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July 23, 2014, 12:35 PM

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Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet:

What ‘one Windows’ really means: one group developing all Windows variants on a common core, unified store and developer platform — What ‘one Windows’ really means (and doesn't) — Summary: Is Microsoft building a single version of Windows that will run on phones, tablets, PCs and gaming consoles?

More: CNET, BBC, The Tech Report and WebProNews

Tweets: @alex, @monkbent and @fxshaw

Taylor Soper / GeekWire:

Microsoft mum on Xbox One sales; notes 1.1M ‘Xbox consoles’ shipped in past 3 months

More: VentureBeat, Softpedia News and TWICE

Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet:

Microsoft's enterprise offerings continue to carry the day

More: BetaNews, Inquirer, Brier Dudley's blog, Business Insider and Wall Street Journal

Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica:

Preview: A closer look at OS X Yosemite, just in time for the public beta — The first public OS X beta in over a decade brings quite a few changes with it. — It's not difficult to get your hands on pre-release Apple software. For a mere $198 a year ($99 each for OS X and iOS) …

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Shara Tibken / CNET:

Apple to release first public beta of OS X Yosemite on Thursday

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Brad Molen / Engadget:

Amazon Fire phone review: a unique device, but you're better off waiting for the sequel — After producing a long line of e-book readers and tablets (not to mention a set-top box), Amazon has its sights set on the smartphone market. But finding success here won't be easy, even for an established tech giant like Amazon.

Walt Mossberg / Re/code:

Amazon Fire phone: Dynamic Perspective disappointing, Firefly inconsistent, one carrier a drawback, and new features often frustrating

More: AppleInsider, Business Insider, Ars Technica, USA Today, GeekWire and CNET

Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:

Apple ‘tentatively’ plans mid-September iPhone event as iOS 8 nears completion — Apple is gearing up for its first major hardware and software launches of 2014. The Cupertino-based company is “tentatively” planning a keynote address in mid-September to announce the iPhone 6 and provide final details …

More: BGR, Business Insider, MacRumors, iPhone in Canada Blog, TechnoBuffalo, Redmond Pie, iLounge and App Advice

Dmitri Sarle / ArcticStartup:

Google Acquires Helsinki Based drawElements for 8 Figures — Yet another exit for the Nordics. The normally slow summer is turning into a shopping spree by the big players as the Helsinki based drawElements is acquired by Google. The exact amount behind the transaction is not disclosed …

More: VentureBeat, 9to5Google, Inquirer, Mashable and Tech.eu. Thanks:@dsarle

Gideon Lewis-Kraus / Wired:

Creator of autocorrect Dean Hachamovitch, and others at Microsoft, discuss its history and evolution — The Fasinatng ... Frustrating ... Fascinating History of Autocorrect — Invoke the word — autocorrect and most people will think immediately of its hiccups—the sort of hysterical …

More: SiliconBeat and Daring Fireball

Ellis Hamburger / The Verge:

Preview of Foursquare 8.0, the redesigned exploration app that launches in a few weeks — The next age of Foursquare begins today — Foursquare needed a fresh start, so it created a brand new identity — In mid-May, Foursquare decided to split itself in two.

More: The Foursquare Blog, USA Today, Engadget and TechCrunch

Tweets: @dens, @nichcarlson, @samfbiddle and @fromedome

Rolfe Winkler / Wall Street Journal:

YouTube Music's Head Quits, a Setback to Paid Service — The head of YouTube's effort to launch a music subscription service is leaving, marking yet another hurdle for the long-delayed project. — Chris LaRosa, YouTube's product manager in charge of music, will be leaving Google this Friday to join a startup.

More: 9to5Google, Tubefilter and Android Police

Noelle Chun / The Official Motorola Blog:

Now You Can Unlock Your Moto X with a Digital Tattoo — A phone should be as unique as you are—not only in the design of your device, but how you use it. Last year at the All Things D “D11” conference, Regina Dugan talked about new digital tattoo technology that would make it easier to unlock your phone.

More: Slate, Gizmodo, Gigaom, CNET, Engadget, Business Insider, TechCrunch, BGR, IntoMobile, Pocketnow, Connectedly, CNET, BetaNews and Droid Life

Andrew Nusca / Fortune:

How Code2040 fellowship programs connect blacks and hispanics with Silicon Valley tech firms — In tech, some minorities are too minor. This group wants to change that. — Before Randi Williams spent last summer in San Francisco, the 19-year-old computer-engineering student from Maryland …

Tweets: @lourmoore, @jguynn and @hunterwalk

Fahmida Y. Rashid / Security Watch:

Nigerian Scammers Adopting More Sophisticated Attacks — Those Nigerian princes have new tricks up their sleeves. — Remember those 419 scams? These were the often-poorly-written email messages purporting to be from a wealthy individual willing to pay lavishly for help transferring his or her wealth out of the country.

More: New York Times, Palo Alto Networks Blog, Digital Trends, Boing Boing, CIO.com, Help Net Security, PR Newswire and The Register

Ben Woods / The Next Web:

Microsoft launches $114 Lumia 530 with 4-inch display. Hits Europe next month — Microsoft has today announced a new member of its Lumia range in the form of the low-end Lumia 530, which will arrive from the start of next month in Europe. — Priced at €85 before taxes or local subsidies …

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

Apple Faces Class-Action Lawsuit In California Over Alleged Labor Violations Affecting 20K Employees — While Apple today reported its quarterly earnings, another group seized the moment to push out another bit of Apple-related news. The company is being sued in a class-action suit …

Sean Portnoy / ZDNet:

Intel launches SSD Pro 2500 family of hardware-based self-encrypting drives — Summary: The business-friendly solid-state-storage lineup comes in 2.5-inch and M.2 formats with capacities up to 480GB. — Rather than emphasize blazing-fast data-transfer speeds like the Solid-State Drive Data Center Family …

More: Intel Newsroom, InfoWorld, PC Magazine and Softpedia News

Josh Constine / TechCrunch:

Airware Preps Launch Of Its Commercial Drone Operating System With $25M From Kleiner — Building a drone's hardware and software from scratch is tough and expensive, but open source drone kits are inflexible. So to power businesses looking to customize drones for commercial uses from agriculture …

More: Gigaom, VentureBeat, The Verge, Wall Street Journal, Re/code and PE Hub Blog. Thanks:@mayarahkonen

Nathan Donato-Weinstein / bizjournals:

Apple Campus 2 permits show $25M tunnel, $171M underground theater — Eight months after Apple Inc. received final approval from the city of Cupertino to build Apple Campus 2, construction on the Mac maker's new campus is generating the kind of interest usually reserved for a new iPhone launch.

Thanks:@svbiznate

Ina Fried / Re/code:

Tim Cook Says Businesses Could Revive Slowing iPad Sales — Although iPad sales were below analyst projections for a second straight quarter, Apple CEO Tim Cook says that the tablet can continue to grow, particularly if Apple can increase sales to businesses.

More: Reuters, Quartz, Pocket Gamer.biz, MacDailyNews, The Network Garden, TUAW and Wall Street Journal

Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:

Apple announces Q3 2014 revenue of $37.4b: 35.2m iPhones, 13.2m iPads, 4.4m Macs

More: Gigaom, BGR, Re/code, MacRumors, BGR, eWeek, DailyTech, iPhone Hacks, TechCrunch, Business Insider and Tech Trader Daily

Daisuke Wakabayashi / Wall Street Journal:

iPhone sales up 12.7% from a year ago driven by demand from Brazil, Russia, India, and China; iPad sales down 9.2%

More: Benedict Evans, ZDNet, Gigaom, Businessweek, Mashable, Vox, InvestorPlace, Tech in Asia, Phones Review, iPhone in Canada Blog, eWeek, Computerworld, FierceWireless, The Verge, 9to5Mac, Business Insider, Wall Street Journal, CNET, DailyTech, Pocketnow, VentureBeat and Neowin. Tweets: @reckless

William Shatner:

William Shatner reviews Facebook Mentions, calls it “ill conceived” — Facebook Mentions Versus Facebook Pages Apps — I want to talk and compare an app that most of you don't have access to: Facebook Mentions and compare it to the Pages App that anyone who has a Facebook page can download and use.

More: AllFacebook, Marketing Land, Gizmodo, SlashGear, Engadget, The Register, Mashable, The Technology Chronicles, Re/code, The Next Web, Business Insider and TIME

Tweets: @qthrul, @ftrain, @emjbanks, @reichenstein and @glennf

Jonathan Vanian / Gigaom:

Docker acquires Orchard Laboratories to beef up its tool collection — The cloud darling's purchase of the London-based two-man development shop is the company's first acquisition since changing its name from DotCloud to Docker. — Docker, the container management startup that's taken …

More: Docker Blog, ZDNet, InfoQ, InfoWorld and VentureBeat

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