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9:55 AM ET, July 26, 2010

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Ross Miller / Engadget:
Mystery HTC Windows Phone 7 device: in the wild and lacking any Sense  —  A candybar slate from HTC with a 3.7-inch SLCD and 1GHz Snapdragon processor — sounds about right for the Desire, but this little puppy is actually running Windows Phone 7 (presumably a developer build, given the apps catalog).
Apple:
iPhone 4 Arrives in 17 More Countries This Friday  —  Apple's iPhone® 4 will be available in 17 more countries this Friday, July 30. iPhone 4 features FaceTime®, which makes video calling as easy as one tap, Apple's new Retina display, the highest resolution display ever built into a phone …
Simon Rogers / Guardian:
Wikileaks Afghanistan files: download the key incidents as a spreadsheet  —  Key incidents from the Wikileaks Afghanistan war logs selected by Guardian writers.  As a spreadsheet, with co-ordinates  —  • Get this data  —  • INTERACTIVE: These key incidents mapped  —  • Glossary of military terms
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AppleInsider:
Limited iMac retail inventory precedes anticipated update  —  Some Apple retail stores have run out of stock of both 21.5-inch and 27-inch iMac models, ahead of an expected refresh to the desktop Mac hardware.  —  An AppleInsider reader sent word Sunday that the 21.5-inch iMac …
Sean Michael Kerner / Developer.com:
Inside Facebook's Open Source Infrastructure  —  Facebook connects its 500 million users using an array of open source software to enable social networking as well as data intelligence.  Facebook's open source Web serving infrastructure has a lot more than just the traditional LAMP (Linux/Apache/MySQL/PHP) stack behind it.
Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Yelp's Stoppelman Talks About Geo-Location, International Expansion (And Not Google)  —  Earlier this week, BoomTown headed to downtown San Francisco to the hip HQ of Yelp to talk to its CEO, Jeremy Stoppelman, about a range of issues related to the local business review site.
Paul Carr / TechCrunch:
NSFW: Sorry AirBnB Hipsters, I'll Take Health and Safety Over the Cult of Disruption  —  Get out of the way, old man!  You're being Disrupted!  Screw you, newspapers: blogs are stealing your readers and Craigslist is pillaging your revenue!  Take that publishers: Andrew Wiley doesn't need you and your stupid dead trees!
Discussion: New York Magazine, Thanks:alexia
Jonny Evans / Computerworld:
RIP: Why the iPad ‘killers’ are already dead  —  iPad is huge, big, massive hit, an echo of the iPod effect on the MP3 player market and the iPhone effect on the mobile world.  Apple has stolen the tablet/netbook industry to the extent competitors face a pretty tough time in even manufacturing their ‘iPad killers’.
Discussion: Gadget Lab and App Advice, Thanks:jonnyrhere
Electronista:
Ruling on DMCA could allow breaking DRM for fair use  —  A new court ruling on Friday could set a legal precedent that allows bypassing digital rights management (DRM) for fair use purposes.  New Orleans circuit Judge Emilio Garza found that GE hadn't violated the Digital Millennium Copyright Act …
David Kaplan / mocoNews:
iPhone Becomes Focus Of Media Measurement Consortium  —  Major media companies are zeroing in on the Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) iPhone as the key to understanding consumers' habits with regard to TV, online and mobile.  The Coalition for Innovative Media Measurement (CIMM), the research initiative formed …
Om Malik / GigaOM:
FourSquare's Crowley on Facebook, Check-in Fatigue & the Copy Cats  —  I was in New York this week, and as part of my visit, I decided to check-in (pun intended) with Foursquare co-founder Dennis Crowley.  He showed off the company's massive new office that is still under construction …
Discussion: parislemon, Thanks:atul
Sean Hollister / Engadget:
HTC Vision headed to T-Mobile in new spy shot, dubbed G1 Blaze?  —  While high-end QWERTY sliders loaded with Android aren't nearly as uncommon now as when HTC's Vision first leaked onto the scene, it appears this particular handset may be destined for T-Mobile with its (alleged) 1GHz processor …
 
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Josh Constine / Inside Facebook:
Facebook Application Bookmarks Now Drop Below The Fold If Unused For 30 Days
Alexis Madrigal / The Atlantic Online:
The Varieties of Religious Experience: How Apple Stays Divine
Discussion: Gizmodo, Switched and kottke.org
Brooke Crothers / CNET News:
Mimicking Apple an imperative for PC makers
Seth Weintraub / Fortune:
Android Market purchases soon billable to more carriers?
 Earlier Items: 
Jean-Louis Gassée / Monday Note:
iPhone 4 Antennas: The Fun Side
Andy Brett / TechCrunch:
GitHub Hits One Million Hosted Projects
Discussion: ZDNet and Softpedia News
Joanie Wexler / Network World:
WPA2 vulnerability found
Enigmax / TorrentFreak:
Mass BitTorrent Lawsuits Now Target Private Trackers
Discussion: Fast Company
Barry Collins / PC Pro:
Dell drops Ubuntu PCs from website... for now