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Apple Updates MacBook Air With Next Generation Processors, Thunderbolt I/O & Backlit Keyboard — Apple® today updated the MacBook Air® with next generation processors, high-speed Thunderbolt I/O technology, a backlit keyboard and Mac OS® X Lion, the world's most advanced operating system.
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
The MacBook Is Dead. Long Live The (New) MacBook Air. — “At this point, I'm thinking Apple should just replace the standard MacBook with the Air.” — Yes, I just quoted myself. But I have a good reason. I wrote that on October 21 of last year, after one day of playing with the just-released new MacBook Air.
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Nilay Patel / This is my next:
Apple kills white MacBook, 11.6-inch Air is the new entry level Mac — Say goodbye to the plastic MacBook: it's no more. The $999 11.6-inch MacBook Air is Apple's only entry-level machine now — and with the bump to a 1.6GHz Core i5 processor, it's probably just as capable as the old 2.4GHz Core 2 Duo MacBook.
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MacRumors, Macworld, AppleInsider, MacRumors, Apple Bitch, Tools, TUAW, Electricpig.co.uk and Electronista
Apple:
Mac OS X Lion Available Today From the Mac App Store — CUPERTINO, California—July 20, 2011—Apple® today announced that Mac OS® X Lion, the eighth major release of the world's most advanced operating system with more than 250 new features, is available today as a download from the Mac® App Store™ for $29.99.
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MacRumors, Fortune, The Apple Core Blog, Computerworld, GigaOM, Macworld, LAPTOP Mag, Telegraph, ZDNet, This is my next, MacStories, Geek.com, techblog.dallasnews.com and MacDailyNews
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Walter S. Mossberg / AllThingsD:
Apple's Lion Brings PCs Into Tablet Era — With its iPhones and iPads, Apple has led people toward a new way of operating digital devices that relies on direct manipulation of items with finger gestures, not a mouse and scroll bars. App icons are arrayed front and center …
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Ars Technica, Macworld, TechCrunch, ReadWriteWeb, AppleInsider, AppleInsider, 9to5Mac, MacRumors, Guardian, Macworld, Pulse2, Computerworld and Gizmodo
Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
Google+ Now The Top Free App In The Apple App Store — After less than 24 hours of being live, the Google+ iPhone app has hit the number one free spot in the Apple app store, beating out “Draw ‘n’ Go: Awesomeness!” for the top slot. — This is quite impressive considering that the app …
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PC Magazine, PC World, eWeek, Techland and App Advice
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Kyung Lah / CNN:
Chairman: Google should have gone social earlier — Tokyo (CNN) — Looking back on his decade as Google's CEO, Eric Schmidt said the company should have focused more on connecting people — a hole that allowed the emergence of rival internet giant Facebook.
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SlashGear and The Next Web
Paul Allen / Google+:
Google+ Update: Membership May Pass 18 Million Mark Today — The viral growth of Google+ has slowed somewhat over the past few days, but my new-and-improved 1,000 surname model shows that more than 750,000 people joined the site on Monday, bringing the total user base to just under 18 million.
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App Advice, ReadWriteWeb, CNET News, WebProNews and Mark Evans Tech
Apple:
Apple Updates Mac mini — Apple® today updated the Mac® mini with next generation Intel core processors, new discrete graphics, high-speed Thunderbolt I/O technology and Lion, the world's most advanced operating system. The new Mac mini delivers up to twice the processor …
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Matt Burns / TechCrunch:
Apple Updates The Mac Mini: Intel Sandy Bridge CPUs, Thunderbolt, And Even A OS X Lion Server Model
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CNET News, Gizmodo and The Next Web
Ross Miller / This is my next:
Apple 27-inch Thunderbolt Display now available: FaceTime HD camera, 2.1 speaker system, and $999 price tag — New Mac Minis? MacBook Airs? Apple knows what you're really wanting is an excuse to upgrade your almost-but-not-quite two-year-old Cinema Display — only now, it looks like Apple's opted for new naming convention.
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LAPTOP Magazine, CNET News, 9to5Mac, Engadget, AppleInsider, Softpedia News and TUAW
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Lee Youkyung / YONHAP NEWS:
Samsung to release Galaxy S2 in U.S. next month — Samsung Electronics Co. will release its flagship Galaxy S2 smartphone in the U.S. market next month, the chief of its mobile business division said Wednesday, a move that will likely pit the product against the forthcoming iPhone.
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Apple:
Apple Reports Third Quarter Results — CUPERTINO, California—July 19, 2011—Apple® today announced financial results for its fiscal 2011 third quarter ended June 25, 2011. The Company posted record quarterly revenue of $28.57 billion and record quarterly net profit of $7.31 billion, or $7.79 per diluted share.
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The Business Insider, Digits, ITProPortal, MacStories, ReadWriteWeb, SplatF, MarketBeat, infoSync World, AppleInsider, Between the Lines Blog, I4U News and iPhone Hacks, Thanks:rkrishnakumar
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Joanna Stern / This is my next:
Lenovo announces Android-based ThinkPad Tablet and IdeaPad K1, forgets to cancel Windows 7 P1 — Well, Lenovo is certainly making up for lost time today. After first revealing its IdeaPad U1 about a year and a half ago at CES 2010 and some juicy ThinkPad tablet leaks …
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AllThingsD, PC World, GigaOM, BGR, TechSpot, InfoWorld, ITworld.com, TechEye and Delimiter
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Darren Murph / Engadget:
Netflix to stream natively from HDMI-equipped tablets (updated)
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The Cody Word, Engadget, Gadget Lab and GottaBeMobile
Ryan Lawler / GigaOM:
Tango raises $42M, will fight Skype on the desktop — How hot is the mobile video chat market? So hot that one of the leading technology companies in the space, Palo Alto, Calif.-based Tango, has raised $42 million aimed at rapidly growing its workforce to compete with startups like ooVoo and industry heavyweights like Skype.
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Digits, VentureBeat, ReadWriteWeb, Engadget and TechCrunch
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Zillow Soars 200 Percent In First Trade With Over $1 Billion Valuation — Shares of real estate listings site Zillow began trading on the NASDAQ under the symbol ‘Z’ today, opening at $60 per share. This gives the company a whopping $1.6 billion valuation.
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Nathan Myhrvold / Bloomberg:
Myhrvold: Tech Giants Discover Value of Patents — Myhrvold: Tech Giants Discover Value of Patents — Patents rarely make headlines, but they did this month when Nortel Networks Corp., the defunct Canadian telecommunications giant, auctioned off its patent portfolio and drew …
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Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
Amazon Pulls a Netflix, Adds (Old) CBS Shows — Amazon, which is trying to build up a digital video service that can rival the one Netflix has built, has added a bunch of TV shows from CBS — just like Netflix did earlier this year. — The deal is more or less a replica of the pact CBS …
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Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:
China not only fakes iPhones... but Apple Stores, too! — China might be known as the home of the fake iPhone, but what about whole stores? Surprising almost no one, China is indeed home to the fake Apple Store. These pictures from BirdAbroad (via IFOAppleStore), show a fake Apple Store complete …
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PC Magazine, Digital Trends, BirdAbroad, Engadget, ifoAppleStore, kottke.org, Penn Olson, iDownloadBlog, MacDailyNews, AppleInsider, The Consumerist, Engadget, BGR, The Next Web, Techland and TiPb, Thanks:oswdev
Ina Fried / AllThingsD:
T-Mobile to Offer Lower Rate Plans to Those Who Bring Own Phone (Or Pay Full Price) — T-Mobile is rolling out a set of new “value” rate plans that cut the monthly costs for people that either have their own phone or are willing to pay full price in exchange for the lower service fees.
Colleen Taylor / GigaOM:
VC funding for web reaches 10 year high — Venture capital investments continued to grow at a rapid clip in the second quarter of 2011, with VC firms investing $7.5 billion across 966 deals, according to the latest MoneyTree report from PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) and the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA.)
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Fortune, fierceonlinevideo.com …, PE Hub Blog and Associated Press
Michelle Nichols / Reuters:
Tech-savvy Taliban fights war in cyberspace — (Reuters) - The war in Afghanistan entered cyberspace on Wednesday when the tech-savvy Taliban said their phones, email and website had been hacked to spread a false report that the movement's spiritual leader, Mullah Omar, was dead.
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Steve Lohr / New York Times:
U.S. to Close 800 Computer Data Centers — The federal government plans to shut 40 percent of its computer centers over the next four years to reduce its hefty technology budget and modernize the way it uses computers to manage data and provide services to citizens.
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Paul Ford / New York Magazine:
Facebook and the Epiphanator: An End to Endings? — I do not enjoy Facebook — I find it cloying and impossible — but I am there every day. Last year I watched a friend struggle through breast cancer treatment in front of hundreds of friends. She broadcast her news with caution …
