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Google halts new orders for 16GB Nexus 7, surprised by demand — Heavy demand for the 16GB version of the new Nexus 7 tablet has caught Google out after it expected more customers ordering through Google Play to want the 8GB version — Sources close to Google say the search giant seriously underestimated …
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| Matt Brian / The Next Web: |
Samsung's Galaxy S III surpasses 10 million sales in less than two months — Samsung's newest Android flagship smartphone — the Galaxy S III — has surpassed 10 million sales in less than two months after going on sale, selling at a rate predicted by the company just last month, Samsung president Shin Jong-kyun (JK Shin) has revealed.| Dana Mattioli / Wall Street Journal: |
Kodak Loses Patent Case Against Apple, RIM — Eastman Kodak Co. has lost a patent case against Apple Inc. and Research In Motion Ltd., dealing a blow to the onetime film giant's efforts to raise billions of dollars by selling off its intellectual property. — Kodak filed a complaint …
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| Matt Gemmell: |
Entitlement and Acquisition — Sparrow (a popular Mac and iOS email client) has been acquired by Google. The apps are essentially being put in maintenance mode, with no additional features planned for the future. — Cue predictable squawking on the internet.
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| Nick Bilton / Bits: |
Disruptions: Looking Beyond Silicon Valley's Bubble — A party to celebrate AirBnB's new headquarters. A select group of people in the Valley are oblivious to the rest of the world, ensconced in their own protective bubble. — It is still up for debate whether there is a bubble in Silicon Valley.
Tweets: @owenthomas, @davepell, @miguelrios, @tcarmody, @dannysullivan, @gpanger and @dbasch
| Jeffrey R. Young / Chronicle of Higher Education: |
Inside the Coursera Contract: How an Upstart Company Might Profit From Free Courses — Coursera has been operating for only a few months, but the company has already persuaded some of the world's best-known universities to offer free courses through its online platform.| Sam Biddle / Gizmodo: |
The Secret Online Weapons Store That'll Sell Anyone Anything — The Bushmaster M4 is a 3-foot rifle capable of firing thirty 5.56×45mm NATO rounds, and used by spec ops forces throughout Afghanistan. It's a serious weapon. But in the Internet's darkest black market, it's all yours.
Tweets: @fmanjoo, @stroughtonsmith, @pkedrosky and @carnage4life
| Ryan Paul / Ars Technica: |
Dell launching Sputnik, the Ubuntu developer laptop, this year — Dell launched an experiment earlier this year to see if it could build a compelling Linux laptop for software developers. The effort, which is codenamed Project Sputnik, pairs the XPS13 Ultrabook with Ubuntu 12.04.
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| David Meyer / ZDNet: |
HP-sponsored Enyo framework hits cross-platform release — Summary: The JavaScript framework, an earlier version of which was for making TouchPad webOS apps, can now be used for building apps that can run on iOS, Android, Safari, Firefox, Chrome and even IE
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| Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land: |
Insanity: Google Sends New Link Warnings, Then Says You Can Ignore Them — Google's war on bad links officially became insane today. For months, Google's sending out warnings about bad links and telling publishers they should act on those, lest they get penalized.
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| Brian Proffitt / ReadWriteWeb: |
VMware Denies Cloud Spin-Off Rumors - Keeps Focus on Platform-as-a-Service — Rumors of a VMware/EMC spin-off are “completely unfounded,” according to a company executive, who sees little chance that VMware will change its approach to cloud computing during its current transition in leadership.
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