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Arik Hesseldahl / AllThingsD:
OuchPad: Best Buy Sitting on a Pile of Unsold HP Tablets — There have been plenty of hints that Hewlett-Packard's TouchPad isn't selling well. First there was a $50 discount. Then there were spot discounts of $100 at outlets like Costco. Then the $100 discount became permanent.
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Roger Cheng / CNET News:
It's iPad or nothing, survey says — The tablet market continues to be summed up like this: the iPad and everything else. And everything else doesn't amount to much. — That's according to a recent survey conducted by Robert W. Baird. The study found that out of more than 1,100 potential …
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Kelly Hodgkins / Gizmodo:
Best Buy Has 200K Unsold TouchPads, Wants HP To Take Them Back
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Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:
Exclusive: Apple's Mobile Ad Head Andy Miller Departs for Highland Capital — Andy Miller (pictured here), the high-profile VP of mobile advertising at Apple, is planning on leaving the company, according to sources close to the situation. — Sources said Miller — who sold Quattro Wireless …
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Frank X. Shaw / The Official Microsoft Blog:
The Future of the Living Room — Summer is a transition time for many people: the break between school years; a vacation before tackling another year of work; and for network television that's been a guest in our living rooms for so long, summer is a time of transition between seasons.
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Amar Toor / Engadget:
Motorola's new Droid HD makes cameo alongside Droid Bionic — We've just received a fascinating set of photos from a sharp-eyed tipster, who sent along images of what appear to be Motorola's Droid Bionic and, most alluringly, that rumored handset known as the Droid HD (pictured above).
Shadi Mahassel / The Big Blog:
Skype WiFi - now available on iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch — Skype WiFi (formerly known as Skype Access) is coming to iOS. We've just launched a new iOS application that's free to download from Apple's App store. — With the new Skype WiFi app, you can go online on your iPhone …
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Photovine Grows Ready For Public Use; Easily Google's Most Ambitious Photo-Sharing App Yet — Google's Slide team has been busy. In the past few months, they've unleashed a range of social apps meant to fulfill different needs. But the strange thing is that Google hasn't done a thing to promote any of them.
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JP Mangalindan / Fortune:
Facebook: Google+ has no users — Facebook executives have choice words for Google's efforts to bring casual games to its fledgling social network. — FORTUNE — A little less than two months after Google launched its fledgling social network, Google+, Silicon Valley's latest rivalry is heating up.
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Josh Lowensohn / CNET News:
Google, Facebook spar over Google+ invite issue
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Farhad Manjoo / Slate Magazine:
Android Isn't Free — How Google's acquisition of Motorola Mobility will make it more like Apple. — Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has a knack for making completely boneheaded predictions about his competitors' products, so when he took to blasting Google's Android strategy last year, many observers—myself included—dismissed him.
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Miyoung Kim / Reuters:
Samsung's Lee eyes deals to boost software prowess: report — (Reuters) - Samsung Electronics chairman Lee Kun-hee has asked the firm's top management to seek measures including acquisitions to enhance its software prowess, local media reports said on Wednesday.
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New York Post:
City to test parking meters that can be paid by phone — Drivers may soon be able to phone the meter instead of feeding it in person. — New York City plans to test new “pay by phone” parking meters that warn motorists as the time winds down and invites them to buy extra minutes without returning to their cars.
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Scientific American:
How Did BART Kill Cellphone Service? — The San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit system initially claimed a phone service shut-down was performed by telecoms, but that's not the latest story — The San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit system (BART) shut down subterranean cellular phone service …
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David Kravets / Threat Level:
San Francisco Subway Spokesman Says Cellphone Shutdown Was His Idea
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Colleen Taylor / GigaOM:
StumbleUpon's new Explore Box lets you stumble with purpose — Since its inception, StumbleUpon has worked pretty much as the name advertised: It allows you to stumble upon cool things on the web, rather than through explicit web searches. But a new beta feature is set to expand StumbleUpon's offering …
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Bloomberg:
Kodak Worth More in Breakup With $3B Patents — Eastman Kodak Co. (EK) may hold patents worth five times more than the business itself, making the 131- year-old camera company a target in the billion-dollar hunt for inventions used in mobile phones. — Kodak, which once had a market value …
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Jun Yang / Bloomberg:
Apple Sued by South Korean IPhone Users Over Location Data — A group of South Korean users of Apple Inc. (AAPL)'s iPhone sued the company in a local court, claiming it invaded their privacy by allowing the smartphone to collect location data without their consent.
Steve Lohr / New York Times:
A Bull Market in Tech Patents — Google was willing on Monday to pay $12.5 billion for Motorola Mobility in no small part because of its stockpile of 17,000 patents. The patent portfolio, some analysts estimate, could represent more than half of the value of the deal, or more than $400,000 a patent.
Adrian Glick Kudler / Curbed LA:
Someone Wants to Build a Glass-Roofed Apple Store on the Third Street Promenade — A tipster points us to this item scheduled for consideration by the Santa Monica Planning Commission tomorrow night—an unnamed retailer wants to tear down the old three story Borders space on the Third Street Promenade …
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Emil Protalinski / Friending Facebook Blog:
Exclusive: Paul Ceglia says Facebook is doing the forgery — Summary: Following Facebook's accusations of forgery, courtroom adversary Paul Ceglia fires back as he looks to open source his lawsuit through a wiki. — Paul Ceglia, a man in a heated lawsuit with Facebook, wants his side heard.
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Ian Austen / DealBook:
BlackBerry Maker RIM Again Subject of Takeover Talk — OTTAWA — Ever since the introduction of its first BlackBerry more than a decade ago, Research in Motion has defied expectations that it would be gobbled up by a larger rival and has effectively created the market for smartphones.
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Tim Stiffler-Dean / PreCentral.net:
SIM-free Pre3 now available via Palm Europe for £299.00 [UPDATE x2: Statement from HP] — There have been a thousand-and-one rumors and bits of news going around of the HP Pre3 being made available as a SIM-Free device in Europe, but now it's looking to be official.
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Zach Epstein / BGR:
Most expensive BlackBerry Bold 9900 yet hits T-Mobile on August 31st for $300 — T-Mobile subscribers who thought $250 was a tough pill to swallow for the BlackBerry Bold 9900 will be none too happy with this morning's news. T-Mobile on Wednesday finally announced the imminent launch …
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Michael Stroh / The Windows Blog:
New Xbox LIVE features, games on the way for Windows Phone — It's a sweet day for mobile gamers. Today Microsoft previewed new Xbox LIVE titles and features coming to Windows Phone in the months ahead. The announcement came at the annual Gamescom conference in Cologne, Germany.
Faith Merino / VatorNews:
Amazon is retail king, reaching 1 in 5 Web users — ComScore releases data that finds Amazon reached 20% of the global Internet population in June — I don't know if anyone has noticed, but while Borders is scrambling to shed its dead weight of inventory by September, its clearance prices are still higher than Amazon's.
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