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Reuters:
Exclusive: Apple suppliers building cheaper, 8GB iPhone 4 — (Reuters) - Asian suppliers to Apple Inc have begun manufacturing a lower priced version of its hot-selling iPhone 4 with a smaller 8 gigabyte flash drive, according to two people with knowledge of the matter.
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Florian Mueller / FOSS Patents:
Samsung cites Stanley Kubrick's ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’ movie as prior art against iPad design patent — Late last night, Samsung filed its opposition brief to Apple's motion for a preliminary injunction in the United States. The main part of Samsung's opposition brief has not yet entered …
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Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
Source: The iPhone 5 Will Indeed Be A Dual-Mode CDMA / GSM ‘World Phone’ — The upcoming iPhone 5 will almost certainly be a single phone that supports multiple networks, namely CDMA (such as the one used by Verizon or Sprint in the United States) as well as GSM (which is used by AT&T and T-Mobile in the U.S.).
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Chris Cox / Facebook Blog:
Making It Easier to Share With Who You Want — Today we're announcing a bunch of improvements that make it easier to share posts, photos, tags and other content with exactly the people you want. You have told us that “who can see this?” could be clearer across Facebook …
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Matt Rosoff / The Business Insider:
Facebook Rolls Out Major, Sweeping Privacy Changes
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Brian Womack / Bloomberg:
Facebook Seeks Acquisitions to Fend Off Google — Facebook Inc., the world's largest social network, is planning acquisitions that will improve site design, keep its service reliable and advance mobile features to stave off competition from Google Inc. (GOOG) and Twitter Inc.
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VatorNews, Search Engine Land, Digits, Friending Facebook Blog, MediaPost, The Next Web, The Register, Pulse2 and The Business Insider
David Daw / PC World:
Huh? TouchPads Now Selling for Almost $300 on eBay — TouchPads selling for $300 on eBay.The TouchPad may be DOA thanks to HP's recent decision to drop WebOS but you wouldn't know it from the prices the tablet fetches on eBay. After fire sales over the weekend dropped the price …
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Arik Hesseldahl / AllThingsD:
How Much Did HP Lose on the TouchPad? Here's a Good Guess.
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Nathan Olivarez-Giles / L.A. Times Tech Blog:
HP Touchpad: HP promises to keep them coming until they run out
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Matthew Humphries / Geek.com:
China airs documentary proving military university is hacking U.S. targets — For a long time now there has been suspicion that China is a hotbed of hacking activity either endorsed or ignored by the government and targeting foreign individuals, companies, and even governments.
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Android (Finally) Taking Steps Towards WebKit And Chromium — Why isn't Chrome a part of Android? It's a question as old as time itself. Or at least a few years old. But given that the same company, Google, makes both products, it never made much sense. Now they're finally taking steps to resolve this.
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Christian Zibreg / 9to5Mac:
Apple makes up its mind: iPad 3 displays to be supplied by LG Display, Samsung and Sharp — Following an enduring period of quality-testing and trial runs, Apple has finally chosen not one, not two, but three suppliers of LCD panels for iPad 3. The winners are LG Display …
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Amir Efrati / Wall Street Journal:
Geeks Beat Jocks as Bar Fight Breaks Out Over Control of the TV — Fans Muscle Into Sports Bars to Watch Pro Videogamers Do Battle on the Tube — SAN FRANCISCO—One Sunday afternoon last month, a hundred boisterous patrons crowded into Mad Dog in the Fog, a British sports bar here, to watch a live broadcast.
Mark Striebeck / Google+:
A first, tiny step: view recent Google+ posts in the Gmail people widget! — You can now see the most recent Google+ post that the sender of the email shared with you in the Gmail people widget - see screenshot below. — BTW: +Bella Kazwell is a tech lead on the Gmail team and +Steven Bills …
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PC World, eWeek, Techland and Softpedia News
Fred / A VC:
Identity, Authentication, and Provisioning Them Online — Christina jotted down some thoughts on indentity on a flight to SF and I read them this morning. In her post, she references Ev's excellent post on the same topic from a while back. So I went on a bike ride as the sun rose …
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Sony redesigns its PlayStation Home virtual world as a social game hub — Hoping to jump on a trend, Sony is planning to launch a redesign of its PlayStation Home virtual world, making it into a hub for social games. — PlayStation Home launched in 2008 for the PlayStation 3 and it has more than 23 million registered users.
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Matt McGee / Search Engine Land:
Here's What Twitter Should Do To Make Photo Galleries More Useful — I like the new user photo galleries that Twitter started rolling out yesterday. They'll make photo search and discovery much easier, especially for those of us who've scattered our photo uploads across TwitPic, yFrog, Mobypicture and other photo services.
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CNET News, The Atlantic Online, PC World, Small Business Search … and FierceMobileContent
Amar Toor / Engadget:
Lenovo ThinkPad Tablet now available for order, priced at $500 and up — It's been a while coming, but Lenovo's ThinkPad tablet has finally made its way to market. As expected, the line of Honeycomb slates is now available for order on the company's product page, with the 16GB …
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Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
Forkly Launches to Discover Food You'll Like the Taste Of — Forkly is a beautiful new iPhone app that helps you discover new restaurants you might like and recommends dishes once you're at restaurants, based on your individual taste. Built by former leaders of location based social network Brightkite …
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MediaPost, Digital Trends, Forkly Blog and TechCrunch
Robert Nyman / Mozilla Hacks:
Introducing WebAPI — Mozilla would like to introduce WebAPI with the goal to provide a basic HTML5 phone experience within 3 to 6 months. — The current situation — Where we are today, there's a clear distinction between the Open Web and native APIs and how things have to be built.
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Matt Rosoff / The Business Insider:
This Is What Google REALLY Meant By “Don't Be Evil” — Google has been throwing its weight around and pissing a lot of people off. — It allegedly leaned on Motorola not to use a competing location-detecting service from Skyhook. Then it turned around and dropped $12.5 billion on Motorola …
Jim Dalrymple / The Loop:
United Airlines deploys 11,000 iPads to pilots — United on Tuesday said it is converting its flight decks to be completely paperless and will deploy 11,000 iPads to all United and Continental pilots. — The iPads will replace paper flight manuals and things like aeronautical navigational charts …
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Roger Cheng / CNET News:
Dish unveils plans for mobile network — The allure of 4G wireless service has drawn in a number of new players, including satellite-TV provider Dish Network. — Dish on Monday applied for a waiver to the Federal Communications Commission that would allow it to used its recently acquired spectrum …
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Tim Bray / Android Developers Blog:
Preview of Google TV Add-on for the Android SDK — [This post is by Ambarish Kenghe, who's a Product Manager for Google TV — Tim Bray] — At Google I/O, we announced that Android Market is coming to Google TV. Today, we're announcing a preview of the Google TV Add-on for the Android SDK.
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Matt Marshall / VentureBeat:
Salesforce.com's Chuck Ganapathi joins Accel Partners — to build the next Salesforce.com — Chuck Ganapathi, the man who created Salesforce.com's Chatter, the company's largest product development effort ever, has left to join Accel Partners as Entrepreneur in Residence.
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Richard Stallman / Guardian:
Beware: Europe's ‘unitary patent’ could mean unlimited software patents — The battles seen in the US over software patents could spread to the UK and the rest of Europe if the unitary patent is allowed to come into force — Just as the US software industry is experiencing the long-anticipated …
