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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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Frederic Lardinois / SiliconFilter:
Skype WiFi Comes to iOS: Get Online for $0.06 Per Minute
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TechCrunch, Electronista and silicontap.com
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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Bits, GigaOM, The Loop, techblog.dallasnews.com, ZDNet, PreCentral.net and The Loop
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 …
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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LiveSide.net, WinRumors and Techie Buzz, Thanks:rajupp
Eric Slivka / MacRumors:
Apple's Online Store Gets More Social With Twitter and Facebook Links — Following today's mysterious downtime for Apple's online stores, users have been scouring the store pages to look for any changes. While the store remains largely unchanged with no major new product offerings …
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Tech Check, Bits, GigaOM, 9to5Mac, TUAW, I4U News, everythingiCafe, The Next Web and FreakGeeks
Betabeat:
Jumo ‘Acquired’ for $0 and a Graceful Exit — Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes has struggled with his ambitious solo start-up, the social network for activism Jumo, ever since its bumpy launch. Waning traffic and disinterested users were making it obvious that the site was not going to catch on …
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Ellen McGirt / Fast Company:
Chris Hughes's Jumo And GOOD Join Forces
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TechCrunch and paidContent, more at Mediagazer »
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).
Reuters:
Apple, Qualcomm, others eye InterDigital: sources — (Reuters) - Apple Inc, Nokia and Qualcomm Inc are among several technology companies pondering bids for InterDigital Inc, sources familiar with the situation said. — The auction of the wireless telecoms specialist …
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AppleInsider, MediaFile, Tech Trader Daily, CNET News, PE Hub Blog, The Next Web, FierceWireless, MacRumors and SlashGear
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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GigaOM, The Next Web, Computerworld, Lifehacker, CNET News, Gizmodo, PetaPixel, MacStories, Mashable!, Engadget, iLounge, everythingiCafe, VentureBeat and Tech Cocktail
Wolfgang Gruener / ConceivablyTech:
Beyond Windows 8: Patent Hints To A Future Streaming OS — Microsoft already has an idea how the Windows operating system may evolve after Windows 8. A patent filing entitled “Fast Machine Booting Through Streaming Storage” describes a chain of storage devices with different priorities …
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Ubergizmo and Electronista
Richard MacManus / ReadWriteWeb:
Tech Media Obsessed With Deals & Rumors - Bring Back Ideas — Big ideas aren't prevalent anymore, posited academic and author Neal Gabler in a New York Times op-ed. “We are living in an increasingly post-idea world,” he wrote, “a world in which big, thought-provoking ideas that can't instantly …
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Google+ and @digiphile, more at Mediagazer »
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Square Co-Founder And Others Put $17M In Online Merchant Lender Kabbage — Atlanta-based startup Kabbage, which provides working capital to online merchants, has raised $17 million in Series B funding led by Mohr Davidow Ventures with BlueRun Ventures, David Bonderman, founder of TPG Capital …
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Terry Baynes / Reuters:
AT&T sues customers seeking to block T-Mobile deal — (Reuters) - AT&T Inc is turning to the federal courts to thwart an effort led by law firm Bursor & Fisher to derail AT&T's $39 billion takeover bid for Deutsche Telekom AG's T-Mobile. — In eight lawsuits filed last week …
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Gregg Keizer / Computerworld:
Judge bounces Google's complaint over Android code viewing — ITC rejects Google effort to block expert testimony in Microsoft-Motorola patent battle — Computerworld - A U.S. trade judge has rejected Google's move to block the testimony of a Microsoft expert witness in the latter's 10-month dispute …
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Between the Lines Blog, CNET News, Electronista and SlashGear
Jeremy Ford / Singularity Hub:
$80 Android Phone Sells Like Hotcakes in Kenya, the World Next? — Hwawei's IDEOS smartphone is making waves in Kenya. Where else will Android phones leave their mark? — It seems like just yesterday when only the slickest kid on the block had a smartphone, but now …
Chris Evans / Screendaily:
Netflix to launch in Spain in January 2012 — Major film streaming and DVD rental site Netflix will arrive in Spain in January 2012, following its success in the US and Canada, but will face a tough challenge in a country ravaged by piracy. — The news of Netflix's imminent arrival in Spain …
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Digital Media Wire, VentureBeat, Electronista, AllThingsD and I4U News
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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Mashable!, MediaPost, VentureBeat, Search Engine Land and Pulse2
Brad Sams / Neowin.net:
Microsoft Office 365 currently experiencing an outage — Microsoft has been heavily promoting its Office 365 online platform. For the most part, it has been well received by its users. But, as of today, Microsoft is currently facing its first disruption to the service.
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VentureBeat, All about Microsoft Blog and The Next Web
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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PC World, Gizmodo, CNET News, Geek.com, AppleInsider, MacRumors, AllThingsD, MacDailyNews, TiPb and iClarified
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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GeekWire, T-Mobile Newsroom, TechCrunch, Daring Fireball, GigaOM, Tools, Engadget, @gartenberg, IntoMobile and MobileBurn.com
Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft Blog:
Microsoft delivers Windows Phone Mango toolkit for Silverlight developers — Summary: Microsoft is continuing to inch toward the roll-out of Mango, the next version of its Windows Phone operating system. The company just made available to developers a new Silverlight toolkit for the Mango release.
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The Windows Blog, Softpedia News, The Next Web, WMPoweruser, TechNet Blogs and Smartphones …
Caroline Chen / The Snitch:
Anonymous Hacks BART Police Website, Releases Personal Information of 100 Officers — Hacker group Anonymous tweeted this morning that they had hacked into the BART Police Officer's Association website, releasing the addresses, email addresses, and passwords of 102 BART police officers.
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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english.yonhapnews.co.kr, FierceWireless, 9to5Google, MozillaWiki and Electronista
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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PC Magazine, Digital Trends, Between the Lines Blog, CNET News, comScore, Inc., ReadWriteWeb, Computerworld, TechFlash, BetaNews, CNET News and Mashable!
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.
Greg Sandoval / CNET News:
YouTube, music publishers settle copyright beef — A group of music publishers that joined a class action lawsuit filed against YouTube in 2007 have reached a settlement with Google's video-sharing site. — David Israelite, CEO of the National Music Publishers Association, in a photo taken earlier this summer
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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.
