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Jung-Ah Lee / Wall Street Journal:
Samsung Seeks iPhone 4S Sales Ban in Japan, Australia — SEOUL—Samsung Electronics Co. said it is seeking to stop the sale of Apple Inc.'s new iPhone 4S in Japan and Australia, further ramping up a legal clash with the U.S. company after a series of setbacks in courts around the world in recent days.
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Florian Mueller / FOSS Patents:
Samsung won't get preliminary injunction against iPhone 4S in Australia, situation less clear in Japan — A couple of hours ago, Samsung claimed to be “counter-attacking Apple again” with preliminary injunction requests in Australia and Japan, targeting the iPhone 4S.
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The Korea Times, iTnews.com.au, InfoWorld, Sydney Morning Herald, AppleInsider, Guardian, Electronista, Techie Buzz and Delimiter
Jim Gianopulos / Hollywood Reporter:
A Studio Chief Pens Revealing First-Person Steve Jobs Remembrance … “I'm coming to Paros.” Hearing those words was much scarier than you'd think. — During the spring and summer of 2006, Steve Jobs was negotiating with Fox and other studios to expand iTunes from selling digital music and TV shows to selling feature films.
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Peter Delevett / Mercury News:
Luminaries pay tribute to Steve Jobs at Stanford service — The technology industry's leading lights gathered Sunday evening to bid farewell to one who shone perhaps the brightest. — Steve Jobs — the former Apple CEO who revolutionized computing, telephones, animated films and the music industry …
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SiliconANGLE, AppleInsider, Fortune, Wall Street Journal, Telegraph, Inquirer, Bits, VentureBeat, Globe and Mail, Neowin.net and iPhone Savior
Reuters:
Apple's iPhone luring people to ditch rival phones — (Reuters) - Apple Inc's latest iPhone looks set to become its bestselling device ever, and one reason appears to be disenchantment with rival smartphones. — Nearly one in four people who thronged Apple stores from Tokyo …
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Tech Sanity Check Blog, Real Dan Lyons Web Site and parislemon
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Jordan Golson / MacRumors:
Sprint iPhone Users Complaining of Slow 3G Data Speeds
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Inquirer, Softpedia News, iDownloadBlog.com, everythingiCafe, The Next Web, Business Insider and Examiner
David Streitfeld / New York Times:
Amazon Signs Up Authors, Writing Publishers Out of Deal — SEATTLE — Amazon.com has taught readers that they do not need bookstores. Now it is encouraging writers to cast aside their publishers. — Amazon will publish 122 books this fall in an array of genres, in both physical and e-book form.
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Good E-Reader, gHacks Technology News and Neowin.net, more at Mediagazer »
Emma Barnett / Telegraph:
David Cameron will never shut down Facebook, even in times of civil unrest, such as the riots, according to a top executive at the social network. — It was thought that after a number of executives from Facebook, Twitter and Blackberry were summoned to a meeting with Theresa May …
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TechEye, Between the Lines Blog and Gizmodo UK
Matt Rosoff / Business Insider:
Google Music Store Will Launch This Quarter — Google's long awaited music store is on schedule for launch this quarter, and the major labels are starting to spread the word to their subsidiaries and partners. — We got word from the owner of an independent record label.
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Mobile Entertainment, Gizmodo UK and MobileBurn.com
Jay Yarow / Business Insider:
Too Little, Too Late: Motorola Will Start Selling A $400 Xoom — Motorola will start selling a $400 Xoom this Sunday, the WSJ reports. — The $400 Xoom will have 16 gigabytes of storage. The original Xoom had 32 gigabytes. — Will it make a difference? Probably not.
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Jordan Kahn / 9to5Google:
Patent analyst accused of anti-Google stance funded by Microsoft — Florian Mueller, who writes at FOSS Patents and often takes a harsh stance on Google in covering patent related litigation, has revealed that he's being funded by Microsoft to create a new study related to “fair, reasonable …
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Matt Cutts, FOSS Patents and @timbray
Zee / The Next Web:
Sesame Street's YouTube Channel Gets Hacked. Badly. — Children hoping to watch Sesame Street on YouTube on Sunday were greeted with quite the opposite. The channel was hacked, all videos deleted, design modified and graphic porn uploaded. A blurred screenshot is posted below.
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Naked Security, CNN, Softpedia News, Pocket-lint, Techie Buzz, Gizmodo UK, HotTips! and Gizmodo Australia
Ian Austen / New York Times:
Research in Motion Pins Hopes on Its Next OS — OTTAWA — After months of misery underlined by the declining market share of its BlackBerry phone in North America, a profoundly unsuccessful move into tablet computers and, just last week, a prolonged failure of its service for millions of users worldwide …
