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Tim Culpan / Bloomberg:
HTC Says It's Willing to Negotiate With Apple Over Patent Fight — HTC Corp. (2498), the Taiwanese smartphone maker locked in a patent battle with Apple Inc. (AAPL), says it's willing to negotiate with the iPhone maker after both sides scored victories at the U.S. International Trade Commission.
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Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols / Networking Blog:
Google revises Google+ real name management policy — Over the weekend, Google annoyed numerous one-time Google+ users by blowing away their accounts because they'd broken Google's name restrictions. That went over well. As I asked at the time, “What was Google thinking!?”
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Bradley Horowitz, PC World, Digital Trends, Mashable!, WebProNews, Bill Gross, Webomatica, Pocket-lint, VentureBeat, 9to5Google, Penn Olson, The Business Insider, BetaNews, CNN and PC World
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Caterina.net:
Anonymity and Pseudonyms in Social Software — On Facebook, and now Google Plus, real names are required. Since its launch, there has been a fair amount of controversy surrounding the Google Plus policies, including this from a former Google employee who goes by the name of Skud, who had her account suspended.
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Network World and GigaOM, Thanks:kevinmarks
Tim Carmody / Wired:
Sidestepping Apple: From Amazon to Conde Nast, Companies Rethink App Strategies — We all knew that once Apple starting enforcing new rules for in-app purchases, it would change how media companies do business on the iPhone and iPad. Now, we're beginning to see just what that looks …
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Digital Trends, TechCrunch, MobileBurn.com, TechEye, Wall Street Journal, Computerworld, Webmonkey, CNET News, Neowin.net, ITProPortal, Reuters, Slashdot, PC World, PadGadget, Techland, CNNMoney.com, Hardware 2.0 Blog, dailywireless.org, TUAW, The Business Insider, FM Blog, Epicenter, Between the Lines Blog and MacNN, more at Mediagazer », Thanks:tcarmody
New York Times:
Bing Becomes a Distraction for Microsoft — Microsoft needs to concentrate on a different kind of search: finding a buyer for Bing, its online search business. Bing is the industry's distant No. 2 after Google. It has become a distraction for the software giant — one that costs shareholders dearly.
Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
Netflix Says Its Price Hike Will Clip Revenues For a Quarter — A quick first look at the Netflix Q2: Revenue of $788.6 million, earnings of $1.26 a share Wall Street was looking for $791.5 million and earnings of $1.11 per share. Analysts are unlikely to be happy with the company's guidance for the next quarter, though.
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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Netflix: 75 Percent Of New Customers Signing Up For Streaming-Only Plan
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GigaOM, ReadWriteWeb and Hacking NetFlix
Om Malik / GigaOM:
Smartphones, iPads & the state of the mobile Internet — The first quarter of 2011 turned out to be a big one for smartphone makers, especially Apple and Android-based device makers such as Samsung. In the US alone, slightly more than half of the phones sold were smartphones …
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Matt Burns / TechCrunch:
Report: Amazon To Use Two-Finger Touchscreen To Keep Tablet Competitive With The iPad — Details about the Amazon tablet are slowly emerging as its supposed release draws closer. The latest news out of the Chinese manufacturing scene is that Amazon, like others, are opting …
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GottaBeMobile, DigiTimes, Neowin.net, TeleRead, Electronista, 9to5Mac, parislemon, DisplayBlog, Techland, iClarified, I4U News, 9to5Google and Technology Questions
Martin Bryant / The Next Web:
YouSendIt steps on Dropbox's turf with unlimited cloud storage service — YouSendIt is best known as a convenient alternative to email when you have large files to send, but now the California-based firm is stepping up a gear with the launch of a Dropbox-style cloud storage and file sharing solution with a low-price unlimited plan.
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ReadWriteWeb, The Download Blog and Social Markets
Nivi / Venture Hacks:
1.5 Years Of AngelList: 8000 Intros, 400 Investments And That's Just The Data We Can Tell You About — It's the AngelList centi-sesquicentennial and we want to share some stats with you. After 1.5 years, AngelList has seen... - 8,000 intros. An investor has asked for an intro to a startup on AngelList over 8,000 times.
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The Business Insider and GigaOM, Thanks:venturehacks
Susan Decker / Bloomberg:
Patents ‘Gumming Up’ Innovation: Google — Google Inc. General Counsel Kent Walker said the smartphone industry is using patents in an arms race that hurts consumers, leaving the company trying to “sort through the mess” of litigation. — “It's hard to find what's the best path …
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FOSS Patents and Inquirer
Christopher Finke / Less Talk, More Do:
What do people type in the address bar? — Earlier this year, I added a feature to URL Fixer (a browser add-on that fixes errors in URLs that you type in the address bar) that collects anonymous usage stats from users who opt in in order to help improve the ways that URL Fixer corrects typos …
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Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
Technology Is The New Smoking — We've all been there; You're at an outing or a dinner table with friends but itching to check your email or Facebook or Twitter or Instagram or Google+ or Yammer or what ever digital hit of serotonin you prefer. Have you ever “gone to the bathroom” …
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Daily Mail, blog.chron.com and Washington Post
Jonathan S. Geller / BGR:
AT&T preps for early to mid-September iPhone 5 launch — BGR has exclusively learned that AT&T has begun communicating launch plans internally for Apple's next-generation iPhone 5 handset. We have been told that AT&T has begun informing employees across the company, and those who work in retail locations …
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Todd Haselton / BGR:
4G LTE Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 hitting Verizon on July 28th, starts at $529 — Verizon Wireless announced on Tuesday that it will offer Samsung's 4G LTE Galaxy Tab 10.1 beginning Thursday, July 28th. There will be 16GB and 32GB models available for $529 and $629, respectively.
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Engadget, Mashable!, IntoMobile and Electronista
Times of India:
Amazon set to launch services in India next year — Read More: — CHENNAI: World's largest online retailer, Amazon.com is set to enter India, riding on the second wave of e-commerce boom in India. Amazon is in discussions with leading Indian e-commerce players like Flipkart.com …
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The Business Insider, Penn Olson, Techie Buzz and The Next Web
Martin Harrigan / An Analysis of Anonymity …:
Bitcoin is not Anonymous — TL;DR — Bitcoin is not inherently anonymous. It may be possible to conduct transactions is such a way so as to obscure your identity, but, in many cases, users and their transactions can be identified. We have performed an analysis of anonymity …
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Gizmodo
Josh Lowensohn / CNET News:
iSwifter's Flash workaround app coming to the Mac — iSwifter's app on Apple's iPad, headed to Mac OS X users soon. — iSwifter, the company that released a piece of software for the iPad last year that lets iOS users view and interact with Adobe Flash content, soon plans to bring its service to Mac OS users.
Andrew Grossman / Metropolis:
First Glimpse of Apple's Plans for Grand Central Terminal … Grand Central Terminal's iconic main concourse, with its ceiling of glittering stars, will likely welcome another icon later this year: a single, glowing white apple. — Metropolitan Transportation Authority officials offered …
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Fortune, PhoneArena, GottaBeMobile, ifoAppleStore, Techland, AppleInsider, PalmAddicts, Techie Buzz, TiPb, Gizmodo, City Room, The Next Web, Gothamist, App Advice, CNN, 9to5Mac, CNET News, DisplayBlog, MacRumors, MacNN, iClarified, The Toybox Blog and New York Magazine
Andrew Jacobs / New York Times:
As China Steps Up Web Monitoring, Many Wi-Fi Users Stay Away — BEIJING — New regulations that require bars, restaurants, hotels and bookstores to install costly Web monitoring software are prompting many businesses to cut Internet access and sending a chill through the capital's game-playing …
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Google On The Nortel Loss, Patents As Government-Granted Monopolies, And Plates Of Spaghetti — Back in early April, Kent Walker, Google's Senior Vice President & General Counsel, wrote a post on the Google blog titled “Patents and innovation”. The reason behind the post was clear …
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AppleInsider, NPR and AppleInsider
Alexis Madrigal / The Atlantic Online:
SEO Shop Puts 50 Google +1s on Sale for Just $9.99 — You knew it had to happen, right? As soon as Google opened up its search engine to “social signals,” the search engine optimization shops had to find ways to game the system. One, Plussem.com, an arm of SEOShop.com …
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Googling Google Blog, Techland, NBC Bay Area and Gizmodo
Debbie Siegelbaum / Hillicon Valley:
Report: Republicans might be winning the social-media war — Republicans might have pulled ahead of Democrats in the race to dominate the social-media landscape, according to a Congressional Management Foundation report released Tuesday. — In a survey of 260 congressional staffers between October …
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Former Microsoft Exec Raises $20 Million For Motif, An Investment Vehicle For Ideas — Motif Investing, a new vehicle that allows you to invest in ideas, has raised $20 million in Series B financing led by Ignition Partners with participation from Norwest Venture Partners and Foundation Capital.
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TechFlash, GeekWire, VatorNews, VentureBeat, Paul Kedrosky's … and silicontap.com
Christian Zibreg / 9to5Mac:
Apple considering cheaper components to keep iPad 3 competitive — iPad 2 WiFi teardown image courtesy of iFixit — An interesting report comes this morning via DigiTimes, the Taiwanese trade publication. Besides naming possible integrated circuit suppliers for iPad 4 - Novatek Microelectronics …
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AppleInsider, DigiTimes, MacRumors, MacNN and I4U News
