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EchoSign:
Great News! Adobe Acquires EchoSign — We're extremely pleased to announce that EchoSign is now part of the Acrobat family — Adobe has acquired EchoSign. — “Together, our aim is to make electronic signatures the standard way for people to sign documents and automate contracting.
Tom Anderson / TechCrunch:
Is Social In Google's DNA? — Editor's note: This guest post is written by Tom Anderson, the former President, founder and first friend on MySpace. You can now find Tom on Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ — Google is an algorithm driven-company. “PageRank” (named after Larry Page himself) …
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Google Watch, Digital Trends, Irregular Enterprise Blog and SlashGear
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Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
Google+ has made Twitter boring, here's what Twitter should do about that — For the past few days I've been hanging out in Jackson Hole with a bunch of geeks and one thing I've noticed over and over is how boring Twitter has gotten when compared to Google+. — Why has Twitter turned boring?
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Techland, TechCrunch, @fredericl and @cdixon
Kim Yoo-chul / The Korea Times:
Apple, Samsung, LG work on new LCD — Samsung Electronics and LG Display, the world's two largest makers of liquid crystal displays (LCDs), are close to securing big orders from Apple, industry sources said. — Apple is looking to order advanced screens for the next version of its immensely popular tablet computers.
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9to5Mac, AppleInsider, MacRumors, The Next Web, I4U News, Apple Bitch, MacStories, Electronista, PadGadget and iClarified
Dave Zatz / Zatz Not Funny!:
Roku 2 - Nearly Upon Us? — Since the Roku 2 passed through the FCC approval process a few weeks ago, we've learned a bit more thanks to leaks from a pair of beta testers and some industry info that recently came my way. As with Roku's current lineup, the refreshed AppleTV-esque hardware will be available in three models:
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I4U News, Engadget and Neowin.net
Sascha Segan / PC Magazine:
Stop the iPhone 5 Rumor Insanity — The new iPhone will be called the iPhone 5 or the iPhone 4S, and it will come in one, two, or three models, with one being a smaller, cheaper device, or not. It will have NFC, unless it doesn't. It will be slimmer, or not, and have an edge-to-edge screen, unless that's not true.
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Chip Hazard and I4U News
Chris Matyszczyk / Technically Incorrect:
Facebook bans Google+ ad — Ingenuity is surely something to be admired. Commercial ingenuity is something to be revered. — Sometimes, though, it seems that certain tech companies only revere their own ingenuity. That seems to be the case with Facebook, which, as reported …
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Digital Trends, The Business Insider, Michael Lee Johnson, Android Phone Fans, Pulse2, Techland, NBC Bay Area, International Business Times, Search Engine Watch, T3.com News, @thekenyeung, Examiner, Friending Facebook Blog, PC World, Slashdot, Neowin.net, ITProPortal and Technology Review
Sam Oliver / AppleInsider:
46% of smartphone buyers prefer Apple's iOS, 32% choose Google Android — Among consumers who plan to buy a smartphone in the next three months, the iPhone is the top choice, with nearly half of all prospective buyers choosing Apple. — The data comes from the latest survey …
Claire Cain Miller / New York Times:
App Makers and Twitter Feel Strains — The relationship between Twitter and the outside developers that build its apps is a little like the one between sharks and the small fish that latch onto their backs — beneficial for both, until it isn't. — Lately it has hit rough waters.
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GMSV, The Cody Word and @stevecase
Daniel Shen / DigiTimes:
HTC to appeal Apple patent infringement complaint — HTC has said that it would appeal a ruling by the US International Trade Commission (ITC) which found that HTC had infringed two patents held by Apple — HTC has received notice of the ITC judge's initial determination …
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Financial Times, The Register, BGR, 9to5Mac and Neowin.net
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David Sarno / L.A. Times Tech Blog:
Patents in Apple-HTC case filed in 1994 and 1996, long before smartphones existed
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Bloomberg, TechCrunch, Digits, FOSS Patents, 9to5Google, Inquirer, Between the Lines Blog, I4U News and Wall Street Journal
Josh Ong / AppleInsider:
ITC ruling against HTC may spell trouble for other Android makers
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Fast Company, Macworld, Guardian, GottaBeMobile, everythingiCafe and Gizmodo
Rich Miller / Data Center Knowledge:
SeaMicro Packs 768 Cores Into its Atom Server — The new SeaMicro SM10000-64HD server packs up to 768 Intel Atom cores into a 10u chassis. — Pushing the boundary of high-density computing, SeaMicro today introduced a new version of its next-generation server that packs 768 Intel Atom cores into a 10u chassis.
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Inquirer, The Register, Venture Capital Dispatch, VentureBeat, Between the Lines Blog and GigaOM
Dan Levin / New York Times:
Chinese Web Search Giant Serves Two Masters — BEIJING — A government official's X-rated photos appear on the Internet and immediately go viral. Online traffic spikes as Web users hunt for the images with gleeful schadenfreude. — When Representative Anthony D. Weiner's anatomy dominated headlines …
Kit Eaton / Fast Company:
How Hackers Stole 24,000 Files From The Pentagon — We're all human, you know? That's roughly the trick that the hackers most likely relied on when, earlier this year, they managed to steal over 24,000 files from a defense contractor. — The Pentagon won't say what files went astray …
