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John Siracusa / Ars Technica:
Feature: Mac OS X 10.7 Lion: the Ars Technica review — Mac OS X 10.7 was first shown to the public in October 2010. The presentation was understated, especially compared to the bold rhetoric that accompanied the launches of the iPhone ("Apple reinvents the phone") and the iPad …
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AppleInsider, New York Times, Daring Fireball, ZDNet, The Ed Bott Report Blog, Computerworld, Shawn Blanc, Shiny Objects, GigaOM, TeleRead and Inquirer
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Brian X. Chen / Wired:
Lion Is Smooth, But Tries Too Hard to Be iOS — Mac OS X Lion is rich with visual enhancements, such as the new Launchpad feature for launching apps — My head started hurting after the first hour of using Mac OS X Lion. Two words: inverted scrolling. — That's correct …
AppleInsider:
Mac OS X Lion will be available on USB thumb drive for $69 in August
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Digital Trends, Neowin.net, Wired.co.uk, O'Grady's PowerPage, 9to5Mac and MacRumors
Slash Lane / AppleInsider:
New MacBook Airs, Mac minis feature Lion Internet Recovery disc-less repair
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Apple, SlashGear, MacRumors, iPhone Hacks, 9to5Mac, MacStories, TechCrunch, iClarified and TUAW
Walter S. Mossberg / AllThingsD:
Apple's Lion Brings PCs Into Tablet Era
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USA Today, TechCrunch, Time, TUAW, MacRumors, Ars Technica, Engadget, Computerworld, The Next Web and Macworld
Fortune:
Larry Summers calls Winklevoss twins ‘A**holes’ — NEW YORK (Fortune) — What did Larry Summers really think of the Winklevoss twins? — “Rarely, have I encountered such swagger, and I tried to respond in kind,” the former president of Harvard said in an interview at Fortune's Brainstorm Tech conference.
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The Atlantic Wire, New York Magazine, Gawker and Pulse2
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Frederic Lardinois / SiliconFilter:
Wave Goodbye to Google Labs — Google just announced that it is shutting down Google Labs, the company's central hub for testing new product ideas and features. According to Google, the decision was made in order to allow it to prioritize its product efforts.
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PC World, L.A. Times Tech Blog, blog.netflix.com, 9to5Google, eWeek, The Official Google Blog, Digits, GigaOM, Between the Lines Blog, The Next Web, ReadWriteWeb and Pulse2
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Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
Google's ‘20 Percent Time’ Will Survive The Death of Google Labs
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Neowin.net and Digital Trends
Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:
Twitter Poised to Close a Two-Stage $800M Funding, With Half Used to Cash Out Investors and Employees — In a move reminiscent of one done by Facebook in 2009, Twitter is close to completing an $800 million funding deal that will include a second part in which around $400 million of the total …
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GigaOM, The Business Insider, Pulse2, broadstuff and BostInnovation.com
Richard Dunn / Gmail Blog:
Make multiple calls in Gmail — Over the years, we've expanded Gmail's communication abilities by allowing you to make voice and video calls to other computers and more recently call phones. Until now, though, you were limited to making one call at a time.
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9to5Google
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Jack Dorsey Cleaning House At Twitter: 4 Key Product Guys Are Out — Breaking news out of Twitter this afternoon, four key product managers have just been let go, we've learned. The move was led by Jack Dorsey and will see key product guys Kevin Cheng, Josh Elman, and two others we've yet to confirm, leave the company.
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@hunterwalk, @bryce and Robert Scoble
Tomio Geron / Social Markets:
EBay's PayPal Payments Going Offline With Point Of Sale Product — eBay's PayPal unit has been a big driver of the company's growth as the company has retooled its marketplaces unit. Now PayPal is not just going after online and mobile payments, it's also targeting offline “point of sale” transactions with merchants.
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Bloomberg:
Apple, Google Are Said to Be Among Companies Sizing Up InterDigital Offers — Apple Inc. (AAPL) and Google Inc. (GOOG), aiming to bolster their patent portfolios, are among companies weighing possible bids for InterDigital Inc., a mobile-phone technology designer, according to a person with knowledge of the situation.
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Android and Me, Wall Street Journal, TUAW, MacRumors, Electronista, The Business Insider and Pulse2
Jackie Cohen / All Facebook:
REPORT: How Google Plus Stacks Up Against Facebook — Ever since Google Plus launched last month, the blogosphere has been making bold declarations about how the search giant's social media product means the beginning of the end for Facebook. — Well now, we've got some hard numbers …
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Computerworld and The Business Insider
Sebastian Anthony / ExtremeTech:
Firefox 8 for Windows x64: Has 64-bit browsing finally come of age? — Over the last couple of weeks, Mozilla has finally stepped up its 64-bit testing process. There are now five slaves dedicated to building Firefox for Windows x64, which means that from Firefox 8 and onwards …
Lee Youkyung / YONHAP NEWS:
Samsung to release Galaxy S2 in U.S. next month — Samsung Electronics Co. will release its flagship Galaxy S2 smartphone in the U.S. market next month, the chief of its mobile business division said Wednesday, a move that will likely pit the product against the forthcoming iPhone.
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eWeek, MobileBurn.com, Unwired View, I4U News, Pulse2, PC Magazine, Neowin.net, VentureBeat, The Toybox Blog, infoSync World, Droid Life, Tools, IntoMobile, 9to5Google, BGR, Engadget, Techie Buzz, AndroidGuys, TechCrunch, SlashGear, Android Community, The Next Web and Electronista
Florian Mueller / FOSS Patents:
Google blinks in Oracle patent case, indicates willingness to pay — Oracle and Google just filed their joint reply to the judge's request for input on “the extent to which” that lawsuit should be stayed. — As I expected, the common and agreed-upon part of their response is confined …
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InfoWorld, Between the Lines Blog and Electronista, Thanks:brianshall
Alexei Oreskovic / Reuters:
Exclusive: Google offers credit card to advertisers — (Reuters) - Google Inc is introducing a credit card for its advertising customers, offering its clients a credit line to try and drum up business as competition in the online ad market heats up. — Google is offering the card …
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Pulse2
George Avalos / Mercury News:
Apple leases a big office campus in Cupertino that could accommodate more than 1,000 workers — Apple (AAPL) has struck a deal to lease a big office campus in Cupertino just west of De Anza College, in a move that would enable the tech titan to occupy the complex with more than 1,000 workers.
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9to5Mac and Associated Press
Sarah Perez / ReadWriteMobile:
Microsoft Makes Windows Live Access Easier for Mobile Developers on iOS, Android & Windows Phone — Microsoft is making it easier for mobile developers building apps for iOS, Android and Windows Phone to integrate data from Windows Live into their applications.
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Pulse2, LiveSide.net, The Windows Blog and Electronista
Todd Brix / Windows Phone Developer Blog:
Windows Phone Developers Get New App Hub Features: Mango app submission just one month away — This week marks another significant developer milestone on the path to the release of Mango and also gives me a chance to talk about where we're headed. — We know there's tremendous excitement among …
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WinRumors, SocialTimes.com, MSDN Blogs, IntoMobile, All about Microsoft Blog, Computerworld, GigaOM, SlashGear, Network World, WMPU, TechNet Blogs, Pulse2, The Next Web and Softpedia News
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Google Hires JustSpotted/Scoopler Team To Work On Google+ — For the past two years, we've been tracking the team behind Scoopler. Originally a Y Combinator company that was one of the first startups in the “realtime search” space, they eventually pivoted last year to become …
Katie Marsal / AppleInsider:
Apple initiates mass discontinuation of boxed retail software — Further emphasizing the Mac App Store as the preferred place to get new software for Mac OS X, Apple on Wednesday discontinued a slew of boxed software products. — Virtually all of Apple's retail software was declared …
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Technologizer, Pulse2, AppScout, BBC, MacRumors, InfoWorld, Mercury News, PC Magazine, DailyTech, TUAW, MacNN, eWeek and Cult of Mac
Nick Bilton / Bits:
Zynga Is Hit With Countersuit Over Game Designs — Vostu, a Brazilian company whose social games are popular in South America, filed suit against the online gaming giant Zynga on Wednesday, responding to a suit from Zynga claiming that Vostu copied its game designs.
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Digits and TechCrunch
Christopher S Penn / Christopher S. Penn:
Google+ and Search Signals: Tinfoil Hat Edition — I was recently examining Google+ and how it transparently redirects through plus.google.com as it sends readers to your website. One of the oddities I noticed was this: … Take a look at how the URL starts. The second query string variable looks awfully familiar.
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@mathewi
Jim Dalrymple / The Loop:
Apple launches Business App Store for volume purchases — Apple on Wednesday launched its B2B App Store, allowing businesses to make volume purchases of apps. — “Whether you're providing apps to two employees or ten thousand, the Volume Purchase Program makes it simple to find, buy …
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9to5Mac, TUAW, MacNN, MacStories and UberMobile Blog, Thanks:mmbman
Greg Kumparak / TechCrunch:
San Francisco Passes Law Requiring Radiation Warnings For Cell Phones — “Cell phones cause cancer.” “No they don't!” “Yes they do.” “No they don't!” — Back and forth it goes, like the world's slowest game of tennis. One study spends 6 months proving that cell phones turn …
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L.A. Times Tech Blog and SiliconFilter
Larissa Fontaine / Google Book Search Blog:
Pottermore and Google team up to enable Harry Potter ebooks push to Google Books libraries — When JK Rowling's new website Pottermore opens its doors this Fall, we'll provide services to help fans make the most of their ebook purchasing experience. Pottermore and Google are teaming …
