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John Siracusa / Ars Technica:
Feature: Mac OS X 10.7 Lion: the Ars Technica review — Mac OS X 10.7 was first shown to the public in October 2010. The presentation was understated, especially compared to the bold rhetoric that accompanied the launches of the iPhone ("Apple reinvents the phone") and the iPad …
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Brian X. Chen / Wired:
Lion Is Smooth, But Tries Too Hard to Be iOS — Mac OS X Lion is rich with visual enhancements, such as the new Launchpad feature for launching apps — My head started hurting after the first hour of using Mac OS X Lion. Two words: inverted scrolling. — That's correct …
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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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GigaOM, Daring Fireball, MacRumors, The Apple Core Blog, TUAW, CNN, Redmond Pie, LAPTOP Mag, FreakGeeks, techblog.dallasnews.com, MacDailyNews, Telegraph and MacStories
Walter S. Mossberg / AllThingsD:
Apple's Lion Brings PCs Into Tablet Era
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Engadget, Ars Technica, Computerworld, MacRumors, New York Times, TUAW, TechCrunch, Time, AppleInsider, The Next Web, AppleInsider and 9to5Mac
Slash Lane / AppleInsider:
New MacBook Airs, Mac minis feature Lion Internet Recovery disc-less repair
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TechCrunch, 9to5Mac, Apple, MacStories, iPhone Hacks, Joel Housman, SlashGear, MacRumors and TUAW
Apple:
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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MacStories, ZDNet, This is my next, 9to5Mac, Geek.com, GigaOM, The Apple Core Blog, LAPTOP Mag, LAPTOP Mag, MacRumors, MediaFile, TechSpot, iClarified, dailywireless.org, TidBITS, Digital Trends, MacPost, Delimiter, VentureBeat, blog.chron.com and SlashGear
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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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CNET News, MacStories, Gadget Lab, AppleInsider, Computerworld, Crave, Mobile Marketing Watch, NBC Bay Area, GigaOM, Daring Fireball, TUAW, Digits, Gizmodo, GottaBeMobile, Shiny Objects and PC World
Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:
Twitter Poised to Close a Two-Stage $800M Funding, With Half Used to Cash Out Investors and Employees — In a move reminiscent of one done by Facebook in 2009, Twitter is close to completing an $800 million funding deal that will include a second part in which around $400 million of the total …
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The Business Insider, GigaOM and broadstuff
Frederic Lardinois / SiliconFilter:
Wave Goodbye to Google Labs — Google just announced that it is shutting down Google Labs, the company's central hub for testing new product ideas and features. According to Google, the decision was made in order to allow it to prioritize its product efforts.
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CNET News, Search Engine Land, BetaNews, Technologizer, The Official Google Blog, GigaOM, ReadWriteWeb, Digits, Between the Lines Blog and The Next Web
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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.
Todd Brix / Windows Phone Developer Blog:
Windows Phone Developers Get New App Hub Features: Mango app submission just one month away — This week marks another significant developer milestone on the path to the release of Mango and also gives me a chance to talk about where we're headed. — We know there's tremendous excitement among …
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Computerworld, GigaOM, All about Microsoft Blog, LiveSide.net, Network World, WinRumors, Softpedia News, MSDN Blogs, IntoMobile, WMPU, Neowin.net and TechNet Blogs
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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AppleInsider, eWeek, PC World and broadstuff
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Kyung Lah / CNN:
Chairman: Google should have gone social earlier
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Paul Allen, SlashGear and Google Watch
Alexei Oreskovic / Reuters:
Exclusive: Google offers credit card to advertisers — (Reuters) - Google Inc is introducing a credit card for its advertising customers, offering its clients a credit line to try and drum up business as competition in the online ad market heats up. — Google is offering the card …
Paul Kedrosky / Paul Kedrosky's Infectious Greed:
The Trouble with Nathan Myhrvold's Pro-Patent Arguments — Nathan Myhrvold is a smart guy. I haven't met him, but everyone tells me that, so I'll take it as given. I have a hunch he's 1980s Microsoft-smart, which is to say he's about as much fun to be with as a talking Wikipedia page, but hey, some people like that.
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Fortune:
Larry Summers calls Winklevoss twins ‘A**holes’ — NEW YORK (Fortune) — What did Larry Summers really think of the Winklevoss twins? — “Rarely, have I encountered such swagger, and I tried to respond in kind,” the former president of Harvard said in an interview at Fortune's Brainstorm Tech conference.
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Christopher S Penn / Christopher S. Penn:
Google+ and Search Signals: Tinfoil Hat Edition — I was recently examining Google+ and how it transparently redirects through plus.google.com as it sends readers to your website. One of the oddities I noticed was this: … Take a look at how the URL starts. The second query string variable looks awfully familiar.
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Larissa Fontaine / Google Book Search Blog:
Pottermore and Google team up to enable Harry Potter ebooks push to Google Books libraries — When JK Rowling's new website Pottermore opens its doors this Fall, we'll provide services to help fans make the most of their ebook purchasing experience. Pottermore and Google are teaming …
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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This is my next, Gizmodo, The Apple Core Blog, AppleInsider, MacRumors, MacRumors, Gadget Lab, Computerworld, GottaBeMobile, 9to5Mac, Engadget, MacStories and Shiny Objects
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Katie Marsal / AppleInsider:
Apple initiates mass discontinuation of boxed retail software — Further emphasizing the Mac App Store as the preferred place to get new software for Mac OS X, Apple on Wednesday discontinued a slew of boxed software products. — Virtually all of Apple's retail software was declared …
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BBC, PC Magazine, InfoWorld, Mercury News, MacRumors, Gizmodo, eWeek, MacNN, DailyTech, msnbc.com and MacDailyNews
Tiernan Ray / Tech Trader Daily:
Intel Q2 Crushes Estimates; Q3 View Beats; Raises Spending View — Intel (INTC) this afternoon reported Q2 revenue and earnings per share ahead of estimates. — Revenue in the three months ended in June rose 22%, year over year, to $13.1 billion, yielding EPS of 59 cents per share.
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Between the Lines Blog, The Register, News Stories, Engadget, AllThingsD, The Microsoft Blog, TechEye, CNET News, SlashGear, Electronista, Neowin.net and Reuters
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
eBay Beats The Street; Revenue Up 25 Percent To $2.8B; PayPal Posts First $1B Quarter — eBay just posted strong second quarter earnings, reporting that revenue for quarter ended June 30, 2011, increased 25 percent to $2.8 billion, compared to the same period of 2010.
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Business Wire, Between the Lines Blog, Tech Trader Daily, AllThingsD, Bloomberg, Social Markets and WebProNews
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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Bloomberg:
Apple, Google Are Said to Be Among Companies Sizing Up InterDigital Offers — Apple Inc. (AAPL) and Google Inc. (GOOG), aiming to bolster their patent portfolios, are among companies weighing possible bids for InterDigital Inc., a mobile-phone technology designer, according to a person with knowledge of the situation.
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Android and Me, MacRumors, The Business Insider, Wall Street Journal, FierceWireless and Electronista
Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
The Lack Of A Legal Or Moral Basis For The Aaron Swartz Indictment Is Quite Troubling — There have been a lot of interesting discussions about the Aaron Swartz indictment, but I wanted to highlight a few key points on this, starting with an analysis of the actual legal points by Max Kennerly …
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MediaFile, New York Times, Disruptive Economics and Litigation & Trial
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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The Toybox Blog, Apple, 9to5Mac, TUAW, Technologizer, TidBITS, Engadget, AppleInsider and LAPTOP Magazine
Hugo Martin / Money & Company:
New TSA software to end naked scanner images — Say goodbye to naked scanner images. — The Transportation Security Administration announced Wednesday that it will begin installing software to allow airport scanners to show objects hidden under the clothes of passengers without creating …
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Gizmodo, The Consumerist, USA Today and Reuters
