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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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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Amazon's Tablet Is No Threat To Apple, It's A Huge Threat To Google — Last September, we got a tip from a source that Amazon was preparing a tablet that would run Google's Android operating system. The source was a good one — they had also correctly called Amazon releasing their own Android app store.
Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent:
Report: Amazon Tablet And Two Updated Kindles Coming This Fall — The rumors have been flying and, according to the Wall Street Journal, they're legit: Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) is launching a tablet and two updated Kindles this fall, the paper reports. — Sources not identified by the paper …
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BGR, Amazon.com, VentureBeat, Examiner and GottaBeMobile
Arnold Kim / MacRumors:
Amazon to Introduce a 9" Android Tablet this Fall
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@alexia and GottaBeMobile
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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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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I4U News, GigaOM, Ars Technica, Digital Media Wire, VentureBeat and WPCentral.com
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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CNET News, SiliconFilter, AppleInsider, Android Phone Fans, Digital Trends, @sdkstl, AllThingsD and Pulse2
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, GottaBeMobile, Edible Apple, The Next Web, T3.com News, MacRumors, CNET News, PhoneArena, TUAW, ITProPortal, Electronista, 9to5Mac, iClarified and Gizmodo
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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Pulse2, Mashable!, GigaOM, ITworld.com and BetaNews
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Greg Sandoval / CNET News:
Netflix managers prepared for backlash to price increase
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San Francisco Chronicle and Techdirt
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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Edible Apple, The Business Insider, IntoMobile, BerryReview.com, Electronista, SplatF and Between the Lines Blog
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Simon Sage / IntoMobile:
RIM promises seven new BlackBerry smartphones in coming months
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Guardian, Pulse2, Geek.com, ZDNet, MobileSyrup.com, PC World, ITworld.com, SoMobile and SlashGear
Ian Austen / New York Times:
To Rebound, RIM Courts the Carriers
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PC Magazine, Light Reading and SiliconANGLE
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.
Eric Slivka / MacRumors:
Apple Soars to Third Place in U.S. PC Market With 10.7% Share — Research firms Gartner and IDC today released their preliminary quarterly personal computer shipment data, offering up a picture of market performance during the second quarter of 2011. Overall, the PC industry exhibited small growth …
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IBD Click, Gartner, WinBeta, Bits, The Microsoft Blog, Guardian and The Next Web
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.
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FM Blog
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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ReadWriteWeb and paidContent
Ina Fried / AllThingsD:
Nuance's Dragon Go is a Voice-Powered Search App that Knows Where To Look — When it comes to voice-powered search, there are plenty of options. Of course, Bing and Google have voice search as a built-in option and there are plenty of other apps specializing in all manner of specific queries.
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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Poynter, Silicon Valley Watcher, GigaOM, @jspepper, @dannysullivan, TechCrunch and @kvox, more at Mediagazer »
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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Inside Mobile Apps, Delimiter, 9to5Mac, Daring Fireball, MacStories, 9to5Mac and The Next Web
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
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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Gizmodo, 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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Crave, PC World, Laptops and Desktops Blog, LAPTOP Mag, Electronista and Engadget
Thomas L. Friedman / New York Times:
The Start-Up of You — The rise in the unemployment rate last month to 9.2 percent has Democrats and Republicans reliably falling back on their respective cure-alls. It is evidence for liberals that we need more stimulus and for conservatives that we need more tax cuts to increase demand.
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 …
