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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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Fast Company, Fugitsu, The Register, Engadget, Electronista, Techland, Fudzilla, WinRumors, Geeky-Gadgets and Gizmodo
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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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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ZDNet, The Next Web, @ed, SlashGear and Mashable!
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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Fortune, ZDNet and Daring Fireball
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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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Scripting News, Telegraph, PC World, @adrianchen, Betabeat, Techi.com, @fredericl, @alexia, TechUnwrapped, @fmanjoo and PE Hub Blog, more at Mediagazer »
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Ina Fried / AllThingsD:
Samsung Is Only Tablet Maker Giving iPad 2′s Display a Run for Its Money — Although the first wave of Android tablets couldn't hold a candle to Apple's iPad 2 when it came to screen quality, analysis firm DisplayMate says the latest Galaxy Tab model offers a significantly better display …
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DisplayMate, The Apple Core Blog, MacNN, Zatz Not Funny!, Droid Life, Gizmodo, MobileBurn.com, InfoWorld, BetaNews, 9to5Google and DisplayBlog
Courtney Boyd Myers / The Next Web:
Ars Technica's OS X Lion review made $15,000+ in 24 hours on the Kindle — Will people pay for quality digital content? It's an argument that has been on the table for quite some time, with naysayers pointing towards downloads of discographies instead of paying attention to concrete purchasing decisions.
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A message to PayPal, its customers, and our friends — Dear PayPal, its customers, and our friends around the globe, — This is an official communiqué from Anonymous and Lulz Security in the name of AntiSec. — In recent weeks, we've found ourselves outraged at the FBI's willingness …
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The Register, Digital Trends, Inquirer, PandaLabs Blog, Softpedia News, Techie Buzz and Gizmodo
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Todd Bishop / GeekWire:
Bitcoin befuddles U.S. customs agents, thwarting Seattle visit by digital currency guru — A developer who specializes in the Bitcoin digital currency says he was sent back to China last week after he arrived at Sea-Tac Airport with only $600 in cash and wasn't able to convince U.S. Customs …
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GLBSE and The Next Web
Owen Williams / Neowin.net:
OneNote Mobile for iPhone gets major update — Microsoft has announced today that they are releasing a major new version of OneNote for the iPhone, presumably to bring it into line with the features that Windows Phone 7 offers. — In a post on the OneNote blog, Microsoft …
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The Microsoft Office Blog, MSDN Blogs, Ubergizmo, The Windows Blog, WinRumors and Electronista
Jennifer Valentino-DeVries / Digits:
NSA Lawyer Questioned Over Cellphone Location Tracking of Americans — Is the government using cellular data to track Americans as they move around the U.S.? — According to the general counsel of the National Security Agency, it may have that authority.
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SocialTimes.com, Digital Trends, Gawker and MobileBurn.com
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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Eric Smalley / Webware.com:
Cornell software fingers fake online reviews — See the bottom of this post for the answer. — (Credit: Myle Ott, Cornell University) — If you're like most people, you give yourself high ratings when it comes to figuring out when someone's trying to con you.
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The GOOGLE+ Punch List (21 Items Google Must Add to Plus) — We asked Google+ users—on Google+—what Google had left out of the service. Here's what they said, with a little added analysis. — Must Haves — 1. Brand pages: Based on the brouhaha we've seen over Mashable getting …
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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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The Business Insider, Guardian, Microsoft Watch, The Next Web, All about Microsoft Blog and GeekWire
Bobbie Johnson / GigaOM:
Why European VCs are lean, mean and more extreme — You've probably all heard the cliches about European startups and investors: venture money in Europe is more conservative, entrepreneurs are afraid of risk, the businesses are less ambitious and there are fewer blockbuster successes.
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The Business Insider, The Next Web and Financial News
Lauren Indvik / Mashable!:
Tablet Publishing: Why Sports Illustrated Is Looking Beyond the iPad — The magazine industry's current interest and investment in tablets beyond the iPad can be described as tentative at best. — It's not terribly surprising. Even by the most conservative of estimates …
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GigaOM, VentureBeat and 9to5Google
John Markoff / New York Times:
Colleges Join Plan for Faster Computer Networks — A coalition of 28 American universities is throwing its weight behind a plan to build ultra-high-speed computer networks — with Internet service several hundred times faster than what is now commercially available — in the communities surrounding the participating colleges.
Rip Empson / TechCrunch:
LucidChart Nabs $1 Million From 500 Startups, 2M Companies, And K9 Ventures — LucidChart, a web-based diagramming application, announced today that it has raised $1 million in seed funding from 500 Startups, 2M Companies, K9 Ventures, as well as several angel investors.
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BRYCE DOT VC:
RIP Regional Venture Funds — I had a different post I'd plan to write this morning, then I read this on the blog of Boise, ID based Highway 12 Ventures blog: … As many of you know, I cut my teeth in the venture business backing companies in the intermountain and southwest region.
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Highway 12 Ventures and GeekWire
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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IntoMobile, Marketing Charts …, SocialTimes.com, Tablets Planet, vision2mobile News Only Feed, TUAW, msnbc.com and eWeek
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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Softpedia News, Android Phone Fans and SlashGear
