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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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GigaOM, InfoWorld, Inquirer, eWeek, Gizmodo, TUAW, Shawn Blanc, MacRumors, Computerworld, Fortune, Macworld, TeleRead, BGR and LAPTOP Magazine
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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, 9to5Mac, The Apple Core Blog, CNN, MacRumors, Redmond Pie, FreakGeeks, LAPTOP Mag, techblog.dallasnews.com, MacDailyNews and Telegraph
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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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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Computerworld, MacRumors, New York Times, TUAW, TechCrunch, Time, The Next Web, ReadWriteWeb, AppleInsider and 9to5Mac
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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9to5Mac, ZDNet, MacStories, Geek.com, GigaOM, The Apple Core Blog, Digital Trends, LAPTOP Mag, MacRumors, MacPost, VentureBeat, MediaFile, LAPTOP Mag, TUAW, TechSpot, Gizmodo, iClarified, dailywireless.org, TidBITS, Delimiter, 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, Computerworld, MacStories, Mobile Marketing Watch, Gadget Lab, AppleInsider, GigaOM, Digits, Shiny Objects, TUAW, GottaBeMobile, Engadget, Gizmodo, LAPTOP Magazine and Electronista
Nilay Patel / This is my next:
Apple kills white MacBook, 11.6-inch Air is the new entry level Mac
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Tools, MacRumors, Apple Bitch, TUAW, Electronista and AppleInsider
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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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 $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 Fortune
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.
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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GigaOM, LiveSide.net, All about Microsoft Blog, Network World, Softpedia News, WinRumors, SlashGear, MSDN Blogs, IntoMobile, Windows Phone Secrets, WMPU, Neowin.net and TechNet Blogs
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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Apple, This is my next, The Apple Core Blog, AppleInsider, Gizmodo, Shiny Objects, GottaBeMobile, MacRumors, Gadget Lab, Gizmodo, Computerworld, 9to5Mac, Engadget, CNET News and MacStories
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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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Engadget, MobileBurn.com, VentureBeat, Unwired View, I4U News, 9to5Google, The Toybox Blog, Phone Scoop, The Next Web, infoSync World, IntoMobile, Android Community, Electronista and TechCrunch
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 some of its advertising customers, offering its clients a credit line to try and drum up business as competition in the online advertising market heats up.
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 …
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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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Between the Lines Blog and Gizmodo
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, TidBITS, 9to5Mac, CNET News, TUAW, Technologizer, Engadget, AppleInsider and LAPTOP Magazine
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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SiliconANGLE, VatorNews, VentureBeat, ReadWriteWeb, TechCrunch, Digits and Engadget
AppleInsider:
Apple releases 64-bit, full-screen iTunes 10.4 and iWork updates [u] — With Mac OS X Lion now unleashed on the Mac App Store, Apple has also introduced a new version of iTunes that is both 64-bit and full-screen capable, in addition to full-screen version of iWork that will also leverage several …
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MacRumors, Apple, 9to5Mac, Engadget, MacRumors, iLounge, VentureBeat, 9to5Mac, TUAW, SlashGear, MacDailyNews, Apple Bitch and MacStories
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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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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Mercury News, eWeek, MacRumors, MacNN, Macworld, DailyTech, TUAW, 9to5Mac, msnbc.com and MacDailyNews
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, 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 …
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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SFGate, AllThingsD, PE Hub Blog, Bloomberg and alarm:clock
Scott Denne / Venture Capital Dispatch:
Dell Places $700M Price Tag On Force10 — Dell Inc. is paying $700 million in cash for Force10 Networks Inc., a maker of high-speed Ethernet networking equipment that had plans for a public offering, according to two people familiar with the deal. Dell didn't disclose the terms in its announcement this morning.
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Direct2Dell, GeekWire and CNET News
