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Olga Kharif / Bloomberg:
RIM Left in 'No Man's Land' By Google Deal — Research In Motion Ltd. (RIMM), maker of the BlackBerry smartphone and PlayBook tablet computer, may have the most to lose from Google Inc. (GOOG)'s deal to acquire Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc. — Google's proposed $12.5 billion acquisition …
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Andrew Ross Sorkin / DealBook:
Is Google Turning Into a Mobile Phone Company? No, It Says — Back in 2004, Eric E. Schmidt, then Google's chief executive, proclaimed, “We're not going into the phone business, but we're going to make sure Google is on those phones.” — Less than a year later, however, Google did the opposite.
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Dan Frommer / SplatF:
Google-Motorola: Winners and losers
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Ina Fried / AllThingsD:
U.S. Carriers Silent on Motoroogle, but France Telecom Gives It a Thumbs Up
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
“Defending Android” — Bravo Google, well played.
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Florian Mueller / FOSS Patents:
$2.5 billion Google-Motorola break-up fee reflects sellers' concern and buyer's desperation
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Matt Rosoff / The Business Insider:
Now Is The Perfect Time For HP To Step Up And License WebOS
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Donald Melanson / Engadget:
Why is LTE equipment being installed in an Apple Store? — Well, this is certainly interesting. While rumors of an LTE-enabled iPhone had died down for a little while, they sprung back to life yesterday with a report that just such a device was being tested by carriers.
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Reuters:
Taiwan's HTC sues Apple over patents — (Reuters) - Smartphone maker HTC Corp sued Apple Inc, claiming infringement of three patents through Apple's sale of Macintosh computers, iPads, iPods, iPhones and other devices. — The lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Delaware seeks …
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John Martellaro / The Mac Observer:
Calculating the Size of Apple's Spaceship HQ — TMO TALK (25) — New architectural information has been released about Apple's proposed, so-called spaceship headquarters in Cupertino. There are lots of things to know about it, but one interesting fact is the diameter.
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Florian Mueller / FOSS Patents:
Galaxy Tab 10.1 injunction suspended for all EU countries except Germany — Dutch website Webwereld, which also raised issues yesterday concerning pictures of the Galaxy Tab 10.1 presented by Apple to the Düsseldorf court, was first to break the news that the Landgericht (district court) …
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Josh Lowensohn / Crave: The gadget blog:
Starbucks serves up free iPhone apps — Starbucks is now serving up paid applications for free as part of its “Pick of the Week” program. — The next time you go into a Starbucks for a drink or snack, you could end up walking out with a free iPhone app too.
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Kinnari Jhaveri / The Official Google Blog:
Shop your favorite catalogs with Google Catalogs — (Cross-posted on the Commerce and Mobile blogs) — For years, shoppers have enjoyed flipping through glossy print catalogs to be inspired, discover new trends and find great products. Today, mobile technologies can make catalog shopping more engaging, social and creative.
Daniel Rocha / Inside Search:
The evolution of sitelinks: expanded and improved — (Cross-posted on the Official Google Blog) — When you're searching, you often have a specific task in mind, like figuring out which exhibits are showing at a nearby museum. Despite this narrow goal, people often start with a broad query …
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Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
Fox Starts Its Web Pullback, and ABC Gets Ready to Follow — Fox has formally kicked off the The Great Free TV Web Pullback of 2011. Now get ready for ABC to do the same. — Yesterday Fox followed through with its previously announced plans to keep its new shows off the Web for eight days …
Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:
Apple releases $69 OS X Lion thumb drive, ships in 1-3 business days — As expected, Apple has released OS X Lion on a USB thumb drive via their online store. The $69 thumb drive ships in 1-3 business days and requires 7GB of available storage space. One caveat for users that install OS X Lion via …
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Todd Yellin / Netflix Blog:
Netflix Launches “Just for Kids” — Watch kids watch a movie or TV show. Notice how they differ from adults. First, kids love to watch the same thing over and over again. More importantly, kids identify with shows more by the characters than by the title. — Todd Yellin here.
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Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
LinkedIn Redesigns Android, iPhone Apps With Groups And More; Debuts HTML5 Mobile Site — LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner explained on the company's first earnings call a few weeks ago that the company is planning to make a big investment in its mobile strategy. Today, the professional social network …
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Harry McCracken / Time:
Techmeme — Want to know what's new in the world of tech? You could visit one of the big news sites or blogs. Or you could go right to the site that reporters and bloggers check obsessively throughout the day. Gabe Rivera's Techmeme pulls together articles from around the Web …
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Frederic Lardinois / SiliconFilter:
Mozilla Officially Launches Firefox 6 — Mozilla today officially launched Firefox 6, the latest stable version of its popular browser. Since its switch to a more frequent release schedule, Mozilla has already pushed out a number of releases, so version numbers themselves …
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John Gruber / Daring Fireball:
Balls — I'm fascinated by Dan Lyons's take on Google acquisition of Motorola today, “Suck on It, AppleSoft — Google Pulls a Rope-a-Dope”: … Lyons has always been an ass, but when did he get so bitter? Siegler is one of the top writers on the Apple beat, period.
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Kashmir Hill / The Not-So Private Parts:
Facebook Offers Court ‘Smoking Gun’ Against Paul Ceglia — This would have been easier had Mark Zuckerberg held onto his copy of the Streetfax contract — Facebook knows how to fend off lawsuits. After vanquishing the Winklevoss twins, the company's lawyers turned their full attention to Paul Ceglia …
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Cade Metz / The Register:
AutoCAD LT arrives on the Mac — Cuckolds Windows resellers — After a fifteen year absence, AutoCAD has retured to the Mac. — On Tuesday, Autodesk announced that it has ported AutoCAD LT to the Mac, selling this “lite” version of its venerable design tool through the Mac App Store at a price of $899.
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Monica Chen / DigiTimes:
Intel rejects 50% Ultrabook CPU price cut demand from notebook players — Intel, facing notebook players' demand of supplying Ultrabook CPUs at a price 50% lower than original to help increase their profitability, rejected the proposal and is only willing to provide 20% discounts …
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Gary Price / Search Engine Land:
New: “Google Related” Toolbar Shows Google Content As You Surf — Google has just released a new info discovery tool named Google Related that allows users to find and access content that's similar to what they're viewing in their web browser. — Before the brief overview below …
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Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
Live From 500 Startups Demo Day: McClure's Second Batch Of Startups, Unleashed — Watch live streaming video from 500startups at livestream.com — We're in Mountain View at Dave McClure's 500 Startups HQ where the second ever 500 Startups Demo Day is about to start.
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Audrey Watters / Hack Education:
Android App Inventor Saved! Finds a New Home at MIT — Last week, I broke the news that Google plans to shut down Android App Inventor, its DIY tool for building mobile phone apps. Google did indicate that it will open source the code for App Inventor and said that due to App Inventor's adoption …
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Taylor Wimberly / Android and Me:
CyanogenMod founder joins Samsung Mobile, plans to make Android more awesome — “I'm so tired of waiting for my smartphone to get the latest update of Android. The CyanogenMod team releases updates days after the source code is available. Why doesn't [insert handset maker] just hire Cyanogen?”
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