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Apple seeks $2.5 billion in damages from Samsung, offers half a cent per standard-essential patent — With their California trial approaching fast, Apple and Samsung made filings during the last few hours that shed light on what's at stake and on why the parties haven't been able to settle their dispute so far.| Jeff Blagdon / The Verge: |
Apple wins European ban on Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.7, loses 10.1N appeal — A ruling from the Dusseldorf Higher Regional Court in Germany turns a new page in the ongoing legal saga between Apple and Samsung, clearing the way for the Korean maker's redesigned Galaxy Tab 10.1N, but banning the smaller Galaxy Tab 7.7.| Jordan Robertson / Bloomberg Tech Blog: |
Apple Warms Up to Hackers, Plans Presentation at Black Hat — Attendees are seen through a Black Hat logo during the Black Hat and Defcon hacker conferences in Las Vegas. — In the 15 years that computer hackers have gathered in Las Vegas for the Black Hat conference … | Alex Williams / TechCrunch: |
iOS Soars Ahead of Android Development As Apple Quietly Makes Move Into The Enterprise Market — The Apple iOS is surging ahead of the Google Android platform for enterprise development, according to survey results from Appcelerator, the mobile platform development company.| Dan Primack / Fortune: |
Nice-ira: Andreessen Horowitz returns first fund twice over — Silicon Valley firm hits major milestone. … Andreessen Horowitz has returned its debut fund two times over, following news that VMWare (VMW) will acquire Nicera Inc. for more than $1 billion in cash, Fortune has learned.| Larry Dignan / ZDNet: |
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Hardware accelerating everything: Windows 8 graphics … In computer graphics, high performance is a guiding principle. In the early days of personal computing, discrete, add-on graphics cards were mostly focused on specialized applications such as CAD/CAM and gaming.| Ryan Tate / Wired: |
YouTube Fights Horrible Commenters by Naming Names — YouTube is pushing its notorious commenters to name themselves. — When you comment on, or upload a video, YouTube will now urge you to “start using your full name on YouTube,” and ask if the video-sharing site can begin displaying … | Gina Smith / ReadWriteWeb: |
Mark Zuckerberg Wins Approval For His First-Ever Patent Application - From 6 Years Ago — In the last few months, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg took his company public, got married and scored a nearly $6 million home loan at just over 1%. What could possibly top all that?| 9to5Mac: |
Noted analyst shares predictions for next-generation iOS devices, MacBooks, iMacs — MacRumors reports on new research notes from KGI Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo. The reports are broken down into discussions about the next-generation iPod touch and iPod nano, iPad mini and iPad, and 13-inch MacBook Pro and iMac.| Roger Cheng / CNET: |
AT&T posts Q2 profit of $3.9B, sells 3.7M iPhones — The telecom giant posted earnings per share that topped Wall Street expectations thanks to cost cuts and lower wireless turnover. — Follow @RogerWCheng — AT&T posted a modest increase in its second-quarter profit even as it sold 3.7 million iPhones in the period.| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
Bob Feldstein, the man who helped AMD land the next console generation, leaves for rival Nvidia — You've probably never heard the name Bob Feldstein, but Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft surely have. He was the vice president of strategic development at AMD, and according to our sources … | Matt Richtel / New York Times: |
Silicon Valley Worries About Addiction to Devices — Stuart Crabb, a director in the executive offices of Facebook, naturally likes to extol the extraordinary benefits of computers and smartphones. But like a growing number of technology leaders, he offers a warning: log off once in a while, and put them down.| Ian Hardy / MobileSyrup.com: |
4G LTE BlackBerry PlayBook launching July 31st, will retail for $550 — Here it is! The much talked about launch of RIM's 4G LTE-enabled BlackBerry PlayBook tablet is upon us. This tablet was originally announced back at Mobile World Congress in 2011, but subsequently delayed.| Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch: |
Benchmark, Greylock And Others Go In For $18.6M On Nextdoor, A Facebook For Local Communities — Localized social network Nextdoor is announcing an $18.6 million dollar round today, led by Benchmark Capital and followed on by DAG Ventures, Greylock Partners and Shasta Ventures.| Bryan Bishop / The Verge: |
Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 unboxed, has 2GB of RAM and phone messaging capabilities — Since being announced way back at MWC, Samsung's Galaxy Note 10.1 has seen a steady stream of leaks and design tweaks, and now it appears to have landed in the hands of one new owner.| Jon Fingas / Engadget: |
Lenovo IdeaTab S2110 quietly goes on sale as the Gobots of transforming tablets — Lenovo's 10-inch IdeaTab S2 was one of the belles of its CES ball in offering a distinctly Transformer Pad-like experience for those not beholden to ASUS' view of the world. While there wasn't much attention given … | Jordan Crook / TechCrunch: |
Viber Updates iPhone, Android Apps To Version 2.2: Group Messaging, Improved UI, Enhanced HD Calling — Viber has just released version 2.2 of the app for both Android and iPhone, bringing some much-requested features to the platform for the very first time including group messaging and improved call quality.| Seth Weintraub / 9to5Mac: |
Martin Scorsese does Siri commercial in NYC cab — This is the fourth ad in Apple's line of popular Siri commercials. Martin Scorsese (via MacRumors) follows Samuel L. Jackson, Zooey Deschanel, and a pair of stinkers with John Malkovich. Scorsese is found in his natural environment—on the streets of Manhattan in the back of a cab.| Meghan Kelly / VentureBeat: |
Report suggests malware hits Iran atomic organization, blasts AC/DC at night — A purported Iran scientist working for the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran e-mailed an SOS to F-Secure Chief Research Officer Mikko Hypponen this weekend, saying the AEOI was under a cyber attack.| Darrell Etherington / BetaKit: |
Apigee Raises $20M, Looks to Grow API Business Internationally — Apigee, the Palo Alto-based company that provides application programming interface (API) support, management and service, today announced a new $20 million round of venture investment, led by Focus Ventures … | Rip Empson / TechCrunch: |
August Capital Raising $550M For Sixth Venture Fund, “Sticking To What Works” — August Capital, the 17-year-old Sand Hill venture capital firm, is raising a new $550 million investment fund, according to documents filed this morning with the SEC. — August Partner Howard Hartenbaum … | Staska / Unwired View: |
Asus, Lenovo, Toshiba, Samsung to launch Windows RT tablets this year. Others await Microsoft's permission in January — Apart from Surface, which is made by Microsoft itself, we know very little about who else will launch Windows RT based tablets this year. And there's a good reason for that.| Owen Thomas / Business Insider: |
Yahoo Employee Makes A HOPE Poster With Marissa Mayer's Face Instead Of Obama's — There are posters hanging on the walls of Yahoo's Sunnyvale headquarters. They depict the company's new CEO, Marissa Mayer, in the style of Shepard Fairey's iconic “Hope” poster.| Jolie O'Dell / VentureBeat: |
Y Combinator startup Chute lands $2.7M, connects dots between developers and media — Chute, a startup that helps developers quickly and easily bring multimedia content into their apps, has just sealed a $2.7 million funding deal with a few of the usual suspects in Silicon Valley early-stage investment.| David Barnard / App Cubby Blog: |
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Verizon and Redbox Start Testing Their New Web Video Service: Here's What to Expect — Back in February, Verizon and Redbox announced a joint-venture video service but said little else about it. — Now they're back, and they're saying a little bit more: The service has a name … | Andy Greenberg / Forbes: |
Hacker Will Expose Potential Security Flaw In Four Million Hotel Room Keycard Locks — Brocious demonstrating his unlocking tool on an Onity lock in a New York City hotel. — The next time you stay in a hotel room, run your fingers under the keycard lock outside your door.| Jamillah Knowles / The Next Web: |
Speak up: The EU Commission wants to know your thoughts on Net Neutrality — The European Commission has launched a public consultation seeking answers to questions on transparency, switching and certain aspects of internet traffic management, with a view to its commitment to preserve the open and neutral character of the Internet.
Windows Store Weekly — This week we take a look at: Star Trek App, Box, Fling Theory, StumbleUpon, and wordBrush.
Static.com Adds Hadoop Support for Cloud Foundry — In this guest post, Jake Farrell, CTO for Static.com, explains how the major shift in the hosting industry towards platforms for high developer productivity …
An Army Is Forming To Battle Patent Trolls — For the past several months, we've exposed the flaws in the patent system and how they're being exploited by opportunistic patent trolls looking to extort a quick buck …
Mobile Telco Dials In and Harnesses Big Data with Hadoop — Smartphones have transformed our daily lives. A key indicator of this trend is our increased spend on data plans versus voice.
“Yammer sucks” — Not to be mean to Yammer, or anything — it's a very good tool for some use cases — but that's what a customer told me recently (and others feel the same way).This is a Techmeme archive page. It shows how the site appeared at 11:10 AM ET, July 24, 2012.
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