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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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AppleInsider, mocoNews, SiliconANGLE, MacRumors, Hardware 2.0 Blog, VentureBeat, TG Daily, L.A. Times Tech Blog, CNET News, Between the Lines Blog, TechCrunch, Electronista, Pulse2, AllThingsD, Engadget, The Next Web, FierceWireless, Android Phone Fans, Neowin.net, The Business Insider, PhoneArena, TUAW, MobileBurn.com, iLounge, Edible Apple and iClarified
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Zach Epstein / BGR:
Exclusive images of AT&T's Samsung Galaxy S II revealed — BGR has obtained exclusive images of AT&T's upcoming Samsung Galaxy S II smartphone. Following our report on Monday showing an unnamed Samsung slider headed to AT&T, we have confirmed that the device pictured is indeed a variant …
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This is my next, GigaOM, The Toybox Blog, The Business Insider, Android Community, Gizmodo, SlashGear, Sammy Hub, Techie Buzz, GottaBeMobile, Coolsmartphone, PhoneArena, Pocket-lint, IntoMobile, Engadget Mobile, AndroidGuys, I4U News, PhoneDog.com, Electricpig.co.uk, MobileSyrup.com, Android Phone Fans, Electronista and Gadgetian
Tom Anderson / TechCrunch:
Five Things I Learned At MySpace That Could Help Google+ — Editor's note: This guest post is written by Tom Anderson, the former President, founder and first friend on MySpace. You can now find Tom on Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ — This is just a guess, but I'd bet money that Vic Gundotra …
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Caterina Fake / 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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Betabeat, Anil Dash, eWeek, Pocket-lint and Stowe Boyd, Thanks:kevinmarks
Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols / Networking Blog:
Google revises Google+ real name management policy
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CNET News, The Business Insider, Search Engine Watch, msnbc.com, TG Daily, Bradley Horowitz, Mashable!, PC World, Digital Trends, Bill Gross, 9to5Google and VentureBeat
Jonathan S. Geller / BGR:
HTC Puccini, the company's first 10-inch tablet, uncovered — In addition to exclusively revealing the first photos of AT&T's Samsung Galaxy S II earlier this morning, we also got our hands on the first solid images of HTC's upcoming 10-inch slate, codenamed the HTC Puccini.
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Engadget, This is my next, The Mobile Gadgeteer Blog, Gizmodo, AndroidGuys, PhoneArena, Techie Buzz, GottaBeMobile, Liliputing, Coolsmartphone, The Next Web and Electronista
Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:
Face detection software and API land in iOS 5 following Apple's 2010 purchase of Polar Rose — In 2010 we reported that Apple snapped up a Swedish company called Polar Rose that specializes in face detection algorithms. Less than a year after this purchase, we have discovered what Apple actually intends to do with this software.
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App Advice, PadGadget, TiPb, Pulse2, Gizmodo, Fast Company, iGadgetsReport, GSMArena Blog, Apple Bitch, MacStories, MacNN, TUAW, MacGazette.net and everythingiCafe, Thanks:markgurman
Jack Purcher / Patently Apple:
Apple Invents New Flat Keyless Keyboard for Desktops & More — Late last week the US Patent & Trademark Office published a patent application from Apple that revealed yet another take on a possible future virtual keyboard for the iMac and other devices. Apple's first major patent concerning larger virtual keyboards surfaced in 2009.
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The Business Insider, Techland, NBC Bay Area, PC Pro, Engadget, Electricpig.co.uk, Pocket-lint and iClarified
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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PC World
John Biggs / TechCrunch:
All Is Right With The World: EBook Apps Back On The iPad — Yesterday's “Everybody panic!” is today's “Meh.” B&N, Amazon, and Google Books have all taken pains to make it abundantly clear that you can only buy their ebooks from the e-store “through the Safari browser on their device or any computer” …
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PC World and Digital Trends
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Tim Carmody / Wired:
Sidestepping Apple: From Amazon to Conde Nast, Companies Rethink App Strategies
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GMSV, Wall Street Journal, GigaOM, Music Ally, MobileBurn.com, Neowin.net, ITProPortal, TechEye, Computerworld, 9to5Mac, Webmonkey, CNET News, Reuters, Slashdot, PC World and PadGadget, more at Mediagazer », Thanks:tcarmody
Christopher Robbins / Gothamist:
Video: Yes, You Can Bring A Goat Into The Apple Store — Comedian Mark Malkoff may be the next Ralph Nader. From visiting all of Manhattan's 171 Starbucks, to living in a New Jersey IKEA, to beating a crosstown bus in a race (on a Big Wheel!), he's a consumer advocate on a mission.
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MacRumors, Laughing Squid, @mmalkoff and OS X Daily
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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GigaOM, Feld Thoughts and The Business Insider, Thanks:venturehacks
Ryan Lawler / GigaOM:
As DVD sales decline, Walmart.com adds Vudu streaming — Online video rental store Vudu has seen massive growth lately, driven mostly by getting embedded on an ever-growing number of connected TVs and other devices. But the streaming-video-on-demand service is about to get a big boost …
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CNET News, Engadget, Reuters, VatorNews, TechCrunch, fierceonlinevideo.com … and Benzinga
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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Lifehacker, ReadWriteCloud, Techland, The Download Blog, SiliconANGLE and Social Markets
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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Between the Lines Blog, PC Magazine, Computerworld, mocoNews, GottaBeMobile, ITProPortal, iThinkDifferent, Macgasm, Crave, Softpedia News, Examiner and PSFK, Thanks:brodie_duncan
Sinead Carew / Reuters:
InterDigital files Nokia, Huawei, ZTE complaint — (Reuters) - InterDigital Inc has filed a complaint with the U.S. International Trade Commission against Nokia Corp, Huawei Technologies Co Ltd and ZTE Corp accusing the cellphone makers of infringing seven InterDigital technology patents.
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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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dailywireless.org, Inquirer and GMSV
Sharif Sakr / Engadget:
Verizon's Blackberry Bold 9930 unveiled early thanks to website blunder — Oh boy, we don't envy the Verizon web admin who made this particular mis-click. If you go to VZW's sales page for the Blackberry 9650 and click on the “Explore Features” video, you get an unexpected treat …
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The Toybox Blog, Electronista, CrackBerry.com blogs, Electronista, BGR, TechCrunch, BerryReview.com and N4BB
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Pew Research Center:
71% of Online Adults Now Use Video-Sharing Sites — More online Americans are using video-sharing sites— and they are doing so more frequently. As of May 2011, 71% of online adults reported watching videos on a video-sharing site such as YouTube or Vimeo. A demographic portrait of these site users is in the table below.
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Pew Research Center, Between the Lines Blog, VatorNews, techPresident and GigaOM, more at Mediagazer »
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, GigaOM, blog.chron.com and Washington Post
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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textually.org and dailywireless.org
Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
Jumio Turns Webcams Into Credit Card Readers - And Why Merchants Will Welcome ‘Netswipers’ — If it were up to Jumio, we're all going to be ‘netswiping’ to purchase books, clothes, travel, FarmVille crops and whatnot online in a couple of years. The startup has been extensively testing …
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Tom Foremski, VatorNews, ReadWriteWeb, GigaOM, AllThingsD, CNET News, Engadget, Shelly Palmer Digital Living, GottaBeMobile, FT Tech Hub, Pulse2 and Jumio, Thanks:nitwitty
John Cook / GeekWire:
Exclusive: Facebook on the prowl for more office space in Seattle — In a visit to Seattle last month, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg discussed the importance of the company's newly-opened Seattle office, touting the high-quality engineers located in the region.
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Ustream Lands On The iPad, Gives Couch Potatoes The Perfect Soapbox — Ustream has landed on the iPad. — Today, the streaming video service has launched its first iPad-optimized app, allowing users to view live and recorded content streaming through the service — and to stream their own footage direct from their iPad 2.
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Gizmodo and Techie Buzz
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Sequoia, Accel, And Union Square Top SecondMarket's New VC Scoreboard — Demand for private company shares declined in the second quarter versus the first quarter but was up sharply year-over-year, according to a new report released today by SecondMarket. The market for private company …
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SecondMarket and Betabeat
Frederic Lardinois / SiliconFilter:
Microsoft Adds RAW Support to Photo Gallery and Windows Explorer — Microsoft announces support for raw files from 120 DSLR cameras in Windows Live Photo Gallery and Windows Explorer. Makes them as easy to use as JPEGs. — When it comes to taking professionally looking photos …
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The Windows Blog and WinRumors
Somini Sengupta / New York Times:
For Suspected Hackers, a Sense of Social Protest — SAN FRANCISCO — The F.B.I.'s arrests of 14 people last week were the most ambitious crackdown yet on a loose-knit group of hackers called Anonymous that has attacked a string of government agencies and private companies over the last eight months.
Ishan Srivastava / Times of India:
Amazon set to launch services in India next year — 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, LetsBuy.com and Exclusively.in …
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The Register, The Next Web, The Business Insider, Techie Buzz and Penn Olson
Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
Design Sales Site Fab.com Hits 350,000 Members, Raises $8M To Celebrate — Fab.com, which started out as Fabulis, a social networking site for gay men, has not only recently changed its name but also started from scratch with an entirely new business centered around online flash sales of design items.
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AllThingsD, Betabeat, Kevin Rose and @aplusk
