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July 18, 2012, 3:50 PM

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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 …

Dan Levine / Reuters:

Judge rejects secrecy bids in Apple vs. Samsung battle

More: VentureBeat, Macgasm, CNET and ZDNet

Seth Weintraub / 9to5Mac:

Apple's plastic, thicker, buttonless iPad prototypes from 2002-4 from Jony Ive deposition [Gallery]

Kit Chellel / Bloomberg:

Apple Must Publish Notice Samsung Didn't Copy IPad In U.K. — Apple Inc. (AAPL) was ordered by a judge to publish a notice on its U.K. website and in British newspapers alerting people to a ruling that Samsung Electronics Co. didn't copy designs for the iPad.

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 …

Ryan Singel / Wired:

YouTube Offers Face-Blurring Tool to Protect Dissidents — Saying it wanted to help to protect dissidents who appear in videos shared on YouTube, Google launched a tool Wednesday that can blur their faces in footage uploaded to its servers. — Google hopes the tool will encourage more people speaking out …

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 …

More: The Verge, Ars Technica, Los Angeles Times, VentureBeat, Business Insider, PC World, Krebs on Security, TechCrunch, TechSpot, Softpedia News and The Register

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.

More: GigaOM, GeekWire, VatorNews, IntoMobile, SocialTimes, The Verge and CNET

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 …

Tweets: @chirag_mehta

Megan Garber / The Atlantic Online:

What the Internet Wants From Marissa Mayer, in Five Words

More: Wired, Bits, Know Your Cell and CNET. See also Mediagazer

Arnold Kim / MacRumors:

Taller ‘iPhone 5’ Cases Begin to Appear for Sale — Smaller bottom dock, and headphone jack — Cydia Blog notes the appearance of “iPhone 5” cases from TVC-Mall that correspond to circulating rumors about the next generation iPhone. — The case design lines up with the many part leaks …

More: CNET, TechCrunch, iPhone BlogiPhone Blog, I4U News, Business Insider, Gizmodo UK, iDownloadBlog.com and everythingiCafe

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 …

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 …

More: AndroidGuys, Android News, Rumours … and Android Phone Fans

Matt Brian / The Next Web:

Apple closes deal to expand Austin campus, moves ahead with $304 million Texas investment — Pushing ahead with plans to invest $304 million in Austin, Texas, Apple has secured a deal for three large patches of land adjacent to its existing campus, which — when developed …

More: MacRumors, MacDailyNews, Engadget, MacNN, Austin Business Journal, iClarified, AppleInsider, Macgasm, TUAW, The Loop, 9to5Mac and iDownloadBlog.com

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. — Its product is half building block, half circuit board …

More: GigaOM, TechCrunch, The Verge, Venture Capital Dispatch, littleBits, Digits, Betabeat, Pulse2 Technology …, True Ventures and AllThingsD

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 …

More: The Next Web, MacRumors, MobileSyrup.com, 9to5Mac, Macgasm and iDownloadBlog.com. Thanks:@killianbell

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 …

More: Ars Technica, WikiLeaks, internetretailer.com, digitaltrends.com, The Next Web, WL Central and Mashable!. Thanks:@alindig

Jennifer Van Grove / VentureBeat:

Foursquare paves way for ad products with release of Local Updates — Change is underway at Foursquare, which is one month into a radical redesign that has refocused the entire experience around social interactions. Today, the social network centered around places is giving those venues …

More: TechCrunch, AllThingsD, The Verge, GigaOM and AdAge. Thanks:@jbruin

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 …

More: CNET, VentureBeat, The Verge, Sony, SlashGear, Android Community, Android News, Rumours … and Tech in Asia

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 …

More: Techdirt, New Zealand Herald, CNET, VentureBeat, BBC, Pulse2 Technology …, BGR and Business Insider

Ryan Kim / GigaOM:

Cash register maker NCR joins the pursuit of Square — Square's list of big name competitors is officially getting another billion dollar company. NCR Corp., the Duluth, GA maker of cash registers and ATM machines, is now launching NCR Silver, a cloud-based point of sale product aimed at small businesses.

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.

More: The Verge, Engadget, Pulse2 Technology … and Mashable!

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.

More: VentureBeat and KitGuru

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.

More: The Verge, GeekWire, PC Magazine, TechCrunch, Seattle Times, Mashable!, WinBeta, Bing, The Next Web and WebProNews

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 …

Reuters:

EU regulators investigating Microsoft's Windows 8 — (Reuters) - EU antitrust regulators are investigating whether Microsoft blocks computer makers from installing rival web browsers on its upcoming Windows 8 operating system following complaints from several companies.

More: PC Magazine, ZDNet and Computerworld

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.

More: CNET, GigaOM, Engadget, 9to5Google and Google Fiber Blog

Billy Gallagher / TechCrunch:

GoDaddy Acquires Outright, Establishes Mountain View Office — GoDaddy purchased cloud-based financial management application company Outright today for an undisclosed amount. Outright co-founder Ben Curren, CEO Steven Aldrich and their team of 24 will be joining GoDaddy, the world's largest web hosting provider.

More: The Next Web and GoDaddy.com

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