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Major Twitter for iPhone update incoming: more interactive, enhanced notifications — iOS 6′s redesigned App Store has leaked a major forthcoming update to Twitter's official iPhone application in its update history section. Twitter, in recent months, has come under fire due to potential …
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| John Paczkowski / AllThingsD: |
Amazon's Next Kindle Fire Will Ship in Q3 With Improved Display — With sales of the first-generation Kindle Fire petering out, Amazon is gearing up to launch its successor, a tablet that seeks to improve on the original while retaining a similar form factor.
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SlashGear, Android Phone Fans, Know Your Mobile, PC Advisor, Simon's Technology Blog, Engadget, Pocket-lint, Mobile Entertainment, MacNN, Android News, Rumours …, Gadgetsteria, Electricpig.co.uk, Mashable!, msnbc.com, iDownloadBlog.com, VentureBeat, The Verge, Business Insider, Gizmodo, Pulse2 Technology … and PhoneArena
| Eric Lichtblau / New York Times: |
Wireless Firms Are Flooded by Requests to Aid Surveillance — WASHINGTON — In the first public accounting of its kind, cellphone carriers reported that they responded to a daunting 1.3 million demands for subscriber data last year from law enforcement agencies seeking text messages …
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| Anthony Aarons / Bloomberg: |
Samsung Wins U.K. Apple Ruling Over ‘Not As Cool’ Galaxy Tablet — Samsung Electronics Co. won an intellectual property ruling against Apple Inc. (AAPL) as a U.K. judge said the Galaxy tablet isn't “cool” enough to be confused with the design for the iPad. — The Galaxy tablet …
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Samsung Said To Plan Windows RT Tablet For October Introduction — Samsung Electronics Co. (005930), the largest phone maker, will release a tablet that features Microsoft Corp. (MSFT)'s Windows RT software when the operating system debuts, people with knowledge of the matter said.| Federico Viticci / MacStories: |
Apple Cracking Down On Sites Selling Access To iOS Betas — Last month, Andy Baio wrote a story for Wired detailing the world of selling access to Apple beta software to non-developers. Specifically, Baio's piece focused on sites that, for a price, allowed regular people to have their UDID … | Arik Hesseldahl / AllThingsD: |
Kayak Prices Long-Delayed $100 Million IPO at $25 A Share — It's been a long time in coming, but today Kayak, the hotel and flight search provider, announced that it has priced its shares and will begin trading at a range of $22 to $25 on NASDAQ Exchange under the ticker symbol KYAK.
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| Steve Kovach / Business Insider: |
New Galaxy S III Commercials Show That The iPhone Can't Do Everything — Samsung released a new batch of commercials this weekend for its Galaxy S III flagship Android phone. — The ads don't waste time bashing the iPhone. Instead, they focus on what the Galaxy S III can do with some (funny) real-world examples.
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PhoneArena and CNET
| Reuters: |
Analysis: Microsoft loss reflects Web display ad world's woes — (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp shelled out a record $6.3 billion for aQuantive in 2007 at the height of a race with Google Inc and Yahoo Inc to clinch the top spot in Internet display advertising, betting on what many thought was a red-hot business.| Sarah Lacy / PandoDaily: |
Philip Rosedale: The Media Is Wrong, SecondLife Didn't Fail — Last night I spoke at an event put on by a site called IdeaMensch. They're doing a road trip, where the team is traveling city by city, holding events by and for entrepreneurs. I talked about why I started PandoDaily and some of my struggles along the way so far.| Rags Srinivasan / GigaOM: |
What's behind the price signaling between Verizon and AT&T? — The two largest mobile service providers, AT&T Wireless and Verizon Wireless, are engaging in some serious price signaling. And you don't have to take my word for it, because the two leaders are not only signaling, they are explicitly saying that they're signaling.| Jon Russell / The Next Web: |
New Android virus ‘MMarketPay.A’ found on 100,000 Chinese smartphones and in 9 app stores — A new mobile virus capable of racking up large bills on Android-based phones has reared its ugly head in China, where it has already affected more 100,000 devices and nine app stores in the country.
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