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DigiTimes:
iPhone 5 to have smaller than 4-inch panel, say sources — Despite rumors about iPhone 5 featuring a 4.2-inch panel circulating within the IT market for a while, following a leak from Apple's website in Switzerland in early August, sources from upstream panel suppliers have recently revealed …
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Arnold Kim / MacRumors:
iPhone 5 with Metal Chassis and Less Than 4" Screen? — Digitimes offers a bit of a strange report this morning that just seems to reinforce some details that have been previously reported about the iPhone 5. — The strangest bit, however, is that their report attempts to refute a fake …
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Internet2Go, Gizmodo, Computerworld, PhoneArena, MacPost and Appolicious Advisor
DigiTimes:
Samsung reportedly recruits ex-HP VP for PC business; considers buying webOS — Samsung Electronics, despite refuting reports it plans to take over Hewlett-Packard's (HP's) PC business, reportedly has already recruited HP's ex-vice president of PSG marketing Raymond Wah to handle Samsung's PC sales …
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Steven Sinofsky / MSDN Blogs:
Improvements in Windows Explorer … It's exciting to have this opportunity to share the improvements we're making to the file management capabilities of Windows Explorer. Explorer is one of the most venerable parts of Windows with a heritage you can trace back to the “MS-DOS Executive” in Windows 1.0!
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Jonathan S. Geller / BGR:
Verizon Wireless exclusively launching Samsung DROID Prime in October — BGR has exclusively learned from a close source of ours that Verizon Wireless has passed on offering the Samsung GALAXY S II in favor of something even better. We reported last week that Verizon isn't going to sell the GALAXY S II, and we have now been told why.
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PC Magazine, eWeek, Android Phone Fans, Droid Life, TechnoBuffalo, CNET News, CNET News, VentureBeat, SlashGear, Gizmodo, IntoMobile, LAPTOP Magazine, Electronista, Lockergnome Posts, 9to5Google, This is my next, GottaBeMobile, Techie Buzz, The Business Insider, Softpedia News, AndroidGuys, PhoneArena, Neowin.net, SlashPhone, Electronista, GottaBeMobile, PhoneDog.com, DroidMatters.com, Android News, Rumours … and Android and Me
Olga Kharif / Bloomberg:
AT&T-Verizon-T Mobile Sets $100M for Google Fight — Verizon Wireless, AT&T Inc. (T) and T- Mobile USA plan to invest more than $100 million in their joint venture that lets consumers pay for goods with mobile phones, people with knowledge of the project said.
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TechCrunch, PC Magazine, 9to5Google, SplatF, ReadWriteWeb, Mobile Marketing Watch, mocoNews, Between the Lines Blog, DailyTech, Connected Planet Online, techblog.dallasnews.com, Engadget, GigaOM, The Next Web, MobileBurn.com, RCR Wireless News, NFC World, Adotas, Always On Real-Time Access, PhoneArena, FierceMobileContent and IntoMobile, Thanks:seobook
Eric Slivka / MacRumors:
Mac OS X Snow Leopard 10.6.9 to Bring iCloud Support? — Apple appears to be preparing a 10.6.9 update to Mac OS X Snow Leopard in order to provide compatibility with the company's upcoming iCloud service. The following notice appeared in one developer's .Mac preference pane in Tiger …
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AppleInsider, 9to5Mac, MacNN, CNET News, Tools, Apple Bitch, MacStories, SlashGear and TUAW
New York Post:
Social gamer Zynga detoured on the road to IPOVille — Wall Street turmoil is affecting the timing of Zynga's public debut. — The social-gaming company, which had been racing to launch an initial public offering early next month, is no longer in a rush because of the rocky stock markets …
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VatorNews, The Business Insider, CNET News, Reuters, TechSpot, GMSV, FT Tech Hub, Between the Lines Blog, Digital Trends and Neowin.net
Mark Hearn / Sprintfeed:
Sprint Advising Employees to Remain Mum on iPhone — If you ask the Wall Street Journal, the iPhone is coming to Sprint in October. This sounds great, but if you were to ask a Sprint employee, you just might get a different answer, or no answer at all. We've received an internal memo …
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Amar Toor / Engadget:
Samsung's ChatON messaging service brings free texting to Android, iOS and BlackBerry (video) — It looks like Samsung is about to dip its toes in the mobile messaging market, with a new service called ChatON. Slated to debut at this week's IFA, the app brings texting …
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LAPTOP Magazine, VentureBeat, SlashGear, VatorNews, Dow Jones Newswires, Sammy Hub, Gizmodo, The Next Web, SocialTimes.com, MediaNama, Shoutpedia, GigaOM, App Advice, Mashable!, Pocket-lint, This is my next, BetaNews, Pocket-lint, PhoneNews.com, MobileSyrup.com, TechSpot, PC Magazine, TUAW, GeekTech, TechCrunch and PhoneArena
Nick Bilton / New York Times:
Masked Anonymous Protesters Aid Time Warner's Profits — SAN FRANCISCO — Anonymous, the hacker group, has jostled with the Iranian government and the Church of Scientology and has briefly shut down the Web sites of Visa, MasterCard and other global corporations.
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Digital Trends, @anon_central and The Next Web
Christian Zibreg / 9to5Mac:
Adobe unveils PDF creation app for iPhone and iPad — Adobe today released a new iOS app dubbed CreatePDF that does right what the name suggest. Using CreatePDF, one can create PDF documents from scratch, right on their iOS device, down to images, links, formatting, footnotes, drawings and more.
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Gizmodo, ReadWriteWeb, MacRumors, TUAW, MacStories and Softpedia News
Groklaw:
Lodsys - Lodsys in a Panic to Keep Apple Out of Suit — Oh what a tangled web we weave, When first we practise to deceive! — Sir Walter Scott, Marmion, Canto vi. … In the latest filing by Lodsys [PDF] in response to the Apple motion to intervene in the Lodsys v. Combay case …
Jack Purcher / Patently Apple:
Apple's WebKit Trademark Filing Challenged by Research in Motion — Research in Motion has filed an official opposing action against Apple's trademark filing for “WebKit” in Canada. The opposing action which was filed earlier this month has been granted an extension of time.
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9to5Mac and Electronista
Chris O'Brien / Mercury News:
Who will be Silicon Valley's next Steve Jobs? — Who will be the next Steve Jobs? — It's a loaded question, to be sure, that inevitably elicits the same answer: No one. Part cultural icon, part tech visionary, and part innovative business leader, Steve Jobs would seem impossible to duplicate.
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SiliconBeat, Tom Foremski, Monday Note and Evolver.fm
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Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
It's official: Google wants to own your online identity — Ever since Google launched its new Google+ social network, we and others have pointed out that the search giant clearly has more in mind than just providing a nice place for people to share photos of their pets.
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The Not-So Private Parts, Googling Google Blog and Search Engine Watch, Thanks:mathewi
Evan Blass / pocketnow.com:
Samsung Epic 4G Touch (Sprint): First Press Shots — Why is it that the upcoming US launch of the Samsung Galaxy S II on AT&T, T-Mobile, and Sprint — but not Verizon — feels a bit underwhelming? It must be because the global version of the handset is already seeing a refresh …
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LAPTOP Magazine, Android Phones …, SlashGear, Widgets Lab, GottaBeMobile, Android Phone Fans, Android Life, Sammy Hub, PhoneArena, Softpedia News and Techie Buzz
Spiegel Online:
Accidental Release of US Cables Endangers Sources — Related articles, background features and opinions about this topic. — Leak at WikiLeaks — Accidental Release of US Cables Endangers Sources — Supporters of Julian Assange's WikiLeaks organization accidentally released unredacted US diplomatic cables onto the Internet.
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Between the Lines Blog, ReadWriteWeb, Gizmodo, Threat Level, Signal News, Gawker and Fast Company, more at Mediagazer »
Om Malik / GigaOM:
So why did Cisco buy Versly? — Cisco Systems announced Monday that it was buying a little-known collaboration software company, Versly, for an undisclosed amount. Versly makes it easy to collaborate inside the Microsoft Office products, though it's not clear who its customers are.
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VentureBeat, ReadWriteWeb, Sydney Morning Herald, Cisco, Digital Trends, PC World, alarm:clock, eWeek, AllThingsD, TechCrunch and The Tech Trade
Stu Woo / Wall Street Journal:
LivingSocial's CEO Weathers Rapid Growth — LivingSocial Inc. Chief Executive Tim O'Shaughnessy's duties once included occasionally emptying the office garbage. Now the 29-year-old is managing a 3,500-person Web company with a soaring valuation that faces dozens of competitors.
Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
BitTorrent users don't “act in concert,” so judge slashes mass P2P case — Steele Hansmeier, the antipiracy law firm that has been routinely hammered by judges in Illinois, is now getting hammered by judges in California. The firm has tried desperately to head off all the common objections …
Robert McMillan / Computerworld:
In just three weeks, Facebook pays out $40K to hackers — Three weeks after launching a bug bounty program that pays Web hackers cash for finding flaws with its website, Facebook said it has paid out more than US$40,000 in rewards. — Three weeks after launching a bug bounty program …
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Facebook and WebProNews
Timothy Prickett Morgan / The Register:
Cloud.com goes open source — Citrix sets cloud builder free — VMworld After taking control of the CloudStack cloud management framework through its acquisition of Cloud.com back in July, Citrix Systems is now open sourcing the code behind the tool. At the same time …
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cloudstack.org and OStatic blogs
