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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.

More: Electricpig.co.uk, Engadget, PhoneArena, Android News, Rumours …, VentureBeat, The Verge, Gadgetsteria, msnbc.com, iDownloadBlog.com, Business Insider, Mashable!, Gizmodo and Pulse2 Technology …

Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:

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 …

More: The Verge, iDownloadBlog.com, SlashGear, Softpedia News, parislemon and Mashable!. Tweets: @markgurman

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 …

More: ZDNet, Pulse2 Technology …, CNET and textually.org

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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 …

More: Softpedia News, AppleInsider, App Advice, MacRumors, iDownloadBlog.com, PhoneArena and Pulse2 Technology …

Bloomberg:

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.

More: ZDNet, Gizmodo, Electricpig.co.uk, Softpedia News, Telegraph, SlashGear, PhoneArena, VR-Zone, The Verge, CNET, Neowin, Pulse2 Technology …, Shiny Objects and Los Angeles Times

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.

More: Forbes. Tweets: @mathewi

Dave McClure:

late bloomer, not a loser. (I hope) — most of the time I think of myself as a failure. — when I'm optimistic, I think maybe I'm just a late bloomer. — I know a lot of folks won't understand this perspective, but when I was growing up I was always the smartest kid around. it was expected …

More: Adventures in Capitalism, FM Signal and A VC

Tweets: @shak, @davidlee, @joshelman, @infoarbitrage, @hunterwalk and @anildash

Surur / WMPoweruser:

Nokia VP: Pureview will come to Lumia devices “very soon”, Sprint and Verizon will get Lumias — Neowin spoke to Nokia's Richard Kerris, VP of Worldwide Developer Relations who revealed a few interesting titbits. — According to Kerris “it wont be long” before we see Nokia Lumias on Sprint …

More: My Nokia Blog, Neowin, Know Your Mobile, IntoMobile, Pocketnow, TechCrunch, PhoneArena, Gadgetsteria and 1001 Noisy Cameras

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.

John Paczkowski / AllThingsD:

RIM's BlackBerry App World Tops Three Billion Downloads — Some good news for Research In Motion amid the unceasing torrent of bad. BlackBerry App World, the company's answer to Apple's iTunes App Store and Google Play, has reached a milestone worth celebrating: It has served …

More: Inquirer, Know Your Mobile, Techie Buzz, BlackBerry Developer Blog, The Globe and Mail, The Verge, PandoDaily, CNET, Neowin, IntoMobile, PalmAddict and Engadget

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.

Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet:

Microsoft to launch Bing Fund angel investment incubator — For the past few weeks, there've been some tweets showing up in my timeline from something called the Bing Fund. ZDNet (and Techie-Buzz) blogger Manan Kakkar has noticed these, too. The tweets lead to a BingFund.com Web page that tease …

More: Fast Company, The Next Web, VentureBeat and Neowin

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