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Charles Arthur / Apps blog:
App developers withdraw from US as patent fears reach ‘tipping point’ — App developers are withdrawing their products for sale from the US versions of Apple's App Store and Google's Android Market for fear of being sued by companies which own software patents - just as a Mumbai-based company …
Lucas Mearian / Computerworld:
U.S. banks changing out core systems for real-time processing — It has been years since the banking industry made any large investments in core IT systems, but some of the largest financial services firms in the U.S. are now in the midst of rolling out multi-million dollar projects, according to industry experts.
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Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune:
The supply of Apple's iPad 2 finally catches up with demand — A week after shipping times were cut to 3-5 business days, they shrank again to 1-3 — Apple's (AAPL) has been having trouble keeping up with demand for the iPad 2 from the day the product launched in early March.
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Paul Allen / Google+:
Breaking News: 33% of Google+ Users Are Female — A lot of misinformation about Google+'s male to female ratio is going around Google+ and even being reported on by respectable media sites. For example: — Mashable Headline: Google+ Users Are Nearly All Male: http://mashable.com/2011/07/14/google- plus-male/
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Jolie O'Dell / Mashable:
Google+ Users Are Nearly All Male
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The Atlantic Wire, Minyanville, PC World, msnbc.com, BGR and Gizmodo
Florian Mueller / FOSS Patents:
ITC judge finds HTC in infringement of two Apple patents — Google's Android mobile operating system is in serious trouble: — Bloomberg reports that an ITC judge determined that HTC infringes two of ten Apple patents asserted in investigation no. 337-TA-710.
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Ryan Kim / GigaOM:
Apple wins initial patent victory against HTC
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Jay Yarow / The Business Insider:
CHART OF THE DAY: Google's Headcount Continues To Soar — Last night Google reported strong earnings with big revenue growth. It also reported that headcount is still soaring upwards, a trend that started a year and half ago. Below we've charted Google's growing headcount, and its flattening revenue per employee.
Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune:
Analysts: iPod sales expected to decline 7.2% year over year — For once, the amateurs and the professionals are in agreement — iPod sales hit 22.7 million in the Christmas quarter of 2008 and have been going downhill, with seasonal spikes, ever since. — The quarter that ended nearly …
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Neowin.net, The Business Insider, DisplayBlog, AppleInsider, Gizmodo, Cult of Mac and Fortune
Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Roundtable:
Google Maps Removes Driving With Traffic Estimates — I am not sure exactly when this happened, but Google Maps has dropped one of the more useful features. The feature is, estimating how much time it would take to drive somewhere with traffic, either live traffic or predictive traffic based on day/time.
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Softpedia News, The Atlantic Online, Gizmodo and Search Engine Land
Stephen Shankland / Webware.com:
Redesign set to make Firefox more responsive — Mozilla has begun turning the Firefox crank faster with a rapid-release development cycle. So what's in store now that we can expect a new version every six weeks? — A lot, including 64-bit support on Windows and a plan to reduce the open-source browser's memory usage.
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Matt McGee / Search Engine Land:
Google, Twitter Flaunt Social Stats ... It's Like 2003 All Over Again — Whether on purpose or not, Google and Twitter are having a little back-and-forth this week about the size of their social networks — or, maybe more accurately, about the activity levels on their social networks.
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Eric Slivka / MacRumors:
Apple's Upcoming Hardware Refresh to Include Thunderbolt LED Display, Not MacBook [Updated x3] — Earlier this week, part numbers for upcoming Apple hardware updates surfaced, with claims that the parts represented new MacBook Air and Mac Pro models. While the MacBook Air part numbers …
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Declan McCullagh / CNET News:
Google wields data openness against Facebook — Google is accelerating efforts to make its new social network look like a more open and attractive alternative to Facebook. — The latest: Google will allow users to export a list of Web sites that they've recommended through the “+1” button.
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TechCrunch and Data Liberation
