Techmeme: Galaxy Tab 10.1 down under: Apple has Samsung on the defensive in Australia (Florian Mueller/FOSS Patents)

2:30 PM ET, August 1, 2011

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John Paczkowski / AllThingsD:

Apple Launching New iPhone in October, Not September — So those rumors claiming the iPhone 5 will debut in late September? They're wrong. — Instead, it's going to be an October surprise — the month in which Apple plans to launch its next-gen iPhone.

Bloomberg:

Apple Suit Puts Samsung Tablet Sales in Australia on Hold — Apple Inc. escalated a patent dispute against Samsung Electronics Co. and won an agreement that the South Korean company won't sell the newest version of its tablet computer in Australia until a lawsuit is resolved.

Florian Mueller / FOSS Patents:
Galaxy Tab 10.1 down under: Apple has Samsung on the defensive in Australia

Discussion: TechEye, MacStories and GigaOM Pro

John Gruber / Daring Fireball:

Apple TV Adds Support for Cloud-Based Storage of Purchased TV Shows — Apple hasn't updated the Apple TV release notes page yet, but I just ran software update on my Apple TV 2 and got a new update that adds support for a major new feature: purchased TV shows.

Discussion: MacRumors, 9to5Mac, Engadget, Gizmodo, This is my next, 9to5Mac, MacStories, eHomeUpgrade, OS X Daily, iDownloadBlog.com and iLounge

Darrell Etherington / GigaOM:

Apple TV update introduces show streaming, Vimeo support — Apple rolled out an update to its Apple TV software Monday that introduces a bunch of new features. (Hat tip to Daring Fireball.) The update is available now and allows you to stream TV shows you purchase through iTunes …

Discussion: AppleInsider, Ars Technica, CNET News, Macworld, Electronista, TUAW and The Next Web

Andy Greenberg / The Firewall:

Meet Comex, The 19-Year-Old iPhone Uber-Hacker Who Keeps Outsmarting Apple — Nicholas Allegra, better known by the hacker handle Comex. — A version of this story will appear in the upcoming issue of Forbes, published later this week. — Nicholas Allegra lives with his parents in Chappaqua, New York.

Discussion: Betabeat, Gizmodo, 9to5Mac, MacPost, Daring Fireball, MacStories, iDownloadBlog.com, Redmond Pie and iClarified, Thanks:forbestech

The Dealmap:

Deal of the Day: Google Buys The Dealmap — We're thrilled to announce that The Dealmap has been acquired by Google. — Since launching The Dealmap in May 2010, our team has worked to build a great product where people can find and share all the best local deals, all in one place.

Discussion: DealBook, GigaOM, VentureBeat, The Atlantic Wire, AllThingsD, The Business Insider, Pulse2 and WebProNews

Sarah Perez / ReadWriteWeb:

Farewell Flash? Adobe Launches HTML5 Web Animations Tool “Adobe Edge” — Today, Adobe is launching a new tool called Adobe Edge which will allow creative professionals to design animated Web content using Web standards like HTML5, CSS and JavaScript. Not Flash.

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Neil Hughes / AppleInsider:
First look: Adobe Edge promises Flash-style animation with HTML5

Discussion: The Loop, Between the Lines Blog, AppleInsider and About.com Web Design

Kashmir Hill / The Not-So Private Parts:

How Facial Recognition Technology Can Be Used To Get Your Social Security Number — What does your face give away? — Those freaked out by facial recognition technology have fresh fodder: a study from Carnegie Mellon University in which researchers were able to predict people's social security numbers …

Discussion: All Facebook, 9to5Google, Wall Street Journal, msnbc.com and TechEye

Josh Halliday / Guardian:

Google Chrome overtakes Firefox to become UK's second most popular web browser — Internet browser passes Firefox, with speed and a nationwide advertising campaign credited for the rise in popularity — Google's Chrome is Britain's second most popular browser, a sign of the internet giant's increasing grip on the UK search market.

Discussion: 9to5Mac, eWeek, TUAW, The Register, TechSpot, MacDailyNews, The Next Web, PC World, 9to5Google, SlashGear, Softpedia News, TechnoBuffalo, WebProNews, Pocket-lint, T3.com News, TechEye and ITProPortal

Mike Elgan / Cult of Mac:

Why Google is a Better Apple Friend than Enemy — A casual observer might be forgiven for thinking that to Apple, Google is Enemy #1. Apple's most profitable (and therefore important) businesses center on the iPhone and iPad. The most serious competitors in both these product categories run on Google's Android platform.

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

BREAKING: Twitter Might Have a New York Office! — We need to be very careful here. Because the last time we thought that Twitter might have opened a New York Office, Twitter said there was no such thing. It was just an office in New York where people from Twitter went to work. — But!

Discussion: Betabeat, The Business Insider, Venture Capital Dispatch, ClickZ, Pulse2 and The Next Web

Leena Rao / TechCrunch:

Square Now Processing $4 Million In Mobile Payments Per Day — Flush with $100 million in new funding, Square is continuing to grow like a weed in the mobile payments space. After passing the $3 million mark at the end of May, Square is now processing $4 million in mobile payments daily …

Discussion: SplatF, Between the Lines Blog, Betabeat, SocialTimes.com, The Business Insider, FierceMobileContent, IntoMobile and Sramana Mitra

MG Siegler / TechCrunch:

Halo Effect: All AngelPad Companies Will Get $100K Investment Offers From 2 VC Firms — Earlier this year, Yuri Milner, SV Angel, and Y Combinator shook the early-stage investment world with Start Fund, a $150,000 investment offered to every startup in every new Y Combinator class, no questions asked.

Discussion: Pulse2

Daniel Rubino / WPCentral.com:

Windows Phone revenue “abysmal”, still better than Android — The Seattle PI has done some sleuthing in Microsoft's annual report to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and found out that by subtracting a few figures, you get a rough $600 million dollars in revenue for fiscal year 2011 for Windows Mobile and Windows Phone.

Discussion: CNET News, Computerworld, FierceWireless, PhoneArena and Fortune

Edmund Lee / AdAge:

Foursquare to Users: Nice Check-in, Now Please Write Something — Mobile-Sharing Startup Wants Its Users to Share More Tips in Stealth Content Initiative — Mobile startup Foursquare wants its users to go beyond checking in and vying for virtual badges — it wants its 10 million users to do more writing.

Discussion: About Foursquare, WebProNews and The Next Web

Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:

Twitter Confirms “Significant” New Funding Round Led By DST — After weeks of speculation, Twitter has just published a blog post confirming that it has indeed raised a “significant round of funding led by the venture firm DST Global, with the participation of several of our existing investors.”

Discussion: Twitter Blog, The Business Insider, AllThingsD, GigaOM, VentureBeat, NBC Bay Area, AllTwitter, Mashable!, Mashable!, The Next Web and WebProNews

John Markoff / New York Times:

Data Centers' Power Use Less Than Was Expected — SAN FRANCISCO — Data centers' unquenchable thirst for electricity has been slaked by the global recession and by a combination of new power-saving technologies, according to an independent report on data center power use from 2005 to 2010.

Discussion: CNET News, Jonathan G. Koomey, Ph.D., Data Center Knowledge, GigaOM, Data Center Knowledge, GeekWire and GigaOM Pro

Charles Arthur / Guardian:

Alleged LulzSec hacker released on bail — Jake Davis, allegedly known online as ‘Topiary’, released on bail after being charged with five offences — Jake Davis, an 18-year-old from the Shetland Islands, was released on bail on Monday after being charged with five offences relating …

Discussion: Reuters, SiliconANGLE, Disruptors, Daily Mail, TG Daily, Gizmodo, THN : The Hacker News, @anonymousirc, Computerworld, Softpedia News, LulzSec Exposed and Gawker

Mark Hachman / PC Magazine:

Democrats Introduce Federal Bill to Collect Online Sales Tax — A bill introduced Friday by Democrats in Congress would require a federal framework for collecting sales tax from online retailers, essentially providing guidelines for the states. — As it did during its earnings call …

Discussion: GMSV

Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:

Best Buy moves into the connected TV business with Tivo's user interface — Internet connected TVs are becoming a lot more mainstream. The latest sign of that is that Best Buy is announcing its own house label model, dubbed the Insignia Connected TV. — Best Buy, the nation's largest …

Discussion: The Toybox Blog, PC World, Daily Patricia, TechCrunch, Engadget, GigaOM, SlashGear, eHomeUpgrade, Ubergizmo, Zatz Not Funny!, This is my next, Gizmodo and Crave

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