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Twitter Blog:
Timely Tweets: Now easier to see — We all come to Twitter to connect with the latest information on the topics and people we care about. So when we decide to follow a favorite brand, business or charitable organization, we expect to be among the first to get a special announcement, access to exclusive content or a great offer.
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Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
Twitter Pumps Up Its Ads Today With “Promoted Tweets To Followers” — Twitter's slow-moving ad business takes another step forward today: Sources tell me that the company will formally launch its new “Promoted Tweets To Followers” ad plan. — What that means to advertisers …
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SplatF, @mathewi and Wall Street Journal
NielsenWire:
In U.S. Smartphone Market, Android is Top Operating System, Apple is Top Manufacturer — According to June data from Nielsen, Google's Android operating system (OS) now claims the largest share of the U.S. consumer smartphone market with 39 percent. Apple's iOS is in second place with 28 percent …
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InfoWorld, GigaOM, L.A. Times Tech Blog, LAPTOP Magazine, Tech Trader Daily, Mobile Marketing Watch, eWeek, GeekWire, paidContent, Shiny Objects, ZDNet, Between the Lines Blog, TechCrunch, Engadget, ReadWriteWeb, 9to5Google, WMPoweruser, IntoMobile, MacGazette.net, Android Police, Softpedia News, iPhone, iDownloadBlog, AndroidGuys, AllThingsD, BGR, IMS Research, MobileBurn.com, Android Community, The Loop, SlashGear, PhoneArena, Android Phone Fans, I4U News and Boing Boing
Arnold Kim / MacRumors:
iPhone 5 Launching in Second Week of September? iPad 3 Later? — The China Times pinpoints the iPhone 5 release to the second week of September with an initial order of 4 million units. Suppliers are said to be currently preparing 400,000 trial run units.
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CNET News, Examiner, CNN, Daring Fireball, The Business Insider, Electronista, PC World, Apple Bitch, TechnoBuffalo, Redmond Pie, App Advice, I4U News and TiPb
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Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:
Next iPhone to feature thinner, tapered design according to new silicone cases — Yesterday, a purported case mold schematic for the fifth-generation iPhone emerged, pointing to a complete re-design for Apple's handset. This mold points to a larger display, a larger home button, and a thinner profile for the next iPhone.
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Steve Perlman unveils DIDO white paper explaining “impossible” wireless data rates — DIDO is a new wireless technology that is supposed to be impossible, since it allows people to send and receive data over a wireless network at speeds that aren't possible with today's technology.
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Business Week, Electronista and GigaOM Pro
Richard Lawler / Engadget:
Logitech CEO steps down after money losing Q1, Revue price slashed to $99 — This is becoming a trend. After a disappointing Q4 saw Logitech reduce the price of its Revue it revealed today that after a net loss of $29.6 million for the first quarter it is cutting the price of the Revue to $99 …
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MacRumors, This is my next, Digital Trends, TechCrunch, 9to5Google, 9to5Mac, VentureBeat, Electronista, Reuters and Dow Jones Newswires
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Dan Frommer / SplatF:
Logitech: More people are returning Google TV boxes than buying them — No surprise, but it sounds like Google's entry into the TV software market isn't going very well. From Logitech's fiscal Q1/calendar Q2 remarks to shareholders: (PDF via GigaOM) … I doubt this thing is going to be successful, even at $99.
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Search Engine Land and GigaOM
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Google Offers To Re-Write Your Webpages On The Fly, Promising 25% To 60% Speed Improvements — Google has long been obsessed with speed. It's paramount in pretty much everything they do. Which is why the launch of Google+ with some — gasp — attention paid to design is even more surprising.
Jason Mick / DailyTech:
Exclusive: British Police Duped by LulzSec Into Arresting the Wrong Guy — Chat logs, video evidence indicate that the arrest was misdirection — Earlier today the blogosphere lit up with news that “Topiary” a key hacker from Anonymous and LulzSec was arrested.
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Naked Security, PC World, Digital Trends, LulzSec Exposed, Pocket-lint and thinq_
Paul Sawers / The Next Web:
Google launches ‘Hotel Finder’, a new experimental search tool — Google is today launching an experimental search tool called Hotel Finder, which is specifically designed to help users find the perfect hotel. Google's Hotel Finder helps users narrow down their search options in the following ways:
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Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
That Didn't Take Long: Spotify Sued For Patent Infringement Just Weeks After Entering US Market — Hello Spotify. Welcome to America, where if you do anything even remotely innovative, you get sued for patent infringement. Indeed, just a couple weeks after entering the US market (finally) …
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TechCrunch and paidContent
Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft Blog:
Microsoft's latest Google-compete weapon: The Gmail man — Microsoft managed to keep its 12,000 or so attendees of its annual Microsoft Global Exchange sales conference from tweeting and blogging company secrets last week. But at least one enterprising attendee managed to grab …
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The Microsoft Blog, Neowin.net and The Next Web
Thijs van As / The Official Google Blog:
Catch the London Underground with Google Maps — Starting today, you can get public transport directions for London within Google Maps. One of Europe's largest metropolitan areas, London is a major destination for both business travelers and tourists. More than 1 billion passengers …
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eWeek, WebProNews, iClarified, Phone Scoop and The Next Web
Amir Efrati / Wall Street Journal:
Google's Growth Unsettles Mountain View — MOUNTAIN VIEW—Google Inc. is the single largest contributor to the coffers of Mountain View, where it is based. But as the Web giant expands its physical footprint and seeks to build new offices, housing and infrastructure, the city government is pushing back.
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Search Engine Land
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Expedia And Zillow Founder Launches Location-Based Mobile Discovery iOS App Trover — The idea of discovering items, products and locations around you is a challenge that a number of startups and companies are trying to solve, including Foursquare, Gowalla, Yelp and many others.
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Digits, TechFlash, Seattle Times, The Next Web, GigaOM, mocoNews, GeekWire and Tnooz
Lynnley Browning / Reuters:
Insight: Microsoft use of low-tax havens drives down tax bill — (Reuters) - If you want to know why tax from surging corporate profits isn't making much of a dent in the United States' crippling budget deficit, a glance at Microsoft Corp's recent results provides some clues.
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Stuart Dredge / Guardian:
BBC iPlayer goes global with iPad app launch in 11 countries — Western Europe first for subscription-based service, with US to follow later in 2011 — BBC Worldwide is launching its global iPlayer service today, via an iPad app that will be made available in 11 countries in Western Europe.
Steven Millward / Penn Olson:
Alibaba Confirms Aliyun, Its Cloud-Powered Mobile and Tablet OS — Wang Jian, president of Alibaba Cloud Computing, launches the Aliyun OS at an event in Beijing today. — This afternoon, China's e-commerce giant Alibaba has confirmed the existence of its own mobile operating system, the “Aliyun OS.”
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GigaOM, AllThingsD, Reuters, CNET News, Dow Jones Newswires, PC World, Tech Trader Daily, Reuters, SlashGear and Android Community
Gartner:
Gartner Says Less Than Half of Security Software Market Belongs to Top Five Vendors — Analysts Explore Security Market at Gartner Security & Risk Management Summit 2011, 19-20 September, London — Just 44 percent of the $16.5 billion world wide security software market in 2010 belonged to Symantec …
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Between the Lines Blog, ITP.net, Computing and Computer Business Review
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Feds Approve $44K Doctor Reimbursement for Using Drchrono's iPad App — As we've written in the past, Drchrono, a startup thatsimplifies the professional lives of doctors by bringing electronic health records and much more to the iPad, has received official government certification.
Richard Lawler / Engadget:
Nintendo posts earnings, drops 3DS from $249 to $169 August 12th, current owners get 20 free games — The price of the Nintendo 3DS in the US is dropping precipitously August 12th from $249 to $169, with other regions getting a similar price break in their respective currency.
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Technologizer, Nintendo.com, PC World, GeekWire, TechEye, Ars Technica, Electronista, VentureBeat, PC World, The Business Insider, New York Times, DailyTech, VentureBeat, The Digital Home, TechCrunch, Guardian, Consumer Reports News, This is my next, The Toybox Blog, Mashable!, Neowin.net, The Toybox Blog, Reuters, techeblog.com, Techland and Ubergizmo
Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
Netflix Is for Movies, Hulu Is for TV Shows. Neither Is for Your iPad or Your iPhone. — Lots of you are using your phones to watch YouTube. But Netflix and Hulu? Not so much. — That's one of the takeaways from a new Nielsen report about viewing habits on the two online video services.
Larry Dignan / Between the Lines Blog:
Sprint, LightSquared enter 15-year pact for LTE — Sprint has inked a wholesale 4G LTE deal with LightSquared that diversifies the carrier's network. The agreement runs for 15 years. — For the wireless carrier, LightSquared gives Sprint an option for LTE—it currently offers 4G services via WiMax and Clearwire.
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Courtney Boyd Myers / The Next Web:
TaskRabbit goes mobile! And it's in NYC, which is awesome. — Often times I ask myself if technology is really helping us. I'm not suggesting it's not beneficial. It's making us super human beings! And I'm sure you have days when you feel like a 56K modem in a broadband world.
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Betabeat, Mashable!, TechCrunch, GigaOM and TUAW
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
After CBS, Amazon Lands Movie Streaming Deal With NBCUniversal — Following the e-commerce giant's recent deal with CBS, Amazon has just announced its licensing agreement with NBCUniversal to allow U.S. Amazon Prime customers to stream movies from Universal Pictures' library of content.
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SiliconANGLE, Business Wire, VatorNews, paidContent, Bloomberg and Between the Lines Blog
Enigmax / TorrentFreak:
Hollywood Forces UK ISP To Block Newzbin Usenet Site — Following a hearing in London's High Court, leading UK ISP BT will be forced to block subscriber access to Usenet indexing site Newzbin2. Under the banner of the MPA, the leading Hollywood studios successfully argued that by letting …
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Ars Technica, BBC, Help Net Security, The Register, Guardian, Tech Europe, The Next Web, GigaOM, Inquirer, thinq_, Telegraph, Neowin.net, SlashGear, Slashdot, All New Musings and paidContent:UK
