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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”
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Wall Street Journal, TechCrunch, @mathewi, Network World, Computerworld and SplatF
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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Gizmodo, TechCrunch, PC Magazine, L.A. Times Tech Blog, PC World, Android Phone Fans, The Microsoft Blog, 9to5Google, Redmond Pie, Daring Fireball, WinRumors, GeekWire, Dave Girouard, Network World, Neowin.net, WinBeta, The Next Web, Marketing Pilgrim, TechFlash, Seattle Times and The Business Insider
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, TechnoBuffalo, paidContent, VentureBeat, Digital Media Wire, Digitizor, Geek.com, Digital Trends, SlashGear, BetaNews, Between the Lines Blog, broadstuff, Pulse2, Electronista and hypebot
Cleve Nettles / 9to5Mac:
AT&T to implement data throttling in early October, just in time for iPhone 5 — A new change for AT&T Wireless' Unlimited Data subscribers will soon be taking place. Rumored to be starting in the first week of October, we've heard that AT&T will start throttling the data speeds of the network's top data hogs.
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Examiner, SlashGear, BGR, App Advice, PhoneDog.com and Electronista
Zach Epstein / BGR:
New iPad 3 contract goes to Pegatron, not Foxconn [updated] — Pegatron has been awarded a new contract to build Apple's next-generation iPad tablets, Taiwan Economic News reports. According to the report, Pegatron underbid Hon Hai for a new contract to manufacture the iPad 3 …
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Examiner, CENS.com, MacRumors, 9to5Mac, iClarified, TUAW, VentureBeat, iGadgetsReport and Between the Lines Blog
Matt Rosoff / The Business Insider:
STUDY: Internet Explorer Users Are Dumber — A research firm posted an IQ test on its Web site and then compiled the results from more than 100,000 users. — It found that there was no substantial difference between users of Chrome, Firefox, Safari, and Opera. — But Internet Explorer users had IQs below average.
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AptiQuant, NBC Bay Area and The Next Web
Josh Ong / AppleInsider:
Apple's $76B in cash reserves surpasses US government operating balance — New figures from the U.S. Treasury Department indicate that the government has a total operating cash balance of $73.768 billion, less than Apple's own war chest of $75.876 billion. — As noted by Matt Hartley …
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The Atlantic Online, The Business Insider, Gizmodo, Financial Post, The Next Web and NBC Bay Area
Josh Ong / AppleInsider:
First Windows Phone 7 ‘Mango’ handsets rumored to challenge iPhone 5 in Sept. — On the heels of news that Microsoft's “Mango” update for Windows Phone 7 has been released to manufacturing, industry sources claim HTC, Samsung and LG will launch the first Mango-based smartphones in September …
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DigiTimes, WMPoweruser, Electronista, Techie Buzz and iLounge
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Arnold Kim / MacRumors:
iPhone 5 Launching in Second Week of September? iPad 3 Later?
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9to5Mac, The Business Insider, PadGadget, Redmond Pie, MacPost, CNET News, SlashGear, CNN, Examiner, PC World, Apple Bitch, Macgasm, Eurogamer, Fast Company, TechnoBuffalo, Daring Fireball and Electronista
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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eWeek, Examiner, Android Police, CNET News, Inside Facebook, L.A. Times Tech Blog, Tech Trader Daily, WMPoweruser, Digital Trends, Redmond Pie, MacGazette.net, GigaOM, Techie Buzz, AppleInsider, VatorNews, VentureBeat, WinRumors, Gadget Lab, IntoMobile, DisplayBlog, ITProPortal, LAPTOP Magazine, InfoWorld, Engadget, Mobile Marketing Watch, WinBeta, Android Community, iPhone, BGR, Softpedia News, FierceMobileContent, iDownloadBlog, Android and Me, GeekWire, paidContent, SlashGear, AndroidGuys, MobileBurn.com and Shiny Objects
Ben Parr / Mashable!:
Google+ Gets a Feature Update Center — In response to user feedback, Google has launched a new section of the Google+ center dedicated to Google+ feature updates. — The “What's new in Google+” section is essentially a list of release notes for the Google+ Project.
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Natalie Villalobos and Google+ Info
Timothy B. Lee / Disruptive Economics:
The Supreme Court Should Invalidate Software Patents — Last weekend I was thrilled to hear one of my favorite radio programs, This American Life, take up the issue of software patents. Computer programmers have been sounding the alarm about this problem for two decades …
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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ZDNet, Electronista, This is my next, BetaNews, The Business Insider, Digital Trends, eHomeUpgrade, MacRumors, TechCrunch, Dow Jones Newswires, Reuters, VentureBeat and Bloomberg
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Dan Frommer / SplatF:
Logitech: More people are returning Google TV boxes than buying them
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Geek.com, Technologizer, Search Engine Land and GigaOM
Robert X. Cringely / I, Cringely:
Bandwidth caps are rate hikes — Internet Service Providers in the USA are trying to apply bandwidth caps to their users, with those caps being 2, 4, or 5 gigabytes-per-month for wireless users at various price levels and generally 250 gigabytes-per-month for home users.
Joanna Stern / This is my next:
Fusion Garage Grid 10: the JooJoo lives on — They're back! Oh yes, you read that headline correctly — the infamous creators of the JooJoo tablet (née CrunchPad) are back at it again, according to the FCC. There aren't many details to be had, but according to the documents …
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Liliputing, TeleRead, wirelessgoodness.com, eHomeUpgrade and Electronista
Manan / I'm Just Being Manan:
[Video] Microsoft's SkyDrive Starts Streaming Music On WP7 — Let's file this one under - “Holy sweet Microsoft, why don't you talk about this stuff?!” — Last month I wrote about how Microsoft could use Azure as a paid expansion to SkyDrive. The idea behind it was the consumer cloud offering …
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MobileTechWorld, Engadget, The Next Web, SlashGear, WinRumors, WMPoweruser, LiveSide.net and WinRumors
Declan McCullagh / CNET News:
House panel approves broadened ISP snooping bill — Internet providers will be forced to keep logs of their customers' activities for one year in case police want to review them in the future, according to legislation that a U.S. House of Representatives committee approved today.
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eWeek and The Raw Story
John Cook / GeekWire:
RealNetworks giving back $136M to shareholders in major overhaul — RealNetworks today announced a series of moves to “reinvigorate” the business and make the 16-year-old Seattle company more attractive to investors. — It plans to return $136 million to investors in a special dividend …
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TechFlash, RealNetworks.com and Between the Lines Blog
Darryl K. Taft / eWEEK Europe UK:
Oracle Java 7 Looks To Community For Innovation — Oracle has released the first major Java release in five years, bringing a host of incremental enhancements — With the theme of moving the platform forward, Oracle will launch Java 7 today. — Although Java 7 is the first major Java revision …
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Oracle, InfoWorld, SD Times, InfoQ, Dr. Dobb's Blogs and internetnews.com
LAUNCH:
Airbnb Confirms Insurance for “in Case Your Pad Gets Trashed” — In the wake of an Airbnb renter's home being trashed, the company mentioned insurance in its plans for improving safety and security. LAUNCH confirmed today that Airbnb has an insurance offering in the works but is not ready to disclose details.
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Jan Ozer / Streaming Media:
WebM Patent Fight Ahead for Google? — MPEG LA says that 12 patent holders have stepped forward with patents they believe are essential to the VP8 standard. A patent pool license could be next. — In February, MPEG LA announced a call for patents essential to the VP8 video codec specification as outlined in Google's WebM release.
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GigaOM, paidContent and FOSS Patents
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.
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The Next Web, ReadWriteWeb, eWeek and GigaOM
Bill Hartzer:
Facebook Sues Over Massive Cybersquatting Attack on Its Brand — Facebook, the social network, has filed a lawsuit in the Northern District of California, claiming trademark infringement. The case, “Facebook, Inc. v. Cyber2Media, Inc. et al”, involves a lot of domain names, which are essentially …
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Elliot's Blog, VentureBeat, The Domains, Domain Name News, Domain Name Wire and Pulse2
Jun Yang / Bloomberg:
Samsung Profit Beats Estimates as Mobile Phone Sales Outweigh Panel Glut — Samsung Electronics Co., the world's largest maker of televisions and flat-screen panels, reported a greater-than-estimated second-quarter profit after sales of mobile phones masked a drop in panel demand.
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Between the Lines Blog, Reuters and english.yonhapnews.co.kr
