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6:10 PM ET, August 23, 2010

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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.
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.
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: AppleInsider and NBC Bay Area
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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Harry McCracken / Technologizer:
In (Reluctant) Defense of Cable TV
Discussion: Silicon Alley Insider
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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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.
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 …
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John Paczkowski / Digital Daily:
Analyst: Verizon iPhone Deal Still Not Sealed
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” …
Robin Wauters / TechCrunchIT:
The Fight For 3PAR: HP Outbids Dell, Offers $1.6 Billion In Cash  —  HP has proposed to acquire data storage company 3PAR for $24 per share in cash, or roughly $1.6 billion.  Thus, it trumps Dell's offer to buy out the company for $18 per share or $1.13 billion.
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Dave Vellante / SiliconANGLE:   Big Data and the Cloud: Why HP and Dell are Fighting Over 3PAR
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 …
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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 …
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.
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Steve Lohr / Bits:   A Different Take on the Intel-McAfee Deal
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.
Surur / WMPoweruser.com:
LG E900 Windows Phone 7 smartphone caught on camera  —  The oddest things show up on youtube, such as this video of the LG E900, the keyboard-less version of the LG C900, likely destined for Europe.  —  The handset looks relatively sleek, but still could do with a bit more dazzle (possibly a less blurry video would help).
Scott Rosenberg / Scott Rosenberg's Wordyard:
Why trust Facebook with the future's past?  —  Apology to everyone: Posting comments is not working right now.  Trying to figure out what the problem is.  Hope to fix soon!  —  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
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 …
Guy Grimland / Haaretz:
HTC taps Israeli technology for its iPad-slayer  —  N-trig's screen software to go into Google's new tablet computer  —  The Kfar Sava-based startup N-trig will provide the touch-screen technology for the tablet computer that Taiwanese manufacturer HTC is developing as direct competition for Apple's iPad.
Taylor Buley / Buleyean String:
Free of Freemium, Things Are Starting To Look Up At Ning  —  Ning, provider of on-demand social communities, has recently been one of Silicon Valley's most interesting companies.  Five months ago the company announced the sudden exit of chief executive Gina Bianchini, eventually gave …
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 …
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: The Next Web
 
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