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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 … | 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 …
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| 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).| 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.| 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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| 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 …
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| Jon Russell / The Next Web: |
Apple agrees to pay Proview $60m to settles China iPad trademark dispute — Apple has ended the ongoing issue surrounding the ownership of the iPad trademark in China by agreeing to pay Taiwanese firm Proview $60 million, according to AP reports. — Proview has been on negotiating for some time …
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| 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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| Nova Spivack: |
A Solution to the Twitter API Problem — I am writing this article because I love Twitter, and I've built a business around making sense of Twitter data. — I am concerned by the recent “ominous” signs that Twitter may be heading down a path towards becoming a closed platform …
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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 … | Jack Neff / AdAge: |
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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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| Matt Brian / The Next Web: |
HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE gets July 5 release date, available on Verizon for $149.99 — Launched at this year's CTIA Wireless 2012 event, HTC's Droid Incredible 4G LTE has finally received a release date, coming to Verizon stores and its website on July 5 for a price of $149.99 (after rebate) on a two year contract.| 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.| Chris Velazco / TechCrunch: |
Mozilla's Boot To Gecko Becomes Firefox OS, Scores Support From Sprint, Deutsche Telekom, ZTE, And More — Mozilla's Boot to Gecko project has come a long way in just under a year — what began with the idea of building a mobile operating system based on open web standards like HTML5 has led …
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| Mike Snider / USA Today: |
Beats Electronics acquires MOG music service — Beats Electronics, the company best known for its Beats By Dr. Dre headphones, is acquiring the online music service MOG. — The parties did not disclose the terms of the acquisition, the first for the company co-founded by rapper and producer …
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Sony buys Gaikai game streaming service for $380M — Sony announced tonight that it will acquire Gaikai, the streaming game service for $380 million. The deal officially closed on June 30, and Sony is purchasing the Aliso Viejo-based company as part of a move to disrupt the gaming business.
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| Matt Brian / The Next Web: |
VLC for Android beta officially launches, now available to download on Google Play — After years in development, the VideoLAN team have finally launched their popular VLC video player on Android, meaning that if you own one of the newer ARMv7-powered Android devices, you will be able …
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| Steven Levy / Wired: |
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