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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 …
Al Lewis / Wall Street Journal:
H-P's One-Year Plan — Let's say you were given a year to kill Hewlett-Packard. Here's how you do it: — Fire well-performing CEO Mark Hurd over expense-report irregularities and a juicy sexual-harassment claim that you admit has no merit. Fire four board members, as publicly as possible.
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Gizmodo, The Business Insider, SiliconANGLE, Los Angeles Times, CNET News and Daring Fireball
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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 …
Steve Gillmor / TechCrunch:
Being Right — One of Steve Jobs' most devastating talents is in knowing when he is right. By he I mean he and his team of talented designers, engineers, supply chain wranglers, and technologists. Standing pat when the alternative is worse is a difficult move to make, but one Apple under Jobs has made a trademark.
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Jean-Louis Gassée / Monday Note:
Steve: Who's Going to Protect Us From Cheap and Mediocre Now?
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Fortune
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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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 …
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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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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GigaOM, DSLreports, Engadget, Light Reading, PhoneArena, FierceMobileContent and Slashdot, Thanks:seobook
Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
Hurt by The Hurt Locker: why IP addresses aren't enough to find file-swappers — IP addresses have real uses when it comes to identifying Internet activity, but they work best when paired with targeted investigation rather than as “spray-and-pray” shotgun-style federal litigation.
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Between the Lines Blog and Techdirt
Taylor Wimberly / Android and Me:
Toshiba goes ultra-thin in Berlin for 3rd Android tablet [Updated] — Can Toshiba go from having the worst Andorid tablet last year at IFA Berlin to having the best device at this year's show? NotebookItalia just filed a report that says Toshiba will unveil an ultra-thin Android tablet …
Mike Cassidy / Mercury News:
World's biggest startup launches in Silicon Valley — Among the startups tucked between restaurants, squeezed into office buildings and squatting in storefronts near Mountain View's main drag is one that might stop you cold: @WalmartLabs. — Yes, Wal-Mart — the behemoth of Bentonville …
Casey Newton / San Francisco Chronicle:
Salesforce abuzz over social networking software — Metallica playing a trade show? It's the kind of deliciously strange bit of news a person might share on Facebook - but Salesforce.com would rather see it posted on Chatter. — Salesforce, the San Francisco cloud-computing company …
Wall Street Journal:
Vudu Marks a Rare Online Success for Wal-Mart — Wal-Mart Stores Inc. has stumbled often in Internet retailing, but the big-box granddad has been surprisingly successful in one online venture: digital movie downloads. — A year after buying streaming service Vudu, which lets customers rent …
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Between the Lines Blog
Alexis Madrigal / The Atlantic Online:
Square, the iPhone Credit Card Machine, Goes Mainstream — I first saw Square's product when Gizmodo's Mat Honan whipped one out at a dinner in San Francisco to help us split a check. Here's how it worked: he ran my credit card through a tiny plastic doohickey (technical term) that attached to his phone.
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The Business Insider and The Business Insider
Noam Cohen / New York Times:
Link by Link: In Times of Unrest, Social Networks Can Be a Distraction — THE mass media, including interactive social-networking tools, make you passive, can sap your initiative, leave you content to watch the spectacle of life from your couch or smartphone. — Apparently even during a revolution.
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Poynter, more at Mediagazer »
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.
