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Wall Street Journal:
Amazon Plans Tablet Computer By October — Amazon.com Inc. plans to introduce a tablet computer before October, said people familiar with the matter, in a move that will heighten the online retailer's rivalry with Apple Inc. — The Seattle-based company will also release two updated versions …
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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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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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Hugo Miller / Bloomberg:
RIM Has Six Months to ‘Prove’ Need for Joint Chairman-CEO Role
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Ian Austen / New York Times:
To Rebound, RIM Courts the Carriers
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PC Magazine, SiliconANGLE and Light Reading
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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Twitter Blog:
Twitter for Android - Now with Push Notifications and Multiple Accounts — Today we're releasing the latest version of Twitter for Android. It includes some of the most commonly requested features from our users. — First, we now offer push notifications.
Ryan Lawler / GigaOM:
UltraViolet is ready. Now Hollywood needs to make it work. — It has taken three years, but the Digital Entertainment Content Ecosystem (DECE) has finally completed all the backend work needed to roll out services based on its UltraViolet initiative. With the heavy lifting done …
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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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Ina Fried / AllThingsD:
Android's Co-Founder: Developers Can Now Afford to Wait on iPhone
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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.
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Search Engine Land and WebProNews
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 …
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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Mark Spoonauer / LAPTOP Magazine:
Sony S1 and S2 Tablets Hands-on: Are They Good Enough?
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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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Tim Bradshaw / FT Tech Hub:
Spotify will finally launch in the US on Thursday — American readers - brace yourselves. The most-hyped European music phenomenon since the Beatles has finally arrived. After two years' wait, Spotify is set to open its doors in the US on Thursday. — As the FT and others reported last week …
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Eric Slivka / MacRumors:
iOS 5 Beta 3 Adds AirPlay Support for FaceTime — As noted by TiPb, the third beta of iOS 5 released earlier this week has activated new AirPlay streaming support for FaceTime video calling. The feature allows users to display FaceTime video calls directly on a large-screen TV for easy viewing by larger groups of people.
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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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Market Wire, VentureBeat, Evernote Blogcast, Digital Media Wire, Bits, ReadWriteWeb, GigaOM and The Business Insider, Thanks:sistaklein
Electronista:
T-Mobile first major US carrier with name-based caller ID — Name, number & city shown for $4 per month — T-Mobile is offering a new fee-based caller ID service to its customers. Called “Name ID”, a subscriber can see see who is calling, even if the caller is not in the subscriber's address book.
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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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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Post PicPlz, Mixed Media Labs Makes Their Big Bet: App.net — About.me For Apps — Last week, we reported that Mixed Media Labs had spun off their initial project, PicPlz, to be able to work on their next big idea. Well, now we know that next big idea: App.net.
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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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InfoQ, AnyAsq and WebProNews
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 …
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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LAPTOP Magazine, information aesthetics, Search Engine Land, AllThingsD, The Next Web, ReadWriteWeb and Pulse2
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Google AdSense Founder Raises Cash From Lerer Ventures And Others For Stealth Startup Scopely — Google AdSense co-founder Eytan Elbaz is announcing a round of funding from a group of all-star investors for his stealthy startup Scopely. Investors in the round (the amount of which was not disclosed) …
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Betabeat, Pulse2 and AllThingsD
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Google Staffing Up On Patent Lawyers And Experts — It's no secret Google is searching for more patents to add to its portfolio. The search giant recently lost the bid for Nortel's 6,000 mobile and wireless patents to a consortium of tech companies including Apple, Microsoft, RIM, and Sony.
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Associated Press:
Netflix, NBC renew content deal; terms undisclosed — SAN FRANCISCO — NBC Universal has renewed its deal with Netflix Inc., ensuring that programs such as “The Office” and “30 Rock” stay available on the popular service as it comes under pressure to pay more for its content and catches flack for a price hike.
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Ad.ly In Play As Social Sites Look For Celebrity Connections — Ad.ly is an advertising platform that pairs advertisers with celebrities. For $1,000 to $200,000, an advertiser can get one of a thousand celebrities to publish a sponsored message, usually on Twitter.
