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Arik Hesseldahl / AllThingsD:
How Much Did HP Lose on the TouchPad? Here's a Good Guess. — Sales of Hewlett-Packard's abandoned TouchPad tablet are spiking today on word that prices have been slashed on existing inventories of the device at retailers like Best Buy to $99 for the 16 gigabyte version and $149 for the 32GB version.
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Nathan Olivarez-Giles / L.A. Times Tech Blog:
HP Touchpad: HP promises to keep them coming until they run out — The HP TouchPad is in greater demand than ever before, selling out in stores across the U.S. and Canada over the weekend after a price drop down to $99.99. — So what does any good business do when its products are in demand?
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PC World, Computerworld, PC World, Good E-Reader Blog, ITworld.com, CNN, Gear Live, MediaFile and Gear Live
Brian Heater / Engadget:
HP TouchPad tops Amazon US sales, rumored for UK price drop — Well, it's official, the TouchPad is currently the hottest piece of consumer electronics around, and all it took was HP's complete abandonment of its current line of webOS devices. The once maligned slate is currently atop Amazon's electronics sales list.
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Mashable!, Epicenter, Examiner, LAPTOP Magazine, SlashGear, Computerworld, Tools, PhoneArena, PreCentral.net, The Toybox Blog, Technologizer, techblog.dallasnews.com, Pulse2 and InfoQ
Steve Kovach / Tools:
Your TouchPad May Not Be A Brick After All — These Guys Are Working On Making It Run Android — Since HP began its fire sale of the TouchPad for $99 (16 GB) and $149 (32 GB) this weekend, the tablet has quickly sold out. — If you snagged one and are worried about the future of WebOS …
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VentureBeat and 9to5Google
Sascha Segan / PC Magazine:
HP Pre 3 Cancelled in U.S., Will Sell for $75 In Europe — The $99 HP TouchPad isn't the only amazing deal coming out of HP's fire sale on WebOS devices. The unlocked HP Pre 3 smartphone will go on sale “shortly” in both France and the U.K. for a mere $75 unlocked, according to HP.
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Aaron Draczynski / gdgt:
Palm post mortem: what could have been
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Android (Finally) Taking Steps Towards WebKit And Chromium — Why isn't Chrome a part of Android? It's a question as old as time itself. Or at least a few years old. But given that the same company, Google, makes both products, it never made much sense. Now they're finally taking steps to resolve this.
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9to5Google, lists.webkit.org Mailing Lists, Peter Beverloo and MacNN
Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
Source: The iPhone 5 Will Indeed Be A Dual-Mode CDMA / GSM ‘World Phone’ — The upcoming iPhone 5 will almost certainly be a single phone that supports multiple networks, namely CDMA (such as the one used by Verizon or Sprint in the United States) as well as GSM (which is used by AT&T and T-Mobile in the U.S.).
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VentureBeat, MacRumors, Engadget, The Next Web, PhoneArena, Electronista, Gizmodo, everythingiCafe, Gizmodo Australia and iClarified
Mark Striebeck / Google+:
A first, tiny step: view recent Google+ posts in the Gmail people widget! — You can now see the most recent Google+ post that the sender of the email shared with you in the Gmail people widget - see screenshot below. — BTW: +Bella Kazwell is a tech lead on the Gmail team and +Steven Bills …
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Ambarish Kenghe / The Official Google TV Blog:
Preview of Google TV add-on for the Android SDK — At Google I/O, we announced that Android Market is coming to Google TV. Today, we are excited to announce a preview of the Google TV add-on for the Android SDK. With the upcoming OS update to Honeycomb, Google TV devices will be Android compatible.
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VentureBeat, eHomeUpgrade, 9to5Google, Droid Life, Android and Me, Android Phone Fans, TechCrunch, Electronista and CNET News
Jonathan S. Geller / BGR:
HTC's September 1st event to feature only Windows Phone Mango devices: Eternity, Omega — BGR has exclusively learned that HTC plans to unveil several upcoming Windows Phone Mango devices at the company's upcoming event taking place on September 1st. While Android is HTC's bread and butter of course …
Ryan Singel / Epicenter:
Amazon, Dropbox, Google and You Win in Cloud-Music Copyright Decision — The disk drives powering Dropbox, Amazon's Cloud Drive, and Google Music likely issued a small sigh of relief Monday, after a federal court judge found that the MP3tunes cloud music service didn't violate copyright laws …
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Digital Media Wire, 9to5Google, Techdirt, CNET News, Threat Level, ReadWriteWeb, Reuters, The Business Insider, sddt.com, hypebot and Ars Technica
Eric Savitz / The Tech Trade:
Thinking The Unthinkable: Is Oracle Considering Buying HP? — Larry Ellison: Biggest deal ever? — In what would be Larry Ellison's crowning achievement if he could pull it off, the market is buzzing over the idea that Oracle could make a run at Hewlett-Packard.
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Digital Trends, Bloomberg and Kellblog
Arnold Kim / MacRumors:
iPhone 5's Battery, Back Camera, and Audio Flex Cable Parts Leaked [Updated] — As we approach the anticipated launch of the iPhone 5, we are seeing an increasing number of small leaks related to the production of the device in China. As the design is finalized, and production begins to ramp up …
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BGR, App Advice, 9to5Mac, TechSliver, Smash iPhone, Ars Technica, Cult of Mac, Redmond Pie, iClarified, Edible Apple, GottaBeMobile, Softpedia News, AppleInsider, Electronista, everythingiCafe and Gizmodo
Adrianne Jeffries / Betabeat:
Mixed Messages: Early Reddit Employee Says He Co-Founded Reddit; Reddit Founders Say He Didn't — Twenty-four-year old digital information activist and Reddit alumnus Aaron Swartz, in the news lately due to extreme charges of cyber crime, says on his website that he “co-founded the online news site Reddit.”
Thanks:nitashatiku
Electronista:
Samsung may be ready to buy HP's PC business, outsource work — Samsung outsourcing in hints of HP hopes — Samsung might be grooming its notebook business in hopes of buying HP's spun-out PC business. Insiders in the part stream claimed Samsung was talking to Taiwan companies to outsource …
Greg Sandoval / CNET News:
RIAA files appeal in Jammie Thomas case — The large record companies have filed an appeal in their long-running copyright case against Jammie Thomas-Rasset, a Minnesota woman who was found liable for illegal file sharing. — In court documents filed with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit …
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Techdirt, Ars Technica, TechSpot and Electronista
Susan Decker / Bloomberg:
Microsoft Says Motorola's Android Phones Infringe Its Patents — Microsoft Corp. (MSFT), the world's largest software maker, began arguing its U.S. trade case that Android- based smartphones made by Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc. use technology derived from Microsoft inventions.
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John Callaham / Neowin.net:
Microsoft confirms USB 3.0 support for Windows 8 — As we get closer to Microsoft's BUILD conference in mid-September, the company is revealing more tidbits about Windows 8. Today the official Windows 8 blog site has confirmed that the operating system will include native support for the USB 3.0 standard.
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Lee Mathews / ExtremeTech:
Download.com wraps downloads in bloatware, lies about motivations — There was a time long, long ago when Download.com was the place I went for software. It's been years, however, as the site repeatedly showed signs of devolving into a site every bit as bothersome as the many third-tier …
Dan Primack / Fortune:
New fund for GroupMe VC Thrive — Thrive Capital, a New York-based venture capital firm focused on early-stage tech investments, has raised $40 million for its second fund, according to a regulatory filing. — Thrive was launched in 2009 by Josh Kushner, the 25 year-old founder of Brazilian social gaming company Vostu.
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DealBook, Betabeat, TechCrunch and The Business Insider
Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
Fox's 8-Day Delay on Hulu Triggers Piracy Surge — One of the main motivations for people to download and stream TV-shows from unauthorized sources is availability. If fans can't get a show through legal channels they turn to pirated alternatives. — This is one of the reasons …
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Rachel Emma Silverman / Wall Street Journal:
Web Surfing Helps at Work, Study Says — Don't feel guilty about browsing the Internet at work—turns out it may actually improve your performance. — According to a new study, Web browsing can actually refresh tired workers and enhance their productivity, compared to other activities …
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Neowin.net, Gawker and Techland
Karen Weintraub / Boston Globe:
‘Wormhole’ links MIT and Stanford — In a Massachusetts Institute of Technology cafeteria, down the hall from an early radar dish, is the “wormhole,” an oddly-shaped plexiglass dome hovering over a video screen. The live signal displayed on the screen shows a similar cafeteria scene at Stanford University …
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Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft Blog:
Microsoft opens the Windows Phone Mango app floodgates — Summary: The Windows Phone Mango app marketplace is open for business, as of August 22. Microsoft also has made available to developers a near-final test build of its Mango SDK today, as well. — Late in the day (EST) on August 22 …
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The Windows Blog and PhoneArena
Dieter Bohn / This is my next:
Curve 9350, 9360, 9370 announced with BlackBerry OS 7; hit Canada this month — Curve 9350, 9360, 9370 announced with BlackBerry OS 7; hit Canada this month — RIM has announced three new BlackBerrys: the Curve 9350, Curve 9360, and Curve 9370. Each brings BlackBerry OS 7 to lower-end handsets …
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Research in Motion, Inside BlackBerry, The Next Web, BerryReview.com, RTTNews and N4BB
