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| Brandon Miniman / Pocketnow: |
Exclusive: Galaxy Note II Official Specs, Details, Images — Thanks to a tipster, we've been handed the official press release for the Galaxy Note II, which is expected to be announced at IFA 2012 in just a few hours. The display of the Galaxy Note II will be 5.5″ and 1280×720 resolution … | Chris Ziegler / The Verge: |
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| Quentin Fottrell / MarketWatch: |
Apple win whacks Android resale prices … While many experts predict Apple Inc.'s court victory over Samsung could shake up the wireless industry over the long term, it's already having an impact on one key area: the resale market. — Since the $1.05 billion verdict Friday …
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| Ina Fried / AllThingsD: |
Judge Koh Sets December 6 Hearing on Apple's Request to Ban Several Samsung Phones — Though the verdict is in, the paperwork continues in the patent dispute between Apple and Samsung. — Aiming to put some limits on things, Judge Lucy Koh on Tuesday established a schedule for posttrial filings … | Dana Wollman / Engadget: |
Sony Xperia Tablet S official: slimmed-down design, Tegra 3, IR remote and Android 4.0, starts at $400 — Looks like those leaked slides showing Sony's Xperia-branded tablet were right about pretty much everything. (Well, everything except the price, anyway).
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| Matt Warman / Telegraph: |
Apple ‘AirPlay Direct’ planned for September launch — Hifi manufacturers are preparing for Apple to launch ‘AirPlay Direct’ technology that allows wireless music playback without the need for a WiFi network. — Apple's Steve Jobs launched AirPlay in 2010| Alana / Nielsen Wire: |
Apps Dominate Mobile Time Spent Accessing Travel in U.S. — As the summer travel season comes to a close, Nielsen looked at the usage of travel-related mobile apps and websites during June 2012. Findings showed that U.S. Android and iOS users spent 95 percent of their time accessing travel information …
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| Stuart Miles / Pocket-lint: |
Apple Geniuses: Now help you online in UK — Apple has announced a new feature to its Online store in the UK. Apple Geniuses to help you pick the right iPhone. — “Now there's a whole new way to shop for an iPad or iPhone at the Apple Online Store,” says Apple.
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| Katherine Boehret / AllThingsD: |
TiVo Stream Gets Viewers Off the Couch — With my time limited, I'm continuously working to chip away at the ever-growing list of programs and movies on my TiVo. — For the past week, I've been testing a device that solves a lot of my problems: TiVo Stream.
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| Evelyn M. Rusli / DealBook: |
Yelp Surges After Lockup Expires — While early investors in Yelp got their first chance to sell shares in the online reviews site on Wednesday, it appears they are holding on to their stakes for now. — When a so-called lockup period expires, a stock typically falls, as investors sell their shares.| Sean Ludwig / VentureBeat: |
Vimeo integrates with Dropbox for easier video uploads and shares — Video sharing service Vimeo has finally integrated with cloud storage service Dropbox after many requests from the vocal Vimeo community, the company announced today. — With the integration, Vimeo users can now add …
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Motorola's Intel phone set for September launch — Motorola's invite suggests there will be at least one handset reveal using Intel's technology — Google's Motorola unit has confirmed plans to release its first smartphone powered by an Intel chip. — The firm will unveil the device in London on 18 September.
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| Owen Thomas / Business Insider: |
Uh Oh! Amazon Researchers Say Pinterest Doesn't Generate A Lot Of Sales — Zappos Labs, the research arm of the Zappos online apparel site, has been experimenting with Pinterest—and the results are not encouraging. — Will Young, director of Zappos Labs, told Bloomberg that Pinterest users …
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| Drew Olanoff / The Next Web: |
Google.com starts displaying birthday reminders before you start searching for things — Before you perform your next overly-complicated Google search, you might be met with the reminder of a special someone's birthday. As part of the Google+ platform, the company has rolled out birthday reminders … | Sean Ludwig / VentureBeat: |
ClearSlide nets $28M to give sales teams better presentation tools — Sales communications startup Clearslide has raised $28 million in its second round of funding aimed at opening a New York City office, developing new products, and increasing marketing efforts, the company announced today.
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| Sean Gallagher / Ars Technica: |
Big Brother on a budget: How Internet surveillance got so cheap — The surveillance powers of CCTV are coming to a network near you, thanks to deep packet inspection and big data analytics. — ogglog — When Libyan rebels finally wrested control of the country last year away …
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| Jon Fingas / Engadget: |
Google lands patent for automatic object recognition in videos, leaves no stone untagged — Google has already been working on patents that could pick out faces and song melodies in our YouTube clips. Now, it might just have the ultimate tool: the technique in a just-granted patent could pick …
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CNET, Geekosystem and Pocket-lint
| Matt Brian / The Next Web: |
TomTom confirms new Android navigation app, available in October — It's been a long time coming, but finally Dutch satellite navigation specialist TomTom has announced that it will release a dedicated Android app, launching with on-board maps, intelligent routing and HD Traffic services in October.| Drew Olanoff / The Next Web: |
Google+ in the workplace: Google previews enterprise Hangouts for Calendar and restricted posts — Even when Google Wave was still around, you could tell that Google was playing around with the notion of changing the way we collaborate and communicate. With Wave, the number usage …
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| Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica: |
New quad-core Intel Atom SoCs target PCs, servers, and tablets — Enlarge / The Bay Trail platform will be available for just about any application you can think of. — Intel via Baidu — Leaked Intel documents have revealed details of the company's next-generation Atom platform.
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dailywireless.org, Liliputing and The Verge
| Associated Press: |
New York Times leading group defense in patent suit over mobile texts containing Web links — The New York Times Co. is girding for a legal battle that many larger organizations have avoided. — The Times is leading the defense of a diverse group of companies that use technology they assumed was free …
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| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
How I cracked my neighbor's WiFi password without breaking a sweat — The four-way handshake, in which a wireless device (STA) validates itself to a WiFi access point and vice versa. — Last week's feature explaining why passwords are under assault like never before touched a nerve with many Ars readers, and with good reason.| Steve Gorman / Reuters: |
Second accused LulzSec hacker arrested in Sony Pictures breach — (Reuters) - A second suspected member of the clandestine hacking group LulzSec was arrested on Tuesday on charges he took part in an extensive computer breach of Sony Pictures Entertainment, the FBI said.
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L.A. NOW, threatpost, CNET, The Register, The H Security, Softpedia News, Computerworld, Inquirer and The Verge
| Zachary Lutz / Engadget: |
LG Optimus L9 announced with 4.7-inch display, language translation app and custom keyboard — There will soon be a new Optimus L-Series smartphone on the prowl, as LG has just announced the Optimus L9 as a followup to its Optimus L3, L5 and L7 handsets. This series is viewed by LG …
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eWeek, CNET, ZDNet, SlashGear, Pocket-lint, digitaltrends.com, GadgeTell, MobileSyrup.com, The Droid Guy, Phones Review, 9to5Google, CNET, The Verge and Pocketnow
| Scott Wasson / The Tech Report: |
AMD CTO reveals first Steamroller details — Bulldozer's getting some sweet new treads — Ever since the relatively disappointing debut of AMD's Bulldozer microarchitecture, we've been curious to find out what happens next. New architectures sometimes have their share of troubles … | Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: |
The Talented Ms. Hornstein: How @Shirls Fooled The Valley — Silicon Valley is full of hustlers, and that's often a good thing. But there's a difference between hustling and flat-out lying, and when people deceive company after company, it's time to call them out.| Darrell Etherington / BetaKit: |
WePay Targets PayPal Where It Hurts With Easy Payment Buttons — Startup WePay, which began as a way for groups of friends to pay for something together, but has since evolved to become a direct competitor to PayPal in the online payments space, today introduced new payment buttons.
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