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Jonathan S. Geller / BGR:
AT&T VP: iPhone 5 coming in early October, prepare to get ‘really, really busy’ — One of our high-level AT&T sources just informed us that an AT&T Vice President has confirmed to several employees that the iPhone 5 is slated to launch in early October. Additionally, the VP communicated …
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Matt Brian / The Next Web:
HP tested webOS on an iPad. It ran over twice as fast as the TouchPad. — HP's WebOS team almost certainly had an idea that the company's new tablet, the TouchPad, had very little chance of challenging Apple's dominance in the tablet market, as the company's webOS operating system was running …
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Peter Bright / Ars Technica:
It didn't have to end this way: what HP should have done with webOS — HP has missed out on a fantastic opportunity with webOS. The company was in a position, by hook or by crook, to give webOS the kind of wide distribution that even Apple would be impressed by. It just had to spend some cash to do it.
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Tom Simonite / Technology Review:
Why HP Wants Autonomy: Math Skills — Autonomy excels at analyzing the vast amounts of “unstructured data” being produced every day. — News broke today that HP, the world's biggest manufacturer of personal computers, had offered to acquire the British software company Autonomy.
Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web:
An inside look at HP killing webOS hardware: Here's how it really went down.
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TechnoBuffalo, GottaBeMobile, NBC Bay Area and Engadget
Paul Sandle / Reuters:
Lynch guides Autonomy into big tech's grasp
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Colleen Taylor / GigaOM:
Why HP is betting the farm on Autonomy
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Josh Ong / AppleInsider:
HP eats $100 million charge to cover unsold stockpile of TouchPads
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Nicholas Carlson / The Business Insider:
Time For Facebook To Buy WebOS From HP For A Couple Bucks
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Friending Facebook Blog, StartupDigest and Ars Technica
Bloomberg:
Sprint Said in Talks About Clearwire Buyout — Sprint Nextel Corp. (S) is talking with cable companies about a possible investment that may lead to an acquisition of partner Clearwire Corp. (CLWR), according to three people familiar with the talks. — Sprint, the third-largest U.S. wireless operator …
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Stacey Higginbotham / GigaOM:
A deal for Clearwire could be a wireless tipping point — Sprint is reportedly in talks with Comcast,, Time Warner Cable and Brighthouse Networks to raise the up to $600 million that Clearwire needs to transition to a Long Term Evolution network. Clearwire, the nation's largest WiMAx network …
Frederic Lardinois / SiliconFilter:
Germany vs. Facebook: Like Button Declared Illegal, Sites Threatened With Fine — German websites have until the end of September to remove Facebook's ‘like’ button or face a fine of up to 50,000 Euro. — Germany has a long tradition of using laws to protect its citizen's privacy.
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Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:
Disliking “Like” in Germany — There's a hubbub brewing over privacy and Facebook in Germany — and, not for the first time, there's misinformation involved. So I got on the phone to Facebook to get technical facts. — First, the news: Thilo Weichert, head of the office for data protection …
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Andreas Udo de Haes / Computerworld UK's News:
Apple files inaccurate evidence in Dutch Samsung case — Is the iPhone and iPad maker shooting itself in the foot with manipulated images? — Apple has filed inaccurate evidence again in a major case against Samsung, this time in the Netherlands, where the company is arguing Samsung's Galaxy S smartphones …
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Zach Epstein / BGR:
Google ‘Nexus Prime’ Android 4.0 phone could launch in October — Google's third-generation “Nexus Prime” smartphone — which will likely be the first Android 4.0 “Ice Cream Sandwich” phone to hit the market — will launch in October according to a new report from Korean-language Electronic Times.
Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
Exclusive: How the FBI investigates the hacktivities of Anonymous — On September 19, 2008, hackers from the Anonymous collective attacked the website of Fox News host Bill O'Reilly. The hackers found and immediately posted e-mail addresses, passwords, and physical addresses …
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Jeremy Kirk / ITworld.com:
Anonymous breaches another US defense contractor
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Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft Blog:
Microsoft: Here's what caused our cloud outage this week — Summary: Microsoft is informing customers hit by its Office 365 cloud outage this week that a “networking interruption” caused the problem, and that the company is planning to offer them a 25 percent credit for their trouble.
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Mark Otto / Twitter Developers:
Bootstrap from Twitter — We are happy to announce Bootstrap, a front-end toolkit for rapidly developing web applications. It is a collection of CSS and HTML conventions. It uses some of the latest browser techniques to provide you with stylish typography, forms, buttons, tables, grids …
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Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:
Apple seeds iOS 5 beta 6, iTunes 10.5 beta 6, Xcode 4.2 preview 6 to developers (full change log) — Apple has released iOS 5 beta 6 to developers today as the fall launch of the major iOS software upgrade nears. In addition, Apple released beta 6 of iTunes 10.5 to developers …
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Jessica Dye / Reuters:
Apple moves against knockoffs in New York — Apple Inc (AAPL.O) has moved swiftly and, until now, secretly to crack down on stores in the Chinatown section of Queens, New York, accused of selling knock-off Apple gear emblazoned with the company's distinctive logo, according to documents unsealed Thursday in Brooklyn federal court.
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Arnold Kim / MacRumors:
Wall Street Journal Confirms Early 2012 iPad 3 with Retina Display — In case you still had doubts, the Wall Street Journal is reporting that Apple is indeed working on its next generation iPad for early 2012. The newspaper also seems to confirm the 2048x1536 Retina display that has been long rumored.
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Arnold Kim / MacRumors:
Production of the iPad 3 Retina Display Remains a Challenge
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Nick O'Neill / All Facebook:
Facebook Begins Rolling Out “The Ticker” To More Users — While we haven't confirmed whether or not the move is permanent, Facebook appears to be in the process of rolling out their live feed ticker to the homepage of all users. What's most significant is how this could impact the platform …
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Stuart Miles / Pocket-lint:
New HTC phones coming 1 September? — HTC is to hold one of its Meet HTC events for the public in London on 1 September, Pocket-lint has discovered after?surreptitiously?stumbling across the announcement on the company's Facebook page.? — Nothing too exciting about that you may think …
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