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Terry Myerson / The Windows Blog:
Windows Phone “Mango” - Released to Manufacturing — I wanted to drop into the Windows Phone Blog briefly to update you on an important milestone. Earlier this morning, the Windows Phone development team officially signed off on the release to manufacturing (RTM) build of “Mango” …
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Greg Kumparak / TechCrunch:
Official: Japan To Get The World's First Windows Phone 7 Mango Handset In September — As the sun just starts to set here on the West Coast, we've got a bit of news straight from the other side of the globe: Fujitsu and KDDI (Japan's second largest wireless operator) have just confirmed …
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Arnold Kim / MacRumors:
Apple Finishing Up Work on an Ultra-Thin 15" Mac Notebook [Updated] — Apple is working on a 15" ultra-thin Mac notebook, MacRumors has learned. We aren't certain if it will be called a MacBook Air or MacBook Pro, but we do know that it is already in late testing stages at Apple.
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Adrian Chen / Gawker:
Tech News Is So Phenomenally Boring — You never read tech news, do you? Good. Somehow, the story of the accidental early release of a Facebook iPad app everyone was expecting is threatening to turn into a week-long saga. Make it stop! This is the most boring s**t ever.
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MG Siegler / parislemon:
Rhymes With “Douchebag” — Adrian Chen of Gawker writes that “tech news is so phenomenally boring”. A story of mine, Facebook's iPad app being hidden inside of the iPhone app, is the prime example used. — Nevermind that Chen is complaining about tech news not really being “news” …
Dan Frommer / SplatF:
Here's how Apple is forcing a worse user experience on its customers — Amazon just updated its Kindle app for the iPhone and iPad to remove an important function: The link to its Kindle store where you can go to buy new e-books. Now, Apple device owners will have to figure out on their own …
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Audrey Watters / ReadWriteWeb:
Apple's New Rules Prompt More E-Readers, Including Kobo, to Build HTML5 Apps — “Everybody loses” with the enforcement of Apple's new in-app payment rules, argues The Atlantic Wire's Rebecca Greenfield in a post chronicling how consumers, e-reader companies and perhaps even Apple might suffer.
John Biggs / TechCrunch:
All Is Right With The World: EBook Apps Back On The iPad
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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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Ricardo Bilton / The Toybox Blog:
AT&T's Samsung Galaxy S II outed in leaked images, features sliding keyboard
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Staci D. Kramer / paidContent:
Fox Switches To Authentication For New Shows Online; Dish, Hulu Plus Get First Crack — Counting on keeping up with Glee next season through Hulu.com or Fox.com the next day? Count again—unless you subscribe through a video distributor with the right deal.
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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.
Mary Jo Foley / Redmond:
Why Microsoft Won't Dump Bing — Many Microsoft shareholders, employees, partners and customers would like Steve Ballmer to resign (or be ousted) as CEO. Almost as many are agitating for Microsoft to push Bing out of the Redmond nest. — To all of those folks, I've got bad news …
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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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Mark Hearn / Sprintfeed:
Sprint's Upcoming End of Line/Life Listing — All good things must eventually come to an end. This age old saying definitely applies to smartphones. Our beloved Super Spies have produced again! This time in the form of Sprint's upcoming End of Line/Life listing.
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Read It Later Raises $2.5 Million, Wants To Become The Dropbox Of Content — Read It Later, the popular service that lets you bookmark a webpage and access it later from any smartphone, computer, or tablet, has raised a $2.5 million funding round. The round marks the company's first external funding …
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GigaOM and AllThingsD
Christian Zibreg / 9to5Google:
Survey: Buyers want sub-$250 Amazon tablet — Much has been said about a rumored Amazon tablet so far. It should be based on Android, we are told, and Asian source have chimed in with their share of leaks, the latest being that Taiwanese contract manufacturers have begun producing the gizmo, presumably for a Fall launch.
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Nick Cowen / Guardian:
PopCap chief: ‘EA was a good fit for us’ — PopCap CEO Dave Roberts tells Nick Cowen why the company is thrilled with its purchase by Electronic Arts and what it means for game development — One of the biggest game industry stories this year has centred around the acquisition …
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Tricia Duryee / AllThingsD:
Electronic Arts' Revenues and Profits Up in Q1
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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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Daniel Eran Dilger / AppleInsider:
ITC rules Mac OS X violates S3 patents, iPhone and iPad do not — A US International Trade Commission judge has ruled that two patents held by S3 are being infringed by some of Apple's Mac computers, but invalidated two other patents and stated that Apple's iOS devices are not infringing any of the S3 patents.
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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, @mmalkoff, CNN, Laughing Squid and OS X Daily
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Amazon Beats The Street; Sales Up 51 Percent To $9.9B, Net Income Down 8 Percent — E-commerce giant Amazon just reported second quarter results, posting sales of $9.9 billion, an increase of 51 percent from the same quarter in 2010. Net income decreased 8% to $191 million in the second quarter …
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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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SocialTimes.com, Techie Buzz and Gizmodo
Rich Miller / Data Center Knowledge:
Facebook Building 2nd Data Center in Oregon — The exterior of the Facebook data center in Prineville, Oregon. The company said Tuesday that it will build a second huge data center on the same campus. (Photo credit: Alan Brandt). — Facebook will build a second huge data center …
Colleen Taylor / GigaOM:
Nice timing: Facebook debuts “Facebook for Business” — Facebook on Tuesday debuted a step-by-step online guide aimed at helping small businesses use the social networking site. The company is billing the new webpage, found at Facebook.com/business, as an “online education center” …
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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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Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
Groupon Pays At Least $10.2 Million For Zappedy — Groupon has just filed a Form D for a $10,288,416 offering of equity in connection with its acquisition of Chilean startup Zappedy. However we don't know if there was cash involved in addition to equity in the Zappedy acquisition so it's …
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