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Apple loses another unreleased iPhone (exclusive) — Cava22, the San Francisco bar where another unreleased iPhone apparently went missing. — In a bizarre repeat of a high-profile incident last year, an Apple employee once again appears to have lost an unreleased iPhone in a bar, CNET has learned.
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Tom Schoenberg / Bloomberg:
U.S. Files Antitrust Complaint to Block AT&T, T-Mobile Merger — The U.S. government sued to block AT&T Inc.'s proposed $39 billion acquisition of T-Mobile USA Inc., saying the deal would “substantially lessen competition” in the wireless market. — The Justice Department complaint was filed today in federal court in Washington.
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Ina Fried / AllThingsD:
AT&T Surprised by Government's Move to Block T-Mobile Deal
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StreetInsider.com:
Statement by FCC Chair Genachowski on AT&T/T-Mobile Deal
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Public Knowledge, PC Magazine, Al Franken, Between the Lines Blog and GigaOM
Sprint Newsroom / Featured News:
Sprint Statement on Department of Justice Action on Proposed AT&T and T-Mobile Transaction
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Digital Trends, Seattle Times, Bloomberg, Light Reading, Fortune, Mashable, Gadget Lab, FierceWireless, PC Magazine, IntoMobile and GigaOM, Thanks:jbtaylor
Lisa Richwine / Reuters:
AT&T vows to bring back 5,000 U.S. jobs if merger approved
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Wall Street Journal, AllThingsD, PC World, DSLreports, AT&T and MediaFile
Steven Sinofsky / MSDN Blogs:
Designing for Metro style and the desktop — We thought it would be good to take a moment to talk about where we are heading in terms of the user interface of Windows 8. — By now you've seen two different elements of the Windows 8 design—first, a Metro style user interface we showed previously …
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ReadWriteWeb, The Microsoft Blog, Technologizer, TechCrunch, PC Magazine, The Business Insider, WinRumors, Pulse2 and ExtremeTech
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Frederic Lardinois / SiliconFilter:
Microsoft: The Schizophrenic Windows 8 Interface Will Offer the “Best of Both Worlds” — One thing that has vexed industry watchers for quite a while now is how Microsoft plans to integrate its flashy Metro interface for tablets and phones with its upcoming Windows 8 interface.
Ben Parr / Mashable:
Facebook To Launch Music Platform With Spotify, MOG & Rdio — Facebook intends to launch its long-rumored music service next month with Spotify, MOG and Rdio as three of the company's launch partners, Mashable has learned. — The music and media platform will be announced at Facebook's f8 developer conference on Sept. 22.
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Jon Fortt / Tech Check:
Facebook Plans to Launch Music Platform in September — Facebook plans to launch a music platform at its f8 conference in San Francisco on 9/22, a source with knowledge of the plans tells CNBC. — The social network's music platform launch has been long rumored, but has not yet materialized.
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CNBC, Music Ally, Ars Technica, L.A. Times Tech Blog, Inside Facebook, VentureBeat, ReadWriteWeb, Neowin.net, All Facebook, @pluc, Friending Facebook Blog and GigaOM
Michael Bolognino / Blogger Buzz:
Blogger's fresh new look — As you may have heard, things are starting to look a little different across many Google products—and today, Blogger is the next product to get a makeover. — It's been a few years since we made major updates to Blogger's look and feel, and there's a lot …
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PC World, The Next Web, Pulse2, 9to5Google, CNET News and PC Magazine
James Ball / Guardian:
Unredacted US embassy cables available online after WikiLeaks breach — Guardian denies allegation in WikiLeaks statement that journalist disclosed passwords to archive — A security breach has led to the WikiLeaks archive of 251,000 secret US diplomatic cables being made available online, without redaction to protect sources.
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Gizmodo, @adrianchen and Gawker
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Ghostinthecomputer / VintageZen:
Apple Should Kill Off the iPod Touch — One example always cited of Steve Jobs' genius at the helm of Apple is his decision to kill off the iPod Mini, a best selling product at the time, and introduce an entirely new product line in its place, the iPod Nano.
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Daring Fireball and TiPb
Marc Lifsher / Los Angeles Times:
Amazon offers to build facilities in bid to end sales tax fight — The Internet giant proposes investing up to $500 million in at least two new distribution centers and hiring as many as 7,000 workers if California lawmakers temporarily stop trying to force the retailer to collect state sales tax.
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TechFlash
Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
Twitter Ramps Up Its Ad Plan Again, With Ads You Haven't Asked To See — Coming to some of you, in about a month: Ads in your Tweetstream, from Twitter accounts you don't follow. — In an incremental but important step for Twitter's ad business, Dick Costolo's company …
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The Next Web, more at Mediagazer »
Paul Graham:
The Patent Pledge — I realized recently that we may be able to solve part of the patent problem without waiting for the government. — I've never been 100% sure whether patents help or hinder technological progress. When I was a kid I thought they helped.
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TechCrunch
Stuart Dredge / Guardian:
Instagram boss on Justin Bieber, Android and why he doesn't fear Facebook filters — Eight million downloads later, Kevin Systrom still wants to make ‘the social camera’ — Photo-sharing startup Instagram has been on something of a hiring spree in August 2011, boosting its headcount by 50% …
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Techland
Jesse Hicks / Engadget:
Windows 8 Start Menu caught on camera, shows off high-contrast design — Most anyone who's paid attention knows Windows 8 will feature some fancy tweaks, including a revamped Windows Explorer and new copy, move and rename functions. But now Redmond's given us a blink-and-you'll-miss …
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AppleInsider and CNET News
Joanna Stern / This is my next:
Samsung Series 7 Slate PC: a Wacom-enabled, dual-core tablet... with Windows 7 — “Wait, you're announcing a Windows 7 tablet now?” Yes, those were literally the words that came out of my mouth when Samsung told me of its new Series 7 Slate. However, despite a move towards Android tablets …
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PC Magazine, Engadget, WinRumors, GottaBeMobile, eHomeUpgrade and SlashGear
Andrew Wallenstein / Variety:
Yahoo dives back into original series — Netcaster takes another stab at TV-style programming — Exclusive: The broadcast networks will find themselves with some unexpected company this fall in their pursuit of eyeballs and ad revenues: Yahoo. — The beleaguered online giant will launch …
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Marketing Pilgrim
Charles Newark-French / Flurry Blog:
Mobile App Inventory Hungry Enough to Eat Internet Display Ad Spend — Smartphones app usage, facilitated by explosive iOS and Android device adoption, has created among the fastest-growing media channels in the history of consumer technology. Flurry estimates that, worldwide …
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ReadWriteWeb, Local Media Watch, TechCrunch, MarketingVox News & Trends, Mobile Marketing Watch and VentureBeat
DigiTimes:
Amazon 10-inch tablet PC to start mass production in 1Q12 — Mass production of Amazon's 10.1-inch tablet PC reportedly will be conducted in the first quarter of 2012 with Foxconn Electronics (Hon Hai Precision Industry) to handle the orders, according to sources from upstream component suppliers.
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PC World, TweakTown, I4U News, VentureBeat and Good E-Reader Blog
