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July 9, 2012, 11:00 AM

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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: Marketing Land, The Register, Business Insider, everythingiCafe, WebProNews, App Advice, Redmond Pie, Pulse2 Technology …, IntoMobile, memeburn, Gadgetsteria, SlashGear, Apple Bitch, MobileSyrup.com, iDownloadBlog.com, The Verge, Softpedia News and Mashable!. Tweets: @markgurman

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 …

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.

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: The Not-So Private Parts, PandoDaily, Betabeat, CNET, IntoMobile, The Raw Story, SecurityWeek, ZDNet, Pulse2 Technology …, SlashGear and textually.org

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Tom Warren / The Verge:

Windows 8 launching late October, RTM ‘on track’ for August — Microsoft's Tami Reller has announced that Windows 8 will Release to Manufacturing (RTM) in the first week on August, with a release in late October to retail stores. Speaking at the company's Worldwide Partner Conference in Canada …

More: BGR, SlashGear, Business Insider, Engadget, ZDNet, The Windows Blog, Ars Technica and Mashable!

Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet:

Microsoft buys multitouch display maker Perceptive Pixel — Summary: Microsoft buys multi-touch large-display vendor, emphasizing collaboration in office work as one of the main potential uses of the technology. — Follow @maryjofoley — Microsoft announced on July 9 plans to buy Perceptive Pixel …

More: Microsoft Corporation, The Verge, The Next Web, BGR, Business Insider, Engadget and The Next Web

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 …

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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.

More: AllThingsD, The Verge, PhoneArena and CNET

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.

More: TechCrunch, VentureBeat, The Tech Trade, Business Insider, Bloomberg, GigaOM, Mashable! and memeburn

Miguel Helft / Fortune:

The death of cash — Tech giants - and startups like Square - want you to use your phone to pay for everything from gum to train rides. Here's how they plan to achieve cash-free nirvana. — FORTUNE — Café Grumpy is the kind of hipster hangout that wouldn't deign to trumpet itself.

More: 9to5Mac. Thanks:@steverubel

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.

More: Beyond Search and The CIO Report. Tweets: @ldignan

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.

More: BuzzFeed

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

Facebook's App Center Goes International: Open To All English-Speaking Countries; Developer Translation Tool Added — Last week we got a little clue that Facebook was gearing up to take its App Center to markets outside the U.S., when it began to appear in the UK.

More: Facebook Newsroom, The Next Web, Mobile Marketing Watch, USA Today and Facebook Developer Blog

David Talbot / Technology Review:

A Phone that Knows Where You're Going — An algorithm can better predict your future movements by getting a little help from your friends. — Beyond merely tracking where you've been and where you are, your smartphone might soon actually know where you are going—in part by recording what your friends do.

More: All Points Blog

Wall Street Journal:

Malware Threat to Internet Corralled — Service Providers Are Set to Aid Customers, but Little Disruption Is Expected — WASHINGTON—The malware threat to the Internet likely has been tamed. — Leading Internet-service providers said Sunday that they had moved to ensure that computers infected …

More: Hillicon Valley, WebProNews, CNET, Associated Press, Neowin, I4U News and The CIO Report

Erin Griffith / PandoDaily:

Tripl Launches Social Travel Site with $300k from High Peaks and Quotidian Ventures — There is no shortage of very new travel sites, tools and social networks. It feels like every week a new one launches, raises money, or pivots. There's Tripit, Wander, Wanderfly, Gogobot, Triposo …

More: The Next Web, TechCrunch, VentureBeat and GigaOM

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.

More: Forbes, Help Net Security, Inquirer, The H Security, TechWeekEurope UK and The Register

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