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Jim Finkle / Reuters:
Biggest-ever series of cyber attacks uncovered, U.N. hit — (Reuters) - Security experts have discovered the biggest series of cyber attacks to date, involving the infiltration of the networks of 72 organizations including the United Nations, governments and companies around the world.
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Inquirer, PC World, BetaNews, Washington Post, Computerworld, The Business Insider, MediaFile, Gawker, TechEye and Softpedia News
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Dmitri Alperovitch / McAfee Blog Central:
Revealed: Operation Shady RAT — For the last few years, especially since the public revelation of Operation Aurora, the targeted successful intrusion into Google and two dozen other companies, I have often been asked by our worldwide customers if they should worry about such sophisticated …
Michael Joseph Gross / Vanity Fair:
Exclusive: Operation Shady rat—Unprecedented Cyber-espionage Campaign and Intellectual-Property Bonanza — For at least five years, a high-level hacking campaign—dubbed Operation Shady rat—has infiltrated the computer systems of national governments, global corporations, nonprofits …
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Between the Lines Blog, CNET News, ReadWriteWeb, Digits, New York Times, Vanity Fair, SiliconANGLE and Mashable!
BBC:
Internet Explorer story was bogus — The story claimed that users of internet explorer had a lower IQ than those who opted for other browsers — A story which suggested that users of Internet Explorer have a lower IQ than people who chose other browsers appears to have been an elaborate hoax.
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CNET News, Computerworld, CNN, GeekWire, PC World, Computer Business Review, AptiQuant, Network World, Daring Fireball, The Ed Bott Report Blog, msnbc.com, Digital Trends, WinRumors, WinExtra, Mashable!, Between the Lines Blog, The Next Web, SlashGear, GMSV, Geek.com, Gizmodo, The Business Insider, The Tech Report, Dice Blog Network and Peter O'Kelly's Reality Check
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Alexander Vaughn / App Advice:
Exclusive: Apple To Launch iTunes Replay In The Coming Weeks — While rumors of Apple launching a proper streaming service for its iTunes content have been around for years, it's only recently that Apple has begun turning the dream into a reality. Just a few days ago …
Jeffrey McCracken / Bloomberg:
Samsung Is Said to Examine InterDigital Patents — Samsung Electronics Co., the world's second-largest maker of mobile phones, is examining InterDigital Inc.'s patent portfolio after being approached to make a bid, according to two people familiar with the matter.
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CNET News, mocoNews, TechCrunch, Mobiledia, Inquirer, The Tech Trade, FierceWireless, SlashGear and 9to5Mac
Greg Sterling / Search Engine Land:
Google Promoting “Free” Nexus S On Homepage — Hurry, supplies are limited. If you've been to Google.com today (from a US IP address) then you've already seen the Nexus S “free today only” offer. Users can obtain the phone from US retailer Best Buy and must sign up for a two-year contract.
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Internet2Go, Google Watch, The Next Web and TechSpot
Monica Chen / DigiTimes:
Pegatron to begin shipments of iPhone 5 in September — Pegatron Technology has landed orders for 10 million units of iPhone 5 to become the second ODM of the smartphone. Shipments will start in September, according to industry sources. — As iPhone gross margins are relatively small …
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Fast Company, VentureBeat, iDownloadBlog.com, ITProPortal, Redmond Pie, The Next Web and WebProNews
Colleen Taylor / GigaOM:
Inkling nabs $17M to bring textbooks to the iPad — Inkling, the digital textbook software startup, has closed on $17 million in new funding. — The San Francisco-based company will use the money to hire more employees and meet the growing appetite it's seeing from traditional textbook publishers …
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paidContent, AllThingsD and Pulse2
Foursquare Blog:
Pages are now self-serve! A new home for brands and organizations on foursquare. — Back in January of 2010, Intel became the first organization with a Page on foursquare. We hacked together a new template for them (look at our spec, with our crazy old logo!) and built it out by hand.
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The Business Insider
Vinicius Vacanti / Entrepreneur:
Why I Quit My Job to Start a Tech Company — Back in November of 2006, before NY Mag and TimeOut put startups on the cover, before the “tech bubble”, before Twitter and Foursquare were popular, before working at a startup in NY was considered a reasonable thing to do …
Brooke Crothers / CNET News:
Google, TI cozy up on Android Ice Cream Sandwich — Texas Instruments and Google are hooking up on Ice Cream Sandwich, the next version of Android that will run on both phones and tablets. — Though TI has been a player in Android phones (most notably the Motorola Droid series) …
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Gizmodo, Android and Me, Droid Life and AndroidGuys
Sarah Perez / ReadWriteMobile:
Mobile Developers See More Promise in Google+ than iCloud — Mobile application developers believe that Google's new social network Google Plus will have more impact on mobile growth and adoption than Apple's iCloud, or even iOS 5's Twitter integration. This is just one of the fascinating …
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CNET News, ReadWriteMobile, CNET News, GigaOM, TechFlash, AllThingsD, Reuters, The Tech Herald … and eWeek
Terrence O'Brien / Engadget:
Groupme 3.0 goes international and cross-platform, questions everything — Groupme, the little group messaging service that made a bit of a splash at Google I/O, turns 3.0 today. There are some shiny new features on board, including a simpler way to exchange private messages and “Questions” …
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GroupMe Blog, Mashable!, ReadWriteWeb and Wall Street Journal
Danny Allen / Gizmodo Australia:
Samsung's Full Response On Australian Galaxy Tab 10.1 Battle With Apple — First we heard that Samsung's Galaxy Tab 10.1 had been blocked in Australia. An injunction? Not so responded Samsung late yesterday, “The Galaxy Tab 10.1 for the Australian market will be released in the near future.”
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Engadget, AppleInsider, 9to5Google, LAPTOP Magazine, 9to5Mac, TechCrunch and The Next Web, Thanks:danny_allen
Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
Twitter Rolls Out HTML5 Version Of Twitter.com For iPad — Because the stream of realtime palaver that is Twitter needed even more platforms to be consumed on even more devices, the company has just announced that it has started to roll out its HTML5-based Twitter.com for iPad …
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The Business Insider, The Next Web, TUAW, iLounge, Electronista, everythingiCafe, FierceMobileContent and App Advice
Michal Lev-Ram / Fortune:
Silicon Valley has jobs advice for Washington — The president asked for ideas to improve job creation and innovation. Now the technorati are delivering. — FORTUNE — With the debt ceiling standoff resolved (sort of), Silicon Valley's technorati gathered in Palo Alto …
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NationalJournal.com
Alistair Barr / Reuters:
Google+ attracts 25 mln visitors - comScore — (Reuters) - Google Inc's new social network has attracted 25 million users, making it the fastest website to reach that audience size, according to data released on Tuesday by comScore. — Google+, launched in late June …
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Digital Trends, The Business Insider, Agence France Presse, The Next Web and CNET News
Greg Kumparak / TechCrunch:
Qualcomm Overhauls The Snapdragon Brand, Ditches The Confusing Chipset Names — If you've got any smartphone made in the last year or so that isn't made by Apple or Samsung, chances are preeeetty good that it's powered by one of Qualcomm's Snapdragon chipsets.
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The Toybox Blog, BGR, 9to5Google, This is my next, Engadget, Electronista, Liliputing and PC Magazine
Drake Martinet / AllThingsD:
Airy Lands $1.5M for Educational Games; Peter Thiel Foundation Does a Happy Dance — Palo Alto-based education game maker Airy Labs has raised $1.5 million from Foundation Capital, Google Ventures, and Playdom co-founder Rick Thompson. — The funding comes after a $100,000 fellowship grant …
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Don Reisinger / The Digital Home:
Yahoo Mail suffering outage; users react — The error message displayed on Yahoo's Mail site. — Yahoo Mail appears to be down for many users. — Earlier today, CNET received a tip from a reader, claiming “Yahoo Mail has been experiencing severe outage issues for the last 24-hours plus.”
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The Register and Between the Lines Blog
Tiernan Ray / Tech Trader Daily:
Apple: 'A6′ Chip Will Merge iOS With OS X In 2012, Says Jefferies — Is Apple (AAPL) looking to combine its computer operating systems — “OS X” — and its gadget operating system — “iOS”? — That's the theory offered today by Peter Misek, who follows the shares for Jefferies & Co …
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The Tech Trade, The Toybox Blog, 9to5Mac, BGR, MacRumors, DigiTimes, International Business Times, AppleInsider, Softpedia News, Redmond Pie, OS X Daily, SlashGear, iClarified and Apple Bitch
Tricia Duryee / AllThingsD:
Lockerz Nearing Closure on $45 Million Round From Live Nation, Others — Seattle-based Lockerz, an e-commerce company trying to build a rewards-based program for teens, is close to securing a third round of capital totaling $45 million. — Lockerz's CEO Kathy Savitt said so far $36 million …
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Venture Capital Dispatch, GeekWire and TechFlash
Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
Time Inc. Doubles Down on Tablets, Promises All Magazines on All Platforms by End of Year — Magazine publishers have veered back and forth on what tablets means for their business — Savior! Disappointment! Maybe sort of promising! — but here's Time Inc. making another bet on the technology …
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Betabeat, paidContent, TechCrunch, Electronista, Gizmodo and TeleRead
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Lookout Report: Android Malware Has Increased Significantly Over Past 6 Months — Lookout, a company that offers security services for a number of smartphones, is releasing the results of its Mobile Threat Report. The report is based on threat and security data from Lookout's Mobile Threat Network …
Robert Andrews / paidContent:
Key Points: UK IP Review Proposes Legal Format-Shifting And More — The UK government has proposed allowing owners of media content to copy it for their own use, among a range of measures to reform intellectual property law for the digital age. — The government is pledging to act …
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Ars Technica, nds.coi.gov.uk, TorrentFreak, The Register, Music Ally and Guardian
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Adrian Croft / Reuters:
UK to legalize private copying of CDs: source
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GigaOM, BBC, Techland, The Business Insider, Between the Lines Blog, TechEye and WatchingTV Online
