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9:40 PM ET, August 23, 2010

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Jack Purcher / Patently Apple:
The Mother Lode: Welcome to the iMac Touch  —  While most of us were getting ready for the iPad's arrival in January and Patently Apple hard at work preparing our major series called the Tablet Prophecies, a major iMac Touch patent was being quietly published in Europe.
Electronista:
Samsung Galaxy Tab seen in the wild [video]  —  Electronista today had the opportunity to spy a Samsung Galaxy Tab in live testing in Sydney, Australia.  The device, spotted in the hands of an anonymous telco worker at a train station, matches up with the official description of a seven-inch, 3G-capable Android tablet.
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Fraudsters Drain PayPal Accounts Through iTunes  —  Reports are appearing this morning about a major security hole in iTunes accounts linked to PayPal.  At least one group of scammers has found a way to charge thousands of dollars to iTunes accounts through PayPal.
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Robert McMillan / PC World:
Apple Can't Stop Ongoing ITunes Charge Scam
Discussion: PC World and NBC Bay Area
Louis Gray:
Social Me Me Me Me Me Media  —  With more places to share content on more networks, each having their own diverse social graphs, connections and features, many of us are splintering our online identities, choosing one or a few communities over others, and optimizing our sharing and consumption …
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Jason Hiner / Tech Sanity Check:
The dirty little secret about Google Android  —  Google Android began with the greatest of intentions — freedom, openness, and quality software for all.  However, freedom always comes with price, and often results in unintended consequences.  With Android, one of the most important …
New York Times:
In the Living Room, Hooked on Pay TV  —  It is a fantasy shared by many Americans: dropping cable television and its fat monthly bills and turning instead to the wide-open frontier of Internet video.  —  Some are finding that the reality is not that simple.
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Janko Roettgers / NewTeeVee:
New Numbers Reveal: Cord Cutting Is Real
Discussion: Silicon Alley Insider
Nick Bilton / Bits:
Reinventing E-Mail, One Message at a Time  —  My e-mail inbox is a dejected, endless morass.  It's a desolate wasteland of unanswered messages that continue to appear like a never ending game of Tetris.  I can confidently say I hate my inbox and I know I'm not alone.
Discussion: WebProNews
Brandon Miniman / pocketnow.com:
Exclusive: Windows Phone 7 Web Browser Comparison (Video)  —  Following up to some previous thoughts about Windows Phone 7, we present a short video showing how the browsing experience on the upcoming smartphone platform compares to iPhone and Android 2.2.  Please note that the device shown …
Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune:
Mac enterprise sales surged in June  —  Apple scored its biggest gains in government, big business and the European home market  —  Click to enlarge.  Source: Needham, IDC  —  Given the Mac's tiny share of the worldwide PC market — roughly 3.5% as of June — Apple (AAPL) has a lot of room to grow.
Jon Stokes / Ars Technica:
Why Intel bought McAfee  —  There's been quite a bit of head-scratching over Intel's decision to purchase McAfee, but, despite all the breathless talk about mobile security and ARM and virus-fighting processors, the chipmaker's motivations for the purchase are actually fairly straightforward.
Discussion: Bits and Forrester Blogs
Mark Gurman / 9 to 5 Mac:
Multifl0w is how iOS multitasking should work  —  Multifl0w is how we feel Apple should have implemented multitasking into iOS in the first place.  It works quickly, beautifully, and efficiently on jailbroken iPhones, iPod touches and... iPads!  The app collaborates with the free “backgrounder” …
Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune:
Verizon and Apple at loggerheads?  —  “Important details still being ironed out,” writes analyst.  Could T-Mobile and Sprint be next?  —  Apple (AAPL) needs another carrier to maintain the iPhone's current rate of growth in the U.S., says Kaufman Bros.'s Shaw Wu in a note to clients Monday …
Jared Newman / PC World:
Motorola's Android 2.2 Rollout: What a Mess  —  Delays, missing features, cease and desist letters, oh my!  Verizon's rollout of Android 2.2 to Motorola Droid phones is becoming an exercise in frustration.  —  Motorola's Froyo problems started with the original Droid, whose Android 2.2 rollout began the first week of August.
Nick Wingfield / Digits:
Microsoft's Bing Shows Some IPhone Love  —  Microsoft may finally have figured out what makes the iPhone tick, but it's the company's Bing search engine that did it and not its mobile phone developers.  —  A couple of weekends ago, the Bing name seemed to be everywhere on the top iPhone app charts.
Owen Thomas / VentureBeat:
Google CEO bets Scoop could be the next Facebook on campus  —  Remember when Facebook was a college-only social network?  The people behind Scoop do, as they work to launch a social mobile app for students.  And so, appparently, does Google CEO Eric Schmidt.
Thanks:owenthomas
Gawker:
Meet Wikileaks Founder's Alleged Sex Victim  —  Wikileaks leader Julian Assange implied that the rape and molestation charges against him in Sweden were part of a global conspiracy.  But a fringe-left accuser identified in the Swedish media hardly seems like a CIA plant.
Discussion: Computerworld and Guardian
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Twitter Hires Adam Bain Away From News Corp. As President Of Revenue  —  Twitter has hired Adam Bain as head of all revenue for the company, we've heard from multiple sources.  His title will be President, Revenue and he'll be reporting to COO Dick Costolo.
Gabe Rivera / Techmeme News:
Techmeme's tweets now more useful: contain direct links and author IDs  —  If you've seen our Twitter feeds but don't yet follow them, have another look!  We've improved @Techmeme and @TechmemeFH in two ways:  —  1. We refer to authors using their Twitter IDs.
Taylor Buley / Buleyean String:
North Korea Tells Forbes That It Is Not Using Twitter, Facebook Or YouTube  —  For the last two weeks, North Korean propaganda has flooded the Internet-courtesy of the Internet, interestingly enough, and not North Korea.  —  A North Korea government official tells Forbes …
Hamilton Ulmer / Blog of Metrics:
Understanding Private Browsing  —  Private Browsing was introduced in Firefox 3.5, giving users the option of browsing the web without keeping track of their history.  A recent Test Pilot study recorded - among other things - the time users activated Private Browsing, and the time they deactivated it.
Discussion: Mashable! and The Next Web
Patrick Goss / TechRadar.com:
ViewSonic to show 10-inch dual-boot Windows tablet  —  Along with 7-inch Android tablet  —  ViewSonic will show off a 7-inch Android tablet at IFA called the ViewPad 7, alongside an Intel-based 10-inch tablet that will dual-boot Windows and Android.  —  The Californian manufacturer is keen …
Scott Rosenberg / Scott Rosenberg's Wordyard:
Why trust Facebook with the future's past?  —  Comments weren't working for a while today.  Apologies to anyone whose words got eaten!  Should be working again now.  —  An odd moment during the Facebook Places rollout last week has been bugging me ever since.  —  From Caroline McCarthy's account at CNet:
Discussion: Faster Forward
Todd Bishop / TechFlash:
Q&A: Microsoft's Windows Phone team preps for app submissions  —  Microsoft is hoping to get mobile app developers into a new state of preparedness for the upcoming launch of Windows Phone 7 — announcing this morning that its application development tools will be final on Sept. 16 …
TechCrunch:
The End of Moore's Law: A Love Story  —  Bing Gordon is a partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, where he led the firm's investments in Zynga (where he serves as Operating Director), Lockerz, and ngmoco.  Bing was Chief Creative Officer of Electronic Arts from 1998 to 2008 …
 
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Jenifer Austin Foulkes / Google LatLong:
Dive into the ocean with Google Earth for Android
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Eric Slivka / MacRumors:
Apple Patent Application on Detecting ‘Unauthorized’ …
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Picplz's Social Photo App Comes To The iPhone
Discussion: Bits and http://blog.picplz.com/
Chris Cameron / ReadWriteWeb:
Forget Hall Monitors, School Investigates Tracking Students with RFID
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Sarah Perez / ReadWriteWeb:
I Can Stalk U: New Site Posts Exact Locations of Twitter Users …
Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
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Charles Starrett / iLounge:
Hong Kong iPhone users face false moisture exposure claims
Discussion: Gizmodo and SCMP.com
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Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Top AOL Media Exec Marty Moe To Depart (Other Rumors of David Eun …
Ben Kepes / GigaOM:
Nimbula Raises Another $15 Million in Funding
Discussion: ReadWriteWeb, CNET News, VentureBeat and silicontap.com, Thanks:om
Robin Wauters / TechCrunchIT:
The Fight For 3PAR: HP Outbids Dell, Offers $1.6 Billion In Cash
Panayiotis Mavrommatis / SecBrowsing blog:
Chrome's bundled Flash results in much faster update
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