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July 10, 2012, 8:55 PM

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Hugo Miller / Bloomberg:

RIM Said To Sell Jet To Help Save $1 Billion — Research In Motion Ltd. (RIMM), which has lost 95 percent of its market value since 2008, is selling one of its two business jets under a plan to save $1 billion in operating costs, two people with knowledge of the matter said.

More: VatorNews, Mashable!, Reuters, VentureBeat, PhoneArena, IntoMobile, Examiner, PC Advisor, Know Your Cell, VR-Zone, AllThingsD, TechnoBuffalo and Los Angeles Times

Joash Wee / e27:

Research In Motion announces US$100M investment to grow developer community for BlackBerry platform

More: BlackBerry Developer Blog and TechCrunch

Omar El Akkad / The Globe and Mail:

RIM brass takes heat from shareholders

More: CNBC.com Links List Headlines, CNET and AllThingsD

Chris Ziegler / The Verge:

BlackBerry 10 confirmed to get video chat in BBM

More: Reuters, VentureBeat, Engadget and TechnoBuffalo

Sung Hu Kim / Twitter Blog:

Expansive experiences in latest mobile apps for iPhone, Android — Today you can download new versions of Twitter for iPhone and Twitter for Android. These new apps contain several updates to bring you closer to everything you care about. — Expand Tweets

Bryan Bishop / The Verge:

Twitter for iOS and Android updated with content previews, individual notifications, and more

More: Redmond Pie and MobileSyrup.com

Steven Burke / CRN:

Exclusive: Microsoft's Ballmer Throws Down Gauntlet Against Apple — Declaring that Microsoft (NSDQ:MSFT) and its partners had in the past “ceded some of the boundary between hardware and software innovation” to Apple (NSDQ:AAPL), Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer told CRN in an exclusive interview Monday …

Tim Bray / ongoing:

How Many Devices? — Does it make sense to carry around two, three, or more portable computing devices? Select from: — Regular-size laptop; say 15"-screen or higher. — Skinny laptop i.e. Air at 13" or even 11". — Big tablet at ~10" as in current iPads. — One-hander tablet, typically at 7".

More: Daring Fireball

AppleInsider:

Rumor: Next-gen iPhone, ‘iPad mini’ engineering samples pictured — A pair of reports on Tuesday allege to show an “engineering samples” of Apple's rumored next-generation iPhone and smaller 7-inch iPad, the latter being one of the first mock-ups to hit the web.

John Gruber / Daring Fireball:

Let's Try to Think This iPad Mini Thing All the Way Through

More: Gotta Be Mobile, MacRumors, The Next Web, everythingiCafe and Business Insider

Bradley Horowitz / The Official Google Blog:

Google+ app for iPad available now in the App Store — In May, we redesigned the Google+ experience for iPhone, adding full bleed photos that fall into place and bold visual elements that bring your stream to life. Today, we're introducing new features for iPhone and an iPad app that you won't be able to put down.

More: Ars Technica, IntoMobile, PC Magazine, VentureBeat, Appolicious Advisor, Engadget, 9to5Google, GigaOM, TechnoBuffalo, GadgeTell, Ubergizmo, AllThingsD, Know Your Cell, Business Insider and Marketing Land

Joel Schectman / The CIO Report:

San Francisco Officials Plan to Block Apple Procurement — San Francisco city officials say they are moving to block purchases of Apple desktops and laptops, by all municipal agencies, after the company removed a green electronics certification from its products.

More: Business Insider, iPhone, BBC, CNET, Forbes, TUAW and PC Magazine

Sam Oliver / AppleInsider:

Google set to pay record $22.5M fine for violating Apple users' privacy — Google is expected to pay a $22.5 million fine, the largest in the history of the Federal Trade Commission, for bypassing the privacy settings of users of Apple's Safari Web browser.

More: ReadWriteWeb, Mashable!, Wall Street Journal, PC Magazine, Washington Post, BBC, Los Angeles Times, PC Advisor, VentureBeat, dailywireless.org, NBC Bay Area, Dennis Fisher, TechSpot, iDownloadBlog.com and BetaNews

Liz Gannes / AllThingsD:

Bitly Raises $15M Led by Khosla Ventures — Bitly, the link-shortening and tracking service, has raised $15 million in a funding round led by Vinod Khosla at Khosla Ventures. — The round is aimed to help Bitly hire and grow. “We make many millions of dollars per year …

More: VentureBeat, VatorNews, Betabeat, NBC Bay Area, GigaOM and TechCrunch. Thanks:@forrestkoba

Don Beck / The Involver Blog:

Oracle Buys Involver — Today we are excited to announce that we have signed an agreement for Oracle's purchase of Involver and we expect the transaction to close in the summer of 2012. The proliferation of social media has changed the way that organizations and consumers interact.

More: The Register, AllFacebook, PC Magazine, AllThingsD, Oracle, ZDNet, The Next Web, silicontap.com, the Econsultancy blog, VentureBeat and Computerworld

Eliza Kern / GigaOM:

Dropbox offers pro users twice the space as competition heats up — This story was corrected at 11:10 a.m. with the correct pricing for Box.net's services. — Dropbox pro subscribers can now get excited about twice as much storage space on their accounts for no additional cost …

More: Computerworld, Softpedia News, The Verge, The Next Web, Pulse2 Technology …, The Dropbox Blog, PC Magazine, MacStories, Social Markets, TechCrunch and Storage Station

Phil Nickinson / Android Central:

Samsung to offer hacker-friendly ‘developer edition’ Galaxy S III on Verizon — Want a Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III without all the huffing and puffing that comes a long with encrypted bootloaders? The manufacture has you covered, as it will offer a “developer edition” Verizon Galaxy S 3 through its developer portal for $599.

More: CNET, Engadget, The Verge, AnandTech, Pocketnow and Gotta Be Mobile

Bryan Bishop / The Verge:

Android 4.1 Jelly Bean begins rolling out to the HSPA+ Galaxy Nexus — We knew it was just a matter of time, and now Google has announced that Android 4.1 Jelly Bean has begun rolling out to the HSPA+ Galaxy Nexus. For owners of the phone, the new OS will be appearing over the next few days …

More: 9to5Google, BetaNews, AllThingsD, Google+, CNET, Engadget, IntoMobile, 9to5Google, Ubergizmo, TechnoBuffalo and Gotta Be Mobile

Michael McWhertor / The Verge:

Ouya console meets $950,000 Kickstarter funding goal in 8 hours — The makers of Ouya, the low-cost video game console based on Google's Android OS and designed by Yves Behar, have already surpassed their $950,000 fundraising goal on Kickstarter. The project, a $99 game console and controller …

More: The Atlantic Online, Business Insider, Engadget, Engadget, Gotta Be Mobile, 9to5Google, Joystiq and Techli

Devindra Hardawar / VentureBeat:

FreedomPop raises $7.5M to free you from your carrier shackles (exclusive) — The seemingly mythical FreedomPop, which aims to disrupt the mobile broadband landscape by offering freemium 4G service, is one step closer to reality. The company has raised $7.5 million in a first round of funding …

Thanks:@devindra

Claire Atkinson / New York Post:

Facebook eyeing Hulu's Kilar for senior position — With Facebook stepping up its courtship of the media business, the buzz is building that Mark Zuckerberg is eyeing Hulu chief Jason Kilar for a top job. — Sources say that Zuck “likes” Kilar, a well-respected Internet executive …

More: TVWeek.com and WebProNews. See also Mediagazer

Diane Bartz / Reuters:

Congress to discuss sales bans if key patents infringed — (Reuters) - The Congress is considering whether companies that hold patents essential to a standard, such as a digital movie format, should be forbidden from asking that infringing products be banned from the U.S. market.

More: 9to5Mac

Noah Shachtman / Wired:

Exclusive: Darpa Gets a New Boss, and Solyndra Is in Her Past — New Darpa director Arati Prabhakar. Photo courtesy of SRI International — Until last year, Arati Prabhakar worked for the venture capitalists who backed Solyndra, the green-tech firm that imploded in a scandal described …

More: COMPUTING RESEARCH POLICY BLOG

Liz Gannes / AllThingsD:

Judge Will Let Kleiner Perkins Ask Again for Arbitration in Gender Discrimination Case — As promised, a judge today ruled against venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers in its efforts to compel its partner Ellen Pao to arbitrate her gender discrimination and retaliation suit.

More: Digits, TechCrunch, Betabeat and PE Hub Blog

Derrick Harris / GigaOM:

Take that, vCloud: Microsoft opens Windows Azure to web hosts — Updated: It looks like Microsoft is serious about becoming the operating system for cloud computing. At its Worldwide Partner Conference on Tuesday, the company announced what amounts to a white-label version …

More: ZDNet, InfoWorld, Apprenda, Softpedia News and SlashGear

David Streitfeld / New York Times:

A Reality Series Intrudes on Silicon Valley, and Finds It Cringing — SAN FRANCISCO — Silicon Valley is finally getting the treatment once reserved for rowdy housewives and excitable chefs: its own Bravo reality series. But the tech world is not quite ready for its close-up.

More: Betabeat and Forbes. Tweets: @dannysullivan

Eric Slivka / MacRumors:

13-Inch Retina MacBook Pro Shows Up in Benchmarks — Amid continued rumors that Apple intends to release a 13-inch Retina MacBook Pro in the coming months, a Geekbench 2 benchmark submitted late last month as a “MacBookPro10,2” appears to represent the machine in question.

More: DigiTimes, CNET, TechnoBuffalo, Pocketables and Examiner

Jack Purcher / Patently Apple:

Apple Wins a Major Patent for iTravel & More — The US Patent and Trademark Office officially published a series of 23 newly granted patents for Apple Inc. today. In our first granted patent report of the day we mainly focus on a major patent relating to iTravel, Apple's transportation check-in system.

More: CNET, Unwired View, PadGadget, Los Angeles Times, iDownloadBlog.com, ZDNet, iClarified, 9to5Mac, Mobile and MacNN

Alana / Nielsen Wire:

Global Internet Ad Spend Sees Double-Digit Growth, Outpaces Other Media — With consumer confidence up and brands looking to reconnect, spending on advertising is on the rise—around the globe and across media types. TV, newspapers, radio, outdoor, Internet, and cinema all saw an increase …

More: The New Persuaders, CNET, VatorNews, TechCrunch and Marketing Pilgrim

Jon Fingas / Engadget:

Apple launches new iPad in China on July 20th (update: here's why) — Apple is about to complete an important part of the puzzle for the new iPad's world rollout: it just confirmed that its Retina display-packing tablet will reach mainland China on July 20th.

More: CNET, TUAW, Reuters, PhoneArena, Fortune, Cult of Mac, Tech in Asia, MacRumors, Apple, TechCrunch, iDownloadBlog.com, Apple Bitch and 9to5Mac

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