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DigiTimes:
iPhone 5 to have smaller than 4-inch panel, say sources — Despite rumors about iPhone 5 featuring a 4.2-inch panel circulating within the IT market for a while, following a leak from Apple's website in Switzerland in early August, sources from upstream panel suppliers have recently revealed …
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Arnold Kim / MacRumors:
iPhone 5 with Metal Chassis and Less Than 4" Screen?
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Internet2Go, Gizmodo, Computerworld, PhoneArena, Appolicious Advisor and iDownloadBlog.com
Alex Simons / MSDN Blogs:
Improvements in Windows Explorer … It's exciting to have this opportunity to share the improvements we're making to the file management capabilities of Windows Explorer. Explorer is one of the most venerable parts of Windows with a heritage you can trace back to the “MS-DOS Executive” in Windows 1.0!
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Computerworld, CNET News, The Microsoft Blog, ConceivablyTech, GeekWire, Engadget, Seldo's Tumblr, VoIP & Gadgets Blog, ExtremeTech, parislemon, SlashGear, The Tech Report, AnandTech, BlogsDNA, Network World, WinRumors, All about Microsoft Blog, Softpedia News, Windows 8 Beta, The Next Web, Techie Buzz, Electronista and CodenameWindows
DigiTimes:
Samsung reportedly recruits ex-HP VP for PC business; considers buying webOS — Samsung Electronics, despite refuting reports it plans to take over Hewlett-Packard's (HP's) PC business, reportedly has already recruited HP's ex-vice president of PSG marketing Raymond Wah to handle Samsung's PC sales …
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Jonathan S. Geller / BGR:
Verizon Wireless exclusively launching Samsung DROID Prime in October — BGR has exclusively learned from a close source of ours that Verizon Wireless has passed on offering the Samsung GALAXY S II in favor of something even better. We reported last week that Verizon isn't going to sell the GALAXY S II, and we have now been told why.
Olga Kharif / Bloomberg:
AT&T-Verizon-T Mobile Sets $100M for Google Fight — Verizon Wireless, AT&T Inc. (T) and T- Mobile USA plan to invest more than $100 million in their joint venture that lets consumers pay for goods with mobile phones, people with knowledge of the project said.
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TechCrunch, PC Magazine, 9to5Google, SplatF, ReadWriteWeb, Mobile Marketing Watch, mocoNews, DailyTech, Electronista, Between the Lines Blog, Engadget, Connected Planet Online, techblog.dallasnews.com, Adotas, Always On Real-Time Access, The Next Web, PhoneArena and FierceMobileContent, Thanks:seobook
Eric Slivka / MacRumors:
Mac OS X Snow Leopard 10.6.9 to Bring iCloud Support? — Apple appears to be preparing a 10.6.9 update to Mac OS X Snow Leopard in order to provide compatibility with the company's upcoming iCloud service. The following notice appeared in one developer's .Mac preference pane in Tiger …
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AppleInsider, 9to5Mac, Tools, TUAW, MacNN, Apple Bitch, MacStories and SlashGear
New York Post:
Social gamer Zynga detoured on the road to IPOVille — Wall Street turmoil is affecting the timing of Zynga's public debut. — The social-gaming company, which had been racing to launch an initial public offering early next month, is no longer in a rush because of the rocky stock markets …
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MediaFile, VatorNews, Reuters, The Business Insider, CNET News, TechSpot, GMSV, FT Tech Hub and Digital Trends
Nick Bilton / New York Times:
Masked Anonymous Protesters Aid Time Warner's Profits — SAN FRANCISCO — Anonymous, the hacker group, has jostled with the Iranian government and the Church of Scientology and has briefly shut down the Web sites of Visa, MasterCard and other global corporations.
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Digital Trends, @anon_central and The Next Web
Groklaw:
Lodsys - Lodsys in a Panic to Keep Apple Out of Suit — Oh what a tangled web we weave, When first we practise to deceive! — Sir Walter Scott, Marmion, Canto vi. … In the latest filing by Lodsys [PDF] in response to the Apple motion to intervene in the Lodsys v. Combay case …
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Christian Zibreg / 9to5Mac:
Adobe unveils PDF creation app for iPhone and iPad — Adobe today released a new iOS app dubbed CreatePDF that does right what the name suggest. Using CreatePDF, one can create PDF documents from scratch, right on their iOS device, down to images, links, formatting, footnotes, drawings and more.
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Gizmodo, MacStories, ReadWriteWeb, MacRumors, everythingiCafe and TUAW
Amar Toor / Engadget:
Samsung's ChatON messaging service brings free texting to Android, iOS and BlackBerry (video) — It looks like Samsung is about to dip its toes in the mobile messaging market, with a new service called ChatON. Slated to debut at this week's IFA, the app brings texting …
Mark Hearn / Sprintfeed:
Sprint Advising Employees to Remain Mum on iPhone — If you ask the Wall Street Journal, the iPhone is coming to Sprint in October. This sounds great, but if you were to ask a Sprint employee, you just might get a different answer, or no answer at all. We've received an internal memo …
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Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
BitTorrent users don't “act in concert,” so judge slashes mass P2P case — Steele Hansmeier, the antipiracy law firm that has been routinely hammered by judges in Illinois, is now getting hammered by judges in California. The firm has tried desperately to head off all the common objections …
Jack Purcher / Patently Apple:
Apple's WebKit Trademark Filing Challenged by Research in Motion — Research in Motion has filed an official opposing action against Apple's trademark filing for “WebKit” in Canada. The opposing action which was filed earlier this month has been granted an extension of time.
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9to5Mac and Electronista
Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
It's official: Google wants to own your online identity — Ever since Google launched its new Google+ social network, we and others have pointed out that the search giant clearly has more in mind than just providing a nice place for people to share photos of their pets.
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Technology Liberation Front, CNN, Social Business Blog and The Not-So Private Parts, Thanks:mathewi
Sara Yin / PC Magazine:
Worst of Cell Phone Disruptions Is Yet to Come, FCC Says — Communications networks held up better than expected against Hurricane/Tropical Storm Irene, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) said in a Sunday afternoon briefing, with the greatest swathe of outages reported by cable TV subscribers in North Carolina.
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New York Times, DSLreports and Consumer Reports News
Sascha Segan / PC Magazine:
Verizon: Droid Bionic Twitter Page Isn't Ours — Hold your horses. A Twitter feed claiming to be the “Official Motorola Droid Bionic Twitter page” is no such thing, spokespeople from both Verizon Wireless and Motorola said. That means the page's statement that the long-awaited Droid Bionic …
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9to5Google, IntoMobile, Android Phones …, Android and Me, CNET News, Android Phone Fans, Droid Life and GottaBeMobile
Robert McMillan / Computerworld:
In just three weeks, Facebook pays out $40K to hackers — Three weeks after launching a bug bounty program that pays Web hackers cash for finding flaws with its website, Facebook said it has paid out more than US$40,000 in rewards. — Three weeks after launching a bug bounty program …
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Facebook, PC Magazine and WebProNews
Evan Blass / pocketnow.com:
Samsung Epic 4G Touch (Sprint): First Press Shots — Why is it that the upcoming US launch of the Samsung Galaxy S II on AT&T, T-Mobile, and Sprint — but not Verizon — feels a bit underwhelming? It must be because the global version of the handset is already seeing a refresh …
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LAPTOP Magazine, Android Phones …, Widgets Lab, GottaBeMobile, Android Phone Fans, Android Life, Sammy Hub, SlashGear, PhoneArena and Softpedia News
Spiegel Online:
Accidental Release of US Cables Endangers Sources — Related articles, background features and opinions about this topic. — Leak at WikiLeaks — Accidental Release of US Cables Endangers Sources — Supporters of Julian Assange's WikiLeaks organization accidentally released unredacted US diplomatic cables onto the Internet.
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Alistair Barr / Reuters:
Amazon may sell 3-5 million tablets in Q4: Forrester — (Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc may sell as many as five million tablet computers in the fourth quarter, making the largest Internet retailer the top competitor to Apple Inc in this fast-growing niche of the consumer PC market, Forrester Research said on Monday.
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BaltTech, BGR, 9to5Google, TechFlash, Forrester Blogs, Forrester Research, Between the Lines Blog, GeekWire, AllThingsD, Electronista, Internet2Go and SlashGear
Om Malik / GigaOM:
So why did Cisco buy Versly? — Cisco Systems announced Monday that it was buying a little-known collaboration software company, Versly, for an undisclosed amount. Versly makes it easy to collaborate inside the Microsoft Office products, though it's not clear who its customers are.
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Sydney Morning Herald, VentureBeat, ReadWriteWeb, Cisco, PC World, alarm:clock, Digital Trends, eWeek, TechCrunch, AllThingsD and The Tech Trade
Stu Woo / Wall Street Journal:
LivingSocial's CEO Weathers Rapid Growth — LivingSocial Inc. Chief Executive Tim O'Shaughnessy's duties once included occasionally emptying the office garbage. Now the 29-year-old is managing a 3,500-person Web company with a soaring valuation that faces dozens of competitors.
Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
Bayfiles: The Pirate Bay Founders Launch File-Hosting Site — In the fall of 2003, a group of friends from Sweden decided to launch a BitTorrent tracker named ‘The Pirate Bay’. — In the years that followed the BitTorrent site made history as it grew to become one of the most recognized brands on the Internet.
