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Florian Mueller / FOSS Patents:
Preliminary injunction granted by German court: Apple blocks Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 in the entire European Union except for the Netherlands  —  The leading German news agency, dpa, just reported that Apple has been granted a preliminary injunction against Samsung's Android-based Galaxy Tab 10.1 …
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Shane Richmond / Telegraph:
Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 blocked in Europe  —  The Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 will have to be removed from sale across Europe following a judgment in a German court.  —  The Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1  —  The tablet, which launched in Britain last week, must now be removed from shelves and Samsung must stop marketing it.
Ina Fried / AllThingsD:
Exclusive: Nokia to Exit Symbian, Low-End Phone Businesses in North America  —  Nokia plans to stop selling both feature phones and Symbian-based smartphones in the United States and Canada as it tries to put all of its muscle behind the company's huge bet on Windows Phone.
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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 …
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 …
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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.
Jonathan S. Geller / BGR:
First Google Ice Cream Sandwich devices may launch in October  —  We've received some information from a source with knowledge of Google's Ice Cream Sandwich plans, and it's looking like the first Ice Cream Sandwich devices could start hitting the ground in as early as October.
Josh Constine / Inside Facebook:
Facebook Messenger: a New Standalone Group Messaging Mobile App Built Off Beluga  —  Facebook has just launched a new free standalone mobile group messaging app for iPhone and Android called Facebook Messenger.  It allows users to conduct one-on-one or group conversations, send photos, and privately share their location.
Jordan Golson / MacRumors:
Apple Briefly the Most Valuable Company in the World [Updated]  —  Apple, Inc. was, for a moment, the most valuable public company in the world as measured by market capitalization.  Apple's market cap briefly passed ExxonMobil today, just after 1PM, reaching $341.55 billion in valuation.
Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft Blog:
Windows Phone ‘Tango’ to be Microsoft's lower price-point operating system?  —  Summary: Information about Microsoft's successor to Windows Phone OS Mango (codenamed Tango) is slowly starting to leak.  —  Until today, I've said nothing on my blog about Tango — the Windows Phone operating …
Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:
Demand Media Beats Wall Street Expectations for Q2; Acquires Two Start-Ups and Reups with Google  —  Demand Media, the Santa Monica, Calif. online content company, said its revenue grew increased 32 percent in the second quarter, as it reduced its net loss significantly.
Jack Purcher / Patently Apple:
Apple Wins Patents for Integrated Touch Screen, Voicemail & More  —  The US Patent and Trademark Office officially published a series of 20 newly granted patents for Apple Inc. today.  There were three notable inventions presented today.  The first relates to Apple's “Integrated Touch Screen.”
Discussion: 9to5Mac, Thanks:srikardhanakoti
Mark Milian / CNN:
Newspaper giant Tribune Co. developing tablet device  —  (CNN) — Hoping to take a small slice from Apple's big pie, newspaper publishers are developing tablet computers of their own.  —  The Tribune Co., one of the largest U.S. news enterprises, is working on a touchscreen tablet that it plans …
Janko Roettgers / GigaOM:
Cablevision brings cable TV to the iPhone  —  Cablevision subscribers can now watch cable TV on their iPhones or iPod touch devices, thanks to the cable TV provider extending the functionality of its iPad app to all of Apple's iOS devices.  The new app allows Cablevision customers …
Eric Jackson / Tech and China:
Why Did Tim Armstrong Want the AOL Job Again?  —  Image by Getty Images North America via @daylife  —  AOL (AOL) is down 50% year-to-date.  Its stock is off 20% today alone after disappointing earnings.  —  Is this what Tim Armstrong envisioned when he took this top job?  —  What's the strategy been?
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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.
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Armed With $7M In New Funding, Movieclips Lands Deal With YouTube To Be The Vevo Of Film Clips  —  We're big fans of online movie clips site Movieclips.com, which launched in 2009 as a search engine with over 20,000 different clips from thousands of titles from the libraries of 20th Century Fox …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
DJ Patil Lands At Greylock Partners As “Data Scientist in Residence”  —  DJ Patil, the former LinkedIn Chief scientist who recently left Color Labs, now has a new job.  He's the “Data Scientist in Residence” at Greylock Partners, working alongside his old colleague, LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman.
Aki Kuusela / The WebM Open Media Project Blog:
Third Generation VP8 Hardware Encoder IP “Cloudberry” Released  —  Starting today, “Cloudberry”, the third release of the Hantro H1 VP8 hardware encoder, is available at no cost through the WebM Project hardware page.  Partners having already signed the online licensing agreement will receive an automatic update.
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.
Discussion: Terra Nova and GigaOM
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).
Discussion: Pulse2 and Appolicious Advisor
Jackie Dove / Macworld:
Quark sold to merger and acquisition company  —  Platinum Equity replaces the Ebrahimi family as QuarkXPress developers  —  Quark, developer of the desktop publishing software QuarkXPress, has been acquired by Platinum Equity, a Los Angeles merger and acquisition company, for an undisclosed sum.
Discussion: The Register
Barbara E. Hernandez / NBC Bay Area:
California: No Facebook for Inmates  —  Thousands of inmates in California's state prisons have access to contraband mobile phones and are updating their Facebook accounts, and now the state is asking the social network to close them down.  —  The California Department of Corrections …
Audrey Watters / Hack Education:
Google to Shut Down Educational Programming Tool Android App Inventor  —  Last month, Google announced that it would be shuttering Google Labs, a site for many Google prototypes and experimental projects.  Google indicated that some of the projects there would graduate to “full-fledged” products, but some would be terminated.
Kristen Purcell / Pew Internet:
Search and email still top the list of most popular online activities  —  A May 2011 Pew Internet survey finds that 92% of online adults use search engines to find information on the Web, including 59% who do so on a typical day.  This places search at the top of the list of most popular online activities among U.S. adults.
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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Mike Cane / Mike Cane's xBlog:
Now You Can Upload Photos Into Twitter
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Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
Crowdsourcing Platform ChallengePost Raises $4 Million
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Sarah Lacy / TechCrunch:
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Sal Rodriguez / L.A. Times Tech Blog:
AntiSec stole thousands of personal records, analysis shows
Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
NYT Labs: Can a newspaper think like a startup?
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Austin Carr / Fast Company:
AOL iPad Mag “Editions” Missed The Memo About The AOL Way
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Adrian Chen / Gawker:
The Nerve Center of the World's Biggest Cyber Attack
John Cook / GeekWire:
Amazon Web Services suffers another outage: Company says issue now resolved
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Georgina Prodhan / Reuters:
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