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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 will be launching its next generation iPhone.
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.
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Another Airbnb Victim Tells His Story: “There Were Meth Pipes Everywhere” — This last week we've all watched in horror as the story unfolded about an Airbnb user who had her home ransacked a month ago. — Other than the sideshow of us getting dragged into the story, it seemed to be winding down yesterday.
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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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.
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Emma Barnett / Telegraph:
Facebook expands UK operation — Facebook is moving into a larger office in London as it expands its advertising business operation in the UK. — Mark Zuckerberg - Facebook's founder and chief. — However, the social networking company has shunned Silicon Roundabout …
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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 …
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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.
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Graham Cluley / Naked Security:
Jake Davis named as suspected hacker Topiary by UK police — British police have tonight named the teenager they arrested in Shetland last week, in relation to the LulzSec and Anonymous hacking groups. — Jake Davis, 18, will appear in court tomorrow. — Davis, reportedly …
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Horace Dediu / asymco:
The end of easy growth in smartphones — At the end of last year I was saying that the smartphone boom was a tide that lifted all boats. That is no longer the case. — But the big story is that there has been a clear non-seasonal counter-cyclical decline in Nokia and RIM's smartphone performance.
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Steve Lohr / New York Times:
With the Bing Search Engine, Microsoft Plays the Underdog — MIKE NICHOLS has a poster on his office wall. It shows the young Muhammad Ali glaring down at a fallen Sonny Liston, the bruising heavyweight who had seemed invincible — until Ali beat him, in 1964, in one of the biggest upsets …
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InfoWorld, GeekWire, Neowin.net, TechNet Blogs and TechFlash, Thanks:theromit
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 …
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