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Apple Stocks Up on Components for September iPhone Launch — Apple hasn't yet officially announced the fall event at which it is expected to debut the next iteration of the iPhone, but it's definitely planning one. — IMore was first to report that the company has scheduled a special event …
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| Kara Swisher / AllThingsD: |
Exclusive: Ross Levinsohn Departs Yahoo — As I previously reported he likely would, top Yahoo exec Ross Levinsohn — who lost the CEO race to former Google exec Marissa Mayer — is leaving the company, according to several sources. — Mayer also just sent a note to the company about the departure …
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London Olympics 2012: Twitter 'alerted NBC to British journalist's critical tweets' — Twitter employees alerted NBC staff to a British journalist's tweets and showed them how to file a complaint against him, the television network has revealed. — Gary Zenkel and Matt Lauer … | John Koblin / Deadspin: |
NBC's No. 1 Tweeting Critic Has Been Suspended From Twitter — Guy Adams is The Independent's Los Angeles bureau chief. During the Olympics so far, he has carved out a nice spot on the how-much-NBC's-coverage-sucks beat. Now his Twitter account has been suspended—supposedly because NBC had it cut off after he complained:
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Samsung readying 11.8-inch tablet with ‘retina’ display, say court documents — Court documents made public in the epic Apple v. Samsung trial that kicked off in California today reveal that Samsung is working on a tablet codenamed “P10” that would include LTE connectivity and an 11.8-inch display at 2560 x 1600 (WQXGA) resolution.| Nathan Olivarez-Giles / Wired: |
Samsung Product Chief: 'It's Unreasonable That We're Fighting Over Rectangles' — Kevin Packingham, Samsung's Chief Product Officer, at Wired's San Francisco office. — Photo: Peter McCollough/Wired — The Apple v. Samsung trial that begins in a San Jose federal courtroom on Monday …
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| Ellis Hamburger / The Verge: |
Spotify launches unlimited free radio for Android users in the US — About a month after Spotify launched its unlimited free radio feature for iOS users in the US, the company today announced the same deal for Android users. This is the first time Spotify has allowed Android users to listen …
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| Howard Lindzon: |
The Twitter Hijacking of Stocktwits $ ...The Cashtag — It's interesting that Twitter has hijacked our creation of $TICKER ie. $AAPL. It only took four years to ‘fill’ this hole, though a few months back they told me in a detailed email it was not a hole they wanted to fill.
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| Drew Olanoff / The Next Web: |
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Thanks:@jfalconer| Arik Hesseldahl / AllThingsD: |
Box Raises $125 Million Growth Round Led by General Atlantic — The reports that Box, the cloud-based enterprise file-sharing and collaboration service that's been growing like the mythical beanstalk in Jack's back yard has been raising capital again are true.
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| Aaron Souppouris / The Verge: |
Facebook introducing ‘save for later’ feature — Facebook is reportedly rolling out an update to its mobile platform that allows users to save friends' posts for reading later. According to iMore, users will soon see a notification letting them know that they can 'press and hold anywhere …
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| Richard Lawler / Engadget: |
Republic Wireless reopens its unlimited $19 per month beta, starts offering Motorola Defy XT — Republic Wireless is finally ready for more customers on its low price cellphone service, announcing today that it's reopening signups for its beta and offering customers a new phone.
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Alibaba Is Said to Be Close to Raising $8 Billion — Some American Internet companies may be unpopular with investors these days, but a Chinese one is finding plenty of takers. — The Alibaba Group, a Chinese e-commerce giant, is close to completing a more than $8 billion round of financing …
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| David Meyer / GigaOM: |
App Store infested with zombie software, claims analytics startup Adeven — Zombies may provide a perennial source of material for mobile games, but no developer actually wants their app to be the walking dead. Nonetheless, according to new mobile analytics and ad verification firm Adeven …
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| John Callaham / Neowin: |
SkyDrive features for Office 2013 detailed — Office 2013 is now available to download in a preview version, so its users already know that the next version of Microsoft's productivity software suite also has SkyDrive features. Today, Microsoft offered up more details on how its SkyDrive …
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| Christopher Soghoian / slight paranoia: |
Tech journalists: Stop hyping unproven security tools — Preface: Although this essay compares the media's similar hyping of Haystack and Cryptocat, the tools are, at a technical level, in no way similar. Haystack was at best, snake oil, peddled by a charlatan.
Tweets: @lorenzofb, @jschauma, @ioerror and @digiphile
| David Pogue / Pogue's Posts: |
One of Apple's Best Ideas Ever — Made Worse — I think the MagSafe connector is one of Apple's best ideas ever. It's on the end of every Mac laptop's power cord. It attaches to the laptop with a powerful magnet—but if anybody trips on it, it detaches and falls harmlessly to the floor.
Tweets: @gruber
| Nicholas Carlson / Business Insider: |
Mark Zuckerberg Reveals He Is Open To A Radical Change In Facebook Strategy — It's not often that a public company CEO suggests that he might be open to an entirely new product strategy, but that's exactly what Mark Zuckerberg did on Facebook's earnings call last week. — Allow us to explain.
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IPhone's Russian Carrier Blames ‘Dictatorship’ For $1,000 Price — OAO Mobile TeleSystems (MTSS), the iPhone's biggest wireless carrier in Russia, criticized Apple Inc. (AAPL) for not cutting the device's $1,000-plus price in the country and being too strict about how it's sold.| Kristen Nicole / SiliconANGLE: |
Siri Meets Foursquare with Saga Roll Out — Saga is not another Siri clone, per se. It's more similar to Google Now and the recently launched Friday app, offering a utility that intelligently pins down data based on any number of metrics, most prominently your location, and displays it to the user with actionized intent.
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Scobleizer, The Verge, VentureBeat, Fast Company, SlashGear, GigaOM and digitaltrends.com. Thanks:@johnrobertreed
| Roger Parloff / Fortune: |
Google and Facebook's new tactic in the tech wars — Google and Facebook are using a controversial legal doctrine to channel money to the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the Center for Democracy and Technology, and other groups that share their hostility to online copyright enforcement.
Tweets: @robertblevine_, @warren_allen, @helienne, @zarawesome, @valleyhack and @jsto
| Olivia Solon / Wired.co.uk: |
Jonathan Ive: Apple's goal isn't to make money — Apple's goal is not to make money, but to make good products, said Jonathan Ive, senior vice president of industrial design at Apple, speaking at the British Embassy's Creative Summit. — “We are really pleased with our revenues but our goal isn't to make money.
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| Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: |
Amazon Lockers Available For Delivery In Silicon Valley, Too — It looks like Amazon.com is expanding its Lockers program, which allows customers to have their deliveries sent to, yes, nearby lockers. — The idea was first reported last fall. It may seem like an inconvenient alternative …
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| Center for Democracy & Technology: |
Why Fibbing About Your Age Is Relevant to the Cybersecurity Bill — [Editors Note: This is one in a of series of blog posts from CDT on the Cybersecurity Act, S. 3414, a bill co-sponsored by Senators Lieberman and Collins that is slated to be considered on the Senate floor soon.]
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