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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 …
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| 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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| 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 … | Brandon LeBlanc / The Windows Blog: |
Upgrade to Windows 8 Pro for $39.99 — We set out to make it as easy as possible for everyone to upgrade to Windows 8. Starting at general availability, if your PC is running Windows XP, Windows Vista, or Windows 7 you will qualify to download an upgrade to Windows 8 Pro for just $39.99 in 131 markets.
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| Mike Masnick / Techdirt: |
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 … | Surur / WMPoweruser: |
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.| Anil Dash: |
Why Your Complaint About Twitter Is Wrong — I know I usually try to be a thoughtful tech writer, but sometimes, holy s**t you guys. … That's Dalton Caldwell (with my emphasis added), who is a very nice guy, but does nothing to break the pattern that everything I read on the Svbtle network exists solely …
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| Dante D'Orazio / The Verge: |
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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| The Weather Channel: |
The Weather Channel Companies Acquire Weather Underground — The Weather Channel Companies (TWCC) today announced an agreement to acquire Weather Underground, a leading provider of Web based weather data. The transaction, terms of which were not disclosed, was announced by TWCC chairman …
| Horace Dediu / asymco: |
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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| 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.
| 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.| Kari Tillman / ATT Blogs: |
Samsung Galaxy S III Arrives at AT&T stores July 6 — Great news, the wait is finally over! I'm excited to share with you that the Samsung Galaxy S III will arrive in AT&T stores on July 6th. — Thousands of customers, who just couldn't wait, have already preordered it and have the device in hand.
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Engadget, 9to5Google, Gotta Be Mobile, PhoneArena and Android Phone Fans
| Josh Miller / PandoDaily: |
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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| 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 …
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| Brooke Crothers / CNET: |
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.
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Tech Trader Daily, BetaNews and Windows 8 Beta
| 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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| Nathan Jurgenson / The New Inquiry: |
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 …
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| 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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CNET, GigaOM, 9to5Mac, MacRumors, Reuters, SlashGear, iClarified and Wall St. Cheat Sheet
| Gary Allen / ifoAppleStore: |
Apple Tweaks Genius Bar To Increase Capacity — In reaction to an ever-increasing number of visitors to its Genius Bars and limited space to seat them, Apple is testing out a new configuration that increases Genius Bar capacity, and emphasizes the use of iPads to manage service records.
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| Eric Slivka / MacRumors: |
Apple Reminds Users of iWork.com Discontinuation on July 31 — Following this weekend's shutdown of MobileMe in favor of iCloud, Apple today sent out an email to users of its beta iWork.com service reminding them that it too will be discontinued on July 31.
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| Lance Whitney / CNET: |
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.
| Mike Isaac / AllThingsD: |
“Mobile First”: Product Chief Chris Cox and Facebook Brass Make the Phone a Top Priority — Of all the many tech maxims that exist, this is the one heard ad nauseum: “The future is in mobile.” In essence, it means that if your company doesn't have a mobile device strategy, you aren't doing it right.
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