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NPD Group:
The NPD Group: Motorola, HTC drive Android to Smartphone OS lead in the U.S. — Android now installed in one of every three smartphones sold at retail. BlackBerry OS share drops 9 points to 28 percent. … - Motorola Droid — HTC Droid Incredible — HTC EVO 4G — HTC Hero
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Vlad Savov / Engadget:
NPD: Android is now top-selling OS in American smartphones — Step aside, BlackBerrys and iPhones, the American consumer has voted with his wallet and picked Android as his favorite flavor in the quarter just gone. NPD's number crunchers have just announced their findings for Q2 2010 …
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Electronista, Boy Genius Report, IntoMobile and I4U News
Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
It's official: Saudi Arabia bans BlackBerrys — The rumors are true: Saudi Arabia has become the second country inside of a week to block access to Research in Motion's BlackBerry devices on grounds of national security. — The ban goes into effect on August 6 after a “grace period” …
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Reuters:
EU Commission chose iPhone and HTC over BlackBerry
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Times of India, mocoNews, Bloomberg, Inquirer, IntoMobile, 9 to 5 Mac and MacStories
Jenna Wortham / New York Times:
BlackBerry Maker Resists Governments' Pressure
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Computerworld, CNET News, Agence France Presse and Guardian
Michael's Minute:
Apple Quietly Enables Online Streaming To iPhones, iPad and iTouch — Buried in the release notes of an updated iPhone app is significant new functionality which lets Apple devices stream music from its online storage in a useful manner for the first time. This is in defiance …
MrK / AlienBabelTech:
[ABT Exclusive]TMobile's “Project Emerald” is HTC Glacier, has a dual-core Snapdragon CPU, three times faster than EVO 4G and benchmarks! — With the evidence that we present to you below we can safely say now that TMobile's fabled “Project Emerald” is in fact the rumored HTC Glacier.
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Gizmodo, Fortune, Boy Genius Report, AndroidGuys, PhoneDog.com, Android and Me, Engadget, Google Android News …, TmoNews, AndroidSPIN, TG Daily, Phone Arena, DailyTech, Android Phone Fans, IntoMobile, Electricpig.co.uk, SlashGear, I4U News, Softpedia News, Androinica, Mobility Digest, Electronista and Ubergizmo
ChangeWave Research:
iPhone 4 Owners Tell Us What They Really Think About Their Smart Phones — The iPhone 4 launched in late June and was initially heralded as one of the most successful product releases in Apple's history. But within days the firestorm over reception and antenna issues unleashed an exceptional degree of critical commentary.
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Silicon Alley Insider, 9 to 5 Mac, AppleInsider, CNET News, MacDailyNews, Fortune and MacStories
Kyle VanHemert / Gizmodo:
Vonage Mobile App Lets You Call Facebook Friends From iPhone or Android For Free — Vonage, the VoIP company with the head-whacking commercials, has a new app for Android and iOS that lets users make free calls to Facebook friends over 3G and Wi-Fi. Finally, your reward for cultivating that extensive friends list.
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BetaNews, DSLreports, MacRumors iPhone Blog, Between the Lines Blog, GigaOM, The Register, 9 to 5 Mac, Daily Patricia, Future Tense and Guardian
Richard Ziade / Basement.org:
The New Clutter — There's a new kind of clutter littering Web pages. It's not just the obnoxious “Refinance your mortgage” ads plastered atop and alongside articles. It's also not just the animated nonsense that floats by as you're trying to read. — It's the article itself.
Brian Womack / Bloomberg:
Facebook Advertisers Boost Spending 10-Fold, Sandberg Says — Aug. 4 (Bloomberg) — Facebook Inc.'s biggest advertisers have boosted spending by at least 10-fold in the past year as the social network crossed the half- billion user mark, becoming more alluring to marketers that want to reach a broad online audience.
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CNET News, Silicon Alley Insider, VatorNews, FM Blog, TechCrunch, Erictric and Startup Meme, more at Mediagazer »
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
WAR! It's Patton v. Rommel: Vic Gundotra Will Lead Google To Victory In Social War With Facebook — Google has chosen a General in their War With Facebook - VP Engineering Vic Gundotra, we've heard from multiple sources. This is the person who will control overall product strategy …
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GigaOM and Scripting News
Josh Nguyen / Flickr Blog:
Welcome to your new photo page — After a few weeks in public preview, we're rolling out the new Flickr photo page to 100% of the Flickrverse. Our effort in this release focuses on two areas that will continue to make Flickr the very best place for your photos.
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ReadWriteWeb, Search Engine Land, GeekSugar, Softpedia News, Teens in Tech and The Next Web, Thanks:rawmeet
Mike Schackwitz / The Windows Blog:
The new Hotmail is now available to everyone! — Here at Hotmail, we've had quite a busy week! All of our customers are now upgraded. The majority of you got the new Hotmail just this past week, as we completed the rollout to over 350 million people in more than 220 countries around the world.
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Download Squad, ReadWriteWeb, Erictric, WebWorkerDaily, Inquirer, Techie Buzz, The Register, Ubergizmo, V3.co.uk and Softpedia News
Staska / Unwired View:
Samsung thinks about putting touchscreen on a tablet's back — Now that Apple showed how a real tablet device should look and work, everyone else is scrambling to make their own tablet that will be at least on par with the iPad. — Samsung is no stranger here, and has already confirmed …
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Geek.com, Electronista, Fonehome.co.uk, The Next Web, CrunchGear and SlashGear
Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
LinkedIn Acquires mSpoke For Its Recommendation Technology, Team — Professional social network provider LinkedIn has acquired mSpoke, a small startup that aims to make content more relevant through recommendation technology. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.
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alarm:clock, paidContent, Business Wire, Mashable!, Softpedia News, Between the Lines Blog and Forbes
Kevin C. Tofel / GigaOM:
Facebook Gains an Android Facelift — Facebook for Android (s goog) got a long overdue update tonight (perhaps the final push was Mark Zuckerberg's installing the Android app himself last week?), after playing second fiddle to the iOS version for far too long.
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TechCrunch, IntoMobile, Softpedia News, EuroDroid, Boy Genius Report, FierceMobileContent, Inside Facebook, MobileCrunch, Redmond Pie, FierceWireless and OStatic blogs, Thanks:bobcaswell
Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
iPhone 4 unlock available now (update: video!) — It's the moment that many of you have been waiting for: the Dev-Team's ultrasn0w carrier unlock for iPhone 4 is out. You'll find version 1.0-1 of ultrasn0w in Cydia on jailbroken devices. If not, just add the repo666.ultrasn0w.com repository.
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CNET News, The Apple Core Blog, Dev-Team Blog, ReadWriteWeb, iPhone Download Blog, TechSpot, Digital Trends, AppleInsider, 9 to 5 Mac, O'Grady's PowerPage, everythingiCafe, DailyTech, TiPb, SlashGear, Electronic Pulp, App Advice, Cult of Mac, Gadget Lab, MobileCrunch, I4U News, Lifehacker, Neowin.net, Gadgetell, MacRumors, Phones Review, PhoneNews.com and Ubergizmo
Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Tim Mayer, Who Worked For Practically Every Search Engine, Leaves Yahoo — Earlier I wrote about the depature of Yahoo's Srinija Srinivasan. Yahoo's lost another person, and another big figure in search, that of Tim Mayer. — Tim just tweeted, as shown above, that he's enjoying his first “post-Yahoo” day.
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GMSV, Search Engine Watch, Voices on All Things Digital and ResourceShelf
Peter Kaplan / Federal Trade Commission:
FTC Settles Charges of Anticompetitive Conduct Against Intel — The Federal Trade Commission approved a settlement with Intel Corp. that resolves charges the company illegally stifled competition in the market for computer chips. Intel has agreed to provisions that will open the door …
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Ars Technica, New York Times, Intel, internetnews.com, Computerworld, Tech Eye, PC World, CNET News, VentureBeat, DailyTech, Between the Lines Blog, TG Daily, Digital Trends, Engadget, Tech Check, dailywireless.org, GMSV, Inquirer and Electronista, Thanks:michaelkroker
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
CardMunch for iPhone Converts Your Business Cards Into Contacts — By Hand — In the past, I've written pretty extensively about my disdain for business cards — they add to clutter, and when you actually need to look up someone's contact information, it's like looking for a needle in a haystack.
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Teens in Tech, GigaOM and K9 Ventures
Larry Dignan / Between the Lines Blog:
Clearwire targets Apple crowd with iSpot — Clearwire is rolling out a 4G hotspot designed dubbed the iSpot to appeal to Apple users. — The WiMax service provider on Wednesday launched the iSpot, a personal hotspot with dedicated support for the iPad, iPod touch and iPhone.
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The Official CLEAR Blog, Clearwire Corp, Sidecut Reports and Phone Scoop
Nick Saint / Silicon Alley Insider:
Hey, Dick Blumenthal, Stop Bashing Tech Companies To Boost Your Campaign — Connecticut Attorney-General and U.S. Senate hopeful Richard Blumenthal is back in the news bashing tech companies, this time Apple and Amazon. — Blumenthal announced that his office had launched an investigation …
Kathryn Schulz / The Wrong Stuff:
Error Message: Google Research Director Peter Norvig on Being Wrong — Google, the company, entered this world in 1998. I'm not sure how long it took for Google, the verb, to follow—but I do know that millions of people engage in that particular activity many, many times each day.
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Google declares suspicious Android wallpaper apps safe, lifts ban — Google has lifted a suspension on Android Market wallpaper apps that were caught sending users' personal information overseas. — The wallpaper apps stirred controversy last week because the apps accessed mobile phone …
Michael Kan / Macworld:
iPad clears government hurdle in China — PEOPLE WHO READ THIS ALSO READ: — Apple's iPad has received a safety certification mark from Chinese regulators, putting it on a path that could see the future release of the popular tablet computer in China. — Apple has made no announcement …
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9 to 5 Mac, TUAW and Erictric
