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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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Arnold Kim / MacRumors:
Amazon to Introduce a 9" Android Tablet this Fall
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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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Paul Miller / This is my next:
Spotify launching in the US at 8AM tomorrow, open to all pre-registered users — We can hardly believe it ourselves, but we just spoke to someone from Spotify with a totally American accent and confirmed that the unlimited music service is indeed launching tomorrow at 8AM ET.
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AppleInsider, Digital Trends, AllThingsD, The Seattle Times and @sdkstl
Ben Sisario / New York Times:
New Service Offers Music in Quantity, Not by Song — Daniel Ek, the 28-year-old co-founder and public face of Spotify, the European digital music service, paced around the company's loftlike Manhattan office on Tuesday afternoon, clutching two mobile phones that buzzed constantly.
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Digital Media Wire, Ars Technica, GigaOM, VentureBeat and WPCentral.com
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
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Ian Austen / New York Times:
To Rebound, RIM Courts the Carriers
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PC Magazine, SiliconANGLE, Light Reading and Wall Street Journal
Luke Westaway / CNET News:
Job posting points to iPhone 5 launch on 16 August … A job posting for iPhone sales specialists on employment website Reed could indicate that the iPhone 5 will be released in mid-August. — The post, which was sent to us by a tipster, asks for “full-time iPhone Sales Staff for an exciting project …
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AppleInsider, 9to5Mac, MacRumors, Edible Apple, Gizmodo, T3.com News, Electronista, GottaBeMobile, CNET News, The Next Web, TUAW, ITProPortal and iClarified
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.
Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
Reed Hastings Doesn't Want You To Pay More For Netflix. He Wants You To Stop Using DVDs. — Why did Netflix raise its prices by 60 percent yesterday? — Reed Hastings' company says it's a cost issue. If people are going to use both his DVD-by-mail service and his Web video streaming service …
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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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paidContent and ReadWriteWeb
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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Mark Spoonauer / LAPTOP Magazine:
Sony S1 and S2 Tablets Hands-on: Are They Good Enough? — We just got up close and personal with Sony's two upcoming tablets, the S1 and S2, and Sony demonstrated why it thinks its devices are better than the Android Honeycomb competition and iPad. Get all the details below along with a full gallery.
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Todd Haselton / BGR:
AT&T to offer Sony S2 tablet exclusively in the U.S.
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Examiner, AndroidGuys, BetaNews, PhoneNews.com, IntoMobile, Softpedia News, The Next Web, PhoneArena and Engadget
Arnold Kim / MacRumors:
Apple Introduces Volume App Purchasing for Business and B2B Apps — Alongside today's international App Store pricing changes, Apple has introduced a new Volume Purchase program for the App Store. According to Apple, the App Store Volume Purchase Program allows businesses and educational institutions …
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Daring Fireball, 9to5Mac, MacStories, The Next Web, TUAW and VG247
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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SEO Book.com, Search Engine Land and WebProNews
Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch:
Alternative Tablets: The Next Big Thing Or Dead On Arrival? — It's hard out there for a tablet. Not just because consumers aren't quite sure they want to buy in just yet, but because the shelves are so crowded that it's difficult to stand out. At CES this year, having an Android tablet seemed …
Terrence O'Brien / Engadget:
Motorola rumored to be hard at work on high-res, 4:3 Ice Cream Sandwich tablet — Apparently, when Motorola was trying to figure out why its Xoom has struggled so mightily in against the iPad 2, the company didn't focus on its high starting price or slightly heftier hardware.
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Fudzilla, SlashGear and Android Community
Joanna Stern / This is my next:
Sony VAIO Z Series (VPCZ216GX/L) review — Ever since Sony introduced its VAIO Z back in 2008 it's made one thing very clear: its premium thin and light notebook wasn't going to be subject to a performance cap like so many others on the market. Nope, the VAIO Z has never been just any ultraportable …
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Laptops and Desktops Blog, LAPTOP Mag, PC World, Crave, Engadget and Electronista
Todd Haselton / BGR:
Nokia, Siemens bail on effort to sell Nokia Siemens Networks — Nokia and Siemens have given up efforts to sell Nokia Siemens Networks, Reuters reported on Wednesday. The firms had been trying to sell the joint venture, which has had troubles reporting a profit, for the past year.
Joey Ferguson / Deseret News:
Omniture founder Josh James launches Domo business intelligence with $43 million — SALT LAKE CITY— Josh James, who co-founded web tracking firm Omniture Inc., has raised $43 million to help companies visually understand operational and sales figures in real time.
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ReadWriteEnterprise, AllThingsD, VentureBeat and TechCrunch
Zach Epstein / BGR:
Microsoft slips, possibly confirms Windows Phone ‘Mango’ release by September — Did a Microsoft employee just inadvertently let the cat out of the bag? Posting to the company's official Microsoft Imagine Cup Twitter account, a Microsoft rep confirmed that all Imagine Cup challenge finalists …
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Mobility Digest, WMPU, SlashGear and GottaBeMobile
Roger Cheng / CNET News:
Scoop: Sprint to confirm LightSquared network deal — Sprint CEO Dan Hesse at CTIA showing off the HTC Evo, its the first U.S. 4G phone. The company will dabble in LTE with its network-sharing agreement with LightSquared. — Sprint Nextel will confirm its network-sharing agreement …
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SocialTimes.com, DSLreports, Cisco Blog and Electronista
Hermione Way / The Next Web:
The Problem With Silicon Valley Is Itself — As a Brit who gave up cheerleading the European tech scene to make the pilgrimage to Silicon Valley to live, eat and breath the world's leading hub for technology startup innovation, I've been largely unimpressed and disappointed by the quality of startups here.
