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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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MacGazette.net, TechCrunch, App Advice, CNN and TUAW
AppleInsider:
Mac OS X Lion will be available on USB thumb drive for $69 in August
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USA Today, Digital Trends, Neowin.net, Wired.co.uk, Mobile Marketing Watch, O'Grady's PowerPage, 9to5Mac, MacRumors, CNET News, Fast Company and AppleInsider
Slash Lane / AppleInsider:
New MacBook Airs, Mac minis feature Lion Internet Recovery disc-less repair
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ExtremeTech, Apple, TechCrunch, MacStories, 9to5Mac, Joel Housman, MacRumors, SlashGear, The Tech Herald … and TUAW
Richard Dunn / Gmail Blog:
Make multiple calls in Gmail — Over the years, we've expanded Gmail's communication abilities by allowing you to make voice and video calls to other computers and more recently call phones. Until now, though, you were limited to making one call at a time.
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Digital Trends, Softpedia News, SlashGear, 9to5Google and Lifehacker
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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FT Tech Hub, The Atlantic Wire, Pulse2, New York Magazine, Gawker and Marketing Nirvana
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Jack Dorsey Cleaning House At Twitter: 4 Key Product Guys Are Out — Breaking news out of Twitter this afternoon, four key product managers have just been let go, we've learned. The move was led by Jack Dorsey and will see key product guys Kevin Cheng, Josh Elman, and two others we've yet to confirm, leave the company.
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The Business Insider, AllTwitter, @hunterwalk, @joshelman, @bryce and Robert Scoble
Andy Chalk / The Escapist:
Hackers Hit Anonymous Social Network — Just two days after it was revealed to the world, the Anonymous Social Network has been hacked. — Disclaimer: this whole situation could very easily be one big, silly joke. It's certainly ridiculous enough to merit at least a little bit of disbelief.
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Gizmodo, Fast Company, msnbc.com, Digital Trends and THN : The Hacker News
George Avalos / Mercury News:
Apple leases a big office campus in Cupertino that could accommodate more than 1,000 workers — Apple (AAPL) has struck a deal to lease a big office campus in Cupertino just west of De Anza College, in a move that would enable the tech titan to occupy the complex with more than 1,000 workers.
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AppleInsider, MacRumors, The Next Web, 9to5Mac, MacStories, MacNN and Associated Press
Nick Marshall / Electricpig:
2011 MacBook Air benchmarks are amazing, outperforms all 2010 MacBook Pros — The subtle change in clock speed from 1.4 to 1.6 GHz in the 2011 11-inch MacBook Air might sound small on paper, but in terms of benchmarks, it's nothing short of monumental. Using Geekbench as a baseline …
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Geek.com, MacRumors and Electricpig.co.uk
Austin Carr / Fast Company:
Circles Fatigue: The Dark Side Of Google+ — One of Google Plus's most unique features, Circles, initially attracted users to the service and set it apart from competitors. But it may also be one of the network's biggest turnoffs—only a few weeks in, and Circles fatigue is taking hold.
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Tradigital and Peter O'Kelly's Reality Check
Tomio Geron / Social Markets:
EBay's PayPal Payments Going Offline With Point Of Sale Product — eBay's PayPal unit has been a big driver of the company's growth as the company has retooled its marketplaces unit. Now PayPal is not just going after online and mobile payments, it's also targeting offline “point of sale” transactions with merchants.
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Gizmodo, The Business Insider and Reuters
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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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Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
Google's ‘20 Percent Time’ Will Survive The Death of Google Labs
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Guardian, Inquirer, I Programmer and Widgets Lab
Patrick Thibodeau / Computerworld:
Top general says Defense Department IT in ‘Stone Age’ — Cartwright sees fault with proprietary systems — Computerworld - WASHINGTON — U.S. Marine Corps Gen. James “Hoss” Cartwright, vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, was sharply critical Tuesday of the Defense Department's IT systems and sees much room for improvement.
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The Cloud Blog
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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Disruptors, The Business Insider, Pulse2, GigaOM, BostInnovation.com and broadstuff
Florian Mueller / FOSS Patents:
Google blinks in Oracle patent case, indicates willingness to pay — Oracle and Google just filed their joint reply to the judge's request for input on “the extent to which” that lawsuit should be stayed. — As I expected, the common and agreed-upon part of their response is confined …
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Between the Lines Blog, PC World, Android Phone Fans, Google Watch, Electronista and Peter O'Kelly's Reality Check, Thanks:brianshall
Ingrid Lunden / paidContent:UK:
Read It And Weep: Nokia Reports Loss Of Nearly €500 Million, Huge Declines — Nokia's CEO Stephen Elop once said that his chief competitor is not Apple (NSDQ: AAPL), but if you compare today's quarterly figures from Nokia (NYSE: NOK) with those of the Cupertino mobile upstart, the contrast couldn't be greater.
Sebastian Anthony / ExtremeTech:
Firefox 8 for Windows x64: Has 64-bit browsing finally come of age? — Over the last couple of weeks, Mozilla has finally stepped up its 64-bit testing process. There are now five slaves dedicated to building Firefox for Windows x64, which means that from Firefox 8 and onwards …
Jackie Cohen / All Facebook:
REPORT: How Google Plus Stacks Up Against Facebook — Ever since Google Plus launched last month, the blogosphere has been making bold declarations about how the search giant's social media product means the beginning of the end for Facebook. — Well now, we've got some hard numbers …
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Computerworld, The Business Insider and TechCrunch
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.
Sarah Perez / ReadWriteMobile:
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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SocialTimes.com, Pulse2, LiveSide.net, Electronista and The Windows Blog
Nick Bilton / Bits:
Zynga Is Hit With Countersuit Over Game Designs — Vostu, a Brazilian company whose social games are popular in South America, filed suit against the online gaming giant Zynga on Wednesday, responding to a suit from Zynga claiming that Vostu copied its game designs.
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Digits and TechCrunch
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 …
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Digital Trends, SlashGear, Pulse2 and Mashable!
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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Digital Trends, BBC, AppScout, Pulse2, Technologizer, PC Magazine, InfoWorld, MacNN, DailyTech, TUAW, MacRumors, eWeek, Cult of Mac, MacDailyNews and msnbc.com
