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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 …
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| Bryan M. Wolfe / App Advice: |
Official Twitter App Update Expected To Fly Into App Store In ‘Coming Days’ — The official Twitter app for iOS is expected to receive a significant update. The major update for the popular app could arrive in the “coming days,” according to 9to5Mac. — First released in October 2009 …
| 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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| 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 …
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| Spencer E. Ante / Wall Street Journal: |
Salesforce.com to Buy GoInstant — Salesforce.com is expected to buy start-up GoInstant for more than $70 million, people familiar with the matter said, as the big provider of online business software beefs up its customer-service offerings. — A deal for the roughly two-year-old company …
| 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 … | 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.| Ian Austen / New York Times: |
BlackBerry's Latest Delay Could Lead to Lawsuits — OTTAWA — A friendly crowd is unlikely to greet Thorsten Heins on Tuesday, when he makes his first appearance as chief executive at the annual meeting here of Research in Motion. — Shares in the BlackBerry maker have fallen by about 95 percent from their peak in mid-2008.| Joel Spolsky / Joel on Software: |
Software Inventory — Imagine, for a moment, that you came upon a bread factory for the first time. At first it just looks like a jumble of incomprehensible machinery with a few people buzzing around. As your eyes adjust you start to see little piles of things that you do understand.| 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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| Christina Farr / VentureBeat: |
The Fancy gives you cash for sharing the stuff you love — The Fancy, a social photo-sharing site that is New York's answer to Pinterest, is offering cash rewards to users who share the stuff they love. — Starting today, anytime you share a product that you fancy, you'll receive a link with a referral code.
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| 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.| Eric Savitz / The Tech Trade: |
Palo Alto Networks Sets IPO Price Range Of $34-$37 A Share — Palo Alto Networks disclosed in a filing with the SEC this morning that it expects to price its initial public offering at $34 to $37 a share. The company plans to sell 6.2 million shares, including 1,512,741 from selling holders.
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| Sean Buckley / Engadget: |
Verizon website pushes Galaxy S III availability back two days, still shipping pre-orders — Looking forward to picking up a Galaxy S III from Verizon this Tuesday? You'd better reschedule. According to the carrier's website, Samsung's latest Galaxy smartphone won't be available until July 12th …
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| 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.| Liz Gannes / AllThingsD: |
More Than 5 Percent of Free Mobile Apps Include Adware — Overly aggressive ad networks — which can change users' phone settings, send notifications and/or covertly access personally identifiable information — are present in 5 percent of free apps, according to new research by mobile security company Lookout.| 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.
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| Andy Greenberg / The Firewall: |
Here's How Often AT&T, Sprint, And Verizon Each Hand Over Users' Data To The Government — When it comes to modern law enforcement surveillance, no one watches the wiretappers. — The vast majority of law enforcement's demands that phone carriers and Internet services hand over users' private data … | 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 …
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| Daisy Whitney / Beet.TV: |
Dailymotion is in Pact with Yahoo for Video Syndication — LONDON — Video-sharing site DailyMotion has pacted with Yahoo on a syndication deal for video, says Daniel Adams, VP International Content at Dailymotion, during the recent Beet.TV Global Video Summit at the BBC Worldwide.
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| Alex Howard / Gov 2.0: |
Social citizenship: CNN and Facebook to partner on “I'm Voting” app in 2012 election — Two years ago, I wondered whether “social voting” on Foursquare would increase voter participation. — That experiment is about to be writ much larger. In a release today, first reported …
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| Gartner: |
Gartner Says Worldwide IT Spending On Pace to Surpass $3.6 Trillion in 2012 — Analysts to Discuss Latest IT Spending Outlook During Complimentary Gartner Webinar on July 10 — Worldwide IT spending is on pace to reach $3.6 trillion in 2012, a 3 percent increase from 2011 spending of $3.5 trillion …
| 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 … Sponsor Posts
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