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Matt Brian / The Next Web:
RIM's BlackBerry blog hacked after it cooperates with police over London riots — RIM's Inside BlackBerry blog was hacked on Tuesday afternoon, after the company declared it would cooperate with UK Police to help bring individuals involved in the London riots to justice.
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Josh Halliday / Guardian:
London riots: BlackBerry to help police probe Messenger looting ‘role’ — Met police claim popular, encrypted and free Messenger service fanned riots in Tottenham and helped organise looting — The maker of the BlackBerry, Research in Motion, said on Monday night that it would co-operate …
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The Register, Epicenter, Computerworld, VentureBeat, Computerworld, The Next Web, BBC, Inquirer, @uk_blackberry, Computerworld, IntoMobile, Pulse2, CNET News, Collaboration 2.0 Blog, Electronista, Disruptors, TechEye, Fudzilla, Techdirt, All Facebook, ITworld.com, The Register and Gawker
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Google Group Members to Use Facial Recognition to Identify London Rioters — A new Google Group called “London Riots Facial Recognition” has appeared online, in the wake of the riots that rocked the U.K. capital over the weekend. The group's goal is to use facial recognition technologies …
Parmy Olson / Disruptors:
Londoners Use Twitter To Coordinate Riot Cleanup
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Mashable!, GMSV, Digital Trends, Hitwise Intelligence, BBC, Marketing Pilgrim, Guardian, techPresident, @riotcleanup, Tech Europe, The Wall Blog, Telegraph, L.A. Times Tech Blog and ZDNet
Chang-Ran Kim / Reuters:
Sony: London warehouse fire may affect UK deliveries
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The Register, Digital Trends, Electronista, Sydney Morning Herald, Music Ally, Gizmodo, Digital Trends, Bloomberg, VG247, The Register, bit-tech.net and BBC
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Get Ready For A Photo App Explosion With iOS 5 — At this point, it's already clear that the iPhone has become the camera many people use on a daily basis. The iPhone 4 is now by far the most popular camera on Flickr (and that's true even though it's being undercounted — likely drastically).
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Pulse2, Appolicious Advisor, PhoneArena, FierceDeveloper and everythingiCafe
Ian Bogost:
Gamification is Bulls**t — My position statement at the Wharton Gamification Symposium — In his short treatise On Bulls**t, the moral philosopher Harry Frankfurt gives us a useful theory of bulls**t. We normally think of bulls**t as a synonym—albeit a somewhat vulgar one—for lies or deceit.
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Darren Murph / Engadget:
Nokia: the N9 isn't coming to America — If you've been eagerly awaiting September 23rd so you can grab your very own Nokia N9 in America, the company's first (and last) MeeGo smartphone may not be shipping in your region after all. We've been reaching out to Espoo in recent weeks in an attempt …
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The Nokia Blog, netbooknews.com, SoMobile, SlashGear, I4U News, MobileBurn.com, Inquirer and Engadget Mobile
Horace Dediu / asymco:
The fate of mobile phone brands — The violence with which new platforms have displaced incumbent mobile vendor fortunes continues to surprise. — Nokia's Symbian platform has gone from 47% share to 16% in three years — Microsoft's phone platforms have gone from 12% to 1%
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Tech Europe
Matt Rosoff / The Business Insider:
Why Did Microsoft Cut Dolby Out Of Windows 8? — On its earnings call last Friday, audio technology company Dolby announced that the next version of Microsoft Windows might not included its technology. — Its stock dropped about 18% on the news. — Microsoft has shipped Dolby technology …
Austin Carr / Fast Company:
AOL iPad Mag “Editions” Missed The Memo About The AOL Way — The iPad magazine looks gorgeous and works about as well as Zite, Flipboard, et. al. It even understands if you're not into AOL content. And it's cool with that. Why? Its creators, David Temkin and Sol Lipman explain.
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Sal Rodriguez / L.A. Times Tech Blog:
AntiSec stole thousands of personal records, analysis shows — A massive data cache posted on the Internet by hacker group AntiSec over the weekend contained thousands of Social Security numbers, dates of birth, passwords and telephone numbers, among other personal information …
Georgina Prodhan / Reuters:
IPad rivals have better chance in Europe: Forrester — (Reuters) - Would-be rivals to Apple's iPad have more of a chance in Europe than they do in the United States, but they need to cut prices fast to grasp the opportunity, IT research firm Forrester said on Tuesday.
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PadGadget, Mobile Entertainment, MobileBurn.com, NBC Bay Area, The Next Web and BGR
Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
NYT Labs: Can a newspaper think like a startup? — After delaying the project while it launched a paywall, the New York Times has finally rolled out its version of Google Labs, the now-shuttered project that provided a home for the search company's various web experiments.
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The Business Insider, beta620, Nieman Journalism Lab, ReadWriteWeb and Communications …, more at Mediagazer »
Adrian Chen / Gawker:
The Nerve Center of the World's Biggest Cyber Attack — See that screenshot above? That's the nerve center for Operation Shady Rat, the newly notorious cyber attack possibly set up by some government-sponsored Chinese hackers. I just spent the last 30 minutes exploring it and managed not to get cyber-annihilated.
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Sarah Lacy / TechCrunch:
Hate Lines and Live in Mountain View? We've Got an App for You (TCTV) — A new startup called Pago is launching today, and if you live in Mountain View your life may have just gotten a lot easier. You can now go to more than 50 local merchants- coffee shops, dry cleaners …
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ReadWriteWeb and AllThingsD
Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
Crowdsourcing Platform ChallengePost Raises $4 Million — Startups that rely on the Internet as a source of free labor are nothing new. But the idea keeps coming back, in different forms, because it seems to work. — Latest example: ChallengePost, a two-year-old startup that helps companies …
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Betabeat
John Cook / GeekWire:
Amazon Web Services suffers another outage: Company says issue now resolved — Amazon.com's EC2 service suffered another outage this evening, taking out several high-trafficked Web sites and adding another black eye to the reliability of online services. The outage, which Amazon first reported …
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VentureBeat, Macworld, ReadWriteWeb, CNET News, AllThingsD, Inquirer, LAUNCH, @yobongo, The Next Web, Electronista and dailywireless.org
bitly blog:
bitly Acquires Twitterfeed — For years now, we've worked closely with our friends at Twitterfeed to enhance their social media publishing tools with branded short links and realtime data. Today, we are excited to announce that we have acquired Twitterfeed, and to welcome both Twitterfeed and its users to the bitly family.
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AllThingsD, Betabeat, WebProNews and AllTwitter
Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
200,000 BitTorrent Users Sued In The United States — Mass file-sharing lawsuits have been filed all across the United States in recent months, almost exclusively targeting BitTorrent users. Copyright holders have embraced this new revenue stream by the dozen and new lawsuits are being filed every week.
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PC World, Plagiarism Today, Fudzilla, Guardian and MCV: Home Stream
Charlie Kindel / cek.log:
After 21 Years: Goodbye Microsoft — Today I announced that after 21 years I am leaving Microsoft to build a new company. — I'm not yet ready to disclose details about the new venture but I can say I will be staying in the Seattle area to build it. It has to do with sports, advertising …
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All about Microsoft Blog, Guardian, Inquirer, thinq_, Mobile Entertainment, Neowin.net, VentureBeat, www.pocketgamer.biz, FierceDeveloper, PC World, WPCentral.com, BetaNews, The Ed Bott Report Blog, WinBeta, WinRumors, The Register, Computerworld, GeekWire, ReadWriteWeb, FT Tech Hub, AllThingsD and Tim Anderson's ITWriting
Christine Lu / Reuters:
Save a tree or two, use Taiwan erasable paper — The product uses a thermal printer, the same kind as that used in fax machines. When the message is no longer needed, the paper can be erased with the flip of a switch — ready to be used up to 260 times. — Researchers at the Industrial …
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SlashGear, TechCrunch, PC Magazine and Engadget
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
What's the Fastest Web Browser in the “Real World?” Chrome. — Compuware's benchmarks division, Gomez, has just released new data from a website measurement project whose goal was to determine what the fastest web browser is in the “real world” of desktop users.
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The Business Insider, WebProNews, Tools, msnbc.com and 9to5Google
Larry Dignan / Between the Lines Blog:
Visa uses carrots, sticks to boost mobile payment adoption — Summary: Visa launches three initiatives to prod merchants to get on the mobile payment bandwagon. — Visa is planning to roll out dual mode chips in it infrastructure in an effort to step up mobile payment adoption.
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Visa's Blog, PR Newswire, TechCrunch and Reuters
Joab Jackson / Computerworld:
IBM, NCSA abandon petascale supercomputer project — IDG News Service - Citing unforeseen complexities and greater-than-anticipated costs, IBM and the University of Illinois' National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) have abandoned plans to build a petaflop-speed supercomputer, the two organizations said Monday.
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SlashGear, Data Center Knowledge, Inquirer, Techland, TechEye, The Register, VizWorld.com, Slashdot, Wired Campus, insideHPC and The Tech Herald …
Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
Digg's New Newswire is a Radical Experiment in Social News — Digg, the social news site that was once the darling of tech-loving web users everywhere, has faced a rapid decline in interest as the rest of the web grew up and it remained relatively slow and impersonal.
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Search Engine Land, Digg Blog, Softpedia News, Walyou and BlueGlass
Richard Lawler / Engadget:
Boxee launches iPad app, new Box update, media server and bookmarklet today — The long awaited Boxee for iPad app is finally ready to launch, and coming with it is a fresh update for the Boxee Box, plus new Media Manager software for your PC or Mac to make streaming locally stored files to the tablet or PC even easier.
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Boxee Blog, 9to5Mac, The Business Insider, GigaOM, WebProNews, iGadgetsReport, Electronista, TUAW, MacStories, SlashGear and The Next Web
Agam Shah / PC World:
AMD Sitting out Smartphone Market — Advanced Micro Devices is not immediately chasing the market for smartphones as it does not align with the company's strength in technologies like graphics, an executive said on Monday. — Smartphones are constrained on battery, pixels and screen space …
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Inquirer, SlashGear and TechCrunch
Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
AOL's Q2: Global Advertising Revenue Finally Up Again, Net Loss Narrows — Internet access, content and online advertising company AOL (which also owns TechCrunch) this morning reported its earnings for the second quarter of the year. — AOL reported a net loss of $11.8 million …
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
YC-Funded Snapjoy Will Organize Your Photos For You (And Make Sure You Don't Lose Them) — As an intelligent TechCrunch reader with the gift of foresight, you've probably backed up your hard drive — and all of the precious photos locked inside — to at least one cloud service …
