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| Yoni Heisler / Network World: |
Earliest known photos of an Apple iPad prototype — Well before the iPhone, and going back all the way to the early 2000s, Apple had been working on tablet prototypes that would eventually form the groundwork for the original iPad It's well established that Apple's iPhone was in the works …
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| Dan Levine / Reuters: |
| Amanda Conway / YouTube Blog: |
Face blurring: when footage requires anonymity — As citizens continue to play a critical role in supplying news and human rights footage from around the world, YouTube is committed to creating even better tools to help them. According to the international human rights organization WITNESS … | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Dropbox Has Hired Outside Experts To Investigate Possible Security Breach — The spam attack and related possible address leak over at Dropbox may be even more serious than we originally thought. According to a message posted by the company over on its forums, they've now brought in …
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| Sriram Krishnan: |
Unsolicited advice for Marissa Mayer — OMG, did you see that Marissa Mayer is now CEO of Yahoo? — That was one of many messages I got from current and ex-Yahoos on yesterday's news. Having recently exited a short stint at Yahoo as an engineering manager and having had hundreds …
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| Megan Garber / The Atlantic Online: |
| Kit Chellel / Bloomberg: |
Apple Must Publish Notice Samsung Didn'T Copy IPad, Judge Says — A U.K. judge ordered Apple Inc. (AAPL) to publish a notice on its website and in British newspapers alerting people to a ruling that Samsung Electronics Co. didn't copy designs for the iPad. — The notice should outline …
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| Chris Ziegler / The Verge: |
AT&T gets into shared data: ‘Mobile Share’ plans coming late August — Just over a month after Verizon announced Share Everything, AT&T is getting into the burgeoning shared data game (as it's been saying it would) with Mobile Share, a tiered set of plans that allow subscribers to split …
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| Brad McCarty / The Next Web: |
With a $6 million Series A, Twist for iOS wants to ensure you'll never wait for someone again — There are times when we see a team and we know that the product that they're crafting is going to be great. When startup vets Bill Lee and Mike Belshe are behind a project, it would be one of those times.
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| Hill Ferguson / The PayPal Blog: |
PayPal Acquires card.io — I'm excited to announce that PayPal has acquired card.io, a San Francisco-based company that provides technology for developers to capture credit card information by using the camera on a smartphone. — We first met with the team at card.io when we were working …
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| Billy Gallagher / TechCrunch: |
| Roger Cheng / CNET: |
Verizon presses LTE advantage, adds 33 new markets — The carrier is racing through its deployment, and is on track to reach its goal of 400 markets by the end of the year. — Follow @RogerWCheng — Verizon Wireless again widened its lead when it comes to 4G LTE coverage …
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| Jolie O'Dell / VentureBeat: |
Hardware hacker startup grabs $3.65M for computer/Lego hybrid toy — LittleBits is a maker/hacker startup through and through, and it's just taken a sizable round of venture funding from a few of the bigger names in Silicon Valley. — It's product is half building block, half circuit board …
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| Enigmax / TorrentFreak: |
Dotcom Extradition Judge Steps Down After “U.S. Enemy” Comment — For the greater part, Kim Dotcom and his co-defendants will have been pretty happy with Judge David Harvey, the man overlooking their increasingly controversial extradition case. — Things had been going well …
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| Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: |
Will AT&T Charge For 3G FaceTime? CEO Randall Stephenson Says It's ‘Too Early’ To Know — AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson took the stage this afternoon at the Fortune Brainstorm Tech conference in Aspen, where he was asked about a recent report in 9toMac that AT&T might charge customers extra … | Killian Bell / Cult of Mac: |
Apple Online Store Now Offers Text Message Notifications For Order Status Updates — Following nearly six hours of downtime this morning, the Apple Online Store is back up. Although the Cupertino company has not added any new products, it has introduced a new notifications service …
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| Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch: |
Google Quietly Acq-hires Part Of Design Firm Cuban Council For Google+ — In the midst of today's news whirl, this tidbit slipped through the cracks; Part of the design team Cuban Council has apparently been acq-hired by Google, according to a note on their blog.
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| Hamish McKenzie / PandoDaily: |
Already Valued at $4B, China's Xiaomi Has Declared War on Apple — China's answer to Apple occupies the 12th floor of a staid office tower in a sprawling commercial area of Beijing. It has no signage on the building's exterior, so the only clue that suggests I'm in the right place … | Matthew Handrahan / GamesIndustry International: |
Foxconn planning $1 billion facility in Indonesia — New manufacturing plant will create 1 million jobs in the region, where the average monthly wage is $100 a month — The market leading computer manufacturer Foxconn is planning a new $1 billion facility in Indonesia.
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| Ernesto / TorrentFreak: |
Court May Order Google to Censor ‘Torrent,’ ‘RapidShare’ and ‘Megaupload’ — Early 2010 the French music industry group SNEP initiated legal action against Google in an attempt to force the search giant to filter certain terms from its “Instant” and “Autocomplete” features.
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| Nathan Ingraham / The Verge: |
Google to reveal Fiber in Kansas City details on July 26th — Google's Kansas City Fiber project has been a long time coming, but it looks like the company is ready to announce some details about its mysterious project on July 26th, according to a quick post on the Google Fiber blog.
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Engadget, 9to5Google, Google Fiber Blog and GigaOM
| Andy Greenberg / The Firewall: |
WikiLeaks Reopens Channel For Credit Card Donations, Dares Visa And MasterCard To Block Them Again — Assange speaking a press conference regarding the financial blockade against the site in late 2011. — After 18 months of having its funding nearly completely cut off by a payment industry blockade …
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| Cade Metz / Wired: |
NSA Mimics Google, Pisses Off Senate — The Senate Armed Service Committee isn't exactly pleased with the NSA's Google-like database. — Image: jim.greenhill/Flickr — In 2008, a team of software coders inside the National Security Agency started reverse-engineering the database that ran Google.| Mat Smith / Engadget: |
Sony unveils 2012 Walkman range: Android 4.0 F series and refreshed entry-level E series (eyes-on) — The Walkman F800 is Sony's latest PMP; a 3.5-inch Android media player that replaces the company's middling Z series. Perhaps the most intriguing point is that the new media player will arrive … | James Kendrick / ZDNet: |
Google: Your Nexus 7 will ship this week or next — Summary: Lots of people are anxiously waiting word on when their shiny new Nexus 7 tablet will be shipping, while others are already receiving theirs. This is the official word from Google as of today. — James Kendrick — Follow @jkendrick
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VentureBeat, Telegraph, Gotta Be Mobile, Business Insider, Droid Life, The Verge and Android Community. Thanks:@jkendrick
| Greg Finn / Search Engine Land: |
Foursquare Tips Now Integrated Into Bing's Social Sidebar — In May Bing rolled out its new social sidebar that tied together social data from both Facebook and Twitter. Today another source has been added to the mix. Bing announced that Foursquare tips will be tied into specific location based queries.
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