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| The Wrap: |
Microsoft Manufacturing Tablet to Rival Apple iPad, Says Insider (Exclusive) — Microsoft is set to unveil a tablet next week that will mark its entry into rival Apple's territory with its own branded product, TheWrap has learned. The company has scheduled a secretive event for Monday …
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CNET, Fast Company, Computerworld, AllThingsD, IntoMobile, Engadget, Mashable!, The Verge, newlaunches.com, LiveSide.net, CNET, Techland, The Next Web, Seattle Times, Ubergizmo, digitaltrends.com, Tim Anderson's ITWriting, TechnoBuffalo, Gizmodo, SlashGear, Phones Review, GamesIndustry International and Los Angeles Times. Tweets: @andrewbaron. See also Mediagazer
| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
What if the rumored ‘Microsoft tablet’ isn't a Windows tablet? — Summary: Rumors around Microsoft's June 18 announcement are taking a new turn towards some kind of Microsoft-branded tablet. Could this be an Amazon Kindle Fire competitor? — The guesses on Microsoft's June 18 announcement …
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ZDNet, Softpedia News and Mashable!
| Ina Fried / AllThingsD: |
| Aaron Souppouris / The Verge: |
Dropbox killing public folders, makes sharing both more and less convenient — In April we brought you news that Dropbox was introducing the ability to create public links for any files in your Dropbox folder. Now, German site Mobiflip is reporting that, from July 31st …
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CNET, The Next Web and mobiFlip.de
| Wall Street Journal: |
Yammer Agrees to Sell Itself to Microsoft — Business-software company Yammer Inc. agreed to sell itself to Microsoft Corp. for $1.2 billion, according a person familiar with the matter, in a sign Microsoft may be trying to plug holes in its ubiquitous Office software.
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Wall Street Journal, The Next Web, Forbes, The Verge, CNET, I4U News, BGR and Pulse2 Technology …
Tweets: @tedr and @erickschonfeld
| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook Asks Every User For A Verified Phone Number To Prevent Security Disaster — Every single Facebook user is or will soon be seeing a link at the top of their desktop news feed asking them to “Stay in control of your account by following these simple security tips”.
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Inquirer, WebProNews, Computerworld, Gizmodo and CNET
| Iain Marlow / The Globe and Mail: |
RIM to pay Lazaridis, Balsillie combined $12-million after exit — Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie, who built Research In Motion Ltd. into a global smartphone giant before presiding over the company's long slide, will receive a payout of around $12-million after having stepped aside …
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CNET, Business Insider, MobileSyrup.com, AllThingsD, New York Times and PhoneArena
| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Dropbox for iOS updated with automatic photo uploads, gallery view, and a new way to earn bonus storage — Dropbox has just updated its iOS client to version 1.5, and the new release includes some notable additions. First on the list is automatic uploads for photos and videos in your camera roll …
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Inquirer, Engadget, MobileSyrup.com, Lifehacker, Phones Review, SlashGear, iClarified, App Advice, Macworld and Softpedia News
| Sven Grundberg / MarketWatch: |
Nokia prepared to sell patents if price right: CFO … Nokia is prepared to divest part of its formidable portfolio of patents to raise much-needed cash, Chief Financial Officer Timo Ihamuotila said Thursday — “We will sell patents at the right price,” Mr. Ihamuotila said during …
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Bloomberg, PhoneArena and ZDNet
| Jon Russell / The Next Web: |
Let them eat cake, but no cameras: British council gags 9 year old school lunch blogger [Updated] — A nine year old British school girl has had her popular blog about school food closed by a local council. Martha Payne, a primary school student in Western Scotland, began posting photos … | Neil Hughes / AppleInsider: |
Apple expected to launch 13" Retina MacBook Pro by early Oct. — Apple will bring a high-resolution Retina display to its 13-inch MacBook Pro with a product update set to launch this October, according to one insider. — Analyst Ming-Chi Kuo of KGI shared in a note with AppleInsider …
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Your Communications Coach, Macworld, Mashable!, MacRumors, Pocket-lint, TechnoBuffalo, BGR, TUAW, CNET, InvestorPlaceGadgets …, MacNN and VR-Zone
| Om Malik / GigaOM: |
Parts of Amazon Web Services suffer an outage — Amazon web services are having trouble this evening and in the process are taking down some major sites. Among sites being impacted are Quora and HipChat. In addition, the Amazon outage has had an impact on Heroku, a division of Salesforce.
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ZDNet, GeekWire, BetaNews and WebProNews
| Evelyn M. Rusli / DealBook: |
Forthcoming Facebook Motion Said to Discuss Nasdaq's Role in I.P.O. — Facebook is preparing for battle. — One month after its botched initial public offering, the social network is set to file a motion to consolidate all the shareholder lawsuits against the company …
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Business Insider, The Register, Reuters, CNET, The Atlantic Wire and Wall Street Journal
| Matt Burns / TechCrunch: |
Secret Agent Samsung: How The Handset Maker Kept The Galaxy S III Hush-Hush — Samsung pulled off a sort of miracle last month by announcing the Samsung Galaxy S III prior to it leaking. Admittedly, the specs leaked, but the final design was kept a secret until the official reveal … | Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Carat: The Brilliant App That Increases Your Battery Life By Showing What Other Apps To Kill — “Kill Pandora - Expected Battery Life Improvement: 1 hour 50 minutes” This is what you'll learn from Carat, an incredibly useful free new iOS and Android app that's the first to give …
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digitaltrends.com, App Advice, iDownloadBlog.com, Softpedia News, Examiner and AMP Lab
| Sam Biddle / Gizmodo: |
Vizio's Beautiful Sci-Fi Computer Fleet Lands Now for Cheapish (Updated: Hands On) — It takes a lot to make us genuinely excited about a laptop, or even worse, another desktop PC. But cheap TV king Vizio's done just that. We loved them at CES, and now the all-in-one and superskinny laptop line's official.
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Softpedia News, AllThingsD, Computerworld, Liliputing, ABCNEWS, The Verge, LAPTOP Magazine, Engadget and Engadget
| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
To Fight Off Airtime and Google+ Hangouts, Facebook Tests Adding Video “Call” Button To Profiles — Desperate to increase video chat usage, Facebook is testing out a “Call” button on top of people's timeline profiles. I don't think I've received a Facebook video chat since Facebook partnered …
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YouTube Blog, CNET, WebProNews, The Next Web, Ubergizmo, Mashable!, Los Angeles Times, PandoDaily, Softpedia News, Engadget and AllThingsD. Tweets: @joshconstine. See also Mediagazer
| Florian Mueller / FOSS Patents: |
Judge changes mind, grants Apple an injunction hearing against Motorola (and vice versa) — Judge Richard Posner, the Seventh Circuit judge sitting by designation on the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois to preside over an Apple v. Motorola lawsuit …
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AllThingsD, The Verge, CNET, Los Angeles Times, Ars Technica, iClarified and GigaOM
| Alan Travis / Guardian: |
‘Online snooping’ scheme to cost £1.8bn — Home Office reveals pricetag for tracking emails, phone use and Facebook and Twitter accounts as Theresa May attacks critics as ‘conspiracy theorists’ — The government's “online snooping” scheme to track email, Facebook …
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thinkbroadband, BBC, Main DeviceMain Device, The Verge, ZDNet, TechWeekEurope UK and The Register
| Evan Killham / VentureBeat: |
PopCap survey shows 44 percent of people play mobile games — Today, developer PopCap (maker of Peggle and Plants vs. Zombies) has released the results of its third annual survey of mobile game consumption in the United States and United Kingdom. And, no surprise, the number of people playing mobile games is growing.
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Games.com News. CityVille …, VG247, WebProNews and Forbes
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
iPad Sees Small Drop, Nook Tops Kindle Fire In New Tablet Traffic Rankings — Web traffic from the Apple iPad saw a slight drop in early June, according to new data from the Chitika Ad network, which analyzed a sample containing hundreds of millions of impressions to arrive at its conclusions.
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CNET, Chitika Insights and iDownloadBlog.com
| Emma Barnett / Telegraph: |
Tesco buys UK music site We7 for £10.8m — Tesco has purchased We7, a British digital music service, which attempted to rival Spotify, for £10.8m. — The service attempted to go head-to-head with Spotify in 2009 as streaming began to take off.
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Engadget, Inquirer, Music Industry Blog, The Register, Digital Spy, The Next Web, Guardian and paidContent
| Sebastian Anthony / ExtremeTech: |
Intel dismisses ‘x86 tax’, sees no future for ARM or any of its competitors — Walking cautiously through the automatic revolving door of a swanky, black, shiny, minimalist hotel in London, the first thing I notice about Mike Bell, Intel's chief of mobile, is that he's large.
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Focus Squarely On Europe, Mobile Payments Startup iZettle Gets $31.4M From Greylock, MasterCard & More — Just days after releasing an API to integrate its payment platform into third-party apps, iZettle, known as the “Square of Europe” for its dongle-based iOS mobile payment system …
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The Next Web, ArcticStartup and GigaOM
| Marco Cimmino / Skype for Linux: |
Skype 4.0 for Linux — First off, we'd like to thank our Skype for Linux users for your patience awaiting Skype 4.0 for Linux, codenamed ‘Four Rooms for Improvement,’ which is now available. With this release, we have finally filled the gap with our other desktop clients and we are now making …
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ZeroPaid.com, Geek.com, Skype Garage, Techie Buzz, Lifehacker, The H Open Source, Engadget and ZDNet
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“Yammer sucks” — Not to be mean to Yammer, or anything — it's a very good tool for some use cases — but that's what a customer told me recently (and others feel the same way).
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