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John Paczkowski / AllThingsD:
Apple Launching New iPhone in October, Not September — So those rumors claiming the iPhone 5 will debut in late September? They're wrong. — Instead, it's going to be an October surprise — the month in which Apple plans to launch its next-gen iPhone.
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Bloomberg:
Apple Suit Puts Samsung Tablet Sales in Australia on Hold — Apple Inc. escalated a patent dispute against Samsung Electronics Co. and won an agreement that the South Korean company won't sell the newest version of its tablet computer in Australia until a lawsuit is resolved.
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Sarah Perez / ReadWriteWeb:
Farewell Flash? Adobe Launches HTML5 Web Animations Tool “Adobe Edge” — Today, Adobe is launching a new tool called Adobe Edge which will allow creative professionals to design animated Web content using Web standards like HTML5, CSS and JavaScript. Not Flash.
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Neil Hughes / AppleInsider:
First look: Adobe Edge promises Flash-style animation with HTML5
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The Loop, Between the Lines Blog, AppleInsider and About.com Web Design
Andy Greenberg / The Firewall:
Meet Comex, The 19-Year-Old iPhone Uber-Hacker Who Keeps Outsmarting Apple — Nicholas Allegra, better known by the hacker handle Comex. — A version of this story will appear in the upcoming issue of Forbes, published later this week. — Nicholas Allegra lives with his parents in Chappaqua, New York.
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Mike Elgan / Cult of Mac:
Why Google is a Better Apple Friend than Enemy — A casual observer might be forgiven for thinking that to Apple, Google is Enemy #1. Apple's most profitable (and therefore important) businesses center on the iPhone and iPad. The most serious competitors in both these product categories run on Google's Android platform.
Josh Halliday / Guardian:
Google Chrome overtakes Firefox to become UK's second most popular web browser — Internet browser passes Firefox, with speed and a nationwide advertising campaign credited for the rise in popularity — Google's Chrome is Britain's second most popular browser, a sign of the internet giant's increasing grip on the UK search market.
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John Gruber / Daring Fireball:
Apple TV Adds Support for Cloud-Based Storage of Purchased TV Shows — Apple hasn't updated the Apple TV release notes page yet, but I just ran software update on my Apple TV 2 and got a new update that adds support for a major new feature: purchased TV shows.
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MacRumors, 9to5Mac and MacStories
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Darrell Etherington / GigaOM:
Apple TV update introduces show streaming, Vimeo support
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AppleInsider, 9to5Mac, Electronista, TUAW and The Next Web
Edmund Lee / AdAge:
Foursquare to Users: Nice Check-in, Now Please Write Something — Mobile-Sharing Startup Wants Its Users to Share More Tips in Stealth Content Initiative — Mobile startup Foursquare wants its users to go beyond checking in and vying for virtual badges — it wants its 10 million users to do more writing.
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WebProNews, About Foursquare and The Next Web
Daniel Rubino / WPCentral.com:
Windows Phone revenue “abysmal”, still better than Android — The Seattle PI has done some sleuthing in Microsoft's annual report to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and found out that by subtracting a few figures, you get a rough $600 million dollars in revenue for fiscal year 2011 for Windows Mobile and Windows Phone.
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Computerworld, Crave, FierceWireless, PhoneArena, Fortune, The Business Insider and All New Musings
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Square Now Processing $4 Million In Mobile Payments Per Day — Flush with $100 million in new funding, Square is continuing to grow like a weed in the mobile payments space. After passing the $3 million mark at the end of May, Square is now processing $4 million in mobile payments daily …
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ZDNet, Betabeat, IntoMobile, SocialTimes.com, The Business Insider, FierceMobileContent, Sramana Mitra, FT Tech Hub and Singularity Hub
The Dealmap:
Deal of the Day: Google Buys The Dealmap — We're thrilled to announce that The Dealmap has been acquired by Google. — Since launching The Dealmap in May 2010, our team has worked to build a great product where people can find and share all the best local deals, all in one place.
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The Atlantic Wire, AllThingsD and DealBook
Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
BREAKING: Twitter Might Have a New York Office! — We need to be very careful here. Because the last time we thought that Twitter might have opened a New York Office, Twitter said there was no such thing. It was just an office in New York where people from Twitter went to work. — But!
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Kashmir Hill / The Not-So Private Parts:
How Facial Recognition Technology Can Be Used To Get Your Social Security Number — What does your face give away? — Those freaked out by facial recognition technology have fresh fodder: a study from Carnegie Mellon University in which researchers were able to predict people's social security numbers …
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9to5Google, Wall Street Journal and TechEye
John Markoff / New York Times:
Data Centers' Power Use Less Than Was Expected — SAN FRANCISCO — Data centers' unquenchable thirst for electricity has been slaked by the global recession and by a combination of new power-saving technologies, according to an independent report on data center power use from 2005 to 2010.
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