors, AppleInsider, TUAW, I4U News, Electronista, TiPb, Geek.com, 9to5Mac, MacPost and Softpedia News
Sarah Lacy / TechCrunch:
Dropbox Raising Massive Round at a $5B-Plus Valuation — We've heard from multiple sources that Dropbox is finally moving on raising its next venture round and it's a whopper. They've had preliminary conversations with several investors, several solid offers they've passed on earlier …
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Softpedia News, VatorNews and VentureBeat
Gabe Rivera:
Let's call rewriters “rewriters”, not “aggregators”. Also: why Techmeme is wonderful. — Something bothered me about Simon Dumenco's piece about Huffington Post yesterday. Not the substance of his column, which was valid and well-argued, nor the favorable comparison to Techmeme, which was, well, favorable to Techmeme.
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Badgeville Raises $12 Million, Celebrates With An Infographic — Badgeville founder and CEO Kris Duggan is one of those people that is so ridiculously upbeat and positive all the time that sometimes you just want to strangle him. No one has a right to be that happy.
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VentureBeat, VatorNews, AllThingsD and Under the Radar
Reuters:
China Telecom plans to launch iPhone near year-end: sources — China Telecom Corp Ltd plans to offer its 106 million subscribers the Apple Inc iPhone by the end of 2011, sources said on Wednesday, which would make it the second operator to do so in the world's largest mobile phone market.
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AllThingsD, CNET News, ITProPortal, Tech Trader Daily, App Advice, Great Speculations, 9to5Mac, iPhone, Edible Apple, I4U News, PhoneArena, AppleInsider and The Register
Casey Johnston / Ars Technica:
Beamforming your data: how WiGig will offer 7Gbps speeds — The Wireless Gigabit Alliance recently announced that it has published the certification-ready 1.1 specification of its wireless system, and it includes some new capabilities, like a framework for video connectors.
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ExtremeTech and SlashGear
Declan McCullagh / CNET News:
Google+ will let users conceal gender — The Ford Motor Company has officially decided that its gender is not male. Nor is it female. On the Google+ social networking site, Ford lists it as “other.” — That may not exactly be incorrect, but the bit of corporate awkwardness was the result …
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L.A. Times Tech Blog, PC World, Frances Haugen, Softpedia News and Neowin.net
Joel Falconer / The Next Web:
Zuckerberg and Google management drop off Google+ top 100 list — Top Google employees who have amassed many followers on the company's social networking site, Google+, have disappeared overnight from the top 100 users list at SocialStatistics.com. — It seems that the data on who these users …
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Play For iPhone Coming Tomorrow, AOL Pitches Me Over Instagram — Back in March, we noted that the mobile-first group inside of AOL was pushing forward with a pretty nice new music app called “Play”. The timing was good, they released it just as SXSW was kicking off.
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MacStories, 9to5Mac and TUAW
Electronista:
Police get controversial iPhone-based face recognition tech — MORIS iPhone add-on raises police, privacy issues — A divisive iPhone add-on from BI2 Technologies is about to reach police in a way that could challenge civil rights. The MORIS case, already used in the military and a few limited areas …
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Digits, Wall Street Journal, WebProNews and Ubergizmo
Amir Efrati / Digits:
Site Claims to Loosen Google “Death Grip” — Since Google in February began changing the way its search engine ranks sites in order to weed out “low-quality” content and “article vomit,” thousands of negatively affected website publishers have scrambled to recuperate.
