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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, TUAW, The Apple Core Blog, LAPTOP Mag, techblog.dallasnews.com, MacDailyNews, Telegraph, Redmond Pie, CNN 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, TechCrunch, TUAW, Time, AppleInsider, The Next Web and 9to5Mac
Slash Lane / AppleInsider:
New MacBook Airs, Mac minis feature Lion Internet Recovery disc-less repair
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TechCrunch, Apple, 9to5Mac, MacStories, SlashGear, MacRumors, Joel Housman, iPhone Hacks and TUAW
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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PC World, CNET News, Search Engine Land, The Official Google Blog, Technologizer, Between the Lines Blog, ReadWriteWeb, GigaOM, Digits and The Next Web
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Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
Google's ‘20 Percent Time’ Will Survive The Death of Google Labs — Google announced this morning that it will be shutting down Google Labs, a platform that allowed users to interact and give feedback on experimental products produced by Googlers in their 20 Percent Time.
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, BostInnovation.com and broadstuff
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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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
The MacBook Is Dead. Long Live The (New) MacBook Air.
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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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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, WinRumors, MSDN Blogs, IntoMobile, Network World, Softpedia News, 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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eWeek, PC World, AppleInsider and broadstuff
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Kyung Lah / CNN:
Chairman: Google should have gone social earlier
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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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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 …
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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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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Wall Street Journal, Android and Me, MacRumors, The Business Insider, FierceWireless and Electronista
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 …
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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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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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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PC World, Between the Lines Blog, The Register, Engadget, News Stories, AllThingsD, The Microsoft Blog, TechEye, CNET News, SlashGear, Electronista, Neowin.net and Reuters
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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TechCrunch, This is my next, Gizmodo, The Apple Core Blog, AppleInsider, MacRumors, MacRumors, Gadget Lab, The Next Web, Computerworld, GottaBeMobile, Engadget, MacStories and Shiny Objects
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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Between the Lines Blog, Business Wire, Tech Trader Daily, AllThingsD, Bloomberg and Social Markets
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
Enigmax / TorrentFreak:
Suppressed Report Found Busted Pirate Site Users Were Good Consumers — The June raids against Kino.to, which involved as many as 250 police and other authorities, dwarfed even the 2006 raids against The Pirate Bay. — Following the event the Kino.to site displayed notices which stated …
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Adam Klasfeld / Courthouse News Service:
Trial Looms for Price-Fixing in Digital Music — MANHATTAN (CN) - Major record labels must face a consolidated class action lawsuit claiming they fixed prices on digital music, a federal judge ruled. — The defendants include Bertelsmann, Sony BMG Music Entertainment, Sony Corporation of America …
Sarah Perez / ReadWriteWeb:
Microsoft Makes Windows Live Access Easier for Mobile Developers on iOS, Android & Windows Phone — Microsoft is making it easier for mobile developers building apps for iOS, Android and Windows Phone to integrate data from Windows Live into their applications.
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