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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.
New York Times:
The Sofa Wars: Plenty to Watch Online, but Viewers Prefer to Pay for Cable — 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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Technologizer, Silicon Alley Insider, NewTeeVee, CrunchGear, DSLreports, Darren Herman and Gizmodo, more at Mediagazer »
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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.
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MacRumors, 9 to 5 Mac, The Next Web, MacStories and MacDailyNews
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 …
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MacDailyNews
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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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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Silicon Alley Insider, AppleInsider, techblog.dallasnews.com, I4U News, Macsimum News, everythingiCafe, GMSV, Softpedia News and Know Your Cell
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John Paczkowski / Digital Daily:
Analyst: Verizon iPhone Deal Still Not Sealed
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Electronista and MacStories
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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jasonhiner.com, Stowe Boyd and The Next Web, more at Mediagazer »
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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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Techie Buzz and Geek.com
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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 …
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Black Web 2.0, The Next Web and Go Rumors
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.
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Digital Daily, AppleInsider, MacRumors, Macsimum News, 9 to 5 Mac, MacStories and Softpedia News
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).
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IntoMobile, SlashGear, PhoneReport v2.0, I4U News, PhoneDog.com, Engadget, Boy Genius Report, Electricpig.co.uk, Softpedia News, Know Your Cell and Neowin.net
Geoff Duncan / Digital Trends:
Intel Dual-Core Atom Netbooks Hit the Streets — Netbooks based on Intel's dual-core Atom N550 are now available at retailers, promising performance boosts for games and entertainment. — Chipmaking giant Intel has announced that netbook computers based on Intel's dual-core N550 processor …
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Zee / The Next Web:
Gmail and Google Calendar push notifications come to the iPhone — Google Mobile App for the iPhone has just received a significant update bringing push notifications for Gmail and Google calendar to your mobile. Get your hands on it here (update: According to Google the update may not immediately available, keep checking).
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9 to 5 Mac, Google Operating System, ReadWriteWeb, Google Mobile Blog and Boy Genius Report
Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Top AOL Media Exec Marty Moe To Depart (Other Rumors of David Eun Ankling Not So Much) — According to sources close to the situation, one of AOL's top and longtime media execs, Marty Moe (pictured here), is leaving the company. — Sources said the reasons are personal and Moe was not currently taking another job.
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Silicon Alley Insider and paidContent
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.
Ben Kepes / GigaOM:
Nimbula Raises Another $15 Million in Funding — Nimbula, one of the LaunchPad finalists in this year's Structure conference, today said that it has secured $15 million in funding from Accel Partners. The funding is set to continue Nimbula's investment in hybrid cloud computing technologies …
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CNET News, ReadWriteWeb and silicontap.com, Thanks:om
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.
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Fortune, Gizmodo, GottaBeMobile, Appolicious Advisor, SlashGear, IntoMobile, Electricpig.co.uk, CrunchGear and CNET News
Panayiotis Mavrommatis / SecBrowsing blog:
Chrome's bundled Flash results in much faster update — Chrome's bundling of Flash resulted in a dramatic drop of out-of-date users after the latest update, according to our stats. — On Aug 10, 2010, Adobe released a security update for Flash. On the same day, Chrome shipped …
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Hardware 2.0 Blog, Download Squad and The Next Web, Thanks:rawmeet
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 …
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The Next Web and Gawker
Scott Rosenberg / Scott Rosenberg's Wordyard:
Why trust Facebook with the future's past? — An odd moment during the Facebook Places rollout last week has been bugging me ever since. — From Caroline McCarthy's account at CNet: … From Chris O'Brien's post: … Yeah, that's dope all right. Doper still would be for Facebook …
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Faster Forward and CNET News
