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July 12, 2012, 4:01 AM
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Court rules live TV can be sent to Apple iPhone and Apple iPad in New York City — U.S. District Judge Alison Nathan ruled on Wednesday that Aereo, a start up firm that relays live, over-the-air television to Apple iPhone and Apple iPad users for $12 a month, can continue to send live television to those devices in New York City.
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Tweetbot for Mac — It's finally here! (sort of) — Tweetbot for Mac is finally available! However it may not be quite as you had hoped. Developing for the Mac is no easy task, especially a full-featured Twitter client. However, we've gotten to a point where while not complete, it is useable.
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CNET, GigaOM, PC Magazine, BGR, Macgasm, Current Editorials, TUAW, TechCrunch, Lifehacker, admin.imore.com, Apple Bitch, iDownloadBlog.com, parislemon, MacRumors, 9to5Mac, The Verge, The Next Web and Business Insider. Tweets: @parislemon
| Federico Viticci / MacStories: |
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I Want It Today — How Amazon's ambitious new push for same-day delivery will destroy local retail. — How Amazon's ambitious new push for same-day delivery will destroy local retail. — Amazon has long enjoyed an unbeatable price advantage over its physical rivals.
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Confirmed: Mountain Lion sends some 64-bit Macs gently into that good night — Mountain Lion won't support all 64-bit Macs when it ships in late July. — Apple, Inc. — Apple has now confirmed via its Mountain Lion upgrade page that previously published limitations on some 64-bit Macs will extend to the final release.| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
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Hackers expose 453,000 credentials allegedly taken from Yahoo service — Hackers posted what appear to be login credentials for more than 453,000 user accounts that they said they retrieved in plaintext from an unidentified service on Yahoo. — The dump, posted on a public website …
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| Greg Sandoval / CNET: |
Netflix's lost year: The inside story of the price-hike train wreck — Before he angered customers by raising prices, before he became the butt of Saturday Night Live satire for his Qwikster schemes, Netflix CEO Red Hastings alienated some of his key executives.
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The Verge, ZDNet and Webomatica
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Announcing Amazon GameCircle - A New Gaming Experience for Kindle Fire — Announcing Amazon GameCircle, a new set of services designed to make it easier for you to create more engaging gaming experiences and grow your business on Kindle Fire. — GameCircle will make achievements …
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| Ryan Kim / GigaOM: |
New York starts turning payphones into free Wi-fi hotspots — Payphones, those relics of the pre-cellphone era, may just get a new lease on life in New York. The city is testing a pilot program in which it installs free Wi-Fi on select payphone kiosks. — The hotspots are initially coming … | David Ruddock / Android Police: |
The Nexus 7 Has One More Trick Up Its Sleeve: A Magnetic Smart Cover Sensor — You thought you knew everything there was to know about the Nexus 7? Well, you thought wrong. A curious owner of the device started doing what any totally rational person does with a brand-new tablet: expose it to magnetic forces.| Claire Atkinson / New York Post: |
Apple CEO Tim Cook makes surprise appearance at Sun Valley retreat — Apple CEO Tim Cook surprised the crowd in Sun Valley, Idaho, this morning by showing up at the Allen & Co. annual retreat to attend a session called “Iran vs. Israel.” — This was Cook's first time at the high-powered event that draws media and tech moguls.
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iDownloadBlog.com, DealBook, 9to5Mac, MacNN and iClarified
| Coleen Baik / Twitter Blog: |
Overhauling mobile.twitter.com from the ground up — Twitter is all about making real-time information available to everyone, everywhere. In order to reach every person on the planet we recently released an update to mobile.twitter.com for feature phones and older browsers.
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Facebook Finally Redesigns Events, Adds Calendar and List Views So You Don't Miss Birthdays — Facebook has finally redesigned Events so you don't miss another party, birthday, or cool get-together your friends are going to. Today the site launches the Events Calendar so you can see what coming … | Brad Linder / Liliputing: |
Android 4.1 Jelly Bean ported to the Kindle Fire — The Amazon Kindle Fire ships with a custom version of Android 2.3 Gingerbread designed to run apps and access digital media from Amazon's content store. But users have been hacking the Kindle Fire since the day it was released …
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BGR, Pocketnow, Android Phone Fans, Droid Life, PhoneArena, CNET, Engadget, TechCrunch and The Verge
| Stacey Higginbotham / GigaOM: |
Who's afraid of Google fiber? Time Warner for starters. — Apparently, Time Warner Cable and I have something in common — we both want to figure out the details on Google's fiber-to-the-home deployment in Kansas City. Time Warner Cable, one of the ISPs providing broadband access in Kansas City … | Aaron Souppouris / The Verge: |
Dropbox gifts early users free premium subscriptions — Dropbox is thanking its most loyal customers by no longer charging them for their premium subscriptions. It started emailing its “earliest Dropbox users” recently to inform them of the news: … It seems that a small group of early users …
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Microsoft's Steve Ballmer Talks About Windows 8, Bill Gates and Steve Jobs — and Why Microsoft's Lost Decade Is A Myth. — On July 9th, I did an onstage interview with Microsoft CEO, Steve Ballmer, at Microsoft's annual Worldwide Partner Conference. The venue was Toronto's Air Canada Centre …
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Facebook Groups Start Showing Exactly Who Saw Each Post — No need to wonder if your family saw that reminder about dinner or if co-workers noticed you uploaded a PowerPoint, as Facebook Groups will soon display a count and a list of names of who saw each post. For example: “Seen by 2″, and when hovered “Josh Constine || Zach Epstein / BGR: |
New service offers wireless data to European travelers for just $5 per day — Staying connected while traveling abroad is a painful endeavor, at best. Roaming with your U.S.-based wireless device can cost hundreds or even thousands of dollars, and sourcing local handsets or foreign SIMs for an unlocked phone is often a hassle.
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IntoMobile, GadgeTell and The Verge
| Erin Griffith / PandoDaily: |
uBeam Raises 750K from FF Angel, Andreessen Horowitz, CrunchFund, and Angels — Buzzy wireless electricity startup uBeam has raised its first round of capital from an A-list group of investors, according to founder Meredith Perry. The round is worth $750,000 and includes commitments from FF Angel …
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| Élyse Betters / 9to5Mac: |
Parallels Desktop 7 for Mac and Parallels Mobile now support Retina Display [Video] — Parallels announced that its Parallels Desktop 7 for Mac and Parallels Mobile now support Apple's Retina display. — “We are proud to announce that both Parallels Desktop 7 for Mac and Parallels Mobile …
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Consumer Tech Blog, SlashGear, CNET, Lifehacker, TUAW, The Verge, StackSocial and Ubergizmo
| Kellan / Laughing Meme: |
oldtweets is a search engine for the first year of Twitter. — A bunch of folks asked about the how. The Twitter API provides a method for fetching a tweet by ID. So to build an index of the first year of Twitter you need call the api for each ID in the range of IDs 1-20,000,000. 20 million API calls …
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The Next Web, AllTwitter, The Verge, Business Insider and BuzzFeed
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Kantar: Android Now Accounting For More Than Half Of All Smartphone Sales Across U.S., Europe and Oz — Kantar Worldpanel ComTech, a market analysis division of WPP, has today published its latest figures on mobile device sales across a number of key markets, and it looks like something …
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CNET and My Nokia Blog
| Darrell Etherington / BetaKit: |
Hulu and Netflix Challenger Zeewe TV Races to One Million Users — Brazilian company Movile today announced that its recent social video platform venture Zeewe TV has just passed the one million user mark. Zeewe TV is essentially a streaming video sharing service complete with premium paid content …
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App Advice, The Next Web and GigaOM
| Stuart Dredge / Apps blog: |
Ouya Android games console blasts past $2.3m funding on Kickstarter — The challenge now is to deliver on the expectations of its 19,000 early backers — US startup Ouya has attracted $2.3m (£1.47m) of pledges for its Android-based games console, less than 24 hours after launching … | Élyse Betters / 9to5Google: |
Sustrans and Google Maps launch cycling routes in UK [Video] — Sustrans, a British charity promoting sustainable transport, just announced that it partnered with Google to bring cycling routes to United Kingdom-based Google Maps users. — Greener-minded Americans are quite familiar …
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