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| Vanity Fair: |
Microsoft's Downfall: Inside the Executive E-mails and Cannibalistic Culture That Felled a Tech Giant — Analyzing one of American corporate history's greatest mysteries—the lost decade of Microsoft—two-time George Polk Award winner (and V.F.'s newest contributing editor) Kurt Eichenwald traces the …
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| Halberenson / Hal's (Im)Perfect Vision: |
Acknowledging the aQuantive Mistake — Yesterday's announcement that Microsoft would write-down the 2007 acquisition of aQuantive raised my opinion of Steve Ballmer another notch. Steve makes mistakes, but he also owns up to them. So let's travel back and see how Microsoft got into this mess.
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Nexus 7 Teardown — Google announced the Nexus 7 at their I/O keynote on June 27, 2012. Five days later, we tore one down. Some are calling the Nexus 7 a ‘Kindle Fire killer,’ but can it stack up to the Fire's impressive eight out of ten repairability score? We just had to find out.| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Google Shutdowns Continue: iGoogle, Google Video, Google Mini & Others Are Killed — Google is continuing to shut down services which aren't core to its business - something it has been actively doing ever since Google co-founder Larry Page took over as CEO.| Drew Olanoff / The Next Web: |
| David Friend / canada.com: |
Research In Motion CEO leads march to recharacterize company's challenges — TORONTO - Research In Motion chief executive Thorsten Heins says “there's nothing wrong with the company as it exists right now” and he's confident it will get past its current challenges.
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| John Paczkowski / AllThingsD: |
RIM CEO Welcomes Critics to Happy-Fun Rainbow Land — In general, as death nears, there is seldom a sudden dramatic increase in pain, although pain and other symptoms may increase, or in some cases, decrease as the disease advances. Some people become confused or agitated in the last days or weeks of life.| Thorsten Heins / The Globe and Mail: |
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| Joe Jerde / BlackBerryOS.com: |
Exclusive: Leaked BlackBerry 10 2013 Roadmap — BlackBerry news in the last week has had it's plenty of downs. However, with this less than par news we have gained plenty of new insight into the BlackBerry 10 platform and what it entails. The news has taken us on a roller coaster.| Ernesto / TorrentFreak: |
Kim Dotcom: Joe Biden Ordered the Megaupload Shutdown — When Megaupload was raided in January, questions were raised as to why the U.S. Government acted so aggressively against a company that seemingly played by the rules. — It's no secret that the MPAA provides the authorities with …
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| Jonathan Hutchison / New York Times: |
Megaupload Founder Goes From Arrest to Cult Hero — AUCKLAND — Last month, a New Zealand software developer, Ben Gracewood, replied to a Twitter post from the Internet tycoon Kim Dotcom, founder of the Megaupload file-sharing site that had been shut down by the F.B.I.
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| Julie Bort / Business Insider: |
Bill Gates Explains Why Microsoft Had To Punch Its PC Partners In The Guts — Bill Gates thinks Microsoft was right to build its own tablets and that Windows 8 is going to kill the traditional PC. — Gates was a guest on Charlie Rose last night where he talked about Microsoft's decision to make its own tablet.
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| Herman Lai / M.I.C. Gadget: |
Chinese Household Chemical Company Sues Apple For “Snow Leopard” Trademark — After Apple settled the “iPad” trademark dispute with Proview, the tech giant is facing another trademark lawsuit from a Chinese household chemical company called “Jiangsu Xuebao”.| Wall Street Journal: |
GM Talks to Facebook About Returning as a Paid Advertiser — After a High-Profile Split, Facebook Is Trying to Prove That Its Ads Do Work — General Motors Co. and Facebook Inc. are in talks to bring the auto maker back as a paid advertiser, two months after a high-profile falling out, people close to both companies said.| James Brightman / GamesIndustry International: |
EA is “going to be a 100% digital company, period” says Gibeau — EA's Labels president also tells us that NPD's monthly reports are “totally irrelevant” — Electronic Arts is one of the publishers in this industry that is at the forefront of the digital transition.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Google+ Integration Comes To Chrome Web Store, Now Powers Social Discovery Of Apps — Just because Google I/O is over, that doesn't mean the Google+ announcements have stopped flowing. Yesterday, the company revamped its Google Places iOS app (it's now “Google+ Local” and includes Zagat integration) … | Florin / Unwired View: |
Huawei's Emotion UI for Android 4.0 ICS goes live — Huawei first talked about its new Emotion UI back in May, and now the UI is ready for primetime. — Huawei has put up an official website (in Chinese) for the Emotion UI. The new skin works on Android 4.0 ICS devices …
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The Next Web, TechnoBuffalo, PhoneArena, Android Phone Fans and AndroidGuys
| Joshua Kopstein / The Verge: |
Twitter account re-tweets public photos of peoples' debit cards — While over-sharing online typically involves annoying-but-harmless pictures of food on Instagram, it's interesting to consider whether compulsive social media use or sheer thoughtlessness is to blame for the contents of @NeedADebitCard …
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| Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch: |
Netflix Subscribers Watched 1 Billion Hours Of Video In June, Or More Than An Hour A Day On Average — Here's more evidence that Netflix is slowly chipping away at traditional TV viewing. According to a public Facebook post by CEO Reed Hastings, Netflix subscribers watched a total …
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| Zach Epstein / BGR: |
Verizon Galaxy S III to launch July 10th for $199.99 — Verizon Wireless on Tuesday announced that the highly anticipated Galaxy S III smartphone will finally launch on July 10th. Following a number of delays across all U.S. carriers, the launch Samsung's latest flagship smartphone on Verizon …
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The Verge, Engadget, Pulse2 Technology … and LAPTOP Magazine
| Emily Parkhurst / bizjournals: |
RealNetworks CEO resigns, Glaser steps back into role for now … After only eight months on the job, RealNetworks CEO Thomas Nielsen has stepped down. Former CEO and current Chairman of the Board Rob Glaser will step in as interim CEO until a replacement can be found.| Cyrus Farivar / Ars Technica: |
For first time ever, US seeking international limits on copyright — Delegates at the previous Dallas round in May received hundreds of rolls of this custom-designed toilet paper. — TX Corporate Power Partnership — The United States Trade Representative (URTR) has proposed …
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| Cornelius Rahn / Bloomberg: |
Deutsche Telekom in Talks With Google on Mobile Payments — Deutsche Telekom AG (DTE) is in discussions with Google Inc. (GOOG) (GOOG) along with credit-card companies and banks to add partners to its mobile-payment system, Thomas Kiessling, the German company's head of innovation, said in an interview.| Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web: |
New patent shows Apple is at least thinking about wearable computing devices like Google Glass — It's incredibly foolhardy to ascribe any concrete plans to Apple based on the publishing of a patent. The company is incredibly prolific in this department, publishing literally thousands a year.| Jennifer Martinez / Hillicon Valley: |
Companies see spike in cyberattacks on critical infrastructure systems — Companies that operate critical infrastructure systems have reported a sharp rise in cybersecurity incidents over a three-year period, according to a new report from an arm of the Department of Homeland Security.
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| John Gruber / Daring Fireball: |
The iPhone and Disruption: Five Years In — Clayton Christensen, author of the deservedly much-praised The Innovator's Dilemma, was wrong about the iPhone five years ago: … Last month Larissa MacFarquhar profiled Christensen in The New Yorker (subscribers-only, alas), and in a parenthetical …
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| Louis Goddard / The Verge: |
Navigon for iOS update includes Google Street View — Hot on the heels of Apple's controversial decision to drop all Google Maps services — including Street View — from the default Maps application in its future iOS 6 release, popular navigation app Navigon has released an update which includes the feature.
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| Stacey Higginbotham / GigaOM: |
Inside Verizon's attack on network neutrality — Verizon is taking aim at network neutrality regulations enacted by the Federal Communications Commission with an outsized legal appeal. The company's 116-page tome filed on Monday evening has a glossary, 53 pages of legal argument …
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PC World, Ars Technica, CNET and Hillicon Valley
| Jon Russell / The Next Web: |
Ice Cream Sandwich passes 10% of Android installations, as Jelly Bean launch draws closer — The latest distribution data from Android's developer team reveals that the installation rate of its latest Ice Cream Sandwich (ICS) flavour has passed 10 percent of active devices on the market for the first time.
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