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Facebook e-mail mess: Address books altered; e-mail lost — An alarming number of people are reporting that the new e-mail address Facebook forced on users this week is changing their address books while intercepting and losing unknown amounts of e-mail. — Facebook users say contacts' e … | Dave Copeland / ReadWriteWeb: |
Facebook Blames Email Problems On User “Confusion” — If you're missing email messages, don't blame Facebook: The social network says you are simply “confused.” — Facebook spent a second straight weekend dealing with complaints from users about a switch in the default user email addresses …
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Announcing The Declaration Of Internet Freedom — A whole bunch of organizations and individuals are getting together today to launch the beginning of a process, the creation of an Internet Declaration of Freedom. We've seen how the internet has been under attack from various directions … | T.C. Sottek / The Verge: |
The Declaration of Internet Freedom: how the net's minutemen plan to protect the future — THE INTERNET CAN AND WILL BE REGULATED, BUT WILL ITS USERS BE REPRESENTED? — Before the dust could settle from the battle against the Stop Online Piracy Act earlier this year … | Zack Whittaker / CNET: |
Nokia: We have a Windows Phone ‘contingency plan’ — Nokia has a plan in its back pocket should a deal with Microsoft fall through, or the forthcoming Windows Phone 8 software update fail to generate interest, according to Nokia's board chairman. — Speaking on his debut television appearance … | Nick Bilton / Bits: |
For Twitter-Owned Apps and Sites, a Cacophony of Confusion — At top, the Twitter Web site, which includes the company's premium Discover tab. At bottom, the Twitter Web site as viewed on the Apple iPad, which highlights direct messages instead. — Did Twitter just cut off its entire face to spite its nose?
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VLC 2.0.2 adds Retina display support, kills font cache, and more — VLC 2.0.2 has just been released for Windows and OS X, and while the update further tweaks video playback on both platforms, the major changes come to the version for Apple's desktop OS. For those who took the plunge …
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RIM's tailspin — The number of BlackBerry phones sold fell 41% year-on-year in the last RIM fiscal quarter. Sequentially the fall was 30%. Though surprisingly poor, I note that Nokia's smartphone business fell even more dramatically last quarter (down 50% y/y and 39% sequentially).
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New Arc soft keyboard may be coming to Windows Phone 8 — More than a year ago we reported on Microsoft designing a “one handed and next gen soft keyboard” for Windows Phone 8. — We now have a picture of the keyboard in question, courtesy of a leaked Microsoft Research presentation.| Jeff John Roberts / GigaOM: |
Google stole sharing idea for Hangouts and YouTube, lawsuit claims — A New York start-up claims that a video sharing feature in YouTube and Google+ is based on concepts that it showed to Google when the two companies met to discuss collaboration strategies in 2011.
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| Aoife White / Bloomberg: |
Google Makes Offer To EU Regulators To End Antitrust Probe — Google Inc. (GOOG) offered concessions to European Union regulators in an effort to end an antitrust investigation into allegations that the operator of the world's largest search engine discriminates against rivals.
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The other Windows 8 hits some snags — Microsoft Surface tablet packing an Nvidia ARM chip. — (Credit: Microsoft) — Don't be surprised if the other version of Windows 8 — you know, the one that doesn't run on Intel chips — stumbles out of the gate.| Ki Mae Heussner / GigaOM: |
Exclusive: Amazon buys 3D mapping startup UpNext — It looks like Amazon is building up its presence in the mapping business. The tech giant today closed a deal to acquire 3D mapping startup UpNext, GigaOM has learned. — For Amazon, which doesn't have a mapping service of its own …
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Three Things I Have Learned From Ev, Biz, and Goldman — Since January, Evan Williams, Biz Stone, and Jason Goldman have been helping us build Branch. I feel very lucky to call them mentors and friends, so I thought I would pay it forward by sharing some of the wisdom that they have shared with me.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Amazon's Flow App Brings Barcode Scanning & Augmented Reality To Android Users — Amazon Flow, the barcode scanning/augmented reality app from Amazon subsidiary A9.com, has arrived on Android today, following its November 2011 iOS debut. To refresh your memory, the app lets shoppers scan things like CDs …
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The IRL Fetish — The deep infiltration of digital information into our lives has created a fervor around the supposed corresponding loss of logged-off real life. Each moment is oversaturated with digital potential: Texts, status updates, photos, check-ins, tweets, and emails … | Steven Loeb / VatorNews: |
Italian regulator set to fine Apple over warranties — Agency accusing Apple of misleading consumers; Apple already fined in December — When I bought my iPhone, the salesman asked me if I also wanted to buy a two-year warranty from Apple in case anything happened to my phone.
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| Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune: |
Net Applications: iOS Web share hit record 65.3% in June — Android grew faster (38% to 24.5% year over year) but still trails the iPhone/iPad combo — FORTUNE — The presence of Apple's (AAPL) mobile devices on the Web continues to surge according to Net Applications and StatCounter … | Matt Brian / The Next Web: |
Dell acquires Quest Software for $2.4 billion to expand its security and data solutions — Strengthening its systems management, security and data protection services, Dell has agreed to acquire enterprise software specialists Quest Software for $2.4 billion, at $28.00 per share.| Mat Smith / Engadget: |
Samsung launches S Health services: Monitors weight, blood sugar and graphs it all — Samsung mentioned its S Health app in passing during the grand unveiling of the Galaxy S III — presumably due to the glut of similarly S-suffixed apps and services that were also unveiled.
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IE hangs on to more than half of browser market — Internet Explorer has been facing growing competition from rival browsers, but it's still the leader with more than 50 percent of the market, according to Net Applications. — IE grabbed a 54 percent market share last month, down from 56.7 percent a year ago.
| Brian X. Chen / New York Times: |
Uber, an App That Summons a Car, Plans a Cheaper Service Using Hybrids — Uber, a start-up based in San Francisco, has won a following among urbanites with its novel twist on calling a car service: its app lets you summon a luxury sedan with a tap on your phone.
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