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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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Engadget, AppleInsider, PC World, LAPTOP Magazine, Gizmodo, 9to5Mac, This is my next, CNET News, TUAW, Electronista, Gadget Lab, O'Grady's PowerPage and Softpedia News
Nilay Patel / This is my next:
Apple kills white MacBook, 11.6-inch Air is the new entry level Mac
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Macworld, MacRumors, AppleInsider, MacRumors, Tools, Electronista, The Next Web and Gizmodo
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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Digits, MacStories, ReadWriteWeb, MarketBeat, Between the Lines Blog, Between the Lines Blog, AppleInsider, Music Ally, Macworld, Wall Street Journal, I4U News, iPhone Hacks, Tim Anderson's ITWriting, MacPost, The Network Garden, GigaOM, CNET News, @altgate, WinBeta, PC Magazine, The Apple Core Blog and Softpedia News, Thanks:rkrishnakumar
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
The Key Subtle Notes From Apple's Earnings Call — When Apple announces their earnings, they typically do so with much pomp and circumstance. You get a superlative-laden press release, which in recent years have been more than backed up by massive numbers. But it's the earnings call itself that is often even more interesting.
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AllThingsD, Macworld, Fortune, Macworld, Daring Fireball, CNET News and Computerworld
Dan Frommer / SplatF:
Just like that, the iPad is already bigger than the Mac
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The Business Insider, L.A. Times Tech Blog, VentureBeat, The Business Insider, Neowin.net and App Advice
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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LAPTOP Mag, Telegraph, This is my next, MacRumors, techblog.dallasnews.com, TechnoRocket.net, TiPb, Tools and Macgasm
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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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CNET News, Ars Technica, ReadWriteWeb, TechCrunch, AppleInsider, AppleInsider, 9to5Mac, MacRumors, Guardian, Computerworld, Macworld, Gizmodo, Joel Housman and Fast Company
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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eWeek, App Advice and Punit Soni
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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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The Next Web and Peter O'Kelly's Reality Check
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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CNET News, Mark Evans Tech, Digital Trends, The Business Insider and Softpedia News
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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AppleInsider, Computerworld, 9to5Mac, MacRumors, Gizmodo, 9to5Mac, This is my next, Engadget, Macworld, Electronista and TUAW
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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 — Apple's Mac Mini was in need of a refresh in the worst way. The model that debuted last June was the same model sold up until today. The outer casing remains from the previous generation …
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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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Engadget, AppleInsider, 9to5Mac and TUAW
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Apple:
Apple Introduces World's First Thunderbolt Display — Apple® today unveiled the new Apple Thunderbolt Display, the world's first display with Thunderbolt I/O technology and the ultimate docking station for your Mac® notebook. With just a single cable, users can connect …
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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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BGR, Computerworld, Inquirer, PC World, AllThingsD, TechSpot, GigaOM, TechEye, MobileSyrup.com, Disruptors, Electronista, GottaBeMobile, Delimiter, LAPTOP Magazine, The Seattle Times, TechCrunch, Gizmodo, Mobilized and Mashable!
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Darren Murph / Engadget:
Netflix to stream natively from HDMI-equipped tablets (updated)
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Engadget, Gadget Lab, GottaBeMobile and Engadget
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 …
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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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Digital Trends, ifoAppleStore, BGR, BirdAbroad, The Consumerist, Techland, AppleInsider, Engadget, MacNN, TUAW, The Next Web, I4U News, TiPb, SplatF, Gizmodo and thinq_, Thanks:oswdev
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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open, Paul Kedrosky's … and parislemon
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.
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Gizmodo, DSLreports, T-Mobile Newsroom, Engadget, IntoMobile, Mashable!, SlashGear, CNET News, Android and Me, Android Phone Fans, Reuters, TmoNews and Electronista
Klint Finley / ReadWriteWeb:
The Rise and Fall of the Cisco Empire — Yesterday Cisco announced that it will lay off 6,500 employees and sell a manufacturing plant in Juarez, Mexico to Foxconn to shave off an additional 5,000 employees. This follows Cisco's decision to discontinue its Flip camera products and its Eos video/social platform.
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Fast Company and BGR
Kevin C. Tofel / GigaOM:
Who's on pace to sell 1M phones a day? (Hint: Not Apple) — Nokia has long held the top spot for handset sales, but Samsung is charging from behind. The company expects to sell 300 million mobile phones in 2011, reports Mobile Business Briefing, up from 280 million last year.
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ITProPortal
Nick Bilton / New York Times:
Internet Activist Charged in M.I.T. Data Theft — Aaron Swartz, a 24-year-old programmer and online political activist, was indicted Tuesday in Boston on charges that he stole over four million documents from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and JSTOR, an archive of scientific journals and academic papers.
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Inquirer, Softpedia News, @kn0thing, TPM Idea Lab, VentureBeat, Naked Security, Digital Trends, Wired.co.uk and Examiner
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Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
Feds Charge Aaron Swartz With Felony Hacking... For Downloading A Ton Of Academic Research
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Threat Level, about.jstor.org and HotHardware.com News
Matt Burns / TechCrunch:
Roku Launches New Media Streamers Complete With Motion Gaming Capabilities Perfect For Angry Birds — Roku just announced its fourth generation of media streamers and they're unsurprisingly the best yet. They sport more features, an even smaller physical footprint, and the same Apple TV-killing price points as before.
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PC World, Concurrent Media, Gadget Lab, GigaOM, LAPTOP Magazine, Electronista, Engadget, BetaNews and Crave
Dan Primack / Fortune:
Twitter's new plan: Commerce? — Twitter CEO Dick Costolo discusses the company's business model, the departure of its co-founders, and its future in advertising. — By Dan Primack, senior editor — Dick Costolo — FORTUNE —Almost from the moment the first 140 characters were tweeted …
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AllThingsD, The Business Insider, AllTwitter, Bits and PE Hub Blog
Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land:
Google Disables URL Removals After Bug Allows Anyone To Remove Any Site — This morning, James Breckenridge discovered a loophole within Google's Webmaster Tools that allowed anyone to remove any site from Google. — Both James and I sent this information to Google as soon as we heard of it.
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James Breckenridge, Softpedia News, Security Watch, Search Engine Roundtable, thinq_ and SiliconFilter
Spencer Ackerman / Wired.com:
Meet the ‘Keyzer Soze’ of Global Phone-Tracking — Chances are you've never heard of TruePosition. If you're an AT&T or T-Mobile customer, though, TruePosition may have heard of you. When you're in danger, the company can tell the cops where you are, all without you knowing.
